Is my pet sick because of me? the human animal connection.
July 27th 2007 00:24
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I hesitantly used this title because I don’t want readers to go into paranoia and blame themselves for anything that has happened to their animals. This article is being written to help each of us understand the dynamics of energy between our animal friends and ourselves.
Having been a therapist now for nearly twenty years I am still amazed at how many insights our close environment gives us as to our own mental and emotional health. I want to share with you some of the thoughts of two authors I admire and how I have recently and loosely draw from them to add to my own working philosophy after reading these books over the 2004 Christmas break. David Suzuki with his book The Sacred Balance, and Linda Kohanov with The Tao of Equus.
Before I discuss our energetic relationship with our animals, I want to take a broader look at our place on this planet and this is what I will draw on David Suzuki to help me with. I was lucky enough to win a ticket to hear him speak in Sydney a few years ago, and I was struck personally by one comment he made. He discussed how if we pollute the earth, we pollute the food we eat and in turn are only polluting ourselves. If we pollute the water, which we eventually drink, we are polluting ourselves.
“Human beings depend on Earth and its life-forms for every aspect of their survival and life. It is impossible to draw lines and delineate separate categories of air, water, soil and life. You and I don’t end at our fingertips or skin – we are connected through air, water and soil; we are animated by the same energy from the same source in the sky above. We are quite literally air, water, soil, energy and other living creatures.”
David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance
What I am attempting to show you that nothing separates us. You and I may feel a touch more connected as you read my words, but in my reality, that connection has always been there and always will be. When I work with kinesiology on a spiritual level, this is even more apparent to me. I can sit in my loungeroom in Sydney and have the intention of clearing the energy of thoughts and emotions for a friend in Bend Oregon. She will notice when I have worked on her and her horse and email me promptly. We may be thousands of miles apart, separated physically by land and ocean, but energetically we are connected as much as we would be if we were in the same room.
David Suzuki draws another parallel I want to draw on as well, however where you read caribou, I would like to take some licence and insert horse, dog or cat. He is discussing The Law of Love:
“We are social beings – herd animals who depend on each other at every stage of lives. Like many other animals, we are born incapable to care for ourselves; we need a long period of care from our parents so that we can grow and learn in safety. As each of us develops, we need companions to define and extend our sense of self, and a community in which we find opportunities for a mate, for rewarding activity and for conviviality. These needs are absolute, inalienable, and where they are not met we suffer, even perish. Like the caribou (horse, cat or dog) that wanders too far from the herd, we cannot thrive in isolation from our kind. From the very beginning of life each of us is shaped for and by close relationships with other human beings.”
David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance
As our society today has so many of us living singularly, working long hours in concrete towers, isolated by negative experiences within our society, I believe our animals support some of the needs we are not having met. They are reflecting to us what areas of our lives are disconnected from the whole and in their own way taking on a role to help bring us back to a feeling of oneness amongst ourselves.
I will turn my attention now to our horses. Only today, and this conversation that in some form occurs frequently enough to not be ignored, I was speaking with a client who has a sick horse, it is one of those mystery illnesses science has not found a way to measure and define. This client has excellent veterinarians and draws on the skills of many therapists, including myself, and still the illness remains and difficult to label. As we were ending our discussion, and this is often when a client feels brave enough to ask this particular question, she asked, “Do you think Angel may have my disease?”
I replied that I thought there could be an energetic aspect of her illness that Angel was taking on. (and often if the origin of a disease is energetic, it will not show up in medical tests, as they are looking for something in the physical). She went on to tell me how she had suffered from heavy metal poisoning for many years, and about six months ago, she began to feel better. It was also around this time that she formed a strong attachment for Angel, and Angel reciprocated this attachment. It was not long after this that Angel started developing her mystery illness, one that is similar in clinical signs to that of her owner’s imbalances.
There are many ways to interpret this interaction and I have not yet explored it directly with this client and Angel and why I am using it as an example today. I haven’t formed a definite ‘opinion’ on their story as yet, so I have the flexibility to explore possibilities here.
If I was to explore it I would use my kinesiology skills to identify the thoughts and emotions that contributed to how this client expressed her illness. I would look for which of these aspects Angel had taken on to assist her owner, where she was holding them and use spiritual healing rays and sacred geometry to give them back to the client so she could heal these aspects within herself. To take it further I would then use the same tools to identify when this client first triggered this pattern and help her step out of it by replacing the negative with the positive aspects and rebalance both hers and Angel’s subtle anatomy from holding this energy. Some of these imbalances may be other people’s stuff, or vulnerabilities and weakness they both developed as a consequence, or some kind of biochemical upgrade.
Linda Kohanov helped to show me another perspective to this approach from a psychological approach. She discusses the horse as a socio sensual being and how the horse senses our emotional state and will ‘react’ to this until we own our emotions and become a congruent human being. Linda Kohanov discusses the sympathetic vibrations between horses and humans.
“I believe that one of the ways the autonomic nervous system interacts with the outside world is through resonance. Horses, who have a larger and more sensitive guts than humans, arguably have a much larger brain in their bowels – and more resonant surfaces with which to detect nuances of information.”
Linda Kohanov – The Tao of Equus
It is more important these days that we get REAL around our animals and then carry this through to other areas of our lives. The kinesiology I use to help you identify patterns of behaviour often helps you to discover aspects of yourself you may not have acknowledged or been willing to acknowledge in the past. Or a program developed by therapists like Linda Kohanov can help you deal with deep issues you may have suppressed but still ooze out of your energy field for the horses to see and feel.
I think for me with the work, the important thing for my clients is to consider that if they are having physical or behavioural problems with their animal and they are not clearing or healing, or they are reoccurring, what is that they need to become more real about in their lives?
I have struggled over the years finding a place within a logical patriarchal logic where our healing process “must” be justified and proven by science. However in my work I have relied strongly upon my nonverbal awareness of the horse and my human clients, thankfully these two authors have helped me find a space to next step off from, and David Suzuki, a scientist himself, provided me with a valuable quote from Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein was asked one day by a friend “Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?” “Yes, it would be possible,” he replied, “but it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning – as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation in wave pressure.”
© Catherine Bird
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