Joan Ranquet - Energy Healing for Animals: A Hands-On Guide for Enhancing the Health, Longevity, and Happiness of Your Pets

This book is dedicated to all the animals that have dared to incarnate in time to live with me! Its also dedicated to all the animals I have been lucky enough to communicate with and facilitate healing for. And it is dedicated to all the people who trusted me enough to pick up the phone or to go to my website and give this work a chance.

Contents

Introduction: Connecting With Animals

As a young child, I had something like an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Whenever an animal got close to me, I just had to look into its eyes. It was as if I were registering every creatures existence in a giant record book somewhere. This was especially true for the meekest of beings. As I looked into their eyes, I fell into a sea of compassion. You could say that Ive never climbed out of the water.

Three things hold true for me with animals: I cant not look at them, I cant avoid truly seeing them, and I cant avoid acknowledging them.

This is who I am. They are a part of me. Connecting with animals is my gift, and early on it became clear that I would spend my life helping animals. The question was, How could I do that and get the best results?

I was introduced to the concept of energy healing in 1986, when my little sister was diagnosed with brain cancer. At that time, I was twenty-four and she was twenty-one. I just knew that the core energy work I had been learning could help her in her illness, but other people didnt share my belief system. In fact, I was met with a wall of doubt and disbelief. My sister followed traditional medical modalities until the end of her life.

Just seven years later, I employed the few techniques I knew at the time to try to save my beloved soul-mate horse, Pet One, from the colic she experienced upon giving birth to Pony Boy. I lost her, and eventually I lost Pony Boy as well. I made many mistakes with nutrition and training between the two of them.

Taken together, those three losses were an epic PhD in loss, health, illness, behavior, stewardship, and nutrition. It was also the late 1980s and early 1990s, and during that time many of my friends died of AIDS. All of those losses were difficult, but they ultimately led me to become a kind of midwife of energywhether the energy was coming into or going out of this world. I made the discovery that whether a being is animal or human, love and intention can shift energy.

So my introduction to the world of energy healing was pretty harsh and often disheartening. In fact, I could have lost all faith. But while I had no evidence to confirm it, I believed in energy healing with as much faith as I had in a Source energy. And now, many, many healing sessions later, I believe that energy healing and God/Source/Unconditional Love are interchangeable. Energy healing can be a technique, a modality, a technology, a perceptual shift, a prescription, a bizarre hope, a seemingly endless cry, an idea, or even a moment of joy. It can also be done right on the very thread between life and death, and land you squarely back on the side of life.

Once I became an animal communicator, I set about to learn a million techniques and modalities, and my energy-healing toolbox has become wide and deep. But the biggest thing Ive discovered from more than twenty years of animal communication, energy healing for animals with health challenges, and shifting animal behavior is that when Im working I become a standing wave of energy, a balanced blend of vibrating frequencies. This enables me to be in a state of absolute calm and emotional leadership. As a standing wave of energy, I can hold a vision for the outcome that trumps any technique, technology, or modality anytime.

Now I grant you, that idea is not an easy sell, and its hard for people to grasp. But Ive seen it work again and again.

Energy healing for animals happens as a result of three things: love, intention, and managing your own energy. I have discovered that healing is an ongoing journey, one that includes the journey of healing the wounds of the soul. It is about leaving no stone unturned in the attempt to heal, to cure, to preserve life and vibrant health, and to understand the emotions that set certain unhelpful patterns in motion within a beings system.

At the end of life, when staying alive is not to be, healing is about the journey to the other side, which for the one who is leaving includes closure, peace, and acceptance. For the being who remains on planet Earth and has been the steward for the departed, the journey could mean anger, release, grief, and many other stages of experience.

An Animal Communicators Life

In my first book, Communication with All Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator (Hay House, 2007), I went into great detail about the loss of both Pet One and Pony Boy and how those deaths plunged me into the world of energy healing and animal communication. I never thought that world would open up before me in so many amazing ways, but open up it did!

A lot of people are curious about what my life as an animal communicator is like. For me, no two days are the same, and no two weeks are the same. My life seems to flow in cycles, but heres how it often goes.

Wake up. Meditate. Feed ten animals. You think Im kidding? Nope: four cats, three dogs, and three horses. Work outeither hike with the dogs or jump rope, which always involves dancing with dogs and cats. Wild fun. I try to get a horseback ride in, and then I keep going for about ten hours straight.

Ive been working on this book, of course, and in any given month Ill write articles, blog posts, and newsletters. So there is a lot of sitting, writing, and dogs wandering up and wondering when were going to ditch all that stuff and go outside to play.

When Im home, Ill probably spend a couple of days talking to animals on the phone (via telepathy) and a couple of days at other peoples homes or barns, talking to one or several animals there. Both the phone and the in-person sessions can include energy healing.

I might do some teaching for a program I started called Communication with All Life University. I teach animal communication, energy healing for animals, and more, through teleseminars, webinars, and local classes. Then theres the quarterly three-day intensive animal communication workshop I do at my farm, in addition to other intensives.

I take my show on the road too, doing weekend workshops and speaking engagements, and for four years Ive led dolphin trips and other wild animal trips around the world, combining animal communication and eco-travel.

All in all, its a very full life, packed with animals, people, and... energy every which way!

Why I Wrote This Book

Lets imagine for a moment that you live in a beautiful apartment in a very hip part of an exciting city. You have a great job that you feel grateful for and a wonderful Jack Russell that you live to come home to.

And then the complaints from the neighbors start to roll in. Guess what? While you are at work, your beloved dog is barking all day long and driving people nuts. Now here come the inevitable threats about bringing this up in front of the condo board. All that racket is against the buildings covenants, and you may get kicked out of your apartment unless you get rid of your baby.

At first, you may feel defensive about your dog and get mad at your neighbors. Then you might wonder if this really isnt a great life for a working dog (they are bred to be ratters, for crying out loud). But what if you picked up this book and read through the modalities and boned up (!) on ideas about other things you could do? Rather than deciding to try to find your animal friend a new home, you might commit even more deeply to the dog you love and create a far happier life for both of you. Thats why I wrote this book: I want you to know about every available option to keep your animal in your life.