Oh look: shiny!

Each morning when I enter my living room, I am welcomed by the glistening reflection of the sun on the leaves of our house plants. We have an East facing home and the 3-4 foot tall plants are arranged as a mini greenhouse beneath the front window. When I lived in Chicago, spending time in the Lincoln Park Arboretum raised my spirits and helped me stay in touch with living, growing life; especially on dark, bleak, frigid winter days.

The plants’ sun salutation only lasts for a few minutes. In those precious moments, I am in awe. Filled with joy, I so enjoy this beauty first thing in the morning.

On overcast or foggy days, the light is subdued; not the strong light-dark contrast presented in bright sun. It is beautiful in a different way; and it evokes a different energy. The plants appear to glow and pulse in the soft light. Each morning I look forward to seeing what my plants display. They offer so many variations in their varying levels and scatterings of light. Their leaves’ create tiny light shows with shimmering movements.

My palms, ficus, and dracaena marginatas have an affect on me. The sight of them makes me happy. Their presence enhances my spirit and outlook.

It is a pleasant beginning for each day. One I look forward to. I sit, slowly sipping my morning coffee, in the company of my plants…and of course, boxers Camille resting on my side and Lola snuggling against (and cutting off the circulation to) my foot. And that’s okay. It is perfect. This is a time for meditation and for observing and honoring the meandering tangents of my thoughts. This is where and how I thought of this topic.

Each plant references a memory. Dracaenas were the first exotic plants that I had when I was in college. Potted palms graced my painting studio in Atlanta. The broad split-leaved philodendron reminds me of a hardware store in Southern California. Who didn’t have a mother-in-law’s tongue tied to a stake, growing up? The dieffenbachia has leaves that will numb a cat’s tongue, so one would think that cats would know not to chew them. Each plant has its own story. Each reveals aspects of my story. Combined, they reference a bigger more complex life experience. The lights bouncing off the various shapes and patterns of leaves vie for my attention and evoke new thought creations spinning off from historical reveries.

This could easily be similar to the way memories of events within dogs’ self awareness. Memories triggered during a PetMassageTM. Each variation, each quality of the light, of touch, will have its own significance, reference, interpretation, and evokes its emotional response, for the dog. We know this happens from our animal communication readings.

The purpose of a PetMassageTM is to facilitate the dog to experience psycho/physiologic course corrections using skilled touch, presence, patience, and allowing.

The palpation skills of PetMassageTM have, by necessity, expanded to include sensory skills beyond the five we are taught we have. The work is wondrous and unpredictable. We can never know what the dog’s body-mind has chosen to resolve. PetMassageTM techniques direct the dog to address the underlying causes for imbalance in his/her body-mind. Stressors.

Excessive warmth in a shoulder may be from physically stressed elements of the shoulder and, the areas that need to be addressed might be in the hock or even in a memory of a car accident. In a PetMassageTM the dog accesses an internal environment that is conducive to allowing the unearthing of his/her issues and processes.

Dogs have so many levels and permutations to their body-mind experiences and self interpretation of story.

PetMassageTM skills allow you to assist the dog to access the openings to the entrances of their psychic wormholes. The effects of the facilitated PetMassageTM self-work will alter the rest of the dog’s life, as well as the lives of his/her people. And remember, the entrances to their inner doggie “doors” can only be discovered and accessed in a PetMassageTM. The specific methodology of PetMassageTM gets the dog to do what he needs to do; and process what needs to be processed.

For a brief moment, in each and every PetMassageTM process, the dog in your hands will rapture into his inner alternative light voices, filled with joy, with beauty, with hope, trust, and love; and most significantly, for direction toward balance and grace. Holding patterns of tissues and behaviors shift when alternative pathways surface that are more comfortable.

The experience that the dog has with you, will alter the way he lives. Each session will influence his body, his thoughts and behaviors. He will carry the memory of his session with you for the rest of his life. His interpretations will be part of his story. It will be an aspect of his personal touchstone that he uses for referencing everything else. The tree, the fire hydrant, the neighborhood kids, other dogs, his human family will all be cast in the new light that now includes his experiences with your PetMassageTM.

I exhort you to learn to PetMassageTM your dog. Your dog needs PetMassageTM. Learn the skills to facilitate your dog to discover the joy of his own light shining in his window.

 

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