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In this episode, we unpack a facet of learning animal communication that nobody ever talks about - how learning animal communication improves our abilities to communicate with people, including ourselves!
In fact, learning animal communication restores to us an aspect of language that most of us lose right around the age of two. And once we get that aspect back, our communications with other humans become clearer, more effective and more enjoyable.
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- The birth language you used to communicate with your caregivers before you ever learned your first word
- The missing element that makes up 90 percent of all communication - and can make all the difference in creating more effective and enjoyable conversations with all species
- The differences in language in the left brain and right brain hemispheres and why you need both hemispheres working together to communicate effectively
- What the left brain hemisphere is there for and how to best use it
- How to use your inner sensory system of vibrations to begin tuning back into the missing elements in your human to human communications
- Why learning animal communication is not just a fabulous communications course, but the best self-development program you could ever ask for
- Why so many beginning animal communication students feel stuck or blocked and an easy way to un-stick yourself
- And much more
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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
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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.
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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.
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Welcome back to let's Talk toAnimals, shannon.
Here and today I'm bringing youa topic that's near and dear to
my heart.
I recently wrapped up more thana year working on my brand new
animal communication adventureto mastery program to create
excellence in animalcommunication at whatever level
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you desire, to practice it Alongthe way.
I had the unique opportunity totake a deep dive into various
angles and topics that relate toanimal communication in various
ways and do a deep dive inthose topics and really work out
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for myself why I felt there wassuch a strong connection and
why that is significant for usas ever-evolving communicators
with our own species, with otherspecies, with our personal pets
, maybe with other pets ifyou're a student or a
practitioner and you'relistening maybe even with wild
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animals.
Maybe you volunteer withshelter animals, rescued animals
, rehabilitating wildlife.
There are all kinds ofapplications, but one of the
applications that is almost, I'mgoing to dare say, never talked
about in animal communicationcircles, even at the
professional level, is howlearning animal communication
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makes you a better humancommunicator with your own
species.
So that would be mecommunicating with you
absolutely, but also mecommunicating within myself,
with myself and whether or notyou are animal communication
curious, whether you arecurrently considering enrolling
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in a program or a course ofstudy, whether you might be a
part of my practice circle,whether you are already in the
trenches as an intermediate toadvanced student or a
practitioner.
This is something worthpondering.
It's been nothing short oflife-changing for me and it's
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why I so often share here andwith my student community, that
animal communication is, handsdown, the best self-help,
self-development andself-evolution program I have
ever found.
And to give you a littlecontext on that, I am the
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teenager who would sneak out ofthe house not to go party, not
to go experience recreationalsubstances, but I would go to
self-help meetings.
I would go to the self-helpsection of the library Back when
you could not order booksonline.
I'm in my fifth decade of lifenow, so we are talking about the
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brick and mortar library whereall the neighbors would show up
as well and I'd be hiding in theself-help section.
So I think it's pretty easy todeduce from this that I was a
little odd, didn't have a lot offriends, didn't have a lot
going on socially, but I had arich inner life and a craving, a
deep longing to understand whatI couldn't put into words.
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And I feel like most of my lifeI've been on the search for
what that is, that tangible, notnothing that I don't have a
name for, to make it into a,something that I can communicate
about with others, with my ownspecies, to have that community
to my own species, to have thatcommunity, to have that
connection, to have that sharedjourney.
Well, animal communication hasgiven me that name for it at
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last.
It is what my college professorused to call the 90%.
We deal, as adult human animals, almost completely in what he
called the 10%.
And here I'm talking about mycollege speech professor, and
I'm talking about a speech classthat I was enrolled in as part
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of my requirements to graduatewith a bachelor's in business
with a concentration inmarketing.
So talking to people,connecting with people.
Despite all of my studies alongthe way and my constant search
and quest for knowledge andinsight, I wasn't very good at
this, and so, as one of myprerequisites, I had to enroll
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in a speech class and, as ourfinal exam, we had to present a
10-minute speech to our class,to our peers, and it was so
interesting.
I have forgotten a lot aboutthose painful college years, but
this I have never forgotten,thank goodness.
When the day came and I wasgiving my dry run for my final
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exam and my professor said, oh,90% of communication is
nonverbal, and I thought I thinkthat matters.
And then he went on to talkmore about the 10%, the verbal
content of my speech.
And when I asked him about,well, what do you mean by
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nonverbal?
He basically said well, youneed to make more eye contact,
you need to connect with anindividual in the back of the
room, you need to gesture more,move your body, don't stand
there like a stick.
And I thought I just don't feellike that's all there is to it.
Maybe you can relate.
And it haunted me, especially asI graduated and moved into a
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marketing career with lightsales involved and just felt
like my verbal skills were neverenough to really accurately
guide me through life in a waywhere I felt like I was trusting
my words, trusting otherpeople's words and trusting my
own relationship with what I wassaying and what I was hearing.
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So that was where I started myjourney.
Where I landed was in animalcommunication, which I started
really unpacking and unfoldingand pursuing in earnest when I
turned 50.
And that's a whole other story.
I have a whole podcast episodeon how I became a professional
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animal communicator that you canseek out and enjoy when you
have the time.
But for our purposes here, Iwant to actually take you
through one of the core modules,from Animal Communication,
adventure to Mastery, where Ibreak down the difference
between our adult focus onverbal conversation, exactly
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what you see, what you saw myprofessor doing when he was
coaching me through my finalexam speech and the default
speech for non-human animals ourpets, other pets, wild animals
which is that 90% the non-verbal, the subtle, the sensory, the
intuitive conversationcommunication.
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Most animal communicationstudents, when they come into
the community of developinganimal communicators for the
first time, imagine that you'rebrand new.
You've just enrolled in, let'ssay, an animal communication
adventure to mastery, or maybeyou're taking one of my free
courses, like Intuitive you,which is a precursor or animal
communication camp, and you arejust beginning your journey and
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you're thinking the way we allthink, the way I honestly
thought when I first started myanimal communication journey
that you were going to belearning something completely
new, like enrolling in a speechclass at college or taking
accounting.
Let me tell you, that wasdefinitely brand new for me.
It's still brand new, evenafter leading the course.
But one of the first thingsthat I want my animal
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communication students to knowis that this isn't new at all.
You are not learning somethingfrom scratch.
You are remembering andreconnecting with your birth
language, your original language, the universal language that
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all sentient life speaks.
Now maybe you're listening tome say that and you're thinking
no, I have never taken an animalcommunication course before.
I cannot do that.
I hire people to do that for me.
If that's you, I totally relate.
I hired people to do that for metoo, for many years before I
discovered that I too couldcommunicate with animals, and
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then hung out a shingle and wentpro, et cetera, et cetera.
I was the pet parent client whohired animal communicators for
years because I wanted to talkwith my pet family.
I believed that it was working,because I could see the results
after each conversation.
So it wasn't just a blindbelief.
I was actually experiencingthat my relationships with my
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animals, with my own pets, werechanging, and that was what gave
rise to the inner trust that wecommonly label belief.
So I had actually replacedbelief with lived experience,
and that's why I kept hiringanimal communicators for years
and years and years is because Icould see the results, I could
feel the results.
I just didn't know what washappening and I definitely
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didn't know I could do it too.
But let's rewind.
Let's say you're just poppingout of the womb, you are at
ground zero, your soul has justentered your body, you've just
popped into the world.
You don't even know that wordsexist.
You can hear other, bigger,older individuals around you
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making sounds.
You don't even know that thesounds they're making are called
sounds.
You don't even know that thesounds they're making are called
words.
You don't even have the word todescribe words yet, and yet
somehow you manage to survivethat intensely, unbelievably
vulnerable period of your lifeand get all of your basic needs
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met.
Now, I'm not talking about thedeep needs that turn us into the
perfect person who iscompletely balanced from the
inside out and the outside in.
I'm talking about you got yourfood, you were able to go to the
bathroom, you had a safe placeto sleep, et cetera, et cetera.
Somehow you survived that periodin your life to be here now
listening to me talk on thispodcast, and yet for the first
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at least two years for most ofus, maybe some a little bit
longer, at least for those firstcouple of years of your life
you didn't have the use of words.
You hadn't learned any wordsyet, and even if you were
advanced and learned a few wordsearlier, you still didn't know
how to put them together.
How did you get your needs met?
How did you communicate to yourcaregivers or your parents or
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your nurses or your fosterparents or your guardians,
whomever was taking care of youhow did you communicate to them
that you had needs, that youneeded things, that you wanted
things Without words?
How did you connect to sharemessages and to receive messages
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in return?
All of us grow up through nofault of our own and, in most
cases, through no fault of ourcaregivers and guardians.
We grow up with scars, whichare moments in our early life
when we communicated a need thatdidn't get met.
So we're not talking perfectionhere, but I'm talking about
somehow.
You got fed, you got watered,you got changed, you got to rest
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, you had enrichment.
Things happened in anatmosphere to allow you to grow
up and to be here with me today,and you did all of that with no
words, mind boggling when youthink about it, isn't it?
So how did that happen?
That, my friends, isinterspecies communication.
In a nutshell, this is afoundational principle you must
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understand if you want toexperience animal communication
as an adult, and I'm going toget into why in just a moment,
but for now, what I want you toanchor to is your very first
language was non-verbal innature, it was subtle, it was
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sensory and intuitive.
In other words, you were beingguided from within.
Intuition means inner teacher,inner guide.
You were being guided fromwithin.
How did you know you werehungry and needed food if you
didn't know the word for food?
You didn't even know what foodwas.
You didn't know that food was aword and it meant the thing
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that you were hungry for.
You didn't know what hunger was.
You didn't know that you neededto go to the bathroom.
You didn't know that you weretired.
But something inside you knew Asensation, a vibration.
You knew the difference betweenhungry and full.
You could sense the differencebetween tired and energetic.
You knew when you were feelinggood versus when you'd come down
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with a little cold.
Those are differences insensation and vibration
frequency which forms the basisof an internal, intuitive
language that we speak withourselves, within ourselves, and
we can share this language withother animals of all species.
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But here we're just talkingabout your primary human
caregivers, because they knowthe differences in those
vibrations, those sensations too.
Not only do you, freshly born,knowing nothing, left brain
barely coming online, you'reliving almost entirely in your
right brain when you are young,and I believe this is why, when
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I was in India, the local peoplewould tell me that when you
look into the eyes of an animalor a child under the age of two
years old, you look straightinto the face of God, or the
divine, or the eternal, all thatis, or the soul, or whatever
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you prefer to label it, to callit, whatever word you prefer to
use to describe it.
That which connects us all isavailable in force with no fails
, with no masks, when we lookinto the eyes of an animal or a
child under the age of two,because they are living almost
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entirely from the right brainhemisphere.
If you want more scientificproof of this, you can read Dr
Jill Bolte-Taylor's wonderfulmemoir my Stroke of Insight.
Dr Jill Bolte-Taylor is aneuroscientist and a brain
specific researcher whoexperienced an early midlife
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stroke that knocked out her leftbrain hemisphere but left her
right brain hemispherecompletely intact.
And when you listen to her ifyou listen to her Ted talk, or
you read her words in her bookmy Stroke of Insight you hear
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her describe the vastconnectiveness that comes from
relocating fully into the rightbrain hemisphere.
And so that's where our youngof any species lives, that's
where our non-human planet matesmostly live, and that allows us
to do something calledentrainment, where we can attune
to and intuit from thevibration that others are
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emanating or giving out andunderstand, without the need to
use words, what's going on andwhat they need.
Some people call this telepathy.
I break that down a whole lotmore in my course Animal
Communication Adventure toMastery.
Telepathy is essentially avehicle through which this
nonverbal, subtle, sensory andintuitive language can occur.
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So it's the label we've givento the process that actually
exists underneath it.
But here what I'm talking aboutis let's say you're an infant
and you have a hunger spike.
Your vibration it's like youhave a dial inside you.
That's like where are you onthe hunger meter?
From zero, not hungry at all,totally full, totally happy to.
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I'm starving.
It's an 11 on a scale of one to10.
Well, when you turn up thatvolume, your caregiver senses it
.
This is why at first, when newmoms and dads they bring home
their infant, they're like it'scrying.
I don't understand what's goingon, I don't know what it needs
and it's just like thisimpersonal exterior thing that
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I'm trying to learn what to doin this situation.
And after a while, especiallywith the primary caregiver,
whether that's the mom or thedad we see almost like an
intuitive knowing, likeeverybody else, is still like
why is it crying?
And the primary caregiver'slike she's hungry.
Well, he needs a nap, and theyjust know because that
entrainment has taken place.
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A lot of times there's confusionabout entrainment, which is a
principle of quantumentanglement, and that's a
deeper dive than we have timefor on today's podcast episode.
But suffice it to say that Iteach about it in depth inside
my mastery program.
But entrainment essentiallymeans that the dominant or
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strongest vibration has anattractive quality.
It can draw our attention andthe easiest way to explain this
is to take a look at whathappens when somebody's staring
at us from behind us.
We don't have eyes, notphysical eyes anyway in the back
of our heads.
What we do have is an auric oretheric field, an energy field
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that is comprised of electricityand magnetism that extends up
to three feet or even further,beyond our physical exterior,
the surface of our skin, andthrough the auric field the
energy emanating and beingexchanged and shared and tuned
into all around us and even at aquantum level.
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And again, that's a little bitfurther and deeper than we have
time to go, unless I wanted tomake this four-hour podcast.
But just understand that this isthe same principle of
entrainment when somebody isstaring at us with intensity,
something in us, ourelectromagnetic system, is going
to pick up on that and draw ourattention towards it.
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That's actually a fight, flightor freeze a sympathetic nervous
system function that evolved totry to keep us alive so that we
would notice the drooling,starving saber-toothed tiger
behind the rock trying to lookinconspicuous until just the
right moment it can spring outand eat us.
So that's where that evolvedfrom.
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So we've got all kinds of bellsand whistles.
That's the whole point of metelling you this.
We've got all kinds of bellsand whistles in this super
groovy space suit that we'rewearing, that we call our body.
That most of us at least, if I'meven the most average of
representative examples we haveno idea that it's even there and
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, just like my college example,we're certainly not given a lot
of insight and information aboutit, because most of the time
our teachers don't know either.
They know it exists, they knowthere's something going on, but
either they haven't known whatto call it enough to spark any
kind of in-depth research likethe kind of research that I've
done in the process of manyyears now of teaching and
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unfolding my mastery program infull.
Most of the time, it's like acrapshoot to find two pieces
that seem to be related to eachother and then start putting the
bigger puzzle together.
And so that's what's importantfor you to understand for our
purposes here today.
How can learning animalcommunication make you a better
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communicator with other humananimals and, most importantly,
within yourself, is it teachesyou to wake up to all of the
communication that is going on,starting with this birth
language, this non-verbal,sensory, subtle, intuitive, yet
very powerful language of sharedvibration.
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You can probably tell thedifference between somebody
who's feeling happy and someonewho's feeling unhappy or angry
or frustrated or upset or sad,even if you don't know them well
, even if you're only talkingwith them on the phone or even
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over email or text, can't youoften just get a subtle vibe,
their inner state, what's goingon with you?
Do you ever pass somebody onthe street or have someone
standing behind you in line atthe checkout counter and you
just feel like your heart goesout to them, or you feel like
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you need to get out of linebecause you need to get away
from their energy?
Have you ever had peoplerespond to you differently based
on how you're feeling.
When you smile, the worldsmiles with you.
When you frown, the worldfrowns with you.
It's not a hundred percent ofthe time, but it's pretty
accurate.
Start noticing this, bring yourconscious awareness to it and
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start noticing the 90%, thecommunication that is never
spoken.
It's never brought forththrough words in most cases,
because there's so much of it.
If we spoke into words thefullness of our communications,
our two-way communications withanyone else, even within
ourselves, we'd be here all day.
There isn't enough time tospeak it all into words.
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And here's another importantfacet, because nonverbal,
sensory, intuitive conversationis a right brain function.
It can't be encapsulated intoliteral, analytical, rational
words in the way we use our leftbrain speech and language
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comprehension centers Broca'sarea and Wernicke's area to use,
to speak and receive, to listento, to decode and translate
verbal language.
So there's so muchcommunication going on that we
can't actually we don't evenhave words for because we don't
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need them.
The only time we actually needwords is when we want to share
something with another being,typically a being of our own
species.
Yes, of course we use words tocommunicate with our dogs, with
our cats, with our parrots, withvarying degrees of success.
I can hold my hand up and say,petal, come fly to mommy all day
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long.
Most of the time she justignores me.
She knows what it means shejust ignores me.
Same thing with our dachshund.
With a dachshund, everythinghas to be his idea.
He has to at least think it'shis idea, or he is not going to
do it.
So we can use our words all daylong.
Of course our animalsunderstand them.
Whether or not they agree withwhat we're asking them to do or
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choose to do it or not, issomething else entirely.
But that's asking others tomeet us more than halfway.
And if we want to develop deepsoul level relationships with
our interspecies family members,we have to be willing to at
least meet them halfway, whichis where I am visioning forward
into a world where I guess Ibecome obsolete because
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everybody knows how to do what Ido.
Everybody has relearned thislost art, this birthright birth
language that we use to surviveour first couple of years of
life.
So let's move on now and let'stalk about what happens when we
get to be about two years old weget to be about two, most of us
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we start learning a word or two.
What happens when we bust outwith our first word Lollipop, or
mom or dad, or duck or whateverit is?
Well, all of the adults aroundus get so excited and we like
that energy and that motivatesus to learn more and more and
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more words.
Because we get positiveattention, we get affirmations,
we get applause, we get to bethe center of attention at
parties.
We like that, we earn the goodenergy of our caregivers, our
parents, our teachers, ourguardians, the people who still
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hold some degree of power overus, and our bread is buttered on
the side of pleasing them.
And so what do we do?
Quite naturally, without evenever really contemplating it,
because we've got so much goingon, we're making so many new
neural connections, we have toprioritize, and we're like, okay
, this is a good thing, I getpositive attention, I'm going to
learn more words, and so wedon't lose access to our birth
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language, this nonverballanguage that we started out our
life with.
But we lose interest in it, welose awareness of it and,
through a process of what one ofmy mentors, don Miguel Ruiz,
the Toltec shaman, callsdomestication, we, quite
naturally, without it ever evenreally contemplating it, we
downgrade the importance of ituntil we start to pretend it
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doesn't exist.
And verbal language, with itsleft brain centric focus, its
individuation focus, veryindividual focus, minded me
versus you, you versus me.
It's like the good of the wholegets factored out and the good
of the individual gets factoredin.
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We just turn off our senses inthe arena of the nonverbal, the
90%.
We forget about it for a while.
Nobody's talking about it, sowe don't either, and I think
that is actually what sent me tothe self-help section of the
library and those self-helpgroups for so many years.
As a young person.
It's like something's not righthere, and I grew up in a family
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with a lot of interesting andvery, very loud subtext.
Maybe you can relate to that.
You had, maybe, parents thatdidn't always get along
perfectly.
You had siblings, you, thatdidn't always get along
perfectly.
You had siblings you didn't getalong with, and so there was a
lot going on underneath thewords.
I knew it.
I felt like there was somethingmissing, and because there
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wasn't anyone to talk to aboutit and I couldn't find the books
to describe it to me in words,I internalized it as well.
There's just something wrongwith me and I feel, like a lot
of us I'm not trying togeneralize that this doesn't
pertain to you, but just takinga look at many of the students
that I've mentored and coachedindividually, as well as the
people that I've worked with wetend to be a little bit more on
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the end of the highly sensitiveand the empathic.
We tend to be just wired in away that we can't ever fully
turn off our awareness of thesubtext, what I'm calling the
subtext, or the nonverbal, andso we tend to go through life
either externalizing that as inthe world is trying to get me.
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I'm being victimized, I need toprotect myself, so I'm going to
wall myself off and I'm goingto seek out the animals because
they're safe and they love meunconditionally and they can
accept my unconditional love, orwe tend to develop very porous
boundaries where, well, I'malways the one that's at fault.
I'm just broken somehow, and soany little tidbit of kindness,
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I just soak it up like a sponge,and the animals fill me up
because the world keeps emptyingme out.
And so any little tidbit ofkindness, I just soak it up like
a sponge, and the animals fillme up because the world keeps
emptying me out, and so thattends to be for a lot of us.
That's where we enter into amore intentional choice to want
to communicate with animals, toreally want to understand what
we're sensing and feeling,because it's healing and it's
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safe and it's reliable.
And so that's where we enterthe picture and that's where the
self-development and theself-evolution or self-help
really gets its rocket thrusters, at least from my experience
and for many of the studentsthat I've coached, and we find
out oh, there's nothing wrongwith me, there's nothing wrong
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with anyone else, we just haveonly been working with about 10%
of the big picture.
We've been trying to live allof life from one brain
hemisphere, the left brainhemisphere, instead of
integrating the knowledge andthe insight and the guidance
available when we use both ofour brain hemispheres and use
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them appropriately for thepurposes for which they have
been designed to work.
Well, don't get me wrong.
If we can't use wordseffectively, if we can't receive
the nonverbal, sensory, subtleand intuitive information that
the animal wants to share withus and then decode it, translate
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it into words and share it withthat animal's pet parent or
guardian or foster pair orshelter manager or rehabber or
whoever it is, we can't helpthat animal.
We really can't do anything.
So the left brain mind, withits verbal capacity, with its
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language comprehension and itsspeech capabilities, is very
necessary.
It has a very important job todo in the animal communication
process and again, I go over allof this in probably
excruciating detail with mystudents inside the new mastery
program.
But just understand, yourverbal language skills are not
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going to be wasted here.
All those years you spentgetting really good at learning
to use your words are going tocome in very handy.
So you're not behind the eightball.
You just need to remember thatthis isn't your only language.
There's a really fun story thatI just shared over on my
Instagram atloveandfeathersandshells, and
it's about one of my earlieranimal communication experiences
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, when I was talking with aGerman shepherd named Chief.
Chief had just transitioned tospirit.
His mom, betty, was reallymissing him and hired me to help
them reconnect and communicateacross the veil or across the
etheric field or however youwant to look at that.
And as I tuned in with Chiefand was starting to get to know
him, he showed up and he wasfull of energy and he just
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started barking and wagging histail and moving his body and
moving his ears different ways,and I was a little overwhelmed
and I said to him very honestlyI said what are you doing?
Chief said to me how manylanguages do you know?
And I said two, if you countanimal communication although
I'm not doing very well with youright now, I don't know what
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you're doing and he said well,I'm teaching you German shepherd
, and that was a fabulousexperience to have.
But here's Betty on the otherside of the conversation waiting
for translation.
So I was very glad to have thecapability to take all of that
subtle, nonverbal, sensory andintuitive information that Chief
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was giving me and be able toquickly translate it into words
so I could share what Chief wasdoing and saying with me, with
her, and that just lit her up,because that is exactly how
Chief was in his life.
He was a natural teacher, anatural leader, a natural guide,
full of enthusiasm, and shecould totally see him doing
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something like that.
So we want to have those leftbrain capabilities.
Now here's something else.
I run across communicators in myfield sometimes and I'm not
throwing any stones or castingany shade, but I'm just saying
when you run across an animalcommunicator that says something
like well, the animals justtalk to me like you and I would
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talk together.
That doesn't mean that's how ithappened.
That means they're really goodat what they do and it feels
natural for the nonverbal dataor information to flow in
through their subtle senses andend up decoded and translated to
shareable words.
Now, sometimes thesecommunicators are communicators
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who just were born with ablaringly wide, open channel,
intuitive channel.
They would have been raised byvery intuitive guardians or
parents.
Maybe the parents or theguardians were in the intuitive
arts themselves.
They were encouraged, and agreat example of this is to read
Diary of a Psychic by one of mymain intuitive teachers, sonia
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Choquette, and she talks aboutbeing raised by a highly
intuitive mother who trusted hervibes and taught her daughters
to do the same.
So sometimes you get the earlymechanics and so you never go
through this process offorgetting about your birth
language.
Sometimes you just arrive withthe inner knowing, maybe from
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time spent in a past life.
I don't know any better thanthe next person why this
sometimes happens.
I've talked with a fewcommunicators who really resist
the idea of teaching animalcommunication because they just
could always do it and don'tbelieve it can be taught.
They think it's a gift.
You either have it or you don't.
Some mediums feel the same.
I don't agree, because late inlife, relatively speaking, I
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went from totally not believingit to becoming fluent.
So for me, my lived experienceis different and that's why I
say I'm not throwing any stones.
I'm not judging anyone elsebecause I'm not living their
lives.
I'm just letting you know thatyou too can do this, because we
all share in this original birthlanguage being able to get our
needs met, communicate what weneed to communicate to survive,
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without having any facility forwords at all.
So where does the self-evolutionand self-development part of
learning animal communicationreally start to work in our
favor as adults trying tonavigate this increasingly busy,
overloaded, nonstop, dailyadulting life that we lead?
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Well, it comes with being ableto bring our two brain
hemispheres together, just likewe've been talking about.
We listen to the words.
We also listen to all the rest,the subtext, how we feel.
Here's a really easy example.
I often teach when I do myintuitive development for pet
parents webinars, and in factI'm about to do another series.
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So if you're not on my weeklylove letter, head over to
animallovelanguagescom and thelittle banner that pops up, just
enter your information andyou'll be notified when my next
webinar is.
But one of the things that I doinside this webinar is I walk
participants through a series ofexercises designed to reawaken
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awareness of your intuition, ofyour non-verbal communication,
inbuilt communication system,and I'll give you a little
example of it right now.
Think of a lemon, depending onwhich of your subtle senses are
most awake or most open, or theones that you use most
frequently we have all of them.
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Nobody is only clear seeing orclear open, or the ones that you
use most frequently.
We have all of them.
Nobody is only clear seeing orclear hearing or clear knowing.
But early in life we willdevelop and rely on one pathway,
typically a little bit morethan all the others.
That tends to be our go-to.
So for some of you, maybe youtasted the tartness of the lemon
and maybe your mouth evenpuckered a little.
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Some of you, maybe you saw around yellow fruit.
Some of you, maybe you heardthe word lemon.
Some of you, maybe you justknew that lemon had entered your
consciousness.
Those are just some examples.
Maybe some of you smelled thecitrusy smell of lemon.
Maybe some of you sensed orfelt the.
Some of you sensed or felt theacidic or the kind of drying
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sensation of having lemon juicetouch your skin.
So those are examples ofdifferent subtle sensory
pathways, and you know thedifference between lemon and
pizza.
You knew that you were justexperiencing lemon in some way,
maybe in several of the waysthat I just described, and not
pizza.
This is an example of thisbirth language and in the same
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way that you know the differencebetween lemon and pizza, you
know the difference betweenother human or a non-human who
is in your range of awareness orperception, who is happy versus
sad, who is healthy versus sick, who is tired versus energetic.
So these are just the basicbare bones, building blocks.
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Imagine if you were having aconversation with your boss or
your partner or your child oryour best friend, and you could
not only tune into their wordsbut you could hear and receive
all the rest of it, both whatthey knew they were sharing with
you and what they probablydidn't know they were sharing
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with you.
How much more resilient,adaptable, empathic,
compassionate could you be,passionate could you be?
How could you so much bettershape your interactions for the
highest good if you were workingwith all of the information
available to you?
The same holds true more thananyone else with yourself.
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It has taken me years to justbe able to name what I'm feeling
.
I know that sounds so lame.
And now you're like, oh my God,I never want to hire her as a
teacher or a communicatorbecause she doesn't know what
she's feeling.
I do now.
But it took me years, and areally good example of this is a
student that I was coaching acouple months ago who came to me
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and she said I don't feel.
And that's why I feel blockedas an animal communication
student is because I don't feelanything.
I don't know what I'm feeling.
And when I started unpackingthis with her, I became aware
that she had picked up a beliefthat you only feel things in
your heart, in your chest region.
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And she would go to her heart,to her chest region, and look
for the feeling, keen to labelit with a word.
And because she didn'tnecessarily find anything there,
she thought well, I just can'tfeel, I'm numb, I'm stuck, I'm
blocked, there's something wrongwith me.
You probably know where thatconversation goes.
We get on that mental train andit never lets us off and we
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convince ourselves that we'rebroken.
We're not broken.
Emotions can happen anywhere inthe body.
They can happen as any of thedifferent sensory impressions
that we just talked aboutSomething we see, hear, smell,
taste, sense, feel or simplyknow.
They can come through asemotion, as a feeling.
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Emotion just means energy inmotion, so they can come through
as a feeling.
Oh, I feel sad.
Oh, my heart hurts.
Well, when your heart hurts,that's actually a physical
sensation.
When I've gone throughheartbreak, my dad passing my
heart hurt, it hurt.
There is such a thing asheartbreak syndrome, and it can
be deadly, mimics the effects ofa heart attack, and only after
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death can you see that actuallyno cardiac arrest took place.
So if you think feeling can'tphysically hurt, this is the
moment when you realize maybeyou too haven't been looking for
all of your emotions in all theright places.
Emotion can come across as dropin energy, a headache, back
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aches oh my goodness.
The three herniated discs in myback have stories to tell you.
And that is a lingering sideeffect of so many years of
feeling like I can't feel, so Ican't cry, so I can't get the
cortisol out of my body.
Well, no wonder.
My whole body broke down in myforties and my thyroid shut down
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and I started breaking out inhives.
All kinds of crazy stuff andI'm still working my way through
that.
But in the process I've learnedthat my body is a feelings
machine.
It's always emitting sensations, vibrations, emotions, energy
and motion, and so is yours andso is everyone else's,
regardless of species.
And so this, my friends, in anutshell, is how learning animal
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communication can make you abetter human communicator with
other humans, most importantlywithin yourself, with other
humans, most importantly withinyourself.
It can help you wake up to thefullness of you, the wealth of
you, the depth of you, theamazing capabilities of you, the
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power within you.
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode today.
I look forward, as always, toyour shares, your wisdom and
insights, always your questions,because they help me shape
future episodes, and to comingover and joining me inside
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Communication Adventure PracticeCircle, where I guide you
through the deep, full versionof what I just touched on today.
And then we practice ittogether with one another, as
fellow adventurers along thispath, with other pet parents and
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their animals, with youranimals, with wild animals, and
we learn and we grow and weunfold and evolve together.
So if that sounds like fun toyou, head over to
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Click on programs and you canlearn more.
And until then, I send you allmy love.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Welcome back to let's Talk toAnimals, shannon.
Here and today I'm bringing youa topic that's near and dear to
my heart.
I recently wrapped up more thana year working on my brand new
animal communication adventureto mastery program to create
excellence in animalcommunication at whatever level
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you desire, to practice it Alongthe way.
I had the unique opportunity totake a deep dive into various
angles and topics that relate toanimal communication in various
ways and do a deep dive inthose topics and really work out
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for myself why I felt there wassuch a strong connection and
why that is significant for usas ever-evolving communicators
with our own species, with otherspecies, with our personal pets
, maybe with other pets ifyou're a student or a
practitioner and you'relistening maybe even with wild
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animals.
Maybe you volunteer withshelter animals, rescued animals
, rehabilitating wildlife.
There are all kinds ofapplications, but one of the
applications that is almost, I'mgoing to dare say, never talked
about in animal communicationcircles, even at the
professional level, is howlearning animal communication
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makes you a better humancommunicator with your own
species.
So that would be mecommunicating with you
absolutely, but also mecommunicating within myself,
with myself and whether or notyou are animal communication
curious, whether you arecurrently considering enrolling
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in a program or a course ofstudy, whether you might be a
part of my practice circle,whether you are already in the
trenches as an intermediate toadvanced student or a
practitioner.
This is something worthpondering.
It's been nothing short oflife-changing for me and it's
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why I so often share here andwith my student community, that
animal communication is, handsdown, the best self-help,
self-development andself-evolution program I have
ever found.
And to give you a littlecontext on that, I am the
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teenager who would sneak out ofthe house not to go party, not
to go experience recreationalsubstances, but I would go to
self-help meetings.
I would go to the self-helpsection of the library Back when
you could not order booksonline.
I'm in my fifth decade of lifenow, so we are talking about the
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brick and mortar library whereall the neighbors would show up
as well and I'd be hiding in theself-help section.
So I think it's pretty easy todeduce from this that I was a
little odd, didn't have a lot offriends, didn't have a lot
going on socially, but I had arich inner life and a craving, a
deep longing to understand whatI couldn't put into words.
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And I feel like most of my lifeI've been on the search for
what that is, that tangible, notnothing that I don't have a
name for, to make it into a,something that I can communicate
about with others, with my ownspecies, to have that community
to my own species, to have thatcommunity, to have that
connection, to have that sharedjourney.
Well, animal communication hasgiven me that name for it at
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last.
It is what my college professorused to call the 90%.
We deal, as adult human animals, almost completely in what he
called the 10%.
And here I'm talking about mycollege speech professor, and
I'm talking about a speech classthat I was enrolled in as part
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of my requirements to graduatewith a bachelor's in business
with a concentration inmarketing.
So talking to people,connecting with people.
Despite all of my studies alongthe way and my constant search
and quest for knowledge andinsight, I wasn't very good at
this, and so, as one of myprerequisites, I had to enroll
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in a speech class and, as ourfinal exam, we had to present a
10-minute speech to our class,to our peers, and it was so
interesting.
I have forgotten a lot aboutthose painful college years, but
this I have never forgotten,thank goodness.
When the day came and I wasgiving my dry run for my final
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exam and my professor said, oh,90% of communication is
nonverbal, and I thought I thinkthat matters.
And then he went on to talkmore about the 10%, the verbal
content of my speech.
And when I asked him about,well, what do you mean by
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nonverbal?
He basically said well, youneed to make more eye contact,
you need to connect with anindividual in the back of the
room, you need to gesture more,move your body, don't stand
there like a stick.
And I thought I just don't feellike that's all there is to it.
Maybe you can relate.
And it haunted me, especially asI graduated and moved into a
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marketing career with lightsales involved and just felt
like my verbal skills were neverenough to really accurately
guide me through life in a waywhere I felt like I was trusting
my words, trusting otherpeople's words and trusting my
own relationship with what I wassaying and what I was hearing.
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So that was where I started myjourney.
Where I landed was in animalcommunication, which I started
really unpacking and unfoldingand pursuing in earnest when I
turned 50.
And that's a whole other story.
I have a whole podcast episodeon how I became a professional
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animal communicator that you canseek out and enjoy when you
have the time.
But for our purposes here, Iwant to actually take you
through one of the core modules,from Animal Communication,
adventure to Mastery, where Ibreak down the difference
between our adult focus onverbal conversation, exactly
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what you see, what you saw myprofessor doing when he was
coaching me through my finalexam speech and the default
speech for non-human animals ourpets, other pets, wild animals
which is that 90% the non-verbal, the subtle, the sensory, the
intuitive conversationcommunication.
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Most animal communicationstudents, when they come into
the community of developinganimal communicators for the
first time, imagine that you'rebrand new.
You've just enrolled in, let'ssay, an animal communication
adventure to mastery, or maybeyou're taking one of my free
courses, like Intuitive you,which is a precursor or animal
communication camp, and you arejust beginning your journey and
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you're thinking the way we allthink, the way I honestly
thought when I first started myanimal communication journey
that you were going to belearning something completely
new, like enrolling in a speechclass at college or taking
accounting.
Let me tell you, that wasdefinitely brand new for me.
It's still brand new, evenafter leading the course.
But one of the first thingsthat I want my animal
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communication students to knowis that this isn't new at all.
You are not learning somethingfrom scratch.
You are remembering andreconnecting with your birth
language, your original language, the universal language that
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all sentient life speaks.
Now maybe you're listening tome say that and you're thinking
no, I have never taken an animalcommunication course before.
I cannot do that.
I hire people to do that for me.
If that's you, I totally relate.
I hired people to do that for metoo, for many years before I
discovered that I too couldcommunicate with animals, and
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then hung out a shingle and wentpro, et cetera, et cetera.
I was the pet parent client whohired animal communicators for
years because I wanted to talkwith my pet family.
I believed that it was working,because I could see the results
after each conversation.
So it wasn't just a blindbelief.
I was actually experiencingthat my relationships with my
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animals, with my own pets, werechanging, and that was what gave
rise to the inner trust that wecommonly label belief.
So I had actually replacedbelief with lived experience,
and that's why I kept hiringanimal communicators for years
and years and years is because Icould see the results, I could
feel the results.
I just didn't know what washappening and I definitely
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didn't know I could do it too.
But let's rewind.
Let's say you're just poppingout of the womb, you are at
ground zero, your soul has justentered your body, you've just
popped into the world.
You don't even know that wordsexist.
You can hear other, bigger,older individuals around you
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making sounds.
You don't even know that thesounds they're making are called
sounds.
You don't even know that thesounds they're making are called
words.
You don't even have the word todescribe words yet, and yet
somehow you manage to survivethat intensely, unbelievably
vulnerable period of your lifeand get all of your basic needs
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met.
Now, I'm not talking about thedeep needs that turn us into the
perfect person who iscompletely balanced from the
inside out and the outside in.
I'm talking about you got yourfood, you were able to go to the
bathroom, you had a safe placeto sleep, et cetera, et cetera.
Somehow you survived that periodin your life to be here now
listening to me talk on thispodcast, and yet for the first
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at least two years for most ofus, maybe some a little bit
longer, at least for those firstcouple of years of your life
you didn't have the use of words.
You hadn't learned any wordsyet, and even if you were
advanced and learned a few wordsearlier, you still didn't know
how to put them together.
How did you get your needs met?
How did you communicate to yourcaregivers or your parents or
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your nurses or your fosterparents or your guardians,
whomever was taking care of youhow did you communicate to them
that you had needs, that youneeded things, that you wanted
things Without words?
How did you connect to sharemessages and to receive messages
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in return?
All of us grow up through nofault of our own and, in most
cases, through no fault of ourcaregivers and guardians.
We grow up with scars, whichare moments in our early life
when we communicated a need thatdidn't get met.
So we're not talking perfectionhere, but I'm talking about
somehow.
You got fed, you got watered,you got changed, you got to rest
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, you had enrichment.
Things happened in anatmosphere to allow you to grow
up and to be here with me today,and you did all of that with no
words, mind boggling when youthink about it, isn't it?
So how did that happen?
That, my friends, isinterspecies communication.
In a nutshell, this is afoundational principle you must
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understand if you want toexperience animal communication
as an adult, and I'm going toget into why in just a moment,
but for now, what I want you toanchor to is your very first
language was non-verbal innature, it was subtle, it was
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sensory and intuitive.
In other words, you were beingguided from within.
Intuition means inner teacher,inner guide.
You were being guided fromwithin.
How did you know you werehungry and needed food if you
didn't know the word for food?
You didn't even know what foodwas.
You didn't know that food was aword and it meant the thing
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that you were hungry for.
You didn't know what hunger was.
You didn't know that you neededto go to the bathroom.
You didn't know that you weretired.
But something inside you knew Asensation, a vibration.
You knew the difference betweenhungry and full.
You could sense the differencebetween tired and energetic.
You knew when you were feelinggood versus when you'd come down
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with a little cold.
Those are differences insensation and vibration
frequency which forms the basisof an internal, intuitive
language that we speak withourselves, within ourselves, and
we can share this language withother animals of all species.
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But here we're just talkingabout your primary human
caregivers, because they knowthe differences in those
vibrations, those sensations too.
Not only do you, freshly born,knowing nothing, left brain
barely coming online, you'reliving almost entirely in your
right brain when you are young,and I believe this is why, when
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I was in India, the local peoplewould tell me that when you
look into the eyes of an animalor a child under the age of two
years old, you look straightinto the face of God, or the
divine, or the eternal, all thatis, or the soul, or whatever
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you prefer to label it, to callit, whatever word you prefer to
use to describe it.
That which connects us all isavailable in force with no fails
, with no masks, when we lookinto the eyes of an animal or a
child under the age of two,because they are living almost
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entirely from the right brainhemisphere.
If you want more scientificproof of this, you can read Dr
Jill Bolte-Taylor's wonderfulmemoir my Stroke of Insight.
Dr Jill Bolte-Taylor is aneuroscientist and a brain
specific researcher whoexperienced an early midlife
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stroke that knocked out her leftbrain hemisphere but left her
right brain hemispherecompletely intact.
And when you listen to her ifyou listen to her Ted talk, or
you read her words in her bookmy Stroke of Insight you hear
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her describe the vastconnectiveness that comes from
relocating fully into the rightbrain hemisphere.
And so that's where our youngof any species lives, that's
where our non-human planet matesmostly live, and that allows us
to do something calledentrainment, where we can attune
to and intuit from thevibration that others are
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emanating or giving out andunderstand, without the need to
use words, what's going on andwhat they need.
Some people call this telepathy.
I break that down a whole lotmore in my course Animal
Communication Adventure toMastery.
Telepathy is essentially avehicle through which this
nonverbal, subtle, sensory andintuitive language can occur.
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So it's the label we've givento the process that actually
exists underneath it.
But here what I'm talking aboutis let's say you're an infant
and you have a hunger spike.
Your vibration it's like youhave a dial inside you.
That's like where are you onthe hunger meter?
From zero, not hungry at all,totally full, totally happy to.
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I'm starving.
It's an 11 on a scale of one to10.
Well, when you turn up thatvolume, your caregiver senses it
.
This is why at first, when newmoms and dads they bring home
their infant, they're like it'scrying.
I don't understand what's goingon, I don't know what it needs
and it's just like thisimpersonal exterior thing that
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I'm trying to learn what to doin this situation.
And after a while, especiallywith the primary caregiver,
whether that's the mom or thedad we see almost like an
intuitive knowing, likeeverybody else, is still like
why is it crying?
And the primary caregiver'slike she's hungry.
Well, he needs a nap, and theyjust know because that
entrainment has taken place.
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A lot of times there's confusionabout entrainment, which is a
principle of quantumentanglement, and that's a
deeper dive than we have timefor on today's podcast episode.
But suffice it to say that Iteach about it in depth inside
my mastery program.
But entrainment essentiallymeans that the dominant or
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strongest vibration has anattractive quality.
It can draw our attention andthe easiest way to explain this
is to take a look at whathappens when somebody's staring
at us from behind us.
We don't have eyes, notphysical eyes anyway in the back
of our heads.
What we do have is an auric oretheric field, an energy field
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that is comprised of electricityand magnetism that extends up
to three feet or even further,beyond our physical exterior,
the surface of our skin, andthrough the auric field the
energy emanating and beingexchanged and shared and tuned
into all around us and even at aquantum level.
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And again, that's a little bitfurther and deeper than we have
time to go, unless I wanted tomake this four-hour podcast.
But just understand that this isthe same principle of
entrainment when somebody isstaring at us with intensity,
something in us, ourelectromagnetic system, is going
to pick up on that and draw ourattention towards it.
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That's actually a fight, flightor freeze a sympathetic nervous
system function that evolved totry to keep us alive so that we
would notice the drooling,starving saber-toothed tiger
behind the rock trying to lookinconspicuous until just the
right moment it can spring outand eat us.
So that's where that evolvedfrom.
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So we've got all kinds of bellsand whistles.
That's the whole point of metelling you this.
We've got all kinds of bellsand whistles in this super
groovy space suit that we'rewearing, that we call our body.
That most of us at least, if I'meven the most average of
representative examples we haveno idea that it's even there and
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, just like my college example,we're certainly not given a lot
of insight and information aboutit, because most of the time
our teachers don't know either.
They know it exists, they knowthere's something going on, but
either they haven't known whatto call it enough to spark any
kind of in-depth research likethe kind of research that I've
done in the process of manyyears now of teaching and
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unfolding my mastery program infull.
Most of the time, it's like acrapshoot to find two pieces
that seem to be related to eachother and then start putting the
bigger puzzle together.
And so that's what's importantfor you to understand for our
purposes here today.
How can learning animalcommunication make you a better
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communicator with other humananimals and, most importantly,
within yourself, is it teachesyou to wake up to all of the
communication that is going on,starting with this birth
language, this non-verbal,sensory, subtle, intuitive, yet
very powerful language of sharedvibration.
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You can probably tell thedifference between somebody
who's feeling happy and someonewho's feeling unhappy or angry
or frustrated or upset or sad,even if you don't know them well
, even if you're only talkingwith them on the phone or even
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over email or text, can't youoften just get a subtle vibe,
their inner state, what's goingon with you?
Do you ever pass somebody onthe street or have someone
standing behind you in line atthe checkout counter and you
just feel like your heart goesout to them, or you feel like
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you need to get out of linebecause you need to get away
from their energy?
Have you ever had peoplerespond to you differently based
on how you're feeling.
When you smile, the worldsmiles with you.
When you frown, the worldfrowns with you.
It's not a hundred percent ofthe time, but it's pretty
accurate.
Start noticing this, bring yourconscious awareness to it and
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start noticing the 90%, thecommunication that is never
spoken.
It's never brought forththrough words in most cases,
because there's so much of it.
If we spoke into words thefullness of our communications,
our two-way communications withanyone else, even within
ourselves, we'd be here all day.
There isn't enough time tospeak it all into words.
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And here's another importantfacet, because nonverbal,
sensory, intuitive conversationis a right brain function.
It can't be encapsulated intoliteral, analytical, rational
words in the way we use our leftbrain speech and language
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comprehension centers Broca'sarea and Wernicke's area to use,
to speak and receive, to listento, to decode and translate
verbal language.
So there's so muchcommunication going on that we
can't actually we don't evenhave words for because we don't
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need them.
The only time we actually needwords is when we want to share
something with another being,typically a being of our own
species.
Yes, of course we use words tocommunicate with our dogs, with
our cats, with our parrots, withvarying degrees of success.
I can hold my hand up and say,petal, come fly to mommy all day
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long.
Most of the time she justignores me.
She knows what it means shejust ignores me.
Same thing with our dachshund.
With a dachshund, everythinghas to be his idea.
He has to at least think it'shis idea, or he is not going to
do it.
So we can use our words all daylong.
Of course our animalsunderstand them.
Whether or not they agree withwhat we're asking them to do or
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choose to do it or not, issomething else entirely.
But that's asking others tomeet us more than halfway.
And if we want to develop deepsoul level relationships with
our interspecies family members,we have to be willing to at
least meet them halfway, whichis where I am visioning forward
into a world where I guess Ibecome obsolete because
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everybody knows how to do what Ido.
Everybody has relearned thislost art, this birthright birth
language that we use to surviveour first couple of years of
life.
So let's move on now and let'stalk about what happens when we
get to be about two years old weget to be about two, most of us
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we start learning a word or two.
What happens when we bust outwith our first word Lollipop, or
mom or dad, or duck or whateverit is?
Well, all of the adults aroundus get so excited and we like
that energy and that motivatesus to learn more and more and
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more words.
Because we get positiveattention, we get affirmations,
we get applause, we get to bethe center of attention at
parties.
We like that, we earn the goodenergy of our caregivers, our
parents, our teachers, ourguardians, the people who still
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hold some degree of power overus, and our bread is buttered on
the side of pleasing them.
And so what do we do?
Quite naturally, without evenever really contemplating it,
because we've got so much goingon, we're making so many new
neural connections, we have toprioritize, and we're like, okay
, this is a good thing, I getpositive attention, I'm going to
learn more words, and so wedon't lose access to our birth
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language, this nonverballanguage that we started out our
life with.
But we lose interest in it, welose awareness of it and,
through a process of what one ofmy mentors, don Miguel Ruiz,
the Toltec shaman, callsdomestication, we, quite
naturally, without it ever evenreally contemplating it, we
downgrade the importance of ituntil we start to pretend it
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doesn't exist.
And verbal language, with itsleft brain centric focus, its
individuation focus, veryindividual focus, minded me
versus you, you versus me.
It's like the good of the wholegets factored out and the good
of the individual gets factoredin.
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We just turn off our senses inthe arena of the nonverbal, the
90%.
We forget about it for a while.
Nobody's talking about it, sowe don't either, and I think
that is actually what sent me tothe self-help section of the
library and those self-helpgroups for so many years.
As a young person.
It's like something's not righthere, and I grew up in a family
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with a lot of interesting andvery, very loud subtext.
Maybe you can relate to that.
You had, maybe, parents thatdidn't always get along
perfectly.
You had siblings, you, thatdidn't always get along
perfectly.
You had siblings you didn't getalong with, and so there was a
lot going on underneath thewords.
I knew it.
I felt like there was somethingmissing, and because there
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wasn't anyone to talk to aboutit and I couldn't find the books
to describe it to me in words,I internalized it as well.
There's just something wrongwith me and I feel, like a lot
of us I'm not trying togeneralize that this doesn't
pertain to you, but just takinga look at many of the students
that I've mentored and coachedindividually, as well as the
people that I've worked with wetend to be a little bit more on
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the end of the highly sensitiveand the empathic.
We tend to be just wired in away that we can't ever fully
turn off our awareness of thesubtext, what I'm calling the
subtext, or the nonverbal, andso we tend to go through life
either externalizing that as inthe world is trying to get me.
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I'm being victimized, I need toprotect myself, so I'm going to
wall myself off and I'm goingto seek out the animals because
they're safe and they love meunconditionally and they can
accept my unconditional love, orwe tend to develop very porous
boundaries where, well, I'malways the one that's at fault.
I'm just broken somehow, and soany little tidbit of kindness,
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I just soak it up like a sponge,and the animals fill me up
because the world keeps emptyingme out.
And so any little tidbit ofkindness, I just soak it up like
a sponge, and the animals fillme up because the world keeps
emptying me out, and so thattends to be for a lot of us.
That's where we enter into amore intentional choice to want
to communicate with animals, toreally want to understand what
we're sensing and feeling,because it's healing and it's
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safe and it's reliable.
And so that's where we enterthe picture and that's where the
self-development and theself-evolution or self-help
really gets its rocket thrusters, at least from my experience
and for many of the studentsthat I've coached, and we find
out oh, there's nothing wrongwith me, there's nothing wrong
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with anyone else, we just haveonly been working with about 10%
of the big picture.
We've been trying to live allof life from one brain
hemisphere, the left brainhemisphere, instead of
integrating the knowledge andthe insight and the guidance
available when we use both ofour brain hemispheres and use
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them appropriately for thepurposes for which they have
been designed to work.
Well, don't get me wrong.
If we can't use wordseffectively, if we can't receive
the nonverbal, sensory, subtleand intuitive information that
the animal wants to share withus and then decode it, translate
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it into words and share it withthat animal's pet parent or
guardian or foster pair orshelter manager or rehabber or
whoever it is, we can't helpthat animal.
We really can't do anything.
So the left brain mind, withits verbal capacity, with its
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language comprehension and itsspeech capabilities, is very
necessary.
It has a very important job todo in the animal communication
process and again, I go over allof this in probably
excruciating detail with mystudents inside the new mastery
program.
But just understand, yourverbal language skills are not
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going to be wasted here.
All those years you spentgetting really good at learning
to use your words are going tocome in very handy.
So you're not behind the eightball.
You just need to remember thatthis isn't your only language.
There's a really fun story thatI just shared over on my
Instagram atloveandfeathersandshells, and
it's about one of my earlieranimal communication experiences
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, when I was talking with aGerman shepherd named Chief.
Chief had just transitioned tospirit.
His mom, betty, was reallymissing him and hired me to help
them reconnect and communicateacross the veil or across the
etheric field or however youwant to look at that.
And as I tuned in with Chiefand was starting to get to know
him, he showed up and he wasfull of energy and he just
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started barking and wagging histail and moving his body and
moving his ears different ways,and I was a little overwhelmed
and I said to him very honestlyI said what are you doing?
Chief said to me how manylanguages do you know?
And I said two, if you countanimal communication although
I'm not doing very well with youright now, I don't know what
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you're doing and he said well,I'm teaching you German shepherd
, and that was a fabulousexperience to have.
But here's Betty on the otherside of the conversation waiting
for translation.
So I was very glad to have thecapability to take all of that
subtle, nonverbal, sensory andintuitive information that Chief
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was giving me and be able toquickly translate it into words
so I could share what Chief wasdoing and saying with me, with
her, and that just lit her up,because that is exactly how
Chief was in his life.
He was a natural teacher, anatural leader, a natural guide,
full of enthusiasm, and shecould totally see him doing
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something like that.
So we want to have those leftbrain capabilities.
Now here's something else.
I run across communicators in myfield sometimes and I'm not
throwing any stones or castingany shade, but I'm just saying
when you run across an animalcommunicator that says something
like well, the animals justtalk to me like you and I would
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talk together.
That doesn't mean that's how ithappened.
That means they're really goodat what they do and it feels
natural for the nonverbal dataor information to flow in
through their subtle senses andend up decoded and translated to
shareable words.
Now, sometimes thesecommunicators are communicators
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who just were born with ablaringly wide, open channel,
intuitive channel.
They would have been raised byvery intuitive guardians or
parents.
Maybe the parents or theguardians were in the intuitive
arts themselves.
They were encouraged, and agreat example of this is to read
Diary of a Psychic by one of mymain intuitive teachers, sonia
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Choquette, and she talks aboutbeing raised by a highly
intuitive mother who trusted hervibes and taught her daughters
to do the same.
So sometimes you get the earlymechanics and so you never go
through this process offorgetting about your birth
language.
Sometimes you just arrive withthe inner knowing, maybe from
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time spent in a past life.
I don't know any better thanthe next person why this
sometimes happens.
I've talked with a fewcommunicators who really resist
the idea of teaching animalcommunication because they just
could always do it and don'tbelieve it can be taught.
They think it's a gift.
You either have it or you don't.
Some mediums feel the same.
I don't agree, because late inlife, relatively speaking, I
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went from totally not believingit to becoming fluent.
So for me, my lived experienceis different and that's why I
say I'm not throwing any stones.
I'm not judging anyone elsebecause I'm not living their
lives.
I'm just letting you know thatyou too can do this, because we
all share in this original birthlanguage being able to get our
needs met, communicate what weneed to communicate to survive,
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without having any facility forwords at all.
So where does the self-evolutionand self-development part of
learning animal communicationreally start to work in our
favor as adults trying tonavigate this increasingly busy,
overloaded, nonstop, dailyadulting life that we lead?
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Well, it comes with being ableto bring our two brain
hemispheres together, just likewe've been talking about.
We listen to the words.
We also listen to all the rest,the subtext, how we feel.
Here's a really easy example.
I often teach when I do myintuitive development for pet
parents webinars, and in factI'm about to do another series.
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So if you're not on my weeklylove letter, head over to
animallovelanguagescom and thelittle banner that pops up, just
enter your information andyou'll be notified when my next
webinar is.
But one of the things that I doinside this webinar is I walk
participants through a series ofexercises designed to reawaken
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awareness of your intuition, ofyour non-verbal communication,
inbuilt communication system,and I'll give you a little
example of it right now.
Think of a lemon, depending onwhich of your subtle senses are
most awake or most open, or theones that you use most
frequently we have all of them.
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Nobody is only clear seeing orclear open, or the ones that you
use most frequently.
We have all of them.
Nobody is only clear seeing orclear hearing or clear knowing.
But early in life we willdevelop and rely on one pathway,
typically a little bit morethan all the others.
That tends to be our go-to.
So for some of you, maybe youtasted the tartness of the lemon
and maybe your mouth evenpuckered a little.
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Some of you, maybe you saw around yellow fruit.
Some of you, maybe you heardthe word lemon.
Some of you, maybe you justknew that lemon had entered your
consciousness.
Those are just some examples.
Maybe some of you smelled thecitrusy smell of lemon.
Maybe some of you sensed orfelt the.
Some of you sensed or felt theacidic or the kind of drying
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sensation of having lemon juicetouch your skin.
So those are examples ofdifferent subtle sensory
pathways, and you know thedifference between lemon and
pizza.
You knew that you were justexperiencing lemon in some way,
maybe in several of the waysthat I just described, and not
pizza.
This is an example of thisbirth language and in the same
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way that you know the differencebetween lemon and pizza, you
know the difference betweenother human or a non-human who
is in your range of awareness orperception, who is happy versus
sad, who is healthy versus sick, who is tired versus energetic.
So these are just the basicbare bones, building blocks.
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Imagine if you were having aconversation with your boss or
your partner or your child oryour best friend, and you could
not only tune into their wordsbut you could hear and receive
all the rest of it, both whatthey knew they were sharing with
you and what they probablydidn't know they were sharing
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with you.
How much more resilient,adaptable, empathic,
compassionate could you be,passionate could you be?
How could you so much bettershape your interactions for the
highest good if you were workingwith all of the information
available to you?
The same holds true more thananyone else with yourself.
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It has taken me years to justbe able to name what I'm feeling
.
I know that sounds so lame.
And now you're like, oh my God,I never want to hire her as a
teacher or a communicatorbecause she doesn't know what
she's feeling.
I do now.
But it took me years, and areally good example of this is a
student that I was coaching acouple months ago who came to me
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and she said I don't feel.
And that's why I feel blockedas an animal communication
student is because I don't feelanything.
I don't know what I'm feeling.
And when I started unpackingthis with her, I became aware
that she had picked up a beliefthat you only feel things in
your heart, in your chest region.
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And she would go to her heart,to her chest region, and look
for the feeling, keen to labelit with a word.
And because she didn'tnecessarily find anything there,
she thought well, I just can'tfeel, I'm numb, I'm stuck, I'm
blocked, there's something wrongwith me.
You probably know where thatconversation goes.
We get on that mental train andit never lets us off and we
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convince ourselves that we'rebroken.
We're not broken.
Emotions can happen anywhere inthe body.
They can happen as any of thedifferent sensory impressions
that we just talked aboutSomething we see, hear, smell,
taste, sense, feel or simplyknow.
They can come through asemotion, as a feeling.
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Emotion just means energy inmotion, so they can come through
as a feeling.
Oh, I feel sad.
Oh, my heart hurts.
Well, when your heart hurts,that's actually a physical
sensation.
When I've gone throughheartbreak, my dad passing my
heart hurt, it hurt.
There is such a thing asheartbreak syndrome, and it can
be deadly, mimics the effects ofa heart attack, and only after
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death can you see that actuallyno cardiac arrest took place.
So if you think feeling can'tphysically hurt, this is the
moment when you realize maybeyou too haven't been looking for
all of your emotions in all theright places.
Emotion can come across as dropin energy, a headache, back
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aches oh my goodness.
The three herniated discs in myback have stories to tell you.
And that is a lingering sideeffect of so many years of
feeling like I can't feel, so Ican't cry, so I can't get the
cortisol out of my body.
Well, no wonder.
My whole body broke down in myforties and my thyroid shut down
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and I started breaking out inhives.
All kinds of crazy stuff andI'm still working my way through
that.
But in the process I've learnedthat my body is a feelings
machine.
It's always emitting sensations, vibrations, emotions, energy
and motion, and so is yours andso is everyone else's,
regardless of species.
And so this, my friends, in anutshell, is how learning animal
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communication can make you abetter human communicator with
other humans, most importantlywithin yourself, with other
humans, most importantly withinyourself.
It can help you wake up to thefullness of you, the wealth of
you, the depth of you, theamazing capabilities of you, the
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power within you.
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode today.
I look forward, as always, toyour shares, your wisdom and
insights, always your questions,because they help me shape
future episodes, and to comingover and joining me inside
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Animal Communication Adventure,to Mastery and Animal
Communication Adventure PracticeCircle, where I guide you
through the deep, full versionof what I just touched on today.
And then we practice ittogether with one another, as
fellow adventurers along thispath, with other pet parents and
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their animals, with youranimals, with wild animals, and
we learn and we grow and weunfold and evolve together.
So if that sounds like fun toyou, head over to
animallovelanguagescom.
Click on programs and you canlearn more.
And until then, I send you allmy love.
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