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Reiki and the Harbor Seal

by Rose De Dan

Harbor Seal with Reiki Face
©Rose De Dan 2010

My dog, Puma, and I were out for a Sunday stroll along Alki Beach in West Seattle when I noticed that the area around the steps leading down to the beach and Puget Sound had been cordoned off by yellow tape. Getting closer I saw why—a seal was taking a nap. Nearby, a volunteer member of Seal Sitters kept watch, keeping curious people and dogs from frightening him, and answering questions from passersby.

I engaged in conversation with Janette, the volunteer sitter, and learned two more facts about harbor seals. One was that they mature slowly; the seal I had first thought to be a pup, because of his small size, was probably a teenager born last June. The other fact is there are a few diseases that can be passed to dogs simply by their sniffing the seal, another good reason to keep your distance.

I also learned from Janette that their organization uses photos to identify seals by the markings around their eyes. I had already been debating whether I should return to my house to retrieve my camera, and volunteered my services as photographer.

Walking back with camera in hand and faithful Puma reveling in a longer walk, I felt an inner prompt to send Reiki to the situation. I was unsure what it might be needed for, but complied. The beauty of Reiki is that you don’t have to know how it will be used, you can simply let the energy flow for the highest good. Perhaps the seal needed energetic support for physical or emotional challenges, maybe the Reiki was needed to help raise public awareness about marine wildlife, or perhaps it was something else entirely. I let go of attachment to the outcome, trusting that the Reiki would be allocated and received as needed.

Still sending Reiki, I conferred with Janette on how to get the best shot without disturbing the seal. Leaving Puma on stay, and with her permission, I slipped inside the buffer zone. She’d said that the sound of the camara shutter would cause the seal to raise his head and look at me, which should offer me the perfect opportunity to get a nice photo of his face markings. Two clicks and the seal simply slumbered on. Somehow I had to get him to raise his head, for at this point all I could see were his whiskers poking up above the steps.

Moving a little closer, and trying for a better angle, I clicked off a few more shots, and still nothing. I reached out mentally, trying to make contact with my animal communication skills. Still no movement. I could sense great relaxation…a sense of well-being…a kind of mental snore…and then, “Mmmm, that feels good.” I mentally laughed at myself — in my eagerness to take photos I had forgotten that I was still sending Reiki! Of course the seal was not going to stir. Not only did he find the Reiki relaxing, but previous encounters had clearly demonstrated to me that Reiki helps build bridges of trust between people and animals, wild or domestic.

I terminated the flow of Reiki, let a few seconds go by, and then took another shot with my camera. This time the sound had the anticipated effect, slowly the seal raised his head, blinking blearily, looking very much like someone who had been woken from a deep sleep. Taking his time, the seal turned his face in my direction. All this time I was taking shots and talking quietly to him, telling him how handsome he was. As he finally located me, he looked directly into my lens, and I clearly heard him say, “Oh, it’s you.” And with that acknowledgment, as though we were old friends, he laid his head back down and resumed his nap.

Postscript: You can read about my first Reiki encounter with a harbor seal in “At the Edge of Two Worlds” from Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism.

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Rose De Dan, Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing LLC, is a mesa carrier in the Peruvian Q’ero tradition. In addition she is also a Reiki Master Teacher, animal communicator, author of the acclaimed book Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism, and creator of Animal and Reiki Art. As an animal shaman, she views her role as a healer as one of building bridges between people and animals, and of empowering them to reconnect with Pachamama, Mother Earth.

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Animal Communication – Learn How to Communicate With Your Pet

by Syndicated Pet Articles

Animal Communication is a special language communicated between people and animals. As we all know animals do not talk the same language as us, but that does not mean that they are unable to communicate. Animals and people can communicate effective plus animals communicate on a loving and feeling level.

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Home for the Holidays

by Rose De Dan

Panini and Truffles

Thanksgiving is traditionally a time for gathering with families and loved ones, as well as a time for giving thanks for the blessings in our lives. Greeting cards often depict the holiday with images of families gathered around a table laden with delicious food. But for myself, and many of my readers, such a scene will always include at least one loved animal companion as in Jacquie Lawson’s latest heartwarming e-card, The Thanksgiving Feast.

Not everyone understands that bond, but many can become converts given the right animal partner. Over the years I have heard many stories that begin with “I never liked cats…” or “I never wanted a dog, but…” — a story that often concludes with wonderment about how much joy that particular animal brings. And it’s a magic that happens purely through the willingness of another species to offer us their trust, and to love us unconditionally. If we allow it, if we make room for it, their love can inspire us to communicate with them from the heart, and, in so doing, we become better, happier people.

Reader Gary Johnson in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, shared this photo with me of a doghouse he built for his two dachshunds. Panini (the black and tan) was a year-old on October 4th, and Truffles will be a year-old on November 29th.

Gary says, “I never quite understood your thing with pets until I got a set of dogs. I find them to be great companions and loads of fun. A set of characters to say the least. My wife had a fit when I built the doghouse. Something about ‘other things to do’ and ‘Dachshunds don’t need porches.’ The lights are solar and the sign I made.”

For someone who never had dogs before, Gary seems to be “hearing” their needs just fine. He says, “I moved the doghouse to follow the winter sunlight. They enjoy sitting on their porch watching for ninja squirrels (I think) who drop from the trees and cause mischief. The only thing they enjoy more is sitting and watching for ninja squirrels while warming their fur in a sunbeam.”

Indeed, these two charmers do not seem to have any difficulty at all in making themselves clearly understood. Gary shares, “Both have discovered the hearth by the fireplace. Neither seems to have interest in moving until spring. They are smart dogs, amazingly so at times, but they are stubborn as the day is long. Truffles has taken to staring at the fireplace and barking until it’s lit. She then proceeds to lay on the hearth until you wonder if her fur is going to burst into flames and rolls over while stretching. I should have named her Mercury after the planet closest to the sun. She is a clown.

“One day I was walking both when Panini suddenly stiffened when she spotted a cat. Truffles looked at the cat, tail wagging, thinking she found a new friend. Panini turned to Truffles and gave her an indignant bark as if to say, “You don’t wag at those.” Truff gave a half-hearted bark at the cat, but you could tell she did not mean it.”

It is said that no home is complete without a dog. Gary went for a double, adopting two. And it appears that both dogs feel that no home is complete without Gary. He says, “Since I came back from vacation in the Far East, they don’t seem to want me out of their sight. It’s like I am being stalked.”

I’d say that all parties are glad to be home, with each other, for the holidays.

Best wishes to all my readers for a happy Thanksgiving with your family, furry or otherwise!

Rose De Dan, Puma, Saqqara, Kiya, Cougar and Sand

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Rose De Dan, Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing LLC, is a paq’o and mesa carrier in the Peruvian Q’ero Andean Medicine Tradition. In addition she is also a Reiki Master Teacher, animal communicator, author of the acclaimed book Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism, and creator of Animal and Reiki Art. As an animal shaman, she views her role as a healer as one of building bridges between people and animals, and of empowering them to reconnect with Pachamama, Mother Earth.

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How to Make Animal Communication Work in 6 Steps

by Syndicated Pet Articles

Animal Communication is the ability for a person to share the feelings of any animal in detail. Imagine having a detailed conversation with an animal, the difference is that the language of the animals is feeling based and does not rely on words. When working with animal communication we can discover how our animals feel on both physically and emotionally.

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Been Raining Toadstools

by Rose De Dan

Okay, I know I live in Seattle, a place renowned for rainy weather nine months of the year, and should be used to inclement weather, but today I felt way overdue for sunshine.

Usually the rain is gentle. The heavy downpours I knew back East are relatively unknown here, but that pattern seemed to change recently when we endured what I would have called a Nor’easter, had I still been living in Massachusetts — several days of heavy rain, strong, gusty winds, hail, etc.

My dog, Puma, and I were forced to take our usual walk during one particularly heavy rainfall, and were soaked by the time we had gone two blocks. Poor Puma expressed his displeasure with the whole soggy mess by laying his ears flat against his head to keep the rain out. Halfway through our usual circuit he volunteered to cut the length of our walk in half by trying to drag me in the direction of home. We compromised by cutting the walk short by a few blocks.

We even had thunder, a very rare phenomenon here, unlike South Jersey where I grew up. So rare that while in session with a client I thought at first the sound I heard was a neighbor dragging out their garbage can. It was only when the volume and vibration continued to increase that I recognized it as an isolated peal of thunder.

The topper was the hail. One minute I am sitting on the couch, reading quietly, the next the peace is shattered by what sounds like stones hitting the windows. Winds were driving the hail sideways into the ancient glass, and the noise was so loud all the animals, even Puma, looked panicked.

The hailstorm picked up in intensity, and despite sending Reiki and positive feelings of safety and comfort to the animals, they were uneasily moving away from the windows and gathering in the center of the house, all the time casting glances at me for cues. Keeping up a running dialogue of reassurance, I eyed the windows with some concern (I joke to people that I think the original 1924 glass is only held in place only by the glazing pins), and tried to think what we would do if one of them gave way.

Listening to the winds I suddenly had an idea. In the course of my shamanic training we had been told that a practitioner can work with weather. Now it is my understanding that it is usually an altomesayoq that can do that, a higher level than I am, but an experience I had very early in my training made me feel that it could not hurt to make a request. There was no time to reach for rattle and Florida Water, I simply turned to each of the four directions, and very simply asked the winds to be gentle with us, and thinking of all the birds, animals and plants enduring the onslaught, added a request on their behalf. As soon as I finished speaking, the hail stopped. Completely.

I imagine that my request simply coincided with the natural cessation of the hailstorm, but I was not taking any chances. It would be impolite not to say “thank you” no matter what the reason for the end of the storm. This time, with rattle in hand, proper offerings of Florida Water and deep gratitude from my heart, I gave thanks to all four directions, all four winds.

And today I gave thanks for the appearance of the Sun, feeling the warmth on my face, watching my cats basking, I felt my spirits lift in response. Sometimes I guess you just need a reminder that the elements of nature are truly powerful, humbling and miraculous in their splendor.

P.S. This past week may not have been fit weather for woman nor beast, but it has been great for the fungi family. Toadstools have been popping up all over the place. The image appearing with this article is one that sprang out of the ground alongside the city street on which I live. In the background you can see the store lights reflected in the puddle underneath a parked car.

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How to Talk to Your Animal

by Syndicated Pet Articles

Most people think of Animal Communication as some kind of psychic skill. That’s too limited a viewpoint. Animal Communication takes place every day between you and your animal friend.

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Animal Communicators and the Hot-Cold Game

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Do you remember the Hot/Cold game you played when you were a child? Did you ever think it could be used as a tool to build self-confidence and self-trust in animal communication?

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Animal Communication – Like Tuning in to Your Favorite Radio Station

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A question I am often asked in my animal communication teleconferences is, “How do I know that I’m connected to the right animal and that what I’m receiving is the correct information?” That is a very good question and one that we all have worked with and continue to work with, especially in the early stages of our animal communication journey.

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Carnival of Healing #210: Connections

by Rose De Dan

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<p>Welcome to Carnival of Healing #210! Last week’s Carnival was hosted by Rosanna C Rogacion of <a rel=

Melisma. This is the first time the Carnival has been hosted here on the Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing blog, but it won’t be the last. I have enjoyed reading and putting together so many inspirational, educational and just plain fun links to the numerous articles submitted that I plan to do it again.

On this Carnival you will find articles on many topics, submitted by writers from different countries, gathered together here in a virtual global village. All with one unifying purpose, the nurturance of connections—whether support for our physical bodies, awareness of connections to others of our species, or the connections that we all share in the Wheel of Life —and the ability of those connections to inspire.

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PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT

One of the first articles that I received illustrated that concept beautifully, presenting me with the unique opportunity to feature two for one. Sue Tanida submitted All of Creation, where she shares her insights gained by reading a blog post written by someone else. Sue says, “The author really sees the great Mystery of interconnectedness of life on this planet. He really gets that the sacred isn’t just found in the ‘beauty’ or ‘tranquility’ or whatever else people describe nature as. The sacred is found in the larger patterns that nature forms.” Sue’s article contains an excerpt to the post written by J. Williams Harkins at the Episcopal Café entitled Loaves, fishes, salmon in particular, which I highly encourage you to read in its entirety as his writing truly reflects the inspiration and sacredness to be found in awareness of our connection to nature.

Lisa Illiachmann is a gardener wrestling with the removal of one stubborn plant. She uses that struggle to effectively make an empowering connection to the greater struggle we all face in our lives in The Weed.

And the quality of writing continues in Carrying and Leaving where Jessica Nagel shares an effective technique for opening up to stillness as a doorway to healing not only ourselves, but also the planet.

If I were handing out awards for Best Blog Title it would go to Lessons from a Recovering Doormat: Tips, Tools and Perspective for Being More Empowered. And Daylle Deanna Schwartz does exactly that in her helpful post Law of Attraction in Action: Positive Words.

Wayne C Allen puts an amusing and insightful spin on the Law of Attraction with his 10 Zen Principles to Help You Live Life Better as interpreted through the great Yogi-isms of baseball legend Yogi Berra.

Ingrid King, of The Conscious Cat, offers further insights with From Fear to Hope and Love. And of course the advice I loved best and agree wholeheartedly with is, “Pet your cat or dog! Being with your animals is one of the best ways I know to instantly shift your vibration from negative to positive. It’s impossible to be fearful and worried when you have a happy dog licking your face or a purring cat in your lap.”

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FOR ANIMALS

Moving out of the realm of individual human empowerment, our next virtual stop is energy healing for animals.

Gina McCulloch D.C. EBW shares her experiences as a chiropractor working in tandem with an Animal Reiki Therapist in the UK in Animal Reiki & Animal Chiropractic for Cats; Dogs, Horses and other Pets – An Ideal Natural Healing Combination!.

And Jackie Branagan also shares energy healing stories about her cat Misty and rescued cat Bowser. In my experience it is very true that the animals know exactly what they need and are drawn to it as Bowser was with Jackie’s mesa. I tell my Reiki students that if they think they are animal magnets before taking a Reiki class, wait until after! (And yes, I am the Rose mentioned in the story.)

Compassion is a quality that should permeate all healing modalities, whether for animals or people. Shiatsu practitioner Gina Loree’ Marks explores a very important aspect of the relationship between caregiver and client in The Morality of Healing.

And what connection is more important to each of us than that to our families? Carol Brown submitted Dr. Mom: 92 Tools to Help you Take Better Care of Your Family, helpful resources to ensure your family is on the right track for nutrition, exercise, injury and much more.

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YOGA FOR YOU AND YOUR KIDS

This article was as much fun to read as the yoga poses will be for you and your kids to do. KidsYogaOnline presents Hatha yoga for kids: float like a butterfly, hum like a bee. And because as a shamanic practitioner I am currently in the process of working Serpent energy I just had to include Animal yoga for kids: the hiss of the serpent, where you can “get slithery with kids yoga when you slide into the cobra yoga pose. As one of the most animated kids yoga exercises, the cobra posture brings flexibility to your spine and strength to your back. Best of all, you get to hisss, just like a real snake!”

And for adults Mary Jones presents 50 Excellent Yoga Moves to Cure Any Kind of Pain or Problem, an article that I found personally helpful, with tips that I plan on using daily.

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WELLNESS

I can’t say I have tried it, but I have seen the benefits for others who have. Karthik Raj G presents The real benefits of fasting – both physical and spiritual.

This next submission came from Japan (don’t you love the internet?), and it not only taught me something new, but it was also fun to immerse myself (pun intended) in the Japanese culture and beautiful photos. You may not have heard of this therapeutic modality, but Tony Alexander offers an introduction in Kono Ha No Yu: Balneotherapy.

And last, but not least, WP Ho presents Inflammation: Essential Facts You Need to Know, which explores many of the factors that contribute to chronic inflammation.

And you will see WP Ho again, as he will be hosting next week’s Carnival of Healing #211 on Oct. 17, 2009 at The Conscious Life, and I invite you to submit an article.

I hope you enjoyed your virtual trip around the world and the many articles by inspiring writers featured here!

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For past editions of the Carnival of Healing visit Archives.

Attention Bloggers: If you think you might be interested in hosting an edition of The Carnival of Healing on your blog please review the basic hosting guidelines.

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Rose De Dan
Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing LLC
building bridges between people and animals
Website: www.reikishamanic.com
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What Do Squirrels Do on Sunny Days?

by Rose De Dan

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<p>My kitchen window affords some fine photo opportunities, and this sunny day was especially fun.</p>
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photos on Flickr). Squirrel 1, on the left, was more cautious about lying down, waiting a bit, and making sure that the crazy papparazi woman (me) was just curious. Squirrel 2 was comfy, but needed something to nibble and play with. A nearby maple seed appeared to work just fine and then, of course, Squirrel 1 had to see what Squirrel 2 had.

In sorting through the many photos I took it was tough to choose favorites, one is a later photo (shown left) where Squirrel 2 is propped on his elbows while Squirrel 1 relaxes. Reminded me of squirrel bedtime reading.

Squirrel 1 finally settled down for a bit, until he got too warm and headed for shade, but Squirrel 2 stayed, chasing the maple seed down the roof on his belly in very slow motion. The photo where he stretches out one front paw is just too cute for words.