November 16, 2022 • 66 mins
Although Simba’s story turned out well, it could have gone very differently. Simba asked us to help you understand and release grief if you have experienced the loss of a loved one. Join Pam for a discussion and powerful Reiki healing experience to release grief.
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So welcome everyone to ourpodcast and Reiki share tonight.
This Reiki Share and podcast isonce again brought to you by our
horse Simba.
We had a really close call withhim a few weeks ago, and as such
even before we knew it was goingto be a close call we, he had
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asked if we could do a podcastabout him and hoping that his
story would inspire people, andin fact, it did.
And he and I want to thank you.
So many of you sent donationsand love and prayers and
thoughts and good wishes, and somany of you have followed up
with us to find out how he'sdoing, and I'm really happy to
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let you know that he's doingextremely well.
But what happened with Simba, hehad a cancerous growth in his
eye and he'd had the eye and thegrowth removed six years ago,
and recently it came back.
So I'm gonna just go through alittle bit of his story.
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And he specifically wanted us tohelp people with their grief in
this Reiki Share Tonight andpodcast because we had a happy
ending to our story, but noteverybody does.
And there were some reallystrong messages that came
through Animal Reiki about that.
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So I wanted to share that with.
Before we begin, I do want tolet you know that if you love
animals as much as we do, wehave six full days in December
of animal classes.
There's a level one and twoclass, the first Thursday and
Friday of December, and Ibelieve it's the first and 2nd
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of December.
And that is a prerequisite toanimal Reiki.
And some of you may just wannareview your level one and two
class.
Please join us if you do thatweekend, the very first weekend
of December.
We have an animal communicationclass that's my own class.
It's very different than AnimalReiki.
But it does, they do complimenteach other.
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It's.
It is about telepathiccommunication and the majority
of the students, over 90% of thestudents in the classes can very
clearly understand and getmessages from the animals by the
end of our two days together.
And then of course, it takespractice to finesse it.
But one of the things we do inour animal communication class
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is that we teach you how to.
Verify your work.
And so you're able to verify ifyou got your communication
correctly or not.
And then we talked to you aboutif you didn't get it right, what
to do and how to go back andbreak it down.
And so it winds up being a veryeffective class even though it's
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just two days.
And so we'd love to have youjoin us.
I don't teach animalcommunication often.
I'm only teaching it three timesthis year.
And so if that's of interest toyou, please join us.
And then that's going to befollowed on the first Monday and
Tuesday of December by ouranimal Reiki, level one and two
class and animal Reiki is whatwe're going to be talking about
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quite a bit.
I do wanna say thank you to allthe folks who came to see me at
the equine affair last week inMassachusetts.
It was just wonderful to getdown to Massachusetts to get
with all of my horse crazyfriends and people that love
horses as much as I do, and tojust share our work.
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And so thank you so mucheverybody who showed up for
that.
And some of you may beinterested, I am teaching an
animal Reiki level one and twoclass in May in New York, so
some of you who and I'm alsoteaching it in Australia in
March, so I'd just love to haveyou join us if that speaks to.
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So before we go too far, I'mjust gonna invite everybody to
activate Eureka Energy.
We're talking about a reallydifficult subject tonight, and
so I'm just gonna invite you allto bring your hands together in
Gassho with your thumbs at yourheart and just breathe, just
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inviting the Reiki energy toflow from the highest heavens
through your hands and into yourheart, the gift of love and
activating all of your symbols,and just inviting them to assist
us in the healing work thatwe'll be doing to tonight to
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help alleviate any grief orguilt or shame or blame, or any
of these emotions that are soheavy.
That we have a tendency to carrywith us.
And those of us who loveanimals, most animals have a
lifespan that's much shorterthan ours.
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And so many of us haveexperienced grief at the loss of
a beloved four-legged winged orfind pet.
And so many of us haveexperienced loss of two legged
people in our lives that areimportant to us.
But that grief, when it isunresolved can be so very
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difficult and heavy to carry.
So just activating your Reikienergy to surround you and
support you today as we discussgrief and some of the meaning
around it, some of the storiesthat the animals want us to
know.
And then we do a powerfulexperience, one that the animals
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gave us, and one from our Reikimaster level to heal our grief
tonight.
Go ahead and open your eyes ifthey're closed, if you'd like,
or you can leave them closed andplace your hands on your body.
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And I just wanna tell you alittle bit about the motivation
for this topic this evening andsome of the things that we've
learned.
So Simba has been the star.
This will be his third andprobably final podcast, at least
around this.
Issue, but many of you, ifyou've been following us, are
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aware that Simba, he had acancer that, a cancerous tumor
that had come back and it hadbeen six years.
He's had six fantastic yearswith one eye, but really great
years.
It really hasn't slurred himdown a bit.
And when the tumor was back atfirst, it looked like it may
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just be that the only optionmight be keeping him comfortable
until his time came.
And he was okay with that.
And I was too.
But I really, he's a young andhealthy horse.
And in fact, the tumor hadn'teven begun to bother him at all.
We just noticed that it wasback.
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With animal communication.
I talked with Simba and I said,I'm not quite ready to let you
go yet.
How would you feel about stayingaround and you know about
checking to see if it'spossible.
And our veterinarian, we havesome of the best veterinarians,
they're run right off their feetand they're overworked.
But I really admire our largeanimal veterinarians here in New
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Brunswick.
We're very fortunate and.
Our much loved veterinariansaid, I don't think there's much
chance, but there, why don't youcheck with the specialists from
Prince Edward Island, from thevet college, the surgeons there.
And so the surgeons decided thatif we did an x-ray and it looked
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like the tumor wasn't growinginto his brain, they felt there
was a good chance they couldremove it.
So we were very excited andhopeful.
We did the x-ray.
It took a while just because ourveterinarians are so busy.
But we did get the x-ray and itlooked like From the x-ray, the
veterinarians thought about atwo hour operation.
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Probably the most difficultthing was we had to transport
him with the fuel costs the waythat they are about four hours
to the veterinary college andback.
And I no longer have a truck andhorse trailer.
So I did hire a friend to dothat for us and.
So we got him over to the vetcollege and the morning of his
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surgery I got a call and Ithought it was probably a call
about the surgery.
And in fact, they decided not togo ahead with the surgery
because the tumor was much morevascular.
When they looked at it with theultrasound, it was much more
vascular than they thought.
So there was a very real chancethat he would bleed out during
the surgery.
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And she, the question was, didwe still want the surgery?
And I feel so grateful at timeslike this to have Reiki and to
have animal Reiki.
And I don't know about you guys,but I wonder sometimes how
people who don't have Reiki, howdo they do it?
How do they, without thatsupport and without that calming
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influence, And I also, I checkedwith Simba and they could have
used some radio isotopes in thehopes.
It also didn't, the tumor didn'thave very clear margins, so it
was going to be a verycomplicated surgery with a very
strong chance that he wouldn'tsurvive.
And so we made arrangements.
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I asked the veterinarian, Ireally didn't want him to
suffer, but we decided that ourbest chance was the surgery for
him to have additional lifespan.
And so we decided to go ahead.
And I really am thankful, again,to have had Reiki and dowing and
animal communication, all ofthose things that helped to make
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that decision.
But even still we were on pinsand needles after that.
And once I talked, theveterinarian I talked to was a,
was is a very good surgeon.
She teaches.
Surgery at the vet school.
She's one of the best in herclass and she was frightened of
this surgery.
So we had the, a beautiful blooddonor mare on hand in case he
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needed a blood transfusion.
But she didn't sound veryhopeful.
She felt that there was a verystrong chance with the vascular
nature of this tumor that hewould bleed out.
And the troubling thing is thatI couldn't move to a place of
seeing a positive outcome.
One of the things that I'm veryaware of is that when you, I is
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visualization and the importanceof being able to visualize a
positive outcome in anysituation in order to then, have
a positive outcome.
And I simply, No matter how manytimes I tried to visualize
Simba, us going and picking upSimba and coming home and him
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getting off the trailer insteadI got a picture of going over to
pick up his ashes and cominghome and having this Reiki share
where we talked to people aboutwhen they have animals and they
have very big vet bills, and atthe end the animal is gone, but
the vet bill is still there.
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And that's, I know that's areally common scenario, and it's
not the veterinarian's fault.
It's not the animal's fault.
It's not our fault.
That's just one of those thingsthat happens a lot of times
that.
People lose animals that are introuble or struggling, and yet
there's still thousands ofdollars of vet bills and then
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the heartbreak of having to losethe animal.
So I could feel that reallyprofoundly, and no matter how
hard I tried to visualize adifferent outcome, that's all I
could get.
And one of my gifts is preco.
I can usually see the mostlikely outcome in the future.
But that's one of the firsttimes that I couldn't catch onto
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a positive thread with theoutcome.
And I thought, gosh, is thisendeavor just so that we can
help people that who foundthemselves in this situation.
And I kept doing Reiki and Ikept trying to get a positive
outcome.
I couldn't.
But then at four in the morningI was awoken and I was awoken.
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And.
By the Reiki energy.
And I thought because mydaughter, when I, she, Simba is
really, she's very close.
My daughter Caroline is veryclose with Simba.
He was her horse and she rodehim when nobody else dared good
on his back because he wasscared of his shadow.
And she came off of him a lot oftimes too.
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And he's a very he's 16 2 16 3hands tall.
16, three, I guess he's partBelgium and part ausa.
So he's a very large horse.
And 700 kilograms actually isexactly what he is because of
course we had to weigh him onthe way into his surgery.
And I thought, am I awake atfour in the morning so that I.
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Get in the car.
And that would just have givenus just enough time to get there
before his surgery began so thatI could wake Caroline up and we
could go in case we, in casethis was it, in case we had to
say goodbye to him.
And so I really, a lot of, thatI listen, I really feel into the
Reiki energy and I listen forthe messages in it.
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And I asked that question.
I said, am I awake at four inthe morning so that I can get
over there and say goodbye tohim before he goes into this
surgery?
And the energy gave me a feelingof, no, that's not what you're
awake for.
So I asked the question, what amI awake?
And the energy showed that oneof the reasons I was having a
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hard time visualizing a positiveoutcome is that I was in a place
of duality or fear.
And in fact, fear is the mostnegative emotion.
It's the emotion that has thedensest energy.
And all negative emotions arefear, come from fear.
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And that's what duality is.
Some of, you've been listeningto the podcast for a while, and
so you've heard me talk aboutduality.
We live this earth and also thewhat we call the second heaven.
These are realms of duality,meaning there's both positive
and negative here, andeverything positive comes from
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love.
Everything negative comes fromfear.
And so here that's.
That's where we are.
There is both positive andnegative here on the earth, and
the energy just showed me.
You're thinking about getting inthe car and going over there to
say goodbye to him.
That's coming from a place offear, and I acknowledged it
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wholeheartedly.
I knew that indeed it was comingfrom a place of fear.
So I said what am I supposed todo?
And it showed that I needed tolift all of the fear from myself
and from Simba because he wasn'tgoing to survive if the both of
us were in a place of fear.
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And I knew that.
I knew as a, I have a positionof leadership within my herd of
horses.
They've gracefully given it tome, and I knew that as their
leader, they needed me to beconfident or they can't be
confident.
That's just how it is withhorses and with my herd and.
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The energy just showed that Ineeded to bring myself to a
place of confidence and Simba toa place of confidence.
So we needed to release all thefear and move into a place of
love.
So I got busy and just startedsending Reiki to release the
fear and the duality that bothSimba and I felt.
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And once it lifted, my heartfelt so free and light, and I
was really able to feel positivefor the first time since I had
discovered that the operationwas going to be much more
complicated than theveterinarians originally
thought.
And so then the energy showed methat there were so many
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beautiful people sending Reikiand love and prayers and
assistance to Simba, but theytoo were worried.
And so it showed that we, that.
I needed to include them in theReiki prayer and just help
alleviate their worries andtheir fears and all of that.
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And so I did that and it wasable to, then it was able to
harmonize all of our energy sothat it had no fear attached.
And this is a message.
Back a few years ago, justbefore Covid Colleen and I were
sending Reiki to the animals inAustralia that were being
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impacted by the fires that wereraging there.
And we specifically had a koalasay to us, thank you for sending
it without.
Fear and guilt and all of thosedense emotions.
And he showed us that it wasdifficult for the animals to
process that.
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So the importance of sendingReiki from a place of presence
and a place outside of duality.
So this lifted the duality fromall of us, and I could see that
just all of the beautiful lovethat was being sent to Simba was
now unencumbered by the denseremotions of fear and worry and
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so on.
And I actually heard fromseveral people afterward that
they woke up the morning, theywere terribly worried about him.
People didn't know Simba andlove him, terribly worried about
him.
But they woke up the morning ofthe surgery feeling happy and
optimistic.
And not knowing.
That this had been done on theirbehalf.
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And of course they were sendinglove and prayers and Reiki and
all of that.
And so it was really interestingjust that unencumbered energy,
what it could do.
So I also said, Simba, if thisis your time, if this is a
lesson for me and for our herdso that we can help other people
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who are in this situation orwho've been in this situation, I
accept that completely.
I just let go of any attachmentto the outcome.
And that's one of the thingsthat we talk about in Reiki
anyway.
But you know what?
When someone you love is.
Is in danger like that, it'sharder to, it's really hard to
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do, even though we may knowthat's the best approach, it
still can be really difficult todo.
And so it was really beautifulto just watch all of that energy
flow to him.
I let go of, of the attachmentto the outcome.
I said, whatever it needs to be,it will be.
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And as soon as I really, trulylet go with every fiber of my
being, the energy showed me thatit could help.
And it showed me that we coulddo one more spirit release and
that would release some of thelife in the tumor and just
shrink it slightly, not much,but just enough that that It
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would give a slight margin forthe skilled surgeon who was
working on this surgery.
And then the energy showed me itcould go in and cauterized all
of the blood vessels in Simi.
And I know some of you haveheard part of this story before,
and as we had a very successfuloutcome.
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In fact, the operation tookexactly the amount of time that
it was expected to take beforewe knew that it was going to be
complicated and.
I could feel the surprise whenthe veterinarian messaged me.
She was so fantastic.
As so many veterinarians are,they're, they are animal lovers.
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They go above and beyond for ouranimals, and I really appreciate
veterinarians, all veterinarianswith every fiber of my being
because what, the work that theydo is not easy and the money
that they make is well deservedand probably not enough, but
really appreciate them.
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And, but I could feel herpuzzlement that there had not
been very much bleeding.
So all that to say that we wereso lucky to have had that.
That outcome.
But I know that there's a lot ofyou who are here tonight who
were left in very difficultcircumstances.
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Maybe you had a loved one thatwas hospitalized and didn't make
it out, and there's stillhospital bills or so so on to
pay.
Maybe you had an animal that youlost and there's still vet bills
to pay.
And it's not even about thebills, it's just about the
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complication and the loss andthe grief.
And so tonight what Simba wantedus to do was to help you and
with an acknowledgement that hevery, you know that I, it very.
It very easily could have gonethe other way for him.
And also it's nothing that he orI did that made the difference.
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I just feel that it had to dowith the fact I learned
something from this experience,but it's not because we deserved
it or anything like that.
I just really believe that Reikihad a lesson for us and we
learned it in order to share it.
And now for those of you whohave lost someone that is dear
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to you our purpose is to try andhelp with that.
The first thing I wanted to dowas talk to you a little bit
about what grief is.
Cause grief is something that inour society we don't talk about
very much.
And in fact, there's very littleguidance about how to handle
grief.
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And Mary who's here, her horsereally helped me understand
grief beyond anything that I hadever understood before and what
was happening.
And Mary has given me permissionto tell the story.
In fact, it's a story that'swritten in our I C R T Animal
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Reiki Manual.
And Jock was about to lose hispast mate, Moe, and they'd been
past mates.
Jock was a big Clyde stillhorse, and he and Moe had been
together for years.
And Mary was very concerned notonly at her losing.
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Moe.
But I think she was veryconcerned with how Jok would be
able to handle it.
And Jok really surprised me inour transcontinental animal
communication session with thisstory.
He said, I know what to do withgrief.
A lot of humans don'tunderstand, but he said, I have
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to feel it.
I have to feel the grief.
He said, yes, I'll miss myfriend and I'll need to feel the
grief.
But he showed me that as Moeleft the earth plane, a little
piece of his soul was pulled outthe piece that was attached to
their relationship cord, and itleft a bit of a gaping wound in
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his soul.
Much the same as as we couldhave a gaping wound in our body.
That's what it looked like.
But he said, every day, Thatwound gets a little shallower
and a little shallower, andeventually it fills in, and he
was very clear that sometimes itfilled in with tissue that was
just as whole as it had everbeen.
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Sometimes though, it fills withscar tissue, and either way, he
was going to be moving back towholeness by just allowing
himself to process it a littlebit more each day, allowing
himself to miss his friend andprocess it a little bit more
each day.
And he said, unfortunately whatjog told me is humans don't
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understand that.
So a lot of times we'refrightened to feel grief, so we
push it down in, we shove itdown in.
And he showed me that much inthe way that if you just covered
over a wound with a dressing andthen you know, and didn't do
anything with it, you would getblood poisoning.
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It does the same thing to oursoul when we don't allow grief
to, to process.
But he said, and then otherpeople pick at the scab and pick
at the scab and pick at the scaband don't let it to let it heal.
And he had noticed that thosewere two common ways that many
humans dealt with grief.
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We went on to learn.
Through him and through some ofthe other animals that I
communicated with, that animalsdidn't really feel the same way
about their deaths as we did.
In fact, some of them hang onmuch longer than they wish to or
intend to just to help us andthey They are very engaged in
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the circle of life.
They know what's on the otherside.
And in fact through my animalcommunication work, I was able
to discover that many of ouranimals come back to us.
They come back, in anotheranimal that we adopt later on.
If our work together isn't done.
If our work together iscomplete, then they don't.
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But many times they reincarnate.
And that actually challenged mywhole understanding or belief in
reincarnation.
And so I had to look at that alittle closer when the animals
showed me that yeah, I'm gonnareincarnate.
And one of the things that Irealized is that, Reincarnation
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is something that is accepted bythe majority of the world
religions.
And then my studies led me tofind out that in fact,
reincarnation was also acceptedin early Christianity, but about
400 ad it did get written out ofthe texts because there was
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somebody who didn't really carefor the concept and didn't like
it, and it didn't serve theirpurposes.
So for that reason in myupbringing, reincarnation wasn't
really a thing, but I'vereevaluated that.
But animals really are not theydon't have as much fear or
whatnot around death as we do.
And another thing that theanimals have sh shown me is that
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sometimes.
That they really want us to putdown the burden of grief that we
so often carry.
And I think that even though I'mtalking about animals, I think
our two, two legged loved oneswould feel the same way as well.
That this burden of grief, it'sa heavy burden to to hold onto.
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It's a heavy burden to carry.
And when we can let that go it,we can then go back to thinking
about the wonderful relationshipthat we had together.
And the animals want us to getback to that.
There was one dog who passedaway and it was she did have to
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be put down.
And her last couple of days werevery difficult.
And my dear friend Just feltterrible.
She felt not only grief, but sooften because we are responsible
or we feel that we'reresponsible for our animals'
wellbeing.
When we lose an animal, we oftenalso feel shame and blame and
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guilt.
We feel that.
We wonder, could I have donesomething differently?
It did.
I did I make the best decision?
And all of this.
And our animals really don'twant us to dwell in that or to
feel those emotions.
This friend as much, she had anincredible relationship with
this dog and they did everythingtogether.
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They were so beautiful together,beautiful to witness their
relationship.
It was one of them.
I work with a lot of specialanimals, this dog.
Special.
I adored her.
Everyone who met her adored her.
She helped children learn toread, for heaven's sakes as a
therapy dog after her physicaldisabilities made it difficult
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for her to continue to competein agility.
And she was just an, theirpartnership was lovely.
She was a beautiful soul.
And my friend felt so much griefand guilt and, could I have done
things different?
All of those questions that weask ourselves when we lose a
loved one.
And so she asked me, would youcommunicate with her for me?
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And I said, of course.
And my friend was so torn up atthe fact that it was difficult
for.
Her friend, her belovedfour-legged friend at the end of
her life, the last two days werevery difficult.
And she said, was she okay?
Does she forgive me?
This sort of thing, the way thatmost of us feel.
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And this dog gave me a lessonthat I'll never forget.
She showed me the mostbeautiful, pristine bucket of
water.
It was a wooden bucket that washandcrafted with precision and
beauty and simplicity and grace.
And the water in it, I couldjust tell, was the most life
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giving water.
It looked so refreshing.
So nourishing.
You just wanted to plunge yourface in it and drink like a
horse.
And it was just incredible.
And then she showed me thatthere was a tiny drop in the air
hovering above the bucket ofwater on its way into the
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bucket.
And the dog said, please tellher that my death was that drop
our life together was thatbucket.
Please ask her to focus on thebucket and not the drop.
And the message here is justthat when we get really caught
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in grief, and even sometimes theguilt and shame and blame and so
on, that comes along with itsometimes we lose the point of
we miss our friends so much.
They do make a big part of ourlives.
They leave a big hole when theygo and we miss our friends so
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much that.
We missed the point and thepoint was everything that we did
and learned together and all thelove that we shared.
And so the animals showed us,look, we really want you to put
down this burden of grief sothat you can go back to
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remembering me with fondness.
And you can think about all thewonderful times that we had
together.
And another thing you guys isanimals can also experience
grief.
And they showed us that's not,all of them are able to process
it as efficiently and aseffectively as Jok was.
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Sometimes you'll notice animalsare depressed and listless, or
have a decreased appetite aren'tplaying, they're sleeping more
than usual, they're moving moreslowly.
They're sulking, they're hidingunder the bed.
They're choosing to be alone.
They might even exhibit somemanic behavior, and they can
have grief at the loss of theircaregiver or someone in their
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family, as well as at the lossof an animal companion.
Now, if you have an animal thathas experienced grief, go ahead
and listen to this with youranimal.
This meditation has been shownto work with two legged as well
as four legged animals.
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And the other thing to rememberas well is that we often feel
grief at the loss of a lovedone.
There's a message.
There's a message behind all ofour emotions, and that's
something that I teach in myhorse emotional intelligence
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work, but around grief.
The message is that you had nochoice in letting go.
And the other thing to be awareof is that grief often also has
an element of anger.
Because you've had somethingvaluable taken away, even if it
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was taken away by impersonallife circumstances, that we
experience that emotionally as aviolation of a boundary.
When something is taken from uswithout our consent or where we
had no choice.
So in addition to feeling grief,when we lose a loved one, we can
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also experience grief at theloss of a job or a lifestyle or
a home or, and sometimes evenpositive things, like sometimes
you sell a home to move toanother one that's better, but
you can actually grieve the lossof that home.
I can remember grieving when mydaughter, my oldest daughter was
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going to university in grade 12,her whole grade, 12 year, I.
Grieved in a way because we'resuch a tightly knit family.
We like spending time together.
And I knew that was it when shewent to university.
Our little family unit was goingto be changed and, changed
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forever, more or less with a fewinterludes of being able to be
all together.
But that was it.
And so you can even grievethings like that.
The message behind grief is thata significant loss or death has
occurred usually tocircumstances beyond your
control.
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And the question we need to askourselves is, what do I need to
mourn?
What must be memorialized,appreciated, or celebrated.
The animals are asking us to letgo of the grief so that we can
move back into a place ofcelebration.
Celebration for the time that wehad together, celebration for
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all that we learned from eachother, and it can intensify into
depression if it's notaddressed.
So we are gonna move into anexercise with this today to
release grief, but before we do,I just wonder if anyone who's
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here live with us tonight on therake in the Reiki share.
If any of you have any questionsor want to share any stories and
just go ahead and unmuteyourself if you do.
So Pamela, go.
So yeah, so I recently lost ourcat Magnus after 22 years.
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He, we got him as a kitten andhe grew up with my boys and
yeah, he was another member ofthe family.
Yeah.
And I remember when I was takingthe animal Reiki class with you,
Pam, how you said something thatjust struck me and that was that
animals will sometimes hang onfor their caregivers.
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Yes.
And I remember just feeling thishang in my heart oh my God, I
hope he's not hanging on for me.
And I just, I felt this guilt.
So not a good emotion, but Iguess a natural one.
You're just learning somethinglike that.
And sure enough, it actually Thethe night that we made the
decision that, he haddeteriorated to the point where
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it was really not fair to keephim going.
We decided we would take him inthe morning and have him, put to
rest.
And he was on my lap.
I'd been giving him Reiki and hewas listening to the
conversation and then callingthe vet and making the
arrangements.
And then he just passed himselfthat night.
Oh, yeah.
Isn't that something As thoughit was like he was waiting for
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me to be ready to let him go,and then he made the decision,
I'm not gonna make you do that.
Now that I know you're ready,I'll just pass on my own.
And he passed in bed with me inmy arms.
A lovely way.
Yes.
For a, for him to, to part.
But yeah, that was a keylearning.
Oh, thank you Kat.
And how does that I hope thatthe purpose of that wasn't to
make you feel guilt about that.
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It was just to have thatawareness that they do sometimes
stay around for us.
And I know personally I had adog who asked to be put down as
soon as she became incontinent.
And I said, look, otherwiseyou're healthy.
I just can't, I can't picture aworld without you in it, and
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I'll just pick up your mess.
But, and she did stay around,but looking back, I really, I, I
didn't do her a service by nothonoring her wishes that
sometimes we just can't.
And she understood.
She understood that I, that waswhat she wanted.
She agreed.
She hung around longer.
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For me, looking back, itprobably wasn't the right
decision on my part, but it wasthe only decision I was capable
of making at that time.
So anyway, I hope that helps.
Thank you for sharing that cat.
Did anyone else have anythingyou'd like to share or any
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questions before we move intoour experiences today?
Hey, Pam.
Yeah, so I've had a lot of lossin the last year.
Yeah.
So I reached out to you what,when was it?
Back in the spring and that'swhen I experienced one of my big
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losses.
I lost my first horse and thatwas very difficult.
And I feel like I've carriedgrief a lot of my life.
And I feel like the steppingstone was a trade off cuz I got
to meet you and I got to takeyour class.
And then shortly before I cameto Campobello, I had lost to
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Oscar.
who had been with me for.
12 years.
And I felt so much grief.
I almost didn't come toCampobello because I was in such
a state of mourn.
But I did, and after I took theanimal raking class, I felt that
grief lift good.
I was able to see things in acompletely different way.
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And I do feel like he knew thathis time with me was done
because I think after taking theanimal communication class, he
felt that it, that I would beokay.
Yeah.
And, I'm going through a divorcewhich will be finalized here
soon and lost my home and about.
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It was the day before I wentinto the domestic violence
shelter that I lost my friend.
Yeah.
And that was really hard.
She died on the ninth, onOctober 9th.
I went in on 10 10 and I wasthere for about a week and a
half, and my cat died.
Oh my gosh.
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You've really had more than aperson to care, Sarah.
But I it, and that one wasreally hard because I wasn't
able to say goodbye.
Yeah.
But I do feel like there werelessons and I do feel like the
Reiki has helped a lot.
And yeah.
So lots of loss, but I do feellike.
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Sui Reiki wouldn't have gottenme through the way the animal
Reiki did.
So I think that's a veryimportant thing to share.
Thank you.
I'm glad it makes me so happythat you were able to get the
animal Reiki, particularly withall of the loss that you've
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experienced.
Because you're right the animalswere very clear that they wanted
to help us with this griefcomponent, and I'm sorry for all
that you've had to bear Sarah,but hopefully tonight we can
even lift some of that some morefor you.
Thank you, Pam.
It's okay.
Brighter days ahead.
Definitely.
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Thank you, Sarah.
Anyone else that would like toshare or ask a question before
we move into the experiences?
Oh, and you said too cat.
The animal Reiki has the energyhas been wonderful.
It really is.
And for those that are listeningthat don't have the animal
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Reiki, this is what I willmyself and those of us that are
here that have the animal Reiki,but this is what I'll be sending
you.
And so don't worry that youdon't have it.
The animals are here with us andthey're helping.
Okay.
Anyone else have anythingtonight?
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Okay.
Guys, we're going to move intotwo different experiences today.
The first experience is theanimal grief healing meditation.
And this is something that theanimals gave us.
This is from animal Reiki.
And so it will just It will justhelp us move to that place of
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letting go of some of the griefand and moving into that place
of appreciation for the lifethat we had together.
And we are also going to do aholy fire healing experience
with the grief as well.
And actually, I'm saying thatwe'll do one before the other.
And I'm not exactly clear onwhich one we will do first.
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I think we are to do the healingexperience first, followed by
the grief meditation.
So what I'm going to do for thefirst exercise is we're going to
define our grief.
And the reason that we're goingto do that is after the end of
the experience, what I'm goingto invite you to do is go in and
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look at the shape that you'veidentified, the shape of your
grief, and.
Ask yourself what percentage ofit remains, and if it's still a
pretty high percentage, thenthat's just an indication to
come back and listen to theseexperiences again, as often as
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you need to until the grief iscompletely lifted from you
today.
One of the things that theanimals said is they didn't
really want us to have toexperience the sadness and
grief.
They just wanted to lift it forus on our behalf.
So that was very generous ofthem before the healing
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experience, which will, be thefirst part of what we do, and
that'll be followed by the griefmeditation.
What I'm gonna get you to do isjust identify where the grief
exists in your body and what itlooks like.
So I'm just gonna invite you toclose your eyes.
and ask yourself the followingquestions.
And there's no wrong answer tothis question.
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So the question is, if thegrief, if all the grief that
I've experienced in my life weregathered into one place in my
body, where would it be?
And just think of the firstplace that comes to mind before
you give it too much thought orsecond guess yourself.
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And once you have an answer, askyourself the following question.
If this grief that exists in mybody how to shape, what shape
would it have?
What color would it be?
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Would the surface texture berough or smooth?
Would it be heavy or tight oruncomfortable in any way?
And the final and most importantquestion is, are you willing to
let that energy go completelytoday?
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And if there is any shame orblame or guilt, I'm going to
encourage you to be open toletting those go as well.
And so now we'll move into ourmeditation.
So continue with your eyesclosed and your hands
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comfortably on your body andbreathe.
And I invite you to imagine thatit's a beautiful, warm, sunny
day and that you're walkingthrough a trail in a beautiful
forest.
As you walk along and as youbreathe into yourself, you
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breathe in the life energy ofthe forest and the essence of
the earth flows up through thebottoms of your feet.
Reiki energy is swirling allaround you, and you walk along
until you come to a clearing inthe forest and in the middle of
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the clearing as a small hillcovered with soft grass and
beautiful wildflowers.
I invite you to imagine thatyou're climbing up the hill, and
as you do, you can feel thegrass and the wildflowers
rubbing against your legs.
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And when you get to the top ofthe hill, imagine lying down,
gazing up at the sky.
Feeling the grass and the earthbeneath your body.
And as you lie there, gazing upat the sky, just imagine that a
beautiful beam of light piercesthe clouds above you.
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It shines directly upon you andall around you.
And you realize that this is noordinary light.
This is the light from thehighest heavens.
It is the light from the heartof God, and at the same time,
the earth below you begins toglow.
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This is the divine light of theearth.
Light from the heart of themother, heart of the earth.
And these lights shine allaround you and even seem to flow
through you, and they fill youwith feelings of safety,
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comfort, love, and peace, andthe lights begin to focus on
that shape that you'veidentified.
And they also focus on any guiltor shame or blame or any other
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negative emotions that you havebeen carrying that are related
to that grief.
Invite you to focus on the shapeand those emotions yourself and
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simply be willing to let themgo.
You don't have to do anything toearn it.
This is a gift freely given bythe light of Reiki.
Simply be willing to let themgo, and then I invite you to
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gaze into the light as the lightbegins to guide you.
And we're going to remain herefor several moments.
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And now the light of the earthand the light of divine beings
and the light of creationsurround you and fill your
breath.
Imagine the light of Reikiflowing around and through you.
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And your loved ones take thistime to acknowledge the loss of
your friend.
It's natural to feel grief aboutthis so healthily, acknowledge
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the grief that you'reexperiencing for a moment,
understanding that it willbecome easier each day as you
step forward into the future.
And if besides the grief, wefeel burdened by life events
with animals because of loss orworry.
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Any physical, emotional, andspiritual injuries are released
from us now through the lightand grace of forgive.
They travel out on your breathand into the light and power of
love where they're healed backto the original cause.
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We send love and Reiki energy tothe spirits of those that we
have lost, and we ask that thelove and Reiki energies assist
them.
Assist them in making a smoothtransition to their next phase,
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whatever that may be.
We acknowledge that we missthem, but we wish them the best.
Some of them were released frompain and suffering, and we're
grateful for that.
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We're also grateful for thewonderful and compassionate
professionals who assisted themand were with them and who
assisted us.
They assisted us in this mostimportant journey.
And finally, we are thankful forour time with these special
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beings while on our earthjourneys together.
I invite you to take a momentnow to think back to a time when
your loved ones were at theirmost vibrant and.
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And just remember some of thewonderful times you've
experienced together, and we'regoing to spend a few moments
here.
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We acknowledge that as we allowour grief to heal, we will
connect with our loved onesagain, differe.
From a different place, and thiswe embrace love with the animals
is revealed to you now.
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Love with the animals isrevealed in you now, and love
with the animals is revealedthrough you now and it causes
you to remember your love.
When you remember your love andyou remember your beauty, you
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create your life from thisplace.
That is what our animalcompanions want for us.
Thank you for allowing me toassist you today.
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Release the grief and difficultemotions around these beautiful
beings that have been soimportant to you.
Please know that Reiki is goingto continue flowing to you and
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to everyone involved for as longas you need it to help heal your
trauma and grief.
Invite you to take as long asyou'd coming back.
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Just take a deep breath, bringyour attention to your eyes,
slowly open your eyes andreturn.
And for those of us joining uson the podcast, I'd like to
thank you for joining us todayand for everyone, take a moment
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to look at the shape you hadidentified at the beginning and
invite you all to ask yourselfthis question.
If you ask yourself how much ofit remains, what's the very
first number that you getbetween zero and a hundred?
Without giving it too muchthought, if that number is a
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high number above 50% or above40%, encourage you to continue
listening to this meditationuntil you can bring it into a
range that is comfortable for.
Take it below 20% or even lowerif you wish to and if you can, I
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want to thank all of you whojoined us on the podcast today,
and I look forward to seeing younext week.
Namaste.
So welcome everyone to ourpodcast and Reiki share tonight.
This Reiki Share and podcast isonce again brought to you by our
horse Simba.
We had a really close call withhim a few weeks ago, and as such
even before we knew it was goingto be a close call we, he had
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asked if we could do a podcastabout him and hoping that his
story would inspire people, andin fact, it did.
And he and I want to thank you.
So many of you sent donationsand love and prayers and
thoughts and good wishes, and somany of you have followed up
with us to find out how he'sdoing, and I'm really happy to
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let you know that he's doingextremely well.
But what happened with Simba, hehad a cancerous growth in his
eye and he'd had the eye and thegrowth removed six years ago,
and recently it came back.
So I'm gonna just go through alittle bit of his story.
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And he specifically wanted us tohelp people with their grief in
this Reiki Share Tonight andpodcast because we had a happy
ending to our story, but noteverybody does.
And there were some reallystrong messages that came
through Animal Reiki about that.
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So I wanted to share that with.
Before we begin, I do want tolet you know that if you love
animals as much as we do, wehave six full days in December
of animal classes.
There's a level one and twoclass, the first Thursday and
Friday of December, and Ibelieve it's the first and 2nd
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of December.
And that is a prerequisite toanimal Reiki.
And some of you may just wannareview your level one and two
class.
Please join us if you do thatweekend, the very first weekend
of December.
We have an animal communicationclass that's my own class.
It's very different than AnimalReiki.
But it does, they do complimenteach other.
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It's.
It is about telepathiccommunication and the majority
of the students, over 90% of thestudents in the classes can very
clearly understand and getmessages from the animals by the
end of our two days together.
And then of course, it takespractice to finesse it.
But one of the things we do inour animal communication class
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is that we teach you how to.
Verify your work.
And so you're able to verify ifyou got your communication
correctly or not.
And then we talked to you aboutif you didn't get it right, what
to do and how to go back andbreak it down.
And so it winds up being a veryeffective class even though it's
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just two days.
And so we'd love to have youjoin us.
I don't teach animalcommunication often.
I'm only teaching it three timesthis year.
And so if that's of interest toyou, please join us.
And then that's going to befollowed on the first Monday and
Tuesday of December by ouranimal Reiki, level one and two
class and animal Reiki is whatwe're going to be talking about
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quite a bit.
I do wanna say thank you to allthe folks who came to see me at
the equine affair last week inMassachusetts.
It was just wonderful to getdown to Massachusetts to get
with all of my horse crazyfriends and people that love
horses as much as I do, and tojust share our work.
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And so thank you so mucheverybody who showed up for
that.
And some of you may beinterested, I am teaching an
animal Reiki level one and twoclass in May in New York, so
some of you who and I'm alsoteaching it in Australia in
March, so I'd just love to haveyou join us if that speaks to.
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So before we go too far, I'mjust gonna invite everybody to
activate Eureka Energy.
We're talking about a reallydifficult subject tonight, and
so I'm just gonna invite you allto bring your hands together in
Gassho with your thumbs at yourheart and just breathe, just
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inviting the Reiki energy toflow from the highest heavens
through your hands and into yourheart, the gift of love and
activating all of your symbols,and just inviting them to assist
us in the healing work thatwe'll be doing to tonight to
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help alleviate any grief orguilt or shame or blame, or any
of these emotions that are soheavy.
That we have a tendency to carrywith us.
And those of us who loveanimals, most animals have a
lifespan that's much shorterthan ours.
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And so many of us haveexperienced grief at the loss of
a beloved four-legged winged orfind pet.
And so many of us haveexperienced loss of two legged
people in our lives that areimportant to us.
But that grief, when it isunresolved can be so very
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difficult and heavy to carry.
So just activating your Reikienergy to surround you and
support you today as we discussgrief and some of the meaning
around it, some of the storiesthat the animals want us to
know.
And then we do a powerfulexperience, one that the animals
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gave us, and one from our Reikimaster level to heal our grief
tonight.
Go ahead and open your eyes ifthey're closed, if you'd like,
or you can leave them closed andplace your hands on your body.
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And I just wanna tell you alittle bit about the motivation
for this topic this evening andsome of the things that we've
learned.
So Simba has been the star.
This will be his third andprobably final podcast, at least
around this.
Issue, but many of you, ifyou've been following us, are
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aware that Simba, he had acancer that, a cancerous tumor
that had come back and it hadbeen six years.
He's had six fantastic yearswith one eye, but really great
years.
It really hasn't slurred himdown a bit.
And when the tumor was back atfirst, it looked like it may
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just be that the only optionmight be keeping him comfortable
until his time came.
And he was okay with that.
And I was too.
But I really, he's a young andhealthy horse.
And in fact, the tumor hadn'teven begun to bother him at all.
We just noticed that it wasback.
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With animal communication.
I talked with Simba and I said,I'm not quite ready to let you
go yet.
How would you feel about stayingaround and you know about
checking to see if it'spossible.
And our veterinarian, we havesome of the best veterinarians,
they're run right off their feetand they're overworked.
But I really admire our largeanimal veterinarians here in New
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Brunswick.
We're very fortunate and.
Our much loved veterinariansaid, I don't think there's much
chance, but there, why don't youcheck with the specialists from
Prince Edward Island, from thevet college, the surgeons there.
And so the surgeons decided thatif we did an x-ray and it looked
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like the tumor wasn't growinginto his brain, they felt there
was a good chance they couldremove it.
So we were very excited andhopeful.
We did the x-ray.
It took a while just because ourveterinarians are so busy.
But we did get the x-ray and itlooked like From the x-ray, the
veterinarians thought about atwo hour operation.
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Probably the most difficultthing was we had to transport
him with the fuel costs the waythat they are about four hours
to the veterinary college andback.
And I no longer have a truck andhorse trailer.
So I did hire a friend to dothat for us and.
So we got him over to the vetcollege and the morning of his
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surgery I got a call and Ithought it was probably a call
about the surgery.
And in fact, they decided not togo ahead with the surgery
because the tumor was much morevascular.
When they looked at it with theultrasound, it was much more
vascular than they thought.
So there was a very real chancethat he would bleed out during
the surgery.
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And she, the question was, didwe still want the surgery?
And I feel so grateful at timeslike this to have Reiki and to
have animal Reiki.
And I don't know about you guys,but I wonder sometimes how
people who don't have Reiki, howdo they do it?
How do they, without thatsupport and without that calming
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influence, And I also, I checkedwith Simba and they could have
used some radio isotopes in thehopes.
It also didn't, the tumor didn'thave very clear margins, so it
was going to be a verycomplicated surgery with a very
strong chance that he wouldn'tsurvive.
And so we made arrangements.
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I asked the veterinarian, Ireally didn't want him to
suffer, but we decided that ourbest chance was the surgery for
him to have additional lifespan.
And so we decided to go ahead.
And I really am thankful, again,to have had Reiki and dowing and
animal communication, all ofthose things that helped to make
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that decision.
But even still we were on pinsand needles after that.
And once I talked, theveterinarian I talked to was a,
was is a very good surgeon.
She teaches.
Surgery at the vet school.
She's one of the best in herclass and she was frightened of
this surgery.
So we had the, a beautiful blooddonor mare on hand in case he
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needed a blood transfusion.
But she didn't sound veryhopeful.
She felt that there was a verystrong chance with the vascular
nature of this tumor that hewould bleed out.
And the troubling thing is thatI couldn't move to a place of
seeing a positive outcome.
One of the things that I'm veryaware of is that when you, I is
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visualization and the importanceof being able to visualize a
positive outcome in anysituation in order to then, have
a positive outcome.
And I simply, No matter how manytimes I tried to visualize
Simba, us going and picking upSimba and coming home and him
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getting off the trailer insteadI got a picture of going over to
pick up his ashes and cominghome and having this Reiki share
where we talked to people aboutwhen they have animals and they
have very big vet bills, and atthe end the animal is gone, but
the vet bill is still there.
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And that's, I know that's areally common scenario, and it's
not the veterinarian's fault.
It's not the animal's fault.
It's not our fault.
That's just one of those thingsthat happens a lot of times
that.
People lose animals that are introuble or struggling, and yet
there's still thousands ofdollars of vet bills and then
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the heartbreak of having to losethe animal.
So I could feel that reallyprofoundly, and no matter how
hard I tried to visualize adifferent outcome, that's all I
could get.
And one of my gifts is preco.
I can usually see the mostlikely outcome in the future.
But that's one of the firsttimes that I couldn't catch onto
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a positive thread with theoutcome.
And I thought, gosh, is thisendeavor just so that we can
help people that who foundthemselves in this situation.
And I kept doing Reiki and Ikept trying to get a positive
outcome.
I couldn't.
But then at four in the morningI was awoken and I was awoken.
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And.
By the Reiki energy.
And I thought because mydaughter, when I, she, Simba is
really, she's very close.
My daughter Caroline is veryclose with Simba.
He was her horse and she rodehim when nobody else dared good
on his back because he wasscared of his shadow.
And she came off of him a lot oftimes too.
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And he's a very he's 16 2 16 3hands tall.
16, three, I guess he's partBelgium and part ausa.
So he's a very large horse.
And 700 kilograms actually isexactly what he is because of
course we had to weigh him onthe way into his surgery.
And I thought, am I awake atfour in the morning so that I.
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Get in the car.
And that would just have givenus just enough time to get there
before his surgery began so thatI could wake Caroline up and we
could go in case we, in casethis was it, in case we had to
say goodbye to him.
And so I really, a lot of, thatI listen, I really feel into the
Reiki energy and I listen forthe messages in it.
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And I asked that question.
I said, am I awake at four inthe morning so that I can get
over there and say goodbye tohim before he goes into this
surgery?
And the energy gave me a feelingof, no, that's not what you're
awake for.
So I asked the question, what amI awake?
And the energy showed that oneof the reasons I was having a
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hard time visualizing a positiveoutcome is that I was in a place
of duality or fear.
And in fact, fear is the mostnegative emotion.
It's the emotion that has thedensest energy.
And all negative emotions arefear, come from fear.
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And that's what duality is.
Some of, you've been listeningto the podcast for a while, and
so you've heard me talk aboutduality.
We live this earth and also thewhat we call the second heaven.
These are realms of duality,meaning there's both positive
and negative here, andeverything positive comes from
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love.
Everything negative comes fromfear.
And so here that's.
That's where we are.
There is both positive andnegative here on the earth, and
the energy just showed me.
You're thinking about getting inthe car and going over there to
say goodbye to him.
That's coming from a place offear, and I acknowledged it
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wholeheartedly.
I knew that indeed it was comingfrom a place of fear.
So I said what am I supposed todo?
And it showed that I needed tolift all of the fear from myself
and from Simba because he wasn'tgoing to survive if the both of
us were in a place of fear.
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And I knew that.
I knew as a, I have a positionof leadership within my herd of
horses.
They've gracefully given it tome, and I knew that as their
leader, they needed me to beconfident or they can't be
confident.
That's just how it is withhorses and with my herd and.
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The energy just showed that Ineeded to bring myself to a
place of confidence and Simba toa place of confidence.
So we needed to release all thefear and move into a place of
love.
So I got busy and just startedsending Reiki to release the
fear and the duality that bothSimba and I felt.
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And once it lifted, my heartfelt so free and light, and I
was really able to feel positivefor the first time since I had
discovered that the operationwas going to be much more
complicated than theveterinarians originally
thought.
And so then the energy showed methat there were so many
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beautiful people sending Reikiand love and prayers and
assistance to Simba, but theytoo were worried.
And so it showed that we, that.
I needed to include them in theReiki prayer and just help
alleviate their worries andtheir fears and all of that.
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And so I did that and it wasable to, then it was able to
harmonize all of our energy sothat it had no fear attached.
And this is a message.
Back a few years ago, justbefore Covid Colleen and I were
sending Reiki to the animals inAustralia that were being
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impacted by the fires that wereraging there.
And we specifically had a koalasay to us, thank you for sending
it without.
Fear and guilt and all of thosedense emotions.
And he showed us that it wasdifficult for the animals to
process that.
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So the importance of sendingReiki from a place of presence
and a place outside of duality.
So this lifted the duality fromall of us, and I could see that
just all of the beautiful lovethat was being sent to Simba was
now unencumbered by the denseremotions of fear and worry and
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so on.
And I actually heard fromseveral people afterward that
they woke up the morning, theywere terribly worried about him.
People didn't know Simba andlove him, terribly worried about
him.
But they woke up the morning ofthe surgery feeling happy and
optimistic.
And not knowing.
That this had been done on theirbehalf.
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And of course they were sendinglove and prayers and Reiki and
all of that.
And so it was really interestingjust that unencumbered energy,
what it could do.
So I also said, Simba, if thisis your time, if this is a
lesson for me and for our herdso that we can help other people
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who are in this situation orwho've been in this situation, I
accept that completely.
I just let go of any attachmentto the outcome.
And that's one of the thingsthat we talk about in Reiki
anyway.
But you know what?
When someone you love is.
Is in danger like that, it'sharder to, it's really hard to
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do, even though we may knowthat's the best approach, it
still can be really difficult todo.
And so it was really beautifulto just watch all of that energy
flow to him.
I let go of, of the attachmentto the outcome.
I said, whatever it needs to be,it will be.
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And as soon as I really, trulylet go with every fiber of my
being, the energy showed me thatit could help.
And it showed me that we coulddo one more spirit release and
that would release some of thelife in the tumor and just
shrink it slightly, not much,but just enough that that It
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would give a slight margin forthe skilled surgeon who was
working on this surgery.
And then the energy showed me itcould go in and cauterized all
of the blood vessels in Simi.
And I know some of you haveheard part of this story before,
and as we had a very successfuloutcome.
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In fact, the operation tookexactly the amount of time that
it was expected to take beforewe knew that it was going to be
complicated and.
I could feel the surprise whenthe veterinarian messaged me.
She was so fantastic.
As so many veterinarians are,they're, they are animal lovers.
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They go above and beyond for ouranimals, and I really appreciate
veterinarians, all veterinarianswith every fiber of my being
because what, the work that theydo is not easy and the money
that they make is well deservedand probably not enough, but
really appreciate them.
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And, but I could feel herpuzzlement that there had not
been very much bleeding.
So all that to say that we wereso lucky to have had that.
That outcome.
But I know that there's a lot ofyou who are here tonight who
were left in very difficultcircumstances.
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Maybe you had a loved one thatwas hospitalized and didn't make
it out, and there's stillhospital bills or so so on to
pay.
Maybe you had an animal that youlost and there's still vet bills
to pay.
And it's not even about thebills, it's just about the
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complication and the loss andthe grief.
And so tonight what Simba wantedus to do was to help you and
with an acknowledgement that hevery, you know that I, it very.
It very easily could have gonethe other way for him.
And also it's nothing that he orI did that made the difference.
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I just feel that it had to dowith the fact I learned
something from this experience,but it's not because we deserved
it or anything like that.
I just really believe that Reikihad a lesson for us and we
learned it in order to share it.
And now for those of you whohave lost someone that is dear
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to you our purpose is to try andhelp with that.
The first thing I wanted to dowas talk to you a little bit
about what grief is.
Cause grief is something that inour society we don't talk about
very much.
And in fact, there's very littleguidance about how to handle
grief.
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And Mary who's here, her horsereally helped me understand
grief beyond anything that I hadever understood before and what
was happening.
And Mary has given me permissionto tell the story.
In fact, it's a story that'swritten in our I C R T Animal
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Reiki Manual.
And Jock was about to lose hispast mate, Moe, and they'd been
past mates.
Jock was a big Clyde stillhorse, and he and Moe had been
together for years.
And Mary was very concerned notonly at her losing.
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Moe.
But I think she was veryconcerned with how Jok would be
able to handle it.
And Jok really surprised me inour transcontinental animal
communication session with thisstory.
He said, I know what to do withgrief.
A lot of humans don'tunderstand, but he said, I have
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to feel it.
I have to feel the grief.
He said, yes, I'll miss myfriend and I'll need to feel the
grief.
But he showed me that as Moeleft the earth plane, a little
piece of his soul was pulled outthe piece that was attached to
their relationship cord, and itleft a bit of a gaping wound in
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his soul.
Much the same as as we couldhave a gaping wound in our body.
That's what it looked like.
But he said, every day, Thatwound gets a little shallower
and a little shallower, andeventually it fills in, and he
was very clear that sometimes itfilled in with tissue that was
just as whole as it had everbeen.
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Sometimes though, it fills withscar tissue, and either way, he
was going to be moving back towholeness by just allowing
himself to process it a littlebit more each day, allowing
himself to miss his friend andprocess it a little bit more
each day.
And he said, unfortunately whatjog told me is humans don't
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understand that.
So a lot of times we'refrightened to feel grief, so we
push it down in, we shove itdown in.
And he showed me that much inthe way that if you just covered
over a wound with a dressing andthen you know, and didn't do
anything with it, you would getblood poisoning.
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It does the same thing to oursoul when we don't allow grief
to, to process.
But he said, and then otherpeople pick at the scab and pick
at the scab and pick at the scaband don't let it to let it heal.
And he had noticed that thosewere two common ways that many
humans dealt with grief.
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We went on to learn.
Through him and through some ofthe other animals that I
communicated with, that animalsdidn't really feel the same way
about their deaths as we did.
In fact, some of them hang onmuch longer than they wish to or
intend to just to help us andthey They are very engaged in
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the circle of life.
They know what's on the otherside.
And in fact through my animalcommunication work, I was able
to discover that many of ouranimals come back to us.
They come back, in anotheranimal that we adopt later on.
If our work together isn't done.
If our work together iscomplete, then they don't.
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But many times they reincarnate.
And that actually challenged mywhole understanding or belief in
reincarnation.
And so I had to look at that alittle closer when the animals
showed me that yeah, I'm gonnareincarnate.
And one of the things that Irealized is that, Reincarnation
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is something that is accepted bythe majority of the world
religions.
And then my studies led me tofind out that in fact,
reincarnation was also acceptedin early Christianity, but about
400 ad it did get written out ofthe texts because there was
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somebody who didn't really carefor the concept and didn't like
it, and it didn't serve theirpurposes.
So for that reason in myupbringing, reincarnation wasn't
really a thing, but I'vereevaluated that.
But animals really are not theydon't have as much fear or
whatnot around death as we do.
And another thing that theanimals have sh shown me is that
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sometimes.
That they really want us to putdown the burden of grief that we
so often carry.
And I think that even though I'mtalking about animals, I think
our two, two legged loved oneswould feel the same way as well.
That this burden of grief, it'sa heavy burden to to hold onto.
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It's a heavy burden to carry.
And when we can let that go it,we can then go back to thinking
about the wonderful relationshipthat we had together.
And the animals want us to getback to that.
There was one dog who passedaway and it was she did have to
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be put down.
And her last couple of days werevery difficult.
And my dear friend Just feltterrible.
She felt not only grief, but sooften because we are responsible
or we feel that we'reresponsible for our animals'
wellbeing.
When we lose an animal, we oftenalso feel shame and blame and
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guilt.
We feel that.
We wonder, could I have donesomething differently?
It did.
I did I make the best decision?
And all of this.
And our animals really don'twant us to dwell in that or to
feel those emotions.
This friend as much, she had anincredible relationship with
this dog and they did everythingtogether.
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They were so beautiful together,beautiful to witness their
relationship.
It was one of them.
I work with a lot of specialanimals, this dog.
Special.
I adored her.
Everyone who met her adored her.
She helped children learn toread, for heaven's sakes as a
therapy dog after her physicaldisabilities made it difficult
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for her to continue to competein agility.
And she was just an, theirpartnership was lovely.
She was a beautiful soul.
And my friend felt so much griefand guilt and, could I have done
things different?
All of those questions that weask ourselves when we lose a
loved one.
And so she asked me, would youcommunicate with her for me?
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And I said, of course.
And my friend was so torn up atthe fact that it was difficult
for.
Her friend, her belovedfour-legged friend at the end of
her life, the last two days werevery difficult.
And she said, was she okay?
Does she forgive me?
This sort of thing, the way thatmost of us feel.
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And this dog gave me a lessonthat I'll never forget.
She showed me the mostbeautiful, pristine bucket of
water.
It was a wooden bucket that washandcrafted with precision and
beauty and simplicity and grace.
And the water in it, I couldjust tell, was the most life
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giving water.
It looked so refreshing.
So nourishing.
You just wanted to plunge yourface in it and drink like a
horse.
And it was just incredible.
And then she showed me thatthere was a tiny drop in the air
hovering above the bucket ofwater on its way into the
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bucket.
And the dog said, please tellher that my death was that drop
our life together was thatbucket.
Please ask her to focus on thebucket and not the drop.
And the message here is justthat when we get really caught
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in grief, and even sometimes theguilt and shame and blame and so
on, that comes along with itsometimes we lose the point of
we miss our friends so much.
They do make a big part of ourlives.
They leave a big hole when theygo and we miss our friends so
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much that.
We missed the point and thepoint was everything that we did
and learned together and all thelove that we shared.
And so the animals showed us,look, we really want you to put
down this burden of grief sothat you can go back to
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remembering me with fondness.
And you can think about all thewonderful times that we had
together.
And another thing you guys isanimals can also experience
grief.
And they showed us that's not,all of them are able to process
it as efficiently and aseffectively as Jok was.
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Sometimes you'll notice animalsare depressed and listless, or
have a decreased appetite aren'tplaying, they're sleeping more
than usual, they're moving moreslowly.
They're sulking, they're hidingunder the bed.
They're choosing to be alone.
They might even exhibit somemanic behavior, and they can
have grief at the loss of theircaregiver or someone in their
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family, as well as at the lossof an animal companion.
Now, if you have an animal thathas experienced grief, go ahead
and listen to this with youranimal.
This meditation has been shownto work with two legged as well
as four legged animals.
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And the other thing to rememberas well is that we often feel
grief at the loss of a lovedone.
There's a message.
There's a message behind all ofour emotions, and that's
something that I teach in myhorse emotional intelligence
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work, but around grief.
The message is that you had nochoice in letting go.
And the other thing to be awareof is that grief often also has
an element of anger.
Because you've had somethingvaluable taken away, even if it
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was taken away by impersonallife circumstances, that we
experience that emotionally as aviolation of a boundary.
When something is taken from uswithout our consent or where we
had no choice.
So in addition to feeling grief,when we lose a loved one, we can
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also experience grief at theloss of a job or a lifestyle or
a home or, and sometimes evenpositive things, like sometimes
you sell a home to move toanother one that's better, but
you can actually grieve the lossof that home.
I can remember grieving when mydaughter, my oldest daughter was
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going to university in grade 12,her whole grade, 12 year, I.
Grieved in a way because we'resuch a tightly knit family.
We like spending time together.
And I knew that was it when shewent to university.
Our little family unit was goingto be changed and, changed
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forever, more or less with a fewinterludes of being able to be
all together.
But that was it.
And so you can even grievethings like that.
The message behind grief is thata significant loss or death has
occurred usually tocircumstances beyond your
control.
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And the question we need to askourselves is, what do I need to
mourn?
What must be memorialized,appreciated, or celebrated.
The animals are asking us to letgo of the grief so that we can
move back into a place ofcelebration.
Celebration for the time that wehad together, celebration for
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all that we learned from eachother, and it can intensify into
depression if it's notaddressed.
So we are gonna move into anexercise with this today to
release grief, but before we do,I just wonder if anyone who's
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here live with us tonight on therake in the Reiki share.
If any of you have any questionsor want to share any stories and
just go ahead and unmuteyourself if you do.
So Pamela, go.
So yeah, so I recently lost ourcat Magnus after 22 years.
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He, we got him as a kitten andhe grew up with my boys and
yeah, he was another member ofthe family.
Yeah.
And I remember when I was takingthe animal Reiki class with you,
Pam, how you said something thatjust struck me and that was that
animals will sometimes hang onfor their caregivers.
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Yes.
And I remember just feeling thishang in my heart oh my God, I
hope he's not hanging on for me.
And I just, I felt this guilt.
So not a good emotion, but Iguess a natural one.
You're just learning somethinglike that.
And sure enough, it actually Thethe night that we made the
decision that, he haddeteriorated to the point where
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it was really not fair to keephim going.
We decided we would take him inthe morning and have him, put to
rest.
And he was on my lap.
I'd been giving him Reiki and hewas listening to the
conversation and then callingthe vet and making the
arrangements.
And then he just passed himselfthat night.
Oh, yeah.
Isn't that something As thoughit was like he was waiting for
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me to be ready to let him go,and then he made the decision,
I'm not gonna make you do that.
Now that I know you're ready,I'll just pass on my own.
And he passed in bed with me inmy arms.
A lovely way.
Yes.
For a, for him to, to part.
But yeah, that was a keylearning.
Oh, thank you Kat.
And how does that I hope thatthe purpose of that wasn't to
make you feel guilt about that.
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It was just to have thatawareness that they do sometimes
stay around for us.
And I know personally I had adog who asked to be put down as
soon as she became incontinent.
And I said, look, otherwiseyou're healthy.
I just can't, I can't picture aworld without you in it, and
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I'll just pick up your mess.
But, and she did stay around,but looking back, I really, I, I
didn't do her a service by nothonoring her wishes that
sometimes we just can't.
And she understood.
She understood that I, that waswhat she wanted.
She agreed.
She hung around longer.
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For me, looking back, itprobably wasn't the right
decision on my part, but it wasthe only decision I was capable
of making at that time.
So anyway, I hope that helps.
Thank you for sharing that cat.
Did anyone else have anythingyou'd like to share or any
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questions before we move intoour experiences today?
Hey, Pam.
Yeah, so I've had a lot of lossin the last year.
Yeah.
So I reached out to you what,when was it?
Back in the spring and that'swhen I experienced one of my big
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losses.
I lost my first horse and thatwas very difficult.
And I feel like I've carriedgrief a lot of my life.
And I feel like the steppingstone was a trade off cuz I got
to meet you and I got to takeyour class.
And then shortly before I cameto Campobello, I had lost to
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Oscar.
who had been with me for.
12 years.
And I felt so much grief.
I almost didn't come toCampobello because I was in such
a state of mourn.
But I did, and after I took theanimal raking class, I felt that
grief lift good.
I was able to see things in acompletely different way.
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And I do feel like he knew thathis time with me was done
because I think after taking theanimal communication class, he
felt that it, that I would beokay.
Yeah.
And, I'm going through a divorcewhich will be finalized here
soon and lost my home and about.
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It was the day before I wentinto the domestic violence
shelter that I lost my friend.
Yeah.
And that was really hard.
She died on the ninth, onOctober 9th.
I went in on 10 10 and I wasthere for about a week and a
half, and my cat died.
Oh my gosh.
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You've really had more than aperson to care, Sarah.
But I it, and that one wasreally hard because I wasn't
able to say goodbye.
Yeah.
But I do feel like there werelessons and I do feel like the
Reiki has helped a lot.
And yeah.
So lots of loss, but I do feellike.
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Sui Reiki wouldn't have gottenme through the way the animal
Reiki did.
So I think that's a veryimportant thing to share.
Thank you.
I'm glad it makes me so happythat you were able to get the
animal Reiki, particularly withall of the loss that you've
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experienced.
Because you're right the animalswere very clear that they wanted
to help us with this griefcomponent, and I'm sorry for all
that you've had to bear Sarah,but hopefully tonight we can
even lift some of that some morefor you.
Thank you, Pam.
It's okay.
Brighter days ahead.
Definitely.
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Thank you, Sarah.
Anyone else that would like toshare or ask a question before
we move into the experiences?
Oh, and you said too cat.
The animal Reiki has the energyhas been wonderful.
It really is.
And for those that are listeningthat don't have the animal
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Reiki, this is what I willmyself and those of us that are
here that have the animal Reiki,but this is what I'll be sending
you.
And so don't worry that youdon't have it.
The animals are here with us andthey're helping.
Okay.
Anyone else have anythingtonight?
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Okay.
Guys, we're going to move intotwo different experiences today.
The first experience is theanimal grief healing meditation.
And this is something that theanimals gave us.
This is from animal Reiki.
And so it will just It will justhelp us move to that place of
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letting go of some of the griefand and moving into that place
of appreciation for the lifethat we had together.
And we are also going to do aholy fire healing experience
with the grief as well.
And actually, I'm saying thatwe'll do one before the other.
And I'm not exactly clear onwhich one we will do first.
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I think we are to do the healingexperience first, followed by
the grief meditation.
So what I'm going to do for thefirst exercise is we're going to
define our grief.
And the reason that we're goingto do that is after the end of
the experience, what I'm goingto invite you to do is go in and
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look at the shape that you'veidentified, the shape of your
grief, and.
Ask yourself what percentage ofit remains, and if it's still a
pretty high percentage, thenthat's just an indication to
come back and listen to theseexperiences again, as often as
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you need to until the grief iscompletely lifted from you
today.
One of the things that theanimals said is they didn't
really want us to have toexperience the sadness and
grief.
They just wanted to lift it forus on our behalf.
So that was very generous ofthem before the healing
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experience, which will, be thefirst part of what we do, and
that'll be followed by the griefmeditation.
What I'm gonna get you to do isjust identify where the grief
exists in your body and what itlooks like.
So I'm just gonna invite you toclose your eyes.
and ask yourself the followingquestions.
And there's no wrong answer tothis question.
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So the question is, if thegrief, if all the grief that
I've experienced in my life weregathered into one place in my
body, where would it be?
And just think of the firstplace that comes to mind before
you give it too much thought orsecond guess yourself.
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And once you have an answer, askyourself the following question.
If this grief that exists in mybody how to shape, what shape
would it have?
What color would it be?
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Would the surface texture berough or smooth?
Would it be heavy or tight oruncomfortable in any way?
And the final and most importantquestion is, are you willing to
let that energy go completelytoday?
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And if there is any shame orblame or guilt, I'm going to
encourage you to be open toletting those go as well.
And so now we'll move into ourmeditation.
So continue with your eyesclosed and your hands
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comfortably on your body andbreathe.
And I invite you to imagine thatit's a beautiful, warm, sunny
day and that you're walkingthrough a trail in a beautiful
forest.
As you walk along and as youbreathe into yourself, you
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breathe in the life energy ofthe forest and the essence of
the earth flows up through thebottoms of your feet.
Reiki energy is swirling allaround you, and you walk along
until you come to a clearing inthe forest and in the middle of
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the clearing as a small hillcovered with soft grass and
beautiful wildflowers.
I invite you to imagine thatyou're climbing up the hill, and
as you do, you can feel thegrass and the wildflowers
rubbing against your legs.
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And when you get to the top ofthe hill, imagine lying down,
gazing up at the sky.
Feeling the grass and the earthbeneath your body.
And as you lie there, gazing upat the sky, just imagine that a
beautiful beam of light piercesthe clouds above you.
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It shines directly upon you andall around you.
And you realize that this is noordinary light.
This is the light from thehighest heavens.
It is the light from the heartof God, and at the same time,
the earth below you begins toglow.
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This is the divine light of theearth.
Light from the heart of themother, heart of the earth.
And these lights shine allaround you and even seem to flow
through you, and they fill youwith feelings of safety,
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comfort, love, and peace, andthe lights begin to focus on
that shape that you'veidentified.
And they also focus on any guiltor shame or blame or any other
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negative emotions that you havebeen carrying that are related
to that grief.
Invite you to focus on the shapeand those emotions yourself and
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simply be willing to let themgo.
You don't have to do anything toearn it.
This is a gift freely given bythe light of Reiki.
Simply be willing to let themgo, and then I invite you to
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gaze into the light as the lightbegins to guide you.
And we're going to remain herefor several moments.
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And now the light of the earthand the light of divine beings
and the light of creationsurround you and fill your
breath.
Imagine the light of Reikiflowing around and through you.
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And your loved ones take thistime to acknowledge the loss of
your friend.
It's natural to feel grief aboutthis so healthily, acknowledge
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the grief that you'reexperiencing for a moment,
understanding that it willbecome easier each day as you
step forward into the future.
And if besides the grief, wefeel burdened by life events
with animals because of loss orworry.
(59:32):
Any physical, emotional, andspiritual injuries are released
from us now through the lightand grace of forgive.
They travel out on your breathand into the light and power of
love where they're healed backto the original cause.
(01:00:02):
We send love and Reiki energy tothe spirits of those that we
have lost, and we ask that thelove and Reiki energies assist
them.
Assist them in making a smoothtransition to their next phase,
(01:00:24):
whatever that may be.
We acknowledge that we missthem, but we wish them the best.
Some of them were released frompain and suffering, and we're
grateful for that.
(01:00:46):
We're also grateful for thewonderful and compassionate
professionals who assisted themand were with them and who
assisted us.
They assisted us in this mostimportant journey.
And finally, we are thankful forour time with these special
(01:01:10):
beings while on our earthjourneys together.
I invite you to take a momentnow to think back to a time when
your loved ones were at theirmost vibrant and.
(01:01:31):
And just remember some of thewonderful times you've
experienced together, and we'regoing to spend a few moments
here.
(01:02:58):
We acknowledge that as we allowour grief to heal, we will
connect with our loved onesagain, differe.
From a different place, and thiswe embrace love with the animals
is revealed to you now.
(01:03:19):
Love with the animals isrevealed in you now, and love
with the animals is revealedthrough you now and it causes
you to remember your love.
When you remember your love andyou remember your beauty, you
(01:03:43):
create your life from thisplace.
That is what our animalcompanions want for us.
Thank you for allowing me toassist you today.
(01:04:04):
Release the grief and difficultemotions around these beautiful
beings that have been soimportant to you.
Please know that Reiki is goingto continue flowing to you and
(01:04:24):
to everyone involved for as longas you need it to help heal your
trauma and grief.
Invite you to take as long asyou'd coming back.
(01:04:46):
Just take a deep breath, bringyour attention to your eyes,
slowly open your eyes andreturn.
And for those of us joining uson the podcast, I'd like to
thank you for joining us todayand for everyone, take a moment
(01:05:07):
to look at the shape you hadidentified at the beginning and
invite you all to ask yourselfthis question.
If you ask yourself how much ofit remains, what's the very
first number that you getbetween zero and a hundred?
Without giving it too muchthought, if that number is a
(01:05:30):
high number above 50% or above40%, encourage you to continue
listening to this meditationuntil you can bring it into a
range that is comfortable for.
Take it below 20% or even lowerif you wish to and if you can, I
(01:05:56):
want to thank all of you whojoined us on the podcast today,
and I look forward to seeing younext week.
Namaste.
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