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Animal Reiki
Reiki is being used as a treatment and connection method in a number of ways for pets including:
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Anxious or Stressed Pets
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Coping With Illness and Surgery Recovery, End of Life Care
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End of Life Care
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Bonding and Quality Time
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Anxious or Stressed Pets
The number one primary benefit and response to Reiki with animals is stress relief and deep relaxation. The calm space created by a Reiki practitioner’s meditation invites the animal to join that relaxed environment. This can make Reiki an effective stress reliever for pets in high anxiety environments, be that a shelter setting or even at home with a new baby in the house.
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Coping With Illness and Surgery Recovery
When we are deeply relaxed, all of our systems relax and can function optimally and our immune system can operate more optimally. Our bodies can heal themselves when we can allow ourselves to relax.
Reiki works by inducing that state or creating that relaxation that we need to heal ourselves. Reiki can also be helpful throughout the medical process. If you have a pet who is anxious at the vet, but requires many visits because of their sickness or needs surgery, Reiki can help prepare them. Clune shares how Reiki can help put a pet more at ease prior to walking into those situations.
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End of Life Care
Reiki is offered in many hospitals and hospices for both family members and patients. When Reiki is used to help an animal pass, we find similar benefits. “Animals handle death better than we do. They know they are dying, they need time to process this and to know they are leaving. Reiki can help provide that time so that a pet is not in severe pain as they cope with this impending change. It can also bring pet owners some peace as well, especially knowing that their pet is at peace — maybe eating more and being more playful in their final days — and ready to say goodbye.
Reiki can create this beautiful peacefulness in the dying process, sometimes it’s not about getting better, but it’s about finding peace. It can be an incredible gift to have in a difficult moment.
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Bonding and Quality Time
Reiki can provide a way to strengthen the human-pet connection. “Animals teach us, they share with us even more than we share with them. They are intuitive beings,” says Clune. Reiki can offer another way to connect with your pet and can be especially helpful if you have rescued a new pet with past trauma or notice significant changes in your pet’s demeanor, but there are no physical signs of illness.
Reiki for animals, the power of peace to heal
Meditating with animals helps us find healing, even in difficult situations. Reiki brings healing in the form of peace and balance in other words, it is not a “cure” for this or that problem. But our bodies, minds and spirits heal at their best when we aren’t stressed and uncomfortable.
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Seeing your animal with your “Reiki eyes” in other words, with your (heart).
When we see with our hearts, we stop focusing on what is “wrong” and see that in this moment, all is well. We can find peace in this moment if we look deeply enough.
When we can see that "all is well" in this moment, our animals can sense this peace and find great comfort and support in it as they walk the path of healing. In order to find true healing, we must learn to find our inner peace, even in the most difficult times.