Natural Pet Healing: Our Psychic, Spiritual Connection [Paperback]

Von Braschler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2003

This step-by-step guide explores natural ways people and their pets can help each other heal. With exercises and research on energy healing aspects of pets, plants, and people, Natural Pet Healing offers a wide variety of healing techniques including pet massage, healing hands, distance healing, chakras, healing stones, light, energy exchange, and much, much more.

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About the Author

Von Braschler is a certified massage therapist with special training in pet massage and energy body work. He is also the author of Conversations with the Dream Mentor and co-author of A Magical Journal (with Mari Coryell). He has appeared on national radio and led workshops throughout the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Galde Press, Inc. (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931942072
• ISBN-13: 978-1931942072
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,655,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Von Braschler is a former newspaper and magazine editor. He writes and leads workshops in the areas of consciousness development, time, chakra healing, pet healing, and dream work. He is a trained massage therapist, pet therapist, energy healer, and Kirlian photographer. Von has appeared on radio and television and hosted his own weekly radio program, "Healing with Your Pet: Our Psychic, Spiritual Connection." His forthcoming book will examine time, timelessness, and time travel as viewed by scientists and mystics (Tentative release date from Inner Tradition/Bear & Co. is early 2012). Von is originally from Seattle, but now lives and works in St. Paul, MN.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!, March 21, 2004

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Diana Bennett (Midwest Book Review) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural Pet Healing: Our Psychic, Spiritual Connection (Paperback)

One of the hardest things we experience, is having to watch those close to us suffer. Using a healing touch is one way in which we can take an active role in easing our loved ones pain. But what of our beloved pets and plants?

I have never seen it before, nor did it occur to me that touch healing and other alternative approaches, can be used on our pets as well. In Natural Pet Healing by Von Braschler, readers are shown how best to apply the principles of touch healing to pets as well as plants. Since people and animals react differently, this guide is highly necessary to have before attempting to apply any methods of healing to pets, even if you are already an adept healer. The author is a trained energy healer who specializes in working with animals, making this a work of love.

Anyone who is a lover of nature, especially animals has felt the deep connection that is made between a pet and it's human. There are small ways that pets communicate with us to help us meet their needs. What we often don't consider is that we can communicate with them on more levels than we may have been aware of. I am guilty of spoiling my pets and I am sure most with a connection to nature's creatures, are guilty as well. It is not something we would consider changing. But what if you could be shown extra special ways to let your pet know you love them, or even to ease their suffering in times of pain?

Not only will you receive step-by-step instructions on how to use your hands and the energy within to help heal your pets; but you will also be given instructions and advice on how to apply many other techniques. These include, but are not limited to: Empathetic and Astral healing, projecting through forms, message techniques, crystals and other props, voice healing and so much more.

Throughout you will be treated to heartwarming stories, concerning the life experiences of Van Braschler as he has applied and succeeded with these practices. As an extra special bonus, all the personal profits from this work are to be donated to pet charities.

Natural Pet Healing is a must read for anyone who owns a pet. After you have read this book, you will be able to take your relationship with your animal companions to new and deeply moving levels.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Valuable information, March 24, 2005

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Star Tulip (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Natural Pet Healing: Our Psychic, Spiritual Connection (Paperback)

Until I got about half way through the book, I felt frustration at the number of times I'd read the same thing...but in different places. This work should have been better edited for easier reading. In addition, on p. 44, there is a subtitle within the "Chakra Healing and Chi" chapter called 'Astral Healing.' This information was excellent. However, the prior chapter, titled "Distance Healing, Astral Healing, and Thought Forms" should have included the astral healing information that followed in the next chapter. I found this kind of disorder difficult to sift through at times as well as irritating. The writing is a bit simplistic as well, which didn't make for titillating reading.

However, by the time I got half way through the book, I realized I was reading something very special. I read many metaphysical books by many authors, but rarely can I "feel" the author. This book was different. I could feel Von Braschler throughout the book, almost his pure spirit emanating from the pages, and the simple nature of the prose and disorder began to become inconsequential since the message became most important.

His respect for animals is evident throughout the book. He is able to convey healing methods simply and with conviction, possibly even for the most scientifically oriented. One of the points I most appreciate is how he mentions that we must treat pets with the same respect reserved for people, that they deserve respect, that they are equally valuable, not beneath humans. However, he counters that in the process of treating pets "like people" we must allow them to be what and who they are; dogs must be allowed to sniff and bark and be dogs, not to become our dress-up dolls.

There is a great deal of valuable information in this book if a reader is looking to refine energetic healing skills. The author addresses several forms of healing through direct touch in addition to healing from a distance. He includes the use of extra tools such as crystals, stones, candles, sound and music. He also includes valuable illustrations such as the location of animals' chakras, pressure and paw reflex points, and the muscular system. These illustrations in one book are almost worth the price of the book alone.

A final note - a better title would have been: "Natural Pet and Plant Healing," for Von Braschler includes the care and healing of plants in his writing, almost as much as he writes about pets. With this title, it would reach more people who could learn from Von Braschler, a special person with very special energy to share.