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Hands-On Healing for Pets: The Animal Lover's Essential Guide to Using Healing Energy
This book can teach you how to make a real difference in your pet’s happiness and well-being through hands-on energy healing. Energy healing is a non-invasive, complementary, yet very effective therapy that can be used to improve your pet’s health and behavior. Practitioner Margrit Coates provides practical advice on when, where, and how to use hands-on healing; whether you’re caring for a dog or cat, rabbit or gerbil, bird, or reptile. Hands-On Healing for Pets also includes sections on other alternative treatments, including crystals, massage, and flower remedies, as well as fascinating case studies.
192 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
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February 17, 2015
Margrit Coates is clearly a very compassionate, experienced, animal communicator and healer. The chapter on chakra healing for animals was truly fascinating. I had never before come across the notion of a brachial or key chakra in animals, or three points of contact for the heart chakra. The diagrams illustrating the chakras for dogs, cats, rabbits, and birds were really intriguing.
I agree with Margrit in her assertion that everyone has the ability to heal and communicate with animals. Although she does mention in the book that the spiritual energy she describes comes from source/God/the universe rather than using one's own energy to heal, I felt that the healing technique was not described enough in a step-by-step manner to be really clear to a novice.
As someone who has studied Reiki and other forms of energy healing, I can distinguish the difference between when I am channeling energy and when I am projecting my own energy. To someone coming across the idea of hands-on healing for the first time through this book, they might inadvertently use their own energy in a session with their pet and find themselves drained afterwards. I would advise readers to ground themselves before beginning a healing session, and then clearly intend that they will be a channel for spiritual healing energy to flow through them.
That being said, this is one of very few books available on energy healing for animals and I am extremely grateful to Margrit for sharing her knowledge and inspiring people to offer healing to animals.
I agree with Margrit in her assertion that everyone has the ability to heal and communicate with animals. Although she does mention in the book that the spiritual energy she describes comes from source/God/the universe rather than using one's own energy to heal, I felt that the healing technique was not described enough in a step-by-step manner to be really clear to a novice.
As someone who has studied Reiki and other forms of energy healing, I can distinguish the difference between when I am channeling energy and when I am projecting my own energy. To someone coming across the idea of hands-on healing for the first time through this book, they might inadvertently use their own energy in a session with their pet and find themselves drained afterwards. I would advise readers to ground themselves before beginning a healing session, and then clearly intend that they will be a channel for spiritual healing energy to flow through them.
That being said, this is one of very few books available on energy healing for animals and I am extremely grateful to Margrit for sharing her knowledge and inspiring people to offer healing to animals.
July 15, 2024
I am surprised Margrit Coates named the “brachial chakra”. I am familiar with it.
Reaching people with clear instructions is paramount. Waste no time stating the obvious, or warming readers to unconventional subjects. If teaching is unclear or incomplete, authors and readers need to know. Pet parents often consult such books in a crisis.
I skimmed “Hands-On Healing For Pets”, 2003; aghast at what was said, omitted, and obscured. I will finish reading her descriptions but give two stars for numerous reasons.
It is disturbing that Margrit missed what telepathic communication proves: WE ARE EQUAL. Uneven intellect among species is an illusion of physical biology.
There were protracted disclaimers to try veterinarians and doctors. We did. Alternative healing accomplishes what they do not; steps on no toes. It insults intelligence to parrot “bodies expire eventually and can’t always be cured”.
Margrit says her method is for minor fixes. No one buys books for that. If it is not our time to ascend, WE WILL HEAL! If she knows energy: its value is in restoring health where physical manipulation failed and lapsed function was called “fatal”.
I flipped 75 pages and this book was still waxing about commonsense animal sentience, love, needs, the existence of energy, and values newcomers would glean in a short introduction. Where Margrit finally DESCRIBED HOW TO HEAL, you might miss it!
She made no “How To” heading. Nearly the whole book has chapters of definitions we can get anywhere.... then a tiny blurb about meditating, sending love and healing intentions, and holding hands on animals. That is all.
She offered to list healing tools but only discussed gemstones. What a waste not to tell people about Essiac, tissue salts, CBD oil, herb and food cures. If not shouted out in alternative health books, where else?
A so-called “animal energy healing” book is the only place to obtain animal meridian charts. It is an outrage to omit them. Admitting the importance of meridians but not teaching their powerful, simple healing, has me shaking my head and declaring “no go”.
What kind of useless tutorial says you hold your hand until you sense a chakra?! Describe a timeframe and motion pattern! I know chakras and meridians and am stunned at the inadequacy of this book. The majority of people must heal a beloved animal or person, without developing extrasensory perception! Any teacher knows that.
I agree we should be calm and loving but Margrit suggested the motions themselves might not work, after insisting it was simple. She acknowledged remote healing but believes touching and being near subjects is important. It is not. Remote healing is where we reach out with our souls, using our feelings or visualizations.
I find that in person healing via meridians and chakras is as straightforward as a light switch. We touch our animals and people, or their biofields and obviously care about them. Thus, they do heal.
Except the wonderful Richard Allport, Margrit named none of these who did write accessible, lifesaving tutorials; most prior to 2003. Please consult them instead: Donna Eden, Ellen Meredith, Stephen Gascoigne, Michael Bradford, Jennifer Harper, Jack Angelo, Naigang Liu, and Kiew Kit Wong.
Reaching people with clear instructions is paramount. Waste no time stating the obvious, or warming readers to unconventional subjects. If teaching is unclear or incomplete, authors and readers need to know. Pet parents often consult such books in a crisis.
I skimmed “Hands-On Healing For Pets”, 2003; aghast at what was said, omitted, and obscured. I will finish reading her descriptions but give two stars for numerous reasons.
It is disturbing that Margrit missed what telepathic communication proves: WE ARE EQUAL. Uneven intellect among species is an illusion of physical biology.
There were protracted disclaimers to try veterinarians and doctors. We did. Alternative healing accomplishes what they do not; steps on no toes. It insults intelligence to parrot “bodies expire eventually and can’t always be cured”.
Margrit says her method is for minor fixes. No one buys books for that. If it is not our time to ascend, WE WILL HEAL! If she knows energy: its value is in restoring health where physical manipulation failed and lapsed function was called “fatal”.
I flipped 75 pages and this book was still waxing about commonsense animal sentience, love, needs, the existence of energy, and values newcomers would glean in a short introduction. Where Margrit finally DESCRIBED HOW TO HEAL, you might miss it!
She made no “How To” heading. Nearly the whole book has chapters of definitions we can get anywhere.... then a tiny blurb about meditating, sending love and healing intentions, and holding hands on animals. That is all.
She offered to list healing tools but only discussed gemstones. What a waste not to tell people about Essiac, tissue salts, CBD oil, herb and food cures. If not shouted out in alternative health books, where else?
A so-called “animal energy healing” book is the only place to obtain animal meridian charts. It is an outrage to omit them. Admitting the importance of meridians but not teaching their powerful, simple healing, has me shaking my head and declaring “no go”.
What kind of useless tutorial says you hold your hand until you sense a chakra?! Describe a timeframe and motion pattern! I know chakras and meridians and am stunned at the inadequacy of this book. The majority of people must heal a beloved animal or person, without developing extrasensory perception! Any teacher knows that.
I agree we should be calm and loving but Margrit suggested the motions themselves might not work, after insisting it was simple. She acknowledged remote healing but believes touching and being near subjects is important. It is not. Remote healing is where we reach out with our souls, using our feelings or visualizations.
I find that in person healing via meridians and chakras is as straightforward as a light switch. We touch our animals and people, or their biofields and obviously care about them. Thus, they do heal.
Except the wonderful Richard Allport, Margrit named none of these who did write accessible, lifesaving tutorials; most prior to 2003. Please consult them instead: Donna Eden, Ellen Meredith, Stephen Gascoigne, Michael Bradford, Jennifer Harper, Jack Angelo, Naigang Liu, and Kiew Kit Wong.
September 30, 2014
This was a really great insight to healing, which is what I want to do. I will definitely be referring back to this book to refresh my memory and encourage me to try more with my own dog. Margrit coates is an amazing woman! Recommended to anyone with a pet!
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