I’ve just been looking back through the blog & it’s very easy to forget how far Heidi has come in such a short space of time.
This is the wound on her neck now:
The art of healing 25.3.09
She hardly scratches at it but always looks over to me when she does & if she’s too close to the wound I give her a little look & she changes her scratching position so that her paw is stuck in her ear & she pulls a face! “I wasn’t going to scratch it, honest!”
A few years ago I had a nasty wound on my arm & I did TTouch on it every day not only because it was incredibly soothing but also because it took the fear away from the event which caused it. I had another wound which I did no TT on to see what the difference was. The one on my arm took about 10 days to heal & has left no scarring at all. The one I left alone took nearly 6 weeks & is badly scarred. Interestingly, I sometimes get pain shooting through the non-TTouched scar, but not the TTouched one.
When Kugel (cat) & Meg were spayed I recall feeling how tight the muscles were around the wound site & how soft they would become after only 5 minutes of TT. Neither animal showed any concern about having the area touched in such a way, & the vets were amazed at how quickly they healed. Something as gentle & mindful as this is not only soothing, but also helps with circulation & connection to an area which it would be easy to disconnect from as it hurts! If the brain is connected in such a way it must make it easier to heal it.
Bad weather is forecast for tomorrow but I will endeavour to get some outdoor pictures if I can be quick enough to catch her as she hurtles past me.
R x
