If you stub your toe, what do you do? If your child is in pain, what do you do? Or if a baby is lonely or afraid, what is the most natural thing in the world that you would do?

The truth of it is, human touch is innate in us. What we have forgotten is why. Yet in spite of all social boundaries and rules of etiquette, all human beings still have the strong instinct to touch someone in emotional or physical pain.

We instinctively "know" that pain, fear and discomfort are soothed and healed by the presence of gentle, reassuring and loving hands. Hands that, simply through a focused desire to help, are filled with healing energy. Where you believe that energy comes from is up to you. The fact is, it works.

I have done hands-on healing to help people and animals since childhood, but this felt so natural I wasn't even aware it was healing at all. It just made me - and them - feel calmer. It was only in my teens I realised that I was able to use this energy I felt to make people's headaches disappear, or to calm and support injured or sick wild animals and pets.

Everyone is born with this natural ability to heal - we just need to realise it exists and then learn how to harness it.

When healing I have always worked clairvoyantly and intuitively with my spirit guides, who have been with me since childhood. Through their help, I've developed both distant healing and psychic "surgery", where I work within the body, feeling for and releasing areas of discomfort, trauma and body memory.

I have also studied Reiki and taken the Master attunement. I believe that all healing energy is from the same Source, whatever belief system you hold about what that Source is.

Any healing that involves any mental or physically effort is really just coming from the Ego. Deep healing happens from a place of unconditional love, where you put that Ego (the "I") aside, relax and allow healing energy to channel through you. Whether we call that healing energy Reiki energy, spiritual healing, bio-energy or psychic healing, it's all just universal energy and it's all around us all the time.

If you feel your animal would benefit from healing, I can work in person or otherwise distantly using a photo or description. For me, working in person is very special, very 'real', healing comes naturally as the animal will often physically move to 'present' the areas needing help, and I can get immediate feedback. Working distantly, I can often pick up more information, as the animal isn't distracted, and can intuitively pick up on possibly deeper levels of concern. So there are real benefits to both and often it's determined by geography.

I also offer healing to humans and run a Healing Clinic in Marlborough. Just click on the left hand link for more information.

Just email me at info@brigidreilly.co.uk or ring 0800 977 4767 to talk further.