As an Animal Holistic Guru, volunteering at Remus Horse Sanctuary in my spare time, Reiki teacher, working mother, wife, owner of two Springer Spaniels. Finding quietness can be impossible.

 

During the week I work in a very busy Pharmacy and spend my whole day focused on the task at hand making sure I get it right 100% of the time. No time to day dream or to think about what I will be having for dinner. I arrive home each evening, with sore feet, throbbing head. Opening my front door my two Springer Spaniels greet me with such joy and enthusiasm, jumping up and down with excitement, waiting for their walk.

Who would have thought that I would have time to write a blog about being ill? Not being well does have some positives as it forces me

to stay in bed, when I would normally be rushing around. It has allowed me to stay in my PJ's which on some levels may seem strange to some people but to me it is bliss. I love being at home snuggled in my bed with my dogs, watching movies which usually I would normally feel are too indulgent. Using Facebook to talk about X Factor has been a real plus.

 

I have managed to catch up on my emails, write a 1500 word blog, booked a Spa day for my best friends birthday and also found out what the I Cloud is when even the man in the Apple shop could not explain it to me.

Due to another 'Animal Healer' threatening to take me to court over the name of my website Animal Magic, I have had to change the name of my website to Hoof and Paw. Well until someone else trys to take me to court! I cannot afford to buy the name but felt that as my logo had Hoof and Paw it was a good time to change and not wanting to go to court helped too. Is everything about money? Surely not! Does simple kindness not exist anymore? I feel tired and very down trodden by the whole experience.

I have just come back from a magical week in the Cotswolds, where I was able to complete my  Continual Professional Development as part of being a qualified Animal PsychAromatica Practitioner. Yes! I qualified in April.... Yay!  It is a qualification that I am very proud of, due to the hard work and length of time it took me. It has been a course which has been a journey about aromatherapy oils but it has also been a journey of discovery about myself. I am not the same nervous person who started on this course, I am now someone who is more confident and self assured.

I have recently come back from a visit to my parents, who  live in Ireland on a cliff near a beach, yes literally! It is a beautiful place with the most wonderful views. It gave me time to think and to reflect on my life, my future and my past. It was the first time I had visited my parents without my husband and boys, as my youngest had just turned 16, I felt I was able to leave my family to fend for themselves.

 

I am very blessed to have both of my parents still living.

As an Animal Reiki healer, I cannot claim to have any special gifts, incites or profesies about the beautiful animals that I work with. Although in my honesty I do get a little bit wishful that I was gifted with more but isn't that the human reaction to many things in life? When you follow the Reiki path, you begin to learn a lot about yourself and grow to understand the person you really are.

 

 My gift is 'healing' which I have to say is a VERY important gift, even though at times I have felt like a bit of a Psychic Potato.

It's very early in the morning as I write this blog but I have had many things on my mind. Tossing and turning, in my bed last night, I have been trying to make sense of a couple of things. My sleep being interrupted by so many thoughts, I felt that by writing it down it may help me to understand.

 

How can God allow a baby to be born into this world, who then endures great suffering? What lessons can we learn from this and what is the point? How then can God justify a beautiful baby being put through all of trials and tribulations of first searching for a solution and then being told there is no solution to end to end their suffering?

I attended a dowsing course yesterday and one of the most enjoyable part of the day was to dowse for a tree's aura. It was such a simple thing to do, yet was so powerful in the way it made me feel.

 

Find a tree that you feel connected to, say hello and explain that you will not hurt it. Using dowsing rods, starting at the tree trunk walk forward and measure it's aura. Usually it has expanded to just below it's branch's. The tree is not quite yet able to open up to you, it still feels very protective. Again go back to the tree trunk and this time talk to the tree, hug the tree, stroke the tree, love the tree. Let your feelings expand out to the tree, spending time to show how much you care for the tree. This time again walk out from the tree trunk and measure it's aura. You will be so pleasantly surprised at how the aura now expands beyond it's branch's out into the field afar. I felt so connected to nature, it was such a simple way of showing how all of our actions, whether harsh words or actions, love and happiness, truly have an impact on the world we live in.