Dr. Ravdeep Singh and Dr. Harneet Kour
Today we will talk about the only creature on this earth that loves you more than you love yourself. Now, a day we are so much engaged with our earnings that we have put our own health on exchange. We are becoming rich and poor at the same time.
Rich by earning bucks and poor by losing very crucial relationships with the family, friends, relatives and colleagues. Most of the time we are ending our day with anxiety, depression, stress, pain and sleeping problems. It is not so late, you still have a chance to relive your life by owing a dog. It is commonly said, dog is the best companion of human beings. But it is not a surprise that only few of us are fully aware of this quote and know the scientific benefits of owing a dog. Today, we will talk about some benefits and positive impacts of owing a dog on your physical and mental health. If you have ever owned a dog, you already know how much fun and affection they can bring. Dogs are able to understand many of the words we use, they are even better at interpreting our tone of voice, body language, and gestures. And like your best human friend, a loyal dog will look into your eyes to judge your emotional state and try to understand what you are thinking and feeling. We are not his teachers, he teaches us many important lessons and aspects of life, like responsibility, time management, making emotional links with your loved ones, improving communication, companionship, learning truth about life, adding healthy routine to your day and positivity to your personality.
When you get a pet you have to take care of a creature which will depend entirely on you. The life or death of another being will be in your hands and this alone will make you a more responsible person. Having a pet is not something that you can do without getting time from your busy schedule. This usually means that you will have to make room in your schedule for your little friend and this is something which will put your time managing skills to the test. This will improve your time management skills and it is for sure that after having a pet you will start your day as early as possible. You will definitely start sleeping early and as a result you wake up before the crowing of your neighbor’s Rooster.
The act of actually grooming and petting your little friend will create a great emotional link inside you, which is going to last for your whole life. You will always remember the times you spent together and you will remember that special bond that made you so happy. In this way you learn to link up emotionally with your love ones and many studies have shown an outstanding impact on child emotional development. Child learns to make emotional relations with the family members and respect elders throughout life. Now, many families owe dog to build up mental health of their children. Form a dog, child learns to keep patience, forget what ever went wrong in past and stick to the attitude of love and affection with others. To summarise, the child who lives with dog is more affectionate, generous, responsible, concern with environment, socially active, good communicator, intelligent and loyal. According to a study carried out in Paris and France, seventy-six percent of the people interviewed believed that the presence of a pet favoured the communication between family members. Various other studies have also found that: Dog owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without dogs, People with dogs have lower blood pressure in stressful situations than those without dogs. Touch and movement are two healthy ways to quickly manage stress.
Stroking a dog lowers blood pressure and can help you quickly feel calmer and less stressed. One study even found that when people with borderline hypertension adopted dogs from a shelter, their blood pressure declined significantly within five months, playing with a dog can elevate levels of serotonin and dopamine in body, which makes you calm and relax, pet owners have lower triglyceride and cholesterol levels (indicators of heart disease) than those without pets, heart attack patients with dogs survive longer than those without pets and old pet owners pay less visits to their doctors than those without pets. Dog owners are far more likely to meet their daily exercise requirements than the others. Companionship can help prevent illness and even add years to your life, while isolation and loneliness can trigger symptoms of depression.
Caring for a living animal can help make you feel needed and wanted, and take the focus away from your problems, especially if you live alone. The companionship of a dog can offer comfort, help ease anxiety, and build self-confidence for people anxious about going out into the world. Because dogs live in the moment, they don’t worry about what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow they can help you to live and appreciate the joy of the present. Pet dogs can help their owners to lead a more normal life, as with the case of guide dogs for the blind and for deaf people to identify and react to signals they cannot normally perceive. In the end dog teaches us a very important lesson of life that is nothing is eternal, every living creature has to end up one day. Having a pet helps people to understand the cycle of life. People who have owned several pets during their life time deal better with emotional trials and can handle any frequency of emotions. So these are some of the most important reasons why we believe that everyone should have a pet dog at least once in their life time. It is not too late to start before you start regretting.
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