Introducing Animals to Your Home: 3 Simple TTouch Steps to go from Stressful to Easy Adjustments
Posted in Alternative Therapies, Animal Rescue, Animal Wellness, Healing, Rescue Dogs, TTouch, Wellness on 29. Sep, 2010
Bringing a new animal into your Household?
When dogs, cats, or other animals come into a new environment, stress levels rise.
Tellington TTouches can help an animal gently and calmly adjust to new surroundings while assisting in the bonding process with everyone – people as well as with new animals.
Here are 3 simple steps to add to your daily routine that reduce stress. Help ease the adjustment process whether you are adopting a rescue animal or bringing an animal in from a private owner.
What To Do:
TTouch Ear Strokes
1) The Ear TTouch Calms, Soothes and Balances. Support your dog, cat or pocket pet’s head with one hand under the chin for gentle support. Bring the thumb and fingers of your other hand to one of the ears so that your thumb is on top. Gently stroke your fingers from the base of the ear all the way to the tip of the ear.
Continue with additional strokes to cover all the surfaces of the ear. Change hands when you want to stroke the other ear.
Ear Strokes are reassuring and can help them calm right away.
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2) Noah’s March, the long, firm, sweeping Tellington TTouch that helps map out the body to increase
Noah's March: Long, Firm Sweeping Strokes from Head-to-Toe & Tail-to- Tip
awareness, grounding and relaxation.
Noah’s March is more effective than short pats to the head or body for calming.
Begin at, or around the head, continue along the neck, down the length of the back, all the way along the tail to the tip. Continue from the top of the shoulder down the legs, all the way to the paws and covering the toes and toe nails.
If your animal is uncertain about having the palm of your hand touching, use the back of the hand to stroke which is less threatening.
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3) Clouded Leopard TTouch, the basic circular TTouch for relaxing and confidence building. Place your hand with curved fingers on the animal’s body. Using the pads of the fingers, gently move the skin around in a one-and-a-quarter circle. Keeping soft, flexible fingers, use the circular motion in one location, slide about 1-2” and then do another circle. Continue using the circles all over the head, neck, back, tails and legs.
The same techniques are used whether it is a dog, cat, pocket pet or horse.
View the simplicity and ease of the basic circular TTouch®, the Clouded Leopard in this demonstration from Linda Tellington-Jones, Founder of TTouch.
Begin using these steps right away when you first meet your animal to pick them up;
- Before getting in the car
- While in the car if you have someone else driving
- Upon arrival at home
- Daily for awhile after the initial introductions
Using these 3 simple TTouch steps as part of your daily routine can help ease the adjustment process while helping you bond more deeply and fully with your new animal. Showing everyone in the household how to do the Ear Strokes, Noah’s March and Clouded Leopard Circles will help increase the quality of your animal’s life overall Wellness and can help nip many pesky behavioral problems in the bud!
All the best with your new family member!
Article written by Sandy Rakowitz
Sandy Rakowitz of One Heart Healing Center for People and Animals is a Teacher, Animal Communicator, Energy Healing & TTouch Practitioner, Essential Oils Expert, Author, Entrepreneur and Host of Essential Oils 101 a monthly Teleseminar. Sandy has 20+ years of experience in the field of Holistic Wellness.
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