As different as cats and dogs

[zara]

Anyone else notice a marked difference between how dogs and cats respond to Reiki?

Cats seem to lap it up, and will come lay on the table or actually on the person I'm working with.

Dogs, on the other hand, often get excited.

Anyone else noticed a difference?

 

[Pompal 09.]

I've always thought that cats just come around to make sure you're doing it right. :

 

[Pompal 09.]

LOL Breathe! I do massage, but definitely notice a difference in cats and dogs. Dogs watch carefully at first, mostly to be sure I am not hurting their person. Some do get very excited, but most can be reassured and will then leave me alone. When they know I am safe, they go lie down. Cats ... well, they want some. They end up on the person (I get owner-instructions before the session, so I know whether or not to allow that) and usually end up getting some massage too! I can usually promise them some at the end and keep putting them down, unless they are wanted. If they are wanted, I use them like hot stones - heat and weight, LOL. There is one, though, that gets every 3rd or 4th stroke. :roll:

He tips well, too. :

 

[t j]

Great feedback

Yeah, dogs do worry about their human stewards. I forgot that part. I was facilitating an energy release around some childhood trauma that was painful and the person's little doggie got right up in my face snarling and barking but somehow realized I really wasn't hurting their human friend even though I was crying and making scary sounds.

I had my eyes closed so I was told that after the dog realized I wasn't hurting their friend, he just sort of stood guard next to me.

Part of my work in the past was to help release the sounds of trauma that never got released at the time so it could get loud.

I learned after that not to have doggies in the room if I thought a release like that might occur.

One other thing about cats (and dogs for that matter) is that I think they also want to be close sometimes, to help. I believe they assist energetically with the healing of their human steward.

Odd thing is that I never came out of the zone. I heard the dog and felt it's breath on my cheek and normally, that would have way freaked me out.

However, my cats never left a tip, ha.

 

[Mrs. Shana]

My mother's cat (who's normally unfriendly) loves to "assist" her Polarity sessions...sometimes getting up onto the table and client's body (resting on a client's chest or heart chakra for example). My mother is sure to let clients know ahead of time that her cat may jump up...she hasn't had an issue with any client so far. Client's dogs are zonked-out typically while she does Polarity, as well...sometimes antsy at the beginning but settling after a bit.

While I'm working on someone around my dogs, they always just crash...be it massage or Reiki. They like to be under my feet, so I need to move them around initially. One I get them put, they stay there.

At one client's home, her two dogs crash in their beds (in the same room) during her massage/Reiki session...and one of her cats stays put on a high dresser napping. The other cats don't usually make a showing.

While my mother works on me, my dogs are antsy. She also uses crystals in her work which I do not...this may be the difference.