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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hi Shannon here and I want to welcome you to let's
Talk to Animals, the podcast allspecies can enjoy together.
Yes, we are talking aboutinterspecies communication,
animal communication.
I am an animal sensitive andintuitive, a reiki master
practitioner for pets and theirpeople and an animal
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communication teacher.
You'll hear more about that ina little bit because we are
actually launching animalcommunication adventure right
now, which is my signaturestudent program.
I'd love to share more aboutthat with you if you're
interested.
For today, on a related note, Iwant to talk to you about what
it takes to learn to communicatewith animals, whether you have
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a desire to connect andcommunicate and feel more in
tune with your own interspeciesfamily.
Maybe you have dogs or cats orbirds or turtles or horses or
all kinds of wonderfulinterspecies family members and
you want to develop a deeperbond.
Maybe you also have a desire tocommunicate with wild animals.
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There are so many applicationsand I feel like our left brain
research arm is just nowstarting to catch up with that.
It's like, hmm, the scientificprinciple of Occam's razor,
which is one of the favoritethings I love to share with my
students, which says all elsebeing equal, the simplest
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explanation tends to be theright one.
I feel like modern left-brainWestern science is just starting
to kind of catch on that.
The simpler explanation is notthat we homo sapiens are the
only animals on this planet thathave not been given the wiring
to communicate intuitively ortelepathically, if you will.
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Rather, the simpler explanationis that we too possess this
wiring, we've always had it.
It comes in pre-installed whatI call our intuitive operating
system.
But we are the only speciesthat does not emphasize it, does
not notice it, does not teachour young how to use it, does
not practice using it on a dailybasis.
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And so when we do get vibes orhunches or intuitive hits or
information that doesn't seem tocome in through the normal,
customary or expected channels,we do doubt it.
We do worry that we're goingcrazy or making things up, and
that is normal and natural whenwe're learning a new skill and
we really want to do it right.
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So in this episode I want totalk about what it really takes
to learn animal communication.
There are so many applications,as I mentioned, for wild
animals learning to share ourspaces with them, with the birds
and the feral cat colonies andthe squirrels and the insects.
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I love what the Dalai Lama sayswhen he's asked what rocks his
piece and I'm paraphrasing, ofcourse but he says it's the
mosquitoes and the bedbugsreally that get to him.
And we can all relate.
But there are ways to shifteven that energy in a way that
feels so much more positivebecause, of course, the more
elevated perspective we canbring to the table with
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co-sharing our space, the betterwe're going to feel and the
better we're going to functionand the more harmoniously our
lives will flow and the betterwe're going to feel about who we
are and how we're showing up inthis shared world that we live
in.
And, of course, if you havemultiple pets in your
interspecies family, they don'talways seem to get along right.
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Disagreements can happenregardless of species.
Animal communication is a greatway to kind of weather those
family storms.
There are so many differentways to use it.
Storms there are so manydifferent ways to use it, and
what I find is that what stopsmost of us at the door, and I
could share this from personalexperience.
I'm not trying to suggest thatthis is your experience.
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I'm certainly only sharing frommy own personal experience and
also what I've seen in mystudents and my pet parent
clients, those that areinterested in learning animal
communication and those thatmaybe are not quite so
interested or or they're justnot so open to it, or they're
afraid of it, or they just thinkthat they can't do it for some
reason.
I can certainly relate.
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For many, many, many years Ihired animal communicators.
Why?
Because I thought this was askill kind of like and I've
shared this before on thepodcast but kind of like getting
one of those gold buzzeraward-winning voices.
You just are born with it.
You either get it or you don't.
And I kind of thought that,being intuitive, and especially
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being an intuitive whocommunicates across species
boundaries, I thought that wassomething you were just born
with.
And I didn't.
I was pretty sure I didn't getit.
Nobody had.
If I had gotten it, excuse meif I had gotten in.
Nobody gave me the memo.
It got misfiled or sent to theround file or something I just
so.
I hired animal communicators.
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That was as close as I couldget and I did.
And I do feel very strongly thatinterspecies communication is
always happening and I didn'twant to miss anything.
I didn't want to.
I love my animal family.
I'll move heaven and earth forthem and I didn't want to miss
messages, I didn't want to misssignals.
I didn't want them to beunhappy with what I was
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providing for them.
I was very aware of being thehead honcho in our little family
, the one that, for better orworse, calls all the shots, and
I didn't want them to be livingin unhappiness with their food,
with their habitat, with theirsiblings, with me.
I didn't want them to be inpain or discomfort and not be
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able to communicate that to me.
I didn't want them to bemissing out on enrichment that
they craved and needed Evenenrichment.
They were biologically wired tocrave and need, and so I hired
animal communicators because Iwanted to hear, and that is
probably the first criteria thatwe bring to the table.
I created a little list, alittle guide for myself, so I
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didn't miss anything that feelsreally important.
Sometimes you don't know what'sgoing to come out of your mouth
when you press record and juststart talking, and I didn't want
to miss anything.
This actually isn't on the list, but it's actually really.
The first criteria is that youwant to hear, you want to know.
It takes a certain level ofbrave.
It can be easier not to hear,not to know and especially and
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I'll get into this a little bitlater but especially for those
of us who come into being a petguardian or pet parent or pet
carer or a foster pet parent ora rescue volunteer and we are
carrying with us our own innerwounds, and this is pretty
normal.
I don't think anybody's underany impressions at least no one
who's listening to a podcastcalled let's Talk to Animals.
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I don't think we're under anygreat delusion that there are
those of us out there who havesomehow escaped all of that and
do not have old traumas or oldscars or old wounds.
And so sometimes we can comeinto being a pet carer and we
feel inadequate or anxious orself-distrusting in certain
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areas.
And so just the whole conceptof guardianship of any being,
human or non-human well, it canbring those things up, it can
activate those things.
And for those humans whom I'vemet who are rather or really
resistant to even the wholeconcept of interspecies
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communication a lot of timesthere is some of that going on
they don't want to hear, becausethey have already overheard,
about their own perceiveddeficiencies or flaws, either
from their parents or fromcolleagues, or from a partner or
former partner or whomever itmay be, and so they just don't
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need that bruise to get pushedanymore, and that is okay.
We all evolve at our own pace.
But if you're still listening,I am going to make the
assumption which is notsomething I'm fond of, but I'm
going to make just a workingassumption that you're willing
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and able to see that, if that'spresent for you, and to work
through it.
This is one of the reasons, oneof the big reasons why I call
animal communication one of thehands down best self evolution,
self development programs I haveever found, because we can only
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hear another being to theextent that we can hear at all,
and when we're blocked fromhearing, when we're blocked from
communicating, when we'reblocked from connecting, it
always points back to some kindof inner work, some kind of
inner healing or overcoming, ifyou will, that is yet ahead of
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us on our own self-evolutionpath.
And if we want to hear theanimals more clearly, if we want
to build deeper bonds withanyone, of any species, we must
break down those barriers.
You can think of it likeemotional adhesions, like I've
been studying fascia recentlyand fascia release for some old
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injuries that I've struggledwith most of my life, especially
in my back and in my left foot.
I won't go into the laundrylist.
You reach a certain decade inyour life and you do have a list
, a working list.
Most of us and so I look atthis the same way we've got to
kind of press into thoseadhesions, those emotional
adhesions, those memories, thosestored, stuck emotions, and it
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takes a certain degree of braveand tolerance and readiness to
do that.
The more we do that, however,the carrot at the end of the
stick is, the more we do that,the more clearly we can hear the
animals and the more differenttopics of conversation get added
to our personal conversationaltable.
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And I'll give you an example ofthis, because this can be maybe
a little bit hard to wrap yourhead around sometimes.
For me, coming from a backgroundof developing anorexia between
ages 10 and 11 and strugglingthrough that for a good 20 years
before I achieved even any kindof real baseline of healing,
and then founding and running acharity focused on eating
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disorders, mentoring for thenext decade, let's just say I'm
steeped in eating issues.
I'm very healthy today.
I've been healthy for over adecade, but I have this in my
background, so I have a lot ofadhesions in these areas and so
it's not surprising to me when Ihave this in my background.
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So I have a lot of adhesions inthese areas and so it's not
surprising to me when I havemore challenges talking with
animals about food.
Many of my students have notrouble at all and today I've
worked through a lot of that.
I'm able to have thoseconversations, but when I first
started I really struggled.
When I first started I reallystruggled and I'm I'm really
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grateful to animal communicationfor giving me that deeper level
of healing, that brave, that Iwasn't finding elsewhere in my
life.
So that's just one example thatyou can think about.
But it really does require thiswillingness to hear, willingness
.
I wake up every morningpersonally and I ask my light
team please, I want to see, Iwant to hear willingness.
I wake up every morningpersonally and I ask my light
team please, I want to see, Iwant to hear, I want to smell, I
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want to taste, I want to sense,I want to feel, I want to know,
just setting my tone for theday, understanding that later on
in the day, when opportunitiescome to work through some
adhesions that may be preventingme from any of those things, I
might not immediately rememberthat I prayed that prayer and
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might feel a little grumpy.
So we just have to understandthat this is a journey.
That's why I call my programAnimal Communication Adventure.
We don't necessarily know what'sgoing to come up communication
adventure.
We don't necessarily knowwhat's going to come up, and so
great love produces birth, greatcourage, and great courage can
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produce amazing adventures andincredible results, which is
what we aim for when we embarkon our animal communication
adventure together.
Embark on our animalcommunication adventure together
.
So the next step really is thatlevel of brave we really need
to, as animal communicationaspirants, as students, to bring
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to the table.
Depending on your background,you could either call it faith
or trust, or you could just saya sense of adventure, a
willingness to open up to theunknown, to something new, and
not bring that whole backpackfull of assumptions and
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predisposed ideas and otherpeople's opinions.
Which is why, when I start myanimal communication adventure
practice circle it my graduatesprogram, where we come together
every two weeks and we bring ina pet parent and their animal
here.
In spirit, we actually talkwith them live on zoom and my
students communicate with theanimal and then receive real
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time feedback from the petparent and we're really growing
our skills, doing a lot ofmentoring.
It's really fun and we have toremember going into this that we
don't know what's going tohappen.
So at the beginning of everysingle practice circle and every
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live zoom that we do inside theanimal communication adventure
program, we start with ameditation to calm your
sympathetic nervous system, yourfight or flight system, because
that is the system that getsactivated and wants to bring all
those assumptions, all of thoseopinions from other people who
aren't as open and brave as youare, who think animal
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communication is woo woo thesedays.
I am always odd that there arestill people in this world that
don't see the validity, thatdon't see the scientific
underpinnings, that don't seethe common sense that this is
something that we all haveaccess to.
And yet I'm aware that thereare many, many people out there
like that on our little roundgreen and blue planet.
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I just don't choose to surroundmyself with them so I don't get
a lot of exposure.
But coming in, not having thatcommunity and wanting to build
that from the ground up, you mayhave quite a bit of exposure,
at least limited exposure.
You may have somebody reallyclose to you in your life, like
a partner or a child or a parentwho really doesn't hold the
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same viewpoint and it's like, ohmy God, I can't believe my
daughter or my child or a parentwho really doesn't hold the
same viewpoint, and it's like,oh my God, I can't believe my
daughter or my mother or myfather or my spouse is going to
do this thing.
And so what we do is we, westart every single call or
session or practice circletogether with a meditation, and
I invite you to feel thatbackpack and visualize your own
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little locker and visualize orfeel a threshold ahead of you
and then feel yourself, orliterally, kinetically, do, the
motion of taking that backpackoff, putting it in a locker with
your name on it and steppingover the threshold.
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So all of those assumptions,all of those preconceived ideas,
all of those doubts and fears,I'm never going to ask you to
give them up and I'm never.
I'm never going to assume thatyou don't want to.
But being asked to give them upright away may be a stretch.
We may have some emotionaladhesions to work through before
we can really do that.
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So we're just pushing pause sowe can bring our sense of
adventure, not just forourselves but for the other
students and for me as yourguide, and I bring that for each
of you.
So I'm choosing it for my ownindividual good and for the good
of all.
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Which dates back, if you haveever seen the old movie one of
my absolute favorites about drjohn nash there's a movie called
a beautiful mind, and russellcrowe brilliantly played dr nash
, the mathematician who wentthrough a bout of schizophrenia.
But right before he began thatbattle for his sanity, he
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developed the Nash equilibriumtheory, which says that we are
wired to seek our own good andthe good of the whole, which
overturned over a century ofscientific thought, which said
we are wired to seek our owngood at the expense, even at the
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expense, of the good of alllandscape, or really, without
probably ever meaning torealizing it or wanting to
change the landscape for thedevelopment of the field I'm in,
which is the field of intuition, the inner teacher.
And so we want to let go ofthose feelings of self-doubt, of
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fear, just long enough to openup a window into what it would
feel like to live in a highervibration perspective.
Just give ourselves a glimpse,maybe an hour or two, and in the
support of others who areefforting towards the same.
Because we have thatentrainment we can literally
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vibe with one another and we mayhave a little trouble holding
that open mind, open heartfrequency when we're all by
ourself, but when we'resurrounded in good company and
the uplifting, naturally highervibration frequency of our
non-human animal participants,we actually can get a glimpse of
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it.
We can actually sustain it fora little while.
We can actually try ondifferent perspectives for size.
And here's a good glimpse of it.
We can actually sustain it fora little while.
We can actually try ondifferent perspectives for size.
And here's a good example ofthat.
Let's say one of my students iscommunicating with our special
animal guest for that weekinside of animal communication
adventure or inside of ourpractice circle and the animal
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shares something and the studentshares that tidbit of
information with the pet parentand the pet parent says I don't
have any awareness that myanimal likes that kind of food
or that particular toy or enjoyscompany of cats or dogs or
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whatever the animal has kickedout.
And the pet parent says no, Idon't, I don't know about that.
Or the pet parent might evensay oh no, that's wrong.
Luckily we don't have that inmy circles, in my community,
because that is not the highestvibration perspective.
We, that is.
That is what I call the Westernscientific taxonomic
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perspective, which says we arethe apex predator on this planet
.
We are the highest levelspecies evolution on this planet
.
Therefore, we know everythingabout everybody all the time,
especially our pets, so we'renot acknowledging that our
animals could have a secret lifethat we don't know about.
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Wow, that's one of the joys ofanimal communication.
You know, I didn't learn thatmy soul bird Pearl had brown
eyes until he was 15.
I didn't know that his favoritecolor was green until he was 11
.
There's always more to learn,and so what we strive for and
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endeavor towards is wow, Ididn't know that.
I'll have to look out for that.
I had a really coolcommunication practice circle
last week with a special guestand his cat mentioned liking to
play with a red ball.
This cat had come to him as arescue, as an adult cat.
He didn't know a lot of thebackstory, except he found him
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on the streets and took him in,and his response was so
beautiful I almost cried and I'mnot really a crier, but it was
just touched my heart so deeplywhen he said I will have to get
my cat a red ball.
I didn't know he liked that.
That's what we're going for.
And I'll give you anotherexample and I tell this story to
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my students a lot.
I was in a class, I'm alwaystaking classes, I'm always
learning, I'm always signing upfor courses to develop.
I love that.
That's kind of what I live for.
And so I'm in a class with avery experienced teacher,
somebody that is kind of ahousehold name in the animal
communication field, and I hadvolunteered my redfoot tortoise,
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malty, to be that session'spractice animal.
So we were all talking withMalty, me included.
Several of the students reportedthat she was friends with an
orange cat.
Well, I love cats, but we don'thave cats because I have a
parrot who likes to land on thefloor and I have not been able
to train her out of that and sowe just can't take the chance.
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But I did not say to thestudents no, that's not correct.
I said I am not aware ofMaltese friendship with a cat of
any color.
Well, wouldn't you know it overthe next few days?
In fact, if you're watching thevideo version, you can see my
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parrot, petal, walking around onthe floor right now.
So I'd love to have a cat, butit's just not safe for anyone.
However, over the next few daysI was looking out the window
over, near where Malty has dugherself a beautiful mud wallow.
She has free run of ourbackyard and so she just does
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whatever she wants and goeswherever she wants, but she has
this particular area near one ofour crape myrtle trees and
she's dug a big wallow there andI fill it twice a day with
water and she just keeps cooland it keeps the bugs away,
wouldn't you know?
Over the next few days I saw anorange stray cat, a feral cat
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who would hang out on the fenceright near where Malty was
wallowing.
And I don't know if that cathad been there in the past and I
just hadn't seen it becausethat area is a little bit tree
covered and more probably I hadseen it, but since I wasn't
looking for it, I missed it.
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It did not appear in my line ofsight.
And that's similar to if you'veever crafted an email and it's
something that matters to youand you edit it and you're sure
that everything is perfect, andthen you send it and someone
replies and you see that youmade a big typo or you forgot to
change the date or whatever itis.
Someone replies and you seethat you made a big typo or you
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forgot to change the date orwhatever it is.
That's a really good example ofwhen we're not looking for
something.
We often do not see it.
So I was really happy that I'vehad really good training as a
communicator and I did not yellout well no, we don't have cats.
Therefore, my tortoise does nothave a cat friend.
Well no, we don't have cats,therefore my tortoise does not
have a cat friend.
I don't know everything there isto know about what Malti does
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all day out there, who she talksto or what she sees.
I'm sure it's incredible, and Iprobably only get to hear about
a small fraction of it.
So that's a really good exampleof the kind of mindset and
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openness that you need to haveto have a positive experience
and grow as an interspeciescommunicator.
Now there's another carrot.
Actually, this particular stickis rich with carrots.
I don't even know how itdoesn't snap in half it's got so
many carrots on the end of it.
But another carrot is that themore you dive into this openness
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and willingness to see, hear,smell, taste, sense, feel and
know, the better you will get atup-leveling all of your human
relationships as well, becauseyou will start to hear between
the lines.
You will start to see behindwhat is presented.
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Most of us walk around withthese facades or these personas
that we project, and they maychange from interaction to
interaction, from situation tosituation, but you're going to
be able to start to dive deeperbecause you can hold space for
the truth, for what's reallygoing on.
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That I always review with mystudents right out of the
starting gate.
It's the first thing we talkabout, live in our kickoff call
for animal communicationadventure, and that is the way
in which we listen.
So this is what we've beentalking about today here on
let's Talk to Animals, and it'sreally important to understand
there are many different typesof listenings.
But for our purposes here andembarking on a new learning
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journey, enrolling in a program,saying yes to a dream, and
especially in the face ofperhaps self-doubts or
self-limiting beliefs aboutwhether it's possible or how
good we'll ever be at it thereare three main types of
listening we want to look at.
The first one is oh, I knowthat already.
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So, especially for those of uswho are fascinated with all
things intuitive or extrasensoryor telepathic or Claire's
oriented, and here I'm talkingabout clairvoyance,
clairsentience, et cetera.
Here I'm talking aboutclairvoyance, clairsentience,
etc.
We come in, we may come in, witha body of knowledge, of head
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knowledge, of left brain, 3dhead knowledge, the kind that we
have used so effectively in thepast to take and pass tests, to
complete assessments, to fillout forms.
I sometimes joke that if wedidn't have any forms, our world
as we know it would fall apart.
There's always a form for that.
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That's not the kind ofintelligence we're really
wanting to tap into when we'rejust saying intuition.
So it is one thing to talkabout and learn about and read
about and study animalcommunication or any intuitive
discipline.
It is quite another to practiceand experience it.
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So, oh, I already know that isnot going to serve you.
To have the experience.
It's not that it's not good,not, you know to know things,
it's that that's not going toget you where we need to go to
really develop you as anintuitive soul, an intuitive
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embodied soul.
Because what happens when yousay, oh, I already know that is,
you check out the animalcommunication happens in this
present moment and when youcheck out you head over into
your left brain, mind you say,oh, I know that you're in the
past, you're no longer in thepresent moment and so any actual
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learning has been paused.
You gotta come back to rightnow to actually learn anything.
So here we get to the second ofthese three listening styles
that are so important to knowfor our purposes here, talking
about what it takes to learnanimal communication.
And that is the type oflistening where we say I agree
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with or I do not agree with that.
That too takes us out of thepresent moment.
We're going into the past.
We're going into thesympathetic nervous system
that's just trying to keep ussafe from this new unknown
experience that we've actuallysought out.
It's trying to keep us safe.
It doesn't know the differencebetween a saber-toothed tiger
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and an animal communicationprogram, a saber-toothed tiger
and an animal communicationprogram.
I've actually heard severalesteemed colleagues in the field
lately talking about the ironythat we've been able to even
keep up with ourselves becauseour physical bodies and the
biology that makes up thisinteresting spaceship that we
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each get.
We get one issued to us when wecome here to Earth and it's got
all these interesting gizmosand bells and whistles, but the
basic biology.
We're really still insaber-toothed tiger mode when it
comes to our fight or flight.
We don't know the differencebetween an email with a typo and
getting cooked over a fire fordinner.
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So our fight or flight istreating everything new like a
threat.
We haven't learned yet what isand isn't truly threatening or
life-threatening, so we reallyneed to be in the present moment
in order to override that fightor flight.
The fight or flight only worksin the past and the future.
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The fight or flight is going totake you into the past for
examples of other times whensomething alike or similar to
has been threatening, and thenproject you out into the future
and to and this is what's goingto happen if you don't take
action aversive action now.
So again, we either agree or wedisagree.
Either way, we fought from thepast right over to the future,
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missing the present moment, sowe are no longer learning.
Now, luckily, we have a thirdtype of learning that's going to
serve you very well in anythingyou want to learn, including
animal communication, and thatis, oh, that's interesting.
I'd love to hear more.
That doesn't presuppose thatyou agree or disagree.
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Either way, you're tabling that.
You're tabling the fight orflight, the sympathetic nervous
system response in favor of thisis safe for me to open up and
just listen.
This is the second piece of ourfoundations.
When you sign up for animalcommunication course you get a
foundations course and part ofthat course is learning how to
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listen while feeling safe to doso, and it's a very powerful
discipline.
Well, that's interesting.
I don't know if I agree ordisagree.
I don't really care, let mejust continue to listen and
learn.
That is what I call the orangecat listening style.
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I don't know if Malty has anorange cat as a friend.
I actually don't know.
Let me keep listening and seewhat else I can learn and then I
can put it to good use.
And I can.
I can notice, I can wonder, Ican get curious, I can ask
better questions.
And that's the next piece isreally being willing to take
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that learning style which keepsus right here in the present
moment and run with it and startasking really good questions,
better and better questions,more and more questions, really
activating our curiosity.
For most of us, our curious selfgets kind of cut off at the
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knees right around the time weenter kindergarten.
Maybe we get until first grade,it just really depends, but for
most of us, by middle school weare expected to be uncurious I
don't think that's a word butnon-curious.
We are expected to be one-yearplan, five-year plan, 10-year
plan.
We are on track.
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We are firmly situated in our3D left brain minds, in our
intellect, in our knowledge.
I do feel like some of this isshifting and we are opening up.
There's a lot of talk aboutwhat's called the ascension or
the evolution, and that's reallycool and fun and exciting.
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We get access to more aspectsof ourselves and we get to
experience ourselves in a newway and that kind of takes us
back to that brave we've got tobe pretty brave to meet
ourselves again, as if it's forthe first time.
We get to a certain point,whether it's five or 10, or 25,
or 53, in my case and we thinkwe know ourselves, we're
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expected to know ourselves, weassume that we know ourselves
and so often I find that wereally don't.
It takes a whole lifetime justto start to uncover all there is
to be experienced and to beknown, to become aware of within
ourselves, let alone anotherbeing, whether it's another
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human or another animal or a petcompanion or a wild animal.
A lifetime is not enough timeto even really get to know
ourselves well.
So there has to be that brave,that willingness to get to know
a part of ourselves, an aspectof ourselves that maybe we
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weren't even aware existed, tobe humble and to recognize
there's a lot more here withinme.
I actually may not know myselfall that well at all.
I actually may not know myselfall that well at all.
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That takes a serious level ofbrave to admit to yourself that
you may not know yourself verywell at all, and that also is
kind of exciting because itmeans there's a lot more to
discover and co-create withyourself and with your pets.
So that really points to thenext key ingredient that you
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really need to be successful inlearning a discipline like
animal communication, thatcannot be studied, it cannot be
memorized.
Those things aren't always ahindrance, but they frequently
are not a help because they keepus out of this present moment
where real conversation happens,and that is the willingness to
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be movable in the moment, to beteachable, to be humble.
So often in our culture,especially here.
I'm in America and I wascertainly.
I was raised here, I waseducated here, went all the way
through all of the typicaltraditional educational levels
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through, got my bachelor inbusiness and marketing, which
should tell you a lot about howleft-brained I was when I
emerged from that educationalmarathon we call the school
system, and you know it.
It's awfully hard to remainhumble and teachable and also
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maintain that persona of I havemy degree or my certification or
whatever it is, and I am anexpert and you should hire me
and you should pay me, and thenI can pay my rent, et cetera, et
cetera and also maintain thishumble, teachable attitude.
I'm still evolving and I'mstill learning and there's so
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much more to learn and let'sco-create versus.
Let me tell you how it is.
Let me tell you how to do this.
Let's learn together.
I mean, that's a balancing act.
That's a fine line that we walk.
You see it in a lot of reallygreat leaders who are
unbelievably humble.
I saw it very, very often as amusician growing up, some of the
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musicians that I truly lookedup to and idolized, and when I
would meet them and I would trymy very best to lavish them with
praise and put them up on apedestal and they would say
things to me like, oh, I'velearned a little bit and or you
know, oh, but such and so isreally gifted.
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You should, really should checkthem out.
When we learn a little bit, wealso see how much more there is
to learn.
And that's the aspect where weremain humble, we remain
collaborative, remain what Icall movable, teachable, present
in this present moment.
For how can I grow right now,right here?
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How can I learn right here,right now?
How can I learn right here,right now, what can I experience
right here, right now, thatwill transform me in the
direction of my highest good andthe good of all?
So that's a really importantaspect and you need to be
willing this really points tokind of down deep in the
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foundational level to reallyunderstand that when you say yes
to learning about intuition,about your inner teacher,
intuitive communication withyourself, with other humans,
with animals, what you're reallysaying yes to is learning a new
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way to live.
I did not know that when Istarted my intuitive journey,
and it's probably a good thing,because I pretty much kind of
felt like I was barely hangingon.
Most of my life I have feltlike there was some kind of
manual for how to live liferight that everyone else got and
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they must have run out when itwas my turn to get my copy.
I just have not ever felt likeI was really dialed in either at
the level of what most peopleseem at least, most people I've
been surrounded with seem to beinterested in or to resonate
with.
My interests were not reallyreflected back to me from most
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of the people that I met.
And so when I found animalcommunication, that set me on a
path transitioning from hiringanimal communicators to being
the communicator that othershire and that's been a very
interesting journey that I sharein some other podcast episodes
earlier this season.
But what I didn't realize isthat animal communication
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learning, growing into it,evolving, serving was going to
introduce me to a way of lifethat feels natural for me, like
I was born for this.
I was made for this way of life.
No more of this hanging on bymy fingernails and throwing up
these different.
I used to have kind of a suiteof personas that I would throw
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up, depending on who I wasaround, to make sure that I
didn't stick out too much, thatthings weren't too uncomfortable
for either me or the otherhumans in my sphere of influence
, and I no longer need those.
I know who I am at my core.
I understand that I have anintuitive operating system, as
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do you, as does every humananimal, just like every
non-human animal, and I haveenough experiences in what I
call my trust bank, which wetalk a lot about inside animal
communication adventure,learning to trust ourselves in
the moment, not in our fight orflight, but in the moment, in
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the parasympathetic nervoussystem, in the present moment in
time, to trust that we are notdoing this life thing all by
ourselves.
We have a whole suite of tools.
We have a light team, we havebeautiful guides and our pets,
our partners, empathic friendsand teachers.
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We are not alone.
We have one another, we haveourselves.
So this feels a lot morenatural to me and it has allowed
me to drop those personas andshow up as myself.
And that is not an easy feat.
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That is not an easy feat, butit hasn't been nearly as
challenging as it probablysounds.
When we find something thatfeels better and fits us a lot
better, it's not that struggle.
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So I often tell formal educationaverse students or aspiring
students, prospective students,I say this is not like going
back to college.
You're not signing up for a12-year slog of eight-hour days,
crammed into a tiny, veryuncomfortable desk or sitting
there plugged into your laptopfor hours and hours and hours.
This is a very quick, dynamicprocess.
It happens right away and itfeels more like remembering than
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learning, because we have allalways had these abilities.
We just haven't been directedto notice them, to tune into
them, to begin to practice usingthem.
So this is not somethingforeign.
We're not trying to injectknowledge, like my accounting
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professors were trying to injectknowledge of checks and
balances and credits and debitsinto my head.
I did not have anycomplimentary wiring for that
and it never took.
We're not trying to addsomething alien and integrated
into your inbuilt system.
We are activating somethingthat's always been there.
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Chances are good, even if youask an individual human whom you
perceive is really, reallyclosed off.
If you ask them, maybe justquietly walk up to them and say
have you ever had a vibe aboutsomething or just kind of known
something that you didn't knowhow you knew it?
Or here's a fun one have youever had an angel or a ghost
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experience?
I asked this to a friend ofmine one night.
He wanted to go to a ghost tour, which are pretty popular here
along the coastline in Texas.
We've got a lot of so-calledtop 10 haunted places and he
wanted to kind of surprised me.
I don't know why you want to goon a ghost tour, but sure I'll
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go with you.
And I asked him on the car ridedown there.
I said have you ever had anencounter with a ghost?
And out poured this incrediblestory from his childhood.
And so many of us have had theseexperiences.
Often they've occurred earlierin life when we were a little
less closed off to them, alittle less what Don Miguel Ruiz
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calls domesticated, to filterthem out of our conscious
awareness.
Maybe you've even had theseexperiences in dream time.
When we are less closed off,some of those filters turn off
so our body and our brain canrest and rejuvenate and heal and
do all the good things it needsto do while we're sleeping and
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while we're dreaming.
So you might be surprised howmuch evidence you can collect
that this intuitive internaloperating system is present for
all of us.
And of course some of us comein with more innate interest in
all things intuitive than others.
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And I'm assuming if you arestill listening to this podcast
episode and in general listeningto a podcast like let's Talk to
Animals, you probably have apretty strong interest in all
things intuitive, and so now wejust need to start unfolding
that, just recognize thatthere's something here for you,
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there is something calling toyou.
This is already evidence ofyour intuition, your inner
teacher at work doing its levelbest to guide you, to encourage
you, to shepherd you in thedirection that will help you
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open up in ways that maybe youcould scarcely dream is possible
for you.
This has certainly been the casefor me and has really been the
wildest and most wonderfuladventure of my lifetime.
I cannot imagine me today and Isay this often, I say it in my
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weekly love letter community.
I send a weekly love letter outevery Thursday morning and I
would love for you to join thatcommunity.
I drop new podcast episodes,freebies, tools, resources,
discounts, opportunities to joinour practice circles lots of
fun things you'll find out inthe next animal communication
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adventure is happening and allsorts of other news, and we talk
about it a lot.
You know how this is theadventure of a lifetime, how I
no longer remember who I was.
Really, I don't remember.
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I don't vibe with herpre-animal communication because
I'm awake now.
It's like the matrix, withoutall of the long dark leather
jackets and this scary robot bed.
I'm awake now and I don't wantto go back to sleep.
I love it here in this open,intuitive space where, even on
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my most challenging days, I knowI'm not alone.
I have my own back, I have thesupport of my beautiful
interspecies family, I have thisamazing light team surrounding
me and I know, as one of mymentors, byron Katie, says, this
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is a friendly universe.
So that is where I will leaveyou this week.
This is a friendly universe andif you join us for animal
communication adventure, it'sabout to get even friendlier.
You can find all the informationwhen you go to
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animallovelanguagescom backslashenroll.
You will be signing up for notjust an intuitive awakening, not
just the bucket list adventureof a lifetime learning to talk
with animals in all walks oflife, here and in spirit your
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animals, others animals, wildanimals but you will be signing
up for new friendships, some ofwhich may just last you the rest
of this lifetime.
You will be signing up for anawakening into a new level of
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self-awareness, your innerguidance system, your intuitive
operating system that has alwaysbeen there and is simply
waiting for you to go into yourapplications.
Look for the folder, click onit, download it, install it and
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take it for a test drive, and Iam honored to serve as your
mentor, your guide and your headcheerleader for this journey,
because when you say yes toanimal communication adventure,
I say yes to supporting you 150%every step of the way.
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So I do hope that you willconsider joining us and I look
forward to connecting with youagain in two weeks for a fresh
new episode of let's Talk toAnimals.
Okay, you have my heart, all mylove, and bye for now.
Hi Shannon here and I want to welcome you to let's
Talk to Animals, the podcast allspecies can enjoy together.
Yes, we are talking aboutinterspecies communication,
animal communication.
I am an animal sensitive andintuitive, a reiki master
practitioner for pets and theirpeople and an animal
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communication teacher.
You'll hear more about that ina little bit because we are
actually launching animalcommunication adventure right
now, which is my signaturestudent program.
I'd love to share more aboutthat with you if you're
interested.
For today, on a related note, Iwant to talk to you about what
it takes to learn to communicatewith animals, whether you have
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a desire to connect andcommunicate and feel more in
tune with your own interspeciesfamily.
Maybe you have dogs or cats orbirds or turtles or horses or
all kinds of wonderfulinterspecies family members and
you want to develop a deeperbond.
Maybe you also have a desire tocommunicate with wild animals.
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There are so many applicationsand I feel like our left brain
research arm is just nowstarting to catch up with that.
It's like, hmm, the scientificprinciple of Occam's razor,
which is one of the favoritethings I love to share with my
students, which says all elsebeing equal, the simplest
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explanation tends to be theright one.
I feel like modern left-brainWestern science is just starting
to kind of catch on that.
The simpler explanation is notthat we homo sapiens are the
only animals on this planet thathave not been given the wiring
to communicate intuitively ortelepathically, if you will.
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Rather, the simpler explanationis that we too possess this
wiring, we've always had it.
It comes in pre-installed whatI call our intuitive operating
system.
But we are the only speciesthat does not emphasize it, does
not notice it, does not teachour young how to use it, does
not practice using it on a dailybasis.
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And so when we do get vibes orhunches or intuitive hits or
information that doesn't seem tocome in through the normal,
customary or expected channels,we do doubt it.
We do worry that we're goingcrazy or making things up, and
that is normal and natural whenwe're learning a new skill and
we really want to do it right.
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So in this episode I want totalk about what it really takes
to learn animal communication.
There are so many applications,as I mentioned, for wild
animals learning to share ourspaces with them, with the birds
and the feral cat colonies andthe squirrels and the insects.
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I love what the Dalai Lama sayswhen he's asked what rocks his
piece and I'm paraphrasing, ofcourse but he says it's the
mosquitoes and the bedbugsreally that get to him.
And we can all relate.
But there are ways to shifteven that energy in a way that
feels so much more positivebecause, of course, the more
elevated perspective we canbring to the table with
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co-sharing our space, the betterwe're going to feel and the
better we're going to functionand the more harmoniously our
lives will flow and the betterwe're going to feel about who we
are and how we're showing up inthis shared world that we live
in.
And, of course, if you havemultiple pets in your
interspecies family, they don'talways seem to get along right.
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Disagreements can happenregardless of species.
Animal communication is a greatway to kind of weather those
family storms.
There are so many differentways to use it.
Storms there are so manydifferent ways to use it, and
what I find is that what stopsmost of us at the door, and I
could share this from personalexperience.
I'm not trying to suggest thatthis is your experience.
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I'm certainly only sharing frommy own personal experience and
also what I've seen in mystudents and my pet parent
clients, those that areinterested in learning animal
communication and those thatmaybe are not quite so
interested or or they're justnot so open to it, or they're
afraid of it, or they just thinkthat they can't do it for some
reason.
I can certainly relate.
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For many, many, many years Ihired animal communicators.
Why?
Because I thought this was askill kind of like and I've
shared this before on thepodcast but kind of like getting
one of those gold buzzeraward-winning voices.
You just are born with it.
You either get it or you don't.
And I kind of thought that,being intuitive, and especially
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being an intuitive whocommunicates across species
boundaries, I thought that wassomething you were just born
with.
And I didn't.
I was pretty sure I didn't getit.
Nobody had.
If I had gotten it, excuse meif I had gotten in.
Nobody gave me the memo.
It got misfiled or sent to theround file or something I just
so.
I hired animal communicators.
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That was as close as I couldget and I did.
And I do feel very strongly thatinterspecies communication is
always happening and I didn'twant to miss anything.
I didn't want to.
I love my animal family.
I'll move heaven and earth forthem and I didn't want to miss
messages, I didn't want to misssignals.
I didn't want them to beunhappy with what I was
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providing for them.
I was very aware of being thehead honcho in our little family
, the one that, for better orworse, calls all the shots, and
I didn't want them to be livingin unhappiness with their food,
with their habitat, with theirsiblings, with me.
I didn't want them to be inpain or discomfort and not be
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able to communicate that to me.
I didn't want them to bemissing out on enrichment that
they craved and needed Evenenrichment.
They were biologically wired tocrave and need, and so I hired
animal communicators because Iwanted to hear, and that is
probably the first criteria thatwe bring to the table.
I created a little list, alittle guide for myself, so I
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didn't miss anything that feelsreally important.
Sometimes you don't know what'sgoing to come out of your mouth
when you press record and juststart talking, and I didn't want
to miss anything.
This actually isn't on the list, but it's actually really.
The first criteria is that youwant to hear, you want to know.
It takes a certain level ofbrave.
It can be easier not to hear,not to know and especially and
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I'll get into this a little bitlater but especially for those
of us who come into being a petguardian or pet parent or pet
carer or a foster pet parent ora rescue volunteer and we are
carrying with us our own innerwounds, and this is pretty
normal.
I don't think anybody's underany impressions at least no one
who's listening to a podcastcalled let's Talk to Animals.
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I don't think we're under anygreat delusion that there are
those of us out there who havesomehow escaped all of that and
do not have old traumas or oldscars or old wounds.
And so sometimes we can comeinto being a pet carer and we
feel inadequate or anxious orself-distrusting in certain
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areas.
And so just the whole conceptof guardianship of any being,
human or non-human well, it canbring those things up, it can
activate those things.
And for those humans whom I'vemet who are rather or really
resistant to even the wholeconcept of interspecies
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communication a lot of timesthere is some of that going on
they don't want to hear, becausethey have already overheard,
about their own perceiveddeficiencies or flaws, either
from their parents or fromcolleagues, or from a partner or
former partner or whomever itmay be, and so they just don't
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need that bruise to get pushedanymore, and that is okay.
We all evolve at our own pace.
But if you're still listening,I am going to make the
assumption which is notsomething I'm fond of, but I'm
going to make just a workingassumption that you're willing
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and able to see that, if that'spresent for you, and to work
through it.
This is one of the reasons, oneof the big reasons why I call
animal communication one of thehands down best self evolution,
self development programs I haveever found, because we can only
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hear another being to theextent that we can hear at all,
and when we're blocked fromhearing, when we're blocked from
communicating, when we'reblocked from connecting, it
always points back to some kindof inner work, some kind of
inner healing or overcoming, ifyou will, that is yet ahead of
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us on our own self-evolutionpath.
And if we want to hear theanimals more clearly, if we want
to build deeper bonds withanyone, of any species, we must
break down those barriers.
You can think of it likeemotional adhesions, like I've
been studying fascia recentlyand fascia release for some old
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injuries that I've struggledwith most of my life, especially
in my back and in my left foot.
I won't go into the laundrylist.
You reach a certain decade inyour life and you do have a list
, a working list.
Most of us and so I look atthis the same way we've got to
kind of press into thoseadhesions, those emotional
adhesions, those memories, thosestored, stuck emotions, and it
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takes a certain degree of braveand tolerance and readiness to
do that.
The more we do that, however,the carrot at the end of the
stick is, the more we do that,the more clearly we can hear the
animals and the more differenttopics of conversation get added
to our personal conversationaltable.
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And I'll give you an example ofthis, because this can be maybe
a little bit hard to wrap yourhead around sometimes.
For me, coming from a backgroundof developing anorexia between
ages 10 and 11 and strugglingthrough that for a good 20 years
before I achieved even any kindof real baseline of healing,
and then founding and running acharity focused on eating
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disorders, mentoring for thenext decade, let's just say I'm
steeped in eating issues.
I'm very healthy today.
I've been healthy for over adecade, but I have this in my
background, so I have a lot ofadhesions in these areas and so
it's not surprising to me when Ihave this in my background.
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So I have a lot of adhesions inthese areas and so it's not
surprising to me when I havemore challenges talking with
animals about food.
Many of my students have notrouble at all and today I've
worked through a lot of that.
I'm able to have thoseconversations, but when I first
started I really struggled.
When I first started I reallystruggled and I'm I'm really
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grateful to animal communicationfor giving me that deeper level
of healing, that brave, that Iwasn't finding elsewhere in my
life.
So that's just one example thatyou can think about.
But it really does require thiswillingness to hear, willingness
.
I wake up every morningpersonally and I ask my light
team please, I want to see, Iwant to hear willingness.
I wake up every morningpersonally and I ask my light
team please, I want to see, Iwant to hear, I want to smell, I
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want to taste, I want to sense,I want to feel, I want to know,
just setting my tone for theday, understanding that later on
in the day, when opportunitiescome to work through some
adhesions that may be preventingme from any of those things, I
might not immediately rememberthat I prayed that prayer and
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might feel a little grumpy.
So we just have to understandthat this is a journey.
That's why I call my programAnimal Communication Adventure.
We don't necessarily know what'sgoing to come up communication
adventure.
We don't necessarily knowwhat's going to come up, and so
great love produces birth, greatcourage, and great courage can
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produce amazing adventures andincredible results, which is
what we aim for when we embarkon our animal communication
adventure together.
Embark on our animalcommunication adventure together
.
So the next step really is thatlevel of brave we really need
to, as animal communicationaspirants, as students, to bring
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to the table.
Depending on your background,you could either call it faith
or trust, or you could just saya sense of adventure, a
willingness to open up to theunknown, to something new, and
not bring that whole backpackfull of assumptions and
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predisposed ideas and otherpeople's opinions.
Which is why, when I start myanimal communication adventure
practice circle it my graduatesprogram, where we come together
every two weeks and we bring ina pet parent and their animal
here.
In spirit, we actually talkwith them live on zoom and my
students communicate with theanimal and then receive real
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time feedback from the petparent and we're really growing
our skills, doing a lot ofmentoring.
It's really fun and we have toremember going into this that we
don't know what's going tohappen.
So at the beginning of everysingle practice circle and every
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live zoom that we do inside theanimal communication adventure
program, we start with ameditation to calm your
sympathetic nervous system, yourfight or flight system, because
that is the system that getsactivated and wants to bring all
those assumptions, all of thoseopinions from other people who
aren't as open and brave as youare, who think animal
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communication is woo woo thesedays.
I am always odd that there arestill people in this world that
don't see the validity, thatdon't see the scientific
underpinnings, that don't seethe common sense that this is
something that we all haveaccess to.
And yet I'm aware that thereare many, many people out there
like that on our little roundgreen and blue planet.
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I just don't choose to surroundmyself with them so I don't get
a lot of exposure.
But coming in, not having thatcommunity and wanting to build
that from the ground up, you mayhave quite a bit of exposure,
at least limited exposure.
You may have somebody reallyclose to you in your life, like
a partner or a child or a parentwho really doesn't hold the
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same viewpoint and it's like, ohmy God, I can't believe my
daughter or my child or a parentwho really doesn't hold the
same viewpoint, and it's like,oh my God, I can't believe my
daughter or my mother or myfather or my spouse is going to
do this thing.
And so what we do is we, westart every single call or
session or practice circletogether with a meditation, and
I invite you to feel thatbackpack and visualize your own
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little locker and visualize orfeel a threshold ahead of you
and then feel yourself, orliterally, kinetically, do, the
motion of taking that backpackoff, putting it in a locker with
your name on it and steppingover the threshold.
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So all of those assumptions,all of those preconceived ideas,
all of those doubts and fears,I'm never going to ask you to
give them up and I'm never.
I'm never going to assume thatyou don't want to.
But being asked to give them upright away may be a stretch.
We may have some emotionaladhesions to work through before
we can really do that.
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So we're just pushing pause sowe can bring our sense of
adventure, not just forourselves but for the other
students and for me as yourguide, and I bring that for each
of you.
So I'm choosing it for my ownindividual good and for the good
of all.
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Which dates back, if you haveever seen the old movie one of
my absolute favorites about drjohn nash there's a movie called
a beautiful mind, and russellcrowe brilliantly played dr nash
, the mathematician who wentthrough a bout of schizophrenia.
But right before he began thatbattle for his sanity, he
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developed the Nash equilibriumtheory, which says that we are
wired to seek our own good andthe good of the whole, which
overturned over a century ofscientific thought, which said
we are wired to seek our owngood at the expense, even at the
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expense, of the good of alllandscape, or really, without
probably ever meaning torealizing it or wanting to
change the landscape for thedevelopment of the field I'm in,
which is the field of intuition, the inner teacher.
And so we want to let go ofthose feelings of self-doubt, of
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fear, just long enough to openup a window into what it would
feel like to live in a highervibration perspective.
Just give ourselves a glimpse,maybe an hour or two, and in the
support of others who areefforting towards the same.
Because we have thatentrainment we can literally
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vibe with one another and we mayhave a little trouble holding
that open mind, open heartfrequency when we're all by
ourself, but when we'resurrounded in good company and
the uplifting, naturally highervibration frequency of our
non-human animal participants,we actually can get a glimpse of
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it.
We can actually sustain it fora little while.
We can actually try ondifferent perspectives for size.
And here's a good glimpse of it.
We can actually sustain it fora little while.
We can actually try ondifferent perspectives for size.
And here's a good example ofthat.
Let's say one of my students iscommunicating with our special
animal guest for that weekinside of animal communication
adventure or inside of ourpractice circle and the animal
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shares something and the studentshares that tidbit of
information with the pet parentand the pet parent says I don't
have any awareness that myanimal likes that kind of food
or that particular toy or enjoyscompany of cats or dogs or
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whatever the animal has kickedout.
And the pet parent says no, Idon't, I don't know about that.
Or the pet parent might evensay oh no, that's wrong.
Luckily we don't have that inmy circles, in my community,
because that is not the highestvibration perspective.
We, that is.
That is what I call the Westernscientific taxonomic
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perspective, which says we arethe apex predator on this planet
.
We are the highest levelspecies evolution on this planet
.
Therefore, we know everythingabout everybody all the time,
especially our pets, so we'renot acknowledging that our
animals could have a secret lifethat we don't know about.
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Wow, that's one of the joys ofanimal communication.
You know, I didn't learn thatmy soul bird Pearl had brown
eyes until he was 15.
I didn't know that his favoritecolor was green until he was 11
.
There's always more to learn,and so what we strive for and
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endeavor towards is wow, Ididn't know that.
I'll have to look out for that.
I had a really coolcommunication practice circle
last week with a special guestand his cat mentioned liking to
play with a red ball.
This cat had come to him as arescue, as an adult cat.
He didn't know a lot of thebackstory, except he found him
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on the streets and took him in,and his response was so
beautiful I almost cried and I'mnot really a crier, but it was
just touched my heart so deeplywhen he said I will have to get
my cat a red ball.
I didn't know he liked that.
That's what we're going for.
And I'll give you anotherexample and I tell this story to
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my students a lot.
I was in a class, I'm alwaystaking classes, I'm always
learning, I'm always signing upfor courses to develop.
I love that.
That's kind of what I live for.
And so I'm in a class with avery experienced teacher,
somebody that is kind of ahousehold name in the animal
communication field, and I hadvolunteered my redfoot tortoise,
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malty, to be that session'spractice animal.
So we were all talking withMalty, me included.
Several of the students reportedthat she was friends with an
orange cat.
Well, I love cats, but we don'thave cats because I have a
parrot who likes to land on thefloor and I have not been able
to train her out of that and sowe just can't take the chance.
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But I did not say to thestudents no, that's not correct.
I said I am not aware ofMaltese friendship with a cat of
any color.
Well, wouldn't you know it overthe next few days?
In fact, if you're watching thevideo version, you can see my
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parrot, petal, walking around onthe floor right now.
So I'd love to have a cat, butit's just not safe for anyone.
However, over the next few daysI was looking out the window
over, near where Malty has dugherself a beautiful mud wallow.
She has free run of ourbackyard and so she just does
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whatever she wants and goeswherever she wants, but she has
this particular area near one ofour crape myrtle trees and
she's dug a big wallow there andI fill it twice a day with
water and she just keeps cooland it keeps the bugs away,
wouldn't you know?
Over the next few days I saw anorange stray cat, a feral cat
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who would hang out on the fenceright near where Malty was
wallowing.
And I don't know if that cathad been there in the past and I
just hadn't seen it becausethat area is a little bit tree
covered and more probably I hadseen it, but since I wasn't
looking for it, I missed it.
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It did not appear in my line ofsight.
And that's similar to if you'veever crafted an email and it's
something that matters to youand you edit it and you're sure
that everything is perfect, andthen you send it and someone
replies and you see that youmade a big typo or you forgot to
change the date or whatever itis.
Someone replies and you seethat you made a big typo or you
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forgot to change the date orwhatever it is.
That's a really good example ofwhen we're not looking for
something.
We often do not see it.
So I was really happy that I'vehad really good training as a
communicator and I did not yellout well no, we don't have cats.
Therefore, my tortoise does nothave a cat friend.
Well no, we don't have cats,therefore my tortoise does not
have a cat friend.
I don't know everything there isto know about what Malti does
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all day out there, who she talksto or what she sees.
I'm sure it's incredible, and Iprobably only get to hear about
a small fraction of it.
So that's a really good exampleof the kind of mindset and
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openness that you need to haveto have a positive experience
and grow as an interspeciescommunicator.
Now there's another carrot.
Actually, this particular stickis rich with carrots.
I don't even know how itdoesn't snap in half it's got so
many carrots on the end of it.
But another carrot is that themore you dive into this openness
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and willingness to see, hear,smell, taste, sense, feel and
know, the better you will get atup-leveling all of your human
relationships as well, becauseyou will start to hear between
the lines.
You will start to see behindwhat is presented.
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Most of us walk around withthese facades or these personas
that we project, and they maychange from interaction to
interaction, from situation tosituation, but you're going to
be able to start to dive deeperbecause you can hold space for
the truth, for what's reallygoing on.
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That I always review with mystudents right out of the
starting gate.
It's the first thing we talkabout, live in our kickoff call
for animal communicationadventure, and that is the way
in which we listen.
So this is what we've beentalking about today here on
let's Talk to Animals, and it'sreally important to understand
there are many different typesof listenings.
But for our purposes here andembarking on a new learning
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journey, enrolling in a program,saying yes to a dream, and
especially in the face ofperhaps self-doubts or
self-limiting beliefs aboutwhether it's possible or how
good we'll ever be at it thereare three main types of
listening we want to look at.
The first one is oh, I knowthat already.
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So, especially for those of uswho are fascinated with all
things intuitive or extrasensoryor telepathic or Claire's
oriented, and here I'm talkingabout clairvoyance,
clairsentience, et cetera.
Here I'm talking aboutclairvoyance, clairsentience,
etc.
We come in, we may come in, witha body of knowledge, of head
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knowledge, of left brain, 3dhead knowledge, the kind that we
have used so effectively in thepast to take and pass tests, to
complete assessments, to fillout forms.
I sometimes joke that if wedidn't have any forms, our world
as we know it would fall apart.
There's always a form for that.
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That's not the kind ofintelligence we're really
wanting to tap into when we'rejust saying intuition.
So it is one thing to talkabout and learn about and read
about and study animalcommunication or any intuitive
discipline.
It is quite another to practiceand experience it.
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So, oh, I already know that isnot going to serve you.
To have the experience.
It's not that it's not good,not, you know to know things,
it's that that's not going toget you where we need to go to
really develop you as anintuitive soul, an intuitive
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embodied soul.
Because what happens when yousay, oh, I already know that is,
you check out the animalcommunication happens in this
present moment and when youcheck out you head over into
your left brain, mind you say,oh, I know that you're in the
past, you're no longer in thepresent moment and so any actual
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learning has been paused.
You gotta come back to rightnow to actually learn anything.
So here we get to the second ofthese three listening styles
that are so important to knowfor our purposes here, talking
about what it takes to learnanimal communication.
And that is the type oflistening where we say I agree
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with or I do not agree with that.
That too takes us out of thepresent moment.
We're going into the past.
We're going into thesympathetic nervous system
that's just trying to keep ussafe from this new unknown
experience that we've actuallysought out.
It's trying to keep us safe.
It doesn't know the differencebetween a saber-toothed tiger
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and an animal communicationprogram, a saber-toothed tiger
and an animal communicationprogram.
I've actually heard severalesteemed colleagues in the field
lately talking about the ironythat we've been able to even
keep up with ourselves becauseour physical bodies and the
biology that makes up thisinteresting spaceship that we
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each get.
We get one issued to us when wecome here to Earth and it's got
all these interesting gizmosand bells and whistles, but the
basic biology.
We're really still insaber-toothed tiger mode when it
comes to our fight or flight.
We don't know the differencebetween an email with a typo and
getting cooked over a fire fordinner.
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So our fight or flight istreating everything new like a
threat.
We haven't learned yet what isand isn't truly threatening or
life-threatening, so we reallyneed to be in the present moment
in order to override that fightor flight.
The fight or flight only worksin the past and the future.
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The fight or flight is going totake you into the past for
examples of other times whensomething alike or similar to
has been threatening, and thenproject you out into the future
and to and this is what's goingto happen if you don't take
action aversive action now.
So again, we either agree or wedisagree.
Either way, we fought from thepast right over to the future,
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missing the present moment, sowe are no longer learning.
Now, luckily, we have a thirdtype of learning that's going to
serve you very well in anythingyou want to learn, including
animal communication, and thatis, oh, that's interesting.
I'd love to hear more.
That doesn't presuppose thatyou agree or disagree.
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Either way, you're tabling that.
You're tabling the fight orflight, the sympathetic nervous
system response in favor of thisis safe for me to open up and
just listen.
This is the second piece of ourfoundations.
When you sign up for animalcommunication course you get a
foundations course and part ofthat course is learning how to
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listen while feeling safe to doso, and it's a very powerful
discipline.
Well, that's interesting.
I don't know if I agree ordisagree.
I don't really care, let mejust continue to listen and
learn.
That is what I call the orangecat listening style.
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I don't know if Malty has anorange cat as a friend.
I actually don't know.
Let me keep listening and seewhat else I can learn and then I
can put it to good use.
And I can.
I can notice, I can wonder, Ican get curious, I can ask
better questions.
And that's the next piece isreally being willing to take
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that learning style which keepsus right here in the present
moment and run with it and startasking really good questions,
better and better questions,more and more questions, really
activating our curiosity.
For most of us, our curious selfgets kind of cut off at the
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knees right around the time weenter kindergarten.
Maybe we get until first grade,it just really depends, but for
most of us, by middle school weare expected to be uncurious I
don't think that's a word butnon-curious.
We are expected to be one-yearplan, five-year plan, 10-year
plan.
We are on track.
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We are firmly situated in our3D left brain minds, in our
intellect, in our knowledge.
I do feel like some of this isshifting and we are opening up.
There's a lot of talk aboutwhat's called the ascension or
the evolution, and that's reallycool and fun and exciting.
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We get access to more aspectsof ourselves and we get to
experience ourselves in a newway and that kind of takes us
back to that brave we've got tobe pretty brave to meet
ourselves again, as if it's forthe first time.
We get to a certain point,whether it's five or 10, or 25,
or 53, in my case and we thinkwe know ourselves, we're
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expected to know ourselves, weassume that we know ourselves
and so often I find that wereally don't.
It takes a whole lifetime justto start to uncover all there is
to be experienced and to beknown, to become aware of within
ourselves, let alone anotherbeing, whether it's another
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human or another animal or a petcompanion or a wild animal.
A lifetime is not enough timeto even really get to know
ourselves well.
So there has to be that brave,that willingness to get to know
a part of ourselves, an aspectof ourselves that maybe we
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weren't even aware existed, tobe humble and to recognize
there's a lot more here withinme.
I actually may not know myselfall that well at all.
I actually may not know myselfall that well at all.
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That takes a serious level ofbrave to admit to yourself that
you may not know yourself verywell at all, and that also is
kind of exciting because itmeans there's a lot more to
discover and co-create withyourself and with your pets.
So that really points to thenext key ingredient that you
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really need to be successful inlearning a discipline like
animal communication, thatcannot be studied, it cannot be
memorized.
Those things aren't always ahindrance, but they frequently
are not a help because they keepus out of this present moment
where real conversation happens,and that is the willingness to
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be movable in the moment, to beteachable, to be humble.
So often in our culture,especially here.
I'm in America and I wascertainly.
I was raised here, I waseducated here, went all the way
through all of the typicaltraditional educational levels
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through, got my bachelor inbusiness and marketing, which
should tell you a lot about howleft-brained I was when I
emerged from that educationalmarathon we call the school
system, and you know it.
It's awfully hard to remainhumble and teachable and also
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maintain that persona of I havemy degree or my certification or
whatever it is, and I am anexpert and you should hire me
and you should pay me, and thenI can pay my rent, et cetera, et
cetera and also maintain thishumble, teachable attitude.
I'm still evolving and I'mstill learning and there's so
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much more to learn and let'sco-create versus.
Let me tell you how it is.
Let me tell you how to do this.
Let's learn together.
I mean, that's a balancing act.
That's a fine line that we walk.
You see it in a lot of reallygreat leaders who are
unbelievably humble.
I saw it very, very often as amusician growing up, some of the
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musicians that I truly lookedup to and idolized, and when I
would meet them and I would trymy very best to lavish them with
praise and put them up on apedestal and they would say
things to me like, oh, I'velearned a little bit and or you
know, oh, but such and so isreally gifted.
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You should, really should checkthem out.
When we learn a little bit, wealso see how much more there is
to learn.
And that's the aspect where weremain humble, we remain
collaborative, remain what Icall movable, teachable, present
in this present moment.
For how can I grow right now,right here?
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How can I learn right here,right now?
How can I learn right here,right now, what can I experience
right here, right now, thatwill transform me in the
direction of my highest good andthe good of all?
So that's a really importantaspect and you need to be
willing this really points tokind of down deep in the
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foundational level to reallyunderstand that when you say yes
to learning about intuition,about your inner teacher,
intuitive communication withyourself, with other humans,
with animals, what you're reallysaying yes to is learning a new
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way to live.
I did not know that when Istarted my intuitive journey,
and it's probably a good thing,because I pretty much kind of
felt like I was barely hangingon.
Most of my life I have feltlike there was some kind of
manual for how to live liferight that everyone else got and
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they must have run out when itwas my turn to get my copy.
I just have not ever felt likeI was really dialed in either at
the level of what most peopleseem at least, most people I've
been surrounded with seem to beinterested in or to resonate
with.
My interests were not reallyreflected back to me from most
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of the people that I met.
And so when I found animalcommunication, that set me on a
path transitioning from hiringanimal communicators to being
the communicator that othershire and that's been a very
interesting journey that I sharein some other podcast episodes
earlier this season.
But what I didn't realize isthat animal communication
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learning, growing into it,evolving, serving was going to
introduce me to a way of lifethat feels natural for me, like
I was born for this.
I was made for this way of life.
No more of this hanging on bymy fingernails and throwing up
these different.
I used to have kind of a suiteof personas that I would throw
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up, depending on who I wasaround, to make sure that I
didn't stick out too much, thatthings weren't too uncomfortable
for either me or the otherhumans in my sphere of influence
, and I no longer need those.
I know who I am at my core.
I understand that I have anintuitive operating system, as
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do you, as does every humananimal, just like every
non-human animal, and I haveenough experiences in what I
call my trust bank, which wetalk a lot about inside animal
communication adventure,learning to trust ourselves in
the moment, not in our fight orflight, but in the moment, in
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the parasympathetic nervoussystem, in the present moment in
time, to trust that we are notdoing this life thing all by
ourselves.
We have a whole suite of tools.
We have a light team, we havebeautiful guides and our pets,
our partners, empathic friendsand teachers.
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We are not alone.
We have one another, we haveourselves.
So this feels a lot morenatural to me and it has allowed
me to drop those personas andshow up as myself.
And that is not an easy feat.
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That is not an easy feat, butit hasn't been nearly as
challenging as it probablysounds.
When we find something thatfeels better and fits us a lot
better, it's not that struggle.
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So I often tell formal educationaverse students or aspiring
students, prospective students,I say this is not like going
back to college.
You're not signing up for a12-year slog of eight-hour days,
crammed into a tiny, veryuncomfortable desk or sitting
there plugged into your laptopfor hours and hours and hours.
This is a very quick, dynamicprocess.
It happens right away and itfeels more like remembering than
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learning, because we have allalways had these abilities.
We just haven't been directedto notice them, to tune into
them, to begin to practice usingthem.
So this is not somethingforeign.
We're not trying to injectknowledge, like my accounting
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professors were trying to injectknowledge of checks and
balances and credits and debitsinto my head.
I did not have anycomplimentary wiring for that
and it never took.
We're not trying to addsomething alien and integrated
into your inbuilt system.
We are activating somethingthat's always been there.
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Chances are good, even if youask an individual human whom you
perceive is really, reallyclosed off.
If you ask them, maybe justquietly walk up to them and say
have you ever had a vibe aboutsomething or just kind of known
something that you didn't knowhow you knew it?
Or here's a fun one have youever had an angel or a ghost
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experience?
I asked this to a friend ofmine one night.
He wanted to go to a ghost tour, which are pretty popular here
along the coastline in Texas.
We've got a lot of so-calledtop 10 haunted places and he
wanted to kind of surprised me.
I don't know why you want to goon a ghost tour, but sure I'll
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go with you.
And I asked him on the car ridedown there.
I said have you ever had anencounter with a ghost?
And out poured this incrediblestory from his childhood.
And so many of us have had theseexperiences.
Often they've occurred earlierin life when we were a little
less closed off to them, alittle less what Don Miguel Ruiz
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calls domesticated, to filterthem out of our conscious
awareness.
Maybe you've even had theseexperiences in dream time.
When we are less closed off,some of those filters turn off
so our body and our brain canrest and rejuvenate and heal and
do all the good things it needsto do while we're sleeping and
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while we're dreaming.
So you might be surprised howmuch evidence you can collect
that this intuitive internaloperating system is present for
all of us.
And of course some of us comein with more innate interest in
all things intuitive than others.
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And I'm assuming if you arestill listening to this podcast
episode and in general listeningto a podcast like let's Talk to
Animals, you probably have apretty strong interest in all
things intuitive, and so now wejust need to start unfolding
that, just recognize thatthere's something here for you,
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there is something calling toyou.
This is already evidence ofyour intuition, your inner
teacher at work doing its levelbest to guide you, to encourage
you, to shepherd you in thedirection that will help you
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open up in ways that maybe youcould scarcely dream is possible
for you.
This has certainly been the casefor me and has really been the
wildest and most wonderfuladventure of my lifetime.
I cannot imagine me today and Isay this often, I say it in my
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weekly love letter community.
I send a weekly love letter outevery Thursday morning and I
would love for you to join thatcommunity.
I drop new podcast episodes,freebies, tools, resources,
discounts, opportunities to joinour practice circles lots of
fun things you'll find out inthe next animal communication
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adventure is happening and allsorts of other news, and we talk
about it a lot.
You know how this is theadventure of a lifetime, how I
no longer remember who I was.
Really, I don't remember.
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I don't vibe with herpre-animal communication because
I'm awake now.
It's like the matrix, withoutall of the long dark leather
jackets and this scary robot bed.
I'm awake now and I don't wantto go back to sleep.
I love it here in this open,intuitive space where, even on
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my most challenging days, I knowI'm not alone.
I have my own back, I have thesupport of my beautiful
interspecies family, I have thisamazing light team surrounding
me and I know, as one of mymentors, byron Katie, says, this
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is a friendly universe.
So that is where I will leaveyou this week.
This is a friendly universe andif you join us for animal
communication adventure, it'sabout to get even friendlier.
You can find all the informationwhen you go to
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animallovelanguagescom backslashenroll.
You will be signing up for notjust an intuitive awakening, not
just the bucket list adventureof a lifetime learning to talk
with animals in all walks oflife, here and in spirit your
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animals, others animals, wildanimals but you will be signing
up for new friendships, some ofwhich may just last you the rest
of this lifetime.
You will be signing up for anawakening into a new level of
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self-awareness, your innerguidance system, your intuitive
operating system that has alwaysbeen there and is simply
waiting for you to go into yourapplications.
Look for the folder, click onit, download it, install it and
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take it for a test drive, and Iam honored to serve as your
mentor, your guide and your headcheerleader for this journey,
because when you say yes toanimal communication adventure,
I say yes to supporting you 150%every step of the way.
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So I do hope that you willconsider joining us and I look
forward to connecting with youagain in two weeks for a fresh
new episode of let's Talk toAnimals.
Okay, you have my heart, all mylove, and bye for now.
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