July 3, 2024 • 39 mins
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Every time I welcome a new group of animal communication students to my Animal Communication Adventure program, their greatest fear is the same.: "will I be able to hear my pet's messages?"
I remember these fears well from my own student days. And - truth - sometimes I still worry, especially when I am communicating with an animal who has a quieter or more shy personality.
Even if you are not currently dreaming of becoming an animal communicator yourself, as a pet parent, you probably wonder if you are receiving any messages from your pet.
This can be especially true when you feel like your pet doesn’t feel well physically or having behavior challenges. And if you are parenting a rescue pet, you might feel especially concerned that your animal is trying to talk to you and you just aren’t getting their messages.
This episode is focused on helping you learn how to feel confident that you are receiving messages from your pet. We cover:
- The two responses I hear over and over in my pet parent client sessions that prove to me you actually are hearing your pet directly!
- How hiring animal communicators to talk with my own pets helped me begin to trust in my own intuitive abilities
- The most common reason you might not be understanding what your pet wants you to know
- A little intuitive anatomy lesson to help you understand your doubting mind better
- Why now is the BEST time to begin developing your personal intuitive skills – to talk with your pets AND to improve your life in every other way as well
- A few easy and fun prompts you can start to use right away to begin picking up messages from your pet and open up your intuition in every area of your life
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Shannon Cutts (00:12):
Shannon here, animal sensitive and intuitive
Reiki master practitioner,animal communication teacher and
, most importantly, yourfriendly neighborhood hostess,
along with my precious featheredco-host, petal Cutts, for the
let's Talk to Animals podcast.
And today, what I really wantto talk with you about is
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something that we all strugglewith universally, as pet parents
, as animal carers, as guardiansof the non-human beings that we
share this planet with, andthis is regardless of whether or
not you have awareness ofanimal communication or not,
although for our purposes here,of course, considering that
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you're listening to a podcastcalled let's Talk to Animals, a
podcast all species can enjoytogether, and that so many of
the episodes have the wordsanimal communication in the
titles, I'm going to assume thatyou are somewhat familiar.
However, I am aware that manypeople that listen to let's Talk
to Animals you worry or youwonder, you're curious about
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whether or not you've had anydirect experiences of animal
communication, whether or notyour own pets truly are trying
to talk with you.
In fact, here's an easy examplefrom my one-to-one clients, my
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pet parent clients, one of whichis I just feel like my pet is
trying to tell me something, butI cannot seem to figure out
what it is.
The other thing is, if I sharesomething that an animal has
told me to pass along to theirpet parent, that pet parent will
then say I knew they were goingto say that, or I knew they
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wanted that, or I knew theydidn't like that.
And let me just tell you I'mnot saying that in any way,
shape or form to diminish yourintuitive capacities, because
for many, many years, if you'reat all familiar with my personal
story, if you have listened tothe recent episode I did on how
I became a professional animalcommunicator and all of the
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serendipitous steps andexperiences that led up to that,
then you are very familiar withthe fact that for many, many
years decades really before Ibecame an animal communicator,
hung out a shingle and startedhelping other pet parents with
their companion animals, I hiredanimal communicators.
That is what I did.
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I didn't think I could do it, Ididn't trust myself, and so I
asked communicators to help metalk with my inter species
family.
So I have had these experiencesso many times myself where a
communicator would say to meyour animal wants this, or your
animal doesn't like that, oryour animal is frustrated by
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this, or your animal is feelingthat way.
And I would say I knew it andout of all of the communication
experiences that I did have, Iwould say there were only a
handful of which, if you'rewatching the video version, you
can tell that my cockatiel petalis very intent on getting to
the laptop keyboard and thecrispy microphone cables that
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she just loves to chew on.
I only remember onecommunicator one time saying to
me you know, you can do this too, shannon.
So the missing piece for me,and if this has been a missing
piece for you, please do allowme to correct that and be the
voice for you to say you knowwhat?
Not only can you do this, butyou are probably already doing
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it.
One of the key ways to know forsure is if you are drawn to
animal communication and if youdo have specific or even
repetitive questions.
Or maybe you'll have a specificissue and that is what's
driving you to schedule yoursession and you just have a vibe
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about something or an instinctabout something or a gut
intuition about something andyou just need a little backup,
you need a little support, youneed maybe a more objective set
of eyes and ears to weigh in onwhatever it is that you feel
like you're detecting or pickingup or curious about or
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wondering about, and so that'sreally my role.
That's where I often in thepast have invited and still do,
sometimes when I get stuck,because of course we can get too
close to a situation, we canget too close to a being, we can
get too close to a problem oran obstacle or a challenge, and
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it is so game-changing to havesupport, to have somebody in our
corner who will come alongsideus and say well, let me just
check, let me have aconversation, let me ask the
question, or maybe let'sbrainstorm together.
I do this a lot with my petparent clients, where we
brainstorm the questionstogether.
Maybe they'll come lot with mypet parent clients where we
brainstorm the questionstogether.
Maybe they'll come to me.
Here's a great example of thisthey will come to me and they
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will say I feel like my animalis really anxious and I just
can't find the right thing tooffer them that will ease their
anxiety.
And so we will workshop thistogether because, as someone
objective, I've never met theanimal before.
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I have not witnessed whateverit is that they are talking
about, that they are saying isanxious behavior or anxious
mannerisms or habits.
So I will say to them.
Tell me about what you'reseeing, describe what your pet
is doing, and then I will askyour animal about that, which is
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just for the sake of argument.
Just to kind of get thecleanest possible slate, let's
remove the label anxious oraggressive or fearful or
reactive or whatever it may bebecause it's so normal and
natural.
Our brains want to label things.
Especially the left brain mindis wired into the sympathetic
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nervous system.
Now, that is not something youare going to read in brain
biology books.
This is a different system.
I'm is not something you aregoing to read in brain biology
books.
This is a different system.
I'm talking about yourintuitive anatomy, not your
biological anatomy, which willtell you that just the opposite
is the case.
But, intuitively speaking, yourleft brain mind function is
wired into the fight or flight,because its job description is
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to receive data or informationfrom your fight or flight system
that says run or stay, putdangerous, not dangerous, and so
we can't really turn off, atleast subconsciously,
unconsciously.
We're not going to be able tostop our left brain mind from
assigning labels Joyful, sad,fearful, happy.
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This is why, when I start myanimal communication students
inside my animal communicationadventure learning program, one
of the first things that we talkabout and that they learn about
is how to use the pairs ofopposites Again, because we need
to kind of get a sense of wherewe are on this spectrum from
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one extreme to the other.
However, when we're having aconversation and we have
pre-labeled something we'reseeing as perhaps aggressive,
anxious, fearful, avoidant,whatever it may be, I just want
to ask that animal about why doyou do this thing that you do?
What's going on?
Sometimes we find out it isactually aggressive or anxious
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behavior or whatever it is.
Sometimes we find out it'sabsolutely not connected to
those labels at all.
Perhaps the animal is hungry,they're not able to digest their
food, maybe they're in pain,maybe they're being bullied,
maybe there is an old traumapattern that's unresolved.
Maybe they're being bullied.
Maybe there is an old traumapattern that's unresolved, maybe
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they're bored.
There are so many differentreasons, all of these and so
many more, that I can't evenbegin to dream up here in the
moment that an animal mightexhibit a particular behavior,
and so it's really important tofind out why.
And so this is another areawhere, when a pet parent comes
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to me and they want to have asession, sometimes they'll be
like yeah, you know, I didn'tthink it was anxiety, but I
didn't know what else to call it.
And that's why I'm coming toyou, that's why I want to have
this conversation with myanimals, because my spidey sense
, or my vibes or whatever you'retalking about, is saying my pet
actually isn't reactive orisn't aggressive.
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That's not their essentialnature, but I don't know what
else to call it.
Maybe they've never seen thatkind of behavior before.
For me, when we adopted ourdachshund, who's now nine, we
had no idea at the time thathe'd had tremendous birth and
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puppyhood trauma before we methim.
And so when he came to us andhe didn't seem to want to play
and he wasn't affectionate andhe would get strangely
aggressive at times, and Icannot tell you how many
different protocols andmodalities that I have used to
help Flash open up, feel moretrusting, just of life in
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general.
I worked with him with Reiki,with animal communication.
I brought in otherpractitioners to help with
holistic supplements and we nowhave him on fresh foods and he
gets acupuncture andchiropractic and we've done
emotion code and body code withhim and tapping and all kinds of
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wonderful, wonderfuldisciplines.
We have essential oils that weuse with him.
So there's so many differentthings, but it all starts by
having a clear understanding offeeling, that gut level ah yes,
this is it.
And so often, this back andforth conversation that I have
with the pet parent we're reallyand most of my clients probably
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don't pick up on this but we'rereally tuning into their animal
together.
We're both communicating andwhat's so interesting kind of
the subtext of thiscommunication is that you, as
the pet parent, regardless ofwhether you're having an animal
communication or you're justgoing about your day your animal
is always tuning in with you.
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You are always communicatingwith your animal because they
are vibing with your energy,what I call your energetic
fingerprint or your energeticsignature, which is how your
animal can tell you from all theother humans on this planet how
you can tell.
Sometimes I would go to pick upmy cockatiel, pearl when he was
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boarding at our neighbors.
I'd come home from a trip andhe had so many parrots and so
many birds but I could alwayspick out my Pearl's chirp Even
from outside the house.
That is the energetic signatureof your particular companion
animal.
We all have one.
They're like, if you think ofit, like the snowflake of
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conscious beings.
You have one, I have one petalcockatiel behind me here on the
chair, has one flash, has one mytortoise, my box turtle, the
wild doves outside.
Each dove has a uniqueenergetic signature and your pet
is tuning in with me to have aconversation during our sessions
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.
But they're also tuning in withyou throughout and here's where
it gets really interesting.
Because if you, if you signyour pet up for an animal
communication session but you'renot really open to it or you're
really skeptical, or you'vedecided that you're not going to
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get anything, or you've had abad experience with another
communicator and you bring thatenergy of fear or doubt or
avoidance into the session, youranimal who is tuning in with
you is going to feel that energyand they are not going to be as
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open with me.
Typically, when I reallystruggle and it doesn't happen a
lot, especially the more I doit in this new, expanded, open
environment where I'm getting somany more pet parent clients
who have never worked with ananimal intuitive before and it
is so much fun for me I alwaysfeel so honored and so happy to
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be the one who gets to sharethis beautiful world of deeper
connection with a pet parent Ofcourse their animal's already
very aware of it.
And I always believe that whenI am ready to open up a new bank
of sessions, I always put theintuitive call out to the pets.
I say bring me your people,bring me your pet parents, bring
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me your human carers.
Who's ready to experienceanimal communication, who is
open to it?
And the pets bring their peopleto me to have a session, which
is really fun.
So I don't get this a lot, butwhen I do and I have an animal
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who maybe they're initially openbut then I just get a string of
really nonsensical informationfrom them or I find it's really
hard to translate what I'mreceiving from them for their
person, or their person doesn'tunderstand what their animal's
trying to share, or there justseems to be a mismatch of
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personalities somewhere.
It's often because the petparent is closed.
Intuitively they are not open,they are not trusting or
probably the better way to putit is they're not really willing
to give it a chance.
Like any other discipline,including the medical field and
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science, scientific researchthere is always a margin for
error and we express that indifferent ways.
Like research, scientistsexpress that with numbers and
statistics.
Medical doctors express thatthrough writing white papers and
sharing what they've learnedand comparing case studies
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papers.
And sharing what they'velearned and comparing case
studies intuitives.
We express that by dialoguewith the pet parents, asking
does this make sense, is thisresonating with you?
Does this line up with your ownintuition or how you experience
your animal?
And, most importantly, weexpress it through testimonials
and reviews.
After the fact, did theconversation make a positive
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difference in your animal's life, in your bond, in your
relationship, in your confidenceas a pet parent?
And so there are so manydifferent ways to measure the
validity of the information thatis received and the impact that
the conversation itself has hadin your family.
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But there's always a margin forerror, there's always the
chance for mistranslation,especially because and I love to
share this story it's a perfectexample of what can happen.
When I was in class with one ofmy animal communication teachers
and this was me as a student wewere sharing stories and our
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teacher told us the story of thetime she did a session, a
communication, with a yellowLabrador and she asked this
yellow Lab, by way ofverification, making sure that
she's tuned in with the rightanimal, and that that animal's
parent believed that she wastuned in with her dog.
So she said what is yourfavorite toy?
And the dog said a yellow bird.
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Being a lifelong bird lovermyself and being the pet parent
to a yellow bird, I was like, ohmy goodness, and bird?
I was like, oh my goodness.
And the pet parent was like, ohmy goodness, I would never give
my dog a yellow bird to playwith.
And she said I just thatdoesn't make any sense to me.
And the session continued,concluded, and it took some time
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for her.
She was out in the park one dayplaying with her dog and
throwing the bright yellowtennis ball that he loved to run
and fetch, and she was watchingthis tennis ball flying through
the air and she thought, oh mygoodness, it's the yellow bird.
So of course, there's always thepotential for errors in
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translation, because the animalis going to have to find some
kind of reference, some frame ofreference, to send us
information that will land withus, that will make sense for us,
and he doesn't necessarily knowthe word for tennis ball.
Yes, our animals make all kindsof associations and they do
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learn a great number of ourwords over time, including and
this is the most obviousattention to the energy that
accompanies those words, and sothey might not always associate
the ball with that round yellowthing they love, but they
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understand that birds fly in theair, they are fast, some of
them are yellow colored and wealso understand that.
So that is a perfect example ofan error of translation.
And that is where we, as animalcommunicators as well as pet
parents, we're always checking,rechecking.
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We're always asking the petparent client does this make
sense to you?
We are always going back to theanimal If it doesn't, asking
for more information or shoppinga question to see if we can ask
it a different way to get moreclarity on what is going on.
And yet there are many petparents who, for whatever reason
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, they just don't feel likethey're able to receive any
direct messages from theiranimals.
And I, again, I was this petparent for so many years, first
of all because I was really busyworking on other projects.
I spent 10 years before Ibecame an animal intuitive,
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working as a professional,full-time freelance writer, and
for several of those years, Iwas also running the charity I
had founded.
We were an online charity.
We were in 42 countries.
It was a full-time volunteerjob for me, so I was very busy
and so when things would come upwith my animals, I really
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didn't have the capacity, theattention span, the energy or
the focus to drop what I wasdoing and learn animal
communication so I could talk tomy animals.
Plus, I didn't really believethat it was possible.
I really believe that onlyquote unquote special people who
were born with it, who wereborn with a special gift, were
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able to do this work.
So for me, as I share in theepisode about my personal story
and how it worked, the animalsactually had to come to me one
day and actually flat out tellme that I could do this.
It wasn't even enough to hearit from the animal communicator
I was working with at the time.
I needed to hear it directly,internally, from the spirit of
the animals, and that was whatreally got my attention and set
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me on this path that I am ontoday.
But not everybody is called towork in the field as a
professional, to hang out ashingle, to facilitate
conversations for otherinterspecies families, and that
is absolutely fine.
But that does not mean thatyour animal is not talking to
you all day, every day.
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Of course they are.
You are their world, you're themost important being in their
life.
Which is why, if you come intoan animal communication session
and you're not a hundred percenton board, you're not at least
cautiously optimistic, you arenot open and willing, wondering
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and curious about what mightunfold.
What might you learn duringthis conversation?
Not, oh, is the communicatorgoing to verify everything I
think I know about my animal,but let me at least be open and
willing to try on some newperspectives and new ideas, some
new information for size.
Some new perspectives and newideas, some new information for
size.
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So if you're not open to it, atleast open to it.
You're probably not going toreceive any kind of verification
that it's actually happening.
However, that is one of thereasons why I felt called to
start.
Let's Talk to Animals, becausewe are living in a time period,
this is the age of intuition.
We are being invited to wake up, to open up.
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We are finally living in a time, in a culture at least many of
us are where it is safe to talkabout intuition, about vibes,
about spidey sense, about gutlevel feelings, openly, without
fear of reprisal.
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In fact, this is kind of afunny aside, but one of my
earliest business mentors onceused to joke.
She often liked to joke that weintuitive souls are just all
the witches that were burned atthe stake in past centuries and
we've come to exact our revengeNow.
I don't necessarily ascribe tothat point of view, but I do
think that there is a fearfactor component, some
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preconditioning, that we bringinto this lifetime with us from
other incarnations where itwasn't safe to be who we are.
It wasn't safe to express whatwe knew intuitively.
It wasn't okay, it wasn'twelcome, it wasn't well-received
.
But today, in most parts of theworld at least, it is more
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often than not safe and evenwelcomed.
More often than not safe andeven welcomed, it's an area of
real curiosity and interest formany people, and so we're living
in a different world today.
I'm 53 this year and I don'tremember ever hearing words like
psychic or intuitive growing up.
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So I did come through a timeperiod where I didn't want to
let anyone know that I meditatedor did yoga, even though I have
been practicing yoga andmeditation since I was 19.
So that's 30 something years.
And I remember especially beingborn here in the deep South and
being raised lightly Christian,as a Methodist.
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I remember hiding the fact thatI meditated and did yoga from
the people I knew that werestrict Christians, because they
were threatened by it.
They questioned my faith, andthat got me to question my faith
too, because I thought thismakes me feel better than
anything else.
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It makes me a kinder, moreempathic, more balanced, more
centered, calmer, human, andthat feels very much in
alignment with the way that Iwant to live my life and the
kind of being that I want to be.
And so I just share all that tolet you know that if you, like
me, are a little more seasoned,if you will and have been
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through those kinds of times,it's very different now and it's
a much more open environment.
And I see this with my clients,pet parent clients of all ages,
of all generations, who arecoming to me, many for the first
time, as I shared earlier,because there is this newfound
openness Because, yeah, okay,it's still woo-woo, but it's not
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as woo-woo, and they're talkingabout it with friends, they're
hearing about it on social media, they're reading articles or
watching Netflix series aboutthese kinds of topics, and so
there is that implicitpermission there, that newly
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opened door, to try it on forsize and see how it fits.
So understand that your animalis communicating with you and
we're going to do a wholeseparate episode on kind of what
to do and how to work throughthe doubts that you may feel,
especially if you are a studentwhether of mine or a different
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program and you are encounteringdoubts or what feel like
limitations in your ability totune in and receive information,
and how to work through them,and some ways to really work
with your left brain mind tocreate a friendlier internal
environment to receive intuitiveinformation with confidence and
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clarity, which is really thegoal.
At least when I run an animalcommunication student program,
that is always my goal to helpyou befriend all levels of you,
all aspects of your intuitiveanatomy as well as your
physiognomy, so that you canreceive and send animal messages
with confidence and clarity.
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But for now, what I want you toknow is that it has happened
more times than I can count, anddefinitely too many times to be
some random statisticalcoincidence, that pet parent
clients in session with me willsay I knew my animal was going
to say that or I knew that aboutmy animal, and that to me is
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just one more level ofconfirmation that your animal
truly is communicating with you.
Your animal truly is sendingyou messages all the time.
And so where I want to kind ofwrap up today's episode is with
an invitation to you to start totune in and start to notice
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themes in your day with youranimal.
Start to ask yourself, forinstance, when you suddenly get
an idea that your pet maybeneeds to go out or wants a
shower or a bath or is hungry oris bored or wants a treat, or
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you're kind of marking thesekinds of routine occurrences in
your day.
And this is especially fun todo when there's kind of a time
range.
It's like, well, my animalusually gets hungry between four
and six.
Or when my animal wants to havea bath.
Petal, my cockatiel, often likesto have a bath in the morning.
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It's a very refreshing thingfor her to do before she starts
preening her feathers.
Every single feather, everysingle day is kind of her motto
in terms of grooming andself-care, and so she really
likes to have a bath in themorning, but not every day.
And so that's an example ofsomething where I'm always kind
of tuning into my intuition andasking myself, but really tuning
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in with her and asking herwould you like to have a bath
today?
Would you like to have a baththis morning and seeing what
unfolds before long you maydiscover that you're not really
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sure whether you were thinkingthat because it's two o'clock
and your dog always likes tohave a snack at two o'clock, or
if the idea just came to you,which is a perfect example of
your animal communicating withyou.
Sometimes these communicationsare so subtle that you think
it's your idea.
When really you caught, youreceived the communication from
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your animal and it's like themailman came and just slipped a
little letter in the mail slotin your front door.
How did that get there?
And you can think that in termsof your thought oh, I think my
dog wants to take a walk now.
And you're like did you thinkthat because of some kind of
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regular daily routine that youhave, or did your dog slip that
little memo in your internalmail slot?
And you received it and withoutrealizing it, you owned it as
something your mind cooked up,but it's really coming from your
dog.
So this is something really funto play with as you go about
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your day and you start noticingall of a sudden this is
something I do with my tortoiseMalty, who lives outside about
85% of the time, but she knowswhen she's hungry that she can
just come to the back door.
She can walk up the ramp andwait by the dog door and I will
come and open the door.
She walks in and I fix her herplate.
So often I will find myselfgetting out of my chair and just
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going to the back door andopening it and she will be there
.
And because I'm an animalcommunicator, now I no longer
doubt who sent whom the message.
But in my pre-animalcommunication days because she's
10 now, so we've been doingthis routine for a while I used
to always think it was me, itwas my mind coming up with the
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idea oh, let me go check formalty.
Now there have been so manytimes it's happened where I
literally have been like workingaway at my laptop or doing
something in another part of thehouse and somehow my feet just
started walking in the directionof the back door and I opened
it.
The most dramatic example ofthat was last week.
We had a really epic storm rollin, like to the point where we
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made international newsheadlines and we had two
tornadoes and this crazywindstorm and we'd lost power
for like a week.
And right as that storm wasrolling in and I kid you not, it
was like about two minutesbefore it, full on, hit us and
our umbrellas fell over and thiscrazy windstorm blew through.
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Malty came marching out fromher mud wallow, where she likes
to stay, came very purposefullystriding across the lawn, up the
dog ramp and into the house.
And I had just spontaneouslygone to the door and here she
comes marching in.
I had no idea that this stormwas about to hit us.
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She knew, but I had receivedher memo saying mom, come to the
door and let me in.
But it was all subconscious.
Because I am so movable now,because I am so open and my
channel for listening to eachone of my animals is always open
and the volumes turned up tohigh for my personal animals.
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So they know they can call meat any time and I will come,
whether my conscious mind isaware of it or is tuned into the
specific message I'm getting orwho I'm getting it from.
I am so movable now that I willsimply present myself to
whomever needs me for whateveris needed, and so that is one of
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your homework assignments todayis to start tuning in.
How did I end up suddenly justwalking over and grabbing the
leash, or just getting up frommy desk and going to find my cat
and giving her a pet, orchanging my afternoon plans and
going to the stable to be withmy horse, only to discover that
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he really needed something fromme.
How do these things happen?
Is it all my idea or is myanimal sending me messages?
And here's part two, and this issomething this is actually an
assignment from my freeintuitive pet parenting mini
course.
So if you enjoy this one, youwill definitely want to head
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over to animallovelanguagescom.
Head over to resources tabright at the top, click on free
tools and you can find theintuitive pet parenting free
mini course.
But this is one of the funassignments that you will find
inside to notice when you'recoming back home, after you've
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been gone to notice, before yougo to the front door, the back
door, wherever you normallyenter the house, try to identify
where is your animal in thehouse especially.
This is obviously moreeffective if they are free range
, if they're not confined, likemy petal is usually in her big
cage in the bedroom, so I knowwhere she is, but I can still
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ask myself what area, causeshe's got a pretty big indoor
casa or cage, so I can still askmyself where in that large
indoor kind of aviary type cageis she?
Okay.
But if your pet is free range,especially if they're allowed to
go in and out, like our dog is,through the dog door, are they
in the house?
Are they in the yard?
What part of the yard are theyin?
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Start to sense for theirenergetic signature and ask
yourself where is my animal inthe house?
Feel for where they are beforeyou go in, especially if your
pet is the kind that likes tomeet you at the door.
Ask yourself I do this a lotwith my tortoise in the backyard
, because we have a pretty bigbackyard, at least when you've
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got a tortoise who only weighs10 pounds and so there's a lot
of areas she could be in.
So when I'm going to look forher, I'm asking myself
intuitively where in the yard isshe?
And I'm noticing whichdirection my body turns.
This is kind of an example ofvery subtle applied kinesiology
or muscle testing.
If you're familiar where youstand up and you do the yes no
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test and if your body leans,usually it's forward as a yes
and back as a no, but it mightbe different for you.
Some people lean to one side orthe other.
So it's just getting to knowyour own system of what feels
true for you.
But start playing with this.
And if you do try either one ofthese homework assignments
either noticing when messagescome in or you feel moved to do
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something for your animal,noticing where did that instinct
or idea come from, or beingable to kind of spot your pet's
energetic signature in your homeor yard before you actually get
inside and verify that withyour eyes and ears, your outer
facing eyes and ears If you tryeither or both of these homework
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assignments, let me know how itgoes.
I would love to hear what youexperience and if you get a
little bit closer to feelinglike you actually are more
intuitive than you think you are, than your left brain mind
thinks that you are, and that isreally important to recognize,
because your left brain minddoes have a very vital function
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in the animal communicationprocess and I talk about that a
lot more inside my animalcommunication adventure student
program.
But your left brain mind is notintuitive.
That is not how it's designedto work, that is not one of its
functions or job descriptions,if you will, and so often it is
our left brain mind that saysthings to us like you're not
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intuitive and really what it'ssaying is I'm not intuitive.
It's saying I am not wired forthe intuitive side of your
sensory system.
So we take it personally and wesay, oh, I think that I'm not
an intuitive person and inreality it's your left brain
mind thinking I'm not intuitivebecause it isn't.
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So start trying this on forsize.
Start allowing yourself to playwith the idea, just wonder,
notice, get curious and usethese two homework assignments
or fun interspecies enrichmentactivities, if you prefer to
look at it that way, to try onthe idea of an intuitive you for
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size, and if you want to pursuethat further, under that same
resources tab atanimallovelanguagescom you will
find another free mini classcalled intuitive you, and this
is really the precursor to theintuitive pet parenting mini
course that I mentioned earlierand it's really going to help
and encourage you further toexplore.
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Are you perhaps much moreintuitive than you're giving
yourself credit for?
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode of let's Talk to Animals
, the podcast all species canenjoy together.
If you have a favorite episode,please do let me know.
If you have questions,something you'd like to hear
about in a future episode.
Please do let me know if youhave questions, something you'd
like to hear about in a futureepisode?
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I'd love to hear that too.
Please do take the time to givethis podcast your review, your
comments.
Share it with a friend.
All of these things really helpus to kind of claim and grow
our little corner of the greaterpodcast sphere.
Plus, it inspires andencourages me to keep making
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fresh new episodes for you, andI love to hear from my fellow
pet parents about what you'reinterested in, the challenges
that you're going through, theways that your pet is teaching
you and guiding you along yourown intuitive journey.
So I look forward to welcomingyou back in two weeks for a
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fresh new episode here at let'sTalk to Animals, and until then,
I'm sending you and your innerspecies family all of my love.
Okay, bye for now.
Shannon here, animal sensitive and intuitive
Reiki master practitioner,animal communication teacher and
, most importantly, yourfriendly neighborhood hostess,
along with my precious featheredco-host, petal Cutts, for the
let's Talk to Animals podcast.
And today, what I really wantto talk with you about is
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something that we all strugglewith universally, as pet parents
, as animal carers, as guardiansof the non-human beings that we
share this planet with, andthis is regardless of whether or
not you have awareness ofanimal communication or not,
although for our purposes here,of course, considering that
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you're listening to a podcastcalled let's Talk to Animals, a
podcast all species can enjoytogether, and that so many of
the episodes have the wordsanimal communication in the
titles, I'm going to assume thatyou are somewhat familiar.
However, I am aware that manypeople that listen to let's Talk
to Animals you worry or youwonder, you're curious about
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whether or not you've had anydirect experiences of animal
communication, whether or notyour own pets truly are trying
to talk with you.
In fact, here's an easy examplefrom my one-to-one clients, my
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pet parent clients, one of whichis I just feel like my pet is
trying to tell me something, butI cannot seem to figure out
what it is.
The other thing is, if I sharesomething that an animal has
told me to pass along to theirpet parent, that pet parent will
then say I knew they were goingto say that, or I knew they
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wanted that, or I knew theydidn't like that.
And let me just tell you I'mnot saying that in any way,
shape or form to diminish yourintuitive capacities, because
for many, many years, if you'reat all familiar with my personal
story, if you have listened tothe recent episode I did on how
I became a professional animalcommunicator and all of the
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serendipitous steps andexperiences that led up to that,
then you are very familiar withthe fact that for many, many
years decades really before Ibecame an animal communicator,
hung out a shingle and startedhelping other pet parents with
their companion animals, I hiredanimal communicators.
That is what I did.
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I didn't think I could do it, Ididn't trust myself, and so I
asked communicators to help metalk with my inter species
family.
So I have had these experiencesso many times myself where a
communicator would say to meyour animal wants this, or your
animal doesn't like that, oryour animal is frustrated by
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this, or your animal is feelingthat way.
And I would say I knew it andout of all of the communication
experiences that I did have, Iwould say there were only a
handful of which, if you'rewatching the video version, you
can tell that my cockatiel petalis very intent on getting to
the laptop keyboard and thecrispy microphone cables that
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she just loves to chew on.
I only remember onecommunicator one time saying to
me you know, you can do this too, shannon.
So the missing piece for me,and if this has been a missing
piece for you, please do allowme to correct that and be the
voice for you to say you knowwhat?
Not only can you do this, butyou are probably already doing
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it.
One of the key ways to know forsure is if you are drawn to
animal communication and if youdo have specific or even
repetitive questions.
Or maybe you'll have a specificissue and that is what's
driving you to schedule yoursession and you just have a vibe
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about something or an instinctabout something or a gut
intuition about something andyou just need a little backup,
you need a little support, youneed maybe a more objective set
of eyes and ears to weigh in onwhatever it is that you feel
like you're detecting or pickingup or curious about or
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wondering about, and so that'sreally my role.
That's where I often in thepast have invited and still do,
sometimes when I get stuck,because of course we can get too
close to a situation, we canget too close to a being, we can
get too close to a problem oran obstacle or a challenge, and
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it is so game-changing to havesupport, to have somebody in our
corner who will come alongsideus and say well, let me just
check, let me have aconversation, let me ask the
question, or maybe let'sbrainstorm together.
I do this a lot with my petparent clients, where we
brainstorm the questionstogether.
Maybe they'll come lot with mypet parent clients where we
brainstorm the questionstogether.
Maybe they'll come to me.
Here's a great example of thisthey will come to me and they
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will say I feel like my animalis really anxious and I just
can't find the right thing tooffer them that will ease their
anxiety.
And so we will workshop thistogether because, as someone
objective, I've never met theanimal before.
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I have not witnessed whateverit is that they are talking
about, that they are saying isanxious behavior or anxious
mannerisms or habits.
So I will say to them.
Tell me about what you'reseeing, describe what your pet
is doing, and then I will askyour animal about that, which is
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just for the sake of argument.
Just to kind of get thecleanest possible slate, let's
remove the label anxious oraggressive or fearful or
reactive or whatever it may bebecause it's so normal and
natural.
Our brains want to label things.
Especially the left brain mindis wired into the sympathetic
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nervous system.
Now, that is not something youare going to read in brain
biology books.
This is a different system.
I'm is not something you aregoing to read in brain biology
books.
This is a different system.
I'm talking about yourintuitive anatomy, not your
biological anatomy, which willtell you that just the opposite
is the case.
But, intuitively speaking, yourleft brain mind function is
wired into the fight or flight,because its job description is
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to receive data or informationfrom your fight or flight system
that says run or stay, putdangerous, not dangerous, and so
we can't really turn off, atleast subconsciously,
unconsciously.
We're not going to be able tostop our left brain mind from
assigning labels Joyful, sad,fearful, happy.
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This is why, when I start myanimal communication students
inside my animal communicationadventure learning program, one
of the first things that we talkabout and that they learn about
is how to use the pairs ofopposites Again, because we need
to kind of get a sense of wherewe are on this spectrum from
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one extreme to the other.
However, when we're having aconversation and we have
pre-labeled something we'reseeing as perhaps aggressive,
anxious, fearful, avoidant,whatever it may be, I just want
to ask that animal about why doyou do this thing that you do?
What's going on?
Sometimes we find out it isactually aggressive or anxious
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behavior or whatever it is.
Sometimes we find out it'sabsolutely not connected to
those labels at all.
Perhaps the animal is hungry,they're not able to digest their
food, maybe they're in pain,maybe they're being bullied,
maybe there is an old traumapattern that's unresolved.
Maybe they're being bullied.
Maybe there is an old traumapattern that's unresolved, maybe
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they're bored.
There are so many differentreasons, all of these and so
many more, that I can't evenbegin to dream up here in the
moment that an animal mightexhibit a particular behavior,
and so it's really important tofind out why.
And so this is another areawhere, when a pet parent comes
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to me and they want to have asession, sometimes they'll be
like yeah, you know, I didn'tthink it was anxiety, but I
didn't know what else to call it.
And that's why I'm coming toyou, that's why I want to have
this conversation with myanimals, because my spidey sense
, or my vibes or whatever you'retalking about, is saying my pet
actually isn't reactive orisn't aggressive.
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That's not their essentialnature, but I don't know what
else to call it.
Maybe they've never seen thatkind of behavior before.
For me, when we adopted ourdachshund, who's now nine, we
had no idea at the time thathe'd had tremendous birth and
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puppyhood trauma before we methim.
And so when he came to us andhe didn't seem to want to play
and he wasn't affectionate andhe would get strangely
aggressive at times, and Icannot tell you how many
different protocols andmodalities that I have used to
help Flash open up, feel moretrusting, just of life in
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general.
I worked with him with Reiki,with animal communication.
I brought in otherpractitioners to help with
holistic supplements and we nowhave him on fresh foods and he
gets acupuncture andchiropractic and we've done
emotion code and body code withhim and tapping and all kinds of
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wonderful, wonderfuldisciplines.
We have essential oils that weuse with him.
So there's so many differentthings, but it all starts by
having a clear understanding offeeling, that gut level ah yes,
this is it.
And so often, this back andforth conversation that I have
with the pet parent we're reallyand most of my clients probably
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don't pick up on this but we'rereally tuning into their animal
together.
We're both communicating andwhat's so interesting kind of
the subtext of thiscommunication is that you, as
the pet parent, regardless ofwhether you're having an animal
communication or you're justgoing about your day your animal
is always tuning in with you.
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You are always communicatingwith your animal because they
are vibing with your energy,what I call your energetic
fingerprint or your energeticsignature, which is how your
animal can tell you from all theother humans on this planet how
you can tell.
Sometimes I would go to pick upmy cockatiel, pearl when he was
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boarding at our neighbors.
I'd come home from a trip andhe had so many parrots and so
many birds but I could alwayspick out my Pearl's chirp Even
from outside the house.
That is the energetic signatureof your particular companion
animal.
We all have one.
They're like, if you think ofit, like the snowflake of
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conscious beings.
You have one, I have one petalcockatiel behind me here on the
chair, has one flash, has one mytortoise, my box turtle, the
wild doves outside.
Each dove has a uniqueenergetic signature and your pet
is tuning in with me to have aconversation during our sessions
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.
But they're also tuning in withyou throughout and here's where
it gets really interesting.
Because if you, if you signyour pet up for an animal
communication session but you'renot really open to it or you're
really skeptical, or you'vedecided that you're not going to
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get anything, or you've had abad experience with another
communicator and you bring thatenergy of fear or doubt or
avoidance into the session, youranimal who is tuning in with
you is going to feel that energyand they are not going to be as
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open with me.
Typically, when I reallystruggle and it doesn't happen a
lot, especially the more I doit in this new, expanded, open
environment where I'm getting somany more pet parent clients
who have never worked with ananimal intuitive before and it
is so much fun for me I alwaysfeel so honored and so happy to
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be the one who gets to sharethis beautiful world of deeper
connection with a pet parent Ofcourse their animal's already
very aware of it.
And I always believe that whenI am ready to open up a new bank
of sessions, I always put theintuitive call out to the pets.
I say bring me your people,bring me your pet parents, bring
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me your human carers.
Who's ready to experienceanimal communication, who is
open to it?
And the pets bring their peopleto me to have a session, which
is really fun.
So I don't get this a lot, butwhen I do and I have an animal
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who maybe they're initially openbut then I just get a string of
really nonsensical informationfrom them or I find it's really
hard to translate what I'mreceiving from them for their
person, or their person doesn'tunderstand what their animal's
trying to share, or there justseems to be a mismatch of
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personalities somewhere.
It's often because the petparent is closed.
Intuitively they are not open,they are not trusting or
probably the better way to putit is they're not really willing
to give it a chance.
Like any other discipline,including the medical field and
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science, scientific researchthere is always a margin for
error and we express that indifferent ways.
Like research, scientistsexpress that with numbers and
statistics.
Medical doctors express thatthrough writing white papers and
sharing what they've learnedand comparing case studies
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papers.
And sharing what they'velearned and comparing case
studies intuitives.
We express that by dialoguewith the pet parents, asking
does this make sense, is thisresonating with you?
Does this line up with your ownintuition or how you experience
your animal?
And, most importantly, weexpress it through testimonials
and reviews.
After the fact, did theconversation make a positive
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difference in your animal's life, in your bond, in your
relationship, in your confidenceas a pet parent?
And so there are so manydifferent ways to measure the
validity of the information thatis received and the impact that
the conversation itself has hadin your family.
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But there's always a margin forerror, there's always the
chance for mistranslation,especially because and I love to
share this story it's a perfectexample of what can happen.
When I was in class with one ofmy animal communication teachers
and this was me as a student wewere sharing stories and our
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teacher told us the story of thetime she did a session, a
communication, with a yellowLabrador and she asked this
yellow Lab, by way ofverification, making sure that
she's tuned in with the rightanimal, and that that animal's
parent believed that she wastuned in with her dog.
So she said what is yourfavorite toy?
And the dog said a yellow bird.
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Being a lifelong bird lovermyself and being the pet parent
to a yellow bird, I was like, ohmy goodness, and bird?
I was like, oh my goodness.
And the pet parent was like, ohmy goodness, I would never give
my dog a yellow bird to playwith.
And she said I just thatdoesn't make any sense to me.
And the session continued,concluded, and it took some time
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for her.
She was out in the park one dayplaying with her dog and
throwing the bright yellowtennis ball that he loved to run
and fetch, and she was watchingthis tennis ball flying through
the air and she thought, oh mygoodness, it's the yellow bird.
So of course, there's always thepotential for errors in
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translation, because the animalis going to have to find some
kind of reference, some frame ofreference, to send us
information that will land withus, that will make sense for us,
and he doesn't necessarily knowthe word for tennis ball.
Yes, our animals make all kindsof associations and they do
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learn a great number of ourwords over time, including and
this is the most obviousattention to the energy that
accompanies those words, and sothey might not always associate
the ball with that round yellowthing they love, but they
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understand that birds fly in theair, they are fast, some of
them are yellow colored and wealso understand that.
So that is a perfect example ofan error of translation.
And that is where we, as animalcommunicators as well as pet
parents, we're always checking,rechecking.
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We're always asking the petparent client does this make
sense to you?
We are always going back to theanimal If it doesn't, asking
for more information or shoppinga question to see if we can ask
it a different way to get moreclarity on what is going on.
And yet there are many petparents who, for whatever reason
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, they just don't feel likethey're able to receive any
direct messages from theiranimals.
And I, again, I was this petparent for so many years, first
of all because I was really busyworking on other projects.
I spent 10 years before Ibecame an animal intuitive,
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working as a professional,full-time freelance writer, and
for several of those years, Iwas also running the charity I
had founded.
We were an online charity.
We were in 42 countries.
It was a full-time volunteerjob for me, so I was very busy
and so when things would come upwith my animals, I really
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didn't have the capacity, theattention span, the energy or
the focus to drop what I wasdoing and learn animal
communication so I could talk tomy animals.
Plus, I didn't really believethat it was possible.
I really believe that onlyquote unquote special people who
were born with it, who wereborn with a special gift, were
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able to do this work.
So for me, as I share in theepisode about my personal story
and how it worked, the animalsactually had to come to me one
day and actually flat out tellme that I could do this.
It wasn't even enough to hearit from the animal communicator
I was working with at the time.
I needed to hear it directly,internally, from the spirit of
the animals, and that was whatreally got my attention and set
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me on this path that I am ontoday.
But not everybody is called towork in the field as a
professional, to hang out ashingle, to facilitate
conversations for otherinterspecies families, and that
is absolutely fine.
But that does not mean thatyour animal is not talking to
you all day, every day.
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Of course they are.
You are their world, you're themost important being in their
life.
Which is why, if you come intoan animal communication session
and you're not a hundred percenton board, you're not at least
cautiously optimistic, you arenot open and willing, wondering
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and curious about what mightunfold.
What might you learn duringthis conversation?
Not, oh, is the communicatorgoing to verify everything I
think I know about my animal,but let me at least be open and
willing to try on some newperspectives and new ideas, some
new information for size.
Some new perspectives and newideas, some new information for
size.
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So if you're not open to it, atleast open to it.
You're probably not going toreceive any kind of verification
that it's actually happening.
However, that is one of thereasons why I felt called to
start.
Let's Talk to Animals, becausewe are living in a time period,
this is the age of intuition.
We are being invited to wake up, to open up.
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We are finally living in a time, in a culture at least many of
us are where it is safe to talkabout intuition, about vibes,
about spidey sense, about gutlevel feelings, openly, without
fear of reprisal.
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In fact, this is kind of afunny aside, but one of my
earliest business mentors onceused to joke.
She often liked to joke that weintuitive souls are just all
the witches that were burned atthe stake in past centuries and
we've come to exact our revengeNow.
I don't necessarily ascribe tothat point of view, but I do
think that there is a fearfactor component, some
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preconditioning, that we bringinto this lifetime with us from
other incarnations where itwasn't safe to be who we are.
It wasn't safe to express whatwe knew intuitively.
It wasn't okay, it wasn'twelcome, it wasn't well-received
.
But today, in most parts of theworld at least, it is more
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often than not safe and evenwelcomed.
More often than not safe andeven welcomed, it's an area of
real curiosity and interest formany people, and so we're living
in a different world today.
I'm 53 this year and I don'tremember ever hearing words like
psychic or intuitive growing up.
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So I did come through a timeperiod where I didn't want to
let anyone know that I meditatedor did yoga, even though I have
been practicing yoga andmeditation since I was 19.
So that's 30 something years.
And I remember especially beingborn here in the deep South and
being raised lightly Christian,as a Methodist.
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I remember hiding the fact thatI meditated and did yoga from
the people I knew that werestrict Christians, because they
were threatened by it.
They questioned my faith, andthat got me to question my faith
too, because I thought thismakes me feel better than
anything else.
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It makes me a kinder, moreempathic, more balanced, more
centered, calmer, human, andthat feels very much in
alignment with the way that Iwant to live my life and the
kind of being that I want to be.
And so I just share all that tolet you know that if you, like
me, are a little more seasoned,if you will and have been
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through those kinds of times,it's very different now and it's
a much more open environment.
And I see this with my clients,pet parent clients of all ages,
of all generations, who arecoming to me, many for the first
time, as I shared earlier,because there is this newfound
openness Because, yeah, okay,it's still woo-woo, but it's not
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as woo-woo, and they're talkingabout it with friends, they're
hearing about it on social media, they're reading articles or
watching Netflix series aboutthese kinds of topics, and so
there is that implicitpermission there, that newly
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opened door, to try it on forsize and see how it fits.
So understand that your animalis communicating with you and
we're going to do a wholeseparate episode on kind of what
to do and how to work throughthe doubts that you may feel,
especially if you are a studentwhether of mine or a different
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program and you are encounteringdoubts or what feel like
limitations in your ability totune in and receive information,
and how to work through them,and some ways to really work
with your left brain mind tocreate a friendlier internal
environment to receive intuitiveinformation with confidence and
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clarity, which is really thegoal.
At least when I run an animalcommunication student program,
that is always my goal to helpyou befriend all levels of you,
all aspects of your intuitiveanatomy as well as your
physiognomy, so that you canreceive and send animal messages
with confidence and clarity.
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But for now, what I want you toknow is that it has happened
more times than I can count, anddefinitely too many times to be
some random statisticalcoincidence, that pet parent
clients in session with me willsay I knew my animal was going
to say that or I knew that aboutmy animal, and that to me is
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just one more level ofconfirmation that your animal
truly is communicating with you.
Your animal truly is sendingyou messages all the time.
And so where I want to kind ofwrap up today's episode is with
an invitation to you to start totune in and start to notice
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themes in your day with youranimal.
Start to ask yourself, forinstance, when you suddenly get
an idea that your pet maybeneeds to go out or wants a
shower or a bath or is hungry oris bored or wants a treat, or
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you're kind of marking thesekinds of routine occurrences in
your day.
And this is especially fun todo when there's kind of a time
range.
It's like, well, my animalusually gets hungry between four
and six.
Or when my animal wants to havea bath.
Petal, my cockatiel, often likesto have a bath in the morning.
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It's a very refreshing thingfor her to do before she starts
preening her feathers.
Every single feather, everysingle day is kind of her motto
in terms of grooming andself-care, and so she really
likes to have a bath in themorning, but not every day.
And so that's an example ofsomething where I'm always kind
of tuning into my intuition andasking myself, but really tuning
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in with her and asking herwould you like to have a bath
today?
Would you like to have a baththis morning and seeing what
unfolds before long you maydiscover that you're not really
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sure whether you were thinkingthat because it's two o'clock
and your dog always likes tohave a snack at two o'clock, or
if the idea just came to you,which is a perfect example of
your animal communicating withyou.
Sometimes these communicationsare so subtle that you think
it's your idea.
When really you caught, youreceived the communication from
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your animal and it's like themailman came and just slipped a
little letter in the mail slotin your front door.
How did that get there?
And you can think that in termsof your thought oh, I think my
dog wants to take a walk now.
And you're like did you thinkthat because of some kind of
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regular daily routine that youhave, or did your dog slip that
little memo in your internalmail slot?
And you received it and withoutrealizing it, you owned it as
something your mind cooked up,but it's really coming from your
dog.
So this is something really funto play with as you go about
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your day and you start noticingall of a sudden this is
something I do with my tortoiseMalty, who lives outside about
85% of the time, but she knowswhen she's hungry that she can
just come to the back door.
She can walk up the ramp andwait by the dog door and I will
come and open the door.
She walks in and I fix her herplate.
So often I will find myselfgetting out of my chair and just
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going to the back door andopening it and she will be there
.
And because I'm an animalcommunicator, now I no longer
doubt who sent whom the message.
But in my pre-animalcommunication days because she's
10 now, so we've been doingthis routine for a while I used
to always think it was me, itwas my mind coming up with the
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idea oh, let me go check formalty.
Now there have been so manytimes it's happened where I
literally have been like workingaway at my laptop or doing
something in another part of thehouse and somehow my feet just
started walking in the directionof the back door and I opened
it.
The most dramatic example ofthat was last week.
We had a really epic storm rollin, like to the point where we
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made international newsheadlines and we had two
tornadoes and this crazywindstorm and we'd lost power
for like a week.
And right as that storm wasrolling in and I kid you not, it
was like about two minutesbefore it, full on, hit us and
our umbrellas fell over and thiscrazy windstorm blew through.
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Malty came marching out fromher mud wallow, where she likes
to stay, came very purposefullystriding across the lawn, up the
dog ramp and into the house.
And I had just spontaneouslygone to the door and here she
comes marching in.
I had no idea that this stormwas about to hit us.
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She knew, but I had receivedher memo saying mom, come to the
door and let me in.
But it was all subconscious.
Because I am so movable now,because I am so open and my
channel for listening to eachone of my animals is always open
and the volumes turned up tohigh for my personal animals.
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So they know they can call meat any time and I will come,
whether my conscious mind isaware of it or is tuned into the
specific message I'm getting orwho I'm getting it from.
I am so movable now that I willsimply present myself to
whomever needs me for whateveris needed, and so that is one of
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your homework assignments todayis to start tuning in.
How did I end up suddenly justwalking over and grabbing the
leash, or just getting up frommy desk and going to find my cat
and giving her a pet, orchanging my afternoon plans and
going to the stable to be withmy horse, only to discover that
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he really needed something fromme.
How do these things happen?
Is it all my idea or is myanimal sending me messages?
And here's part two, and this issomething this is actually an
assignment from my freeintuitive pet parenting mini
course.
So if you enjoy this one, youwill definitely want to head
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over to animallovelanguagescom.
Head over to resources tabright at the top, click on free
tools and you can find theintuitive pet parenting free
mini course.
But this is one of the funassignments that you will find
inside to notice when you'recoming back home, after you've
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been gone to notice, before yougo to the front door, the back
door, wherever you normallyenter the house, try to identify
where is your animal in thehouse especially.
This is obviously moreeffective if they are free range
, if they're not confined, likemy petal is usually in her big
cage in the bedroom, so I knowwhere she is, but I can still
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ask myself what area, causeshe's got a pretty big indoor
casa or cage, so I can still askmyself where in that large
indoor kind of aviary type cageis she?
Okay.
But if your pet is free range,especially if they're allowed to
go in and out, like our dog is,through the dog door, are they
in the house?
Are they in the yard?
What part of the yard are theyin?
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Start to sense for theirenergetic signature and ask
yourself where is my animal inthe house?
Feel for where they are beforeyou go in, especially if your
pet is the kind that likes tomeet you at the door.
Ask yourself I do this a lotwith my tortoise in the backyard
, because we have a pretty bigbackyard, at least when you've
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got a tortoise who only weighs10 pounds and so there's a lot
of areas she could be in.
So when I'm going to look forher, I'm asking myself
intuitively where in the yard isshe?
And I'm noticing whichdirection my body turns.
This is kind of an example ofvery subtle applied kinesiology
or muscle testing.
If you're familiar where youstand up and you do the yes no
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test and if your body leans,usually it's forward as a yes
and back as a no, but it mightbe different for you.
Some people lean to one side orthe other.
So it's just getting to knowyour own system of what feels
true for you.
But start playing with this.
And if you do try either one ofthese homework assignments
either noticing when messagescome in or you feel moved to do
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something for your animal,noticing where did that instinct
or idea come from, or beingable to kind of spot your pet's
energetic signature in your homeor yard before you actually get
inside and verify that withyour eyes and ears, your outer
facing eyes and ears If you tryeither or both of these homework
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assignments, let me know how itgoes.
I would love to hear what youexperience and if you get a
little bit closer to feelinglike you actually are more
intuitive than you think you are, than your left brain mind
thinks that you are, and that isreally important to recognize,
because your left brain minddoes have a very vital function
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in the animal communicationprocess and I talk about that a
lot more inside my animalcommunication adventure student
program.
But your left brain mind is notintuitive.
That is not how it's designedto work, that is not one of its
functions or job descriptions,if you will, and so often it is
our left brain mind that saysthings to us like you're not
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intuitive and really what it'ssaying is I'm not intuitive.
It's saying I am not wired forthe intuitive side of your
sensory system.
So we take it personally and wesay, oh, I think that I'm not
an intuitive person and inreality it's your left brain
mind thinking I'm not intuitivebecause it isn't.
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So start trying this on forsize.
Start allowing yourself to playwith the idea, just wonder,
notice, get curious and usethese two homework assignments
or fun interspecies enrichmentactivities, if you prefer to
look at it that way, to try onthe idea of an intuitive you for
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size, and if you want to pursuethat further, under that same
resources tab atanimallovelanguagescom you will
find another free mini classcalled intuitive you, and this
is really the precursor to theintuitive pet parenting mini
course that I mentioned earlierand it's really going to help
and encourage you further toexplore.
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Are you perhaps much moreintuitive than you're giving
yourself credit for?
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode of let's Talk to Animals
, the podcast all species canenjoy together.
If you have a favorite episode,please do let me know.
If you have questions,something you'd like to hear
about in a future episode.
Please do let me know if youhave questions, something you'd
like to hear about in a futureepisode?
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I'd love to hear that too.
Please do take the time to givethis podcast your review, your
comments.
Share it with a friend.
All of these things really helpus to kind of claim and grow
our little corner of the greaterpodcast sphere.
Plus, it inspires andencourages me to keep making
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fresh new episodes for you, andI love to hear from my fellow
pet parents about what you'reinterested in, the challenges
that you're going through, theways that your pet is teaching
you and guiding you along yourown intuitive journey.
So I look forward to welcomingyou back in two weeks for a
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fresh new episode here at let'sTalk to Animals, and until then,
I'm sending you and your innerspecies family all of my love.
Okay, bye for now.
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