After reading this title you may be scratching your head and wondering how this is so. But your pet does have secret healing powers that can help you heal. Are you getting a picture of your pet holding their paws or hoofs over you with closed eyes working to heal you from the inside out? That is possible, but it doesn’t work in quite this way.
Formal research into this is relatively new, but studies show that pets have healing energies that can help with:
- reducing stress and anxiety,
- support to boost your mood,
- lower your blood pressure,
- good for your heart,
- heal faster after surgeries or injuries.
- pets taking on your emotional or physical issues to help you.
When and how does the healing take place? Every time you touch them, cuddle with them, and allow them to be close to you, they can be sending you healing energy.
There has been extensive research showing how animals have strong healing energies that they have been brought into children’s cancer wards, elderly homes, and hospitals to help patients heal more quickly or help with the anxiety that goes along with illnesses. The majority of these patients responded so well that even schools are utilizing pets to help their students with needs from anxiety on the first day of school to coping with everyday school issues. These are now known as ‘Support Animals”, and they help alleviate emotional stress and anxiety.
What most of us don’t realize is how our emotional state can affect our health— and this is where animals become healers for us. They can help us feel more accepted, loved, supported, and wanted. Think about how much better you feel when sitting next to your pet or simply talking to them. Yes, we all do it. We vent to our pets, and they do what most humans can’t, they listen. They don’t talk, they don’t judge, they simply listen. This is one of their most revealing healing powers. They can even pick up on your sense of distress or depleted energy levels before you do in many cases.
When you have a chance to let go of stuck emotions it helps you release the negative energy that is hindering you in the first place, and your animals let you shift away from holding tensions emotionally or energetically while you simply enjoy patting them softly or even napping next to them.
Maybe it’s time to spend more time with your pet(s). Take the time to be with them as it is not only cathartic for you, but it is for them as well. Just remember, that they may also need assistance dealing with all those difficult feelings themselves. That’s why Chiron Energy Healing and Energy Medicine can support you both in releasing and rebalancing what is interfering with your well-being.
Here’s to the healing powers of your pet.
Carolyn Osborn
Discover a Natural Well-Being and Oneness within the Body, Mind and Spirit, that awaits you and your animal.
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P.S. Animals are often our closest companions. We invite you to use something unique we have just published; this very practical tool to help you discover if your animal has a message for you, or needs help. Take our Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Pet’s Alerts? it’s free. Learn more, and click to get it here.
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Our newest program is featured right on our website homepage or in our sessions menu: Chiron Mirror Sessions • Energy Healing between You and Your Animal. It is designed to help you discover a natural well-being and oneness within the body, mind and spirit that awaits you and your animal— when you are guided to release unwanted behaviors and unconscious memories and patterns of suppressed vitality and difficult energy blocks that may trigger dis-ease or imbalances if left unattended.
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