Know Your Dog's True Nature - Understanding Canine Personality through the Five Elements

Discover your dog’s Five Element archetype to better understand their behaviors and needs

Sommario

Foreword by Allen Schoen, DVM
PART 1 — Introduction

1. A Dog’s Eye View
Ancient Minds and Methods
Archetypes
Wants, Needs, Stressors, and Support
Rescue Dogs and Shelter Applications:
More Than Just a Curiosity

2. How to Use This Book
The Scenario
Quizzes
Father Time
Acupoints for Elemental Balance

PART 2 — The Element Dog

3. The Wood Dog
Characteristics of a Wood Dog
Best Practices for Working with Wood Dogs
Common Ailments in Wood Dogs
Wood Element Rescue Dogs – Misunderstood Stars
The Old Wood Dog
Acupressure Points for the Wood Dog

4. The Fire Dog

Characteristics of a Fire Dog
Best Practices for Working with Fire Dogs
Common Ailments in Fire Dogs
Fire Element Rescue Dogs – Chaos to Connection
The Old Fire Dog
Acupressure Points for the Fire Dog

5. The Earth Dog

Characteristics of an Earth Dog
Best Practices for Working with Earth Dogs
Common Ailments in Earth Dogs
Earth Element Rescue Dogs – Eat, Play, Nap, Love
The Old Earth Dog
Acupressure Points for the Earth Dog

6. The Metal Dog

Characteristics of a Metal Dog
Best Practices for Working with Metal Dogs
Common Ailments in Metal Dogs
Metal Element Rescue Dogs – Hiding in the Light
The Old Metal Dog
Acupressure Points for the Metal Dog

7. The Water Dog

Characteristics of a Water Dog
Best Practices for Working with Water Dogs
Common Ailments in Water Dogs
Water Element Rescue Dogs – Searching for the Spirit Dog
The Old Water Dog
Acupressure Points for the Water Dog

PART 3 — The Relationship with the Humans

8. Now, Who Are You?

Brief Overview of the Human Elements
The Human Scenario
Amazing Humans Living Their Elements
Wood Element
Fire Element
Earth Element
Metal Element
Water Element

9. The Weaving of Relationships

Sheng (Creation) Cycle
Ko (Control) Cycle
Creation vs. Control

10. Balancing and Blending for Harmony

Balancing Acts
Extroverts, Introverts, and Energy
Element Combinations and How They Work Together
Like Attracts Like
Strategies for Rebalancing – Bringing Calmness
and Clear Focus to Each Element

11. Rescue and Shelter: Applications of Five Element Theory

12. The Happy Wagging Tail: A Love Letter to Dogs

Appendices
A. Dog Element Quizzes
B. Human Element Quizzes
C. Element Dog Overviews

Resources and Recommended Reading for Your Journey

Training, Practitioners, Organizations
Favorite Books on Animals
Books on Five Elements for Humans

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

Info autore

Elizabeth Anne Johnson, EEBW, CBW, has worked on behalf of the health and wellness of small and large pets, exotic animals, and wildlife for 35 years. A holistic animal healer, wildlife biologist and rehabilitator, mentor, adventurer, and howling partner of Wilbur and Pretzel, rescues extraordinaire, Elizabeth lives on Whidbey Island, Washington.

Riassunto

Discover your dog’s Five Element archetype to better understand their behaviors and needs

• Looks at each dog element archetype individually, exploring their personality strengths and weaknesses, emotional defaults, how they react under stress, what makes them happy, and their potential physical ailments and conditions

• Offers holistic practices to help support each elemental dog type at any stage of life, including diagrams of acupressure points that can help

• Includes element archetype quizzes to determine your dog’s type as well as your own

Presenting a gateway for truly understanding your dog, Elizabeth Johnson reveals how to apply the Five Element model of traditional Chinese medicine to our canine companions to reveal their personality archetype, their behavioral strengths and weaknesses, their relationship dynamics with us, and why they do what they do.

Sharing the five unique patterns of the Five Element dog archetypes, along with quizzes to help you determine your dog’s type as well as your own, Elizabeth explains how dogs have predominant element types and how they may shift between elemental archetypes throughout the seasons and as they age, just like we do. Looking at each dog element archetype individually, from Wood Dog to Water Dog, she explores their personality characteristics and emotional defaults, sharing real-life stories of dogs with the same elemental type. She describes how each archetype reacts under stress and what creates stress for them, as well as offering simple stress balancers and lifestyle measures to counteract their anxieties. She explores each type’s individual strengths, what makes them happy, their wants and needs, and how to best support them for elemental harmony in your relationship. She looks at potential physical ailments and conditions for each type and suggests holistic and supportive therapies, including sharing diagrams of acupressure points that can help, such as calming points for the Fire Dog. She also explores how the Five Elements express themselves in aging dogs and rescue dogs and how we can best support them.

Guiding you through the deeply embedded personality traits of dogs—and their ­owners—Elizabeth Johnson reveals the life lessons each dog type brings to us as well as how to create a peaceful and happy home environment for any combination of canine and human elemental archetypes.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Anne Johnson
• Con la collaborazione di: Allen Schoen (Prefazione)
• Editore: Simon & Schuster UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.10.2024, ritardato
• EAN: 9798888500644
• ISBN: 979-8-88850-064-4
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 318 g
• Illustrazioni: 10 b&w illustrations
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Natura