I know that sounds weird, but it's very successful. We've had a couple of public schools where we are trying this program, and we got into our first public school last year. Well, first of all, I think every human being is born with compassion and a certain ability to help another human or animal heal. Everybody has a little healing ability. For example, if a newborn baby or a baby who is a couple of months old is in the room with someone who is in extreme pain, the baby will start to cry.
Babies feel the other person's pain.
It's like our pets always know when we don't feel well. It's an instinctive ability. Society can't take away the instinct, but it suppresses this ability that all of us are born with, so that we can't express our natural healing instinct, their natural compassionate instinct. By making it meaningless or even ''bad.'' We are told that we must go to a doctor if we have something wrong with us. It is assumed that we cannot fix ourselves.