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Speaker 1 (00:12):
I am your friendly neighborhood hostess, shannon
Cutts.
I'm an animal sensitive andintuitive.
I'm the founder ofanimallovelanguagescom, a Reiki
master practitioner for pets andtheir people, and an animal
communication teacher.
Animal communication itself, inmy experience, is the best
(00:33):
self-development program, thebiggest adventure, the most
amazingly transformativeexperience I have ever found to
date in my five decades of life.
And even though I came toanimal communication relatively
late in life, I feel like thathas given me even more
(00:56):
appreciation for all of thedifferent ways that learning how
to speak, learning how tocommunicate with all beings,
with all different life forms,with all different species, has
added to my life.
I no longer feel so alone orisolated in this world.
I no longer struggle when Idon't establish that
(01:19):
instantaneous, deep connectionwith certain members of my own
species.
I no longer feel like I'm doingthis life thing all on my own,
and that is what I want for youtoo.
So I want to start us right atthe beginning, all the way back
to the beginning.
Even if you are aware of whatanimal communication is, even if
(01:41):
you've experienced animalcommunication with your own pets
, maybe you're a student with ateacher, maybe you are one of my
students and you've taken oneof my courses, even if you do
have prior experience, it'salways good to approach a brand
new adventure, open our minds,invite ourselves to return to
(02:02):
learning mode.
One of my mentors says there arethree ways to listen.
The first way is to say, oh, Ihear what they're talking about
and I already know that, and wekind of tend to shut off at that
point, right, we don't listenfurther.
The second way to listen is tosay, oh, I agree with that or I
don't agree with that, and hereagain we shut off and we stop
(02:28):
listening.
We go up into our own mind andwe start thinking about why we
agree or why we don't agree, orwhatever it is that's going on,
or what we're having for supperthat night.
The third way to listen is tolisten with an open, empty,
humble mind.
To listen and say, even if Ithink I already know this, even
if I think I agree, know this,even if I think I agree with
this, even if I think I don'tagree with this, I'm still going
(02:50):
to invite myself to simplylisten.
Maybe I'll even learn somethingnew.
I know that, as a professionalanimal intuitive, I learn
something new every single day,every time I have a conversation
with an animal I learnsomething new.
I learned plenty of new thingsfrom my own companion animals.
(03:11):
I'm an interspecies mama.
I currently share myinterspecies family life, my
days, my nights, with mycockatiel parrot Petal, with my
red-footed tortoise Small T,with my Box Turtle Io and with
our family's Standard DachshundBlash Gordon.
And recently I had theincredible good fortune, the
(03:33):
privilege of fostering abeautiful young lady kitten whom
I named Sasha after she told methat was exactly what she
wanted to be called.
Even though she has now movedinto her forever home, I still
feel like she is forever a partof my family.
And the truth is and I alwayslove pondering and reflecting on
(03:53):
this quote from Ram Dass.
He says we're really all justwalking each other home, and I
think so in a way.
We're all family.
In a way that is really themost profound gift that animal
communication has given me theawareness that there are no
strangers here.
We are all family.
We are all more alike thandifferent on the inside, which,
(04:17):
of course, is where it mattersmost.
We are all just walking oneanother home and even if we look
at it from a psychologicalperspective, from Maslow's
hierarchy of needs, so manymoons ago, when I was going
through my intro to psychologycourses in college and I still
didn't know who I wanted to be.
(04:38):
When I grew up and Iencountered Maslow's hierarchy
of needs and it just transfixedme this idea that there's a
framework for self-evolution andat the very bottom, at the very
foundational level, there is aconsistency of basic needs
(04:59):
security, safety, shelter, food,water, rest just the very
basics.
And if you think right now, asyou're listening to me,
challenge your mind to think ofa single being alive in a body
(05:20):
on this planet right now whodoes not need these things, if
you think of one, reach out tome and let me know, because I've
been working on this for yearsand I still have not come up
with a single embodied being whodoes not need these basic
things.
We have co-hosts and sometimesthe co-hosts get curious about
(05:44):
the ring lights and the gadgetsand all the wonderful cords yeah
, that mommy is using.
So if you hear some littleunexplained sound effects, just
know that those arespontaneously provided by Miss
Petal, who's my definitely mybetter as well as prettier half.
(06:07):
So let's get started here andlet's talk about what is animal
communication.
There are so many definitions.
There are so many differentcommunicators that are offering
this service and doing theirwork in the world.
And if you ask me what I thinkanimal communication is and you
ask a different communicator,what do they think animal
(06:28):
communication is?
You've asked somebody on thestreets who doesn't even know
that intuitive pathways exist.
What is animal communication?
If you ask a scientist whostudies animal behavior or wild
species dynamics, we might allcome up with a different answer.
So, as a part of thisexploration, I encourage you to
(06:51):
come up with your own, to askyourself what is animal
communication?
What does that phrase mean tome?
To me, it means the innerconnection, the reason that I
called my company, my practice,my work in this world, animal
love languages is.
To me, communication begins andends, and hopefully continues,
(07:16):
with listening.
To me, communicating is allabout listening and to
illustrate this, I would love toshare a little story with you.
Back in the day, before theinternet, before we had Google,
before we had the ability tojust learn just mountains of
(07:36):
information in the average day,we had person-to-person
mentorship.
We had one teacher with ahandful of students and that
teacher was charged withshepherding those students and
passing on his or her knowledgeand helping those students grow
in a very hands-on way, and oneof my intuitive teachers was
(07:58):
sharing one day the story of thegreat painter and artist
Leonardo da Vinci, and she saidthere were so many students who
would come and they would wantto be mentored by him, they
would want to work with him,they would want to learn from
him, and he had a ratherunorthodox teaching style.
(08:18):
One of the things that he usedto love to do with his students
is he would say I just want youto go and sit in this field or
on that bench, or in this littletea shop or in the town square
or out on the farm all day.
And the students would say well, what do you want me to do?
(08:41):
And the great master would sayI want you to notice, I want you
to just notice, I want you tolisten, I want you to wonder, I
want you to get curious.
Listening, noticing, wondering,these are the hallmarks of
(09:03):
animal communication.
These are the hallmarks ofanimal communication.
These truly should be thehallmarks of all communication.
But to me, animal communicationbegins with this humble
beginner's mind, with this emptycup, with this desire to expand
and to receive what anotherbeing wants to offer.
(09:25):
So to me, animal communicationis really all about listening,
and a particular kind oflistening, because we all know
the kind of listening that mostpeople do and, if we're being
honest, we typically often do ittoo.
We get on our smartphones,maybe we're listening with one
ear and we're doing with theother.
(09:48):
We're talking to ourselvesthrough the other ear, maybe
we're on our phones, maybe we'redriving, maybe we're thinking
about what we're going to havefor breakfast the next day.
We're not really payingattention.
And the wonderful thing aboutanimal communication is that it
only works when we're reallypaying attention.
(10:10):
So that's why I shared in thevery beginning that this is
really the best self-evolution,self-transformation,
self-development program I'veever found, because it forces me
, it invites me, it welcomes meto show up with all of me, right
here, right now, to listen.
(10:30):
If I'm not listening, I cannotcommunicate, I can't have a
conversation with an animal.
They will feel it, they willsense it and they will not share
.
And there's all kinds ofreasons biological kinds of
(10:51):
reasons biological,psychological, emotional and
soul level reasons why animalsturn off their side of the
conversation when we're notfully present to listen.
We're not going to go into thatin this particular episode, but
it's very important tounderstand that the only way
animal communication is possibleis if we're right here right
now, 100% of our attention, ourenergy, our focus, with our
(11:16):
listening ears open and ourthinking minds quiet, and we're
receiving.
This is animal communication.
It's amazing how much we missby trying to multitask.
It's amazing how much goesunnoticed and unreceived.
This is another reason why Ilove animal communication so
(11:39):
much, because it makes ourrelationships with other human
animals better too.
It's just quite marvelous.
Animals better too.
It's just quite marvelous.
The animals teach us how tolisten, how to show up fully,
how to be present, how to comewith an open, quiet mind, and
then those skills that we learntranslate over to other animal
(12:01):
conversations that we have withour own species.
Often we find that ourrelationships with family gets
better, our relationships withour partners get better, our
relationships with our parents,with our children, with our
bosses, with our employees, withour colleagues, with our
neighbors, with total strangers.
(12:21):
Our manners get better.
We become more respectfuldrivers.
The ripple effect from a singleshift of our focus is
phenomenal.
So for me, animal communicationhas always started with deep
listening, and this is the lovepiece, because the love piece is
(12:44):
the great activator.
If the listing piece is settingthe foundation, the noticing,
the getting curious, the showingup with everything in us,
putting everything else on hold,to be here right now to listen.
Then the love piece is theactivator that allows for the
(13:05):
full receiving, the act ofreceiving that is required for
conversation to take place.
Because think about someone youreally love Could be an animal,
could be a human animal, couldbe somebody who's passed into
spirit.
Think about that moment whenyou first realized you were in
(13:29):
love.
Maybe it was the first day youmet, maybe it took a little bit
more time than that, but when werealize that we are head over
heels in love, what verynaturally happens next?
Very naturally happens next Formost of us?
We uncover an incredible desireto learn to bond, to befriend,
(14:05):
to serve, to give, to even mergewith that other being, to know
everything about them, to becloser to them than any other
being alive or in spirit, to betheir one and only and to be the
one and only to them.
This is deep listening andaction With that love.
There's no other better way totransmit I love you than through
(14:32):
deep listening.
Have you ever had a conversationwith someone who did all the
talking?
And they talked and they talked, and they talked and they
talked and you never even said aword.
This doesn't have to be aconversation, by the way, that
you liked, that you enjoyedbeing a part of, but have you
(14:55):
ever had a conversation withsomeone who did most or all of
the talking and later you werejust stunned or flabbergasted to
learn that that personabsolutely adored you and wanted
to hang out with you more andwanted to talk with you more?
Maybe they wanted to go outwith you, or maybe they wanted
to marry you.
(15:15):
Maybe they wanted to dobusiness with you.
Maybe they told others that wasone of the best conversations
I've ever had with anyone, everin my life.
And you're thinking to yourself.
I didn't even talk, I didn'tsay anything.
That wasn't even a conversation, and they perceived it as being
so nourishing and so nurturingand so transforming and it
(15:40):
became this big deal to them, somuch so that they would seek
out your company.
We buy our animals so manythings the pet product industry
and here I'm not just talkingabout food and shelter and the
very basics that we werediscussing earlier.
I'm talking about toys andparties and costumes and daycare
(16:05):
and all of those things arewonderful expressions of love,
especially if our animal reallytruly thoroughly enjoys them.
And let's be honest, havingcompanion animals, having pets
it can be expensive.
So, yes, there is definitely athriving pet products industry
out there.
(16:25):
And yes, purchasing things forour animals toys, treats, soft
bedding, even cute costumes, ifour animal is into that or at
least is a good sport about itthose are all wonderful,
wonderful things that we can doto show our love.
(16:46):
But what our animals truly wantmost and I've spoken with
hundreds upon hundreds ofanimals and they all affirm this
what they most want is yourattention.
They want our attention.
They want our present momentfocus.
They want to feel our awarenessof them fully.
(17:11):
They want us to listen to them.
So many of my students, myanimal communication students,
when they first start taking myclasses, they say I don't think
I'm intuitive, or I'm not veryintuitive, or I have an
occasional moment where I feellike my intuition is talking to
me, but it's not very reliableand I don't really understand
(17:33):
why or how it happens.
And by the end of just ahandful of weeks together
they're having reliableconversations across species
boundaries and it's really alldown to one key shift, which is
(17:57):
where are you placing yourattention, are you showing up
fully with that love, that bondof love, that desire to learn
and to listen, desire to learnand to listen to say I see you,
(18:22):
I hear you, I am present for you, right here, right now.
There's nothing else.
There's no one else moreimportant to me than you, right
here, right here, right now,sharing who you are with me.
We can bring that into everyarea of our life Deep listening,
noticing, wondering, gettingcurious, bringing the awareness
(18:46):
that we're more and different,showing up with our heart open,
our mind, quiet.
I like what one of my mentorssays success leaves clues.
(19:18):
So, as we wrap up this episode,I want to invite you to
contemplate with me any momentin your life where you have ever
felt your intuition speakingwith you, talking to you,
tapping you on your shoulder,trying to get your attention,
sending you a sign or a message,maybe when you are awake, maybe
in your dreams, maybe in theform of an animal or a bird or
(19:42):
an insect that you see in thestrangest places, at the oddest
moments.
For me, it's the ladybug.
When I see a ladybug, I alwaysknow that my spirit guides are
trying to get my attention.
For me, if I feel my handsspontaneously move to my gut.
(20:03):
I know that information is onits way to me, so start just
noticing for yourself.
How does your intuition even tryto get your attention?
Maybe it's you hear song lyricsor you get a song stuck in your
head.
That's always a fun one, right?
(20:24):
Maybe you have a recurringdream.
Maybe you see a particularlicense plate message or a
bumper sticker.
Maybe you just know somethingand you know it, and you don't
know how you know it.
And now that you know it, youcan't unknow it, and nothing
(20:48):
that your left brain, logical,analytical, 3d mind says can
talk you out of knowing what youknow.
Maybe it's something elseentirely, and we are going to
dive more deeply into all thedifferent ways that intuition,
your intuitive pathways, thedifferent communication channels
(21:10):
that you're already wired upwith.
We're going to dive more deeplyinto how those work, how you
can tap into them, why youshould trust them and what they
have to add to your life inupcoming episodes.
But for today, I really justwant you to focus on just
(21:31):
picking out, just cherry picking, one or two or a few moments in
your life to date when you havereally felt your intuition
breaking through to you.
How did that happen?
Do you see any similarities orconsistencies from one
experience, one intuitiveexperience to the next?
(21:54):
Were those experiences ofintuition useful to you?
What did they add to your life?
Even if you can only come upwith one moment when someone
knocked at your door or calledyou on the phone and you just
knew who it was before youmarched your 3D mind over to
(22:15):
your phone screen or over toyour front door to look out and
confirm what you knew, maybe youwere looking for guidance and
you were driving somewhere and abillboard just caught your
attention and it had exactly themessage that you were looking
for.
Maybe you were in a crowdedroom and you just felt somebody
(22:38):
staring at you before you turnedaround to confirm that yes, in
fact they were staring at you.
Maybe you've had a dream thatsomething was going to happen
and later that thing actuallyhappened.
We all have these experiences,but most of us don't pay
attention to them.
So I'm inviting you to startpaying attention.
(23:05):
Maybe it was something to dowith your animal We'll talk a
lot more about this, right, it'smy favorite subject and what
exploring animal communicationis all about.
But maybe you just knewsomething about your pet.
You just knew that they wanteda companion.
You just knew that their tummywas feeling off.
You just knew that it was theirtime to pass.
(23:27):
You just knew that this was theanimal that you must add to
your family.
You just knew.
So ponder this to be continued.
Right, and if you would like toreach out, you've got my
information here.
I'd love to hear about yourintuitive experiences.
How do you know when yourintuition is talking with you?
(23:50):
How do you know when there is acommunication coming in?
And after you've identified oneor a few of these breakthrough
moments of deep listening, ofreceiving information, of
receiving a communication that'scoming to you, coming through
you, then part two ask yourselfhow your life might transform if
(24:18):
you started stringing thosemoments together with more
consistency.
Imagine if you have onebreakthrough intuitive moment a
week and you identify that thatadded something of value to your
life.
You identify that that addedsomething of value to your life.
Then start to imagine what ifit happened once a day.
(24:38):
If you have it once a day,imagine what might happen if you
had it several times a day.
If you have it several times aday, imagine what might happen
if you were receiving intuitivemessages, intuitive guidance.
If you were completely in tunewith and in flow with all the
(25:03):
other beings that we share thespirit dimension with, if you
are constantly in flow,receiving only exactly what you
needed to receive right now,being guided effortlessly
through the river of life, howmight your life transform?
That is where we start withanimal communication.
(25:24):
Not so we can add a new skillto our pet parenting toolkit,
although that is wonderful andvery useful.
Not just we can add some othercredit to our resume, not even
for the sake of just learningsomething new, but because of
the end result, the thing wewant most more joy, more
connection and the more we areoffering ourselves so that
(25:50):
others feel seen and heard andreceived fully, we also open
ourselves up with more courageto being seen, being heard,
being received fully.
So that is my message and myinvitation for you this week
(26:10):
here on Exploring AnimalCommunication.
My name is Shannon Cutts.
I'm an animal sensitive andintuitive, a Reiki master
practitioner for pets and theirpeople and an animal
communication teacher.
I am sending you all my love.
Okay, bye for now.
I am your friendly neighborhood hostess, shannon
Cutts.
I'm an animal sensitive andintuitive.
I'm the founder ofanimallovelanguagescom, a Reiki
master practitioner for pets andtheir people, and an animal
communication teacher.
Animal communication itself, inmy experience, is the best
(00:33):
self-development program, thebiggest adventure, the most
amazingly transformativeexperience I have ever found to
date in my five decades of life.
And even though I came toanimal communication relatively
late in life, I feel like thathas given me even more
(00:56):
appreciation for all of thedifferent ways that learning how
to speak, learning how tocommunicate with all beings,
with all different life forms,with all different species, has
added to my life.
I no longer feel so alone orisolated in this world.
I no longer struggle when Idon't establish that
(01:19):
instantaneous, deep connectionwith certain members of my own
species.
I no longer feel like I'm doingthis life thing all on my own,
and that is what I want for youtoo.
So I want to start us right atthe beginning, all the way back
to the beginning.
Even if you are aware of whatanimal communication is, even if
(01:41):
you've experienced animalcommunication with your own pets
, maybe you're a student with ateacher, maybe you are one of my
students and you've taken oneof my courses, even if you do
have prior experience, it'salways good to approach a brand
new adventure, open our minds,invite ourselves to return to
(02:02):
learning mode.
One of my mentors says there arethree ways to listen.
The first way is to say, oh, Ihear what they're talking about
and I already know that, and wekind of tend to shut off at that
point, right, we don't listenfurther.
The second way to listen is tosay, oh, I agree with that or I
don't agree with that, and hereagain we shut off and we stop
(02:28):
listening.
We go up into our own mind andwe start thinking about why we
agree or why we don't agree, orwhatever it is that's going on,
or what we're having for supperthat night.
The third way to listen is tolisten with an open, empty,
humble mind.
To listen and say, even if Ithink I already know this, even
if I think I agree, know this,even if I think I agree with
this, even if I think I don'tagree with this, I'm still going
(02:50):
to invite myself to simplylisten.
Maybe I'll even learn somethingnew.
I know that, as a professionalanimal intuitive, I learn
something new every single day,every time I have a conversation
with an animal I learnsomething new.
I learned plenty of new thingsfrom my own companion animals.
(03:11):
I'm an interspecies mama.
I currently share myinterspecies family life, my
days, my nights, with mycockatiel parrot Petal, with my
red-footed tortoise Small T,with my Box Turtle Io and with
our family's Standard DachshundBlash Gordon.
And recently I had theincredible good fortune, the
(03:33):
privilege of fostering abeautiful young lady kitten whom
I named Sasha after she told methat was exactly what she
wanted to be called.
Even though she has now movedinto her forever home, I still
feel like she is forever a partof my family.
And the truth is and I alwayslove pondering and reflecting on
(03:53):
this quote from Ram Dass.
He says we're really all justwalking each other home, and I
think so in a way.
We're all family.
In a way that is really themost profound gift that animal
communication has given me theawareness that there are no
strangers here.
We are all family.
We are all more alike thandifferent on the inside, which,
(04:17):
of course, is where it mattersmost.
We are all just walking oneanother home and even if we look
at it from a psychologicalperspective, from Maslow's
hierarchy of needs, so manymoons ago, when I was going
through my intro to psychologycourses in college and I still
didn't know who I wanted to be.
(04:38):
When I grew up and Iencountered Maslow's hierarchy
of needs and it just transfixedme this idea that there's a
framework for self-evolution andat the very bottom, at the very
foundational level, there is aconsistency of basic needs
(04:59):
security, safety, shelter, food,water, rest just the very
basics.
And if you think right now, asyou're listening to me,
challenge your mind to think ofa single being alive in a body
(05:20):
on this planet right now whodoes not need these things, if
you think of one, reach out tome and let me know, because I've
been working on this for yearsand I still have not come up
with a single embodied being whodoes not need these basic
things.
We have co-hosts and sometimesthe co-hosts get curious about
(05:44):
the ring lights and the gadgetsand all the wonderful cords yeah
, that mommy is using.
So if you hear some littleunexplained sound effects, just
know that those arespontaneously provided by Miss
Petal, who's my definitely mybetter as well as prettier half.
(06:07):
So let's get started here andlet's talk about what is animal
communication.
There are so many definitions.
There are so many differentcommunicators that are offering
this service and doing theirwork in the world.
And if you ask me what I thinkanimal communication is and you
ask a different communicator,what do they think animal
(06:28):
communication is?
You've asked somebody on thestreets who doesn't even know
that intuitive pathways exist.
What is animal communication?
If you ask a scientist whostudies animal behavior or wild
species dynamics, we might allcome up with a different answer.
So, as a part of thisexploration, I encourage you to
(06:51):
come up with your own, to askyourself what is animal
communication?
What does that phrase mean tome?
To me, it means the innerconnection, the reason that I
called my company, my practice,my work in this world, animal
love languages is.
To me, communication begins andends, and hopefully continues,
(07:16):
with listening.
To me, communicating is allabout listening and to
illustrate this, I would love toshare a little story with you.
Back in the day, before theinternet, before we had Google,
before we had the ability tojust learn just mountains of
(07:36):
information in the average day,we had person-to-person
mentorship.
We had one teacher with ahandful of students and that
teacher was charged withshepherding those students and
passing on his or her knowledgeand helping those students grow
in a very hands-on way, and oneof my intuitive teachers was
(07:58):
sharing one day the story of thegreat painter and artist
Leonardo da Vinci, and she saidthere were so many students who
would come and they would wantto be mentored by him, they
would want to work with him,they would want to learn from
him, and he had a ratherunorthodox teaching style.
(08:18):
One of the things that he usedto love to do with his students
is he would say I just want youto go and sit in this field or
on that bench, or in this littletea shop or in the town square
or out on the farm all day.
And the students would say well, what do you want me to do?
(08:41):
And the great master would sayI want you to notice, I want you
to just notice, I want you tolisten, I want you to wonder, I
want you to get curious.
Listening, noticing, wondering,these are the hallmarks of
(09:03):
animal communication.
These are the hallmarks ofanimal communication.
These truly should be thehallmarks of all communication.
But to me, animal communicationbegins with this humble
beginner's mind, with this emptycup, with this desire to expand
and to receive what anotherbeing wants to offer.
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So to me, animal communicationis really all about listening,
and a particular kind oflistening, because we all know
the kind of listening that mostpeople do and, if we're being
honest, we typically often do ittoo.
We get on our smartphones,maybe we're listening with one
ear and we're doing with theother.
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We're talking to ourselvesthrough the other ear, maybe
we're on our phones, maybe we'redriving, maybe we're thinking
about what we're going to havefor breakfast the next day.
We're not really payingattention.
And the wonderful thing aboutanimal communication is that it
only works when we're reallypaying attention.
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So that's why I shared in thevery beginning that this is
really the best self-evolution,self-transformation,
self-development program I'veever found, because it forces me
, it invites me, it welcomes meto show up with all of me, right
here, right now, to listen.
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If I'm not listening, I cannotcommunicate, I can't have a
conversation with an animal.
They will feel it, they willsense it and they will not share
.
And there's all kinds ofreasons biological kinds of
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reasons biological,psychological, emotional and
soul level reasons why animalsturn off their side of the
conversation when we're notfully present to listen.
We're not going to go into thatin this particular episode, but
it's very important tounderstand that the only way
animal communication is possibleis if we're right here right
now, 100% of our attention, ourenergy, our focus, with our
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listening ears open and ourthinking minds quiet, and we're
receiving.
This is animal communication.
It's amazing how much we missby trying to multitask.
It's amazing how much goesunnoticed and unreceived.
This is another reason why Ilove animal communication so
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much, because it makes ourrelationships with other human
animals better too.
It's just quite marvelous.
Animals better too.
It's just quite marvelous.
The animals teach us how tolisten, how to show up fully,
how to be present, how to comewith an open, quiet mind, and
then those skills that we learntranslate over to other animal
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conversations that we have withour own species.
Often we find that ourrelationships with family gets
better, our relationships withour partners get better, our
relationships with our parents,with our children, with our
bosses, with our employees, withour colleagues, with our
neighbors, with total strangers.
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Our manners get better.
We become more respectfuldrivers.
The ripple effect from a singleshift of our focus is
phenomenal.
So for me, animal communicationhas always started with deep
listening, and this is the lovepiece, because the love piece is
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the great activator.
If the listing piece is settingthe foundation, the noticing,
the getting curious, the showingup with everything in us,
putting everything else on hold,to be here right now to listen.
Then the love piece is theactivator that allows for the
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full receiving, the act ofreceiving that is required for
conversation to take place.
Because think about someone youreally love Could be an animal,
could be a human animal, couldbe somebody who's passed into
spirit.
Think about that moment whenyou first realized you were in
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love.
Maybe it was the first day youmet, maybe it took a little bit
more time than that, but when werealize that we are head over
heels in love, what verynaturally happens next?
Very naturally happens next Formost of us?
We uncover an incredible desireto learn to bond, to befriend,
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to serve, to give, to even mergewith that other being, to know
everything about them, to becloser to them than any other
being alive or in spirit, to betheir one and only and to be the
one and only to them.
This is deep listening andaction With that love.
There's no other better way totransmit I love you than through
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deep listening.
Have you ever had a conversationwith someone who did all the
talking?
And they talked and they talked, and they talked and they
talked and you never even said aword.
This doesn't have to be aconversation, by the way, that
you liked, that you enjoyedbeing a part of, but have you
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ever had a conversation withsomeone who did most or all of
the talking and later you werejust stunned or flabbergasted to
learn that that personabsolutely adored you and wanted
to hang out with you more andwanted to talk with you more?
Maybe they wanted to go outwith you, or maybe they wanted
to marry you.
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Maybe they wanted to dobusiness with you.
Maybe they told others that wasone of the best conversations
I've ever had with anyone, everin my life.
And you're thinking to yourself.
I didn't even talk, I didn'tsay anything.
That wasn't even a conversation, and they perceived it as being
so nourishing and so nurturingand so transforming and it
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became this big deal to them, somuch so that they would seek
out your company.
We buy our animals so manythings the pet product industry
and here I'm not just talkingabout food and shelter and the
very basics that we werediscussing earlier.
I'm talking about toys andparties and costumes and daycare
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and all of those things arewonderful expressions of love,
especially if our animal reallytruly thoroughly enjoys them.
And let's be honest, havingcompanion animals, having pets
it can be expensive.
So, yes, there is definitely athriving pet products industry
out there.
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And yes, purchasing things forour animals toys, treats, soft
bedding, even cute costumes, ifour animal is into that or at
least is a good sport about itthose are all wonderful,
wonderful things that we can doto show our love.
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But what our animals truly wantmost and I've spoken with
hundreds upon hundreds ofanimals and they all affirm this
what they most want is yourattention.
They want our attention.
They want our present momentfocus.
They want to feel our awarenessof them fully.
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They want us to listen to them.
So many of my students, myanimal communication students,
when they first start taking myclasses, they say I don't think
I'm intuitive, or I'm not veryintuitive, or I have an
occasional moment where I feellike my intuition is talking to
me, but it's not very reliableand I don't really understand
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why or how it happens.
And by the end of just ahandful of weeks together
they're having reliableconversations across species
boundaries and it's really alldown to one key shift, which is
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where are you placing yourattention, are you showing up
fully with that love, that bondof love, that desire to learn
and to listen, desire to learnand to listen to say I see you,
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I hear you, I am present for you, right here, right now.
There's nothing else.
There's no one else moreimportant to me than you, right
here, right here, right now,sharing who you are with me.
We can bring that into everyarea of our life Deep listening,
noticing, wondering, gettingcurious, bringing the awareness
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that we're more and different,showing up with our heart open,
our mind, quiet.
I like what one of my mentorssays success leaves clues.
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So, as we wrap up this episode,I want to invite you to
contemplate with me any momentin your life where you have ever
felt your intuition speakingwith you, talking to you,
tapping you on your shoulder,trying to get your attention,
sending you a sign or a message,maybe when you are awake, maybe
in your dreams, maybe in theform of an animal or a bird or
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an insect that you see in thestrangest places, at the oddest
moments.
For me, it's the ladybug.
When I see a ladybug, I alwaysknow that my spirit guides are
trying to get my attention.
For me, if I feel my handsspontaneously move to my gut.
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I know that information is onits way to me, so start just
noticing for yourself.
How does your intuition even tryto get your attention?
Maybe it's you hear song lyricsor you get a song stuck in your
head.
That's always a fun one, right?
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Maybe you have a recurringdream.
Maybe you see a particularlicense plate message or a
bumper sticker.
Maybe you just know somethingand you know it, and you don't
know how you know it.
And now that you know it, youcan't unknow it, and nothing
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that your left brain, logical,analytical, 3d mind says can
talk you out of knowing what youknow.
Maybe it's something elseentirely, and we are going to
dive more deeply into all thedifferent ways that intuition,
your intuitive pathways, thedifferent communication channels
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that you're already wired upwith.
We're going to dive more deeplyinto how those work, how you
can tap into them, why youshould trust them and what they
have to add to your life inupcoming episodes.
But for today, I really justwant you to focus on just
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picking out, just cherry picking, one or two or a few moments in
your life to date when you havereally felt your intuition
breaking through to you.
How did that happen?
Do you see any similarities orconsistencies from one
experience, one intuitiveexperience to the next?
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Were those experiences ofintuition useful to you?
What did they add to your life?
Even if you can only come upwith one moment when someone
knocked at your door or calledyou on the phone and you just
knew who it was before youmarched your 3D mind over to
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your phone screen or over toyour front door to look out and
confirm what you knew, maybe youwere looking for guidance and
you were driving somewhere and abillboard just caught your
attention and it had exactly themessage that you were looking
for.
Maybe you were in a crowdedroom and you just felt somebody
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staring at you before you turnedaround to confirm that yes, in
fact they were staring at you.
Maybe you've had a dream thatsomething was going to happen
and later that thing actuallyhappened.
We all have these experiences,but most of us don't pay
attention to them.
So I'm inviting you to startpaying attention.
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Maybe it was something to dowith your animal We'll talk a
lot more about this, right, it'smy favorite subject and what
exploring animal communicationis all about.
But maybe you just knewsomething about your pet.
You just knew that they wanteda companion.
You just knew that their tummywas feeling off.
You just knew that it was theirtime to pass.
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You just knew that this was theanimal that you must add to
your family.
You just knew.
So ponder this to be continued.
Right, and if you would like toreach out, you've got my
information here.
I'd love to hear about yourintuitive experiences.
How do you know when yourintuition is talking with you?
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How do you know when there is acommunication coming in?
And after you've identified oneor a few of these breakthrough
moments of deep listening, ofreceiving information, of
receiving a communication that'scoming to you, coming through
you, then part two ask yourselfhow your life might transform if
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you started stringing thosemoments together with more
consistency.
Imagine if you have onebreakthrough intuitive moment a
week and you identify that thatadded something of value to your
life.
You identify that that addedsomething of value to your life.
Then start to imagine what ifit happened once a day.
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If you have it once a day,imagine what might happen if you
had it several times a day.
If you have it several times aday, imagine what might happen
if you were receiving intuitivemessages, intuitive guidance.
If you were completely in tunewith and in flow with all the
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other beings that we share thespirit dimension with, if you
are constantly in flow,receiving only exactly what you
needed to receive right now,being guided effortlessly
through the river of life, howmight your life transform?
That is where we start withanimal communication.
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Not so we can add a new skillto our pet parenting toolkit,
although that is wonderful andvery useful.
Not just we can add some othercredit to our resume, not even
for the sake of just learningsomething new, but because of
the end result, the thing wewant most more joy, more
connection and the more we areoffering ourselves so that
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others feel seen and heard andreceived fully, we also open
ourselves up with more courageto being seen, being heard,
being received fully.
So that is my message and myinvitation for you this week
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here on Exploring AnimalCommunication.
My name is Shannon Cutts.
I'm an animal sensitive andintuitive, a Reiki master
practitioner for pets and theirpeople and an animal
communication teacher.
I am sending you all my love.
Okay, bye for now.
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