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Welcome to can Operate, the consciousnesstransforming podcast for exceptional twenty first century living
folks. I am so excited we'regoing to be actually speaking to an animal
communicator today. Joan Ranclick is goingto talk about her latest book, and
that's Emotional Freedom Technique for Animals andtheir Humans, creating a harmonious relationship through
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tapping. Now, most of youprobably know about EFT for humans. I
use it all the time, hadn'tthought about using it on my fur baby.
So she's going to talk to usabout this process and how it works
for our animal friends and if foran animal lover, which most of you
who listen in our it's going tobe really important that you pay attention to
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this show. Now. The informationshared I get over it uses intuitive and
pragmatic insight to help you shift yourconsciousness to break through the blocks and release
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third generation Intuitive, but over threedecades of experience, supporting people to break
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revealing cutting edge information that enables youto prosper and thrive. I spent
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my guest today, Animal communitiicator JoanRunkheat is an energy healer, ted X
speaker, author and founder of Communicationwith All Life University, a certification program
for animal communication and energy healing.She lives with her three horses, three
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dogs, and fourcats in Santa Clarita, California, and you can check her
out on her website, and that'sJoan Rankhead dot com. Jo A n
r A n quet dot com.Welcome John, thank you, thank you
so much for having me. Iloved I love what you do, so
it's really fun to connect with thesynergy going on. H Yeah, absolutely
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absolutely. Yeah. Now am Ipronouncing your last name correctly? I didn't
ask before rebird recording? Yes?Okay, cool, Okay, So your
book EFT Technique for Animals. Firstof all, for those who don't know,
explain what EFT is and then theanimal component please okay, So EFT
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Emotional Freedom Technique. Tapping is atechnique immodality, if you will, where
you tap with your fingers on acupressurepoints that are specifically in a sequence,
and these specific points are very calmingpoints. And if you know anything about
acupressure. Acupressure, the acupressure pointsthat are chosen, like I said,
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are calming, but acupressure points areconnected to meridians, and those meridians are
conected to organs, and those organsare connected to In traditional Chinese medicine,
they believe that the organ systems areconnected to emotions. So the specific points
that are chosen for EFT when wedo tapping on ourselves are on the face
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and there and a little bit onthe chest and a little bit on the
body, but primarily on the face, and they are all calming, feel
good, relaxing points. So thetheory is, if you tell if you're
triggered by something, upset by somethingthat you might you know you have PTSD
over something. If you think aboutthat experience and it keeps re triggering you,
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if you were to do EFT aroundthat experience and story and those emotions,
you would be telling a challenging storywhile tapping on feel good points.
And what ends up happening is itbrings the nervous system down, so eventually
you can still remember the story,but you're not triggered by it. That
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was a very long version and veryclear. Yeah, so the same thing
is true with the animals. Andthe great thing about the animals is like,
for example, I mean you're youknow, I've been an animal communicator,
You've been an intuitive consultant forever.So you know, we see people
that resist, and it's not thatanimals don't resist, but we can see
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people, you know, where theycome to us, and they might be
skeptical about coming to us, butyou know, and eventually that goes away.
But animals don't doubt whether energy workworks or not. Right, they
just they're like they're all in.Yes, they do accept it. So
that's absolutely wonderful. Now you previouslyyou've worked and probably still do. I
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don't know with humans with the EFT. How did you make the transition?
What sparked this change? Well,what I mean, so I had always
been an animal communicator in my waythat I when I first got trained and
certified, I worked with humans thathad had experiences that were preventing them from
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being closer or moving forward with theiranimals. So if somebody had had a
dog where let's say they walked outsidewith a cute little boxer and the boxer
got attacked one day and they carrieda lot of fear in their nervous system,
the human did because of what happened. And then every time the dog
went out after that, the dogwould then be the attacker. I worked
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on the person so that they weren'tyou know, triggering from the other side
of the leash or looks, say, someone who had fallen off their horse
and was afraid to get back on. I would do, you know,
I would tap with the human sothat they would drop the fear and be
able to get back on their horse. And then one day I had a
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client call me, and he wasa horse trainer, and he said,
this horse, who had also beena client of mine, was very large
horse. I was living in Floridaat the time. He was at a
horse show and he was in thewarm up ring, so working out,
getting ready for his you know,to jump, and there were a lot
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of ponies in the arena, andhe he was going after the ponies like
like open mouthed, dinosaur looking teethgoing after ponies with girls. And so
I said to the trainer, youknow I can I can talk to him
on the phone. You know,I do as an animal communicator. You
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know, we probably work on thephone all the time. So um,
he said, no, you need, you need to come out and help
us. This is really really bad. And this was in about two thousand
and four, and so I'd donea lot of work with humans up until
that point with the e FT,and so I thought, all right,
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I kind of dropped everything and wentout there. And it really was brightening
when I saw the horse going afterthe ponies. I'd never seen anything like
it. So I said, let'slet's go down in this barn aisle and
see if we can find out whyhe's doing this. So we were.
I communicated with him, and thesense I got was that this horse had
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been weaned from his mother too youngand was raised left in a field with
ponies for a while. And theowner actually confirmed that something like that had
happened, and the ponies really pickedon him, and the bigger he got,
he didn't realize that he was,you know, large and in charge
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and way bigger than these ponies.Right, so the ponies were still a
threat to him. So what Idid, I just thought, what the
heck, what do I have tolose? What if I tried this on
him? And and so I knewI had studied accupressure in the nineties and
I knew all the points, soI thought, I'm going to use the
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same points that we use for humans. And I just tapped on him about
how you know, I hate ponies. This is so scary. They were
mean to me. And then wemade a transition into I don't want to
be this guy. I just wantto do this horse show. I wanted
to have fun with my people,and by the end of it, he
was really relaxed. He went outthere and he was not as he wasn't
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as threatened by the ponies. Hewould look at them, he kind of,
you know, with the whites ofhis eye. He would kind of
be like, you stay over there. But eventually he moved into a barn
where he lived across the aisle froma pony. And even later on in
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life, he was retired next toa pony and they were seen grooming each
other. So all, yeah,one tapping had the happiest ending of all.
That is amazing, how that thetapping shifted that animal. Yeah,
and this can happen with any animalthat we work with, if the animals
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having any sort of issues. Buthow do you know, I mean in
that instance, you kind of knewokay. But in other instances, like
some you have a dog and adog is just yawning all the time.
I mean, sometimes you can takethat as a sign of yawning as being
like relaxed and chill, but othertimes there might be something wrong. So
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how do you know the difference?How do you know when to take action?
So I mean, I think inthe case of a dog yawning,
I would look around at all ofthe other activity and see, you know,
is the dog normal in every otherway? And then I might think,
is there something going on in thejaw? But if I if I
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were you know, I obviously I'man animal communicator and that's my first my
first day job in this whole thing, so I can always ask. But
in the book, I have alot of investigation, investigative kind of little
questions you can ask yourself or evenclose your eyes and ask yourself on behalf
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of your animal and you know,maybe there's something else going on in the
body, Maybe there's something that theyou know, animal is afraid of,
and it's just kind of putting themselvesin the corner and yawning to kind of
ignore the rest of the world.So I think when you start asking yourself
those questions on behalf of the animal, you get to the main emotions and
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that's when you can you know.Then I have the tapping charts. Everything's
in there for a beginner to trywith their with their own animal. Yeah.
Well, I have to share withyou that. You know, we
just passed the fourth of July afew days ago and my dog Mercedes,
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she just freaks out. And youknow, I always go to the bed
and get tranquilizers, and I hategiving them to her because I mean,
you can tell her she's drunk,you know, and she's wobbly and shaky
and everything. So I actually pulledout this book and did the EFT with
her for Fear and Noise, andshe went from being startled at one hundred
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down to about thirty five. Andto me, that was a big win.
That's huge, That is huge,and I didn't have to give her
the tranquilizers and watch her suffer andwhatever. So I, folks, if
you have animals, any type ofanimals, and they're bothered by noise,
I found the EFT to work.And I just read her book and followed,
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you know what she said in thebook, So this can have a
very very positive effect. Now inyour book, you talk about, um,
the seven blue ribbon emotions, andthen you've already said emotions are kind
of connected to the organs. Sowhat are the seven blue ribbon emotions and
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how do we work with them orkind of just let them go? Well,
like humans, um, we sharea lot of these emotions. Um,
if you look at like rage,panic, those are kind of some
of the bigger ones. Um.Then there's you know, lust, hair,
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um play now what panic? Panic? Yeah? And seeking and seeking,
I mean seeking is I think it'sso funny when I started studying this.
I actually studied this for my secondbook, Emotional I'm sorry, Energy
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healing for animals, um, yearsand years ago. And when I thought
about seeking, it's like, ohmy god, I am a seeker.
I've I've you know, been aseeker of spiritual things. I'm a seeker
of adventure. And so I reallyidentify with that now with my animals.
When I'm out on a walk andI'm on a hurry, in a hurry,
you know, I kind of don'twait. They've got to just be
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seekers for a minute. Let themsmell. So I really I'm seeking is
one of my favorite things because it'slike when you were asking about if that
dog was in the corner of yawningand yawning and yawning, like is that
dog normally a seeker? That that'skind of where I would go with that.
But yeah, So those those areall things that we absolutely share with
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the animals. And of course there'smore nuanced feelings and I go into that
in my second book. But thereason I break it down so simply in
this way is that when you're workingwith an animal and you want to help
them release, like for example,your dog, Miss City, I would
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guess that if you did this afew more times, you're going to get
that thirty five down to zero.And because you know, we were lucky
with Shakespeare the horse that we gotit down to we didn't quite get it
down to zero, but it wasenough to work with it. Eventually he
let it go, and I sometimesthere's a miraculous response, and sometimes there's
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a that is good enough for meresponse, and eventually they start to let
it go. And so the thingslike I put the seeking in the play
in there because those are things thatwhen you're trying to help them move past
something. It's something to look forwardto, right, Like we can go
out and tell something yummy, orwe can you know, here's a ball.
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So playing with those those main emotionskeep it really simple because what we
tend to do as humans is complicated. Right. We'll say, oh,
this dog was adopted and then hewent to a different home, and then
he went to forty five more things, and it's like, at the bottom
line, he's just grieving that lasthome, and when he starts to release
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the grief, he'll be seeking him, you know. But we will go
into story all day long. Okay. Now, another point you covered in
your book was that there are twonervous systems in our homes. And when
I first saw this subtitle about like, hum, you know, what could
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that possibly be? And then I, before reading the section, I tied
it into the human nervous system runningaround and then the animal nervous system.
So is that what you wanted?I'm pretending I didn't read that in the
books of the audience. Yeah,yeah, absolutely. And why I love
to going back to the big story, if you will, is if that
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we tell about our animals, alot of times we will work enmeshed with
our animals and we won't recognize.Like, let's say you're anxious about something
and your dog happens to be someone. Oh, like, let's say it's
fourth of July and your dog hasanxiety around the big booms. You know,
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you want to make sure that you'rerecognizing their specific emotions about their thing
and not making it about us,which is what we love to do.
Also, well, we love We'revery antipocentric, so we love to say,
oh, my dog's mirroring me.And while you and your dog may
share a certain emotion or a certainexperience, your dog also has its own
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history. That's feed why they mightbe acting out with anxious behaviors, and
you want to really, you know, specifically address that. So do you
feel and this is kind of anoff the wall question, but do you
feel that dogs reincarnated dogs? Ithink that we all reincarnate all over the
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map, I think, I meanmeaning I think I've been a horse a
few times, a dog a fewtimes. God knows, I've been a
dolphin. So I think that wetend to come back into our soul family
and we tend to keep connecting,you know. But when I got this
one dog who's now twelve. Itwas just a couple of years after my
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dad had died. And while Idon't think she's necessarily my dad, I
think my dad had a hand inme getting her. And there was a
look in her eyes that whenever hadcousins or my aunt come over, I
would have Delilah look at me acertain way, and that I'd show the
picture of my dad and I'd say, look, he's back, and my
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cousins would all see it and belike, oh my god, that's scary.
Yeah, okay, I want tocover another subject that is hot in
the news these days, and it'sservice animals and emotional support animals. First
of all, do you make adistinction between the two, and if so,
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what and then how do we helpthose animals should they become blocked,
especially if they become blocked in away that they're supposed to help us.
You know, that's such a greatquestion. So, first of all,
I do make a distinction, becauseservice animals generally have been trained to do
something like help somebody who might bein a wheelchair, to be able to,
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you know, turn it on andoff the lights, maybe get stuff.
Other service animals are alerted to youknow, an insulin response for a
diabetic. I have a lot ofa lot of guide dog clients. So
those are what I would consider serviceanimals, and then emotional support animals.
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And then there are service animals thatwork with extreme cases of PTSD, like
for veterans. Then there are youknow, emotional support dogs, which a
lot of people can go get theiranimal trained as an emotional support dog,
and I hope they're not just buyingthe vest on the innerwebs and are actually
going through with it, because itis really important that those dogs are kind
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of ambassadors, if you will,when they're like if they're on an airplane
and there's another dog getting on.I've been on an airplane where two emotional
support dogs were growling at each otherand it was rather unpleasant. Yeah yeah,
So I mean I think people haveto really take the emotional support jobs
seriously, right, because if youwant to claim that the then really go
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through all the processes. But so, the thing I think about with animals
is dogs in particular, they sleepof many, many many, many,
many many many hours a day andwhat like, you know, their ancestors,
the wolves are probably somewhere tucked intotheir little den right now, they're
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not out roaming around. They'll getout a little later, but they sleep
a lot. So I feel likeEFT could really help because we don't want
our animals to be and I'm sayingthis in air quotes on all the time,
like if you have an emotional supportdog or a service dog, I
hope that you know your animal hasa fair amount of time off and if
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whether it does or not, itstill has an enormous amount of responsibility.
And that becomes kind of what Irefer to a lot in the book pressure
and pressure can be good sometimes howwe make a change. It's it's you
know, it's it's how we getstuff done. But it also can break
down the system or create a block, as you said, And so yeah,
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EFT could be very powerful for ananimal that has to be on more
often than not. What I've donea lot at e FT with another form
of service animals are the horses attherapeutic riding centers that you know they take
they take on a lot because allof them, anybody that fits in that
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category, they want to do theright thing. You know, that's part
of their essence, it's part ofwho they are, So you know,
if we're not setting them up perfectlyor they feel like they can't help someone
it, you know, it wearson them and then they feel disjointed and
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they're just not performing well. Iguess yeah. I mean it's like any
of us that kind of don't feellike we're in purpose. M Okay,
let's talk about your website for amoment. Both. You can go to
Joan Ranquet. That's joa in ra in quet dot com. John,
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What are we going to find there? What programs are you're offering. Give
us a deep dive into your websiteand what you're offering. So I always
say I'm a school. I've becomea school. Um, I'm I have
everything from books, digital classes allthe way to certification programs and animal communication
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and energy healing. And I havealso I take people on wildlife trips and
yeah, so those are the kindof the three big categories for me is
books, trips, and classes.And I have everything from like an EFT
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boot camp virtual boot camp at theend of July too, you know,
certification and emotional freedom technique and teacha lot. I've always got animal communication
going on, and in those certificationprograms we deal with death and dying,
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and we've worked with animals and sanctuaries. Yeah, it's huge, it's I
could take all day explaining it.But one of the more exciting things that
we're doing in the school is we'reusing this technique to work with shelters and
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rescues. So we're we're creating aprogram for shelters that have you know,
unadoptable animals, and we're going I'mstarting the pilot pro program first week of
August. I'm flying to Michigan toTraverse City Humane Society and working with the
staff there and training them to dothis work, to be able to help
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the staff, the volunteers, andthe animals all heal so that the animals
can go out and get forever homes. M okay, well, let me
ask you a question. My sonhas a dog and he's quite um a
dog. He's aggressive when he's atmy house. I feed him. He
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will bite me when he's not pleased. I wanted in his dish. Um
can eft help an animal like that? Absolutely? How? Girl? Well?
Um, I mean I could.I I'm trying to think of how
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we could do this. I mean, now, you don't have to ya,
you know, you don't have todo the EFT on the animal.
I'm just asking in like an overview, how can we help an animal who
is so afraid until it lashes outall the time. So there's several ways
I would do it. Number one, you know, I would work with
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an animal communicator and find out whatis underlying all of it. Then I
would do the EFT, and thenI would do the EFT with your son.
And I would also then bring ona trainer. And so you know,
a lot of times when one ofthe reasons I broke down behaviors as
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specifically as I did in the bookis you know, if the dog is
already afraid and your son is nota good leader so to speak, and
I'm talking about an emotional leader.Like if the dog is trying to help
your son in a million ways andyour son is like, yeah, I've
got this, but he doesn't reallyengage in that way of keeping the dog
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safe, then the dog is justgoing to continue to react. A lot
of we often think that the dogis protecting their people, but the truth
is they're they're protecting themselves because thereare a lot of mixed messages and they
have no other way of kind ofbreaking through and saying I can't I don't
understand. Interesting. I had neverreally thought about it that way, because,
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as you said, we think aboutanimals and their protection to us.
In fact, many people will pickan animal as their totem animal, and
you know that's protecting. But eventhe totem animals, I guess if you
have one around, a live onearound, you would feel the same way.
Absolutely. You know it's an exchange. They got the superpower of into
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of instinct, and we got thesuperpower of logic, and somehow we have
to kind of come together. MWell, they are great teachers for telepathy.
I'll tell you that Miss Sadie willsit and look at me, and
certain looks mean certain things. I'mlike, okay, here it comes to
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food, Here comes the potty,here comes or whatever it is that she's
asking for, because she will makethat known. So let's say someone wants
to go down the path they've lovedhearing you talk today, they want to
go down the path of becoming ananimal communicator. How do they connect with
you? How long? It's theprocess, it's everything from I mean,
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like I said, I have digitalclasses up to online. If people are
really serious about the whole what Icall the big program, but it's called
an Animal mastery program. It's honestly, it's about a two year program.
But in the two years, you'vedone a number of case studies, You've
talked a well over two hundred andfifty animals. You've done eft or scally
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way with almost another two hundred andfifty animals. So the experience and the
breadth of knowledge that a graduate walksout with sets them up for a pretty
pretty great career. I have graduatesdoing amazing things right now. So,
um, the world needs more helpers. So I'd love to help people get
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started. And I have smaller certificationprograms too that are about a year long.
Okay, So if you're definitely havea love of animals, folks in
you want to help them? Um, this is a program to follow.
Now, what about you know,catching the wild rabbit in the backyard or
whatever. Can this work with youknow, what we consider wild animals these
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days? Or is it best justto stay away? You know? Um,
I'm I'm a believer in just beingin commune with wildlife. But I'll
tell you I had a situation wherethere was a raven with a severely broken
wing, and by just staying reallycalm and using a lot of the grounding
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techniques, I was able to catchhim and get him to a wildlife center,
and I used the techniques you know, on wildlife trips, we're able
to really have so many animals comecloser to our jeep than any. I
just got back from India and theguides we were with were just blown away
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with how many tigers we saw,how many tiger encounters we had, and
we just really do a simple littlemeditation that I lead and get quiet and
appreciate, and the next thing youknow, tigers are practically rubbing their butt
up against the jeep. I mean, yeah, it's crazy. I have
pictures that I still I almost can'tbelieve that was me, that was there
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a month ago. Is fantastic.Do you have any other trips coming up
where you're working with animals. Ihave, Well, like I said,
I'm going to the Humane Society whereI'm going to actually be topping with a
lot of animals and the staff,and then I have a trip to Zimbabwe
in November and then Thailand in May, and then I'm working on a few
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more things like snow leopards and jaguarsand Rwanda for gorillas. Yeah, I
got a lot of trips up mysleeve. Well, a lot of trips
and a lot of healing going on. You know. They always talk about
how do you change the world asone person at a time, and with
you was one animal at a time. So I honor you when I appreciate
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the work that you have been doing. One thing before I let you go.
You know, you can I havedogs in the house, not cats,
but you can you know, scratchthem or rub them in a certain
area and you get you know,this response from them is that there feel
good point And if so, um, is that a good thing for us
to do with them? Or shouldwe just leave that alone and let them
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find that good spot for themselves?No, I think that, you know,
finding that good spot for them justgives everybody joy, right h even
though like my one dog can belike okay, keep doing it all day,
Um, you don't have anything elseto do. So it's uh No,
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I think that that just kind ofbrings up the joy in in both.
But also often you know, IM there are points in the body
that not just you know that feelsgood to them. It feel might feel
good for a reason, like youknow, it could be that that that
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part of their back is sore,and so what you're actually doing is bringing
in a lot of circulations. Sodefinitely okay, So love on the animals,
folks, give them some massages,and learn to listen to them.
I mean, if nothing else fromthis talk, that's the big thing that
I got is learning to listen,pay attention, and then help them the
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best that you can. Joan,I really appreciated your time today. Thank
you so so much. Thank you. I love what you do, so
I think it's I'm really honored thatyou that you picked me. You know,
hey, but people come together,that's the name of the game.
And folks, I'm listening. Itruly appreciate your time and attention, and
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I'm always blown away that you taketime out of your very busy schedule to
listen. But everyone, please rememberthat the most important choice that you can
make is what you choose to makeimportant. Consider making the messical choice of
learning e FT for animals. Andwhen the Blessing Splaighton left the ark a goopy