CHOOSING REMEDIES FOR ANIMALS

Assess the characteristics of the animal exactly as for a person The following is a description of the Flower Remedies that make up Rescue Remedy, the most commonly used Bach Flower Remedy. Rescue Remedy is not a Flower Essence in itself but a combination of five of original Remedies. Once these five remedies are combined, the Rescue becomes an essence unto itself. It is different combined, than its individual essences.   Clematis:

• 1. Increases attention span and ability to focus on the training lesson at hand:
  • Guard dogs.
  • Hunting dogs.
  • Seeing eye dogs.
• 2. When the animal is comatose or unconscious for any reason; returning the animal to consciousness.
• 3. After any surgery to reduce the recovery time.
• 4. To return life to plants that are seemingly dead.
• 5. Stimulate growth after being dormant during the cold winter.

Impatiens:

• 1. Increases attention span and ability to focus on the training lesson at hand:
  • Guard dogs.
  • Hunting dogs.
  • Seeing eye dogs.
• 2.For the overly anxious animal:
  • At feeding times.
  • Before a race.
  • For animals that have epileptic-type fits especially when agitated by being overly excited or upset.
  • Impatiens is for any form of pain.

Rock Rose:

• 1. For any form of terror and panic:
  • After an accident, injury, fire or any terrifying event.
  • For the overly fearful animal that possibly was terrified sometime in their life. Fear does not dissolve naturally.
• 2. Rock Rose is for dauntless courage:
  • For animals that are used in service to mankind such as police or aquatic services.
• 3. For the courageous animal to accentuate their already innate abilities.

Cherry Plum:

• 1. For the animal that loses control, becoming crazed and wild:
  • For vicious animals that become dangerous when provoked.
  • For the high strung animal, including horses, that lose control easily.
  • For the animal that is destructive, losing control, tearing up the house or yard.
  • Losing control when seeing another animal enter into their territory.
  • To help retain control during mating season for both sexes.
• 2. To remain in control when:
  • In competition when stressed by strange people, noises, animals.
  • Training animals not to react to gun fire.
• 3. For the animal that becomes frantic when travelling:
  • Cats travelling in the car.
  • Horses that spook when being placed in trailers.
  • Flying in general for all animals.
• 4. For the animal that suffers from:
  • Seizures or anxiety attacks
  • Loss of control of bodily functions such as bladder control, possible dysplastic conditions.
• 5. The animal who chews himself or chases his own tail uncontrollably:
  • With allergies to grasses.
  • Staying away from stiches after surgery.

Star Of Bethlehem:

• 1. Star of Bethlehem is for all forms of trauma:
  • For the emotional trauma from the loss of a loved master or mate, especially those animals that mate for life.
  • Physical trauma after an injury of any kind.
  • Birthing trauma.
  • Traumatized from extreme cold or heat.
• 2. Star of Bethlehem is needed anytime comfort is indicated:
  • To give comfort to animals who were left alone or are in a kennel feeling unloved.
  • For an injured or ill animal who is required to remain at a veterinary clinic, during which time their owners are not there with them.
• 3. For plants that have endured a trauma from the elements or sustaining injury.

Agrimony:

• 1. For the stoic animal who never complains even when in obvious pain.
• 2. Any form of skin irritations that causes the animal to chew itself raw. Irritations from food allergies, pollens or grasses.
• 3. Tormented by irritating sutures causing the animal to constantly lick the wound.
• 4. When being tormented by ticks, fleas, or any parasites.
• 5. For the restless animal searching from place to place. Unable to get comfortable and settle in.
• 6. For the animal that paces back and forth. Wild animals unable to adjust to captivity.

Aspen:

• 1. For animals that "spook" easily including horses and birds.
• 2. When animals sense impending harm:
  • give before and during intense storms; thunder, tornado, flooding etc.
  • Earthquakes.
  • For animals in kennels when sensing that other animals have been euthanised and they are experiencing the apprehension that they are next.
• 3. Plants and trees also feel this apprehension when their surroundings are being destroyed by the machines of mankind.

Beech:

• 1. To cure those picky eaters who usually refuse their food, especially cats.
• 2. For the animal that barks, squawks, whines or complains all the time.
• 3. For intolerance or irritation from grasses.
• 4. For intolerance to the heat, humidity, or cold.
• 5. For intolerance towards children, other animals, especially if an older animal has to tolerate a puppy.
• 6. For animals who do not want to tolerate a new relationship into their house.
  • Cats who will spray on the belongings of their owner's new mate.
  • Dogs who attack or growl at their owner's new mate.
  • Birds who peck a new intruder.
  • Horses who act-up when being mounted by a new person.

Centaury:

• 1. For animals who do not stand up for themselves allowing other animals to push them around.
  • horses in corrals.
  • birds in cages.
  • cats abusing dogs or vise versa.
• 2. For the overly attentive, loyal animal wanting to please their masters at all costs.
• 3. Centaury increases their will to live, especially, when fighting an illness, after an accident or even during a very hard delivery.
• 4. For plants that have very feeble looking limbs and die easily, seemingly lacking the will to live, especially when surrounding plants easily crowd them out of their space and light.

Cerato:

• 1. For the mentally flighty, inattentive animal.
• 2. Use before training an animal especially if the animal is easily distracted.
• 3. During competitive show events to assure the animal's ability to be undistracted and to listen to his master's command.

Chestnut Bud:

• 1. To break bad habits:
  • Chewing shoes, getting in the trash, etc.
  • Dog chasing horses, the fence, cars, etc.
  • Dogs that eat eggs or chickens.
  • Horses that won't leave the corral.
  • Dogs that jump up on everyone.
• 2. For the animal that has a difficult time learning his lesson.
• 3. During any new training session to increase memory retention thereby, learning quickly and remembering the lessons being taught each day.
• 4. Increases a keen sense of awareness:
  • For training police dogs.
  • For hunting dogs.
  • For watch dogs.

Chicory:

• 1. For the animal who thinks they own you and the house:
  • The dog or cat who demands to be fed.
  • The animal who demands all of the attention.
• 2. For the overly possessive animal:
  • Whit her litter, especially when it is time for them to be weaned.
  • Being overly possessive with a family member, especially the children, on guard against anyone harming them.
  • Birds can be very possessive and many times are one-owned animals.
• 3. For the animal that is emotionally unable to let go of an old master or animal mate that they were very attached to.
• 4. The key word for Chicory is congestion:
  • If your animal shows signs of congestion in lungs or nasal passages, evaluated if you have been ignoring the animal. This congestion could be a sign of a need for more attention.

Crab Apple:

• 1. The cleansing remedy.
• 2. Spray mist your animal to rid it of animal odour:
  • Basset Hounds.
  • Ferrets.
  • Caught by a skunk.
  • After rolling in manure or garbage.
• 3. To alleviate the unclean feeling with an infestation of lice, fleas, ticks or any form of parasite including worms.
• 4. If poisoned, cleanses toxins:
  • Insect spray poisoning.
  • Contaminated food or water.
  • Actual poisoning.
• 5. For any infectious or open wounds or rashes of any kind.
• 6. To flush out emotional toxins if the animal is extremely emotionally distraught:
  • The owners abandoning the animal and left to die.
  • Being abused.
• 7. To detoxify after a cold or viral or bacterial infection.
• 8. For the animal who has a poor self image:
  • Not holding their head high during competition.
  • Cowering; hiding themselves.
  • After they have had their coats cut or shaved.
  • If the animal has been subjected to abuse.

Elm
- Anytime an animal is overwhelmed by rigors of travelling, such as horses travelling in trailers or airplanes.
- For being overwhelmed by something. Horses being shod, too many strangers in their space, being placed in unfamiliar territory.
- for easily-overwhelmed, high strung horses.
Genetian
- For set backs of any kind, such as being relocated, sold or given again and again.
- For long illnesses or when there is a relapse.
- Depression resulting from the set back experienced by an animal when, for example, it's baby dies.
- For horses that have had a bad experience due to injury or an abusive trainer and now has little initiative to re-begin a training routine.
  Gorse
- Gorse is indicated when there is a challenging situation where there are signs that the animal has given up or feels that the condition is hopeless. For example: A horse badly abused or abandoned needing to have their hope of living restored; a critical injury or surgery, for a horse that has been severely neglected.
  Heather
- For the horse that has to be the center of attention.
  Holly
- For horses who are known to be mean and dangerous.
- When the horse is performing unacceptably. Being dangerous, or a horse causing other horses to react.
- To be taken when mare rejects her foal.
- For the surrogate mother and adopted baby to accept each other.
- When there is a need for more love such as in abused and neglected horses.
Honeysuckle
- for the sulking horse that is lamenting the loss of their master, mate or baby caused by death or separation.
- For horses that have been over-exerted or exhausted.
- For horses that do not perform well when away from home.
Hornbeam
- For the horse that appears mentally lethargic and tired during riding but when it is freed it jumps about with plenty of energy to spare. Or, for the horse that peps up when near the barn.
- For race horses to face the race and jump out of the shoot first.
Larch
- To increase confidence. For the horse that has had their confidence beaten out of them, or for the horse that performs better in pairs.
  Mimulus
- For known fears such as thunder and lightning, crossing water, of strange noises, of strange objects. - For the shy, timid, fearful, or abused horse.
Mustard
- For the horse that is experiencing very deep depression.
- For the horse that has personality changes when "in season".
Oak
- For the horse that is a hard worker yet seems to be over burdened, needing to struggle with the task at hand.
- to rebuild the strength of horses that have been starved or mal-nutritioned, over bred, over worked, over exposed to weather extremes.
- Take Oak in preparation for strenuous times ahead.
Olive
- For exhaustion from an especially long ordeal, as in the case of long term pain or abuse caused by the elements, an illness, man's cruelty or predators.
- If plagued with allergies that cause the adrenal system to become exhausted.
Pine
- Pine is the suffering remedy. The Pine type will take it upon themselves their master's pain or illness.
  Red Chestnut
- For use when an animal sense impending danger such as: tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, being taken away to the vet or being put to death.
  Rock Water
- Increases flexibility for animals that have stiff joints and muscles. Massage topically into stiff sore joints and muscles. Will achieve a more fluid gait.
- For the stubborn or cantankerous horse who refuses to flow with when forced to adhere to a new set of rules. Is uncompromising and inflexible.
  Scleranthus
- For the horse that has equilibrium difficulties. For horse that are clumsy.
- for neurological confusion - such as might happen with some kinds of seizures.
- For mares with "yo-yo" hormones that often cause "yo-yo" emotions.
- For horses that suddenly buck or bite.
  Sweet Chestnut
- Give Sweet Chestnut during competitive events when the horse shows sign of fatigue that indicate it might not finish the event. Sweet Chestnut strengthens them mentally so that they can perform well physically.
- Sweet Chestnut is for endurance energy and therefore, ideal to tap hidden reservoirs of energy before a physically taxing event.
- To prevent burn out.
  Vervain
- For the very intense, hyperactive, high energy horse. This type of horse appears to have inexhaustible energy. This type is anxious to learn but is often difficult to teach because it has its own way of achieving a lesson's objective.
  Vine
- For the horse that thinks he is the "master" and rules the barn, stall or pasture.
  Walnut
- Walnut protects against outside influences such as insecticides, pollution and sensitivities to pollens and grasses.
- Protects by insulating the horse due to changes in its environment - new owners, new barn or when travelling.
- Walnut eases hormonal cycles.
Water Violet
- Water Violet is indicated for the horse that prefers to be left alone, especially when ill.
- For horses that never receive attention and are forgotten by their owners, rarely being released from their stall.
  White Chestnut
- White Chestnut works to quiet and still an animal's mind during training sessions or competitive events, enabling them to listen only for their master's command.
  Wild Oat
- For the horse that appears depressed, possibly because it is idle and not doing what it was trained to do.
- To create more opportunities to win competitive events.
  Wild Rose
- Wild Rose remedies apathy as its virtuous action evokes the happiness and jubilation for life necessary for: horses confined to stalls and never let out, helping old and grouchy horses to have more fun, for horses that have lost their spirit.
  Willow
- Willow is basically for resentment which is caused by feeling victimized by an abuser.

Seminar Series for August and September

August 26, 2009 @ 8:00pm
Soul Contracts with Jenny Key
Soul Contracts and the practical applications of the daily lessons our animals teach us
Animal lovers know that our four-legged and winged friends play a special role in our lives.  Our journey together is actually a soul contract- an agreement made to help each other grow.  In this seminar, animal communicator and licensed therapist, Jenny Key, will teach skills in reading soul contracts.  Participants will gain a basic understanding of animal communication. Case examples will be explored to demonstrate how situations such as medical illness, behavior difficulties, lost pets, or pets who have crossed over, offer healing opportunities for both human and animal.   
Cost $45.00

September 16, 2009 8:00pm EST
Animal Communication with Cherrie Spring
Are you new to animal communication or a pro this is great seminar to learn something new. Cherrie will be answering all your questions about animal communication.
Cost: $45.00 but register before 9/1/09 and save $15.00

September 30, 2009 8:00pm EST
What to do if you Animal is Lost by Joni Warmer
Your animal is lost and you don’t know where to start, then come join us as Joni helps us deal with this very difficult situation. She will walk you through step by step on what you need to do when you first notice your animal is missing, what to expect from an animal communicator and what not to expect. 
Cost $45.00 but register before 9/1/09 and save$15.00

Bach Remdies Dosage and Timing

DOSAGE AND TIMING Just a few drops (4 - 8 ) at a time are sufficient. For serious or acute conditions the remedy can be given as often as needed, even every few minutes. For most behavioral problems , you can give 3 to 4 times a day for 2 to 4 weeks. If the response is reached by that time, you may begin to decrease the dosage gradually. You may need to add a dropper full to drinking water or give once a day long-term for some problems.
MULTIPLE ANIMALS
The Flower Essence remedies are non-toxic and have no side effects. Therefore, they are safe if another pet in your household should receive the flower essence via drinking water. With flower essences, if the animal needs the remedy, the remedy will work and vice versa.

Bach Flower Remdies

Dr Edward Bach studied medicine at the University College Hospital, London, and was a House Surgeon there. He worked in general practice, having a set of consulting rooms in Harley Street, and as a bacteriologist and later a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homoeopathic nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes.
Despite the success of his work with orthodox medicine he felt dissatisfied with the way doctors were expected to concentrate on diseases and ignore the people who were suffering them. He was inspired by his work with homoeopathy but wanted to find remedies that would be purer and less reliant on the products of disease. So in 1930 he gave up his lucrative Harley Street practice and left London, determined to devote the rest of his life to the new system of medicine that he was sure could be found in nature.
Just as he had abandoned his old home, office and work, so now he abandoned the scientific methods he had used up until now. Instead he chose to rely on his natural gifts as a healer, and use his intuition to guide him. One by one he found the remedies he wanted, each aimed at a particular mental state or emotion. His life followed a seasonal pattern: the spring and summer spent looking for and preparing the remedies, the winter spent giving help and advice to all who came looking for them. He found that when he treated the personalities and feelings of his patients their unhappiness and physical distress would be alleviated as the natural healing potential in their bodies was unblocked and allowed to work once more.
In 1934 Dr Bach moved to Mount Vernon in Oxfordshire. It was in the lanes and fields round about that he found the remaining 19 remedies that he needed to complete the series. He would suffer the emotional state that he needed to cure and then try various plants and flowers until he found the one single plant that could help him. In this way, through great personal suffering and sacrifice, he completed his life's work.
Dr Bach passed away peacefully on the evening of November 27th, 1936. He was only 50 years old, but he had left behind him several lifetimes' experience and effort, and a system of medicine that is now used all over the world.
Unlike standard medical approaches which treat physical symptoms, Bach believed the only way to truly prevent or deal with an illness, once manifested, was to address the underlying emotional causes. Concerned over the misusage and side- effects of most chemical drugs, Bach believed a safe, gentle treatment could be found in nature.
After many years of research and testing, Bach discovered that the preparation of 38 flowering plants, trees and special waters alleviated a broad range of emotional and psychological difficulties. Bach also developed a highly effective combination emergency rescue formula for the relief of stress during acute stressful situations. "Rescue Remedy" is regarded as the panacea Remedy, having the ability to calm and distress any situation especially, those created by traumatic incidents where an animal was terrorized, injured, or abused.
But, how does one know what emotions animals are experiencing? You would be surprised as to how easy it is to "read" an animal. All it takes is some observation and a little insight. You might discover that animals take less effort than humans!
The Flower Remedies come in small stock bottles. Locally the cost is anywhere from 20ML-$25- 10ML-$10.00. The best price I have found on the internet is at 20ML-$9.79- 10ML-$7.77. Rite Care Pharmacy. Â To make up a combination, use 2 drops of each desired flower essence to one ounce of water; for Rescue Remedy use 4 drops per ounce of water. You can add up to 20% alcohol (usually brandy or vodka) as a preservative as desired, but some animals dislike the taste. (You can use flower remedies straight from the stock bottle, but they taste terrible!) You may use up to 6 essences in combination, with Rescue Remedy counting as one essence. In general, use the fewest essences possible.
NOTE: Rescue Remedy is not meant to take the place of emergency medical treatment. In serious conditions or situations requiring medical attention, a veterinarian should be notified immediately.
The remedy can be given by mouth, which is the most effective method. Only a few drops (4-8) are necessary, and need not be swallowed, but only must contact the mucous membranes (gums, tongue, lips). Be careful not to contaminate the dropper by touching it to the animal (if this occurs, rinse the dropper in very hot water before returning it to the bottle). You can also add a dropper full to the water dish, or a few drops on wet food (there is no effect of dilution). You can add a dropper full to a spray bottle filled with spring water, and use it to spray a room, carrier, car, around litter boxes or plants, or other problem areas. You can even put a few drops in your hand and pat the animal on the head and around the ears with it--the head is very sensitive to energy and will absorb the flower essences in this way. In the case of chewing or excessive licking or hot spots, you might want to try applying the remedy directly to the problem spot (IF it isn't too raw, otherwise the remedy will sting); the animal will then consume it when it next licks that area.
The Bach Remedies can be taken directly from the stock bottle or from the personal dilution bottle by placing 2 - 4 drops in your animal's feed or water. The Remedies are easy and convenient to use with varied methods of application that can be selected to suit an individual's specific needs.
The most common forms of administering the Remedies are placing them into the animal's food or water; dropping them directly into the animal's mouth; or rubbing the needed remedies on one's hands before petting them.
There is no improper or wrong method of applying the Bach Remedies. It is truly not necessary to be precise in counting the number of drops in any of the dilution methods. The suggestions given, herein, are merely to offer a reasonable parameter of accepted dilution methods. Follow your own judgment and insights. Remember that you cannot overdose the Remedies for they are non-toxic.

Our First Seminar was a success.

I want to Thank Nedda Wittels for the great Seminar on Improving my Animal's Health. It contained a lot of useful information and everyone that attended thoroughly enjoyed it.

If you were unable to attend, don't despair you can purchase download of the seminar. The seminar is in MP3 format and covers the whole seminar.

Nedda Wittels is an animal communicator and her website is Rays of Healing Light

Quantum-Touch

Quantum-Touch is a vibrational touch therapy that incorporates touch, breath work, and body awareness meditations. It is the most recent to show up and take off across the US. Its concepts are closely related to polarity therapy. It is primarily a light-touch energy therapy, but it is secondarily promoted as a therapy that helps bones to spontaneously adjust to their proper alignment. Richard Gordon developed the Quantum-Touch therapy and published a book on this therapy, Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal. Personally I found this modality to be an extension of his previous modality "Polarity" of which I became certified many years ago. The Quantum-Touch healing process involves the practitioner “running energy” into the recipient’s body. Often, practitioners employ a technique that is known as “sandwiching” or “the hand sandwich.” Sandwiching means that the practitioner will use his or her hands to sandwich the part of the recipient’s body that is to be treated. One hand will be placed on one side of the body part and the other hand will be placed on the other side. Another technique that is used for “running energy” into very small areas is to create a tripod using the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger. This is meant to help get the practitioner’s hands closer to the source of pain. Advanced techniques used in this system include harmonic toning, spinning the chakras, structural alignment, and distant healing.

The Quantum-Touch method requires that practitioners learn a series of meditations to shift their state of consciousness and increase the level of their own body awareness. Beyond this, practitioners learn to use a number of specific breathing techniques. While there is no philosophical or religious orientation attached to this method, people are encouraged to use Quantum-Touch in conjunction with their own belief structure or spirituality.

The principles behind this Quantum-Touch involve resonance, intention, attention, breath and innate body intelligence. Using our intention and attention in conjunction with breath and various meditations, practitioners are able to profoundly shift the vibration of their hands. When two things vibrate at different frequencies, the law of resonance requires that either the lower frequency comes up, the upper frequency goes down, or that they meet in the middle. Practitioners simply learn to hold a high vibration in their hands. The person receiving the session will eventually match the vibration of the practitioner's hands.

Quantum-Touch like Polarity Therapy relies on innate body intelligence to do the work. For example, practitioners do not have to know where bones need to move, any more than we need to understand how our stomach digests food. As in Polarity Therapy, the person's innate body intelligence directs the healing.

Quantum-Touch is a method of hands-on healing that actually must be seen to be believed. With only a light touch, you can observe bones spontaneously adjusting into their proper alignment. Beyond this, all healing is accelerated. By learning to activate the power of Quantum-Touch, you invoke the secret of resonance. From the DNA to the bones, all cells and systems effortlessly respond to the resonance of your love.

Improving my Animal's Health:

8/12/09 Nedda Wittels www.raysofhealinglight.com Topic: Improving my Animal's Health: Supporting my Animal's Healing Process How to be prepared to handle illness and injury before they occur. Help an animal currently recovering from illness or injury Learn how to use flower essences to help their animal recover Improve ability to give medications to sick or injured animals $15.00 As a small child, Nedda felt the emotions of animals empathically. She often knew what the family pets wanted. Her parents told her she was just pretending, so she stopped telling others what she experienced. Although Nedda received her Bachelors Degree from Cornell University and has masters degrees from SUNY at New Paltz and NYU, she rejected the position of Behavioral Psychologists, that animals are a collection of conditioned responses without emotions. She could not deny her own inner truth. Echo, her equine companion of 22 years, was also Nedda's mentor and teacher. Through Echo's guidance and love, Nedda developed her telepathic skills, learned alternative healing and riding methods, and opened to her spiritual path In the early 1990's, Nedda read Animal Talk, by Penelope Smith. This propelled her to a new level of consciousness about animals: animals are sentient beings - intelligent and self-aware, with their own unique perspectives and life purposes. This understanding is the basis for Nedda's professional work today. Since 1994, Nedda has given private consultations for over a thousand different animals of many species, including horses, cats, dogs, lamas, iguanas, cockatiels, parrots, and a pet tarantula. Distance is no obstacle. Telepathic communication is instantaneous even if the animal is living on the other side of the planet. Nedda discovered her healing abilities by learning ways to help Echo as she lived to nearly 32 years of age. Having a clear intention and being open to possibilities, even when they challenge logic, may bring about startling improvements to an animal's well being in a very short time. In 1999, Nedda took her first course in Shamballa Multidimensional Healing. By the end of an intense 2-day weekend class, Nedda was certain that she was meant to facilitate Shamballa classes for others. Nedda loves teaching others how to develop their own telepathic skills and to open to their higher guidance. In her workshops, she helps beginners gain confidence, expand their natural abilities, suspend self-judgment, and have fun while they learn. As we move into higher frequencies of Love and Light, accessing our inner resources makes the transformation easier. It also gives us back our sense of power and control over our own lives.

Polarity Therapy

 

Polarity Therapy Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive health system involving energy-based bodywork, diet, exercise and self- awareness. It works with the Human Energy Field, electro- magnetic patterns expressed in mental, emotional and physical experience. In Polarity Therapy, health is viewed as a reflection of the condition of the energy field, and therapeutic methods are designed to balance the field for health benefit.

  Polarity Therapy was developed by Randolph Stone, DO, DC, ND (1890-1981), who conducted a thorough investigation of energy in the healing arts over the course of his 60 year medical career. Drawing information from a wide range of sources, he found that the Human Energy Field is affected by touch, diet, movement, sound, attitudes, relationships, life experience, trauma and environmental factors. Since Polarity Therapy lends an energy-based perspective to all these subjects, the scope of Polarity practice is often very broad, with implications for health professionals in many therapeutic disciplines. As a result, Polarity has strong, mutually supportive connections to many other holistic health systems.

 

Basic characteristics of the Human Energy Field are described in many sources, both ancient and modern. For example, the term "Polarity" refers to the universal pulsation of expansion/contraction or repulsion/attraction known as Yang and Yin in Oriental therapies. Similarly, Polarity integrates the "Three Principles and Five Chakras" of Aryuvedic tradition, and has been called the modern manifestation of ancient Hermetic Philosophy. At the same time Polarity Therapy also enjoys rich ties to modern science, which has confirmed its essential theme of energetic relationship as the basis of all phenomena.

According to Polarity Therapists, (http://www.polaritytherapy.org/ ) the body is a system of energy fields, with the life energy kept in constant motion by the magnetic pull of opposing poles. Depleted or stagnant energy currents result in illness and bad health. Practitioners believe that poor nutrition and digestion are frequent causes of many physical problems; for this reason, cleansing diets are often prescribed to rid the body of accumulated toxins. Simple yoga exercises are often advocated to maintain muscle tone and strengthen the spine. Polarity therapists will also counsel patients to enhance self-esteem, as negative thought can impede energy flow.

Reiki

REIKI: I understand that presently there are over 45 different forms of Reiki. I personally am attuned in the most common form which is Usui Reiki, as well as 4 other styles. It appears to me that these different names and styles all have a common starting point and are then named by the linage of which they followed. I am going to refer to the original and most common known style here. Dr Usui, Dr Hyashi, Mrs Takata are 3 persons who play a very vital role in the spreading of Reiki in the western world. You can read the history about Dr Usui, Dr Hayashi and Mrs Takata by clicking the respective links.

Usui Reiki (pronounced Ray-key) is a Japanese name consisting of 2 words Rei and Ki meaning spiritually guided life energy, an energy which vitalizes us all and is found all around us. Reiki is a form of spiritual healing using "universal life energy" channeled through the practitioner to the recipient. Reiki claims to harmonize body, mind and spirit for yourself or anyone you want to help.

Reiki-Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy." Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and well being. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

Reiki is transferred to students by Reiki Masters through a series of attunements. During an attunement process, the Master selects a series of symbols, which represent important points located along a person's energy field, and guides them through higher vibrations of energy. This attunement process enables recipients to access the healing energy on their own—and in turn, help others to access it too.

More information: http://www.reiki.org/

Natural Therapeutic Balancing for humans and Pets

NATURAL THERAPEUTIC BALANCING by JUDI J. BYERS. Traditional medicine is an “asymptomatic” form of treatment. It takes the physical symptoms and either treats or rather hides them with drugs, until the body has had time to heal itself. The success of this treatment is tied directly to the patients belief that the drugs will work.

We actually see only a small part of the three dimensional human body that lives in this three dimensional world. If it is not in balance physically, mentally and spiritually, it will suffer from dis-ease. Traditional medicine has attempted to change that triangle to physical, mental and chemical, disregarding the spiritual side altogether.

Treatment that starts in the physical and works toward the spiritual is like trying to push a rope up a hill. Traditional religion has taught us that we do not deserve to be healed. That we are being punished for something we have done. Acceptance of this unworthiness is the reason that science gives for over 80% of all illnesses being psychosomatic (in the mind) in origin.

To be healthy is more than just lack of disease. It is allowing the life energies to radiate through our own energy systems with the least amount of resistance.

Natural Therapeutic Balancing (NTB), is a unique combination of many different formal styles of therapy plus many of my own, working directly with the body’s energy, as well as the physical body itself. After years of trial and error, Judi developed a technique that is easy to learn and easier to use. Starting with some of the techniques from Therapeutic Touch, adding energy and chakra balancing, Polarity, Touch for Health, SHEN, Healing Touch, Quantum Touch, Reiki, Shiatsa and Trigger Point Therapy, Judi created a simple, yet effective style called NTB. In just a few hours of class time, you will obtain enough information, along with practical application, that you should have no difficulty continuing on to develop a style that works for you.

Health is more that just the lack of disease. To be healthy, is to have both feet on the ground, letting the life energies radiate through our own energy systems with the least amount of resistance. It is the ability to consciously channel this source positively in our co-creation of the world. It is the projection of our inner truths.

Health is relative; each time we reach harmony or integration on one level, we are soon introduced into a higher context in which we seek a new and more comprehensive balance. It is a dynamic process leading us far beyond our present concept of evolution.

Natural Therapeutic Touch for Animals was founded in 1987 by Judi J. Byers. In today's world where alternative/complementary medicine is fast becoming accepted for humans, we felt the same opportunities should be awarded to our animal friends and companions. Thus NTBA was born. Judi has taught a similar class for humans for over 20 years, but with so many others offering help in that area, this course was created for both, the lay person and the professional equally, too help animals in need. The techniques are easy to learn and even easier to use. The course is broken into three areas; Intuition, Physical work, and Energy work.

For more information about NTB, we have a workbook available for purchase. Just click here for more information.