Though I love my dog and cat, my life does not revolve around them. I have my life and my pets have theirs. I am telling you this, because what I am going to explain might seem strange: my dog Tasha and cat Zoey can heal.
Whether it's the unique vibrations that Zoey sends through my body as she purrs close to my heart or my dog's sense of 'knowing' where and when our muscles ache, there is no doubt in my mind that my pets, and all pets, have keen healing abilities. We just have to be open to them.
There are stories on the internet about dolphins and dogs who can sense cancerous tumors in people's bodies and a dog who can warn her owner before she has an epileptic seizure. There are other stories about people who have come home from operations and their cats insist on lying beside the part of the body that is mending.
Paws On Healing
Animal communicator Nedda Wittels calls it 'paws-on-healing.' She also writes that pets can sometimes use their "entire bodies to send life force energy. Some of them also work with the energies of our homes to clear lower vibrations or remove stagnant energy."
Is it possible that our pets can heal us (through pet Reiki) and prevent us from contracting a dangerous disease or condition?
From Experience
One day - I don't remember the circumstance - I came home tired and miserable. The moment I walked in the door, the tears started flowing. I lied down on the couch and buried my head in the pillow. Tasha, instead of greeting me in the usual exuberant way with wet kisses and flips through the air (as dogs often do), somberly leaned against me.
A mix between a boxer and a bull terrier, she is a medium-sized dog who is muscular and strong. Apart from her bulkiness, she can be extremely delicate. Standing with her long legs slightly apart, she pressed her large ribcage and warm belly along my torso.
Tasha remained there as long as I lay on the couch - an hour or more. Warm and constant, like a rock, I tried to wrap my mind around this connection I was having with my dog. She made me feel better through touch and diffused all my negative feelings. It was more than just unconditional love; and it was something different than the typical animal therapy we hear about - which relies on a human action for the therapy to be fulfilled.
A few weeks ago, I was lying on the bed strung out from work and sometimes because I work from home finding an appropriate place to relax when I am living in my work environment is a difficult thing. In frustration I laid down not knowing what to do with myself.
Within a few seconds, the cat had climbed on my chest and put her body along mine, with our hearts beating against one another. With a faster rhythm, the beating of her heart drum led to me to fall asleep. About 15 minutes later, the moment I woke up feeling fully recharged and energized, the cat leapt from my body. Was she healing me?
Writes Wittels, "During an animal communication workshop, one participant shared a story about her cat's healing abilities. For over six months, the woman had suffered with a very sore spot in her back. She had tried chiropractic and massage, but got no relief from the pain," explained Wittels.
"One day she came home from work exhausted and lay face down on her bed to rest. Her cat climbed up on her back and went directly to the spot that was painful. Kneading its paws for several minutes directly on that spot permanently eliminated the woman's pain."
A Cat Finds Pain And Gives Healing
A similar story happened with my boyfriend not long ago. With a lot of work in the laboratory, he often comes home in pain from stress. In this particular instance, he had a sore back. Sitting on the bed, Tasha the dog came to him. And although the dog was happy that she was suddenly allowed on the bed, she seemed to understand that she had another duty.
"Wow, this is amazing," my boyfriend exclaimed. The dog had been leaning her front knee joint into the exact place in his muscle that needed relaxing. She remained there for about ten minutes, motionless.
"How does she know where the pain is?" he asked.
Some say that pets can read or even smell our auras. And the one unique thing that makes pets different from us is that they are often paying much closer attention to us and our health, than we pay to ourselves.
Take heed next time your dog wants to cuddle up with you on the couch. She might just be trying to give you some preventative therapy and some good old-fashioned pet healing.