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Ernie was a magnificent black and white cat who lived his days in his person’s pet grooming shop in Boston for many years of his life. He was intelligent, ornery, opinionated, handsome, charming and stole my heart. I truly do love all my clients, animal and human alike. But once in awhile a particular animal will crawl right to the center of my heart and stay. Ernie did this. When we first connected I fell unabashedly in love.

During our first conversation he told me “This is MY shop.” “Why then,” his person asked, “do you occasionally knock over all the shampoo bottles and pet food bags on display which makes such a chaotic mess?” “To get your attention!” Ernie exclaimed. “ Sometimes you and the others here thank me, as you should, for doing my job, and sometimes you don’t even notice!! It makes me angry.”

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The role of healer is a sacred trust in which the healer holds the space for another to find their own way. A healer's role is to shed light on another's path, not to push them onto the path we think they should take, or to even gently tell them which path to take. A healer's job is to merely shed light, however lovingly and skillfully, so others can find their own way.

Whatever skills, gifts, abilities or healing modalities we have to offer, they must always be given only with the permission of the client, and must fit the needs and goals of the client. In a client-centered, empathy based approach to animal communication and healing, we meet the clients where they are, not where we are, or where we want them to be or think they should be.

Our spiritual maturity and poise as healers and our ability to create a healing presence for our clients is heightened when we refrain from imposing our judgments, values or favorite healing modalities and solutions, and rather, trust in the wisdom of the other being's soul as we offer our gifts and abilities.

Animal Communication Technique: A Ten Second Process to Help You Shape Behavior and Send Love

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Consider using this simple but powerful technique below to lovingly reinforce the behavior change that has been discussed in your consultation. You do not need to be in a perfect meditative state to use this technique! However, it is important that you do it at a time when you are not particularly stressed, anxious or deeply preoccupied with other thoughts.

Having a Conversation WITH an Animal vs. Doing a Reading ABOUT an Animal

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The focus of my consultations is on creating interactive, mutually respectful conversations versus one way "psychic readings" of an animal's energy of message. A good psychic reading is like getting a clear, detailed picture. While such a picture can provide helpful information and clues for people about their animals, they are also, unfortunately, often filled with lots of assumptions or the readers' personal interpretations about what the psychic "picture" means. Traditional psychic readings often include direct advice or imposed solutions about what the recipient should "do."

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1. Deliberately spend regular time listening intuitively in all areas of your life. We must learn what intuitively derived information feels like compared to logical information and to trust it. To build and deepen your trust in intuitively derived information, you must learn what this feels like in all areas of your life, not just animal communication. Listen for the small and big messages from inside, the ones that may or maynot jive with what is logical, but you know they are right for you: no, these are not the right shoes to buy; this is the house for us—I just know it;

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For satisfaction to occur in any professional exchange, it helps to begin with clear expectations and boundaries of the service provided. It is my goal and sincere intent that each client I work with feels respected, listened to, cared about and comfortable during a consultation, and, that at the completion of the session they feel their goals for the discussion have been met.

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Along with the love and joy, living with beings of different species can present challenges. The cultures of every species, our natural ways of living on the earth, vary greatly. Behavioral problems often occur when an animal acting naturally according to their culture (e.g. barking or digging, jumping up in greeting, or sharpening little claws in our furniture), clashes with our preferred way of living (e.g., wanting peace and quiet, a yard without gaping holes, or an unfrayed sofa).

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It had been such a long time. Such a long time since I had seen him. Over a year at least. I wasn't prepared. I just wasn't prepared for what happened. As we approached his corral he ran to me. Oh God the sight of him—still as sleek and beautiful to me as Black Beauty in his prime. How could he possibly be over 30! He's just gorgeous. Bless him, he wasn't angry that it had been so long. He let me stroke his face even more than when I had seen him every week--and let me kiss his face, something he had never allowed before.

When two animals of different species who are typically prey and predator demonstrate obvious affection for each other, it doesn’t just surprise us, it usually melts our hearts. It’s such a model for us as humans about what peaceful coexistence can be, about the possibilities that lie within each of us to overcome traditions and expectations of who we are supposed to love, who is supposed to be friend or foe, and to just love.

Such is the case with a dog named Cowboy and his gopher friend Melvina.