I touch animals back to health
My gift finally set me free Carol Robertson, 54, from Edinburgh, Scotland
As the rain battered our car, a tiny rabbit shot across the road. Dad stopped to have a look, he was forever rescuing injured animals.
Minutes later, he returned with the baby rabbit.
‘The mother’s dead by the roadside,’ said Dad. ‘I don’t think this little one will survive the trip home.’
I put the limp body under my jumper and on the drive home to Haddington in East Lothian, I imagined my energy going into the rabbit and willed it to live.
Healing
I was 6 years old, it was the first time I’d tried to heal an animal.
Suddenly, I sensed the rabbit’s heart beating.
‘Dad, it’s alive’ I exclaimed.
‘That’s amazing,’ he said surprised.
Later, I heard Dad tell Mum: ‘That rabbit was near death when I picked it up.’
The bunny made a full recovery and was released back into the wild.
From then, Dad encouraged me to help with his entourage of animals, which included a rescue owl called Winky who lived in a box in the kitchen.
Dad had such a gift for nursing sick animals that RSPB wardens and vets sent him everything from foxes to wild birds and rescue pub parrots. But Dad had no veterinary training, he made his living restoring cars, Mum worked as a local planner.
Quest
Growing up, it became natural for me to ‘will’ the animals in our care to get better, and they did. I had no idea I was healing until I found some old spiritual books at a jumble sale at the age of 13. The Master Key System by Charles F Haanel, published in 1916, was one of the books and was a course in visualisation, healing and energy.
Rhonda Byrne later revealed it as one of the inspirations for her bestseller The Secret.
Reading it myself all those years ago made me realise I’d given the rabbit hands-on healing.
Guided by my esoteric books, I became obsessed with developing my energy skills.
A favourite past-time during school lessons was to focus on a classmate and ‘will’ them to turn around and look at me. It always worked. I didn’t share my secret quest for fear of being called strange.
Love
When I was 17, I did an Art degree. At my first student house, I found more interesting books in a cupboard about neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) – this time by its co-creator Richard Bandler. I was fascinated. I developed two loves: art and expanding my mind. However, when I finished college, I spent the next 25 years working as an artist and developing a new safe way to screen print based on polymers and not solvents, which for hundreds of years had caused birth defects and other health issues
It became natural to will the animals to get better
I collapsed in my studio and had an out-of-body experience
Dad had such a gift for nursing sick animals
in artists.
My revolutionary printing method was then adopted worldwide.
I also collaborated with many famous artists including Sir Eduardo Paolozzi and Wilhelmina Barns-graham. Several of the prints I co-produced with Wilhelmina hang in The Tate in London.
But 10 years ago, I was exhausted.
Brain re-set
I battled on making art in my studio but always felt unsatisfied.
One day that same year, I collapsed in my studio and had an out-of-body experience.
I remember hitting the concrete floor hard, and feeling my body had given up.
Next, I saw myself from way above and thought, I’m dead.
My next thought was, I’ve wasted my life, all I’ve ever
done is work. I made a deal with the Universe. You let me live and I’ll do things differently.
Moments later, I regained consciousness and felt fine.
It was weird, I didn’t have a bruise or ache anywhere.
Over the coming weeks, I thought about how I wanted to spend my time and started to recall my previous love of
esoteric books. I spent the summer reading The Master Key System again, along with Guide To Trance-formation by Richard Bandler and Milton Erickson’s books.
I reconnected with myself.
During the next four years, I trained in NLP with Paul Mckenna and also travelled to America to study with author Richard Bandler.
I built up a client practice and treated both humans and animals.
In 2011, I found Havening and qualified in the therapy in 2014.
Havening uses tapping, stroking and eye movements that trigger a release of chemicals in the brain. These chemicals can re-set the brain and release you from unwanted emotions and responses such as anxiety.
Goals
A recent case of mine involved a 40-year-old woman who had suffered a car crash during a driving lesson. With one session, we unblocked her anxiety and she passed her driving test first time. The benefits of Havening, aside from being quick, are it’s drug-free and no side-effects. The results are thought to be permanent and you can do it yourself once you know the routine. As well as treating humans, I use Havening on animals such as dogs, cats and horses. I’ve had great results with dogs suffering from phobias and for head-shy horses. My new life goal is to bring Havening to as many people as possible. I would like to see it available on the NHS and my aim is to see it taught in primary schools. Touch has become taboo in our society, and that’s wrong because touch can be healing and beautiful. It sets you free.
I want to bring Havening to everyone!
I use even Havening to treat dogs, cats and horses
For details of treatments with Carol Robertson PHD, visit www.psychosensoryacademy.com. Havening starts at £125 per session.