Your Stress Effects Your Pets

We live in challenging times and external stressors abound. It’s been long proven that owning a pet has beneficial effects on our health. People and pets often mirror each others’ physical and emotional states. Since pets are so sensitive to our emotions, they can become sick as a result of our stress.

It may be the pet’s stress, such as having a new pet to adjust to in the house; but it can just as easily be the owner’s stress. The emotional turmoil brought on by such difficulties as household financial problems, frequent job travel, marital differences, new babies, and home remodeling can affect our pets in very tangible ways. Our stress can induce undesirable behaviors in our pets, such as inappropriate urination. More importantly, our stress can also influence the development of actual physical illness in our pets as well as in ourselves. Stress relief for pet owners won’t solve every pet health problem, but can go a long way toward alleviating many of them.”

Reiki can help relieve stress in people and pets. To prevent your stress from affecting your pets, come for a treatment for yourself. If you find that your pets are already affected by your stress, joint treatments for people and their pets can often be beneficial.

Executive Summary By Ingrid King