Healing Your Pet with Tong Ren

Tom Tam is a licensed acupuncturist in Massachusetts, a healer, author, poet, and an incredibly warm and caring human being. Born in Tai Shan, China, he came to the United States in 1975 as a political refugee. Since 1982, he has been practicing acupuncture, Tai Chi, and Chi Gong healing with great success. Tom began training students in acupuncture and Tui Na in the Boston area in 1984, and in the mid-1990s, Tom created the Tong Ren Healing System. His system combined Western medicine and traditional Eastern medical knowledge and practice to form a new theory for understanding and healing difficult diseases.

For the last 25 years, Tom has been one of the foremost students of Master Gin Soon Chu, the fifth generation master of traditional Yang family Tai Chi Chuan, and Tom has taught Tai Chi Chuan for more than 20 years in the greater Boston area.

In 1994, Tom took a group of students to visit mainland China and Taiwan in order to share his Tong Ren healing method. In Guang Zhou Tradition Chinese Medical College, he demonstrated Tong Ren healing for weight loss, followed by a trip to Taipei to demonstrate Tong Ren's effects on leukemia.

In 2001, the first Guinea Pig class was formed for treating cancer in Quincy, Massachusetts. Now the Guinea Pig class for healing has spread to many countries around the world.Tom continues to practice, teach students, and travel the world to share his dreams.

The classes are called Guinea Pig classes because a Chinese belief is that one should not change the name of something that is working successfully. So, after people were cured through the use of Tong Ren in 2001, the name Guinea Pig was set in stone.



Tong Ren, the healing system that Tom created, uses a Western diagnosis of a medical problem and traditional Chinese medicine based on acupuncture points, to remove what Tom describes as blockages in the body. Removal of these blockages includes acupuncture. However, the method that Tom found to be most effective is the use of an acupuncture doll and a magnetic hammer--when the Tong Ren practitioner taps on the doll at acupuncture points where the blockage has occurred, the symptoms of the individual's problems are relieved.

The book "Tom Tam's Healing System" gives the tapping points for a host of conditions and diseases including tennis elbow, stomach ulcers, sore throat, migraines, tinnitus, anxiety, yeast infection, various cancers, acne, Alzheimer's, MS, ALS, anemia, bladder problems, phobias, lung problems, lower back pain, morning sickness and many. Tom is constantly updating his therapy.

"A Lazy Bum's Healing, A Cross Reference Therapy Manual," is a good reference book to own because it is a spiral-bound large format guide which is easy to use, but it isn't necessary to own if one wants to begin practicing Tong Ren right away.



For example, to take a common problem -- sinusitis, you would consult the Tong Ren manual and would then tap on the following acupuncture points that are marked on the doll: C3, C4,T1, T2, T3, SI16, LI4, and the Ouch Point (where it hurts). C stands for Cervical and is located on the back of the neck; T stands for Thoracic and the points correspond to the spinal vertebrae. LI is large intestine and SI is small intestine -- these acupuncture points are located on the side of the face and are the Small Intestine and Large Intestine Meridians.

The length of time you would tap varies -- generally, I find 10 minutes of tapping to be effective, but a practitioner would probably tap for a longer length of time.

You can expect to experience many different sensations -- including heat, tingling, odd body sensations, feeling as though your blood is pumping through body -- or you may just feel relaxed or go to sleep. However, you may experience nothing at all during the session only to realize the effect later. Tom always assures us that the chi (Chinese for life force) is flowing.

The tapping on the Live Broadcasts are generally very short, but if you can tap for yourself or have a friend or practitioner tap for you, it is much more relaxing. You may feel a number of effects, such as pinpricks on your skin, tingiing, heat, relaxation, pulling, blood flowing more vigorously or you may feel nothing until much later.

Pets often sit in with the owners and listen to the tapping on the live Guinea Pig Broadcasts. Our cat likes to settle in under the slp-covered chair where she can't be seen.

(Picture: Tong Ren tools: acupuncture doll and magnetic hammer)

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In the second part of this two-part video, Marcia Zais, who has known Tom for 25 years, discusses how she worked on healing guinea pigs ,birds, and for the California Animal Welfare League on bears, elephants, alligators, tigers, and iguanas in animal sanctuaries. At that time, she used chi gong for healing animals, and remarked that she wished she had known about Tong Ren at that time.

These are the tools needed to practice Tong Ren: Acupuncture doll, magnetic hammer and the book "Tom Tam Healing System."

There are probably other animal practitioners, however, at the present time, only two live animal Guinea Pig Classes are listed.
Tong Ren for Animals

* Massachusetts
o Boston
Snippers Hair Club for Dogs
Susan Abner and Kathleen Kearney
524 Dorchester Ave
617.269.9600
Tuesday: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

o Hopkington
Main Street Animal Services
Marcia Zais
76 West Main Street
508.655.6776
Tuesdays: 7:00pm - 8:00pm

(Picture: Baby Starlings, May 2008, Jacob and Adam)

Picture: Joseph takes an interest in alternative healing.



My first pet was a turtle, and although I never gave him a name, I spent hours watching him clamber over rocks in the goldfish bowl.

There followed a succession of other pets including Easter chicks, goldfish, cats, a puppy, ducks as well as the baby pigs my cousins and I were given on the farm to nurture for a brief span of time. Many of these little ones met tragic ends. But the cats were the ones that I loved the most, especially Mouschi, a beautiful Maine coon cat (named after Anne Frank's cat).

Much later, there was Freddy, my beloved, affectionate, marmalade-colored Manx whom we gave away when my first husband became allergic to cats. We both cried as he put Freddie in his cat carrier and took him to the shelter--I hope Freddie found the people he deserved. While in Nigeria with the Peace Corps, I rescued Pooh, a feral kitten. Several times each day, Pooh dashed across the room and flung himself on the mesh of the screened porch, hanging there like the lizards that covered the outside of my flat on Awolowo Road.



About Pillimore, a Burmese cat--my son Joey found the name in a children's book and named him Pillimore but called him Sally. Sally Pillimore did not like moving from Capitol Hill to the suburbs of Silver Spring, Maryland, and so, like many cats are wont to do, she moved house. At first, across the street, but where her travels took her from there, we never knew.

I guess the final cat in my life was Felix, who was surely psychic. (My son named her after a Felix the Cat plush toy and plush toys have no gender!) She was born in a drain sewer at the end of our block. One day after school when my son Archer was in first grade, we saw a wee kitten making its way up the steep slope on toddler kitty legs. And we --my son, Aunt Lil, and I -- who were standing on the grass, watched in fascination as the determined ball of fur hoisted itself up the steps and stood waiting for someone to open the door. Naturally, we did. My son had been yearning for a cat. The next day, Montgomery County animal control arrived and removed the mother cat and Felix's siblings -- somehow Felix knew this was to happen and made her escape.


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Felix, the only cat who ever communicated with me, died in September 2003. Now, there are animal communicators who can tune into animals, but I'm not one of them. Felix was dreadfully afraid of lightning and she never sat on anyone else's lap but mine; however during a storm, she would always run to Archer's room and glue herself to his leg. I'm still sorry that she suffered and that I had to leave her.



There's one personal story about animal communication I'd like to share. There is a dowser in California I call whenever I am having a difficult problem, This man has the ability to energetically clear houses and people. Once when I called him and asked for his help, he said after a few minutes, "Wait a minute, there's a baby bird here that needs some help." I was so amazed because my son had found two baby starlings that had fallen from the nest the previous week. He took them home and using information culled from internet sites, attempted to keep them alive.

Adan died, but Jacob who had always been the stronger one, appeared to be thriving. He learned to perch on Joey's shoulder when going for a walk, follow him with his eyes and, when placed on the ground, huddle near his feet. I was away from Washington, and unbeknownst to me, Jacob had died the previous evening. Yet here was a tiny creature making the presence of its spirit felt to a dowser 2000 miles away! It was a powerful demonstration to me of how we really are connected to all of creation. It also recalled to mind the Biblical verse in Luke, "Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father."