Can we communicate with animals?
I first met an animal communicator well over ten years ago when I answered an advertisement in Dogs Today magazine. It was a lady called Barbara Burgess who said she could communicate with pets who had ‘gone to spirit’. I sent her a photograph of Prudence and was very moved by the taped session she sent back to me. She described Pru perfectly, her mannerisms and character, and some incredibly loving emotions. I then sent a photo of Oliver, and got an equally mind-blowing and seemingly accurate tape back.
My next animal communicating experience was with Samson, who had been diagnosed with cancer. The phone rang and it was a friend of a friend who had heard about Sammie; she wanted to help. She started speaking for Sam – how he loved me and was going to do his best to fight the disease. At the time, I was sitting in my office, and Samson was lying asleep in the next room. As the lady started talking, he woke up and sat next to me on the floor, and wagged his tail and barked at me insistently, as if to say, ‘It’s true, I’m really saying this’.
My next encounter was in America, at a holistic dog camp. The communicator asked me to think of one of my dogs, so I thought of Prudence standing on the spot and pacing, wagging her tail. The communicator said, ‘I danced my way through life’. That’s exactly what Prudence did.
As with many things in life, when someone else does something that has a positive effect on you, you open yourself to the possibility that you might be able to do it yourself. So I started being open to the possibility that I, too, could communicate with animals. Actually, we all can if we know how to listen, and have the courage to trust ourselves.
To help Samson with his illness, I took him to see the late Charlie Siddle, an animal healer who worked at Richard Allport’s holistic practice in Potters Bar. Soon after I read an article about a form of healing called Reiki, and how everyone could do it, so I enrolled on a course and became a Reiki healer.
Then I heard about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is an energy therapy which claims to cure all sorts of dis-ease, including migraines, frozen shoulders, arthritis, skin problems, allergies, phobias, fears, and many, many other things. It wasn’t long before I was using EFT to help my dogs – with astounding results.
EFT has taken me on an amazing journey. Imagine someone emailing you from the other side of the world, and asking you to apply EFT to stop their dog being frightened of thunder, and you do it – not knowing whether it will work or not. And then imagine getting a follow-up email from that same person, saying they’ve just had a terrible thunder storm, and the dog didn’t bat an eyelid.
Imagine, too, that all you’ve done is name the problem (Dixie’s thunder phobia), and tapped 13 specific points on your body. That is, you haven’t touched the dog – you haven’t even been in the same room, country or continent as the dog. Imagine also that you’ve had the same kind of response from other dogs you’ve never met in the flesh, who used to fight with other dogs, or have skin problems, or who were obsessive or suffered from a lack of self esteem (ahem, that’s animal communicating for you) . . . and the dogs stopped having these problems after you’d tapped yourself and named their problem.
Imagine how that would open up your mind, and convince you from direct experience that there is far more to this world than we humans think there is.
Today, we live in a world where conventional scientists are convinced that anything other than drugs or surgery is bunkum. They prescribe drugs where proper nutrition would solve the problem at its root. They administer vaccines when correct husbandry would have a far greater and safer effect. They dismiss alternative therapies, closing their eyes and refusing to see them. I feel so sad for them. They are missing out on so much.
So very much is happening out here in the real world. When we take the first step, and open ourselves to learning, our dogs teach us so much more – about nutrition, complementary therapies, and even about the nature of life on this planet, and the huge souls that are dogs.
I think that if you spoke to your dogs, and heard them, they would tell you that they want you to be the greatest you could be, and to explore the world and all of its possibilities with eyes, ears and heart wide open. For it is only in remaining open to life that we can fully live, and help those around us to live.
My next animal communicating experience was with Samson, who had been diagnosed with cancer. The phone rang and it was a friend of a friend who had heard about Sammie; she wanted to help. She started speaking for Sam – how he loved me and was going to do his best to fight the disease. At the time, I was sitting in my office, and Samson was lying asleep in the next room. As the lady started talking, he woke up and sat next to me on the floor, and wagged his tail and barked at me insistently, as if to say, ‘It’s true, I’m really saying this’.
My next encounter was in America, at a holistic dog camp. The communicator asked me to think of one of my dogs, so I thought of Prudence standing on the spot and pacing, wagging her tail. The communicator said, ‘I danced my way through life’. That’s exactly what Prudence did.
As with many things in life, when someone else does something that has a positive effect on you, you open yourself to the possibility that you might be able to do it yourself. So I started being open to the possibility that I, too, could communicate with animals. Actually, we all can if we know how to listen, and have the courage to trust ourselves.
To help Samson with his illness, I took him to see the late Charlie Siddle, an animal healer who worked at Richard Allport’s holistic practice in Potters Bar. Soon after I read an article about a form of healing called Reiki, and how everyone could do it, so I enrolled on a course and became a Reiki healer.
Then I heard about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is an energy therapy which claims to cure all sorts of dis-ease, including migraines, frozen shoulders, arthritis, skin problems, allergies, phobias, fears, and many, many other things. It wasn’t long before I was using EFT to help my dogs – with astounding results.
EFT has taken me on an amazing journey. Imagine someone emailing you from the other side of the world, and asking you to apply EFT to stop their dog being frightened of thunder, and you do it – not knowing whether it will work or not. And then imagine getting a follow-up email from that same person, saying they’ve just had a terrible thunder storm, and the dog didn’t bat an eyelid.
Imagine, too, that all you’ve done is name the problem (Dixie’s thunder phobia), and tapped 13 specific points on your body. That is, you haven’t touched the dog – you haven’t even been in the same room, country or continent as the dog. Imagine also that you’ve had the same kind of response from other dogs you’ve never met in the flesh, who used to fight with other dogs, or have skin problems, or who were obsessive or suffered from a lack of self esteem (ahem, that’s animal communicating for you) . . . and the dogs stopped having these problems after you’d tapped yourself and named their problem.
Imagine how that would open up your mind, and convince you from direct experience that there is far more to this world than we humans think there is.
Today, we live in a world where conventional scientists are convinced that anything other than drugs or surgery is bunkum. They prescribe drugs where proper nutrition would solve the problem at its root. They administer vaccines when correct husbandry would have a far greater and safer effect. They dismiss alternative therapies, closing their eyes and refusing to see them. I feel so sad for them. They are missing out on so much.
So very much is happening out here in the real world. When we take the first step, and open ourselves to learning, our dogs teach us so much more – about nutrition, complementary therapies, and even about the nature of life on this planet, and the huge souls that are dogs.
I think that if you spoke to your dogs, and heard them, they would tell you that they want you to be the greatest you could be, and to explore the world and all of its possibilities with eyes, ears and heart wide open. For it is only in remaining open to life that we can fully live, and help those around us to live.