Sathish Rohini - You can heal your pet: the practical guide to holistic health and veterinary care

Praise for You Can Heal Your Pet:

Warm-hearted, compassionate and eminently practical, You Can Heal Your Pet combines mainstream veterinary advice with complementary wisdom. Every pet-lover should have a copy of this book in their home!

DAVID MICHIE, AUTHOR OF THE DALAI LAMAS CAT AND THE ART OF PURRING

Dr Rohini Sathish is a very compassionate, experienced and extremely competent veterinary surgeon. As a natural health veterinary surgeon myself, I would sincerely recommend this book to all pet owners and breeders.

DR PAUL BOLAND BVSC MRCVS

Modern medicine has advanced greatly with regards to diagnosis of diseases but is lagging behind in treatment options for some. I believe this book can offer valuable complementary advice to every pet owner.

DR S LOGESWARAN BVSC GP CERT (ENDO) MRCVS

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Text Elizabeth Whiter and Dr Rohini Sathish, 2015

Interior images: p.1, 101, 249, 275 centre right and below left Leesa Le May; pp. 110113 and 125129 Brian Clifford

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ISBN 978-1-78180-493-3 in print
ISBN 978-1-78180-525-1 in ePub format
ISBN 978-1-78180-526-8 in Kindle format

Healing.

As Guardians, we wish to do all we can to help heal our loved animals. It seems, therefore, that we would all have a very clear idea of what it is to heal. But, is it clear, really?

Thoughtfully, Elizabeth Whiter and Dr Rohini Sathish define this rich idea, and provide a wonderful compass and map for navigating the world of animal healing. Yet healing as an idea is fertile soil yielding food for thought, so I would seed this soil here, as a starting point.

When we consider a healing of human or non-human animals, the physical body, the past, the psyche, the spirit, the earth, a relationship what is the essence of a healing?

There are hidden esoteric wisdoms in language, so lets examine words. The word heal is from the Old English hlan, which in turn is from an ancient word hailjan, meaning to make whole. Dis-ease seems to arise from less wholeness.

Within a being, or a being-ness, we have parts, constituents and attributes whether of the physical or meta-physical variety. These come and go at a certain harmonious rate, and disruption or disturbance in this manageable flux is experienced as dis-ease, sickness or trauma.

Health, therefore, emanates from integration, where a kind of completion emerges from pieces that fit well together, for an expected time. So a healing may be thought of as a re-integration.

These are the thoughts of a human mind, and being human is a wondrous thing. But, I suppose there are some drawbacks to our human-ness. Sometimes we do silly things. One of these silly things is forgetting that we are rather tiny in the scope of all that is. This forgetfulness can lead to hubris, or excessive pride.

There is an old saying: Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud. Those of us in the medical establishment might be well served to write this on our foreheads in permanent ink. We forget that our viewpoints, the windows through which we see, are actually rather small keyholes. We forget about other Guardians.

We forget the limitation in our sight, in our vision of the cosmos. We forget there is more. We can oversimplifywe can favor contraction or stasis over expansion. And thus we may reject, out of hand, the in-sight through another keyhole, a different window.

In this we greatly err, for we may miss a particular aspect of the larger picture, a useful facet, another presencing of a thing that could be re-integrated in the healing. For that-which-is-truly-there has many aspects, and healing therefore must, by definition, promote a wholeness within the multiplicity of disparate parts. And first we must be willing to see this multiplicity, and to dismantle our hubris.

For these reasons, it is clear that my esteemed colleagues, the authors of this most useful book, are excellently on-point in presenting the many ways the reader may be a champion of animal healing. These many implements, this whole-istic and integrative approach, address the varied facets required in effective healing.

I hope you enjoy the illuminations of these pages, as I have, in your pursuit of the hailjan of your loved animals. For furnished here are thoughts and words that pave the way for the numinous deeds of creation and re-creation, those of the divine.

Dr Demian Dressler DVM
Veterinarian and author of the Dog Cancer Survival Guide

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and I have no doubt that meeting Elizabeth Whiter was no accident. I have been a successful veterinarian and surgeon for 21 years, and have been on lots of courses and gained extra proficiency to an advanced level in medicine and surgery, but when my own cat, Silky, was diagnosed with incurable cancer by oncologists I was deeply shaken and felt completely helpless.

In total desperation, I contacted many healers and complementary therapists online. Elizabeth Whiter was the only one who replied immediately. Her empathy, concern and support helped me immensely through a very difficult time. We remained in touch after Silkys passing, and I then went on to train as an Animal Healer with Elizabeth, which was an amazing, transformational journey. I now believe I am a complete veterinarian.

Elizabeth and I became really good friends. We realized we had similar values and a common vision, and also that we had a lot to learn from each other with regards to animal health. We both strongly believe that conventional veterinary medicine alone cannot ensure total animal wellbeing. There is a need to heal the