Last week Gill asked me if I would go
with her to give Reiki to a dog.
Apparently the dog was suffering from some anxiety when out on the lead,
and had an aversion to men.
Well of course I said yes, and off we went. When we walked in the dog, a black standard
poodle called Ollie, kicked up a bit of a fuss before finally settling into a
deep throaty growl. Now I had a poodle when
I was a child, and it was a yappy, snappy little thing who would bite you as
much as look at you, so I wasn’t totally at ease here.
We both sat down, well away from Ollie, and started letting
the Reiki flow. It took him a while but
eventually he started to calm a bit, stopped the growling, but still glared at
us. His owner encouraged him onto her
lap and bit by bit Gill and I edged closer.
Still glaring at us, the whites of his eyes clearly visible in all that
black fur, he accepted Reiki and his eventually his body started to sag. And so we continued.
After around 45-minutes Ollie allowed us into his space and
even allowed us to touch him. Progress
was being made. By the end of the
session he had given me a bit of a wash and allowed me to stand up and move!
We’re going back next week, so will see whether there was
any progress when Ollie’s owner took him for a walk.
Gill and I are now looking seriously at all kinds of animal
Reiki and, hopefully, will be adding it to our training programme at Como next year.
Doesn’t life take some unexpected turns?