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WORKING WITH ANIMALS
COMMUNICATION
AND HEALING
This is a subject very close to my heart, having been a professional animal groomer for more than 30 years, and of course, as a current pet owner!
During my career as a groomer, I was able to communicate with the pets coming into my shop, and could understand their needs and work with them (and sometimes their owners), body, mind and spirit.
Animals communicate with us and each other in many ways. They have the ability to connect to humans psychically, and they have their own body language.
Each sound and each body movement an animal makes means something. They express joy, fear, happiness and sadness by the way they act and the noises they make. Dolphins and whales, for instance, use sonar sounds and high-pitched whistles to speak to one another, and even to their handlers when they are in captivity. Birds have different songs and chirps. Cats purr, growl and hiss, dogs bark, whine and growl, and all species have body language that is characteristic of what they are trying to express.
Many people believe that pet owners condition the way their pets behave, and that they assign human emotions to their pets when they do behave in certain ways. The truth of the matter is, that animals do feel emotions and they do express them!
Anyone who has ever watched the wonderful programs on 'The Animal Planet ', can tell you that elephants and other species mourn their dead, mother bears get impatient with their cubs, and baboons are affectionate and loving with their young. Sadness, impatience, love...these are all emotions that some attribute only to human beings. And yet, as scientists continue to study the various species of animals and how they communicate, they realize that they are not discovering something new. Animal communicators and healers have always known that emotions are not just for people.
I have heard many teachings that consider animals to be part of a group soul, not having that individual soul that humans possess. I completely disagree with these teachings. Many times I have seen and felt the soul depart at the death of one of my beloved pets.
All animals belong to soul groups, just as we do. Everyone we have come in contact with during our lives belongs to our soul group. Animals experience their soul groups the same way, whether they are in the wild, in zoos, or in our homes. The animals in kind around them are part of their soul group, not a group soul.
My Guidance, Joshua, tells me that there are larger soul groups than the one to which we or the various animal species immediately belong. He tells me that not only are we part of our own soul group, but we are also part of a larger soul group, and it is from this larger soul group that we receive the lessons we are to learn in this lifetime. These souls are the people (and animals) that come into our lives for just a short while, and when they leave, we are aware of something valuable we have learned from them. Animals also experience the larger soul groups, but their lessons are not as complex as ours.
Communicating and healing are not confined to humans interacting with the various species on this Planet on various levels. Many pets are able to heal their owners through their own gifts of healing.
It is a known fact that owning a pet is good for the physical body as well as the soul. Pets help relieve stress, lift us up when we are down, and seem to know our every mood, and always love us no matter what. They give children the opportunity to learn responsibility and respect, they keep the lonely company, and they serve humanity in special ways.
Dogs for the visually impaired have a special psychic connection with their owners. These remarkable canines are able to sense danger and alert their owners to foreign objects on the sidewalks. During the World Trade Center disaster, one dog in particular led his visually impaired owner down the stairs through debris and fire to bring him and others to safety. Dogs and cats belonging to hearing impaired owners have been known to awaken them to alert them of a fire or a burglar. I have even heard of monkeys being able, without any special training, to assist those who have lost the use of their arms or hands, through sensing their owners' needs.
Most household pets develop a special psychic bond with their owners. They have been known to travel great distances in order to find their "lost" humans. When we scold our pets, they are not sensing the tone or loudness of the voice as much as they are the emotional vibration emanating from their owner. But it is not just our vibration they are sensing. They are also reading our body language!
A significant study shows some animals do possess the ability to reason. Remember Coco, the chimpanzee who signs to her humans? Well, many generations of "Cocos'' are now communicating with their trainers all over the world. Coco and these other chimps demonstrate that animals are able to communicate their needs and thoughts to us and that they also reason, although not on such a highly developed level as their human counterparts. We humans just have to learn to understand them. By the way, subsequent generations of chimpanzees who have been taught to sign, are now teaching signing to their offspring and to other chimps!
I recently heard this true story: There was a baboon in a zoo in Europe that had learned to escape his habitat after his keepers have locked it down for the night. After several attempts to catch the animal in the act, they finally discovered that he was hiding a piece of wire between his gum and lip. After the zookeepers would leave, he would use that wire to pick the lock on his cage and remove himself from it! This is cognitive reasoning and thoughtful creativity, an expression that was once attributed only to man!
Since most people would like to be able to understand their pets better, these pages contain information on communicating with, and using hands-on healing for dogs and cats. These techniques can be applied to every species and every creature, although I do not recommend using your hands to work on animals in the wild!
These pages are dedicated to my kitty companions, Jasmine and Majique, and all of my pets who have gone before. They have all taught me something about animal communication and healing, and I treasure the memory of
each and every one of them to the depth of my soul.
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