Animal communication clients who call me about missing pets are in a state of panic. It’s natural to feel intense pain when you think you’ll never see your pet again, or that s/he might be trapped in a horrible hand of fate. Panic constricts us from connecting to our inner knowing and peace of mind. […]
The Human-Animal Connection
How Animal Communication is a Spiritual Experience
With due respect to all faiths and religions, the process of communicating with animals – animal communication – is the same as if you were to talk to God, including possibly needing to get down on your knees with your pet. Once you are in a comfortable position without any distractions, you quiet your mind. […]
Most Essential Way to Ease Our Pets’ ‘End-of-Life’ Transition
The thought of losing a dying pet is excruciating. We project unbearable grief and pity into those beautiful eyes staring back at us, with life still breathing through them. Yet our pets’ end of life transition can be as nature designed: a deeply enriching adventure of letting go for both us and our pets. We […]
When not to Bark Back at Your Barking Dog
If your barking dog seems to be ‘barking at nothing’ or just talking to a neighbor’s dog in the distance, ask your dog in a nice way, to stop barking. It’s that simple. Feeling frustrated and yelling at your dog to shut up will only amp up your dog’s barking in response to your excitation. […]
Human Spirit?
A friend was telling me how great he thinks the human spirit is in reference to the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. It’s amazing how amazed people are when they see how people, after suffering horrific trauma, eventually feel reborn – empowered – with the help of millions of their own species supporting and […]
PBS’ flickering “Human Spark”
Narrator Alan Alda, makes a feeble attempt to make us feel good about defiling the world in the recent PSB video, “The Human Spark” that shows us we have two brain functions–insight and imagination–that separate us from (other)animals.Wrong. I know many non-human animals with insight and imagination capabilities equal to, if not superior to ours. […]
Natural versus normal connection
David Schwartz of WPKN in Connecticut interviewed me on the radio last night regarding my new book, LIKE an ANIMAL: When Being Human is not Enough. In the book I mention that at age four, I turned my attention from a “normal life” to relate more to animals. The radio host interpreted this as a […]
Ask Any Barking Dog
Like any animal, humans have an innate capacity for empathy: the ability to feel in our bodies what someone else is feeling in his/her own body, i.e., suppressed emotions. Sometimes, when I cho0se not to funnel my anger through non-violent communication, I dramatize it much to the chagrin of who(m)ever is within earshot. The good […]
Recycling Pain…
This morning I woke up far from a teardrop of joy in my eye. I felt anchored to the bottom of the sea with lead in my heart. Whenever depressed, I have no other choice but to breathe deep within to find the cause. Usually, the heavy feeling is caused by my thoughts about poor […]
A World No Longer Run by Half-Wits
Some of us connect more easily with animals and nature because we let our intelligence thrive naturally like an animal, in circular all inclusive whole-brain patterns of thought. Free beyond the limitations of exclusive linear logic used by men and women confined to the boundaries of the frontal cortex. If we are ever to become […]
