(Editor's Note: Kathy Neff is a Reiki II practitioner in Texas. I have known her through an email list for almost year. For several years she has raised goats. Her story describes how Reiki and the other healing techniques have opened her up as a healer, and how she succeeded in two difficult deliveries of baby goats.

Calling on one's chosen guides and toning are methods which many Reiki practitioners use in healing.

Historical Note: Isis is one of the most beloved goddesses of the Egyptian tradition. Merlin (which is also a kind of hawk) means messenger. The Merlin was the teacher and guide of King Arthur.

I wish to tell you about what I have experienced with the birthings of these last two goats that delivered within 24 hrs. of each other. I have been in distress because all of the goats have had babies that are larger than average, causing great difficulties in their delivery. Each of the five goats would have died if I had not been there and worked with them. None of them had this problem last year.

So, as you might imagine, I had to ask myself, "What is happening here, what am I learning out of this?" As someone once stated, "look past the problem and see the potential.". During Tatiana's long 8 hr. labor, I am sitting out there in the barn thinking on this. What in the world am I learning, why are we doing this!!! Tati, is rolling around trying to reposition her babies, it is taking too long, ....they must be tangled, four of them. That will be trouble.

I think about the girls before her, what had I learned? I had used healing methods, I had called on the Ancestors and the medicine women, they came. When a procedure was needed to be performed, I did this without any previous knowledge, I just knew what to do. I knew how to diagnose the problem and act without doubt.

When I thought about this, I began to realize many things. How past lives had come into play, memories regained, all the wonderful spirits who are there to help if we ask. How love and light and energy work miracles. How we are surrounded throughout many dimensions by wonderful Masters and guides to work with us and help perform the miracle of love-healing through Oneness. It is part of their growth to be our guide and teach us on many vibrational levels. They are waiting for us to recognize that they are there, and when we do, there is great joy and celebration. For they will take the next step with us.

Reiki and Guides

I had desired to know more about Reiki, and received my Reiki II attunement a few days before Tati was to deliver. Prior to Reiki II, Isis had come to me, and in meeting my Reiki Master, Merlin came to me. I was still dealing with these new experiences, as I sat with Tati. As her labor became more intense, I began to use the healing ways of the Ancestors. The medicine women were with her, and I began to drum in another dimension. After a while, I decided to work with Reiki. I placed my hands on her in different places, and in one place, she would tremble when I touched her.

Then when she could not dilate, I placed my hands on each side of her hips in the back ( they do not like you to touch back there while in labor) and gave Reiki. I then backed up and sat down. Tati then backed up to me so that I could place my hands there again. I did this as often as she asked. She settled down for a while, and I got out my guitar and made up a song just for her and sang it over and over about our life on the mountain. I wondered about the chords and tones that would help. Her babies were born, all four, healthy and hungry and beautiful. Tati recovered beautifully, no one was weak.

Within hours, Mon Ami, went into labor, and I said, "Here we go again." I thought on all that I had learned before, Reiki was a method also. I could use what ever I was guided to use. Mon Ami's labor was a little shorter in time, but the babies were again too large and their was trouble. She had a new set of problems for me. As I was working with her, Tati lay in the next stall with her babies. She was looking at me with such love, through eyes that I had not seen before. Mon Ami was responding to love and energy and trembled as I placed my hands on her back with Reiki energy. More time went by, and Mon Ami cried. I looked at Tati and said "Tati, what am I overlooking?" Tati look at me with great love and I heard, "Isis".

Yes, of course, Isis, how does she heal? I have not had time to work with her. Isis, I called, can you come in with us? Isis was there, golden light shining on a spot on Mon Ami's shoulder. What, I said, what do I do? "Tone"!!!

Toning

I did not know how that worked. Mon Ami cried again, and I suddenly heard a tone in her body. I matched the tone with my voice and touched that spot on her shoulder. I could feel a vibration taking place. I also gave another tone that harmonized with the first one. It was magic. I was caught up in something that was just happening!!!!

Putting tone directly into the body through your voice, via, your touch, you can allow the resonating tone come through your body to theirs just like the Reiki energy that passes through you. You can hear what tone they need when you touch them. It is like passing energy from one dimension to another....you are the connection, the channel. They did this in Atlantis, color, tone, (music!!!) light, crystal...all at once!!!!! Our bodies are full of crystals, they can receive, resonate to these energies and be given.

Mon Ami's babies arrived, strong, healthy and hungry, and most of all, beautiful. Mon Ami, began to eat everything in sight. She was so hungry!

An Accident

This morning, as my heart was bursting with love for the Universe and Mother Earth, the Ancestors, Isis, Merlin, all the angels and guides, I was out in the barn. I had checked on all these 15 babies out there jumping around. I had them in birthing stalls while I am feeding the mothers. Suddenly, I heard a terrible scream. It was one of the babies, he had jumped really high, and had caught his front leg between a 2x4 and the wall. His sisters were jumping on him, playing, and his leg was badly twisted. The weight of the babies pulled his leg, and he dropped to the ground. When he tried to stand, his leg was dangling at his shoulder and he collapsed. I have seen this before in a baby (had one last year, it was broken), he could not stand on it.

I got to him, scooped him up in my arms, and without thinking what to do, I held that leg straight, placed my hand firmly around his leg, held him and the leg to my heart. The baby and I seemed to be in a trance. I felt warm heat/energy vibrating, but was unaware of anything going on around us. He was very still, his little heart was beating in the palm of my other hand that held his body.

We stood there for I don't know how long, time stood still, there was nothing but he and I. I did not see anything or hear anything. Then I set him down. He walked on that leg, and within minutes,he was running out of the barn, bouncing around with the other goats, big and little. For one brief moment, he turned and looked at me, his eyes stared, sparkled, and then he ran on down the hill.

I do not know the condition of the leg, I can make no claims without an xray, or watching for the swelling that occurs. Last year, I took a little goat to the Vet for treatment. This morning, within a heart beat and without question, I reacted in a very different way.

The love of Mother Earth for her children, the light of the Universe coming down to us, the spirits and guides and angels surrounding us, whispering and singing to us, what a joyous time to be alive!

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