Ayurveda and Pet choices

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PETS

 

Pets are extensions of their owners' personalities, small versions of their

masters. Most people prefer pets with whom they can innately

relate, who reflect their own character traits, but it is better to keep a pet

who is therapeutic for your own imbalances. Vatta people do well

with dogs, for example, because a canine's lovable, sloppy, openheartedness

warms, reassures, relaxes and stabilizes the Vattas cold, fearful,

fickle nature. Kapha individuals do better with small animals like birds because

an avian's light, bright cheerfulness helps offset some of a

Kapha's natural ponderousness, sluggishness and fixity.

 

Some Kapha people find large dogs beneficial because both dog and owner

need vigorous exercise, and responsibility for the canine encourages

the Kapha person to exercise along with the, dog. Some Vatta types do well with

small furry high-strung animals like guinea pigs and hamsters,

which elicit maternal instinct from their owners.

 

Pitta personalities are sometimes too overbearing to obtain much incen-tive

for self-development from the simpler personalities of birds and

beasts. Pittas should not take the easy way out and select an animal who is too

easy to get along with, nor one who is so aggressive that the two

beings feed off one another's instincts to violence. A large long-lived bird

like a parrot may be complex enough to demand attention from a Pitta,

but cats, who have strongly held opinions about most subjects including their

masters, present continuous challenges to the probing Pitta mind and

make perhaps the best Pitta pets. The Pitta has to keep up with the feline, and

this is a refreshingly new experience for many hotshot Pittas.

 

>From Prakruti by Robert Svoboda

 

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