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In this episode, find out why, as a devoted pet parent, you may be missing the mark in trying to build trust and deepen your bond with your beloved pet. This can be especially crucial to understand if your pet has trust issues or past trauma - or if you do!
As you listen, discover....
- What your pets tell me, a professional animal communicator, that they want and crave the MOST from you
- What the pets tell me about what the word we use to describe them - pet - really means
- An easy role reversal visualization you can do to begin picking up on your pet's deepest wants and needs in their daily life with you
- Why your pet actually isn't like a human child, even though that comparison is often made by pet products manufacturing companies
- The real reason it can feel so scary to give our pets their heart's desire (and how to overcome it)
- A simple, fun way to start deepening your bond with your pet right away
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome back to let's Talk to Animals, the podcast
all species can enjoy together.
My name is Shannon Cutts.
I am an animal sensitive andintuitive, a Reiki master
practitioner and an animalcommunication teacher with
animallovelanguagescom and forour purposes here today, I am
also your friendly neighborhoodhostess and guide through the
(00:25):
wild, wise and wonderful worldof interspecies communication.
Call me crazy, but I trulybelieve that animal
communication has the power tosave, heal and restore our
planet for all species to enjoyand share.
When we learn to communicatewith one another, we begin to
realize we are so much morealike than different.
(00:46):
We care about each other.
We become friends.
On this podcast we talk aboutwhat the animals have to say and
share and why our pets trulyare our partners, empathic
friends and teachers.
I am so glad you have joined ushere for this fresh new episode
of let's Talk to Animals, solet's dive in.
(01:08):
Welcome back to let's Talk toAnimals, and in this episode I
wanted to share a powerfulpractice that you can do with
your pet that can deepen yourrelationship in as little as a
handful of minutes a day.
(01:28):
Now, for this to work in themost powerful way, you will want
to dedicate at least a few daysin a row to this practice.
Ideally, you will want to wrapit into your ongoing daily
routine with your pet, similarto, if you have a dog, you walk
(01:52):
them.
Maybe if you have a parrot, youteach them flight training.
Or if you have a cat, maybe yougive them some personal
playtime every day.
Or if you have a horse, maybeyou go on a beautiful trail walk
together.
(02:13):
So you'll want to incorporatethis practice into your daily
routine in some way that makessense for you.
This is not something that'sdesigned to add to the daily
burden as well as joy of being apet guardian or a pet parent,
(02:36):
but rather it's to deepen yourjoy and enjoyment of one another
, your appreciation for oneanother.
Now, where am I coming fromwhen sharing this practice with
you?
A couple different places.
Number one as a formerprofessional pet blogger, I
(03:01):
spent countless hours I can'tget back researching statistics,
data, information aboutinteresting things like how many
billions of dollars per yearpet parents spend on Halloween
costumes, valentine's Daycookies, christmas or Hanukkah
(03:24):
presents, different types ofinvestments.
Perhaps that the end goal isreally to say I love you so, so
much?
So here's this Halloweencostume.
Now some pets.
They're fine with it.
Our dog is a pretty good sport.
Some pets actively dislike it,and so who are we really buying
(03:46):
it for?
And we have to look at that.
And then I also am coming toyou from a place of as an animal
communicator, someone who doesthis professionally.
The majority of people, of petparents and animal guardians who
reach out to me are in somedegree of emotional distress.
(04:07):
Often it's because their pet isentering into their end of life
transition they are activelytransitioning or they are in
spirit and that grief is present.
And so often and I'm not sayinganything that I haven't deeply
and intimately experiencedmyself so often when we go
(04:31):
through these types of periods,that guilt can come up, that
regret can come up, thatself-recrimination can come up,
that desire to nitpick ourselvesup, that desire to nitpick
ourselves, to look back over ourlife with our pet, to ask
ourselves did I really show mylove in all the ways that my pet
(04:58):
wanted me to?
Did I do enough?
Was I good enough?
Was I aware enough to notice?
And that is so much of thebattle that I walk through with
my pet parent clients when I amholding space for themhakable on
this, at least with all of theinformation that I have
(05:27):
available to me at this point inmy life.
Our relationship continues toevolve through and past the
physical death process.
So the pet, your pet, my pet,they are not their physical
bodies.
Their physical bodies are verycute.
They're very furry and fluffyand feathery and they have
(05:49):
adorable shells and fins andscales and tails and wings and
all those wonderful things thatwe love, we appreciate and we
miss when their body is nolonger habitable and they have
to leave them.
But our pet is not our body.
You are not your body, I am notmy body.
We can all tell when there'senergy what some call the spirit
(06:14):
or the soul in a body and whenthat energy is not in the body,
when that energy or that spiritor that soul has exited or has
left the body.
So the relationship continues toevolve and I believe this is
one of the reasons why, when Iresearched again this is from my
(06:37):
pet blogger days I researchedwhat the word pet means verbally
, the etymological origins ofthe word pet and why we use it
and how we got it, and realizedthat in our human dictionary
definition of pet basicallytranslates to extraneous
(06:57):
possession of little consequence, and I said, well, that doesn't
work.
For me, that doesn't describemy relationship with my pets,
and so I decided, as acommunicator, to revisit that
and ask the animals well, whydid you give us the word pet?
What does the word pet mean toyou?
What do you want us to know?
How do you want us to definethe word pet and your role in
(07:21):
our life, in our family?
And they said we are yourpartner's empathic friends and
teachers.
Well, that describes myrelationship with my pets very
well indeed.
You can let me know in thecomments and in your shares if
that resonates with you as well.
So, coming from those twodifferent perspectives one might
(07:44):
even say wildly diametricallyopposite perspectives of we're
buying all of these things forour pets so that we can say I
love you.
Maybe there are things that ourpets really want.
Maybe there are things our petsdon't really want.
Maybe these are things that ourpets don't care about, but they
(08:07):
care about the one giving themto them, and so we have to take
a look at well, what does my petreally want from me the most?
And I want to ask you to justmaybe even pause this podcast
for a moment and ask yourselfthat question.
Now I'm going to tell you whatthe pets tell me they want the
most.
But before I tell you what myexhaustive interspecies research
(08:32):
direct qualitative story-basedresearch has informed me with,
I'd like you to consider what doyou think your pet wants the
most from you?
What do you think makes yourpet feel the most seen and loved
by you?
What does your pet look forwardto the most every single day?
(08:58):
And just consider that you cantry on a role reversal.
Just try it on for size.
Just pretend for a moment youare your pet and your pet is you
.
You have your pet's life, yourpet has your life.
And imagine if you were yourpet.
What would you look forward tomost in your day?
What would you wake up everymorning hoping would happen
(09:21):
every single day?
What would light you up insideif it happened every single day?
And what would make you feelcompletely loved and at peace
and so joyful and grateful whenyou rest your head to go to
sleep.
If you had gotten that thingfrom your beloved human, that
(09:41):
would make your life feelcomplete.
What would it be?
No-transcript.
It's your time.
It's you Believe it or notmind-blowingly.
I find this mind-blowingespecially when I'm having one
of my not-so-great-version-of-medays.
(10:03):
I've really woken up on thewrong side of the perch, so to
speak.
And yet my pets want nothingmore than to spend all of their
time with me.
I don't even want to spend timewith me on those days, but they
still crave my company, andthat it just freaking blows my
mind.
And they don't care what I'mwearing and they don't care if I
(10:25):
bring a new toy with me, oreven a new treat.
Frankly, the old treats workperfectly well, especially for
our dachshund, but they're notlooking for something else,
something more than us,something better than us, us and
our expensive plus one in theform of a Halloween costume or
(10:47):
Christmas present wrapped underthe tree or whatever way you
celebrate the holidays, andwhenever you celebrate, they're
not looking behind you, evenlike little kids do like what'd
you bring me?
They're like oh, you brought meyou.
Yay, that's exactly what Iwanted.
And that does blow the mind,doesn't it?
Because for most of us, for ourown species, if we don't
(11:09):
remember, recognize and somehowmark the occasion of each
hallmark holiday with some kindof financial expenditure, well,
chances are good, there's atleast one other human animal in
our sphere of influence that'sgoing to get kind of peeved
about that.
Well, you didn't remember ourfill in the blank, or you didn't
buy me a present for thatholiday, or our pets.
(11:31):
Every holiday is every day whenwe show up to be with them.
It's so simple.
It's so simple.
It's so simple that it's reallyhard to accept, like right now,
I am batch recording a coupleof podcast episodes because I
have some free space in myschedule today to do this, and
(11:55):
what that means is for yourlistening, not pleasure, but
simple sanity.
I have put my soul bird, missPetal, who is the reincarnation
of my soul bird of 24 years,pearl.
I have put her in a differentroom.
She's not happy about it, notat all, and she wants to be with
(12:15):
me.
But when I go out to get herafter I finish recording this
episode for you, she's not evengoing to be mad at me, she's not
going to hold it against me.
In fact, I went out just nowjust to get something and she
reacted with so much overjoy,just so effusive in her greeting
and so excited, and I didn'thave to bring anything with me,
(12:39):
I didn't have to spend any money.
I mean, if we're beingcompletely honest with ourselves
, our pets are investment.
They are expensive, especiallyif and when something always
seems to, because that's justthe way of inhabiting a physical
body.
From time to time Things can gowrong.
Sometimes they can beunbelievably expensive, right?
(13:00):
So recognizing that you don'thave to spend any extra Now,
maybe your dog loves exerciseand agility and so you're
spending some money to doactivities like that together,
that's different.
That's different.
That's something that maybe,because of their species and
(13:21):
their particular breed, theyneed that you get the enjoyment
of witnessing their prowess,their success, their amazing
athleticism, so that counts.
That's not the same thing.
But just dialing back on thatpressure that we so often feel
to recognize their birthday ortheir gotcha day with some kind
(13:44):
of expensive extravaganza,they'd just as soon be with you,
just be with you all day.
Just be with you.
That's what they tell me againand again and again.
I ask every day, day in and dayout, questions like what's your
favorite treat, what's yourfavorite toy, what's your
favorite thing to do?
And in every situation it's bewith my mom, be with my dad,
(14:06):
then the diced hot dogs or thecatnip toy or whatever it is.
But topping the list is yourattention.
And if I had to summarize thenumber one reason why pet
parents reach out to me forprivate sessions as well as to
learn animal communication.
(14:27):
It is to develop a deeper bondand to have that inner
confidence.
My pet knows how much I lovethem.
My pet knows I would doanything for them.
My pet knows they are mysoulmate and I've loved them
unconditionally and they havechanged my life and I want to
(14:51):
return the favor.
And when we recognize that, werecognize that we have an
intention, a direction and we'vemade a decision and of course
the word decide is very powerfulthe root word means to cut off
all other options.
That's pretty severe, it'spretty definitive.
(15:12):
So when we're setting anintention and we're deciding
that we want to deepen our bond,well, our attention and where
we place it lets us know howclose to the mark we are making
a decision.
If we want to reach thatdecision, if we want to activate
and achieve that intention, wehave to focus our attention on
(15:43):
it and understanding that whatyour pet wants most, really, in
absentia of all of the things,wants your focused attention,
wants you, wants your focusedattention, wants you wants to
connect, which is something thatwe adult human animals often
have a really hard time doing.
We're guarded, even from ouranimals.
(16:04):
We have masks, we have walls up, we wear certain hats, we take
on different roles, all as a wayto guard our heart, all as a
way to protect ourselves fromgetting hurt, even by, and
sometimes especially by, theones who are closest to us.
And so sometimes, when your petasks for your attention, for
(16:27):
you to notice them, that feelsvery scary.
It's easier to go out and buythem a present, a costume, a toy
, a treat.
When we're protecting ourselves, when we're healing from
something, when we're coveringup and hiding a wound, sometimes
(16:47):
we don't even know it.
I have been through this, soplease do not think there's any
judgment here.
I have been through this.
It took me years to realizethat I couldn't look my soul
bird Pearl in the eyes.
I couldn't meet his gaze fully.
I would always be the one tolook away first.
And if you can relate to that,well, you're human, you too have
(17:11):
been wounded and you're stillhealing.
And it can feel easier to goand buy your pet something as a
way to say I love you.
But just understand that youranimal, your pet, is your
partner, empathic friend andteacher and if there's one being
on the face of earth, theafterlife.
(17:32):
Wherever we're looking, ifthere's any being anywhere in
any time, in any dimension, whois safe for you to open up with,
it's your pet Now feeling safeto open up with yourself?
That's a topic for a differentpodcast episode and probably a
different podcaster.
But just understand that justbecoming aware of this and how
(17:54):
sometimes we tend to hide behindthese actions like buying a
gift or recognizing a Hallmarkholiday or a birthday or a
gotcha day, that's great.
Your pet just wanted the samething that they want every day,
which is you, fully,authentically you.
So practicing this every day isthe key Asking yourself every
(18:14):
day to be a little bit morepresent with your pet, a little
bit more open, a little bit morevulnerable, a little bit more
honest, a little bit moreavailable, a little bit more
transparent, a little bit moretransparent.
(18:37):
This is the gift, and to helpyou do that and I'm going to
link it up underneath thisepisode I have created a free
tool, one of my most popularofferings.
It's very simple.
It's called Seven Days ofNoticing Practice and it guides
you in a very fun andlighthearted way through a
seven-day journey of justnoticing one new thing about
(18:57):
your pet, or with your pet, orwithin your pet, or noticing
your pet noticing you, ornoticing your pet noticing your
world.
So you'll get lots of differentprompts and some shares.
So you'll get lots of differentprompts and some shares.
I play this game along with youand I share a little video
every day of something new thatI've noticed about one of my
(19:19):
interspecies family members.
I had one student recently.
She just enrolled in my animalcommunication adventure to
mastery program and she isfollowing along with seven Days
of Noticing as well.
And she just wrote to me andshe has been so blown away by
this simple little free toolthat she has told me she's going
(19:40):
to start a journal to keeptrack of the things that she's
noticing as her two pets grow up.
And this is so fun.
When I was little, my mom kept ababy journal for the first few
years of my life and when I gotolder she gave it to me and, wow
, like I was her first child andjust this time that she spent
(20:04):
every day just noticing megrowing and it kind of blew my
mind too because of, as an adultin her 50s, I don't remember
what it was like when I was ninemonths old or three months old
or just popped out of the womb,and so this is that memory that
we're striving to cherish everytime we purchase something.
(20:24):
I'll make another memory that Ican remember.
You can just do it now.
In fact, I did it with my soul,bird pearl, and it turned into
a book called Love and Featherswhat a palm-sized parrot has
taught me about life, love andhealthy self-esteem and you can
get it on my website,animallovelanguagescom, or you
can head over to Amazon and getthe Kindle version.
So you never know where thispractice might lead you and you
(20:48):
won't ever know unless you giveit a go and give it a try and
experience it with your pet.
So I come to you with my open,vulnerable heart to just share
that.
Your pet wants nothing more norless than you showing up as who
you are, as all that you are,and sharing yourself yes, your
(21:10):
time, yes, your life, butyourself with them.
I can also share, in closing,that the degree to which you can
share, openly, honestly,vulnerably share yourself with
your pet is the degree to whichyour pet is able to openly,
honestly, vulnerably sharethemselves with you.
So where you have walls, youare not only walling yourself in
(21:33):
, you are walling your pet out.
And this is why I say thatlearning animal communication
first experiencing yes, becauseI was a pet parent who hired
communicators first but alsoexperiencing learning to use
this birth language, thisinterspecies language that all
species share in common and canaccess and tap into.
(21:55):
This is the very bestself-healing, self-development
and self-evolution program Ihave ever found, and that's
after nearly a lifetime oftrying.
And if you haven't listened tothe episode just prior to this
one, I break that down in a lotmore detail for you.
So no, I say that vulnerablyand honestly, from my heart.
I have tried a lot of programs,so this is where we start,
(22:18):
simply noticing.
So I encourage you to visit thelink in the show notes, give
the tool a try.
You can just head over toanimallovelanguagescom,
backslash free tools, look forthe tool.
It's right at the top.
It says seven days of noticing.
You can opt in.
It's totally free.
It will guide you through theprocess, make your pet's day,
make your pet's week and, if youdecide to keep going, make your
(22:42):
pet's life so much richer andso much sweeter, and yours with
them as well.
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode.
Please post your comments, postyour shares.
Let me know if you're going togive this tool a try and, if so,
how it's going, and I lookforward to welcoming you back to
a fresh new episode here atlet's Talk to Animals very, very
soon.
(23:02):
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you back here very soon for afresh new episode of let's Talk
to Animals.
Okay, all my love.
Bye for now.
Welcome back to let's Talk to Animals, the podcast
all species can enjoy together.
My name is Shannon Cutts.
I am an animal sensitive andintuitive, a Reiki master
practitioner and an animalcommunication teacher with
animallovelanguagescom and forour purposes here today, I am
also your friendly neighborhoodhostess and guide through the
(00:25):
wild, wise and wonderful worldof interspecies communication.
Call me crazy, but I trulybelieve that animal
communication has the power tosave, heal and restore our
planet for all species to enjoyand share.
When we learn to communicatewith one another, we begin to
realize we are so much morealike than different.
(00:46):
We care about each other.
We become friends.
On this podcast we talk aboutwhat the animals have to say and
share and why our pets trulyare our partners, empathic
friends and teachers.
I am so glad you have joined ushere for this fresh new episode
of let's Talk to Animals, solet's dive in.
(01:08):
Welcome back to let's Talk toAnimals, and in this episode I
wanted to share a powerfulpractice that you can do with
your pet that can deepen yourrelationship in as little as a
handful of minutes a day.
(01:28):
Now, for this to work in themost powerful way, you will want
to dedicate at least a few daysin a row to this practice.
Ideally, you will want to wrapit into your ongoing daily
routine with your pet, similarto, if you have a dog, you walk
(01:52):
them.
Maybe if you have a parrot, youteach them flight training.
Or if you have a cat, maybe yougive them some personal
playtime every day.
Or if you have a horse, maybeyou go on a beautiful trail walk
together.
(02:13):
So you'll want to incorporatethis practice into your daily
routine in some way that makessense for you.
This is not something that'sdesigned to add to the daily
burden as well as joy of being apet guardian or a pet parent,
(02:36):
but rather it's to deepen yourjoy and enjoyment of one another
, your appreciation for oneanother.
Now, where am I coming fromwhen sharing this practice with
you?
A couple different places.
Number one as a formerprofessional pet blogger, I
(03:01):
spent countless hours I can'tget back researching statistics,
data, information aboutinteresting things like how many
billions of dollars per yearpet parents spend on Halloween
costumes, valentine's Daycookies, christmas or Hanukkah
(03:24):
presents, different types ofinvestments.
Perhaps that the end goal isreally to say I love you so, so
much?
So here's this Halloweencostume.
Now some pets.
They're fine with it.
Our dog is a pretty good sport.
Some pets actively dislike it,and so who are we really buying
(03:46):
it for?
And we have to look at that.
And then I also am coming toyou from a place of as an animal
communicator, someone who doesthis professionally.
The majority of people, of petparents and animal guardians who
reach out to me are in somedegree of emotional distress.
(04:07):
Often it's because their pet isentering into their end of life
transition they are activelytransitioning or they are in
spirit and that grief is present.
And so often and I'm not sayinganything that I haven't deeply
and intimately experiencedmyself so often when we go
(04:31):
through these types of periods,that guilt can come up, that
regret can come up, thatself-recrimination can come up,
that desire to nitpick ourselvesup, that desire to nitpick
ourselves, to look back over ourlife with our pet, to ask
ourselves did I really show mylove in all the ways that my pet
(04:58):
wanted me to?
Did I do enough?
Was I good enough?
Was I aware enough to notice?
And that is so much of thebattle that I walk through with
my pet parent clients when I amholding space for themhakable on
this, at least with all of theinformation that I have
(05:27):
available to me at this point inmy life.
Our relationship continues toevolve through and past the
physical death process.
So the pet, your pet, my pet,they are not their physical
bodies.
Their physical bodies are verycute.
They're very furry and fluffyand feathery and they have
(05:49):
adorable shells and fins andscales and tails and wings and
all those wonderful things thatwe love, we appreciate and we
miss when their body is nolonger habitable and they have
to leave them.
But our pet is not our body.
You are not your body, I am notmy body.
We can all tell when there'senergy what some call the spirit
(06:14):
or the soul in a body and whenthat energy is not in the body,
when that energy or that spiritor that soul has exited or has
left the body.
So the relationship continues toevolve and I believe this is
one of the reasons why, when Iresearched again this is from my
(06:37):
pet blogger days I researchedwhat the word pet means verbally
, the etymological origins ofthe word pet and why we use it
and how we got it, and realizedthat in our human dictionary
definition of pet basicallytranslates to extraneous
(06:57):
possession of little consequence, and I said, well, that doesn't
work.
For me, that doesn't describemy relationship with my pets,
and so I decided, as acommunicator, to revisit that
and ask the animals well, whydid you give us the word pet?
What does the word pet mean toyou?
What do you want us to know?
How do you want us to definethe word pet and your role in
(07:21):
our life, in our family?
And they said we are yourpartner's empathic friends and
teachers.
Well, that describes myrelationship with my pets very
well indeed.
You can let me know in thecomments and in your shares if
that resonates with you as well.
So, coming from those twodifferent perspectives one might
(07:44):
even say wildly diametricallyopposite perspectives of we're
buying all of these things forour pets so that we can say I
love you.
Maybe there are things that ourpets really want.
Maybe there are things our petsdon't really want.
Maybe these are things that ourpets don't care about, but they
(08:07):
care about the one giving themto them, and so we have to take
a look at well, what does my petreally want from me the most?
And I want to ask you to justmaybe even pause this podcast
for a moment and ask yourselfthat question.
Now I'm going to tell you whatthe pets tell me they want the
most.
But before I tell you what myexhaustive interspecies research
(08:32):
direct qualitative story-basedresearch has informed me with,
I'd like you to consider what doyou think your pet wants the
most from you?
What do you think makes yourpet feel the most seen and loved
by you?
What does your pet look forwardto the most every single day?
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And just consider that you cantry on a role reversal.
Just try it on for size.
Just pretend for a moment youare your pet and your pet is you
.
You have your pet's life, yourpet has your life.
And imagine if you were yourpet.
What would you look forward tomost in your day?
What would you wake up everymorning hoping would happen
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every single day?
What would light you up insideif it happened every single day?
And what would make you feelcompletely loved and at peace
and so joyful and grateful whenyou rest your head to go to
sleep.
If you had gotten that thingfrom your beloved human, that
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would make your life feelcomplete.
What would it be?
No-transcript.
It's your time.
It's you Believe it or notmind-blowingly.
I find this mind-blowingespecially when I'm having one
of my not-so-great-version-of-medays.
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I've really woken up on thewrong side of the perch, so to
speak.
And yet my pets want nothingmore than to spend all of their
time with me.
I don't even want to spend timewith me on those days, but they
still crave my company, andthat it just freaking blows my
mind.
And they don't care what I'mwearing and they don't care if I
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bring a new toy with me, oreven a new treat.
Frankly, the old treats workperfectly well, especially for
our dachshund, but they're notlooking for something else,
something more than us,something better than us, us and
our expensive plus one in theform of a Halloween costume or
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Christmas present wrapped underthe tree or whatever way you
celebrate the holidays, andwhenever you celebrate, they're
not looking behind you, evenlike little kids do like what'd
you bring me?
They're like oh, you brought meyou.
Yay, that's exactly what Iwanted.
And that does blow the mind,doesn't it?
Because for most of us, for ourown species, if we don't
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remember, recognize and somehowmark the occasion of each
hallmark holiday with some kindof financial expenditure, well,
chances are good, there's atleast one other human animal in
our sphere of influence that'sgoing to get kind of peeved
about that.
Well, you didn't remember ourfill in the blank, or you didn't
buy me a present for thatholiday, or our pets.
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Every holiday is every day whenwe show up to be with them.
It's so simple.
It's so simple.
It's so simple that it's reallyhard to accept, like right now,
I am batch recording a coupleof podcast episodes because I
have some free space in myschedule today to do this, and
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what that means is for yourlistening, not pleasure, but
simple sanity.
I have put my soul bird, missPetal, who is the reincarnation
of my soul bird of 24 years,pearl.
I have put her in a differentroom.
She's not happy about it, notat all, and she wants to be with
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me.
But when I go out to get herafter I finish recording this
episode for you, she's not evengoing to be mad at me, she's not
going to hold it against me.
In fact, I went out just nowjust to get something and she
reacted with so much overjoy,just so effusive in her greeting
and so excited, and I didn'thave to bring anything with me,
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I didn't have to spend any money.
I mean, if we're beingcompletely honest with ourselves
, our pets are investment.
They are expensive, especiallyif and when something always
seems to, because that's justthe way of inhabiting a physical
body.
From time to time Things can gowrong.
Sometimes they can beunbelievably expensive, right?
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So recognizing that you don'thave to spend any extra Now,
maybe your dog loves exerciseand agility and so you're
spending some money to doactivities like that together,
that's different.
That's different.
That's something that maybe,because of their species and
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their particular breed, theyneed that you get the enjoyment
of witnessing their prowess,their success, their amazing
athleticism, so that counts.
That's not the same thing.
But just dialing back on thatpressure that we so often feel
to recognize their birthday ortheir gotcha day with some kind
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of expensive extravaganza,they'd just as soon be with you,
just be with you all day.
Just be with you.
That's what they tell me againand again and again.
I ask every day, day in and dayout, questions like what's your
favorite treat, what's yourfavorite toy, what's your
favorite thing to do?
And in every situation it's bewith my mom, be with my dad,
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then the diced hot dogs or thecatnip toy or whatever it is.
But topping the list is yourattention.
And if I had to summarize thenumber one reason why pet
parents reach out to me forprivate sessions as well as to
learn animal communication.
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It is to develop a deeper bondand to have that inner
confidence.
My pet knows how much I lovethem.
My pet knows I would doanything for them.
My pet knows they are mysoulmate and I've loved them
unconditionally and they havechanged my life and I want to
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return the favor.
And when we recognize that, werecognize that we have an
intention, a direction and we'vemade a decision and of course
the word decide is very powerfulthe root word means to cut off
all other options.
That's pretty severe, it'spretty definitive.
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So when we're setting anintention and we're deciding
that we want to deepen our bond,well, our attention and where
we place it lets us know howclose to the mark we are making
a decision.
If we want to reach thatdecision, if we want to activate
and achieve that intention, wehave to focus our attention on
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it and understanding that whatyour pet wants most, really, in
absentia of all of the things,wants your focused attention,
wants you, wants your focusedattention, wants you wants to
connect, which is something thatwe adult human animals often
have a really hard time doing.
We're guarded, even from ouranimals.
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We have masks, we have walls up, we wear certain hats, we take
on different roles, all as a wayto guard our heart, all as a
way to protect ourselves fromgetting hurt, even by, and
sometimes especially by, theones who are closest to us.
And so sometimes, when your petasks for your attention, for
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you to notice them, that feelsvery scary.
It's easier to go out and buythem a present, a costume, a toy
, a treat.
When we're protecting ourselves, when we're healing from
something, when we're coveringup and hiding a wound, sometimes
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we don't even know it.
I have been through this, soplease do not think there's any
judgment here.
I have been through this.
It took me years to realizethat I couldn't look my soul
bird Pearl in the eyes.
I couldn't meet his gaze fully.
I would always be the one tolook away first.
And if you can relate to that,well, you're human, you too have
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been wounded and you're stillhealing.
And it can feel easier to goand buy your pet something as a
way to say I love you.
But just understand that youranimal, your pet, is your
partner, empathic friend andteacher and if there's one being
on the face of earth, theafterlife.
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Wherever we're looking, ifthere's any being anywhere in
any time, in any dimension, whois safe for you to open up with,
it's your pet Now feeling safeto open up with yourself?
That's a topic for a differentpodcast episode and probably a
different podcaster.
But just understand that justbecoming aware of this and how
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sometimes we tend to hide behindthese actions like buying a
gift or recognizing a Hallmarkholiday or a birthday or a
gotcha day, that's great.
Your pet just wanted the samething that they want every day,
which is you, fully,authentically you.
So practicing this every day isthe key Asking yourself every
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day to be a little bit morepresent with your pet, a little
bit more open, a little bit morevulnerable, a little bit more
honest, a little bit moreavailable, a little bit more
transparent, a little bit moretransparent.
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This is the gift, and to helpyou do that and I'm going to
link it up underneath thisepisode I have created a free
tool, one of my most popularofferings.
It's very simple.
It's called Seven Days ofNoticing Practice and it guides
you in a very fun andlighthearted way through a
seven-day journey of justnoticing one new thing about
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your pet, or with your pet, orwithin your pet, or noticing
your pet noticing you, ornoticing your pet noticing your
world.
So you'll get lots of differentprompts and some shares.
So you'll get lots of differentprompts and some shares.
I play this game along with youand I share a little video
every day of something new thatI've noticed about one of my
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interspecies family members.
I had one student recently.
She just enrolled in my animalcommunication adventure to
mastery program and she isfollowing along with seven Days
of Noticing as well.
And she just wrote to me andshe has been so blown away by
this simple little free toolthat she has told me she's going
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to start a journal to keeptrack of the things that she's
noticing as her two pets grow up.
And this is so fun.
When I was little, my mom kept ababy journal for the first few
years of my life and when I gotolder she gave it to me and, wow
, like I was her first child andjust this time that she spent
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every day just noticing megrowing and it kind of blew my
mind too because of, as an adultin her 50s, I don't remember
what it was like when I was ninemonths old or three months old
or just popped out of the womb,and so this is that memory that
we're striving to cherish everytime we purchase something.
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I'll make another memory that Ican remember.
You can just do it now.
In fact, I did it with my soul,bird pearl, and it turned into
a book called Love and Featherswhat a palm-sized parrot has
taught me about life, love andhealthy self-esteem and you can
get it on my website,animallovelanguagescom, or you
can head over to Amazon and getthe Kindle version.
So you never know where thispractice might lead you and you
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won't ever know unless you giveit a go and give it a try and
experience it with your pet.
So I come to you with my open,vulnerable heart to just share
that.
Your pet wants nothing more norless than you showing up as who
you are, as all that you are,and sharing yourself yes, your
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time, yes, your life, butyourself with them.
I can also share, in closing,that the degree to which you can
share, openly, honestly,vulnerably share yourself with
your pet is the degree to whichyour pet is able to openly,
honestly, vulnerably sharethemselves with you.
So where you have walls, youare not only walling yourself in
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, you are walling your pet out.
And this is why I say thatlearning animal communication
first experiencing yes, becauseI was a pet parent who hired
communicators first but alsoexperiencing learning to use
this birth language, thisinterspecies language that all
species share in common and canaccess and tap into.
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This is the very bestself-healing, self-development
and self-evolution program Ihave ever found, and that's
after nearly a lifetime oftrying.
And if you haven't listened tothe episode just prior to this
one, I break that down in a lotmore detail for you.
So no, I say that vulnerablyand honestly, from my heart.
I have tried a lot of programs,so this is where we start,
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simply noticing.
So I encourage you to visit thelink in the show notes, give
the tool a try.
You can just head over toanimallovelanguagescom,
backslash free tools, look forthe tool.
It's right at the top.
It says seven days of noticing.
You can opt in.
It's totally free.
It will guide you through theprocess, make your pet's day,
make your pet's week and, if youdecide to keep going, make your
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pet's life so much richer andso much sweeter, and yours with
them as well.
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode.
Please post your comments, postyour shares.
Let me know if you're going togive this tool a try and, if so,
how it's going, and I lookforward to welcoming you back to
a fresh new episode here atlet's Talk to Animals very, very
soon.
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Okay, all my love Bye for now.
I have so enjoyed sharing thisepisode with you.
If you're new to the let's Talkto Animals community and you've
enjoyed this episode, please doleave us a review on your
favorite streaming service ordrop a comment wherever you'd
like to listen.
I'd love to hear from you, andyour feedback truly helps me
(23:24):
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animal communication, pleasevisit me at
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Click on schedule for petsessions and programs for all
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to Animals.
Okay, all my love.
Bye for now.
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