A Dog Named Faith and Hypnosis?
Eric who is one of our grads sent this to me today, the story of a dog named Faith. By the way, besides being a 5-PATHer, Eric is a coauthor of, Your Hands Can Heal You and an MD.
I decided I just had to share it all with you on this site. Does it have anything to do with hypnosis and hypnotherapy? I’ll let you decide.
This is "Faith"
This dog was born on Christmas Eve in 2002. He was born with 3 legs – 2 healthy hind legs and 1 abnormal front leg, which had to be amputated.
He of course could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not want him.

His first owner also did not think that he could survive and he was thinking of "putting him to sleep." But then, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted to take care of him. She became determined to teach and train this little dog to walk by himself.
She named him "Faith."

In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfboard to let him feel the movement. Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and reward for him for standing up and jumping around. Even the other dog at home encouraged him to walk. Amazingly, only after 6 months, like a miracle, Faith learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to move forward. After further training in the snow, he could now walk like a human being.

Faith loves to walk around now. No matter where he goes, he attracts people to him. He is fast becoming famous on the international scene and has appeared on various newspapers and TV shows. There is now a book entitled "With a Little Faith" being published about him. He was even considered to appear in one of Harry Potter movies.

His present owner, Jude Stringfellow, has given up her teaching post and plans to take him around the world to preach that even without a perfect body, one can have a perfect soul







In life there are always undesirable things, so in order to feel better you just need to look at life from another direction.
I hope this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone and that everyone will appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day. Faith is the continual demonstration of the strength and wonder of life.
A small request: All you are asked to do is keep this story circulating.
Watch a video of this amazing dog.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think of the dog, whether or not this has anything to do with hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and finally, whether or not I should post things like this from time to time.













Reader Comments
Hi Cal,
Really great story, it empasizes so many really healthy thing relating to determination both of the dog and Jude. Both she and Faith have obviously had to be extremely flexible in their approach to doing things differently.
My take is that Hypnosis is like a lot of other interventions that assist people to make and then maintain positive change. I would say that in order to be successful both Jude and the dog had to change and learn to work together flexibly to find news ways of doing things.
Really great story,
John
Cal,
Thank you so much for this inspiring story.
This is more important even than if she had been grafted with new legs, because she learnt to live with what she’d got, and turned it from a disaster to a miracle. AND serves as an example!
Much to learn for us and our clients…
Lee
Thank you cal for posting this, brought a tear to my eye
Carl,
Cheers for sharing that heart warming and amazing story, I was feeling a little down today.
No I’ll correct myself, I was feeling more than a little sorry for myself.
Thanks for clearing that one up for me.
I’ll be walking much, much taller tomorrow, than I was today!
Many Thanks & Best Regards,
Joe
I love this, you make me strong.
thanks agian.
Armstrong M