In the past couple of weeks there have been a number of times that I have marvelled at how much I love using essential oils,. I think it’s amazing that I feel as excited about them today as I did in September 1998 when I first started using them, and saw first-hand how powerful they are.

It’s not often that a love affair spans decades like that, without the flame dwindling even a fraction.

I feel privileged for all the many lives I’ve touched, and experiences I’ve had. Many are physical transformations…yet some of my most touching ones have been when a shift has happened emotionally or spiritually.

Today, I want to share with you about an experience I had in 2003, where one of our Young Living blends opened me up to a very profound experience of animal communication.

It all began with a Raindrop Technique training…

Back in the year 2000, something wonderful happened to me. I was invited to go to Dallas on an all-expenses paid trip, to study Raindrop Technique with Young Living’s founder, D. Gary Young. This is a beautiful technique which combines Ancient Egyptian energy work with Ancient Tibetan reflexology, a Native American-inspired feathering technique, and various massage techniques. Its secret ingredient is the 9 Young Living oils and blends used in combination with these massage and energy techniques.

To say this was the trip of a lifetime is an understatement. 1,100 people flew in from all over the world for that training, and it was a significant anchoring point in my journey with essential oils.

At the time I was working as a Bowen Therapist, and also offering spiritual and healing sessions. What most surprised me were the results I was having with Raindrop Technique.

Raindrop Technique took my clients far beyond any of my other modalities, and worked not only on a physical level, but also on an emotional and a frequency level.

Canine Raindrop Technique

I was loving my journey with Raindrop Technique, and my friends and team were equally inspired. One day, I was asked if I’d perform Raindrop Technique on a dog in need. I knew Raindrop Technique was being used on dogs in the US, but at the time I was the first person in Australia to branch out into using this oil-infused modality on dogs.

My first subject was a gorgeous Rottweiler called “Bear”.

Bear was a wonderful canine client, and a beautiful Soul. After her first Raindrop Technique, she was happy…but rather tired. That’s not surprising. As a modality, Raindrop Technique is deeply calming and rejuvenating, but the massage components can release toxins from the tissues, and this gentle detox can produce some tiredness in the first few sessions. I know I experienced that myself after my first few Raindrop Technique sessions.

Six days after her Raindrop Technique, Bear went for a dash into the ocean. She must have found a way to leave her fatigue behind with the waves, because when she came out from her swim she was full of energy again.

Bear seemed to really love her Raindrop Technique pampering sessions, and I gave her a series of them over a number of months. Check out the pic below! That’s me and Bear in 2003.

Then Dog’s Life Magazine heard about my work, and came to interview and photograph me performing Raindrop Technique on Bear. This is an Australian magazine for dog lovers, and I ended up in a 2 page feature spread in 2003.

Once the story went live, I started receiving calls from other dog owners, asking about Raindrop Technique for their canine fur babies. One of these people lived in Canberra, and asked if I could do a Raindrop Technique on their Rottweiler. We arranged for me to give their Rottweiler a session when I next visited Canberra, which was in just a few weeks.

But there was a problem. As a child, I’d been attacked by a Mastiff (a dog trained to attack), and still had that memory and fear around aggressive dogs.

This is how the conversation went…“Hi Artemis, when you come here, we’ll bring you into the room with our dog, and we want you to stand still and let him sniff you. He’s a guard dog, and not used to people he doesn’t know, so after you’ve done that for 15 minutes, then you can start the session on him.”

This put me right out of my comfort zone, as you can imagine.

The day arrived, and I walked into the room to meet their Rottweiler (whose name I no longer recall). I stood utterly still while he wandered around and completely ignored me!

But then, Spirit (God) came to me with an instruction – put a drop of 3 Wise Men oil on his crown.

I’ve learned to trust these messages from Spirit, as they’ve always guided me like a straight arrow.

So I took out my bottle of 3 Wise Men, and put a drop on his crown (being careful to hold the bottle close to his crown, to avoid any chance that he looked up and ended up with essential oil in his eyes).

Until that time, although I liked this particular oil blend, I can’t say that I’d had any definitive experiences with it. But that was about to change.

I want you to picture this…..

Five minutes after I put 3 Wise Men oil onto his crown, I was sitting on the ground with him, and he was gazing into my eyes with the BIGGEST grin on his face. His gaze just said “I LOVE you!”

That’s right. This is the dog who was completely ignoring me 5 minutes earlier.

What transpired after that was amazing…

I began his Raindrop Technique. Because the oils are incredibly relaxing, by the time I was halfway through the session, his male owner was sitting beside us and snoring. At least someone was feeling the relaxation!!!

But then, I received another strong message. This time, instead of coming from Spirit, this message came to me directly from the Rottweiler.

“I’m thirsty!” he said.

His female owner was still awake and watching me intently, so I asked her for a bowl of drinking water.

“No, he doesn’t drink much”, she said, “I’m sure he’s not thirsty. And in any case, he’s likely to vomit it back up again.”

But the knowing became even more insistent, so I put more assertion into the request for water, and the owner reluctantly agreed to get him some water. She returned with a Streets Blue Ribbon Ice Cream container (the type I remember from my childhood), part-filled with water.

After watching him, I had no doubt at all that he had sent me that message.

He put his head in the water container and drank, and drank, and drank, until it was all gone. So I asked for a refill…and he drank the whole refill…..so I asked for yet another refill, and again he drank it all. Wow!

He kept the water down, and we shared the most beautiful connection with each other as I continued to work on him. When I left, he started barking, which he hadn’t done in a number of weeks. The owners were overjoyed, and so was I.

There were three lessons I took from this experience:

The first was seeing how essential oils open our consciousness, and in that heightened awareness we experience our inner gifts in an amplified way.

3 Wise Men oil blend helped to create an energetic bridge between me and this Rottweiler, allowing a deep communication and communion to take place. This allowed me to “know” what he was asking for, ie. he was thirsty.

Secondly, I came to understand how this particular oil blend (3 Wise Men)

opens us up to Universal Healing….and that’s part of why it’s so effective when it’s placed on the crown. I’m not saying the oil itself heals us. Instead, it opens our energy field so we are receptive to the healing that’s all around us, from Spirit and from other people. It allows us to let that healing energy in.

Have you ever met someone who says they want help, but you can see that they don’t know how to let it in? Or else they just don’t believe that anything will make a difference to their circumstances because they feel so stuck. These are the situations where a drop of 3 Wise Men on the crown is so powerful.

Thirdly, I learned that essential oils will always move us in a positive direction, but they will never override our Soul’s path.

A couple of weeks after this session, after so many positive reports of this dog’s progress, the owners called me with some sad news. His sister had sat on him and broken one of his back legs, and they had made the difficult decision to put him down.

Even though his Soul had been touched by me, he was ready to grow his wings, and my love and work with the oils didn’t change that outcome.

So is it still worth using essential oils, even in situations like this? Of course! Because even if you’re working on someone in palliative care, what the oils do is to bring love and joy and frequency and connection into that person’s life – whether that’s a human or an animal. And we all need more of that!

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