five tips for a closer relationship with animals

 Have you been thrilled to experience animals up close and personal? Maybe dogs or cats come up to you, or a wild animal comes close to get acquainted. Here are five tips that come up most frequently when I teach animal communication and help people develop a closer relationship with their beloved animal friends.

soften your energy

Because we humans are members of the predator category of animals, our energy can be quite focused and intense. Birds, horses, bunnies, and other prey animals are very sensitive to a predator’s targeted intention. Here’s a tip to help you soften your energy. Imagine that your focused energy is a balloon located in your dantien, the energy center just below and behind your navel. Imagine slowly deflating that balloon. At the same time, slowly inflate the balloon that is your heart. SLOW is the key. Bursts of energy like excitement will startle most animals (and children).

Visualize What You Want The Animal To Do

When training an animal, or asking a wild animal to trust your presence, visualize what you WANT that animal to do, not what you DON’T want them to do. Animals communicate telepathically and will “read your mind” to get a sense of what you want.

Communicate With Your Heart

Because telepathic communication happens energetically, it is basically communication between hearts or spirits—yours and the animal’s. If your emotional heart is closed, nervous, anxious, ungrounded, or preoccupied, an animal will likely avoid contact with you if they have a choice. The fastest way to calm is to call upon the trees, a forest, a beach, a mountain, or another place in nature, consciously connecting with the earth. Become part of the woods or water or wind and your heart will calm, open, soften so that you can invite wildlife into your presence and help it to feel safe with you.

Appreciate Your Animal

We all like to be appreciated. The animal (and even plant) members of your family like to be appreciated, too, and recognized for their contributions. At times, these contributions are obvious, like your cat catching mice, or your dog comforting you on a bad day. Other times, we really don’t have a clue what is happening with our animal or plant friends. Even if you don’t know, talk to them as though you do. Thank them daily and acknowledge their contribution to the household, to your life, even if it isn’t clear what they are doing. You will definitely feel the closer relationship that ensues.

Stay In The Moment

This past year has been one of great losses for many of us. So many animals have departed as we begin new cycles in our lives, and we have experienced intense sadness and grief. When the time comes, and your beloved friend is preparing to leave, try not to go into anticipatory grief. If we begin to grieve, we come out of the moment with the animal and may miss the beauty and special closeness that comes near the end. An animal communicator can help provide hospice check-ins or clear communication to support you through the uncertainty of this time. Staying present, moment to moment, will give you a rich closeness at the end of life and, in many cases, beyond.