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A HOLISTIC APPROACH 

  • By Karen Nowak
  • 13 Feb, 2017

to your ANIMAL’s HEALTH CARE

A HOLISTIC APPROACH

Are you reactive or proactive when it comes to your animal’s health?

 Answering this question honestly, and changing yourapproach if necessary, contributes to you building a well-rounded health-care plan for your animal. Waiting until an illness or disease arises places you in a position of reacting, and not in the optimum mind-set to make informed decisions based on research. Creating a holistic approach involves incorporating the concept that both you and your animal are more than just
physical beings. Traditional medicine addresses physical symptoms. Alternative modalities encompass the mental and emotional aspects that present themselves in the body as imbalances, known as diseases.

It’s Not All Black and White

As an advocate for your animal’s health, be discerning. What may appear as hocus-pocus at first glance may be an integral part of a holistic
approach. On the other hand, there are businesses around the world that capitalize on you as you take their word for a product. They use popular catchphrases and create non-truths that become accepted truths over time. One example is the concept that we are supposed to keep our dog and cats on the same food their entire lives. This was created to maintain product loyalty; it is not for the good of the animal. And foods that will last months and months on a shelf are chemically assisted to stay “fresh.”

Chemicals are everywhere in our lives and the lives of our animals. Waiting until the body is no longer able to assimilate them is a reactive approach to supporting the health of our pets. Investigate and become proactive in your animal’s health-care regime. Build ahealth-care team of providers that you trust; each will have a special role and contribute to this holistic approach.

Making Informed Decisions

An Integrative Health Plan is a cooperative collaboration between conventional and alternative medical approaches. Conventional medicine
is defined at ShareCare.com as: “A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists,
and physical therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery. Also called allopathic medicine and Western medicine.”
Alternative medicine is comprised of practices that are built upon complete systems of ideas and practices and may have evolved in Western or
non-Western cultures, some of which are ancient in origin. Examples include Ayurveda, Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Naturopathic medicine, Osteopathy, Acupuncture, and Traditional Chinese medicine.

The Case of TYEE, a Rat Terrier

A recent case, which inspired this article, involved a rat terrier named Tyee. I was approached to work with Tyee a few months ago, in a complimentary capacity. I always state clearly at the beginning of any work that non-traditional healing is not in place of, but in conjunction with, traditional medical care, and that it’s up to the pet’s humans to make decisions. Ellie, Tyees human health-care advocate, understood.
She was already well informed on his dietary needs, which is an important aspect of a holistic approach. Also included is working with traditional veterinarians, as well as those whose practices encompass alternative means of treating their patients. Ellie, through her research, found modalities that could not be scientifically proven, yet held merit when looking at the bigger picture of working with Tyne’s mental,
emotional, and spiritual aspects. In working with Tyee, I used several modalities including The Body Code System to address what is
not visible. In this case, a diagnosis was made that was affecting his overall well-being. We worked with removing fear, anxiety, and unseen blocks and imbalances that were inhibiting his physical, emotional and mental well-being. This enabled him to find balance in these underlying areas, thus contributing to his physical wellness as well. In Ellie’s words: “I thought you would enjoy this update about
Tyee, since you did some work with him recently. This afternoon I took Tyee for a walk. Recently, he had been wanting to run on our short walks around the block, not walk. So today, since it wasn’t too cold out, I decided to lengthen our walk.
Well, it turned into a run for about 1/2 hour. Let’s just say it’s the first time I’ve been “jogging” with Tyee in two years. It got me to think about disease in general... that you can look at it like a death sentence or you can learn how to work with it.” Ellie, as Tyees health-care advocate, incorporated a whole-being approach. Traditional and alternative means built the complimentary program she adopted. She consulted professionals and made her own decisions as to when to integrate traditional approaches and when to include alternative means.
Tabby Mix

The Case of PAPI, a Tabby Mix

Papi, an eight-year-old male feline, had been vomiting, overeating, and over-drinking when I was consulted. Toni, Papi’s human, had already been to her vet and eliminated parasites, diabetes, and other physical ailments as the cause of her symptoms. Changes in diet did not change Papi’s physical situation. We spoke to Papi and found he was holding a great deal of anxiety in his intestines due to having seen Toni taken away in an ambulance. Clearing anxiety and the resonances he had held from a similar incident, by working with The Body Code, he resumed a normal life. Having used both traditional and alternative means, Toni was able to rest assured that she had addressed all of Papi’s needs in
a holistic approach.
The processes used are ever-changing, because each animal’s situation is unique. To develop an animal health care plan, keep these steps in mind:
  • • Do research.
  • • Be willing to expand on what you are doing
  • with your animal as the need arises.
  • • Both traditional and alternative methods have
  • merit. Explore beyond what you may have come
  • to believe about either approach.
  • • Integrate what will address your animal as
  • the multi-dimensional being that they are.
  • • Make decisions based on what is best for your
  • animal.

Creating a holistic approach encompasses the whole being. Both conscious and unconscious—rational and irrational—aspects are found in our
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual being. The information you garner from your team contributes to making informed decisions that will surely benefit your animal’s health.

Karen E. Nowak is an animal communicator, author, lecturer and alternative healer for both humans and animals. 

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