Healing Touch for Animals
Energy Healing can reach places that haven’t responded to traditional medical methods. Carol Komitor is the creator of Healing Touch for Animals, a systematic method to reverse illness and trauma. Since 1996 she and her team have worked with over 15,000 people and their pets. This method is safe, gentle and works with the body’s natural healing wisdom. Carol reveals how working with trauma means repairing the leaks in the energy field that keep both people and animals in the “fight-flight-or freeze” state. Repairing the energy field allows the body to heal more rapidly, because the person or animal is not losing their vital protection and thus they can heal much faster. Carol also talks about how to help animals who are in the process of transitioning..
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BIO:
Carol Komitor began her healing career in massage and energy therapy at the Colorado School of Healing Arts in 1989. Carol advanced into energy therapy training through Healing Touch Program™ and witnessed the powerful, often dramatic, effects of energy therapy through her human clientele.
With her combined training and 13-year experience as a veterinary technician, Carol recognized the body’s physiological response to energy therapy. Carol developed an energy therapy program specific to animals when she discovered how people did not understand the differences of the energy system between humans and animals.
Carol’s understanding of the animal’s energetic and instinctual presence inspired her to develop the international program, Healing Touch for Animals® (HTA).
HTA’s curriculum teaches people how to care for their animals using energy therapy. Course content includes basic anatomy, the use of essential oils, sound therapy, and the energetic understanding of animal instinct. Healing Touch for Animals® students can become certified and advance their knowledge and understanding through advanced proficiency courses.
Carol’s vision is to have a global team of HTA students providing a cooperative model that bridges holistic healthcare with traditional veterinary medicine. To her delight, students are working with veterinarians, trainers, shelters, personal clients and family pets to include with all species as the awareness of HTA continues to grow.
Today, Carol has an active Healing Touch for Animals® and their people, practice in Colorado. Carol’s continued close connection and passion for animals and people has allowed her to keep expanding her knowledge and understanding of both the healing process and energy therapy.
Carol is recognized as one of the leading experts in animal energy therapy and essential oils for animals. Carol is a public speaker, an animal advocate and is dedicated to spreading the word about this work worldwide.
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Genie Joseph: Hello, everyone.
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Genie Joseph: Thank you for joining us for The Human-Animal Connection podcast.
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Genie Joseph: I'm so excited to speak with Carol Komitor, and she is the creator of Healing Touch for Animals, which uses energy medicine to rebalance all kinds of things, physical issues, emotional issues, behavioral issues.
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Genie Joseph: And so I'm just so excited to learn all about your methods.
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Genie Joseph: So welcome, Carol.
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Carol Komitor: Thank you.
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Carol Komitor: Thank you.
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Carol Komitor: I'm happy to be here.
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Carol Komitor: I appreciate the invitation.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah.
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Genie Joseph: And now I know you started this program in 1996, and you've worked with over 15,000 people.
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Genie Joseph: That's a lot of people.
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Carol Komitor: That's a lot, isn't it?
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Carol Komitor: Yeah.
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Carol Komitor: With myself and my instructors in my program, yeah.
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Genie Joseph: Okay, great, great, great.
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Genie Joseph: So most of our listeners are familiar when we say the words, energy healing, they understand.
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Genie Joseph: But for some who are new to it, how do you explain energy healing?
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Carol Komitor: I talk about our intentionality through our compassionate hearts and how we intend to draw energy that's all around us through our own bodies and then into our hands and offer it to whomever we're working with.
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Carol Komitor: So whether it's an animal or whether it's a person.
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Carol Komitor: So it's very simple because it's our big hearts, right, that make it work.
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Genie Joseph: Right, in some ways this is the oldest medicine in the world, right?
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Carol Komitor: Exactly, right.
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Genie Joseph: And so you mentioned touch, but do you also do energy healing without touch?
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Carol Komitor: Yeah, sure.
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Genie Joseph: Your touch as you call it.
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Carol Komitor: Right, we do distance work, but we also sometimes need to work off the body or project the energy to an animal because they can't be touched.
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Carol Komitor: So whether they're in quarantine or whether they're afraid, we make an invitation, I call it an invitation, when we have energy offered to someone and they're in that apprehensive state like many animals are.
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Carol Komitor: We just bring it into an invitation piece and usually they're in your lap within a few minutes.
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Carol Komitor: Or standing next to you if you have a big old horse, right?
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Genie Joseph: Right, exactly, that's wonderful, that's wonderful.
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Genie Joseph: And I know that you teach people this, how long does it take people to learn?
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Carol Komitor: Actually, not very long at all.
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Carol Komitor: We have by level one in the class with the different techniques and how we teach them how to facilitate the energy.
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Carol Komitor: They're ready to go from the Friday class to actually doing hands-on work with the animals Saturday and Sunday in our courses.
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Carol Komitor: So it's not a difficult application.
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Carol Komitor: It comes with practice, of course.
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Carol Komitor: Your efficiency comes in and your confidence level because you're practicing.
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Carol Komitor: But it's not hard to learn.
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Carol Komitor: And anybody that has a desire to help someone can learn to do this work.
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Genie Joseph: That's excellent.
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Genie Joseph: Now, I know as a child, you felt that you could read energy.
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Genie Joseph: And how did you discover that this could work with animals?
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Carol Komitor: Well, I had a veterinary technician job after a year of college.
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Carol Komitor: And I loved it so much that I just, I worked with a veterinarian in the Denver area that I was kind of like his nurse practitioner.
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Carol Komitor: Yeah, we had a satellite clinic that fed into a large hospital with all the most efficient and most modern equipment.
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Carol Komitor: And I would travel back and forth to the clinic, to the hospital, and work specifically with his patients in the hospital.
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Carol Komitor: So I had this, I guess, innate ability to handle the animals that were difficult.
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Carol Komitor: And what I know now, it was an energetic presence.
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Carol Komitor: I didn't know that then.
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Carol Komitor: I didn't know what an energy center was or a chakra was at that time.
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Carol Komitor: And yet, I knew that I could see, I could see things, and I didn't know that not everybody could see.
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Carol Komitor: So I never got, I never talked about it because I just assumed, I guess, that in my negativity that everybody saw, which they do, they just kind of shut it down as they get older.
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Carol Komitor: And so I used that ability when I was a vet tech.
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Carol Komitor: And then after my children were born, I got involved with massage therapy and Healing Touch and actually worked with the founder of the Healing Touch program, Janet Menken.
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Carol Komitor: And after a couple of years, I realized that my colleagues did not understand the energetic perspective of animals.
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Carol Komitor: And so I thought I needed to teach them the differences because they are different energetically.
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Carol Komitor: So I thought I would be teaching a class in the Denver area once or twice a year for my colleagues.
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Carol Komitor: And it turned out to be an international program.
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Genie Joseph: That's fantastic.
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Carol Komitor: Yeah, it's like so much fun.
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Carol Komitor: And I still have fun with the Level 1 courses all the way to our Advanced Proficiency II class.
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Genie Joseph: Well, can you tell us a story when the first time you said, oh my God, this works?
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Carol Komitor: Well, it was probably in my Healing Touch training because I recognized with my human clients, I started out with cancer patients.
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Carol Komitor: Like, the very first patient was a cancer patient.
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Carol Komitor: And that tended to be my kind of venue for my clientele for a really long time.
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Carol Komitor: And then when I began the work with the animals, I also got cancer patients through the animal kingdom.
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Carol Komitor: So when did I first see that this works?
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Carol Komitor: It was probably with that very first cancer patient because the anxiety was tremendous.
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Carol Komitor: The whole part of how they were in what was going on was calmed and grounded to where they could make even keel decisions.
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Carol Komitor: And she actually was a cancer survivor and had a reoccurrence.
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Carol Komitor: And so I saw her through two and a possible third diagnosis, and the third one actually was a benign situation.
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Carol Komitor: But yeah, and so I've seen that with the animals too.
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Carol Komitor: You know, major accidents, major illnesses that have been changed, and if not cured, and I don't want to say that word because we don't claim cure, but people and animals do shift into a place of absolute healing.
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Carol Komitor: And so to be a part of that is a blessing to me.
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Carol Komitor: I feel honored and so whoever I'm working with.
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Carol Komitor: And even the death process is a gift, I feel.
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Genie Joseph: That's wonderful.
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Genie Joseph: I want to talk about that too, but I just have to ask you, yeah.
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Genie Joseph: I noticed on your website, you gave kind of a cycle of healing, and you begin with the relaxation response.
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Genie Joseph: So tell us, with the animals, obviously they don't know that they have cancer or not know the way the humans know.
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Genie Joseph: They may have been given a medical diagnosis or something, but walk us through that cycle, starting with relaxation and what it does for the animals and how it works for all levels.
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Carol Komitor: Yeah, I can show you the little chart I have.
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Carol Komitor: It's right here in my desk.
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Carol Komitor: So it's this.
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Carol Komitor: And so here it shows this starts with relaxation, like you said, and then it goes into just the different aspects of how our body works.
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Carol Komitor: So the endorphins in the with relaxation, the endorphins and dopamines are intensified.
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Carol Komitor: And so what those do is it tells the body to relax.
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Carol Komitor: And so that relaxation response also helps the muscles to let go.
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Carol Komitor: And instead of being ischemic and all tight and knotted up, they can relax and let more circulation come into those muscle tissues.
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Carol Komitor: And with that circulation, then the blood flow brings in oxygen, nutrients, hormone balance, all of the things, enzymes to help with digestion, helps to flush out the toxicity, helps to promote new healthy cell growth.
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Carol Komitor: And what it really does in the center of this little chart is it regulates the immune system.
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Carol Komitor: And that's what causes all healing.
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Carol Komitor: And allows that to come in.
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Carol Komitor: And so I love that chart.
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Carol Komitor: It's simple.
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Carol Komitor: As you know, with each one of these little bullets around this chart, there's like a gazillion different explanations of how that particular one works.
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Carol Komitor: But this is the simplicity of it.
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Carol Komitor: It is how we work when we're relaxed.
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Carol Komitor: When we're facilitating the energy in our work, the energy is intentful, it's clear, we're focused on whomever we're working on, and change is made.
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Carol Komitor: So balance, giving quality of life for however time an animal or person has.
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Carol Komitor: So if it's at the end of life, then it's still quality of life for them.
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Genie Joseph: And have you found that animals are particularly good at receiving healing?
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Carol Komitor: Oh my gosh, yes.
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Carol Komitor: So much easier.
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Carol Komitor: Less resistance.
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Genie Joseph: The future tense.
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Genie Joseph: So what would happen if they're just receiving?
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Carol Komitor: They love it.
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Carol Komitor: Well, first of all, they are energy.
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Carol Komitor: That's what their instinctual presence is.
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Carol Komitor: And in my visual part, I see their energy field, and it's actually a whole lot bigger than ours.
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Carol Komitor: A whole lot, like 10 times bigger than our energy field.
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Carol Komitor: So even a small little chihuahua is if we weighed the 5 to 8 pounds that that chihuahua weighs, we would be tiny in comparison energetically, whereas they are 10 times bigger.
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Carol Komitor: And so the bigger the animal, the larger the energy field is, the more wild the animal is that they have to encompass a whole lot bigger area to make sure that they are safe.
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Carol Komitor: And so it's like the whole energy piece of it is instinct.
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Carol Komitor: The animals know energy.
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Carol Komitor: So when we start to facilitate that for them to create balance and clearing in their own energy field, they get it a whole lot easier than the humans do.
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Genie Joseph: Yes, yes.
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Genie Joseph: Well, let's talk a little bit, because I know I've done thousands of hours volunteering in the shelters with traumatized animals, and I have methods that I work with.
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Genie Joseph: But I'd love to hear about how you work with trauma in animals, how you see it and how you work with it.
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Carol Komitor: Well, let's talk about first how I see it, because trauma does change the energy system, just like it does in humans.
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Carol Komitor: What I see is that oftentimes when there's trauma, the animal's energy field is not 10 times bigger, but it's a lot larger than that.
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Carol Komitor: And the reason, and we would think that it'd be the opposite, right?
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Carol Komitor: Trauma, so they pull themselves in.
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Carol Komitor: That's not always the case, and most of the time it's not the case.
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Carol Komitor: What happens is that they expand their energy field.
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Carol Komitor: The animals, unlike us, have little radar receptors at the edge of their energy field, so that big bubble that they hold, have those radar receptors out, and they're constantly, constantly, constantly looking for more danger.
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Carol Komitor: And so they continue to expand, and they continue to expand.
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Carol Komitor: What that does is it actually causes leakage within their energy system.
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Carol Komitor: And so the energy then cannot contain itself in this natural bubble we're supposed to have, and they're supposed to have.
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Carol Komitor: And so they leak energy, and they don't have the sustainability.
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Carol Komitor: And so it puts them further into that trauma.
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Carol Komitor: So the first thing we have to do is repair the energy system, repair the energy before we release any kind of trauma.
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Genie Joseph: Okay, so you work from the outside in, in a sense, you're working...
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Carol Komitor: Well, that's how they work.
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Carol Komitor: So you work the way they do.
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Genie Joseph: Aha.
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Carol Komitor: Yeah.
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Genie Joseph: So you're working on that energy field, you're repairing the energy field so they're not leaking.
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Genie Joseph: And then what's next?
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Carol Komitor: Well, then you...
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Carol Komitor: There's several trauma release techniques we have within our program.
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Carol Komitor: So there's three specifically.
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Carol Komitor: One clears the field in a general manner.
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Carol Komitor: Another is actual trauma release where we work with the vision of the animal and going inside in there, deep into the soul essence of who they are, and releasing it from there.
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Carol Komitor: And then the other one is a PTSD kind of trauma technique where we work with the amygdala and help to support the animal that way.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, so the amygdala being the emotional center of the brain.
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Carol Komitor: Right, and that's what gets frozen in trauma.
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Carol Komitor: Right.
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Carol Komitor: And that's why PTSD shows up in both humans and animals is that it freezes us.
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Genie Joseph: Yes, yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, it puts us on hold.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, exactly.
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Genie Joseph: Yeah, it gets stuck in the freeze response, yes.
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Genie Joseph: Well, we're going to take a very short break, but when we come back, maybe you could kind of walk us through the story of an animal that had trauma and how you saw that, what you did, what the outcome was.
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Genie Joseph: So, when we come back, we'll hear that story.
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Genie Joseph: Well, welcome back to the Human-Animal Connection podcast.
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Genie Joseph: I'm speaking with Carol Komitor, and she is the creator of Healing Touch for Animals.
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Genie Joseph: And she is about to tell us a story about identifying trauma in an animal that obviously can't tell us in words, but we see it, we know it.
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Genie Joseph: Tell us how you see it and tell us how you began the healing.
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Carol Komitor: Okay.
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Carol Komitor: Well, in trauma, what I see is a couple of different things.
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Carol Komitor: There's obvious stuff that everyone sees as hiding is one thing, or cowering, the fear-biter, those kinds of things that we find, or the isolation that sometimes happens in a herd of horses, that the trauma affects their whole psyche, of course, just like us.
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Carol Komitor: But with animals, their field, like I said earlier, usually is super expanded, and it creates a leakage like a sieve or a colander, and it leaks out the water in the colander, while their energy field actually leaks as well.
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Carol Komitor: And they're not a layered energy system like we are.
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Carol Komitor: They have little tiny dots that represent all the aspects of who we are.
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Carol Komitor: So the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, for them, it's instinctual, not spiritual, because they don't practice spirituality.
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Carol Komitor: But it's that natural ability for them to understand their surroundings.
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Carol Komitor: So heightened awareness, right?
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Carol Komitor: Yes.
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Carol Komitor: So that's all dampened.
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Carol Komitor: And as they expand their field, like I said earlier, to warrant their safety, it stretches things out to where it's like a balloon that was left behind after a birthday party, and you find it two or three days later, and it's really pliable.
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Carol Komitor: You don't have the big balloon any longer.
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Carol Komitor: It's really small and you get squishy.
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Carol Komitor: And that's how their field is, because there's not enough consistency around their energy field to hold their sustainability, so to hold the volume of energy flowing through.
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Genie Joseph: Yes, so they're like leaking vitality also.
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Carol Komitor: Exactly.
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Genie Joseph: On a physical level, emotional level, mental level, et cetera.
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Carol Komitor: Everything.
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Carol Komitor: And so even if it's not a physical issue, it can become that, because they're not supported on the other aspects of who they are.
00:18:31.320 --> 00:18:32.880
Carol Komitor: So, yeah.
00:18:33.220 --> 00:18:34.840
Carol Komitor: So that's how I see trauma.
00:18:34.940 --> 00:18:36.640
Carol Komitor: And sometimes it's way expanded.
00:18:36.660 --> 00:18:46.000
Carol Komitor: Sometimes it's super constricted, especially if there is abuse at hand.
00:18:46.560 --> 00:18:51.560
Carol Komitor: If it's other things like abandonment, or sometimes with abuse.
00:18:51.560 --> 00:19:01.220
Carol Komitor: But it's more about how we can contain them in their bubble and their little bitty pixels that are everywhere.
00:19:02.600 --> 00:19:06.400
Carol Komitor: So that's how I see their field in comparison to ours.
00:19:07.120 --> 00:19:20.480
Carol Komitor: And oftentimes the animals will, in trauma, will have such a jaded outside edge that that has to be repaired and contained first.
00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:22.440
Carol Komitor: So we always start with...
00:19:23.540 --> 00:19:28.560
Carol Komitor: So to start with the therapy part of it, we start with balance first.
00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:35.380
Carol Komitor: And rather than trying to get rid of the trauma before they become balanced, they have to be balanced.
00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:36.640
Carol Komitor: They have to be grounded.
00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:43.940
Carol Komitor: They have to be safe within their skin in order to totally release the trauma.
00:19:44.520 --> 00:19:49.000
Carol Komitor: And that's easily done with the facilitation of our energy.
00:19:49.320 --> 00:20:05.520
Carol Komitor: So by creating that foundational piece of safety, of I'm okay, of that relaxation response that we talked about earlier, that that is the foundation for the healing to take place.
00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.120
Carol Komitor: The immune system takes over.
00:20:08.280 --> 00:20:10.180
Carol Komitor: They are calmer all the way around.
00:20:10.840 --> 00:20:14.440
Carol Komitor: And it's like, okay, I don't have to hold on to this any longer.
00:20:14.460 --> 00:20:16.600
Carol Komitor: I don't have to hold on to the trauma.
00:20:17.080 --> 00:20:25.200
Carol Komitor: And because they are instinctual, because they understand energy, the animals let go of their trauma so much easier than we do.
00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:26.320
Genie Joseph: That's wonderful.
00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:31.020
Genie Joseph: I know, like I've worked with over 4,000 service members with therapy dogs.
00:20:31.500 --> 00:20:34.440
Genie Joseph: And just one of the things we talk about is the sense of safety.
00:20:34.580 --> 00:20:37.680
Genie Joseph: I call it vitamin S, you know, because it's all missing.
00:20:37.700 --> 00:20:38.600
Carol Komitor: That's a great term.
00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:43.460
Genie Joseph: Yeah, yeah, it's missing in anybody who's experienced significant trauma.
00:20:44.020 --> 00:20:50.360
Genie Joseph: And some of the psychological methods attempt to address trauma without addressing safety.
00:20:50.380 --> 00:20:54.320
Genie Joseph: And then, of course, it's not effective because you have to have a foundation.
00:20:54.340 --> 00:20:56.640
Carol Komitor: Yeah, you don't get to the root cause, right?
00:20:57.080 --> 00:20:57.420
Carol Komitor: Yeah.
00:20:57.580 --> 00:20:57.920
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:20:58.020 --> 00:20:58.660
Genie Joseph: Fascinating.
00:20:59.300 --> 00:21:08.940
Genie Joseph: So can you tell us maybe a specific story about an animal that had no safety and how you helped to repair that?
00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:18.220
Carol Komitor: I had, actually, it was a client not too long ago who had a dog that they had adopted and that wasn't fitting into the family, and they loved this dog.
00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:24.640
Carol Komitor: And individually, he would connect to one or two of the people in the family and then otherwise not.
00:21:25.540 --> 00:21:40.940
Carol Komitor: And so just bringing this animal into a place of safety through grounding and through repair of that energy field from the traumatic situation, they knew he was traumatized.
00:21:41.260 --> 00:21:42.620
Carol Komitor: They didn't know how.
00:21:43.740 --> 00:22:17.220
Carol Komitor: And so accepting this animal in that unconditional space for them, excuse me, that the animal was able to, by balancing their energy system, by getting him into a place where he was present, instead of searching way out here beyond that 10 times greater, it was very humbling to me to have him want this so badly.
00:22:17.360 --> 00:22:22.580
Carol Komitor: And he actually helped to repair his own body very quickly.
00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:25.200
Carol Komitor: And then we went into the trauma work.
00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:29.420
Carol Komitor: And with the trauma work, it was easily done.
00:22:30.300 --> 00:22:31.920
Carol Komitor: And that's not always the case.
00:22:31.940 --> 00:22:37.000
Carol Komitor: So I don't want to make it sound like it's all hearts and flowers, because it's not always.
00:22:37.540 --> 00:22:45.100
Carol Komitor: But in this particular case, the dog was ready to make changes.
00:22:45.940 --> 00:22:54.020
Carol Komitor: And there's intuitive things that come through, like abandonment issues, perhaps.
00:22:54.040 --> 00:22:58.940
Carol Komitor: And I saw a street, like a street dog, prior to there.
00:22:59.040 --> 00:23:00.940
Carol Komitor: And so those things kind of come in.
00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:07.240
Carol Komitor: Whether they're true or not, it doesn't matter, because it's about what's happening right now.
00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:13.220
Carol Komitor: And so that dog did a great release.
00:23:15.100 --> 00:23:22.480
Carol Komitor: There's actually signs that we see with release when we're doing the work, specific techniques.
00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:26.420
Carol Komitor: So deep breaths is one of the techniques.
00:23:26.500 --> 00:23:27.580
Carol Komitor: That's what we ask for.
00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:31.980
Carol Komitor: Let's let go of this with the biggest breath you can imagine.
00:23:32.040 --> 00:23:39.820
Carol Komitor: And they'll get to a point where it's like they're a little nervous and a little nervous and a little nervous, and then they hold their breath.
00:23:40.020 --> 00:23:47.120
Carol Komitor: And then they just let it go like how you take a deep breath after a big cry.
00:23:47.140 --> 00:23:51.860
Carol Komitor: Yeah, it's like that down to the core kind of breath out.
00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:52.700
Genie Joseph: Right, right.
00:23:52.720 --> 00:24:03.960
Carol Komitor: Yeah, and so with this particular dog, he was ready and he was supported by his new family.
00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:04.360
Carol Komitor: Right.
00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:09.760
Carol Komitor: And so they reported a few days later that there were total changes.
00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:11.180
Carol Komitor: Yeah.
00:24:11.660 --> 00:24:14.540
Carol Komitor: So the aggressive behavior was gone.
00:24:14.580 --> 00:24:21.540
Carol Komitor: The A-OK, I'm sitting here in the family room with the rest of the family and things like that.
00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:22.620
Genie Joseph: That's wonderful.
00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:24.140
Genie Joseph: Beautiful story.
00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:24.420
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:24:25.260 --> 00:24:25.700
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:24:25.800 --> 00:24:35.380
Genie Joseph: I just worked with the horse yesterday, and after I worked with him, he had these six huge yawns, like just stretching his whole neck and all his teeth showing.
00:24:35.740 --> 00:24:39.240
Genie Joseph: It was really fun to watch that release process.
00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:39.540
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:24:39.560 --> 00:24:41.720
Carol Komitor: I know that's one of the bigger signs, right?
00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:42.560
Carol Komitor: Is the yawning.
00:24:44.940 --> 00:24:57.220
Carol Komitor: I was in Minneapolis teaching a level one course, actually, a couple of weeks ago, and one of the horses there, just with our balancing techniques, went into yawn fest.
00:24:58.040 --> 00:25:02.220
Carol Komitor: And I think the last one they counted was 12 or 13.
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:02.900
Carol Komitor: Wow.
00:25:02.940 --> 00:25:03.880
Carol Komitor: Big yawns.
00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:05.360
Carol Komitor: And it wasn't trauma.
00:25:05.380 --> 00:25:07.000
Carol Komitor: It was just relaxation.
00:25:07.300 --> 00:25:07.720
Genie Joseph: Right.
00:25:08.760 --> 00:25:09.140
Genie Joseph: Wonderful.
00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:09.360
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:25:10.580 --> 00:25:20.340
Genie Joseph: So what are some tips that you could give people who share their lives with animals that even before they take your training, what could they begin to do to make things better?
00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:23.820
Carol Komitor: Talk to them like they were your child.
00:25:25.660 --> 00:25:39.820
Carol Komitor: So tell them what's going on, because we know that as parents that, for those of us who are parents, we know that the more they understand, the easier it is for them, the less acting out there might be.
00:25:40.580 --> 00:25:43.560
Carol Komitor: And so I'm going to be gone today.
00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:44.860
Carol Komitor: I'm going to go to work.
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:45.980
Carol Komitor: I'll see you after work.
00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:48.920
Carol Komitor: I'm going to be gone for two and a half weeks.
00:25:50.740 --> 00:25:56.420
Carol Komitor: You're going to be taken care of by so and so, and so you let them know what's going on.
00:25:56.740 --> 00:26:05.820
Carol Komitor: You must go to the veterinarian because there's something that needs to be checked out, or this is your annual trip.
00:26:06.700 --> 00:26:09.520
Carol Komitor: So whatever that might be, let them know.
00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:19.140
Carol Komitor: And what I feel is that the vibration from our voices gives them whatever they need.
00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:20.660
Carol Komitor: People say pictures.
00:26:22.020 --> 00:26:24.420
Carol Komitor: I just see the energy piece changing.
00:26:24.760 --> 00:26:25.320
Genie Joseph: Beautiful.
00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:26.320
Carol Komitor: Yeah.
00:26:26.380 --> 00:26:30.280
Carol Komitor: So talk to them and let them know that you love them.
00:26:30.780 --> 00:26:31.080
Carol Komitor: Yes.
00:26:31.560 --> 00:26:41.480
Carol Komitor: I have a friend who, her dogs wait at the front door as she's backing out, or not front door, the front window as she's backing out of the driveway.
00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:44.240
Carol Komitor: And she waves to them, and then it's like, okay.
00:26:44.800 --> 00:26:47.700
Carol Komitor: And they get down before she even takes off.
00:26:47.760 --> 00:26:49.600
Carol Komitor: So they're waiting for that wave.
00:26:50.120 --> 00:26:51.680
Carol Komitor: Oh, very cute.
00:26:51.700 --> 00:26:52.500
Carol Komitor: It's pretty funny.
00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:53.220
Genie Joseph: Yeah.
00:26:53.620 --> 00:27:02.800
Genie Joseph: Well, let's just take a couple of moments and talk about animals who are transitioning, leaving the body, and how you can help that process, and how you see that process.
00:27:02.820 --> 00:27:09.120
Genie Joseph: I mean, I've heard holistic veterinarians say that they don't feel that animals fear death, but they do fear suffering.
00:27:09.660 --> 00:27:11.100
Genie Joseph: So what are your thoughts on that?
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.600
Carol Komitor: That's interesting.
00:27:12.620 --> 00:27:13.360
Carol Komitor: I've never heard that.
00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:28.940
Carol Komitor: I feel like that animals who are transitioning, if they have energy balance in their body, can zip out of their body a whole lot faster and easier, even with the medication.
00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:33.060
Carol Komitor: And we know that that is, euthanasia medication is fast.
00:27:33.820 --> 00:27:45.760
Carol Komitor: But even with that, it's like an easy transition for them, and telling them how much you love them beforehand.
00:27:45.800 --> 00:28:04.100
Carol Komitor: And we actually have a process in our euthanasia protocol where we have our people tell, through the balance technique that we use, tell their favorite stories about them while they're doing the energy work.
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:25.920
Carol Komitor: And because of that, it's a two-fold process in my eyes, and the reason that I like to have the stories told is that the animals feel the love and the vibration from their voices or feel the energy from their stories about the love that they have for them.
00:28:28.540 --> 00:28:37.240
Carol Komitor: And then it also helps the people to understand that they're always going to be in our hearts, right?
00:28:38.620 --> 00:28:42.280
Carol Komitor: Yeah, so that's one of the things that we do.
00:28:42.400 --> 00:29:00.700
Carol Komitor: And then we do another technique during the process itself of euthanasia where it works with the heart of the body and the expression of who that animal is, and with the balance that was created before, they just kind of zip out of the body.
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:08.020
Carol Komitor: And it's like a no, it's not any kind of struggle.
00:29:09.800 --> 00:29:12.260
Carol Komitor: And I've witnessed several different euthanasias.
00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:31.500
Carol Komitor: My own cat, the cats, a couple of them, a couple of them have passed on their own, but with assisting, I have a veterinarian that has had me help her during euthanasia processes, and I have had clients.
00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:37.900
Carol Komitor: And with those home euthanasias especially, it's much more gentle, it seems.
00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:47.660
Carol Komitor: And even in the hospitals, it's also gentle because the veterinarians are being caring, right?
00:29:47.680 --> 00:29:50.740
Carol Komitor: And they're taking care of their beloved patients too.
00:29:50.760 --> 00:29:51.100
Genie Joseph: Yes.
00:29:52.740 --> 00:30:03.580
Genie Joseph: Yeah, well, I'm sure that being there, if you're in the hospital, you're helping the veterinarians too, because they have to deal with all this processing of energy of the humans and themselves.
00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:03.780
Carol Komitor: Right.
00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:07.420
Carol Komitor: Well, if you think about the animals, they're 10 times bigger than we are.
00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:15.320
Carol Komitor: So if you have a 30-pound animal lying on the table, it's 30 pounds of 10 times bigger energy field.
00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:21.520
Carol Komitor: And we're standing in that pool of love and their unconditional presence.
00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:28.940
Carol Komitor: And we're facilitating that much more energy to help keep them balanced as we are doing the work.
00:30:29.220 --> 00:30:30.200
Carol Komitor: Mm-hmm.
00:30:31.320 --> 00:30:33.820
Genie Joseph: And have you noticed that different species respond?
00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:35.080
Genie Joseph: I mean, like, can we...
00:30:35.340 --> 00:30:42.880
Genie Joseph: Do all species kind of generally respond in similar ways, or are there differences, like horses are more this, or dogs are more that, or cats are more this, or not?
00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:46.620
Carol Komitor: I find our domestic animals are really receptive.
00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.400
Carol Komitor: Mm-hmm.
00:30:47.800 --> 00:30:48.620
Carol Komitor: Really receptive.
00:30:48.640 --> 00:31:04.520
Carol Komitor: And even our animals that you wouldn't think would be that receptive, like our big boa constrictors that are in the zoos or, you know, in homes that I've witnessed where, you know, the snakes are really...
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:07.540
Carol Komitor: Love the energy work.
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:08.920
Carol Komitor: Mm-hmm.
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:11.400
Carol Komitor: With wild animals, it's a little different.
00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:13.340
Carol Komitor: It's like, don't invade my space.
00:31:13.620 --> 00:31:15.540
Carol Komitor: And until it's...
00:31:16.100 --> 00:31:18.400
Carol Komitor: They recognize that you're A-okay.
00:31:18.700 --> 00:31:19.660
Genie Joseph: That you've been invited.
00:31:20.060 --> 00:31:21.520
Genie Joseph: You've been invited to connect.
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:28.220
Carol Komitor: Yeah, it's like our Native Americans watch our heart chakra to see if we're an okay person, right?
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:28.460
Genie Joseph: Right.
00:31:28.560 --> 00:31:31.080
Carol Komitor: So they do that with our whole energy field.
00:31:31.380 --> 00:31:32.140
Genie Joseph: That's beautiful.
00:31:32.340 --> 00:31:35.780
Carol Komitor: Yeah, so when we approach, we need to show love no matter what.
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.260
Carol Komitor: Be smart if there's danger, but...
00:31:40.580 --> 00:31:40.900
Carol Komitor: Yeah.
00:31:41.300 --> 00:31:41.780
Genie Joseph: Excellent.
00:31:42.100 --> 00:31:45.600
Genie Joseph: Well, how can people get in touch with you and learn more of this process?
00:31:45.620 --> 00:31:47.240
Genie Joseph: And tell us how that works.
00:31:47.380 --> 00:31:47.900
Carol Komitor: Thank you.
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:56.500
Carol Komitor: Well, Healing Touch for Animals is the name of my program, and it's www.healingtouchforanimals.com.
00:31:56.820 --> 00:32:00.800
Carol Komitor: And you can get ahold of us through the website.
00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:07.820
Carol Komitor: My office phone number is 303-470-6572.
00:32:08.580 --> 00:32:12.460
Carol Komitor: And I have people in my office that will help you.
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:16.960
Carol Komitor: And if you need to get ahold of me, I am happy to talk to you.
00:32:18.260 --> 00:32:18.840
Carol Komitor: Wonderful.
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:20.380
Genie Joseph: Well, thank you so much.
00:32:20.540 --> 00:32:21.520
Carol Komitor: Thank you, Genie.
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:23.520
Genie Joseph: Parting words for our audience.
00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:24.820
Genie Joseph: Last piece of advice.
00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:26.120
Genie Joseph: What would you like to offer them?
00:32:26.760 --> 00:32:28.320
Carol Komitor: Just offer love to them.
00:32:28.340 --> 00:32:29.240
Carol Komitor: They'll love you back.
00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:30.260
Carol Komitor: All right.
00:32:30.280 --> 00:32:30.800
Carol Komitor: Good advice.
00:32:31.760 --> 00:32:32.520
Carol Komitor: Thank you, Genie.
00:32:32.540 --> 00:32:33.820
Carol Komitor: I appreciate the opportunity.
00:32:33.820 --> 00:32:35.000
Genie Joseph: Yeah, it's great to be with you.
00:32:35.020 --> 00:32:35.900
Carol Komitor: We'll have to talk to you again.
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:41.500
Genie Joseph: Well, thank you, everyone, for listening to the Human-Animal Connection podcast.
00:32:41.780 --> 00:32:43.260
Genie Joseph: We will see you on the next one.
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:44.760
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