Question:
What sort of physical conditions can healing help with and is it suitable
for all ages and all equines? Can healing help with sudden trauma for
example?
Answer:
Hands on healing can be used with any horse,pony or donkey and even the
new born foal can benefit as it is non invasive and there are no adverse
side effects. It isn't a substitute though for Vets advice and care. Healing
aims to rebalance the energy field working on all levels and it has been
shown to stimulate tissue repair and combat shock. In the elderly horse
it offers a sense of peace, particularly in the terminally sick. Both
chronic and acute conditions can be treated with healing - basically any
illness or injury.
Often in acute situations and in the very young healing can produce dramatic and immediate results although no registered healer will ever make a promise of a cure.
I recently took an emergency call from a regular client who is a race horse trainer. They had a 3 week old foal who had been found paralysed in the hind limbs 48 hours before. They had been lifting him up top suckle every two hours, and it took two men to do it as he was very heavy. The vets didn't hold out much hope and also were at a loss to explain what was wrong, but thought that the mare may have rolled on him, crushing his back, in the night. I rushed over and it was pitiful to see him trying to get up and dragging himself along by the front legs desperately scraping the floor. He just couldn't do it. When the grooms held him up his back collapsed and twisted round and he had no strength in his hind limbs, they just dangled. The two men supported him one with arms around his chest the other holding his quarters up and I started the healing.
Very quickly the little foal became sleepy with the calming effects of the healing and I felt a lot of heat build up under my hands which were over the pelvis where I could feel the energy blockage. Several times he wobbled and they had to catch him and fight to keep him upright as he had no strength to stand unaided. Suddenly after about twenty minutes I noticed a change in the energy pattern under my hands, it was rebalancing. The groom holding his hind quarters noticed that the foal had put his legs down and was tentatively standing on them. Then he just let go - and the foal stood there all by himself. He was shaky of course but he was holding his own. For a long time we watched him as he moved slowly around the box, still a bit wobbly. Then the groom tried to give him his medication and with that he started running around his mother like a mad thing, and he couldn't catch him!
he is now six months
old and I continue to see him and although he was weak behind for several
months you can't now tell that he had a problem. He runs around the paddocks
with the other foals and mares and is very cheeky too. So if you ever
have an acute situation I would say to anyone - give healing until the
vet arrives and certainly after. It can work very well.
Margrit Coates
