In the animal kingdom, those that are kept as pets and socialize with humans on a regular basis are the most susceptible to psychic healing. This is because their basic needs of food, water and safe shelter are provided for. While the wild animal is almost constantly on the hunt for its next meal or a safe place to sleep with the single-mindedness that is necessary for its survival.

My purpose in starting up the Healapet Network in 1998 was have a free venue that could be accessed by pet owners whose pets needed healing attention. The response to my requests for volunteer healers was quite rewarding. To date those volunteer healers have helped thousands of pets. Mostly dogs and cats with a few requests for horses. Occasionally we get a request for an exotic like baby elephant or a chimpanzee. That our healing work has helped is regularly borne out by the e-mails from grateful owners.

Now I have to explain what I mean by effective healing. A German Shepherd with hip dysplasia is not going to be miraculously relieved of that condition. What the distance healing can accomplish however is instilling a calming influence together with the alleviation of pain, and providing the optimum condition for the continuing life style of the dog. This also provides the best circumstance for surgical intervention and later for the dog’s speedy recovery.

We get reports from people who say their pets have made near miraculous recoveries after they contacted us asking for healing help. Sometimes these are real, sometimes they are not; the main thing is that the pet recovered or healed from its condition. I don’t take credit for these, I’m just grateful that the pets are healthy again.

The majority of the Healapet Network’s volunteers are Reiki practitioners, Level 2 or Masters. Some of them are truly gifted healers. We also have those who heal soley through prayer, others are spiritual healers that have graduated from the NFSH in Great Britain. Although I am a Reiki Master, usually I just practice the same method I started with in 1981. That’s the Seventh Sense Method originated by Benjamin Bibb in the 1960′s. It’s a clean, simple method devoid of symbols, secret words, etc. And yes, I was around back then, I’m 79.

This is not to denigrate Reiki, prayer, spiritual or any other distance healing method. Far from it. Whatever works is my motto.

Two questions usually come to the minds of those who are unfamiliar with distance healing, also known as remote healing.

1. What does the term distance healing mean and just what is it?

2. How is it accomplished?

It is not possible in an article of this length to give full answers to those questions, but here are my own Readers Digest versions.

What does distance (or remote) healing mean? Basically it means that you are over there someplace near or far, and I’m over here and I manage to channel (send, transmit, supply your own verb) to you the Life Force energy required to restore your body and mind to their optimum condition of health.

Every healer of any experience will have an explanation, but the actual hard truth is that no one knows. For who knows the mind of God, or of the Universal Intelligence by whatever name.

While I don’t dwell on how or what happens in a healing by any modality, my belief is that a benign Being I call it the Universal Intelligence, you might call it God or Supreme Being, provides us with a source of Life Force Energy which we can tap into. A healer simply provides a conduit for the energy to flow to the subject to help him heal.

I believe most anyone can establish a telepathic contact with their pet. It takes learning how and then practice, practice, and more practice. Took me about a year before my first contact with someone and about another year to learn what to do with it! Here’s a little exercise you might try when the situation is right.

Some night when you are lying awake you may become aware of a dog barking in the distance, not an excited bark, but more of a salutation to the world in general. Go to your alpha level, also known as your day-dreaming state, and form a mental picture of the dog.

Start imagining that you are next to the dog, and begin gently, slowly, stroking it from the head to the shoulders, meanwhile mentally telling him it’s fine, he’s not alone, comforting him in general. You may find that the dog will stop barking perhaps with yip or two at the end. Well done, you’ve made contact with a dog!

About the author: First involved in ESP and other aspects of psychic phenomena in 1953, Red Reed started practicing the Seventh Sense method of psychic healing in 1981. He has since founded The Distant Healing Network in 1996 and later the Healapet Network in 1998. Healing requests may be made at either of these sites. These healing services are completely free.