This story is extracted from Margrit Coates' book Healing for Horses which is available worldwide. The book includes charts and diagrams for animal healers to work from. Reproduced with kind permission by Margrit Coates©. For further information see www.horsehealer.com.

There have been many times when I've gone to give healing to a horse and a person associated with that horse has needed healing as well. Through treating the horse and linking the human both have been helped. These are the times when the horse has led me to people who need healing, situations where that person would not otherwise have considered or thought that healing could help their particular problem. The response of the horse has stimulated the person involved to want to participate in the healing for a benefit to themselves.

One such situation occurred when I went to see a beautiful chestnut gelding called Oro (which means gold in Spanish). It was the second time that I'd visited the horse, which the vet had diagnosed as suffering from a severe allergic reaction, and I was giving healing treatments to help raise the immune system. On this second visit, just as I was just about to start, a man in a wheelchair suddenly buzzed into the yard. My client introduced him as Phil, her husband, and I felt that there was more work to be done that day than treat the horse. Phil sat watching me and said that he was fascinated by what I had come to do -- his wife had explained the reactions of the horse during my last visit and her own responses as she held the rope. "Come over, Phil, and take a contact," I said, "if you would like to share in the healing."

Phil, who I guessed to be in his forties, moved his chair closer to the stable door and I placed the rope in his hands as his wife stood to one side of him. I placed my hands on Oro's back -- he was a model patient -- and tuned in to the healing energy. Now Oro is a particularly sensitive horse with a highly active energy field. I had noted during my first visit that I had to take my hands off several times as he became so wobbly on his legs. So I made sure that I directed the energy flow through gently and after a couple of minutes I glanced across at Phil. I looked down at the rope and could see golden light shooting along the rope like it was on fire.

The aura of energy I saw was powerful and strong and I looked back at the horse -- he was showing signs of endorphin response, his head drooping and his eyes closing. "I feel light-headed," Phil suddenly said. "That's a good response," I replied, not expecting what happened next. Phil promptly dropped the rope and fainted, slumping forward in his chair. His wife is a highly qualified nurse and she moved to help him so I wasn't alarmed, but I knew something very special had responded to Phil's desire to experience the healing. After a few minutes Phil was bright again and said, "I want more, please, can I have the rope back." So I carried on and at the end of the session Phil said that his neck pain had gone and that he felt energized.

I was very pleased to be able to help this man, who has spent more than twenty years in a wheelchair after a motor racing accident. The healing energy, which had channelled from me through the horse and out to the man, had taken on an added power and the beneficial effects to Phil lasted for several days.

Then there was Tina, who didn't tell me when I went to give healing to her horse that she had a history of depression. One of the reasons that she called me to treat her mare was that the horse was in low spirits due to bad treatment in a previous home. I guess Tina felt a subconscious sympathy with the mare's depression, having spent years with a black cloud of her own which never seemed very far away. Tina was certainly very intuitive and in touch with her horse's feelings and mind. The horse responded very well to the healing treatment and there were lots of positive releases and signs that she would feel much improved. As always, I asked her owner to place her hand on the mare as I worked so that she could see what she picked up of the healing energy and Tina reported a lot of reactions.

A week later Tina rang me. Her horse had never appeared better. For a day after the healing the mare was quite exuberant, as though she couldn't believe how different she felt; then she settled into a calmness, which had remained. But Tina also wanted to tell me of something strange that had happened to her after my visit. The next morning she had woken with her cloud of depression there as bad as it had ever been. For two days she felt bad, but something was different this time, she felt that she could cope. On the third day the depression had suddenly gone and she felt fantastic. I explained that the healing she shared with her horse must have worked to clear out her own emotional blockages releasing that disturbed energy and clearing it away. A year later Tina and her horse still feel very happy and are enjoying a new lease of life together.

These are just two examples of horses that have led me to people who need healing but there have been many more such cases. Our lives are interwoven and linked with our horses with which we share an energy in this world. I believe that there is a great deal to discover and to learn about the purpose of our shared journey. With improved empathy there is much more help that we can give our horses and in return receive from them. We only need to open our hearts and minds.

About the Author: Margrit has given healing to, and communicated with, a wide range of animals including cats, dogs, horses, chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, bunnies and small furries, exotic pets, birds, goats, fish, ferrets, wild animals ,alpacas, penguins, and even a camel! She is author of Healing for Horses - the essential guide to using hands on healing energy with horses, Hands on healing for Pets- the animal lovers guide to using healing energy, Horses Talking - how to share healing messages with the horses in your life, and an instructional DVD called Animal Healing. Margrit has also commissioned unique CD’s especially composed for pets and horses: Animal Healing, Music for Pets and Animal Angels. Margrit is currently writing her fourth book, Connecting with Horses, and it will be for the horse market – published March 2008. For more information please visit www.horsehealer.com or www.theanimalhealer.com.