October 9, 2024 • 25 mins
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Animal communication conversations are some of the neatest conversations you will ever have in your life. "Never a dull moment," as one of my students describes it.
Talking with animals gives us a fresh set of glasses through which to see our regular everyday world, turning the ordinary into wonder and delight - and often, laughter!
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🌟 The first animal I ever talked with and how it was so not what I expected.
🌟 One dog's surprising reason for being a "bad patient"
🌟 What one animal thought of my attempts to learn animal communication
🌟 The one toy this dog's mom insisted she would never ever give him!
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Shannon Cutts (00:12):
Hi Shannon here, animal intuitive and sensitive
and Reiki master practitionerand animal communication teacher
and your friendly neighborhoodhostess.
This channel, this show, isreally about taking the woo out
of an ability, a gift and askill that every human animal
(00:35):
also has access to.
Yes, you heard me right.
It means that, whether youthink you're intuitive or not,
whether you've ever had a vibeor an aha moment or an insight
or a deep knowing in your lifethat you're aware of, you too
come pre-equipped with all ofthe internal wiring what I call
(00:58):
your intuitive anatomy that youwill ever need to communicate
across species boundaries.
You also come equipped withsoftware, if you will, that has
been pre-installed in your humanoperating system to allow you
to make these interspeciesconnections.
(01:18):
There is so much to explore andI cannot wait to share it with
you.
Much to explore and I cannotwait to share it with you.
But before we get too terriblyfar along in our exploration, I
wanted to stop and share somedeeply personal stories that I
have been a part of.
I have experienced personally,stories from my professional
(01:42):
animal communication practice,stories from my student days and
, by the way, I am always astudent.
Saying that I am a teacher doesnot in any way limit or cancel
out the fact that I will alwaysview myself as a student and the
animals are my primary teachers.
That is one of the wonderfulgifts, one of the many wonderful
(02:04):
gifts of animal communicationis that it invites us to bring
our humility, our beginner'smind and our learning hearts,
our eager learning hearts, alongfor the journey.
And so some of these storiesare deeply personal in that
they're stories that relate tomy relationships with my own
personal pets, my companionanimals.
(02:27):
And, by the way, when I say pet, this is something we'll talk
about more in a future episode.
But when I say pet, what Ireally mean is partner, empathic
friend and teacher.
Why do I say that?
Because when I ask the animals,what does the word pet mean to
them?
Where did we get theinspiration to use the word pet?
This is what they told me itstands for.
So bookmark that thought.
(02:48):
We'll be back to explore thatmore in a future episode, but
for now I just want you to knowthat these are just a handful, a
selection of my many favoritestories of how animal
communication can draw humananimals and non-human animals
living in family or relationshipsituations closer together.
(03:09):
These are stories of how animalcommunication can break through
communication barriers topromote understanding and
empathy and action.
They are stories of how animalcommunication can facilitate
reconnection as well as initialconnection.
They're stories of wonder andmiracles, and so, with that
(03:32):
being said, let's dive in now.
The first story I want to sharewith you is actually my first
formal experience of animalcommunication, and I have been
having informal experiencescertainly for many, many years.
In most cases, as soon as a newhuman animal, such as you or me
(03:56):
, decides to formally pursue acourse of study, a practicum, in
some way solidify an interestin animal communication through
maybe signing up for a course ora workshop or reading a book
and then sitting down topractice what is explained in
the book, it isn't usually toolong before we discover that
(04:17):
we've actually been havinganimal communication experiences
for months, maybe for years.
We just didn't know what washappening.
We didn't know there was a namefor what was happening.
We didn't have an awarenessthat animal communication was
happening to us, through us,with us.
So we might label itcoincidence or getting lucky or
(04:44):
something that's just mysteriousor inexplicable.
We might be tempted to beskeptical about it.
But once we actually make thatheart commitment to learn a
little bit more about animalcommunication, to find out how
it works, to give ourselves someexposure to and a chance to
give it a try.
Typically, we discover thatanimal communication has been
(05:06):
happening and happening andhappening, and that gives us a
lovely little initial burst ofconfidence.
So we are rewinding all the wayback to when I enrolled in my
very first course as a studentto learn with the teacher I'd
chosen and here I am in thiscourse and it's a virtual,
self-paced course, so I'm notthere with a group of students
(05:29):
live.
And one of the reasons I chosea virtual course is because I
was so afraid I was going to bethe only one in the class that
wouldn't get anything, thatwouldn't have anything to report
when it came time to share theresults of our very first
communication, and so I thought,well, I'll just do it on my own
, self-paced, and that way atleast I won't have to share with
(05:49):
anyone else that I didn't getanything.
So in this video course theteacher is explaining about the
animal that we were going totalk with, and I just kind of
made the assumption.
I just thought it would be adog or a cat, because those are
most of the stories that youread, it seems like most of the
communicators that I had met upuntil that point, those were the
(06:11):
species that they were mostinterested in communicating with
, as well as the species thatwere most often available in
terms of other pet parents beingwilling to share their animals
for the purposes of practice,and so I just assumed it would
be a dog or a cat.
So, as I'm getting quiet and I'mtuning in, I start to see these
inner visual flashes of yellowskin, and there wasn't any hair
(06:38):
on this skin, and so I'm justbecause I'm coming in with this
preconceived idea that it mustbe a dog or a cat, I'm thinking,
well, what kind of a dog or acat doesn't have any hair and
has yellowish skin?
And so I'm thinking, well,maybe it's a Chinese hairless
dog, or maybe it's a sphinx.
I'm really trying to shoehornwhat I'm seeing into my
(07:00):
assumption that we were going tostart off with a dog or a cat,
but I could not ignore theseflashes of yellow skin and the
fact that, size-wise, this feltlike a very small animal and a
quick animal, and an animal thatjust had some behavior quirks
that didn't fit in with dog orcat from what I knew.
(07:21):
Well, come to find out I hadbeen talking with a yellow
iguana.
I can't tell you how excited Iwas, first of all, that I got
anything.
Second of all, that I quote,unquote got it right, and that's
a whole other topic we can talkabout more as well as we go
along in future episodes, thiskind of obsession that we have
(07:42):
with right or wrong.
That really relates back to notjust the left brain mind
function but also the way thatwe've been brought up and
educated and trained in ourworkplace training in many cases
.
We'll talk a little bit moreabout that as well, but for the
purposes of this initialcommunication, I was just so
(08:04):
delighted and I was walking onair and, yes, we did talk with
many cats and dogs and horsesand some birds, but I will never
forget the beautiful yellowiguana who was my true course
leader, my welcome committee andmy introduction to animal
(08:26):
communication.
Now the next story I want toshare with you was one of the
first sessions I've ever done asa professional communicator
where I was going to beintroduced to a future career
path that I'm now very muchenjoying helping pets and their
(08:47):
parents reunite after the pethas passed away.
It's what we call petreincarnation, and there's
plenty to share on that topicand I cannot wait to share with
you.
Of course, I've facilitatedhundreds upon hundreds, upon
hundreds of these sessions now.
Each one is a joy, but I don'talways remember the particulars
of every session.
(09:07):
Sometimes that's by design,it's protective, so that I come
in with a clean slate, a clean,intuitive slate, for each new
communication with an animalI've talked with before.
So I don't start to come inwith assumptions or preconceived
ideas, just like we saw in theyellow iguana story.
I don't come in with all thatback history, but rather I can
(09:30):
meet this animal where they are,right, here, right now, with a
fresh, clean, open mind andheart.
However, sometimes I really doremember details about certain
communications very clearly.
Often those communications arereal teaching communications for
me as a communicator, somethingthat I need to learn, that I'm
(09:55):
open to learning in an animalwho is willing and often quite
eager to teach me.
And often those animals do endup joining my light team as well
, and Chief the German Shepherdis one such animal.
Chief is in spirit and when hismom, betty, came to me she had
(10:15):
been missing him.
He had crossed a few monthsearlier and she had really been
missing him and she wanted toreconnect and she was also
really wanting another dog.
But Chief had come to her, inthe way of so many of her
previous dogs, as a puppy.
And if you've ever cared for apuppy of any dog breed, and
(10:36):
especially a very high energyworking dog breed like a German
Shepherd, you know they're a lotof work.
They can be.
All puppies are a lot of work.
All baby animals are a lot ofwork, all baby humans are a lot
of work, but German Shepherdpuppies can be a lot, a lot of
work.
So that's our scale right A lotof work versus a lot, a lot of
work versus a lot, a lot, a lotof work, a lot, a lot, a lot of
(11:02):
work.
But she was just kind of in anage and a life stage in her life
where she just didn't feel likeshe was really quite up to that
level of challenge and so shewas wondering if I could help
guide her, maybe if she couldhear from Chief about any
insights that he had to help her, any tips maybe or guidance for
choosing her next companion dog.
Well, when I begin acommunication session, after I
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tune in with the human's energyand introduce myself to the
animal I'll be speaking with.
The first thing I always liketo do is just get a sense of who
is this animal.
I'm not interacting with themin terms of whatever problem
that their pet parent may beaware of or any kind of concern
or question.
I just want to get to know.
Them started barking andjumping and wagging his tail and
(11:49):
gyrating his body and I lookedat him and I said what are you
doing?
(12:09):
And he said to me, how manylanguages do you speak?
And I said, well, technicallyone.
I mean well, two animalcommunication in English.
And he said well, I'm teachingyou German, shepherd.
And he started barking againand he started gyrating his body
and he started wagging his tailand it was the most magical
(12:34):
experience and his mom, betty,was so and we still keep in
touch today.
His mom was so delighted whenshe heard what Chief was doing
and she said, oh yes, he's anatural leader and a natural
teacher and it was just sojoyful and fun to experience his
personality this way.
Chief also initiated me into thejoys of facilitating a pet
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reincarnation, and that'sanother story for a different
time, but we'll do a futureepisode on pet reincarnation and
pet reincarnation stories.
But he has joined my light teamand he has been with me for so
many communications.
And when I talk about an animaljoining my light team, what I
mean is this is an animal who'son call for me, especially if I
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run into any kind ofcommunication barriers or maybe
I'm just not understanding, I'mnot easily translating what the
animal is trying to share withme.
Then I can call on Chief, hecan come in, he can support me.
If I encounter an animal who isa little bit less verbal or not
willing or not feeling safe totalk with a human, chief can
(13:46):
come in and support me.
And that is another fun topic,by the way.
If you have questions, if youhave specific interests along
the lines of animalcommunication, please don't
hesitate to let me know and Ican do my best to add that to
the lineup for a future episode.
Now my next story.
It's quite different and reallyshowcases the creativity and,
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on that note, sometimes theerrors in translation that
happen between human animals andnon-human animals.
This animal also joined mylight team he's in spirit now,
but he wasn't at the time thatthis communication took place
and his name is Ori.
Ori was a Chiweenie, which is across between a dachshund and a
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chihuahua.
I have lived with dachshundsmost of my life, so I'm quite
familiar with the quirks of thatbreed.
But Ori had developed somediabetes issues and needed to
have regular injections, andOri's mom, kristen, was often at
work when he needed his middayinjection, and so other people
(15:00):
would come over to give Ori hisinjections while she was at work
.
Her sister would sometimes comeover, sometimes she would have
a neighbor come over andoccasionally, when Ori needed
some veterinary care, theveterinarian or the vet techs
would give Ori his injections.
And Ori was always a perfectangel.
(15:21):
When any of these other peoplewere giving him his insulin
injections, he stood still, hedidn't move, he didn't wag his
tail, he didn't try to lick theinjection site or check out the
needle, he was just the modelpatient.
But the moment that his momKristen tried to give him his
(15:44):
injections, he would go nuts andhe would wobble and he would
bobble and he would bark and hewould wag his tail and he would
wriggle his cute little sausagebody and she was at her wit's
end.
And she finally came to me andshe said I need help because I
(16:04):
can't get the injection in, andif I can't get the medicine into
Ori, he's not going to livevery long.
And I am really worried and Ijust don't understand why he is
such a perfect model patient foreveryone else and he's horrible
with me.
(16:24):
And so when I tuned in with Ori,the very first thing that I
received was that Ori's his truesize, was much larger than his
physical size.
He definitely was not awarethat he was technically such a
small breed dog.
And the second thing that camethrough was that Ori was very
aware of his mom's emotions.
(16:46):
Most of our companion animals,to be quite honest, are often
more aware of our emotions thanwe are, and this was no
exception with Ori and Kristen.
The way that Kristen wasfeeling when she would approach
Ori to give him his injections,she was often very anxious.
She was often feeling somewhatsad that he had to go through
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this twice a day.
She was often feeling anxiousabout whether the medicine would
help him enough, worried thatshe would hurt him when she
tried to do the subcutaneous theunder the skin injection.
And Ori was picking up on all ofthis, and so when I asked him
why he would wriggle and wiggleand wag and bark, I got
(17:35):
something back that I neverwould have.
Never.
You just can't make this stuffup.
He said I'm trying to make itfun for my mom.
She's so upset when she comesto do this and I just want to
make it fun for her.
And this is one of thebeautiful examples of how we can
so wildly misinterpret ouranimals' behavior, thinking, oh,
(17:59):
they're misbehaving or we'rehurting them, or they don't want
this or something else.
And really Ori was just beinghis beautiful, empathic, loving
self.
He was just trying to makesomething that he perceived was
very upsetting to his mom to tryto make it into a game.
(18:20):
And luckily animalcommunication gave me the
opportunity to clear up theconfusion, so I could let Ori
know that, as a matter of fact,what would calm his mom the most
, what would make her thehappiest, was if he would just
stand perfectly still for asplit second so she could get
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his medicine into him, and wewere able to resolve the problem
very quickly.
So that has always remained inmy memory as it's just one of my
favorite memories of acommunication that just shows
the beautiful hearts that ouranimals have for us and the
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beautiful awareness that theyhave, especially for those of us
sometimes when we think I don'tknow if my pet understands
what's going on and it's likethey do.
But they don't.
But they do.
Worry said it wasn't painfulfor him, it didn't bother him.
What bothered him was his momseemed upset and he was trying
(19:24):
to help her.
How beautiful.
Here is another story that Iabsolutely love.
This was from a later classthat I enrolled in to kind of
get some continuing education.
I'm always enrolling in classesto get continuing education.
It's hard for me to pass up agood class on animal
communication, but thisparticular class it was a little
(19:47):
bit more on what we would callthe softer side, more of the
emotional side, the shamanicside, which was more of the
spirit, soul aspect of animalcommunication.
And when our teacher opened upour class, our very first class,
she told a story about asession she had done for a pet
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parent who had a yellow Labrador.
And I often share this storywith my incoming animal
communication students for myanimal communication adventure
programs because it so clearlyillustrates how animals have to
find a way to share informationwith us that will in some sense
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fit in with our worldview, whatwe're familiar with or what will
make sense to us.
One question I love to askanimals that is also really
reassuring for pet parents tomake sure they understand that I
am talking with their animaland not some different animal is
what is your favorite toy, orwhat are some of your favorite
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toys or activities?
Well, or what are some of yourfavorite toys or activities?
Well, this teacher of mine.
She said she was talking withthis yellow Labrador and she
asked what is your favorite toy?
And the dog answered a yellowbird.
Well, the pet parent washorrified and she absolutely
insisted.
She said I do not give myLabrador retriever yellow birds
(21:15):
to play with.
Well, it comes to find out.
And it took this pet parent alittle while to really kind of
think about it and consider whaton earth could he have meant?
What I love about this story isthat the pet parent didn't just
throw it out and say well, thatdoesn't make any sense, you're
not talking to my animal.
That would be one of thoseareas where it would be so easy
(21:35):
to drop into skepticism or doubt.
Then one day she was throwingthe Labrador's favorite toy, a
yellow tennis ball, through theair for him to go run and catch
it, and all of a sudden it hither oh, my goodness, this is the
yellow bird.
Of course it is.
I mean our animals.
They get to know our language.
(21:56):
They get to know the words thatwe use that reference certain
things.
The most obvious example ofthis is their name.
But in her Labrador's world,this small yellow object that
was quick and flew through theair, what else could it be but a
yellow bird?
So that's another wonderfulexample of animal communication
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just can open us up to so manynew ways of seeing and
interacting with our world.
So I hope you have enjoyed thesefour stories.
I have many, many, many, manymore like them.
So if you would like to hearmore stories from my animal
(22:39):
communication files, please dolet me know and I'd be delighted
to share them.
If you'd like to experienceyour own story, especially if
you've never experienced animalcommunication before, let me be
the first to encourage you.
Your animal has a story to share.
Be the first to encourage you.
(23:01):
Your animal has a story toshare.
Your animal has so manydelights and wonders that they
cannot wait to share with you.
And in fact, animalcommunication is best
experienced through our owncompanion animal's eyes, and
it's something that has trulybeen a teaching tool for me in
my life, in my soul, growth.
It's why I call animalcommunication hands down the
(23:24):
best self-help, the bestself-development, the best
self-evolution program I haveever found, because my
motivation for tuning in, foropening up, for being open to
the opportunity to receivemessages from my animal and to
send messages to my animal, andthe opportunity to practice and
(23:48):
learn this skill has been adeepening of the unconditional
love that we share, and there isno stronger motivation in life
than unconditional love.
So thank you for tuning in forthis episode.
Please drop me a note, let meknow which story was your
(24:08):
favorite and if you have a storyof your own to share, I'd love
to hear it.
Okay, all my love.
Bye for now.
Hi Shannon here, animal intuitive and sensitive
and Reiki master practitionerand animal communication teacher
and your friendly neighborhoodhostess.
This channel, this show, isreally about taking the woo out
of an ability, a gift and askill that every human animal
(00:35):
also has access to.
Yes, you heard me right.
It means that, whether youthink you're intuitive or not,
whether you've ever had a vibeor an aha moment or an insight
or a deep knowing in your lifethat you're aware of, you too
come pre-equipped with all ofthe internal wiring what I call
(00:58):
your intuitive anatomy that youwill ever need to communicate
across species boundaries.
You also come equipped withsoftware, if you will, that has
been pre-installed in your humanoperating system to allow you
to make these interspeciesconnections.
(01:18):
There is so much to explore andI cannot wait to share it with
you.
Much to explore and I cannotwait to share it with you.
But before we get too terriblyfar along in our exploration, I
wanted to stop and share somedeeply personal stories that I
have been a part of.
I have experienced personally,stories from my professional
(01:42):
animal communication practice,stories from my student days and
, by the way, I am always astudent.
Saying that I am a teacher doesnot in any way limit or cancel
out the fact that I will alwaysview myself as a student and the
animals are my primary teachers.
That is one of the wonderfulgifts, one of the many wonderful
(02:04):
gifts of animal communicationis that it invites us to bring
our humility, our beginner'smind and our learning hearts,
our eager learning hearts, alongfor the journey.
And so some of these storiesare deeply personal in that
they're stories that relate tomy relationships with my own
personal pets, my companionanimals.
(02:27):
And, by the way, when I say pet, this is something we'll talk
about more in a future episode.
But when I say pet, what Ireally mean is partner, empathic
friend and teacher.
Why do I say that?
Because when I ask the animals,what does the word pet mean to
them?
Where did we get theinspiration to use the word pet?
This is what they told me itstands for.
So bookmark that thought.
(02:48):
We'll be back to explore thatmore in a future episode, but
for now I just want you to knowthat these are just a handful, a
selection of my many favoritestories of how animal
communication can draw humananimals and non-human animals
living in family or relationshipsituations closer together.
(03:09):
These are stories of how animalcommunication can break through
communication barriers topromote understanding and
empathy and action.
They are stories of how animalcommunication can facilitate
reconnection as well as initialconnection.
They're stories of wonder andmiracles, and so, with that
(03:32):
being said, let's dive in now.
The first story I want to sharewith you is actually my first
formal experience of animalcommunication, and I have been
having informal experiencescertainly for many, many years.
In most cases, as soon as a newhuman animal, such as you or me
(03:56):
, decides to formally pursue acourse of study, a practicum, in
some way solidify an interestin animal communication through
maybe signing up for a course ora workshop or reading a book
and then sitting down topractice what is explained in
the book, it isn't usually toolong before we discover that
(04:17):
we've actually been havinganimal communication experiences
for months, maybe for years.
We just didn't know what washappening.
We didn't know there was a namefor what was happening.
We didn't have an awarenessthat animal communication was
happening to us, through us,with us.
So we might label itcoincidence or getting lucky or
(04:44):
something that's just mysteriousor inexplicable.
We might be tempted to beskeptical about it.
But once we actually make thatheart commitment to learn a
little bit more about animalcommunication, to find out how
it works, to give ourselves someexposure to and a chance to
give it a try.
Typically, we discover thatanimal communication has been
(05:06):
happening and happening andhappening, and that gives us a
lovely little initial burst ofconfidence.
So we are rewinding all the wayback to when I enrolled in my
very first course as a studentto learn with the teacher I'd
chosen and here I am in thiscourse and it's a virtual,
self-paced course, so I'm notthere with a group of students
(05:29):
live.
And one of the reasons I chosea virtual course is because I
was so afraid I was going to bethe only one in the class that
wouldn't get anything, thatwouldn't have anything to report
when it came time to share theresults of our very first
communication, and so I thought,well, I'll just do it on my own
, self-paced, and that way atleast I won't have to share with
(05:49):
anyone else that I didn't getanything.
So in this video course theteacher is explaining about the
animal that we were going totalk with, and I just kind of
made the assumption.
I just thought it would be adog or a cat, because those are
most of the stories that youread, it seems like most of the
communicators that I had met upuntil that point, those were the
(06:11):
species that they were mostinterested in communicating with
, as well as the species thatwere most often available in
terms of other pet parents beingwilling to share their animals
for the purposes of practice,and so I just assumed it would
be a dog or a cat.
So, as I'm getting quiet and I'mtuning in, I start to see these
inner visual flashes of yellowskin, and there wasn't any hair
(06:38):
on this skin, and so I'm justbecause I'm coming in with this
preconceived idea that it mustbe a dog or a cat, I'm thinking,
well, what kind of a dog or acat doesn't have any hair and
has yellowish skin?
And so I'm thinking, well,maybe it's a Chinese hairless
dog, or maybe it's a sphinx.
I'm really trying to shoehornwhat I'm seeing into my
(07:00):
assumption that we were going tostart off with a dog or a cat,
but I could not ignore theseflashes of yellow skin and the
fact that, size-wise, this feltlike a very small animal and a
quick animal, and an animal thatjust had some behavior quirks
that didn't fit in with dog orcat from what I knew.
(07:21):
Well, come to find out I hadbeen talking with a yellow
iguana.
I can't tell you how excited Iwas, first of all, that I got
anything.
Second of all, that I quote,unquote got it right, and that's
a whole other topic we can talkabout more as well as we go
along in future episodes, thiskind of obsession that we have
(07:42):
with right or wrong.
That really relates back to notjust the left brain mind
function but also the way thatwe've been brought up and
educated and trained in ourworkplace training in many cases
.
We'll talk a little bit moreabout that as well, but for the
purposes of this initialcommunication, I was just so
(08:04):
delighted and I was walking onair and, yes, we did talk with
many cats and dogs and horsesand some birds, but I will never
forget the beautiful yellowiguana who was my true course
leader, my welcome committee andmy introduction to animal
(08:26):
communication.
Now the next story I want toshare with you was one of the
first sessions I've ever done asa professional communicator
where I was going to beintroduced to a future career
path that I'm now very muchenjoying helping pets and their
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parents reunite after the pethas passed away.
It's what we call petreincarnation, and there's
plenty to share on that topicand I cannot wait to share with
you.
Of course, I've facilitatedhundreds upon hundreds, upon
hundreds of these sessions now.
Each one is a joy, but I don'talways remember the particulars
of every session.
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Sometimes that's by design,it's protective, so that I come
in with a clean slate, a clean,intuitive slate, for each new
communication with an animalI've talked with before.
So I don't start to come inwith assumptions or preconceived
ideas, just like we saw in theyellow iguana story.
I don't come in with all thatback history, but rather I can
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meet this animal where they are,right, here, right now, with a
fresh, clean, open mind andheart.
However, sometimes I really doremember details about certain
communications very clearly.
Often those communications arereal teaching communications for
me as a communicator, somethingthat I need to learn, that I'm
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open to learning in an animalwho is willing and often quite
eager to teach me.
And often those animals do endup joining my light team as well
, and Chief the German Shepherdis one such animal.
Chief is in spirit and when hismom, betty, came to me she had
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been missing him.
He had crossed a few monthsearlier and she had really been
missing him and she wanted toreconnect and she was also
really wanting another dog.
But Chief had come to her, inthe way of so many of her
previous dogs, as a puppy.
And if you've ever cared for apuppy of any dog breed, and
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especially a very high energyworking dog breed like a German
Shepherd, you know they're a lotof work.
They can be.
All puppies are a lot of work.
All baby animals are a lot ofwork, all baby humans are a lot
of work, but German Shepherdpuppies can be a lot, a lot of
work.
So that's our scale right A lotof work versus a lot, a lot of
work versus a lot, a lot, a lotof work, a lot, a lot, a lot of
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work.
But she was just kind of in anage and a life stage in her life
where she just didn't feel likeshe was really quite up to that
level of challenge and so shewas wondering if I could help
guide her, maybe if she couldhear from Chief about any
insights that he had to help her, any tips maybe or guidance for
choosing her next companion dog.
Well, when I begin acommunication session, after I
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tune in with the human's energyand introduce myself to the
animal I'll be speaking with.
The first thing I always liketo do is just get a sense of who
is this animal.
I'm not interacting with themin terms of whatever problem
that their pet parent may beaware of or any kind of concern
or question.
I just want to get to know.
Them started barking andjumping and wagging his tail and
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gyrating his body and I lookedat him and I said what are you
doing?
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And he said to me, how manylanguages do you speak?
And I said, well, technicallyone.
I mean well, two animalcommunication in English.
And he said well, I'm teachingyou German, shepherd.
And he started barking againand he started gyrating his body
and he started wagging his tailand it was the most magical
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experience and his mom, betty,was so and we still keep in
touch today.
His mom was so delighted whenshe heard what Chief was doing
and she said, oh yes, he's anatural leader and a natural
teacher and it was just sojoyful and fun to experience his
personality this way.
Chief also initiated me into thejoys of facilitating a pet
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reincarnation, and that'sanother story for a different
time, but we'll do a futureepisode on pet reincarnation and
pet reincarnation stories.
But he has joined my light teamand he has been with me for so
many communications.
And when I talk about an animaljoining my light team, what I
mean is this is an animal who'son call for me, especially if I
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run into any kind ofcommunication barriers or maybe
I'm just not understanding, I'mnot easily translating what the
animal is trying to share withme.
Then I can call on Chief, hecan come in, he can support me.
If I encounter an animal who isa little bit less verbal or not
willing or not feeling safe totalk with a human, chief can
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come in and support me.
And that is another fun topic,by the way.
If you have questions, if youhave specific interests along
the lines of animalcommunication, please don't
hesitate to let me know and Ican do my best to add that to
the lineup for a future episode.
Now my next story.
It's quite different and reallyshowcases the creativity and,
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on that note, sometimes theerrors in translation that
happen between human animals andnon-human animals.
This animal also joined mylight team he's in spirit now,
but he wasn't at the time thatthis communication took place
and his name is Ori.
Ori was a Chiweenie, which is across between a dachshund and a
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chihuahua.
I have lived with dachshundsmost of my life, so I'm quite
familiar with the quirks of thatbreed.
But Ori had developed somediabetes issues and needed to
have regular injections, andOri's mom, kristen, was often at
work when he needed his middayinjection, and so other people
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would come over to give Ori hisinjections while she was at work
.
Her sister would sometimes comeover, sometimes she would have
a neighbor come over andoccasionally, when Ori needed
some veterinary care, theveterinarian or the vet techs
would give Ori his injections.
And Ori was always a perfectangel.
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When any of these other peoplewere giving him his insulin
injections, he stood still, hedidn't move, he didn't wag his
tail, he didn't try to lick theinjection site or check out the
needle, he was just the modelpatient.
But the moment that his momKristen tried to give him his
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injections, he would go nuts andhe would wobble and he would
bobble and he would bark and hewould wag his tail and he would
wriggle his cute little sausagebody and she was at her wit's
end.
And she finally came to me andshe said I need help because I
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can't get the injection in, andif I can't get the medicine into
Ori, he's not going to livevery long.
And I am really worried and Ijust don't understand why he is
such a perfect model patient foreveryone else and he's horrible
with me.
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And so when I tuned in with Ori,the very first thing that I
received was that Ori's his truesize, was much larger than his
physical size.
He definitely was not awarethat he was technically such a
small breed dog.
And the second thing that camethrough was that Ori was very
aware of his mom's emotions.
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Most of our companion animals,to be quite honest, are often
more aware of our emotions thanwe are, and this was no
exception with Ori and Kristen.
The way that Kristen wasfeeling when she would approach
Ori to give him his injections,she was often very anxious.
She was often feeling somewhatsad that he had to go through
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this twice a day.
She was often feeling anxiousabout whether the medicine would
help him enough, worried thatshe would hurt him when she
tried to do the subcutaneous theunder the skin injection.
And Ori was picking up on all ofthis, and so when I asked him
why he would wriggle and wiggleand wag and bark, I got
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something back that I neverwould have.
Never.
You just can't make this stuffup.
He said I'm trying to make itfun for my mom.
She's so upset when she comesto do this and I just want to
make it fun for her.
And this is one of thebeautiful examples of how we can
so wildly misinterpret ouranimals' behavior, thinking, oh,
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they're misbehaving or we'rehurting them, or they don't want
this or something else.
And really Ori was just beinghis beautiful, empathic, loving
self.
He was just trying to makesomething that he perceived was
very upsetting to his mom to tryto make it into a game.
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And luckily animalcommunication gave me the
opportunity to clear up theconfusion, so I could let Ori
know that, as a matter of fact,what would calm his mom the most
, what would make her thehappiest, was if he would just
stand perfectly still for asplit second so she could get
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his medicine into him, and wewere able to resolve the problem
very quickly.
So that has always remained inmy memory as it's just one of my
favorite memories of acommunication that just shows
the beautiful hearts that ouranimals have for us and the
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beautiful awareness that theyhave, especially for those of us
sometimes when we think I don'tknow if my pet understands
what's going on and it's likethey do.
But they don't.
But they do.
Worry said it wasn't painfulfor him, it didn't bother him.
What bothered him was his momseemed upset and he was trying
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to help her.
How beautiful.
Here is another story that Iabsolutely love.
This was from a later classthat I enrolled in to kind of
get some continuing education.
I'm always enrolling in classesto get continuing education.
It's hard for me to pass up agood class on animal
communication, but thisparticular class it was a little
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bit more on what we would callthe softer side, more of the
emotional side, the shamanicside, which was more of the
spirit, soul aspect of animalcommunication.
And when our teacher opened upour class, our very first class,
she told a story about asession she had done for a pet
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parent who had a yellow Labrador.
And I often share this storywith my incoming animal
communication students for myanimal communication adventure
programs because it so clearlyillustrates how animals have to
find a way to share informationwith us that will in some sense
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fit in with our worldview, whatwe're familiar with or what will
make sense to us.
One question I love to askanimals that is also really
reassuring for pet parents tomake sure they understand that I
am talking with their animaland not some different animal is
what is your favorite toy, orwhat are some of your favorite
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toys or activities?
Well, or what are some of yourfavorite toys or activities?
Well, this teacher of mine.
She said she was talking withthis yellow Labrador and she
asked what is your favorite toy?
And the dog answered a yellowbird.
Well, the pet parent washorrified and she absolutely
insisted.
She said I do not give myLabrador retriever yellow birds
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to play with.
Well, it comes to find out.
And it took this pet parent alittle while to really kind of
think about it and consider whaton earth could he have meant?
What I love about this story isthat the pet parent didn't just
throw it out and say well, thatdoesn't make any sense, you're
not talking to my animal.
That would be one of thoseareas where it would be so easy
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to drop into skepticism or doubt.
Then one day she was throwingthe Labrador's favorite toy, a
yellow tennis ball, through theair for him to go run and catch
it, and all of a sudden it hither oh, my goodness, this is the
yellow bird.
Of course it is.
I mean our animals.
They get to know our language.
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They get to know the words thatwe use that reference certain
things.
The most obvious example ofthis is their name.
But in her Labrador's world,this small yellow object that
was quick and flew through theair, what else could it be but a
yellow bird?
So that's another wonderfulexample of animal communication
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just can open us up to so manynew ways of seeing and
interacting with our world.
So I hope you have enjoyed thesefour stories.
I have many, many, many, manymore like them.
So if you would like to hearmore stories from my animal
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communication files, please dolet me know and I'd be delighted
to share them.
If you'd like to experienceyour own story, especially if
you've never experienced animalcommunication before, let me be
the first to encourage you.
Your animal has a story to share.
Be the first to encourage you.
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Your animal has a story toshare.
Your animal has so manydelights and wonders that they
cannot wait to share with you.
And in fact, animalcommunication is best
experienced through our owncompanion animal's eyes, and
it's something that has trulybeen a teaching tool for me in
my life, in my soul, growth.
It's why I call animalcommunication hands down the
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best self-help, the bestself-development, the best
self-evolution program I haveever found, because my
motivation for tuning in, foropening up, for being open to
the opportunity to receivemessages from my animal and to
send messages to my animal, andthe opportunity to practice and
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learn this skill has been adeepening of the unconditional
love that we share, and there isno stronger motivation in life
than unconditional love.
So thank you for tuning in forthis episode.
Please drop me a note, let meknow which story was your
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favorite and if you have a storyof your own to share, I'd love
to hear it.
Okay, all my love.
Bye for now.
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