EQUINE HEALING THERAPY

Any form of Healing is a very gentle way of stimulating the healing of the whole body and mind in any situation and is very safe when done by an experienced practitioner.  Despite its gentle nature it can be extremely powerful and beneficial in all manner of non-responding conditions, even the most traumatic or life threatening, and is most known for its ability to relieve physical pain and emotional stress. It may be used on its own or alongside veterinary treatment or other therapies. 

Healing is not attached to any religious belief or culture and it is not necessary for someone to believe in it for it to work. Animals do not have a belief about it! 

Horses respond beautifully to Healing and instinctively ask for it when they have become used to it. They are far more sensitive to changes in their body than we are and often show that they sense the Healing as it is being given.  Most horses relax considerably, often going to sleep afterwards. They will yawn and stretch during a session and some will walk away indicating they need a break or they have had enough for that day. 

Healing can help many animals turn round from a potentially life threatening situation. as well as calming a very traumatised animal after injury or severe stress.

WHAT IS HEALING ?  

Healing is a form of Energy Therapy which aims to address imbalances in what is known as the Aura or Electro Magnetic Field (sometimes known by scientists as the Bio Field). 

Every living thing whether human, animal or plant, has a LIFE FORCE which leaves when we are dead. It exists through every cell of the body and as it is energy and not solid matter, it extends outside the confines of the physical body as a field or  Aura. Its existence can be shown by Kirlian Photography but we do not yet have a machine sensitive enough to test, register or measure it and its changes.  

Healers on the other hand, and many other complementary therapists,  are aware of this field and often seek to stimulate it by therapy. Healers like Ruth can actually FEEL this field and Ruth is able to feel or sense changes in the field as she works. This helps her understand where pain may be felt and how the animal may be feeling.

You can feel the your own EM field by rubbing your hands together and very slowly pulling your hands apart and back together again until you become aware of a magnetic like pull. 

Healers and complementary therapists know that this field reflects what physical, emotional or mental state the person or horse is in. If there is trauma in any aspect  it will immediately be reflected in the energy field. 

If a change occurs in the energy field, it is reflected in the mental or emotional aspects and can eventually cause change in the physical body. 

By calming and balancing the energy in the aura and the body, it  can directly affect the physical, mental and emotional balance. So much so that physical symptoms can often disappear.

Healing seeks to balance out any anomalies in the EM field.  As a result, people report feeling very calm, relaxed and with significantly less pain. It is the same for the animals. 

Serious physical symptoms should always recieve veterinary diagnosis and treatment. However Healing and energy balancing can go a long way to enabling true healing to take place and to help prevent symptoms becoming more serious.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Healer places their hands very lightly on the body or above the body in the EM field.  The healer will  connect by thought to the  horse and, to the source of healing energies which they work with (often called God). The healer will then allow the healing energies to pass through them to the horse needing help. What then happens is up to the individual animal's innate healing ability and not due to the healer themselves. The healer is merely the channel or facilitator. 

WHAT MAY IT HELP?

Any condition!

Any situation!

Any horse!

Pain, Stress, Shock, Physical issues and Emotional / Behavioural issues.

This does not mean healing is necessarily going to CURE the problem, it means that it usually will be of great benefit to the outcome. 

Horses near, or at the end of their life. - This is a very sad time , when you know that nothing more can be done for them and the time has come for you to let go and for them to move on. In these situations healing can be of much benefit and relief as it often reduces the pain levels further and it gives a true sense of rest and peace to the animal. Healing can be given to the owner too to help with the pain of letting go and moving on in their own life. 

 HORSES HELPED BY HEALING

Rio - 9yr old Welsh section C - Intermittent Stiffness.
Rio, a 9-y-o Welsh Section C gelding had intermittent stiffness in his hind limbs with no obvious cause. Improved after he had lost weight and improved in fitness but still noticeable at times. Ruth did not feel there was any physical problem after watching him in hand and under saddle. She felt that it was more mental/emotional so elected to give him Healing Therapy. Rio had 2 Healing treatments from Ruth. On both occasions he was “trance like” approximately 2 mins from the start of his treatment and remained deeply relaxed for about 2 hours. He appeared sedated when I brought him in from the field the next day. His stiffness has virtually disappeared.

Diana Hodson, B.V.Sc., M.R.C.V.S.

Terrified Foals bought at Auction

I was once at a yard treating a horse with musculo skeletal problems and i was shown a Welsh Section A , 5 month old filly that had been bought at auction the day before after being torn from its mother. It was so terrified no one could go near it to get a head collar on it and it literally tried to climb up the walls if someone went in with it. I offered to help. 

I stood just inside the stable and connected with the filly's EM field or Aura at a distance (i have developed this ability because of situations just like this.) I worked with the energies of the terrified filly and she gradually began to calm down. I was able to move in a little closer. As i continued working with her energies i was able to slowly get within a foot of her. She was quite calm and trusted me to put on her halter. She allowed me to stroke her. 

It had taken just 20 minutes. 

Another time a 6 month old colt was brought in a trailer from auction. He too had been wrenched from his mother and had watched his mother beaten into another trailer and driven away. He then was loaded into his trailer by force. When he arrived, he was so terrified he wouldn't come out and just kept on rearing up. The owner couldn't get him out. I offered again to help. 

Within minutes of connecting with his energies i was able to lead him safely out of the trailer to his new stable.