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Animal Communication – What Do the Animals Say?

What do the animals tell us in an animal communication session? What is on their mind? Do they have the same issues we humans have? Do they even want to ‘talk’ at all?

First of all, yes, 99.9% of our animals do want to talk to us given the chance. Whether their ‘talk’ comes through as words, pictures, or ideas varies, but their eagerness and willingness to share is 9 times out of 10 amazingly strong. In my experience, only when an animal is so traumatized or ill as to be completely shut down or unable to relate will he choose not to participate in a communication.

So when you get an animal ‘on the horn,’ so to speak, what does he or she say?

He says what’s on his mind, just like we do, and often will initiate the conversation with whatever that may be. And usually (though not always) it jives with what is top of the mind for his person.

If you’ve ever had a session with an animal communicator, you have probably at some point in the process said or thought, “I knew that!” Often things the communicator tells you simply confirm what you yourself have felt about your animal. You are closer than anyone to your animal. It is only natural that you should pick up and know more about them than anyone else.

The same goes for the animal. Especially if you have a close bond with him. Animals who live with us as members of our families often read us better than just about anyone. For instance, your dog knows when you are sad before just about anyone else in the household, right? So if you have concerns about your animal, enough to justify having an animal communicator intervene, chances are your animal has already picked up the gist of the topic at hand.

Countless times I’ve had an animal open our conversation with thoughts or comments like:

  • Am I in trouble? (a cat who isn’t using the litter box)
  • I am so sad because I am disappointing Alice. (a horse who can’t perform a training exercise)
  • I’m so excited, something is going on — I can feel it! (a service dog whose household is expecting a new baby)
  • I’m very upset because John seems so worried. (an elderly dog with a health condition his owner is worried about)

These are just examples but are typical of what I’m talking about. The animal has picked up the main emotion of whatever issue is preoccupying his person and, whether she understands it fully or not, is reflecting her owner’s concern/joy/excitement over that issue.

The fact that our animals are so incredibly sensitive and receptive to our thoughts, whims, and moods makes it doubly important that we go out of our way to communicate with them — any time, all the time, about everything and anything. In an animal communication session we make sure we get the big issues out on the table first, clarifying the details so the animal won’t worry.

  • We help the cat understand why humans prefer he use the litter box and reassure him that we will also make sure he doesn’t have a urinary infection that has caused this momentary behavior blip.
  • We ask the horse if there is a reason he can’t perform the exercise, and he shows us that he has a very sore stifle.
  • We show the service dog that a new family member is soon due and that everyone is thrilled and excited about it, and that he will be the infant’s guardian.
  • We carefully convey to the older dog that we understand he isn’t feeling well, that his person cares deeply and feels concerned about it, and that everything possible will be done for his comfort and well being in the future.

Those are the kinds of things the animals tell us — exactly what is on their mind . . . and ours. So be sensitive. Fill in the blanks for them. If your dog has started acting nervous and anxious, and you are packing up to move in two weeks, make darn sure he knows what’s happening, and reassure him that he will go with you and be taken good care of throughout the entire relocation process!

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MAYBE THESE ADDITIONAL POSTS WILL HELP.

Talk to Your Animals. Here’s How.

How Do Animals Perceive?

The Doubt Box

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Animal Communication — What IS It Exactly?

Leta & Cathy

When I was little, I used to make pretend voices and talk out loud for the animals in our household, telling everyone what they were thinking and how they were feeling. It was things like, “No, I don’t wike that food!” or “I want you to stay wid me,” but even though it was silly and simple and baby talk, it was all clear as a bell to me. I always felt I knew exactly how our animals were feeling and what they needed us to know. My older brother, cynical even at age six, would just laugh and shake his head.

This example is actually a very good representation of what animal communication is all about. It’s telepathic communication between a human and an animal, plain and simple, in whatever way one wants to translate it.

As a profession, animal communication has gained in popularity over about the last thirty years in the United States, and in practice harks back to indigenous cultures the world over. In North America, communing with all of nature, both flora and fauna, was second nature for the Indian tribes, and much later cowboy mythology touted those individuals who are now called horse whisperers. Talking to the animals has always been a part of human nature; but as science and technology have expanded, this natural link between species has become more and more obscured and therefore viewed with skepticism by many.

So what exactly IS animal communication?

For starters, think of it this way. If you are an animal lover, you were probably totally obsessed with and plugged into any animals that you were exposed to when you were a very small child. And you talked to them all the time — it was just second nature to you then.  No doubt there were many times you understood things about your animals that the adults in your life were missing. This perceptive ability is a natural gift we are all born with, but as we reach the “age of reason,” around 5 to 7 years of age, it is literally conditioned out of most of us because of cultural considerations, left-brain learning, and the expressions of disbelief by those around us.

This gift of being able to converse with the animals can be reawakened and “relearned” as an actual skill. And with a little time, patience, and practice it can come to feel as natural as it did when you were a child.

The process itself can best be described as a telepathic conversation — a dialogue between you and an animal. Although many of us do possess what would be called psychic perception, and that gift can sometimes kick in while one is talking to an animal, the basic animal communication process is not like a psychic reading. One does not look at an animal and divine everything about him, past, present, and future.

Instead, the animal communicator invites the animal into a discussion, then asks questions and listens carefully and compassionately to whatever the animal tells or shows him. Information is conveyed back and forth in a variety of ways: words, pictures, emotions, physical sensations, and more, which the communicator then “translates,” as carefully and conscientiously as possible, in order to retain the animal’s true message. He does not put his own spin on the story or allow his subjective opinion to influence what he hears. If he is doing his job well, he simply serves as a vehicle for enhancing communication and understanding between different species.

The professional practice of animal communication does require training, for it involves mediation and diplomacy when helping solve problems that exist between humans and their animals. But the basic process is the same, and it is quite simple. A sincere, direct conversation with someone you care about is what it boils down to.

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Want to give it a try? Talk to Your Animals. Here’s How.

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Animal Communication – It’s a Blast!!!

Is animal communication fun? You bet it is!

I’ve written a lot of posts about the pitfalls and obstacles encountered by the person on the path to practicing animal communication, the ethics that must be carefully observed, the difficulties involved in maintaining a “clear channel,” and so on. Enough already! Let’s focus on the good stuff!

No two ways about it: animal communication is a barrel of fun. You’re an animal lover, right? If you’re like most of us animal lovers, you probably have at least a few at home, perhaps of several different species. You probably enjoy spending as much time as possible with them and find them to be some of, if not THE, best companions you know.

If you’re an animal lover then it’s probably obvious to you why doing animal communication for a living would be fun. But here are a just a few of my favorite reasons:

1.  You get to meet a lot — and I mean a LOT — of interesting different animals who you’d probably never have an opportunity to meet otherwise.

2.  You get to meet a lot of interesting people too and make lots of new friends!

3.  You learn a lot about how different personalities operate, and this ends up being very helpful in your own life. Plus, it’s just downright fascinating.

4.  You get to help solve lots of problems for animals, which often means their lives become a lot better.

5.  You get lots of praise and thanks from the folks you help — always a good feeling.

6.  You have many opportunities, at animal shelters, etc.,  to do pro bono work and be of service in a unique way — and nothing makes one feel better than reaching out and helping others in need.

7.  As an animal communicator you’re in business for yourself. You can create your own schedule, work from home, and call the shots. Yippee!

8.  Offering the gift of animal communication, whether through a session or a class, often helps open up new horizons for other people, broadening their outlook on the world and enhancing their own understanding.

9.  You can choose your own area of specialty in regard to the kinds of cases you take and can therefore practice what you like to do best, AND what you’re best at doing!

10.  This is not top of the list, but it IS necessary, and yes, it is fun too:  You can make money.

There are lots more things that can be added to this list of why doing animal communication is fun, and I’m sure you can think of several  that are unique to you and your circumstance. Yes, there are lots of things to watch out for if you practice, but you’ll learn those along the way. So if you’re tempted to start an animal communication practice, I’d say go ahead and dive in! You’ll have lots of fun!

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Animal Communication: Is It Really For Animal Lovers?

This person obviously adores her mule (and her mule adores her!), but would she make a good animal communicator? Maybe . . . and then again, maybe not.

Yes! ……… but … well, maybe NO. It depends on why you want to do it.

I know that question sounds really stupid coming from an animal communicator. ALL animal communicators obviously love animals. They do, they surely do. So how in the world could animal communication NOT be a really good thing for an animal lover? Before you decide that I’m making a heretical, anti-animal communication, statement here, please allow me to explain.

I can’t tell you how many times, when asked why they are interested in animal communication, I’ve heard my students say things like:

“I like animals soooo much more than people!” or

“I want to learn how to do animal communication because I don’t really like people that much.” or

“I feel like I understand animals so much better than I do people.” or

“I don’t relate to people very well.”

A big UH-OH is the silent response in my head when I hear this kind of remark among serious animal communication students — for at least a couple of major reasons. And what then follows, throughout our workshop, is a careful process of not only helping this type of student learn to communicate with animals, but also to become familiar with the many people-oriented pitfalls and obstacles she will face if she chooses to do animal communication professionally.

The main hurdle for the animal-lover/people-shunner who practices animal communication is that the profession, if practiced carefully, conscientiously, and ethically, requires working with people first and foremost. It is people who are going to contact the communicator for help and with whom most of the communication is going to take place. As stated in an earlier blog, it is the animal communicator’s job to serve as an intermediary and translator between people and their animals and to help resolve issues with diplomacy and compassion. NOT a role for the faint of heart, and certainly not for someone who doesn’t like people.

The second obstacle on the road to becoming an effective animal communicator for the devout animal lover is that they are probably so intensely in tune with animals that they have become empathic sponges. This means that they often feel everything the animal is feeling, and perhaps the people around them too. This can be a very valuable asset in interpreting an animal’s situation, but unfortunately most such empaths can’t separate their own feelings from those they are picking up from others so the resulting “translation” becomes a mish-mash of confused information, and their psyche becomes overly burdened with emotions that don’t belong to them. And there is no way a person in this state can remain clear enough to conduct an effective communique between a human and an animal.

So if you’re thinking about becoming an animal communicator because of how much you adore our furry, feathered, and finned friends, think twice . . . and think carefully. T’ain’t necessarily an easy road for the devoted animal lover.

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YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FACING AN ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR HERE:

Animal Communication – Being a “Clear Channel”

Animal Communication – Protecting Your Power

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What Kind of Animal Communicator do YOU Want?

Sonja & Sabrina (Wkshop)

One of my students, figuring out her own animal communication style.

I put the emphasis on the YOU here because this life is all about “different strokes for different folks.” Since we are all, each and every one of us, unique and special, we each respond differently to people and situations. Therefore, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” does not apply when it comes to choosing an animal communicator.

Sorry to use all the silly old adages. All I’m trying to say is, there’s no one particular formula to follow when choosing an animal communicator.

That said, and to keep it simple, here are a few of the most important things you will want to consider:

  • First and foremost, you will want to feel a connection with your animal communicator of choice. Whether you are working with him or her through email or by phone, in person or long distance, you will want to feel a bond. Trust your gut on this one. How you respond to the person’s voice quality, their emails, or to what they are telling you will be your cue. If anything feels wrong, for any reason, don’t choose that person to work with.
  • Finding your animal communicator can be done in several ways, but word-of-mouth seems to be one of the best. Just as with a good movie, if a close friend recommends their animal communicator, and especially if they have a track record with that person, then this is a good place to start. Also check out the internet. Just about every animal communicator has a website these days and should have his or her credentials listed thereon.
  • No matter how gifted an animal communicator may be, experience counts. Never think it doesn’t. This is in no small part due to the fact that we communicators have been trained to fulfill our role objectively and with compassion for all parties concerned. Counselling, negotiating, and mediating major elements in the role of an animal communicator, and how to translate and convey information back and forth between an animal and his person can be mighty tricky. There must be absolutely NO agenda on the part of the communicator, otherwise information will be skewed.
  • If you have a special need, like looking for a lost animal, make sure you find an animal communicator who does that kind of work. Two directories of communicators that will also include what type of work they do can be found at www.animaltalk.net and www.acersplace.com.
  • Do NOT choose an animal communicator who guarantees success. There is no way to make an animal do something it doesn’t want to do. Period. Plus, animal instinct often plays in very strongly and cannot always be overridden.

And remember, animal communication is a telepathic process, not a psychic reading. Although many animal communicators do possess some psychic skills, their most important function when doing animal communication is to listen carefully to what you and your animal have to say to one another and then to relay it back and forth in a way that will help resolve issues or bring new insights into a situation.

Finally — this experience should be fun! So trust your gut on that too, and if someone appeals to you on that level, go for it!!!

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If you’d like to know more about the role of animal communicators, and the issues they face, you might be interested in these posts:

Being a Clear Channel

Never Assume Anything

Can Intention Override Instinct?

 

 

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Do You Have a One-Person Horse? Or Dog? Or Cat?

kissing horseThe larger question is whether animals CAN be “one-person” individuals. And yes, of course they can. They come in as many different personality types as we do,  so why should they be any different?

I just spoke to an aging show jumper — “Cinder” (to protect anonymity) — to see if the work was getting a little too difficult for her. Her person — we’ll call her “Jamie” — is eager not to overface her. Plus, they have been together for 13 years (the horse is 19), and Jamie refers to Cinder as her “beloved,” so she very much wants and respects her input on such important questions.

The answer from Cinder was that yes, the work is a bit much for her older body and joints at this point, so Jamie will now tailor their riding and working time together appropriately.

But the interesting aspect of this session was how absolutely devoted Cinder is to Jamie. And only to Jamie.

Years and years ago, before Jamie finally decided to buy Cinder, she consulted a well known Native American animal communicator on the West Coast, by the name of Fred. (Fred is no longer with us, but those who had the good fortune of having him talk to their animals have never forgotten him.) At the time Cinder told Fred she hated all humans, but she was married to Jamie!

These days Cinder tells me that being with Jamie for 13 years has really opened her heart, so she is just fine with other people and, in fact, likes many of the staff at her barn. But she is still, positively, absolutely, a one-person horse, and her person is Jamie.

Madalyn Ward, D.V.M., has written a fascinating book about horse personality types, Horse Harmony – Understanding Horse Types and Temperaments . . . Are You and Your Horse a Good Match?, which talks a lot about how some types will work for only one person, or must have the respect of their person in order to cooperate, or become very depressed or ill if separated from their person. Some people seem to be surprised by this, I guess wondering how a horse could have such emotions that many attribute only to humans.

But we horse lovers and dog lovers and cat lovers and bird lovers understand. Our domesticated friends come in as many different personalities as we do, so it is best never to underestimate them or make a judgment call about what they are feeling unless you really understand them.

Of course there is the opposite personality type as well — the one who could kinda care less what you think and is not at all dependent upon your love and support to enjoy his or her life.

The important point here is perhaps that, since it has fairly well been proven that this wide variance of personalities does exist amongst our furry friends, be absolutely SURE you are teaming up with the right type for your own personality, your lifestyle, and your needs.

As for me, I happen to love the one-person type, and have more than one animal like this, amongst them my beautiful Mustang mare, Bella. In this case it pays. She will do anything she can to please me. But have someone else who she doesn’t know or respect ask her to do something special and she’ll go into a big sull — or buck them off!

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Animal Communication – Protecting Your Power

weight lifting dogIf you’re an animal communicator, you’re almost certainly what’s known as an empath. An empath is someone who can pick up empathically the feelings of another. It’s kind of like vicariously experiencing the thoughts or feelings of someone else without having been given any objective information that would have contributed to your experience. Clear as mud, huh. But if you’re empathic, you know what I’m talking about.

In fact you may experience these thoughts and feelings that belong to someone else without even realizing it. And THAT can be a real problem. Especially when trying to remain a clear channel for your animal communication work.

There are many ways to protect yourself from absorbing or taking on energy from others, most of them involving building psychic shields, surrounding oneself with white light, or encasing oneself in something like a spinning, silver bullet. These techniques work, but my favorite protection exercise is all about growing your own energy so big, and projecting it so strongly, that uninvited energy from others  simply can’t “get in.” A proactive approach rather than a defensive one, which I like. I call this the

POWER PROTECTOR

1.  Find Your Power
Take a few deep breaths, relax and close your eyes. Visualize a shining ball of light in the center of your being that has the power to generate and distribute mental, physical, and spiritual growth energy. This energy center is in the solar plexus, just behind and a little above your navel.

2.  Become One With Your Power
See white or shining yellow light emanating out from your energy center, much like the sun’s rays, moving freely throughout your mental, emotional, and physical bodies, feeding and nurturing every part of you and expanding the energy field that lies outside your physical body as well. This glowing, radiating energy is alive and strong, and nothing unwanted can penetrate its field.

3.  Affirm Your Power
Place the fingertips of both hands over the energy center at your solar plexus. Hold them there and repeat any empowering affirmation of your choice, until you feel tingling life-force energy in your fingertips. You might say something as simple as  “I am now protected and energized, in mind, body, and spirit.”

4. Claim Your Power
Any time you want to claim and activate your power you can do so instantly by repeating step 3. Place your fingers and state your affirmation. The more you use this “cue,” the easier and faster it will be for you to feel your power grow, nurture and protect you.

If you’re like me, whether you’re an animal communicator or not, you often get caught up in life’s daily routines and forget to avail yourself of the tools you have at hand. I must admit I often fail to strengthen or “protect” myself when heading into scenarios, situations, or locations I know might be draining for me.

So ………… I’m really glad I’ve reminded myself of this exercise because Saturday I am participating in a fund-raiser for a worthy local cause where I will be doing non-stop 30-minute animal communication sessions all day long. No telling what kinds of messages, thoughts, feelings, and energies will be flying my way, so you can bet I’ll be using my affirmation and fingertips frequently!

Hope it works for you!

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Here are a couple of related blogs about clearing strong emotions that can interfere with animal communication and about maintaining a “clear channel”:

Animal Communication – Being a “Clear Channel”

Animal Communication & Grief – Try the Blue Ribbon Exercise

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Animal Communication —– Getting the “BIG PICTURE”

this could've been Fanny, giving me and Susan the "big picture."

This could've been Fanny, giving me and Susan the "BIG PICTURE."

Once I had finally decided to set my sites on really and truly becoming an animal communicator, doors started to blow open. If you’ve read previous posts on this blog, you know that I believe that our will and intention are just about our strongest allies for manifesting thoughts into reality. Well …  and focusing on what you want instead of what you don’t want. That’s super important too.

But back to those doors.

I will never forget the experiences I had in an advanced animal communication class after I had really set my intention to talk to the animals.

Information from the animals comes in many forms. Some of the most common are pictures, sounds, thoughts, words, emotions, and physical feelings. The first three are seen and heard in your mind, the latter two are actually felt in your emotional and physical body.

But there is another, larger, way of receiving information from animals, and that is what I experienced over and over again in the advanced workshop: getting the BIG PICTURE or the “gestalt” of the situation, all in one fell swoop. It’s like getting the whole chapter of a book at once instead of having to read line by line, paragraph by paragraph. It is the be-all-end-all — the whole enchilada.

In this workshop, we were working in pairs doing problem solving with pictures of animals brought by other workshop participants. Each pair didn’t know anything about the background of the animal’s problem, but the person who brought the picture did. The problem was laid out in detail to each pair, and then the pair sat silently with the picture and made their own individual notes about their conversation with the animal.

My partner was Susan, and she and I were working with a donkey, Fanny. I no longer remember the details Fanny showed us because this was soooo many years ago, but when we compared our notes we were dumbstruck because the story we each had gotten from the donkey was identical to the other’s! Needless to say, we were so excited we were about to wet our pants!

This happened over and over in the workshop, for almost every participant. We were all blown away, and our instructor was too. She had rarely seen this kind of sudden and overnight progress in her students. It was a super high, and each time it happened the person who brought the picture was able to confirm the information that had been received.

Wow! We were on our way to becoming real animal communicators!

What was happening in that workshop was that we were all,  for whatever reason, being blessed with the ability to get the big picture — or the gestalt — of the situation at hand. Some say (and I believe this, by the way) that there is an Animal Council of spirits that oversees the work of animal communication, and that its sanction is necessary to really doing a good job in the field. Our teacher that day felt the Council had placed a big rubber stamp on our particular class and blown open the doors for us to share, for the first time, the mind-blowing experience of “just knowing.”

You can label this kind of understanding as a “gestalt” experience or as “just knowing,” but either way it is the absolute best and most incredible way to receive information about any given situation with an animal.

That said, my clients LOVE the blow-by-blow, sentence-by-sentence translation I give them via written transcript of my session with their animal. I love those too. But getting the big picture is really where it’s at in terms of filling in all those blanks about what’s really going on, so if you work with an animal communicator, I hope you get this part of the (big) picture too.

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Yes Dorothy, Even You Can Communicate With Animals!

Everybody can communicate with animals if they want to. Most of us do all the time, at least those of us who have animals and love them and treat them like family. Yet when the subject of “animal communication” as a special skill or profession is broached, most of us would say, “Oh nooooo, I am not nearly that gifted!”

Well you are. We all are. It just takes a little fine-tuning and a little trust in ourselves.

When I first began pursuing animal communication in a formal, structured sense I too did not believe I could do what I had seen and heard “real” animal communicators do. But I did begin studying and, in my spare time, which there was never much of in those days, would practice a little. I never thought much was happening.

But then one day my beloved horse Sailor graphically proved otherwise and helped open my eyes on a whole new world.

My Beautiful Sailor Boy

My Beautiful Sailor Boy

I was working non-stop in the corporate world at that time and also raising a kid, and Sailor was young and needed to be ridden more than I had time for. A good friend owned his brother and invited Sailor to her farm for the summer so her husband would have a healthy, young horse to ride. They rode a lot, and I totally trusted their horsemanship, so it sounded perfect.

Having been with Sailor since he was a wee babe, I began preparing him for the separation by “telling” him about the plan telepathically and by visualizing pictures of my friend’s farm and projecting those to him. I told him he was going to “summer camp” and that it would be great fun! I hoped that my messages were getting through but of course doubted that they were having any impact or being understood at all. But I was doing my best.

The day finally arrived for Sailor to embark on his summer camp experience, and another of my friends who hauled horses professionally showed up with her big stock trailer to ferry him over. Sailor hadn’t been hauled a lot but had never been a real problem to load into a trailer. That day however, his balking was unreasonable and quite lengthy.

My friend asked me to move way back out of the picture so she could use her usual tricks to get Sailor into the trailer, so I complied and went and stood by the house, half a football field away. Still Sailor balked.

All of a sudden it dawned on me that Sailor had no idea where he was going or why — I had failed to tell him. Now at that point in my development, as I have stated above, I really didn’t have any faith that anything I was conveying to Sailor was getting through, but just in case it might I thought maybe I should fill him in on what was going on. Only fair thing to do, right?

“Sailor!” I yelled, silently (didn’t want my friend to think I was crazy.) “Today is the day! Today is the day you’re going to summer camp! And Alice is here to take you. But you have to get into the trailer in order to get there. So hop in!”

Sailor swung his head around and fixed me with a long, focused gaze for a few moments. Then he wasted no time — he turned to the trailer and practically bounded over Alice to jump in!

My jaw was on the ground.

Sailor left this world a few years ago, and I still tear up when I think of him because he was such a character and taught me so much. He was one of my dreams come true. And he was definitely the proof-in-the-pudding for my my budding animal communication career.

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IF YOU’RE LIKE I WAS, AND DOUBT YOURSELF, TRY THIS:

The Doubt Box

Bless you, dear Sailor, wherever you are now.

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