How Jonathan realized his psychic gifts and used them to create PetMassage – Part 3

The elements that I needed to know were coming together. From my dad, I’d learned that it was possible to become an open receiver for psychic transmissions. Healing Touch taught me that auras and chakras, and zones of energy exist. I learned to sense the textural qualities of the chakras and auras, of energy, and how their patterns relate to health and wellness. This energy work became the core of my human and equine massage.

Then on July 11^th, 1997, while demonstrating massage for a television show called “Pampered Pets,” I had the most powerful insight yet. 

I had been invited to give a demonstration of equine massage for the television station, WTOL, Toledo, OH. Within minutes, the horse that I was massaging relaxed into a deep stillness, which was not especially interesting to video, as there were no visible reactions to observe. My interviewer noticed an old yellow farm dog resting in the shadows of the barn door and called him over, saying, “Dogs get stiff necks, too. Jonathan works on dogs, too. Let’s see what he can do.”

I supported the dog’s large heavy head in my hands. I was observing his eyes rolling back into their sockets in ecstasy. Drops of saliva were dripping from his tongue. His soft dusty ears flopped over my thumbs and my awareness spontaneously broadened. Opened. It was as if a curtain was opened or a fog lifted. The experience lasted only a moment. And in that millisecond, I saw –and knew- the value and potential of PetMassage_TM for pets and their people.

This was an awe-inspiring experience. I was a witness to glimpse the depth and breadth of the Akasha. The term “Akashic records ” or “Akashic library” refers to an ethereal compendium of all knowledge and history. It is the wealth of information that clairvoyants like Edgar Cayce accessed. It is my understanding that the Akasha is the repository of everything and all their possible permutations. It’s the ancient version of 21^st Century quantum theory. 

I saw the faces of thousands of dogs. I knew each of their stories and how PetMassage_TM had helped them. I saw millions of people and knew how their lives had been enhanced when they PetMassaged their dogs at home. Children learned to interact safely and respectfully with their dogs practicing PetMassage_TM. Adults, who had been the victims of dog-bites as children, used PetMassage_TM as a way to work through their feelings of fear and powerlessness with dogs. 

I saw vets, vet techs, groomers, and handlers giving PetMassage to dogs in vet offices. I saw the covers of books and videos; knew their contents and how they’d been used. I saw the schools all over the world teaching PetMassage_TM. The road did not yet exist; yet it was well paved. It was already there.

I saw it all at once. Everything was clear; as each element was alone and separate, and was the only image I was focusing on. The vision lasted, as I said, but a moment; and I was back to our flattened semi-opaque 3-dimensional world. What a profound insight—an epiphany. PetMassage_TM would help dogs and their people. I’d somehow dipped my wicket into a level of awareness greater than I had ever imaged! Maybe this was a glimpse of Heaven! It certainly was not of this world. My takeaway was that I had witnessed something real that had tremendous value.

I realized simultaneously I had spent my entire life preparing for this moment. I had the knowledge, the experience and the creative desire to get people all over the world to use PetMassage to nurture dogs.

The PetMassage form would be different from other techniques for canine massage. It would be focused on tracking the subtle shifts of energy within the dog and then, supporting the movement of the shifts with a very intentional massage to magnify dog’s natural healing abilities.

This was the vision that began PetMassage for dogs.

The skills essential for working with animals are all based in energy awareness. 

My focus immediately pivoted from nursing and massage for humans and horses to PetMassage for dogs. Here was a teachable way for us to know what the dog is thinking, or feeling! Now we can tell if a dog is grieving, or confused, or carrying an emotional burden. Now we can help dogs attain peace of mind, peace of body and peace of spirit!

I soon learned how to share dogs’ thought experiences, as I had with my dad that Christmas Eve. There is an example of this in the December, 2014 Helpful Hint: “Endorphins are forever,” http://petmassage.com/?p=3037

In PetMassage_TM workshops you learn the skills of what it means to be open, how to listen and what you are listening for, and what you are feeling. Dogs (we focus on canine work) are eager to share their stories with you. You just have to set your inner receiver to their frequencies. They are all there, like the dozens of invisible radio signals. You know about AM and FM. Now you have PM, PetMassage_TM.

When I hold dogs during PetMassage_TM, our awareness opens and we share the gift of presence. We experience and share the random memories that surface. The dogs with me; mine with them. Each experience, as with my dad’s is a hologram of the dog’s entire life.

I am not as interested in the details of the story as I am in how the dog’s body is bearing the weight of the stories. For example, when I sense a unique quality in a dog’s throat chakra, I have more contextual information of the dog’s overall quality of life. Now, I have a better idea of what his needs are, while we share PetMassage_TM.

Validation? Dogs often indicate that they enjoy the presence of a “witness.” They express it with their body language, their respiration, the lay of their coats, nasal sinus drainage. I describe to their owners whatever memories and perceptions I pick up. When the descriptions resonate as true, the owners respond with pheromone-producing, emotions which the dogs can smell and interpret.  

PetMassage_TM combines the skills of energy awareness, listening, and empathy with hands-on massage manipulations. Of course, we work on canine anatomy physically, based on the knowledge sets of Kinesiology, physiology, psychology and body language. And with all that, what are we truly addressing in PetMassage_TM? We address, and support, and listen to, and empathize with surfacing memories.  

The stories are often in the form of short video clips. There is always some sort of emotional hook. The moment was enjoyable. It was painful. We are sniffing and peeing on the weeds at the base of one randomly selected fence post in a long bare split-rail fence along a country road. It was one pearl in a strand. Without that singular pearl, the strand would fall apart.

Think of it as a lot like talk therapy. You do not have to offer a solution. You don’t even have to know precisely what the dog is saying, thinking, or processing. You just have to know that the processing is happening. Stay present. Your roles are to create an ambience that is comfortable for the dog and their people, to know and apply the correct techniques to open their energetic armoring, and then, bear witness for them and to their people by describing what you sense as they release their memories.

What a powerful sense of grace and love to bring to the PetMassage_TM table! This is soul therapy for dogs.

It sounds like I have special powers. I don’t. If I could move beyond all my belief and training limitations, and learn to embrace these awareness skills, anyone can. Everyone can learn them. You can learn them. I can teach you. That’s the reason we have the PetMassage_TM School.