Amazing Little Ecosystem (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
winterthunder) wrote2006-02-10 12:46 pm
winterthunder) wrote2006-02-10 12:46 pm
Every time I begin to doubt
that this world is amazing something comes along which reminds me of the awesomeness of it all. When walking back from class today a female red-tailed hawk flew right over my head with a freshly caught squirrel and proceeded to eat it in a tree 15 feet away. I may not know where I fit in this intricate balance that is our world, but I feel privledged to be a witness to it and to someday play a part.
I went to the SPCA yesterday with Sue, a animal massage and energy worker. She worked on some of the animals that needed it and I helped to hold some of the dogs and watched the cats. The massage techniques are really interesting and I'd like to incorporate some of them with Shadow the next time I go home. I'm not sure what to think about the energy work. I have no doubt that energy fields exist, and described in physical terms it's really working with electromagnetic fields similar to what I learned about in physics. I'm skeptical that we actually know how to work with the fields though. I watched Sue test the chakras by holding her hand on it and holding a pendulum in her other hand. If the chakra was "open" the pendulum swung in a clockwise circle. I don't think she was just moving the pendulum herself because I saw it switch directions once without her hand moving at all. So something was moving the pendulum. Then she would connect the chakras to each other to try to open them and "ground" the animal so it would pull energy from the lower chakras instead of the upper ones. Sometimes the chakras would be more open afterwards, sometimes not. She also worked with some cats with upper respiratory infections, and that was what I think made me the most skeptical. She "cleared" the magnetic field with wiping motions and worked to clear out the respiratory system with scraping motions over the cat's head and wiping it clean. That's where I think we really don't know what we're doing. We know something is there but we don't know how to work with it. I suppose because I won't be back there for another month I won't ever know if the animals we worked with made any progress. And there are so many other factors there- the sick animals are on antibiotics, all the animals are vaxed and fed dry crap and though the SPCA has a very nice building and the animals are well taken care of it's still far from the ideal of having a home and a yard to run in and people to love on.
I went to the SPCA yesterday with Sue, a animal massage and energy worker. She worked on some of the animals that needed it and I helped to hold some of the dogs and watched the cats. The massage techniques are really interesting and I'd like to incorporate some of them with Shadow the next time I go home. I'm not sure what to think about the energy work. I have no doubt that energy fields exist, and described in physical terms it's really working with electromagnetic fields similar to what I learned about in physics. I'm skeptical that we actually know how to work with the fields though. I watched Sue test the chakras by holding her hand on it and holding a pendulum in her other hand. If the chakra was "open" the pendulum swung in a clockwise circle. I don't think she was just moving the pendulum herself because I saw it switch directions once without her hand moving at all. So something was moving the pendulum. Then she would connect the chakras to each other to try to open them and "ground" the animal so it would pull energy from the lower chakras instead of the upper ones. Sometimes the chakras would be more open afterwards, sometimes not. She also worked with some cats with upper respiratory infections, and that was what I think made me the most skeptical. She "cleared" the magnetic field with wiping motions and worked to clear out the respiratory system with scraping motions over the cat's head and wiping it clean. That's where I think we really don't know what we're doing. We know something is there but we don't know how to work with it. I suppose because I won't be back there for another month I won't ever know if the animals we worked with made any progress. And there are so many other factors there- the sick animals are on antibiotics, all the animals are vaxed and fed dry crap and though the SPCA has a very nice building and the animals are well taken care of it's still far from the ideal of having a home and a yard to run in and people to love on.