Lucy Gabrielle

Eileen and I are excited to announce that we are seeking expressions of interest from people interested in attending our Intuitive Animal Healing workshop in Melbourne or Perth.

We are holding a variety of natural animal healing workshops in Brisbane each month in 2010, but we are regularly asked to travel outside of Brisbane. So now’s your chance!

The Intuitive Animal Healing course is designed to give you a comprehensive toolkit of healing methods to begin using on your loved one immediatly. We cover animal nature, massage, hands-on healing, crystals, food as medicine, energy medicine (homeopathy and essences), soul-to-soul connection (communication), and colour, sound and aroma therpay. This course will give you a bumper manual of techniques to take home and hands-on experience.

If you would like to attend a course in Melbourne or Perth, Australia, or would like to host and help coordinate a course, then please email me at lucygabrielle@live.com.au.

I offer a free Reiki healing service for animals and today I sent out some healing to a horse with pain in her hindquarters. In the process of that treatment, I got some messages that the horse needed some physical assistance, and suggested that the horse’s person consider Bowen therapy. The horse’s person was grateful for the healing, but wanted to know why I would recommend Bowen therapy. Isn’t Reiki enough, she wondered. Does Reiki have limitations? I thought that was a fantastic question, so wanted to take some time to write about it.

Reiki always works for the highest good and that means that we can’t control the outcome. It’s the hardest thing, I think, when we’re learning to work with energy, to learn to “let go and let God”. In other words, we have to trust that the energy is going where it needs to go, which many find difficult because we are such an “outcomes” based society.

In the case of the horse with the pain in her hindquarters, the healing will be assisting her mental and emotional self to deal with the pain and restriction, and if there are emotional components to her injury the Reiki will help to clear these in order for physical healing to occur. One of the greatest things that I think Reiki does is pain relief, and so I’m sure that she will benefit from Reiki.

The reality is that all situations benefit from Reiki but we can’t ‘order’ the type of healing we need. So, yes, Reiki might be sufficient to heal the situation on its own. But if the situation required another form of treatment to get the fastest, easiest result, then Reiki might prompt us to do that, or create a situation in which we suddenly meet someone who can help us further. And yes, Reiki will enhance the overall effect of any other treatment that is occurring at the same time. For example, in the case of western medicines, that might mean helping the body to cope with side effects.

The beauty of Reiki is that there are absolutely NO limitations!!! There is not any situation, person or animal that wouldn’t benefit from Reiki–it’s just that we can’t always know beforehand what that benefit might be.

To give you an example of another kind, I have a number of physical challenges in this life, and this time last year, they had escalated to a point where I just felt that I had hit rock bottom. Through the Reiki, I received very strong messages to go to WA and swim with the dolphins for healing therapy. So off I went, expecting a miraculous event (“praise the lord, I can walk again” type of result). On the second day of swimming with the wild dolphins, I had an intense, magical connection with a dolphin and I knew I had received a ‘dolphin attunement’.

But when I returned home, all I could do was cry. I cried and cried and cried (releasing, intiated by the dolphins), and then I tore a ligament in my wrist. I went to see my (wonderful and very open) doctor about the wrist, and burst into tears. He suggested I tried a medication that was commonly prescribed for people with chronic pain. I was reluctant, of course (I always go for everything natural first) but I’ve also come to understand that there are no absolutes, that there are no ‘wrong’ medicines or ‘right’ medicines, but it’s up to us to find what is best for us at any given time.

So, I started the medication and went back to see him in a week’s time, during which he had come up with a plan for me to go and start a new form of therapy that worked on myofascial realignment in the body, retraining nerve pathways in order to relieve pain. Long story short, one year on I have improved 100%. For the first time in about five years, I feel like I can cope with daily life, my body is fairly stable, and I’m significantly pain reduced. The point is that I DID get my miracle, it just wasn’t the sort that I was expecting.

So, again, the Reiki always works, sometimes just by itself, and sometimes by prompting us to venture into the modality or to meet the person who can help us the most.

You might also like to read these posts on Reiki:

http://lucygabrielle.com/2009/11/23/which-level-of-reiki-gives-the-best-quality/

http://lucygabrielle.com/2009/10/27/which-reiki-is-right-for-you/

Today, a Facebook friend posted a picture of a cane toad saying she thought they were cute. Many comments quickly followed of people exuding hatred of toads.

Personally, I have great sympathy for cane toads. It’s not their fault that they are in Australia. Ill-thought out plans to introduce a species from another country led to the ‘disaster’ that is toads. The toads were introduced to eat the ‘cane beetle’ in Northern Queensland. But they didn’t eat them. Instead, they bred rapidly and adapted to their new home easily.

A few years ago, I wrote a two-part geography book series called Australia’s Invaders. In it, I tracked thirty species of animals and plants, both aquatic and land-based, that were introduced pests of this country. And as I researched each species, I grew sicker and sicker at writing over and over again that these species were deliberately introduced by men, mostly the English. (Some have been accidental introductions, but the majority were deliberate.)

Here’s a section from my author’s note in the book:

“Animals classified as pests in this country deserve to be treated with respect and humaneness while simultaneously upholding the rights of our native species. ‘Pest’ species are native to someone else’s country… These animals, which may experience protection in their native country (just as we protect native species), have the same biology and senses in this country and, therefore, feel the same levels of pain and suffering regardless of the country in which they reside… Pest species do need to be managed… but we have choices about the way we do this.” 

The reality is that land clearing is the number one killer of wildlife in this country–not cats, not dogs, not toads. It is people that need to be managed, not the unfortunate animals that suffer because of their actions.

Much more often than I would like, I hear people boasting about the way they hit toads with golf clubs or spray them with Dettol to kill them. These are both inhumane actions against an animal that is not so dissimilar to a frog, and yet most wouldn’t even think about doing that to a frog because we have defined frogs as “good” and toads as “bad”. 

Logically, you cannot get rid of toads. They breed too quickly and are just too hardy. The only way we will get rid of them now is to take genetic action to remove their ability to breed. There’s no point in killing the toad in your backyard. There are dozens more waiting to replace it.

So if you are one of those people who likes to kill toads, ask yourself why. Is it because you fear them? Is it because you have been conditioned to believe they are ugly? Is it because you enjoy violence? You cannot get rid of the toad population, so why do it?

All animals are sentient beings and deserve to be treated with respect. Moreover, turn the focus back on yourself and humankind and ask the question, ‘How can we do our best to caretake these animals that we have put in such danger?”

pic by Kevin H

My inbox has been jumping this morning with enquiries and registrations for our 2010 workshops in animal healing. We have Reiki, massage, a bumper sized “Intuitive Animal Healing” course (covering more than 8 types of healing you can do at home with your animal), a bumper sized animal homeopathy course, and the very unique and special “Seven Animals, Seven Chakras”, which shows you how you can heal yourself with the help of the animals.

We’re kicking off our workshops in February with Reiki I and Animal Reiki I. This is a very popular course, one we’ve run many times over the past couple of years, and is always such a beautiful weekend. We get just as much out of it as the participants do!

This is a two-day course held at Eileen’s home in Alderley, Brisbane. We deliberately keep the cost of this course low because, more than any other course, we see it as service to the world that everyone should have access to Reiki. The cost for the two days is just $200. The cost includes comprehensive take-home manuals, morning and afternoon tea, and animal volunteers. We also offer a scholarship space each course for those in genuine financial difficulty, so please let us know if that is you.

We’re taking registrations now, so if you are interested in any of the courses, you can email me at lucygabrielle@live.com.

We look forward to sharing the healing journey with this year.