Pets and animals benefit from natural health and alternative healing modalities, too.
Animal alternative health practices of acupuncture, chiropractic, acupressure, massage, reiki, energy healing, herbs, homeopathy, flower essences and essential oils are all used with animals and pets.
Animal chiropractic, acupuncture and possibly acupressure and massage will usually be restricted by state law to a licensed professional. Some states may also regulate reiki, animal reiki, energy healing, herbs, homeopathy, flower essences and essential oils and any other animal alternative health practice. Check your state for its requirements.
Animal reiki and animal healing energy are the focus of this article.
Many animals respond quite well to reiki and energy healing. Animal reiki and animal healing energy have been used positively on dogs, cats, birds, fish, horses and all sorts of other pets and exotic animals.
Look for a trained reiki practitioner, reiki master or energy healer with experience working with animals.
Generally, animals need less reiki and energy work than humans do. This is primarily due to several influences:
- Animals are usually more aware of and sensitive to energy. Many people have lost their conscious awareness of energy.
- Animals are usually aligned with the energy in their lives and in their environment. For example, horses, being prey animals, are very sensitive and exquisitely attuned to the energy around them. Animals naturally move in concert with the energy around them. Humans often override the energy around them and live in opposition to it.
- Animals make good use of the reiki and healing energy they receive and don’t try to subconsciously undo its beneficial effects the way some humans do.
- Some very small animals have smaller energy systems, although animal size is not usually a significant factor in the amount of reiki or energy work needed.
So, when working with animals energetically, less is usually good.
The primary factor in giving energy to pets and animals is to let the animal do the guiding. I cannot stress that enough.
Offer reiki and energy healing
The practitioner should offer reiki and energy healing to an animal. Don’t force it! Offer it. If the animal moves away, they should wait a few minutes and offer it again. The pet might just be wondering what you are doing. If the animal moves away on the second offering, he or she probably does not want or need the healing energy at this time. Honor your pet’s wisdom!
Reiki- hands on or hands above the body?
The animal may accept the healing touch physically or may prefer reiki be given above their body with no physical touch. Both are equally effective.
Birds often don’t like to be touched, some cats don’t, and even some dogs don’t. Wild animals should usually not be given direct physical touch. And certainly, if aggression seems like a possibility with any animal, don’t give direct physical touch. The healing energy works fine from a distance.
Don’t get too physically close to wild animals.
Wild animals can behave unpredictably when hurt or ill. You don’t want to get hurt, either. Distant reiki (given by a reiki Level 2 practitioner or reiki master) can work very well with wild animals as the practitioner can be as far away as need be and still be effective.
Follow your intuition
The practitioner should let intuition and your pet be the guide as to where to place the hands around their body.
Let the animal choose to end the healing session or, if you or the practitioner feel intuitively that the session needs to be stopped sooner, do so.
After the session observe your pet.
Make sure they have fresh water available and can rest or sleep if they want to. They may need to go to the toilet. Or, they may ask for food. You can give them a small amount.
Also note how you feel in your body and any thoughts, images, or feelings that arise in you during and after sessions. Sometimes, you can receive communication from them about their needs. Or you may get guidance from spiritual reality. Ask the practitioner to share any information they may have received.
Your practitioner should be willing to answer any questions you may have before, during and after sessions.
Keep a journal of the energy work with animals. Note reactions and effects during and after sessions.
Lastly- and most importantly- always, always, always consult your licensed veterinary professional for all your pet’s health issues. We love vets. This material is not designed to diagnose or treat disease. It is not a substitute for veterinary care.
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What have been your experiences with reiki and healing with pets and animals?
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Here’s to your pet’s very best natural health and happiness,
Val Lovejoy
Reiki Master
www.thrivenaturalhealth.com
