Heal Thy Pets

Helping Your Animals Heal Helps the Planet Heal

A women prays every evening with her 3 house rabbits in a circle around her.

The bunnies sit, with their paws crossed, for 15-20 minutes of prayer and meditation; then leap and bound with joy when it is over.

A man suffering with severe depression says his main impetus to heal himself was to help his animals. He would be irritated at the dog and yell when the dog scratched its ears, or wanted a longer walk. He could see so clearly that there was nothing wrong with the dog living life fully and so he healed himself so he could take his dog for longer walks and not be irritated with his dog.

A girl of 6 is allowed to grow in wisdom and share her natural caring when her mother's dog dies at home with holistic help. The words she speaks to her mom and the veterinarian not only heal the adults, but forever after establishes her in a position of caring strength.

Frequently, as people begin buying organic meat and vegetables to prepare freshly for their animals' increased health, they begin to eat better themselves. This, in turn, supports the people who are raising the food that heals the planet. Often we need to reassess our budget to be able to include organic and free-range meat and vegetables in our diet and this reassessment extends to water and air quality, which all leads to more environmentally conscious choices.

HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING ANIMALS NURTURES OUR SPIRIT AND HEALTH

The 5 key steps to improving the health of your animals are:

1. Feed the best diet
2. Vaccinate the least
3. Treat the underlying energy problems, not merely eliminate current symptoms.
4. Know the possible outcomes of treatment, so you can decide if you and your current animal's practitioner are helping your animal as much as possible. If your current choices of treatment are only palliating or even harming the overall health and well-being, you need to choose a different practitioner or modality.
5. Provide the best environment for that individual animal (exercise, prayer, massage, air and noise pollution, attention, etc.)

Sound familiar? Yes, these are the same steps we need to keep ourselves healthy and happy. We know that having a reverence for the differences of each individual is right and this nurtures us. WE know that no one knows what is the best food for us to eat, or the right exercise program or the right meditation. We know that at different times in our lives we need different approaches. We learn from a wide range of healers and teachers. The same is true for our animals. Each is unique. Each has come to this physical life for a purpose on their road to growth and to fulfil their larger mission. You will read many conflicting opinions in the holistic field and be told specifically what to do (in a generic way) by most veterinarians.

You already know that when you are in tune with your intuition, your spirit, and/or your guardian angels, you make clear and useful decisions for your animals and yourself.

A wonderful part of the holistic approach is there are no mistakes, only learning.

Because our animals love us unconditionally, we learn to love unconditionally. Animals often reflect our current state of being to us.

One woman intuitively knew a rambunctious, hyperactive puppy was meant for her, even though she knew it would not be convenient or easy to raise this puppy, given her circumstances. She was able to have a profound look at her choice for ease over loving. Neither choice was wrong (taking the pup or not), but making the choice consciously was the lesson. Seeing how she makes these choices in her life in general is the lesson. All provided by a wonderful wiggly puppy.

As you make decisions in the 5 areas that can improve the health of your animals you may look at your own life values. You may face your habitual ways of responding. You may, if you wish, change from accepting what the "experts" tell you to making your own decisions and learning how to evaluate the consequences of those choices. I invite you to not take what I say as the gospel truth. Question it, think about it, watch your animals to discover the truth about it.

Future articles will cover each of the 5 areas. Please feel free to send in your questions and share your successes. e-mail them to: webmaster2@saskworld.com

By Christina Chambreau