Patou, a therapy dog’s experience with Reconnective Healing™

During the fall of 07, Janine M. Brauns, a Certified Reconnective Healer, was hired to do 3 Reconnective Healing™ sessions on Patou. Patou is a therapy dog. She visits hospitals to bring joy to children with Cancer as well as older people that are sick or in convalescent homes. After the first session, Janine realized that Patou would be a perfect candidate to ask what she was experiencing during the healing work.

Now I must introduce Janet Hicks. Janet is an Animal Communicator with her unique heart connectedness to the Animal Kingdom. Janet has facilitated communication between animals and their caretakers for over 15 years. She is also highly recommended by prominent veterinarians. It is also important to note that Janet Hicks had no prior knowledge, nor had she looked at any materials or websites containing any information regarding Reconnective Healing™ or The Reconnection™.

Janine wrote out the questions to be asked by Janet Hicks. Here’s what Patou replied.

 

Janine- Hi Patou. It’s Janine. I came and did 3 healing sessions on you. It was a pleasure working on you. Huge thanks for also helping sick children in the hospital and older people in the convalescent home feel better by visiting them. You are an amazing, very special dog. I’d like to ask you some questions about the healing sessions.

Patou- Sure I’d love to talk. I know I’m special. It’s just a fact and I’m happy doing my work. I have an amazing big heart that comes right through my eyes and people really feel my love. It is a deep caring and understanding that I give. That’s my job here and I love being me and giving with my whole heart. It feels warm and yummy.

Janine- Your first session you layed down and didn’t move, with your eyes open, even as I creaked the floor walking around you. Did you feel anything? See anything? Smell anything? Did you know you were experiencing a healing session? Did you feel different after the session?

Patou- I knew something tingly was happening. It felt very good inside but I was surprised and wanted to stay aware for it. I feel all sorts of tingly, yes, energy popping and crackling and running through me. I felt bands of light coming into me and I saw them. No smells really, but I knew it was something special. I felt lighter inside. Like all the parts of me were infused with light and sparkly and light feeling. It was a great thing!

Janine- The second session you needed me within your sight, you would not relax unless I was by your head. Were you telling me to just work on your head? When I worked behind you at the beginning, you seemed to be smelling something. What did you smell? Did you feel or see anything? How was it different from the first session? Did you feel a difference after I left?

Patou- Yes I wanted her to work on my head. It felt achy and almost disconnected from the rest of me. It scared me to feel like this. There were some other beings there too. I was trying to smell them but they had no smell. But one smelled like a fern and kind of damp. The second time was more stressful. There were some fears in my body that came out and some discomfort at the time I was a puppy. Also some reptiles that were bothering me, I felt like they were after me and I was them all at once. Yes there were some entities. I’m glad they are gone now. Yes I felt exhausted after but cleansed and I was sleepy.

Janine- During the third session, what did you feel, see and smell? Now after 3 sessions, how did it help you? Do you feel different or better in any way?

Patou- I felt like I was a big star and I was full of light particles that stretched out and connected out so far. I felt very big. It seems that there were parts of me that were “dead” and these were all awake and smiling to be back alive and connect out so far. Beautiful lights – gold, white, pink, green – so many colors. I felt like a big star. I am aware of myself as part of a big web of stars and it makes it so much easier for me to give and refurbish myself when I am tired. It is like all lights are on. So I am lighter and things are easier for me. So thank you Janine. I love you and your friends who help you.

 

I shared this information with Patou’s caretaker Dian. Dian responded with this email

Hi Janine,
I thought you might be interested to hear something that happened at the hospital today. We were visiting at an adult facility. There was this one particular woman who Patou connected with by just staring into her eyes and holding her gaze for quite bit longer than anyone else. Then this woman leaned forward and hugged her, then while she was holding onto her for a few moments she began to cry while saying " Thank you, Patou". It was really special and different from all the other encounters she had today. I remembered what you had said the other day about her healing with her eyes. There was just something she saw in this woman and innately responded to what she needed. It was a "Wow" moment for me, that's for sure. Thanks for sharing everything with me. It was lot to take in, but is resonating in me still…
Be well!!
Dian Bethune, Make-up Artist
Hollywood

For those interested. Patou works with www.loveon4paws.org Love on 4 Paws is an animal assisted therapy program that provides trained volunteer handler and therapy animal teams to local hospitals and schools. Although these special canine therapists are all shapes and sizes, they share a single purpose: to bring happiness and comfort to the sick or disabled. These wonderful service animals have a way of making every person visited feel special. It has been well documented that the non-judgmental acceptance and unconditional love given by therapy animals play an important role in reducing stress, boosting self-esteem, and decreasing recovery time.

Janet Hicks, Animal Communicator, can be contacted at doggilama@aol.com