In the original Harmony program, I advised my then assistants and trainees to find moments when the owner/caretaker had experienced a "falling in love" with the dog in question – the moment when they chose that one dog in a litter, or from a choice of all the dogs on this planet.
Sometimes, it wasn’t so much an active choice and someone might have just had a moment somewhere and accepted a rescued or unwanted dog into their hearts and homes but unless the caretaker absolutely never wanted the dog in the first place (which is a very rare occurrence indeed and not a one you are likely to come across amongst the clientele that would seek out an animal energy healer) there is always that moment when two creatures met and fell in love.
Now and exactly as it is with people, stuff happens, annoying things happen, bad things happen and that love connection gets plastered over with daily negativity and unhappiness until a point may be reached when you can’t see it shining out any more under all that rubbish that has been piled upon it, and one or the other creature truly believes that "the love is dead".
For one, this is a very sad moment indeed when they think, "I don’t love you any more." But for the other, it is the end of the world as the echo arises in return, "They don’t love me any more."
It is one of the very worst energetic injuries any social creature and a dog is capable of sustaining in the Hard, and can prove to be incurable and fatal, indeed. To take a client back in time to a time when this love was still clear and clearly visible and could be touched just by looking at the dog is a direct energetic effort at clearing away some of the rubbish and reminding everyone concerned about the energetic realities of the situation.
Establishing this baseline or base connection of love, that it is absolutely still there and absolutely still as bright and beautiful as it was the first time they looked upon the dog and made that connection with them, is the most healing intervention you can possibly make in any situation involving behaviour problems of any kind.
With the baseline love connection in place, the human client will:
• Have more patience under all circumstances. Often, behaviour problems and especially the type that has lead to the trance-escape states or even autism, can take a while to undo, re-route and bring back to an even flow of the dog and it’s environment.
• Have more faith & trust. During this time of re-balancing, learning new behaviours and dropping off old and unhelpful ones, the owner/caretaker must support the dog in many different ways and must be willing to accept setbacks and plateaus without losing heart or focus. If you love someone, you can do that and it isn’t even hard.
• Have the desire for change and to keep the relationship alive. Without these two key points, all is lost. Literally. If the owner gives up, there’s nothing you, or I, or even the angels can do to help the dog from thereon in. If you love, you don’t give up easily, if ever at all.
