Tell-'Tail' Stress Factors: How You and Your Pets Can Help Each Other Reduce Stress Is Detailed in New Book: 'Home Alone'
2003年10月28日 - 7:14PM
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Tell-'Tail' Stress Factors: How You and Your Pets Can Help Each
Other Reduce Stress Is Detailed in New Book: 'Home Alone' CHESTNUT
RIDGE, N.Y., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Humans get stressed out from
their demanding jobs and pets get stressed from being left at home
alone, according to Bruce Van Horn author and CEO of PetGuru.com.
Stress can quickly spread between humans and their pets creating
health and behavioral issues in both, according to a new book,
"Home Alone: Yoga and Other Tools To Help Your Pet Overcome
Separation Anxiety." These observations, according to author and
Pet Guru Bruce Van Horn, have important implications for pet owners
and the well being of their animals. Noted Van Horn, "It's already
been documented that the simple act of stroking your pet can lower
blood pressure in humans and has a calming affect on the animal as
well, so it isn't a great stretch to conclude that humans can have
a similar impact on pets. Van Horn is concluding a scientific study
at the Bergen County NJ Department of Health to test this
hypothesis. Van Horn includes his Dalmatian Goodboy and his cat
Sarafina in his daily yoga exercise by touching his pets as he
submerges into the calm and meditative state brought on by the
routine. This form of communication has an apparent, positive
effect on the pets according to Van Horn. The damage inflicted
across the United States by stress is measurable and considerable.
Stress is a $300 billion problem in the U.S. according to the
National Institute for Occupational Safety, accounting for 75 to 90
percent of all visits to primary health care physicians. Although
there are no comparable metrics for pets, the subject has begun to
interest the medical community -- both in terms of the calming
impact of pets on humans, and the equally impactful human
contribution to the mental state of pets. Separation is among the
greatest sources of stress on pets. Leaving an animal home alone
creates anxiety, but it can be mitigated, by leaving traces of the
owner behind. Van Horn recommends practicing Yoga with your pets
and leaving the mats out when you have left for the day. These mats
contain beneficial scents and energy imprinted thereon. Van Horn
has also created music that can reduce stress in pets who are left
at home. Home Alone is prescriptive. It reveals a path that readers
and their pets can follow together in a world that relentlessly
continues to manufacture stress. Everyone needs a way to unburden
themselves from the weight of this stress-dogs and cats included.
The book describes activities for both humans and pets which will
improve the health of both groups. DATASOURCE: Yoga For Business,
Inc. CONTACT: Bill Jones, +1-212-675-8001, for Yoga For Business,
Inc. Web site: http://www.yogaforbusiness.com/
http://www.petguru.com/
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