Archive for May, 2010

Massage your Dog or Cat, helps with Pets Arthritis & well being

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Accupressure is an overlooked effective option for arthritis in a recent news letter for the online vet, Dr. Andrew Jones found at  www.veterinarysecretsrevealed.com who  says massage is great for your pets too. See below an except of how to massage your cat with arthritis.

I personally massage my pets to improve their health. No particular pattern but basically the neck, spine and all around the joints, their tail, head, feet, legs, the works. They, my dog and cats all love it. And they will actually work with you moving a stretching a bit which really speeds up the healing process and brings relief.

I do the same to myself and often use the recapitulator massage tool as it makes the pressing much easier and i can be massaging while sitting still or my favorite place to work on before sleep is my lower back or hip area, especially good around the joints. It has relieved and stopped my arthritis symptoms and no more pain or limited movements. Keep up the massaging everyday and you will continually feels better til the pain disappears all together.

always have my massage tools by my office chair and bedside, so helpful!It cost less than one professional massage and i have had mine for over 10 years, my favorite massage tool of all time. Works great for any body area. and speeds up the healing because you can be comfortable massaging for longer when you don’t even have to move, just lay or lean into the knob(s). A massage tool is not necessary but you will find your fingers get sore after awhile with all the pressure needed to massage for any length of time. That’s where the tool helps beyond words.

Back to our animals, Here’s what the vet says about how to massage your cat.

EAR. The ear is a microcosm of the energy pathways in your pet.
Perform gentle circling motions on the top inside of the ear –
this stimulates the back legs.
GV4. Find the last rib, go directly up to the spine, this point
is right in the depression between L2 and L3 Vertebrae.

GV20. In two areas on your pet – one is five vertebrae spaces back
from the GV4 point, this is between L7 vertebrae and S1. The
other GV20 point is at top of the head in depression on the skull,
midway between the ears. These are very effective for any type
of back injury or arthritis.

NOTE: (i massage all the vertebrae on both sides of the whole spine and my dog & cats respond by sending shivers up it that i can see and feel, so i know they are enjoying and healing moving the energy around is a good thing, circulation activity)

Even a couple of minutes helps tremendously. Massage and keep on massaging til the pain, muscle tightness or problem disappears.

My dog, i presume has arthritis because she’s 14 years old and began limping on her rear right leg, so that’s where i begin to relieve the pain caused by the traumatized or tight muscles there. Massage everywhere, pressing, squeezing, manipulating to force the tightness to breakdown and get the blood flow back to any given area. When the muscles are tight it restricts such normal energy and flow. She is not limping after a 10 to 15 minute massage but it comes back after awhile so i do it again. I see the limping decrease every time, so i believe it works. I know it does cuz i do the same for myself.

You can even practice on your self so you know how it feels or what feels good and how hard or light to press.

I also massage my 2 cats and they come back for more. I have a male cat that had a very mean mom (not me but his real mother) and he may have stayed away from females due to being hurt by a female so he was plenty friendly with men but shyed away from women. But he now comes and sits on or close to me and loves to be close to me, he really works the massage with me by stretching and moving his body and they will even lick your hands while you are massaging them so i know they love it and are thanking us for the attention. You can tell, try it and you’ll see what i mean. Don’t leave your reptiles out, i have a friend that massages his (i’m not sure what kind it is)but a larger lizard and when he walks by his cage the lizard stretches his neck out so far, sort of appears as he is asking to be touched and massaged. When you do so, you can see him loving it. The animals become less agressive and more relaxed, land that’s everybody’s goal. Any person or any animal i have seen love massage, it does feel good even if you have to do it for yourself.

If you have a nervous pet this may calm them down to. Number one, they have your attention and that is most likely what they seek AND number two it feels wonderful to liberate muscles from any stress from whatever the cause.

You can tell when an area needs massaging because you can feel where the muscles are not in their normal state. They may be inflamed, tight, bumpy or feel bigger where they shouldn’t. If exploring on yourself you can tell what it feels like and how much pressure to apply and how to work it by pressing, squeezing, manipulating in such a way to wake up and break down that tight muscle, relaxing it and bring the blood back circulating again through the distressed area or any area for that matter. Blood that brings our nutrients to our entire body. If the muscle is tight, how can things be properly nourished? We can make a difference to our physical presence and do it yourself, for free.  

Dr. Jones, the online vet i have recently found offers a free CD “Learn natural healing remedies and effective techniques for healing your pet at home. Here are some of the areas it covers:

The fundamentals of healing your dog or cat with herbs, homeopathy acupressure and massage: Therapies and Techniques. This video seminar gives you some key insights into these vital healing methods.

1 hour, 34 minute video presentation covers:

  • Top Herbal Therapies For 10 Common Illnesses, including:
    • Behavioral Disorders
    • Arthritis
    • Soft Tissue and Muscle Injury
    • Cancer
    • Heart Conditions
    • Diarrhea
    • Cushings Disease
    • Hyperthyroidism
    • Eye Disorders
    • Allergies

    • click ‘onlinevet’ link above for more natural health remedy categories

    I encourage you all to massage every chance you get you will see the immediate affects and has long range potential for difficult areas to heal your selves, friends and your PETS.

    Also thinking about our pets, our best friends nutrition, their food what are we feeding them? Nutrition also plays a role in health. I like natural things, so i am discouraged when looking to find a substantial product out there to provide the good without all the chemicals and by products. After reading the ingredients on most of the commercial pet food out there, i decided to make my own, at least i will know exactly what’s in it and can add more important vitamins through a variety of foods we already have in our homes. For instance, instead of byproducts in the can i cook chicken, and use leftover items like rice, 9 grain cereal we may have had for breakfast, carrots, other veggies, parsley (good for digestion), flaxseed, wheatgerm and many more i haven’t even gotten to as yet. But i would say start them when they are young trying as many healthy items as you can as when they are older they are a bit fussy. There is much online and so you can adapt to your own personal habits, the door is wide open.

    I mix up the chicken with other goodies and my dog eats it up and i then know she is getting the nutrients that are important in maintaining a healthy body. I am going to start making her dog bones too and found a lot of choices at Amazon. The one i got was, the doggy bone cookbook but there are so many homemade recipes online for free, even videos, so do some research. Like making cookies, your children may get a kick out of cooking for your pets too. You can make a batch and mold into patties and freeze using as needed. You can take one pattie out the night before and keep in fridge to be ready for you in the morning.

    A recipe from my book is as follows just to give you an idea of how easy it is to assure your pet a healthier option.

    ‘veggiebite’ 

    3.5 cups whole wheat flour, 1/2 cup cornmeal, 1/8 cup dices red bellpeppers (optional), 1/2 cup shredded carrots, 1/2 cup of unsalted sunflower kernels, 1/1/4 cup water, 1 clove garlic (i use more) and 3 tbls oil. Preheat oven at 350 degrees, mix water and oil. Add flour, cornmeal veggies, garlic and sunflower seed. Knead dough for 2 to 3 minutes and roll to 1/4″ thick. Cut dough into bone shapes or use a cookie cutter and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 30 mminutes, Makes 2 1/2 dozen. You can also add cheese or peanut butter, 2 of my dogs favs.

    (salt i hear is not good for dogs, mine puked once when i had salted her food, to keep in mind and NO chocolate at all, keep out of their reach. Makes them sick)

    Best regards and please add to comments if you know of a good way for you and your pets to stay healthy naturally. We hunger for more info and find common sense ideas work best. we already know the answers we just have to awaken them, here’s your nudge!

    More food 4 thought from www.nuhealth.org

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The Recapitulator, a massage tool for healing and recapitulation.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Recapitulation is the art of recapturing lost energy stored in the muscles of the body from thoughts and feelings of past events, to relieve physical muscular stress or injury, a natural healing process. Self Re-examination.

Recapitulation is a core Toltec technique used to heal emotional charges. On a deeper level, it is used to reclaim energy and return it to self. Recapitulation was first introduced into mass consciousness by Carlos Castaneda in his book,  The Eagles Gift, published in 1982.

More information on this subject can be found at the Toltec Nagual site.  An excerpt from this site : Systematic recapitulation decharges emotions and frees one up to perceive the world clearly. Recapitulation releases negative emotions that are trapped in one’s subconscious freeing up their life. Many people have a habitually negative emotional state, or are moody for reasons they do not know why. More times than not, the reason lies in the suppressed emotional charges that lie in their subconscious.

Recapitulator, a massage tool used to bring attention to the memory and location of trapped energy to remove stress from the body thereby healing any area of distress upon re-examination, definition of recapitulation. We recapitulate to find out ‘the cause’ or base of our problem, discomfort or pain. The reason why we are not living in bliss because some bodily cry for help or emotion has grabbed your attention. Well, here is a simple way to fix those painful areas. Massage with the recapitulator massage tool. Sounds too simple right? Well you are already a healer that has perhaps not tried these techniques for peace of mind as well as a masterful massager to bring the attention and focus on what may be causing our pain.

It can be spontaniously revealed what the actual problem is underneath your manifested pain. you see your body wants the attention to let you know that something is haywire, there fore pain. Wake up your memories of your great self healing capabilities. You don’t have to study or read, just press where it hurts. Get quiet, slow deep breathing helps and there will be times when you will recall how that pain originated.That gives you the perfect opportunity to think that over again, recapitulate and change the affect it has made on your life.

For instance, i was massaging a place around my ankle and wondered why it hurt there. In a few seconds i remembered when i was 16 i sprained my ankle and i was afraid to walk on it normally as it created tremendous pain. So i walked at a sort of angle where by it would not hurt so bad, And believe it or not, to this day over 40 years later, the ankle sprain had healed (so i thought) and i was still walking crooked on that foot all this time. So once i re thought or recapitulated that and realized i would no longer feel that excruciating pain if i straightened that foot up and walk right. So i massage for about a 1/2 hour and worked out all the kinks that were still traumitized and voila, was so much better, i could not believe i stayed in pain so long. Actually i didn’t even know i was in pain with every step before i massaged it. We ignore so much. Now’s a good time to pay attention to ourseleves and what is going on inside.

I bet it has something to do with some of my back pain. One thing leads to another. You can check out more at http://www.nuhealth.org

We can heal ourselves, it doesn’t take long. We just have to move forward, try it here and there throughtout your day. You will begin to look forward to any moment you have that will help you feel better and is unlimited in possibilities moving in a direction of natural health and self healing. Use a massage tool or not. We can do alot for ourselves.

Happy Healing!

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Back & Neck Pain? check out this massage tool, the recapitulator

Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Dear David and all who have neck and back aches,
 
I understand your dilemma, 10 years ago i had such a pain in the neck the doctors said “nothing much we can do at this point other then give you something for the pain” and said when it gets back enough (they called it ‘degenerative spine’ disease), wait and then we can operate. Well,
 
That was the first time in my 47+ years that i felt so helpless, and started searching for another way to fix my neck and lower back problems. I did something i bet we all naturally do. I grabbed those muscles that hurt the most, the ones that really get your attention and squeezed as hard as i could.
 
I noticed that when i pressed on those stiff painful muscles down my neck and shoulders, or in back at the pelvis hip areas of the most pain I noticed there was somewhat of an improvement, found a bit of relief from that pounding constant pain restricting every movement and even when i wasn’t moving. the more i worked those muscles the better i felt.
 
After pressing really deep & by working those rigid lumps and bumps and places that feel like a steel cable, squeezing, pressing deep and moving back and forth or just staying still pressing as hard as you can for as long as you can comfortably, (you can actually feel where your muscles are out of whack and need work) i could move my head a little easier.
The muscles along the spine at the neck were so distraught they felt like bone and i really had to press much harder in those areas to get those muscles to wake up again. Quickly found the more you work on it the better it feels, the more relaxed you and your body becomes. Continue to follow where the pain leads you next, chances are it’s connected.
 
Stress had caused these muscles to seize up resulting in seized up tight muscles and very painful. Discovered while doing this bodywork that the neck aches were from an emotional trauma i was going through at the time (those kind of things happening in your outside world can really make your head hang low, not in harmony) and my lower back was a physical problem of lifting things too heavy for my body weigh and injuring the muscles there in the lower back.

I know for a fact i am describing common ailments many people may have. I can only say there are a few things you can do to heal and recover from these natural disasters.  the only relief i have ever found that was the Recapitulator. Easy to use, allows you to press as hard and for as long as you like and it’s lasting effects because you actually break down the tight muscles so they can release and relax and nutrients and blood flow can once again go their normal course.

It’s a no brainer. No more tight muscles, no more pain.

I checked out all kinds of natural pain relief as with herbs & other natural combinations of things, i checked out acupuncture etc, asked everyone i could and there are many excellent healers out there to help you. but i didn’t have much money. So, most of these wonderful massages or medicines to help were out of my reach and the medicinal items did not have enough umph to stop my pain for good. The topical applications only work temporarily and I wanted to get to the bottom of it and be rid of this awkward pain for good.

 

I went out every couple of weeks looking for the right massage tool and bought a bunch of different massage tools, all shapes and sizes. Yes they all helped but many were tiresome to hold or nearly impossible to use where i needed this body work at that time.  I tried some electric devices and decided to forget about any that were electric because all the vibration didn’t feel that good to me and in the back of my mind thinking that somehow the electric current was messing with my body’s electric system. Then i found the ultimate massage tool and started using a body tool called the Recapitulator.

This tool is especially good for the hard to reach areas like the back and neck. it’s simplistic design will work for ANY part of your whole body whether you want to work the surface muscles or deep deep within the body. The best part about it i found is that you don’t have to hold this massage tool. You don’t have to physically use one set of muscles to heal another set as you do when holding a tool and pressing with your physical power.

This tool is genius because, think about it, you just have to lean into the knob ends, or lay onto whether your front side or back side. What could be easier, the board gives you plenty of support and you can work for hours without getting tired. even do bodywork while doing something else. Easy to work on your back while sitting in your chair or couch watching tv or at your computer. See how to use massage tool videos here.

I tell you those muscles are so darn tight sometimes it takes days or months to recover from these muscles maladies. This recapitulator massage tool has changed my life and i am very thankful to have this information and opportunity to heal myself. It empowers you and you no longer feel like a victim but have gained knowledge and now you can pass it on to someone who really wants to hear it, that’s what i like most about learning new things.  You already know the answers, you just have to awaken your memory. You will find healing yourself comes to you naturally.

There are many massage tools on the market but with this one you don’t have to hold or exert energy to do your body work, you lay on or lean into and the tool does the rest. The cost is $34.95 plus shipping and is well worth it, you will not have to look for another tool to do all the jobs this recapitulator can do for you. I even use this on my wrists for carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms.

I can offer much in the way of experience, tell me where you need to work, what the problem is and we can go from there. I have set up the included different extensions and knobs in at least 20 different ways that make it comfortable and easy to work each specific area of concern.  You have so many choices with 10 attachments included. Also comes with a user guide with photos. You can order a couple of extra tool base boards and make many tools with the attachments included. Call them for more info 800.551.8394 PST

I’m not really selling the tool here, i want you to know you DO have the power within you to change how you feel to the ideal, to bliss. There may be alot of letting go to do, but no time like the present, chances are it will not go away by itself. You can check out an ancient legend showing how different body areas hold different feelings, it’s amazingly correct. See more NuHealth info.

Very Sweet! Happy Healing, hope this helps.

Pain is your body crying out for help, your attention, telling you where to look and will tell you how to fix, try it. You can do this for yourself easily.

In the meantime you can grab those tight muscles with your hand and squeeze or press deeply, this will help relax, the tool makes it easier with lots less effort.

Take a deep breath once in awhile throughout your day and think or say out loud, “i feel calm and relaxed, i am calm and relaxed” this helps remind us.

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