Nancy Windheart, my “Reiki for Animals” teacher announced that we needed to find a wild animal on which to practice Reiki. I will let you think about that for a minute. Where was I supposed to find a wild animal that would be willing to sit still and give me permission to do a Reiki treatment?!?
Photo By Jeanne Aguilar
We are very fortunate to live near a lake that is on a migration path for Canadian Geese. Any given day during the winter we can see and hear hundreds of geese as they stop to rest and then take off again heading South before nightfall.
I turned to my backyard. While I could get the occasional squirrel to stop and look at me, I could not entice them to stay. Time was running out and I did not want to crawl back to class not having completed my homework.
Out of desperation, I plopped down in my living room, asked Reiki to assist in bringing a wild animal close to me, and waited. About an hour later about 20 geese flew in and foraged for food near our fence. Normally the geese stay closer to the lake, so I was seeing this as a positive sign! From the comfort of my home, I thanked Reiki, put my hands in a position to serve as a conduit for the healing energy and asked the geese if any of them would accept a Reiki healing. One of the geese looked at me and didn’t budge. That’s my bird!
As he was receiving Reiki, I took the opportunity to read his energy. He had a very strong, earthy, oily, dare I say, almost nutty essence to his energy. I was reminded of the comparison between wild rice and white rice. As a pesctarian, I appreciate the awkwardness and morbid humor in describing a goose’s energy using the words nutty, earthy and oily.
Another goose came closer to my “Reikified” friend. My goose squawked, spread his wings and loudly charged at him. Like a true mother, I responded, “Did you really need to respond that strongly? Wasn’t that a bit much?” My goose replied with, “Yeah, but you don’t know him! He always does things like that!”
Thanks, Nancy for this amazing opportunity to experience wildlife from another vantage.