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Michal Yakir and Veterinary Homeopathy – a Case By Geoff Johnson, UK
This case could easily have been written off as 'normal behaviour we can do little about using homeopathy', and I was pleased to get such a clear result. I analysed the case using the Plant Evolution System of Michal Yakir. I have been trying to apply this in veterinary cases, because it has been transformative in my human work. As vets we have managed to integrate the advances of human homeopathy, for example Scholten's periodic table, including the lanthanides. It seems this latest development is applicable too.
To use Michal's table we need to listen out for clues as to the development of the ego. As in the Periodic Table there are two axes – the vertical consisting of 9 rows from womb to old age, and the horizontal of 6 columns from primordial feminine, with a weak ego, to over masculine with a strong ego. To use this system you should purchase the laminated table, but unfortunately it is currently hard to access in the UK because of Brexit! However below is available for £20 if you don't want to spend £120 on the book Wondrous Order (although this is an astonishing book). https://www.homeopathicbooks.com/product/wondrou s-order-table-of-plants-michal-yakir/
12 months old Golden retriever behaviour case
I will highlight the words that give us a clue of ego development according to Michal. Repertorisation will also be used. Below are the owner's words. My questions are in italics.
Maisie will be 12 months on 1 Feb. She is going through a typical teenage dog phase – chewing anything she can get her paws on, one minute she seems quite mature then it’s like having a puppy again! She is completely OTT with the other dogs and needs constant management in terms of giving them space to be themselves. Her eyesight is incredible and she watches movement like a hawk. She is incredibly sensitive to change.
My concern is that she has started barking at things – standing on the stairs looking through window at every opportunity and barking at strangers out on a walk. She is yet to come into season.
Keynotes for her are: extreme greediness, always red hot – never known a dog to be so hot, has sleep in her eyes every day that needs cleaning, likes to sleep in confined spaces such as under the bed. Strangely she is coprophagic again, which coincides with her fear periods and then fades.
I don’t want the barking to become learned especially with the limited opportunities for socialisation around novel people during lockdown. If we can nip it in the bud, all the better.
Why is she barking, what does she want from the barking, what is her energy, what are her emotions as she does it?
She is a teenager. Think collie, not golden retriever. She has a collie-like hypertrophied eye-stalk-chase motor pattern and will clock any movement. She is highly aware of her surroundings, more so now that she is honing her
hunting skills and instinctive behaviours are becoming more exaggerated. She has gone through some marked physical changes and is looking adult in her face. She is becoming more competitive over toys and raw bones and is chewing more. These are all the things one would expect, so nothing unusual here. Novel people, whom she would have previously ignored, now stimulate barking, as does movement outside the house such as a person walking past or a delivery van pulling up. Simply put, she has a teenage brain that is being rewired for adulthood.
Why is she barking?
Fear; territorial; brain changes; hyper-vigilance; hormones; honing instinctive behaviour.
What does she want from the barking?
Person to retreat – and of course it works! The person walking past the house disappears etc, the people, we meet on a walk, go on their merry way; the delivery van drives off. Barking works because it is being reinforced by the removal of the things that she wants gone, emotionally she feels relieved, she can relax, the threat as gone.
What is her energy?
Hyper-vigilant, senses alert.
What are her emotions as she does it?
Watching through the window, she is safe so I would say that is more territorial. On a walk, I would label her behaviour more fear-based, as she will retreat if someone goes to stroke her. Like many dogs, Maisie doesn’t like being leaned over and she displays calming signals. Once she realises they are ok, she is very friendly. Maisie is not an unfriendly dog. She is not a wallflower. She has
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