In my last blog I talked about when i started my spiritual journey and i debated whether it was in 1969, when i was born, or at some other time in the last 42 years but taking some time to think about it i think i started my spiritual journey a few lives ago!
I know many people don't believe that when we die we come back but i have been lucky enough to have 2 past life regressions so i know where i have come from and i know that i have had more than 2 past lives. It is interesting that after my second regression and discovering that i had the same personality and same principles in those 2 previous lives i knew i didn't need to go back to another life as these 2 regressions were confirmation that i am continuing my journey.
Mind you in saying i have had 2 past life regressions it really is 3! When i was doing my Advance Mediumship course I was introduced to Charity one of my spirit guides. Once we had been introduced to our guides by the lovely and amazing Simon Goodfellow www.simongoodfellow.com we went into a meditation where we could ask our guides questions. Charity took me back to the American Civil war where we were both nurses tending to the injured but as she pointed out to me i had more interest in healing the horses than the humans! Somethings never will change!! So i had an insight into that life as she shared with me how i died in that life and how she died and how she chose not to return to earth but to be my spirit guide and help me to develop spiritually in all of my continuing lives. When i tell these stories to work colleagues you can see them taking a step back and thinking 'oh my god she is such a good production manager but she is a bit of a lunatic'!!! Whatever!
So my visiting myself in my previous lives has helped me to accept who i am today. I have always been strong and independent, i have always been surrounded by children but never had any myself, i have always had a voice and pushed forward to make life better for other people and for animals and as many of you know i have strong principles about how humans and animals alike should be treated in this life and this reaches back into my previous lives. I am pleased to say that i really feel i have made a difference in those past lives and keep pushing to try to make a difference in this lifetime.
I do believe that i will be back a few times before i reach enlightenment but i am happy about that, i just really hope that in my next life i start making a difference from a young age - waiting till your 40's to discover your ability to heal is a bit shite so my aim in my next life is to start healing as soon as i leave the womb!
I wonder how many other people in this world have aims for their next life? May be i am a lunatic after all!!!
suz
xxx
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Where i started my journey...
My lovely friend Emma has started a new website called www.serendipitousjourneys.com and she has asked me to write something for it about my journey and where i started on my journey of healing or to healing - i don't know which it is really - probably quite a bit of both! by the way emma has a wonderful website with all her journals from her travels at www.persoots.com if you want to check that out as her new website is not up and running yet.
Anyway I need to write something that is about 800 words long which doesn't sound much but as always its where to start?! i find writing this blog quite each because i just write how i feel at this moment or talk about what i have learnt recently but going back to where i started i just find so hard - probably because i don't know when that was! I think i have been an animal healer all my life as i have always been surrounded by them and i have enjoyed extraordinary relationships and communications with them so did my journey start on boxing day in 1969?
I have always believed in spirits and another world since as long as i can remember - not necessarily god but definitely another world and i have been going to see Psychics since i was about 20 - not that i have ever changed my way in life because of something they have said but its has been interesting when something has happened and i can so 'oh sally the psychic told me that would happen'.
I think it would be so hard to write 800 words starting right from 1969 so perhaps i have to just concentrate on the last few years where i have actually been changing my life because of my spiritual journey. I will keep you posted and of course share my 800 words with you all!
and how i am loving the new learning and working with the animals - yesterday i was able to spend 2 hours with my friend FJ's horses, Oliver and Solstice, practicing some TTouches on them and some wraps that i learnt on my course at Tilley Farm. by the end of the time spent i really think i made a difference to how oliver was feeling as he lowered his head and seemed to relax his neck. With Solstice i just worked gently with her as she can be a bit flighty so i took it easy and just did a few ttouches and a neck wrap with her but it was amazing to see how much i had learnt in those 6 days. REally looking forward to doing some more work with both Oliver and Solstice and also my friends old horse Brummell who is 32.
I will keep you posted on how i get on.
suz
xxx
Anyway I need to write something that is about 800 words long which doesn't sound much but as always its where to start?! i find writing this blog quite each because i just write how i feel at this moment or talk about what i have learnt recently but going back to where i started i just find so hard - probably because i don't know when that was! I think i have been an animal healer all my life as i have always been surrounded by them and i have enjoyed extraordinary relationships and communications with them so did my journey start on boxing day in 1969?
I have always believed in spirits and another world since as long as i can remember - not necessarily god but definitely another world and i have been going to see Psychics since i was about 20 - not that i have ever changed my way in life because of something they have said but its has been interesting when something has happened and i can so 'oh sally the psychic told me that would happen'.
I think it would be so hard to write 800 words starting right from 1969 so perhaps i have to just concentrate on the last few years where i have actually been changing my life because of my spiritual journey. I will keep you posted and of course share my 800 words with you all!
and how i am loving the new learning and working with the animals - yesterday i was able to spend 2 hours with my friend FJ's horses, Oliver and Solstice, practicing some TTouches on them and some wraps that i learnt on my course at Tilley Farm. by the end of the time spent i really think i made a difference to how oliver was feeling as he lowered his head and seemed to relax his neck. With Solstice i just worked gently with her as she can be a bit flighty so i took it easy and just did a few ttouches and a neck wrap with her but it was amazing to see how much i had learnt in those 6 days. REally looking forward to doing some more work with both Oliver and Solstice and also my friends old horse Brummell who is 32.
I will keep you posted on how i get on.
suz
xxx
Saturday, 17 March 2012
My Crystal gift from another world...
I promised i would share the story of 2 beautiful amethyst crystals that appeared in my life as gifts from another world.
When my lovely old dog Poppy was ill my sister had given her some crystals to help her cope a bit better - there were 7 of them - one for each Chakra. I put these under Poppy's bed and they really did seem to help her as she got a bit brighter and seemed to be able to get up and walk around easier than before which was great. One day when i was moving the crystals from one bed to the other i noticed that the Amber crystal had shattered into many pieces - so i sent a message to my sister asking if i could replace it with another crystal and she said i could replace it with any other crystal but something like an Amethyst might be good for her. I had really only started on my journey with Crystals at this point and didn't have that many of my own but i did have a bag of 6 Fairy amethyst crystals that i had bought at a body and soul fair so i took one of those small amethysts and gave it to Poppy. She had that crystal and the other 6 with her until the day she was put to sleep and on that day after she had headed off to Rainbow Bridge i gathered up the crystals and put them into a little bag which i would always keep with me and this included the little Amethyst - even though i knew this meant that i was breaking the 6 crystal fairy circle it was more important to me that the amethyst stayed with poppys other crystals as they all held her energy.
A couple of days later i was putting the little bag into my hand bag and as i did a little amethyst crystal fell out of my handbag - i of course thought i hadn't closed poppys bag properly and that her amethyst had fallen out so i opened the bag and check and her crystal was still there - how strange! Being a logical person i thought that it must have come out of the fairy crystal bag so i checked that and there were still 5 in it. I knew i didn't have any other amethysts and this was the same shape and size of the fairy crystals and of course poppys amethyst. I was completely perplexed as to how this little crystal got into my bag - it just was not possible.
anyway i decided as it looked like a fairy crystal i would put it in with the other fairy crystals completing my set of 6 fairy crystals.
A few days after that i was in my handbag again and i couldn't believe it - yes there was another little amethyst - the same shape and colour as the one poppy had and the same as the one i had found a few days before - now of course i am thinking i am going off my head! the bag of 6 fairy crystals were not even in my handbag! I of course checked poppys little bag of crystals and all were there including her amethyst! My handbag was producing Amethyst Crystals and i just could not get my head around how this was possible - well its not possible!
So i now had my 6 fairy crystals, poppys amethyst and now another amethyst - WTF!!!
I did think that may be Poppy had sent them to me to say thank you for helping her through her discomfort and pain and when i started reading up on the healing properties of Amethyst i discovered that Amethyst is very good for helping with grief so it really confirmed to me that Poppy sent me the stones to help me get through a difficult time - she was the last of my 3 dogs that had all died within the last 2 years.
So i was really happy to have received my two beautiful amethyst crystals and happily would tell the story that Poppy sent them to me but it wasn't until i did an Animal Communication workshop and we did a meditation to meet our animal spirit guide that i discovered that it wasn't Poppy who sent the crystals but my beautiful dog spirit guide.
In the meditation i met my old dog Shandy who had been my childhood dog and was put to sleep when i was about 5 or 6. I was so delighted that Shandy is with me as my guide and in the meditation we had to ask our guide for a gift and Shandy gave me a beautiful amethyst crystal - yep you have guessed it - it was the same shape and size as the fairy crystals! Shandy had sent the first crystal so i could complete my set of 6 fairy crystals and now i know that she did this because i needed a complete set of 6 so that i can communicate with her as the 6 amethysts seem to open my channel to the spirit world. I still don't know why i got the 2nd amethyst sent to me but i suspect i will find out one day what it is for!
So thats my crystal mystery! I now know that crystals will appear and disappear in my life when i need them or don't any more - i lost my manifestation crystal after what i was manifesting happened - it had done its job and had gone off to help someone else.
suzxxx
When my lovely old dog Poppy was ill my sister had given her some crystals to help her cope a bit better - there were 7 of them - one for each Chakra. I put these under Poppy's bed and they really did seem to help her as she got a bit brighter and seemed to be able to get up and walk around easier than before which was great. One day when i was moving the crystals from one bed to the other i noticed that the Amber crystal had shattered into many pieces - so i sent a message to my sister asking if i could replace it with another crystal and she said i could replace it with any other crystal but something like an Amethyst might be good for her. I had really only started on my journey with Crystals at this point and didn't have that many of my own but i did have a bag of 6 Fairy amethyst crystals that i had bought at a body and soul fair so i took one of those small amethysts and gave it to Poppy. She had that crystal and the other 6 with her until the day she was put to sleep and on that day after she had headed off to Rainbow Bridge i gathered up the crystals and put them into a little bag which i would always keep with me and this included the little Amethyst - even though i knew this meant that i was breaking the 6 crystal fairy circle it was more important to me that the amethyst stayed with poppys other crystals as they all held her energy.
A couple of days later i was putting the little bag into my hand bag and as i did a little amethyst crystal fell out of my handbag - i of course thought i hadn't closed poppys bag properly and that her amethyst had fallen out so i opened the bag and check and her crystal was still there - how strange! Being a logical person i thought that it must have come out of the fairy crystal bag so i checked that and there were still 5 in it. I knew i didn't have any other amethysts and this was the same shape and size of the fairy crystals and of course poppys amethyst. I was completely perplexed as to how this little crystal got into my bag - it just was not possible.
anyway i decided as it looked like a fairy crystal i would put it in with the other fairy crystals completing my set of 6 fairy crystals.
A few days after that i was in my handbag again and i couldn't believe it - yes there was another little amethyst - the same shape and colour as the one poppy had and the same as the one i had found a few days before - now of course i am thinking i am going off my head! the bag of 6 fairy crystals were not even in my handbag! I of course checked poppys little bag of crystals and all were there including her amethyst! My handbag was producing Amethyst Crystals and i just could not get my head around how this was possible - well its not possible!
So i now had my 6 fairy crystals, poppys amethyst and now another amethyst - WTF!!!
I did think that may be Poppy had sent them to me to say thank you for helping her through her discomfort and pain and when i started reading up on the healing properties of Amethyst i discovered that Amethyst is very good for helping with grief so it really confirmed to me that Poppy sent me the stones to help me get through a difficult time - she was the last of my 3 dogs that had all died within the last 2 years.
So i was really happy to have received my two beautiful amethyst crystals and happily would tell the story that Poppy sent them to me but it wasn't until i did an Animal Communication workshop and we did a meditation to meet our animal spirit guide that i discovered that it wasn't Poppy who sent the crystals but my beautiful dog spirit guide.
In the meditation i met my old dog Shandy who had been my childhood dog and was put to sleep when i was about 5 or 6. I was so delighted that Shandy is with me as my guide and in the meditation we had to ask our guide for a gift and Shandy gave me a beautiful amethyst crystal - yep you have guessed it - it was the same shape and size as the fairy crystals! Shandy had sent the first crystal so i could complete my set of 6 fairy crystals and now i know that she did this because i needed a complete set of 6 so that i can communicate with her as the 6 amethysts seem to open my channel to the spirit world. I still don't know why i got the 2nd amethyst sent to me but i suspect i will find out one day what it is for!
So thats my crystal mystery! I now know that crystals will appear and disappear in my life when i need them or don't any more - i lost my manifestation crystal after what i was manifesting happened - it had done its job and had gone off to help someone else.
suzxxx
Thursday, 15 March 2012
I am a Bison...
phew what a week! i drove back from Bath yesterday afternoon after the Ttouch course finished and arrived home just after 10pm so was pretty knackered and it felt like i had been away from home for ages. I wasn't sure if i was actually going to be able to communicate with Mark on a normal human level as i had been with 26 horse daft women for 6 days!
What an amazing course and what an amazing way to learn - working with other Ttouch ladies all at different levels and everyone helping each other. I wonder if our schools had a system like this if we would learn more and integrate more rather than always sticking with our own age or group?
I am full of excitement about what i have learnt and how i can help horses so have already organised to work with Oliver and Solstice at the weekend so i will be practicing lots of Ttouches and wraps on both the horses and my friend FJ.
At the end of the course everyone had to share what they experienced from the course and then pick an animal shaped crystal out of a little american indian bag that Robyn our teacher passed round. It all got a bit emotional with Penny starting the sharing session with tears, so of course as i became emotional - not because she was crying but because she was sharing how she has struggled to cope after her dog died 6 months ago and how being with this group has helped her as no one is telling her to get over it which is what she is experiencing from the people around her at home.
I don't know how anyone can be unsympathetic to someone who has lost a dear friend whether they are human or animal. Grief is a process we will all experience in our lives so why not support and help the people we know and love through the process rather than being impatient and pushing people to hide their feelings and swallow their grief which will only make it worse.
So Penny received all our support and all of us shared some tears with her.
So when it came to my turn to share what i had experienced in the week i had to keep grounding myself as i had shed a few tears while penny talked about her experience and knew that i would start to blub like a big baby unless i grounded, grounded, grounded. So i kept imagining my feet growing big roots that were working their way through the centre of the earth to the earths core which was a beautiful huge piece of brown tourmaline and my roots wrapped themselves around the tournaline anchoring me to the centre of the earth. I also did a bit of EFT tapping and saying to myself 'even though i am emotional i accept my self, even though i am emotional i am ok' its amazing how it works. So when it came my turn to speak my voice wobbled at the start but as i got into my stride i was strong and grounded as i described my experience of the week of learning. Then i put my hand into the beautiful american indian style bag and i picked out a beautiful Amethyst Bison. Now anyone who knows me will tell you that Amethyst is a crystal that is a constant in my life - it chooses to be with me and i of course love to accept it in my life - i will share in another blog my experience of the amethyst crystals that appeared in my life from somewhere other than the earth!
So i am a Bison! i have just looked up the spiritual meaning of Bison and it says the following:
Bison teaches us:
To remain well Grounded
Provide abundantly for others
Find the strength to carry our path
Be in harmony with Mother Earth
To give selflessly from the heart with pure intent
The meaning of sacrifice
The sacredness of life
I think that is an amazing message for me and i try every minute of every day to live up to what the Bison is teaching.
If we were all Bisons in this life what a wonderful world it would be.
suz
xxx
What an amazing course and what an amazing way to learn - working with other Ttouch ladies all at different levels and everyone helping each other. I wonder if our schools had a system like this if we would learn more and integrate more rather than always sticking with our own age or group?
I am full of excitement about what i have learnt and how i can help horses so have already organised to work with Oliver and Solstice at the weekend so i will be practicing lots of Ttouches and wraps on both the horses and my friend FJ.
At the end of the course everyone had to share what they experienced from the course and then pick an animal shaped crystal out of a little american indian bag that Robyn our teacher passed round. It all got a bit emotional with Penny starting the sharing session with tears, so of course as i became emotional - not because she was crying but because she was sharing how she has struggled to cope after her dog died 6 months ago and how being with this group has helped her as no one is telling her to get over it which is what she is experiencing from the people around her at home.
I don't know how anyone can be unsympathetic to someone who has lost a dear friend whether they are human or animal. Grief is a process we will all experience in our lives so why not support and help the people we know and love through the process rather than being impatient and pushing people to hide their feelings and swallow their grief which will only make it worse.
So Penny received all our support and all of us shared some tears with her.
So when it came to my turn to share what i had experienced in the week i had to keep grounding myself as i had shed a few tears while penny talked about her experience and knew that i would start to blub like a big baby unless i grounded, grounded, grounded. So i kept imagining my feet growing big roots that were working their way through the centre of the earth to the earths core which was a beautiful huge piece of brown tourmaline and my roots wrapped themselves around the tournaline anchoring me to the centre of the earth. I also did a bit of EFT tapping and saying to myself 'even though i am emotional i accept my self, even though i am emotional i am ok' its amazing how it works. So when it came my turn to speak my voice wobbled at the start but as i got into my stride i was strong and grounded as i described my experience of the week of learning. Then i put my hand into the beautiful american indian style bag and i picked out a beautiful Amethyst Bison. Now anyone who knows me will tell you that Amethyst is a crystal that is a constant in my life - it chooses to be with me and i of course love to accept it in my life - i will share in another blog my experience of the amethyst crystals that appeared in my life from somewhere other than the earth!
So i am a Bison! i have just looked up the spiritual meaning of Bison and it says the following:
Bison teaches us:
To remain well Grounded
Provide abundantly for others
Find the strength to carry our path
Be in harmony with Mother Earth
To give selflessly from the heart with pure intent
The meaning of sacrifice
The sacredness of life
I think that is an amazing message for me and i try every minute of every day to live up to what the Bison is teaching.
If we were all Bisons in this life what a wonderful world it would be.
suz
xxx
Monday, 12 March 2012
Tired but not emotional...
Oh my god I am so tired - i think my brain has absorbed more information in 4 days that it did the whole of my time at primary school and high school!!
We finished just after 5pm today and i had to go for a lie down in my tent!
We learnt how to do neck line driving with a horse today! Yes its as complicated as it sounds! bloody hell! i am not even sure i can explain what i did so might need a bit more time to process that learning before i share it!!
Today i have seen 3 other women get emotional and shed some tears and although i can understand why as the course can be a bit overwhelming and also we are working with unpredictable animals with the horses but i haven't felt overwhelmed emotionally at all but i have taken the time to meditate at lunchtime.
There are i think 26 women on the course so you can imagine what its like at break times and lunch times with the chatter and noise so its good to slip away and meditate. I have come up with my own Awareness Meditation - i am sure there are others like it out there but just to sit and listen to the birds tweeting and try to single out one sound and take the sound through my body and feel the vibration then taking the vibration back out of my body and then taking the sound of a car and listen to it from when its far away until its close to until it has gone off in the distance but singling it out and only listening to that sound and taking the vibration through my body and letting go and then doing the same with whatever sounds are coming at me. It actually seems to make me more aware of my body and the world around me and seems to help me to single out one bit of chat from the chatter of 26 women which has a calming effect on me rather than making me want to run from the room screaming.
I do think that being able to take the time out to do my Awareness Meditation has helped me get through the course and its overwhelming moments and not be so emotional especially with everyone else's energies spilling over into the room. Also i am good at grounding myself which helps to process the emotions so it doesn't all come out in emotional tears and of course protecting myself from absorbing others energies or allowing others to take my energy.
Mind you i am saying all this i bet i end up having a good old blub tomorrow!
Will keep you posted!
suz
xxx
We finished just after 5pm today and i had to go for a lie down in my tent!
We learnt how to do neck line driving with a horse today! Yes its as complicated as it sounds! bloody hell! i am not even sure i can explain what i did so might need a bit more time to process that learning before i share it!!
Today i have seen 3 other women get emotional and shed some tears and although i can understand why as the course can be a bit overwhelming and also we are working with unpredictable animals with the horses but i haven't felt overwhelmed emotionally at all but i have taken the time to meditate at lunchtime.
There are i think 26 women on the course so you can imagine what its like at break times and lunch times with the chatter and noise so its good to slip away and meditate. I have come up with my own Awareness Meditation - i am sure there are others like it out there but just to sit and listen to the birds tweeting and try to single out one sound and take the sound through my body and feel the vibration then taking the vibration back out of my body and then taking the sound of a car and listen to it from when its far away until its close to until it has gone off in the distance but singling it out and only listening to that sound and taking the vibration through my body and letting go and then doing the same with whatever sounds are coming at me. It actually seems to make me more aware of my body and the world around me and seems to help me to single out one bit of chat from the chatter of 26 women which has a calming effect on me rather than making me want to run from the room screaming.
I do think that being able to take the time out to do my Awareness Meditation has helped me get through the course and its overwhelming moments and not be so emotional especially with everyone else's energies spilling over into the room. Also i am good at grounding myself which helps to process the emotions so it doesn't all come out in emotional tears and of course protecting myself from absorbing others energies or allowing others to take my energy.
Mind you i am saying all this i bet i end up having a good old blub tomorrow!
Will keep you posted!
suz
xxx
Sunday, 11 March 2012
My year of the horse
Here i am in Farmborough, near Bath doing Equine Tellington Touch or TTouch as it is known and you may have heard of.
Its my third day today and just got internet so haven't been able to get a blog up before now but its probably a good thing as yesterday my head was full of mince so god knows what would have come out of me and onto the blog!
Not that i am much better today but i feel like i have a bit more understanding of what we are doing and why we are doing it where as yesterday i just felt like my head was going to explode with all the TTouches i have learnt.
So TTouch is a way of touching an animal that helps it in many ways. It can help an anxious animal relax or it can make a sleepy animal more alert. Mostly we are trying to make anxious animals relax!
This course is specifically for Equines but the good thing about it is we do a lot of work with other people. We will be shown the touches on a person then we will try it on a person and have it tried on ourselves so we can feel the different pressures and the different feel to each touch.
Now they all have interesting names - the Zig Zag - yep you guessed it that you zig zag your hand across the horses body or the Chimp where you hold your hand in a fist and rub gently in a small circle and 1/4's (it has to be a circe and 1/4 each time but haven't quite found out why yet!). There is the Orangatan, the Llama, Clouded Leopard, Octopus and about a million other touches that i am learning and will hopefully absorb over the course of the next two years which is how long it will take me to qualify as an Equine Practitioner.
We have also been using Wraps which are like bandages but stretchy and putting then on ourselves and the horses and its amazing to see how a horse that is very forward in its chest can change the structure of how it holds itself just by putting a wrap on its front and over its withers but joining one on that goes over its rump - it connects the back to the front and seems to balance the horse. We practiced wraps on ourselves first so i had a nice head wrap which actually seemed to make my head feel lighted and my shoulders started to untighten which is great. Head wraps on horses that are head shy help them to relax and i can understand why now that i have tried one. We all looked hysterically funny with our multi coloured wraps all in different body parts but it really is a great way to learn if you can feel a difference yourself.
We have also been learning how to lead horses - i have all my life always lead a horse from under its chin and will push and pull and do whatever i had to to get the horse to move but i have learnt to always be in front of the horse now and use my whole body movement to encourage the horse to move forward and also how to gently rock the horses head or withers if it gets stuck. So all these years i have been thinking that a horse that is stuck is a stubborn horse and needs to be pushed at or pulled at and it has just been stuck and just needed a gentle rocking to allow it to unlock its legs. Truly Amazing to have it happen.
I also did Mouth Work today! YES I STUCK MY FINGERS IN A HORSES MOUTH AND RUBBED ITS GUMS!!! I never thought I would have done that on my first course but Rusty my trusty horse teacher was a perfect gentleman and didn't try to bite me and he really loved it, as i rubbed his bottom gums his eyes were rolling in his head! Pretty stunning stuff for me - its funny how i think i won't be able to do something but i just end up getting on with it - the same on the Animal Healing Diploma when they brought the Reptiles in, i jumped straight in and handled Spike the bearded dragon - something i never thought i would do! So if these courses are teaching me one thing it is not to hold back but just to go for it and not to be scared or anxious.
So my year of the horse is starting off well - i am camping with the horses so i am with them 24/7 which has been amazing just to hear them breathing during the night near my tent. I don't know if i have shared with you that when i was doing my Mediumship course i met one of my spirit guides Charity who we spent a previous life as best friends during the American Civil War when we were both Nurses but apparently i preferred treating the horses rather than the soliders which of course doesn't surprise me or anyone who knows me as animals have always been my focus in this life. Without knowing my link to healing horses in a previous life i had already signed up to do the Equine TTouch course before i signed up to do the Companion Animal TTouch course so its interesting that i was drawn to do this for horses before dogs. I also start my Equine Healing Certificate with the same place i did my Animal Healing Diploma so between my TTouch course and that I will have 21 days just with the horses this year which is really exciting!!
now that i have got internet will give you more info on TTouch tomorrow!
suz
xxx
Its my third day today and just got internet so haven't been able to get a blog up before now but its probably a good thing as yesterday my head was full of mince so god knows what would have come out of me and onto the blog!
Not that i am much better today but i feel like i have a bit more understanding of what we are doing and why we are doing it where as yesterday i just felt like my head was going to explode with all the TTouches i have learnt.
So TTouch is a way of touching an animal that helps it in many ways. It can help an anxious animal relax or it can make a sleepy animal more alert. Mostly we are trying to make anxious animals relax!
This course is specifically for Equines but the good thing about it is we do a lot of work with other people. We will be shown the touches on a person then we will try it on a person and have it tried on ourselves so we can feel the different pressures and the different feel to each touch.
Now they all have interesting names - the Zig Zag - yep you guessed it that you zig zag your hand across the horses body or the Chimp where you hold your hand in a fist and rub gently in a small circle and 1/4's (it has to be a circe and 1/4 each time but haven't quite found out why yet!). There is the Orangatan, the Llama, Clouded Leopard, Octopus and about a million other touches that i am learning and will hopefully absorb over the course of the next two years which is how long it will take me to qualify as an Equine Practitioner.
We have also been using Wraps which are like bandages but stretchy and putting then on ourselves and the horses and its amazing to see how a horse that is very forward in its chest can change the structure of how it holds itself just by putting a wrap on its front and over its withers but joining one on that goes over its rump - it connects the back to the front and seems to balance the horse. We practiced wraps on ourselves first so i had a nice head wrap which actually seemed to make my head feel lighted and my shoulders started to untighten which is great. Head wraps on horses that are head shy help them to relax and i can understand why now that i have tried one. We all looked hysterically funny with our multi coloured wraps all in different body parts but it really is a great way to learn if you can feel a difference yourself.
We have also been learning how to lead horses - i have all my life always lead a horse from under its chin and will push and pull and do whatever i had to to get the horse to move but i have learnt to always be in front of the horse now and use my whole body movement to encourage the horse to move forward and also how to gently rock the horses head or withers if it gets stuck. So all these years i have been thinking that a horse that is stuck is a stubborn horse and needs to be pushed at or pulled at and it has just been stuck and just needed a gentle rocking to allow it to unlock its legs. Truly Amazing to have it happen.
I also did Mouth Work today! YES I STUCK MY FINGERS IN A HORSES MOUTH AND RUBBED ITS GUMS!!! I never thought I would have done that on my first course but Rusty my trusty horse teacher was a perfect gentleman and didn't try to bite me and he really loved it, as i rubbed his bottom gums his eyes were rolling in his head! Pretty stunning stuff for me - its funny how i think i won't be able to do something but i just end up getting on with it - the same on the Animal Healing Diploma when they brought the Reptiles in, i jumped straight in and handled Spike the bearded dragon - something i never thought i would do! So if these courses are teaching me one thing it is not to hold back but just to go for it and not to be scared or anxious.
So my year of the horse is starting off well - i am camping with the horses so i am with them 24/7 which has been amazing just to hear them breathing during the night near my tent. I don't know if i have shared with you that when i was doing my Mediumship course i met one of my spirit guides Charity who we spent a previous life as best friends during the American Civil War when we were both Nurses but apparently i preferred treating the horses rather than the soliders which of course doesn't surprise me or anyone who knows me as animals have always been my focus in this life. Without knowing my link to healing horses in a previous life i had already signed up to do the Equine TTouch course before i signed up to do the Companion Animal TTouch course so its interesting that i was drawn to do this for horses before dogs. I also start my Equine Healing Certificate with the same place i did my Animal Healing Diploma so between my TTouch course and that I will have 21 days just with the horses this year which is really exciting!!
now that i have got internet will give you more info on TTouch tomorrow!
suz
xxx
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Accidents can happen...
I have been helping a friend of mine who's horse has White Line Disease which is an infection in the hoof. The vet gave her some bactokil and some hibiscrub to treat it but I knew there had to be a more homeopathic remedy that could help and did some research on the internet and found that Manuka Honey is very good for this type of infection so I suggested to my friend that she use this along with the vet prescribed stuff. So she started to do this and I gave her horse some healing on Sunday and left some grounding crystals in a safe place away from an inquisitive horse mouth! I am not saying that if she was a well grounded horse that she wouldn't have this problem with her hoof but I think bringing her energy back to earth may help greatly.
So on Monday morning when my friend had brought her horse out to wash down her hoof and put on her treatment she was using a knife to cut away the gaffer tape that was sealing the infected hoof and had to use a bit of pressure to cut the gaffer tape and as she did the knife slipped away from the gaffer tape and she stabbed her horse in the leg. She was understandably inconsolable that she could possibly have hurt the horse she loves and only wanted to help so she called me out and I immediately put pressure onto the wound for 10 minutes but also healing as I was adding pressure. This beautiful big horse just stood calmly while I held her leg with one hand and cuddled her owner with the other.
After 10 minutes we then dressed the wound and i comforted my friend who was berating herself for being so stupid as to use a knife when she had safety scissors. She just couldn't accept that accidents happen and felt the need to aportion blame. I tried to tell her the story of when I cut into the skin my lovely old cat Ansha who could barely walk never mind clean her back end so i was gently cutting away matted fur when i went just a bit to close to the skin and cut it. I was horrified that I had done such a thing just the same as my friend was absolutely horrified that she had stabbed her horse and hurt her. When i cut my cat it was an accident, my gorgeous old cat knew i hadn't done it deliberately just as my friends horse knew that what had happened was not intentional.
We can blame ourselves for accidents and mishaps but holding that burden of guilt is not good for our souls. We should accept that accidents happen and learn from them - i am sure i will never see my friend with a knife in her hand near her horse again. Just as i never took scissors to my beautiful cat again instead i put the time aside to gently brush her every day so that she never got matted so never needed the scissor treatment again.
We need to start unburdening ourselves of all the guilt and blame that builds up through a life time, we need to start letting things go. I plan on working on my guilt and blame by using EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique. Imagine having Emotional Freedom - can any of us say we have this? I doubt it! I am going to give it a good try though!! Will keep you posted!
suz
xxx
So on Monday morning when my friend had brought her horse out to wash down her hoof and put on her treatment she was using a knife to cut away the gaffer tape that was sealing the infected hoof and had to use a bit of pressure to cut the gaffer tape and as she did the knife slipped away from the gaffer tape and she stabbed her horse in the leg. She was understandably inconsolable that she could possibly have hurt the horse she loves and only wanted to help so she called me out and I immediately put pressure onto the wound for 10 minutes but also healing as I was adding pressure. This beautiful big horse just stood calmly while I held her leg with one hand and cuddled her owner with the other.
After 10 minutes we then dressed the wound and i comforted my friend who was berating herself for being so stupid as to use a knife when she had safety scissors. She just couldn't accept that accidents happen and felt the need to aportion blame. I tried to tell her the story of when I cut into the skin my lovely old cat Ansha who could barely walk never mind clean her back end so i was gently cutting away matted fur when i went just a bit to close to the skin and cut it. I was horrified that I had done such a thing just the same as my friend was absolutely horrified that she had stabbed her horse and hurt her. When i cut my cat it was an accident, my gorgeous old cat knew i hadn't done it deliberately just as my friends horse knew that what had happened was not intentional.
We can blame ourselves for accidents and mishaps but holding that burden of guilt is not good for our souls. We should accept that accidents happen and learn from them - i am sure i will never see my friend with a knife in her hand near her horse again. Just as i never took scissors to my beautiful cat again instead i put the time aside to gently brush her every day so that she never got matted so never needed the scissor treatment again.
We need to start unburdening ourselves of all the guilt and blame that builds up through a life time, we need to start letting things go. I plan on working on my guilt and blame by using EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique. Imagine having Emotional Freedom - can any of us say we have this? I doubt it! I am going to give it a good try though!! Will keep you posted!
suz
xxx
Friday, 2 March 2012
Ground yourself.
I may have said in previous posts that I have been feeling ungrounded recently. I have been having all the symptoms of someone who is not grounded - heart palpitations, dizziness, sore neck and wrists, fuzzy head, spaced out, scatty and not able to finish what i have started and jump from task to task without finishing anything. Does that all sound familiar? Ha yes we all get ungrounded from time to time and sometimes saying the words 'I am grounded' works and this is my normal way of grounding but since I told a stupid producer to stick his job up his arse I have not been able to bring myself back to being grounded.
Now why is this? You would think that doing something so brave (or stupid!) as leaving a job that is making you sick would make you more grounded! but it seems that the job i was doing and the stupid producers made me so ungrounded it has taken until now before i have started to feel better.
When i visited the crystal shop in St Andrews with my sister last week I was very drawn to black or dark crystals which are generally all good for grounding and ended up buying a black tourmaline bracelet which i have worn since i bought it and i am delighted to say that i feel so much more grounded and have not had any heart palpitations and feel a lot clearer in my head. Now i haven't had a choice but to finish all my tasks as i have been working on a wee shoot for Visit Britain which we do tomorrow up at Gleneagles but I think being grounded has brought me back into focus so my head is much clearer.
So if you feel any of the symptoms of being ungrounded or all of them its important to take the time to put your feet firmly on the ground and confirm that you are grounded by saying the words 'i am grounded'. You can even add some other affirmations to this 'i am grounded, i am centred, i am focused, etc etc' this will help you to feel better. If you are very ungrounded you may need more work than just saying those words. Meditation is a fantastic way to help ground you. I like to meditate and imagine that i have tree roots coming out my feet which wind down through the earth until it reaches the earths core and once the roots reach the core which is a big lump of brown tourmaline and my roots wrap around the core of the earth. Its an amazing feeling when i do this, i really feel like i am being pulled towards the earth and feel so at one with the earth.
you may have your own way of getting yourself wired to the earth just make sure you do it if you start to feel like you are getting a bit scatty!
Happy Grounding!!!
suz
xxx
Now why is this? You would think that doing something so brave (or stupid!) as leaving a job that is making you sick would make you more grounded! but it seems that the job i was doing and the stupid producers made me so ungrounded it has taken until now before i have started to feel better.
When i visited the crystal shop in St Andrews with my sister last week I was very drawn to black or dark crystals which are generally all good for grounding and ended up buying a black tourmaline bracelet which i have worn since i bought it and i am delighted to say that i feel so much more grounded and have not had any heart palpitations and feel a lot clearer in my head. Now i haven't had a choice but to finish all my tasks as i have been working on a wee shoot for Visit Britain which we do tomorrow up at Gleneagles but I think being grounded has brought me back into focus so my head is much clearer.
So if you feel any of the symptoms of being ungrounded or all of them its important to take the time to put your feet firmly on the ground and confirm that you are grounded by saying the words 'i am grounded'. You can even add some other affirmations to this 'i am grounded, i am centred, i am focused, etc etc' this will help you to feel better. If you are very ungrounded you may need more work than just saying those words. Meditation is a fantastic way to help ground you. I like to meditate and imagine that i have tree roots coming out my feet which wind down through the earth until it reaches the earths core and once the roots reach the core which is a big lump of brown tourmaline and my roots wrap around the core of the earth. Its an amazing feeling when i do this, i really feel like i am being pulled towards the earth and feel so at one with the earth.
you may have your own way of getting yourself wired to the earth just make sure you do it if you start to feel like you are getting a bit scatty!
Happy Grounding!!!
suz
xxx
EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique
As promised I am keeping you up to date on courses that I attend and today was day 1 of EFT. With 9 ladies attending it was quite a full class and as usual we are all very different but looking for the same thing and asking the same questions - what is EFT and does it work?!
I can answer yes to does it work as far as I am concerned - we had two sessions working in groups - the first being that we had to choose a scene from a film that we had a strong feeling towards. I slightly regretted my choice of scene and film once we had got started - the scene in ET after everyone thinks he is dead but his heart lights up and the flower starts to grow again and the boy has to throw a blanket over his lit up heart so the scientists can't see ET is actually still alive is a very emotional scene for me and i didn't realise how emotional until i started talking through the scene and couldn't get passed certain points without bubbling like a big baby! WTF? here i am crying my eyes out in from of 2 other course attendees and the course teacher! She had told us to not pick anything too emotive as we are on day one! So i made a complete tit of myself but after 3 sessions of tapping I was able to talk all the way through this scene without crying - a miracle as far as i am concerned as I always cry most of the way through ET but this scene has me sobbing loudly and usually embarrassing myself and anyone else who happens to be in the room at the time.
Can tapping really make me less emotional? It was bizarre how I could actually feel the energies move and settle around my body as I was tapping my meridian points while saying "even though his heart lit up I accept myself" bizarre words but it worked! I think I will actually be able to watch the film without feeling as out of control emotionally as i normally do.
Emotional Freedom - I GET IT!
I look forward to tomorrow and even more Emotional Freedom - we have to pick something we crave that we want to give up tomorrow - so for me its not chocolate, crisps or wine which is what most of the ladies have opted for - I am going for sugar in my tea as I actually feel I crave this and get really pissed off if I don't get it so watch this space - if EFT works tomorrow night I will be sugar free!!
By the way our teacher Roushan is the best teacher I have ever had out of all the courses I have been doing - she is so easy to learn from - she is also my Bach Flower Remedies Teacher.
More on EFT tomorrow......
suz
xxx
I can answer yes to does it work as far as I am concerned - we had two sessions working in groups - the first being that we had to choose a scene from a film that we had a strong feeling towards. I slightly regretted my choice of scene and film once we had got started - the scene in ET after everyone thinks he is dead but his heart lights up and the flower starts to grow again and the boy has to throw a blanket over his lit up heart so the scientists can't see ET is actually still alive is a very emotional scene for me and i didn't realise how emotional until i started talking through the scene and couldn't get passed certain points without bubbling like a big baby! WTF? here i am crying my eyes out in from of 2 other course attendees and the course teacher! She had told us to not pick anything too emotive as we are on day one! So i made a complete tit of myself but after 3 sessions of tapping I was able to talk all the way through this scene without crying - a miracle as far as i am concerned as I always cry most of the way through ET but this scene has me sobbing loudly and usually embarrassing myself and anyone else who happens to be in the room at the time.
Can tapping really make me less emotional? It was bizarre how I could actually feel the energies move and settle around my body as I was tapping my meridian points while saying "even though his heart lit up I accept myself" bizarre words but it worked! I think I will actually be able to watch the film without feeling as out of control emotionally as i normally do.
Emotional Freedom - I GET IT!
I look forward to tomorrow and even more Emotional Freedom - we have to pick something we crave that we want to give up tomorrow - so for me its not chocolate, crisps or wine which is what most of the ladies have opted for - I am going for sugar in my tea as I actually feel I crave this and get really pissed off if I don't get it so watch this space - if EFT works tomorrow night I will be sugar free!!
By the way our teacher Roushan is the best teacher I have ever had out of all the courses I have been doing - she is so easy to learn from - she is also my Bach Flower Remedies Teacher.
More on EFT tomorrow......
suz
xxx
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