I Asked My Dogs What "Energy Healing" Means To Them
Here's what they shared with me.
ZIGGY
Current favorite Energy Healing techniques: Heart and Root Chakra Balancing.
What is energy healing to you?
“It feels good. It feels like love. I can do it for myself, but it’s more fun when someone else is doing it with me. Then there is connection, and love flowing both ways. It opens both our hearts, and even if we don’t need ‘healing,’ we are getting to experience the connection between two souls, and that is always healing.
Also, I love being touched! When I’m touched in a way that I like, I get to experience my physical body in new ways. I get to experience the gift of my own body and what it can feel like when it’s touched in different ways. I love this!”
[The whole time she is answering me, she is giving me images of when I touch her, as well as sounds—she makes the best psychic sounds when she’s receiving energy healing—lots of mmmmmms and very cute yesssses.]
Max
Current favorite Energy Healing approach: Less is more.
What is energy healing to you?
“Your voice. Your voice is like an anchor for me, as is your physical body. As my physical body is for you. Energy flows between us, always, but when our anchors are activated, we allow the energy in in a bigger way. Think of how you feel when you lean against me. You feel my body, but you also feel my energy through my body—my energy and my love.
It’s always flowing to you, but much of the time when we are not touching, you are in your head, thinking about things. The moment our physical bodies touch, you relax, and you are able to feel what is always flowing to you from me. I love this too—we are so in synch that I can relax when you relax.
I can relax on my own, too, but some part of me is trained on you, as some part of you is always trained on me. So even though I am in charge of my own energy, more than you are—though you are getting better and better at this! Give yourself credit!—I also have an ‘eye’ on you (what you call a ‘constant radar’). When you relax into me, I can relax into you, and neither of us has to do all that work for a little while.
Healing isn’t complicated. Healing is when we are able to get back to our natural state.
It’s when we aren’t working so hard to heal. When we rest together, we are in our natural state, connected, relaxed, our energies aligned, rather than one of us trying to find the other or trying to get the other to relax. It’s the most beautiful thing.
This is why I’ve told you that I don’t need all that other stuff. I know you want to do the ‘fancy’ energy healing for me, and it’s not that I don’t like it, but I don’t need it as long as we keep finding each other and resting together. That’s all I need.
And that’s what you need, as well. To not be working so much at all this healing.”
Lorca (In spirit)
Current favorite Energy Healing technique that he uses on me: “Bugging me” from the other side until I notice and allow his silly energy to make me smile.
What is energy healing to you?
Lorca: “It’s very different for me now, but also not different at all. It’s different in that I can’t get your attention in the same way anymore. I was very good at that!”
Me: “Ha ha ha yes you were!”
Lorca: “Now, it’s much more subtle–the ways I can get through to you. You are very stubborn! It’s harder to bug you, although I still can. But you might not know what it is that’s bugging you, so I have to get creative.”
Me: “What are some of the ways that you bug me now?”
Lorca: “That feeling of frustration—remember it? I still use it. Only now, you blame yourself instead of looking at me.”
Me: “I can see that. I tend to blame myself for most things.”
Lorca: “For everything!”
Me: “What would you like me to know about this?”
Lorca: “You catch on now with the good feeling memories, and I love that. I know that you feel me, and I can still make you smile and laugh. I am close still! And also I want you to be living your life, so it’s good when you feel okay. I want this! But when you are in a funk and I am trying to get your attention, it is very hard. You have your blinders on.”
Me: “What are some other ways you try to get my attention?”
Lorca: “I can only describe it as an insistent feeling like you are being bugged. You aren’t able to relax into your gloom. Before, you could really live in there for a long time. But now you have a nagging feeling—that’s me!”
Me: “Ha ha ha. I know exactly what you’re talking about, and this is making me smile to know that it’s you. I do let myself go into the gloom sometimes. It’s got a real pull to it. But you’re right, I feel nagged by something that doesn’t let me do it wholeheartedly. What would you like me to do when I notice this feeling?”
Lorca: “Connect with me—I can help!”
Me: “Which brings me back to energy healing and what it means to you. How can you help?”
Lorca: “Well, everything is energy from here, but everything is actually energy anyway. Except, those anchors Max is talking about are really really helpful. I’ve got to wave you down more powerfully…
But I am able to make you smile and laugh, and this helps you heal. Yes, it lifts your vibration, but what does that mean actually? I want to use other words that will be meaningful for you. When you think of me and feel my silly energy, you are filled with the feeling you would always get when my silliness melts you.
You let me in, and my energy fills the room, and you feel “in my presence,” because you are! You shift from whatever you were feeling to what it feels like and has always felt like to be with me. I am so charming! I could always make you smile, just as I could always bug you when I needed to, and make you feel frustrated to motivate you to investigate and open up to what would eventually be a new level of consciousness for you.
But there’s also more. It’s also healing because I help you heal your relationship to grief and to loss and to death. These were insurmountable things to you before me. You carried them in your energy field forever, and actually for lifetimes.
I know that you miss me, but you are not stuck. There’s a lightness now when you feel me close, know what I mean? That lightness is not just about me–it’s all the energy from all those other deaths moving through and out of you.
I know that you’re afraid of Max dying, and Ziggy. You still have the habit of fear. But you won’t carry any losses with you the way that you used to. And when grief leaves the body, the biggest healing can happen!
I know that you know about grief being associated with the lungs, but it’s bigger than that. For you, grief was a shadow on your life force. Deep down, it blocked you from giving yourself permission to live. So it affected all the cells of your body and everything. If your life force doesn’t have permission to live and thrive and heal, then you are always fighting against yourself, which you were.
You still fight against yourself, but not on this deep, fundamental level. You have given yourself permission to live, no matter how sad you might feel, or overwhelmed. In this life, you have decided that you will see what living is all about.
I know it doesn’t always feel that way now, especially when you measure ‘living’ by what other people are doing, by how many times you leave the house, by the experiences you rack up. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about something deeper, that doesn’t depend on what you ‘do.’
Your body has permission to thrive, which means it has permission to heal. And when you forget this, I help you remember by continuing to bug you!”
I loved this post - how each pup receives energy healing and how the interaction with each is different. And Lorca’s messages around fear, I needed to hear that too today. Thank you!