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    Animals Have Feelings, Too: Bach Flower Remedies for Cats and Dogs
    Animals Have Feelings, Too: Bach Flower Remedies for Cats and Dogs
    Animals Have Feelings, Too: Bach Flower Remedies for Cats and Dogs
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    Animals Have Feelings, Too: Bach Flower Remedies for Cats and Dogs

    By C. M. Barrett

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    Are you looking for a drugless solution for your pet's behavioral issues? The Bach Flower Remedies, developed in the early 1900s by Edward Bach, M.D., have helped countless humans and animals. This book helps you to understand what your cat or dog's behavior means and recommends Bach Flower Remedies for many conditions.
    The book gives special attention to abandonment and abuse.

    Topics include:

    How the Bach Flower Remedies Can Help Animals and Humans: An explanation of how energy healing works.

    Understanding Our Animal Companions: Animals, especially companion animals have emotions. Because they don't speak the same language as we do, they often communicate through their behavior. Learn to crack the code by observing your pet carefully.

    My Cat/My Dog/Myself: Sometimes animals mirror our own emotional upsets. You'd be surprised what you can learn about yourself from them.

    Abuse and Abandonment: These animals need special understanding and treatment.

    Some Common Conditions and Remedies for Them: An annotated list.

    C. M. Barrett has been a Bach Flower Remedies practitioner since 1990. She is the author of Bach Flower Remedies: A User-Friendly Guide and has taught the principles of Bach Flower Remedies extensively in online classes.

    She is also the author of Big Dragons Don't Cry, a fantasy novel that features a large cast of cats.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC. M. Barrett
    Release dateJul 20, 2011
    ISBN9781465888921
    Animals Have Feelings, Too: Bach Flower Remedies for Cats and Dogs
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    C. M. Barrett

    On my mother's side of the family, I come from a line of storytellers. My grandmother's stories ranged from my grandfather's arrest for draft resistance in England during World War I, the uncertainty of life during the Troubles in Ireland, to the day she decided to leave her marriage (but didn't). My mother's stories described a rural childhood that to a child of a suburb of little boxes seemed idyllic. Both of them encouraged me to read and provided me with books to feed a growing habit. When I was seven or eight, I discovered mythology, and the gods and goddesses in those tales were as real to me as the dragons and cats in my own stories are now. Thanks to my early training in fantasy, I like to hang out with dragons. Accepting the bizarre directions my imagination takes has allowed me to conjure up Zen cats, cougars, gossip-vending hawks, and other critters. Currently I live in upstate New York on a wooded piece of land not unlike some of the terrain in Big Dragons Don't Cry. Since 2000 I've belonged to the online writers' group, Artistic License, subtitled Shameless Blameless Hussies. They've read all my books, but don't blame them if you find errors, because they're shameless. I also paint, and the art on my book cover is one of my watercolors.

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      Animals Have Feelings, Too - C. M. Barrett

      INTRODUCTION

      Since 1990, I've been counseling people and their pets as a Bach Flower Remedies practitioner. I'm especially committed to helping animals with the Remedies. Too many cats and dogs are returned to shelters and/or killed because of behavioral issues. I hope to make information available that can help animals' human companions apply their knowledge to treat the animals' issues.

      Up until now, I've been providing this information through my counseling work, information on my web site, EFT Consultations at http://www.eftconsultations.com and through my course to train Bach Flower Remedies practitioners (information about which is also available at this web site.

      With this book, I intend to reach more people who would like to help their animal companions and themselves. It provides descriptions of many conditions for which Bach Flower Remedies can be helpful and reviews methods of giving the Remedies.

      I've focused on cats and dogs here, but I have worked with many other species, including horses, cattle, ferrets, and hedgehogs. The principles are broadly applicable.

      Rescue Remedy, the most widely used of the Bach Flower Remedies, can also help wild animals. However, I recommend great caution in this area and no direct contact. I include a brief section on emergency treatment when appropriate.

      Notes on Style and Content

      If I am writing generically about an animal, I use the word it. If I'm writing about a specific animal, I use the words he or she. I have tried to be consistent with this, but sometimes I forgot.

      If I am writing about my animals, I report the incidents exactly as they occurred. When I refer to a case history with a client, human or animal, I keep the fundamental story accurate and change details. This is to protect the privacy of the client.

      You may notice that I never speak of animals as having owners. Decades of living with cats have convinced me that we don't own animals. Dogs, cats, and other animals are our companions.

      Who This Book is For

      I wrote the original version of this book in response to people interested in taking my course, Bach Flower Remedies: A User-Friendly Guide, who wanted to help animals with the Remedies. These included pet psychics, massage therapists, Tellington Touch practitioners, Reiki practitioners, and civilians who wanted to help their animals and those of their friends.

      Some of the information here is geared towards professionals. However, I felt that it was equally important to present the material in a way that would enable people who wanted to use the Remedies for their animal companions to apply the principles of diagnosis and usage. For this reason, when I'm writing about a method of investigation, diagnosis, or treatment, I have both groups of readers in mind.

      My recommendations aren't only for animals. Many humans find that taking Remedies can help them deal with their animals' crises. Throughout this book, I include suggestions of Remedies for humans. In addition, you'll find a list with brief descriptions of each Remedy at the end of this book. You can find extended descriptions at http://www.eftconsultations.com/eftandessences/bfr/bfr.shtml

      The book includes the following topics:

      How the Bach Flower Remedies Can Help Animals and Humans

      Understanding Our Animal Companions

      Animals Have Feelings

      Animals Are Not Humans

      Some Common Conditions

      Unique Aspects of Understanding Animal Companions

      My Cat/My Dog/Myself

      Abuse and Abandonment

      Remedies for Common Conditions

      How to Administer the Remedies

      An Alphabetical List of the Remedies

      HOW THE BACH FLOWER REMEDIES

      CAN HELP ANIMALS AND HUMANS

      There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind, and inner happiness. Dr. Edward Bach, 1934

      Edward Bach, medical doctor, bacteriologist, and homeopathic physician, dedicated his life to discovering a system of healing that would go beyond the diagnosis and treatment of physical symptoms to address the emotional and mental roots of disease. He came to realize that when people were treated on the basis of distinctive personality characteristics, rather than according to their disease, true healing could occur. Convinced that he would discover what he sought in nature, he began to explore the fields and forests of England in search of essences that would be effective, pure, and inexpensive.

      One day, the sight of dewdrops glistening on flower petals inspired him with the idea that the heat of the sun, acting through the dew, must draw out the healing essence of each flower. He developed a method for extracting this essence and experimented with various flowers. In this way, he isolated flowers that addressed a broad range of psychological conditions. These became known as the Bach Flower Remedies.

      How The Remedies Work

      The Remedies belong to a field of alternative healing that's based on the idea of energy movement. I often use the following imagery to describe this:

      Imagine a river flowing powerfully between its banks. The air that rises from it smells clean, fresh, and invigorating, and the water is clear. The resistance that the river may encounter in the form of rocks or fallen branches isn't enough to significantly slow it.

      Over time, severe storms tear off branches off the trees, and they fall into the river. Gradually a blockage forms that slows the movement, and the water becomes sluggish and muddy in appearance and stagnant in odor.

      In human or animal terms, the equivalent of physical debris stems from emotional disruptions. It would require a separate book to list them all. Instead, I've listed some broad categories, with an emphasis on those that affect animals. These include:

      Unhealed Traumas

      They may be from physical or emotional abuse, abandonment, or any incidents that are traumatic in nature. Rescued animals are especially likely to have such traumas. (Humans, of course, have their share.) Traumas prevent or inhibit the flow of natural, healing, creative energy that is the birthright of all living things.

      Habitual Thinking and Behavior Patterns

      We all want to be happy. We all want to be in mental and emotional balance. Often, though, the way we've been trained to view life prevents us from seeing new solutions that could bring us back into harmony. Einstein said that we can't solve a problem at the level at which we created it.

      I have worked with animals that had previously experienced systematic abuse. These experiences had blocked any impulses they had to be friendly and trusting. Instead, they habitually experienced fear of humans and attempted to withdraw

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