'That Look'

It is that complete innocence and openness I love about giving healing to animals, the expressions that humans are all so often too frightened to show…
I will never grow tired of seeing the wonderful look from an animal as they first feel the lovely healing enter their body.
I can trudge around a room for five or ten minutes, following a dog or cat as it tries to be in control of the situation. Restraining an animal to give it healing rather defeats the objective, so I tend to persevere with the stubborn ones, crawling around my small consulting room on my knees, getting a touch to them for 30 seconds or a minute at a time, before they move on again. They are trying to show that they are in charge, but I can see that they like the feeling really and only move away a couple of steps before setting on the floor again, for me to catch up with them and try again.
Eventually the healing wears them down to a slow pace as they realise how nice it is. When I finally place both my hands on the animal for more than a minute, they feel the full force of the healing enter their body. The dismissive, 'I'm not looking at you' posture of the animal suddenly changes, they swing their head around to stare me straight in the eyes with that amazed look that says 'is that you doing that?' I usually answer them out loud saying 'yes, that's me'.
The animal will then completely relax into my hands, flopping to the floor and often over onto their backs in a full submissive manner, to do with as I wish.
Waking the recipient can prove problematic at times with many comments from owners about leaving them with me for the afternoon.

Though, at times, I wish people would express their feelings more freely, rolling around on the floor with legs akimbo would not be appropriate.

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