Learning How to Communicate with Animals
The Workshop Experience
Many of us feel a yearning to make a conscious connection with animals, and want to be able to communicate with them and understand them on a deeper level. I know that is what set me on the path toward developing my telepathic abilities, and becoming a professional animal communicator. At the request of my clients, I began to offer introductory classes in animal communication in 1999, and it has been exciting to help other animal lovers discover their own telepathic ability.
Like any new skill, telepathy requires practice and one should not expect to develop proficiency overnight. That said, it has been exciting to witness many people being able to make a telepathic connection with an animal during the course of a one-day workshop. All that seems to be necessary is an open mind and a strong desire to learn from the animals.
At my very first workshop, we began with a simple exercise on mind to mind telepathy between one person and another. I asked people to pair up and designate one person to send a mental picture, and the other to receive that mental picture. I asked the participants to close their eyes and guided them through some simple mind relaxation exercises. Then they practiced sending colors, emotions and objects mentally from one person to another. When I asked them to imagine sending an object, one pair successfully sent and received a blue sapphire. Another pair similarly transmitted and interpreted a pink newborn baby. Excited by these successes, the group felt ready to move on to the animals.
Using my five animal companions as subjects, the workshop participants were able to discern accurate details about their personalities, likes, dislikes, ages and histories. Since the students were not previously acquainted with my animals, it was exciting for me to validate that much of the information they received was accurate.
One bit of information a woman received when communicating with my cat was particularly surprising and amusing. The day before the workshop, I had done a communication session with a dog that was originally from France but currently living in Los Angeles. During the session, the dog communicated that he preferred France to LA, and said that the animals had more freedom there, and could go to restaurants, on trains and busses, and basically gave me the general impression that animals had it better in France.
So the next day at the workshop, I was astounded and more than slightly amused when a participant who chose to communicate with my cat told the group, “Well, this is kind of a silly thing, but the cat said she wants to go to France”!
So then I shared with the workshop group the story about the French dog I had communicated with the day before. Together we pondered the significance; had my cat listened in on the whole telepathic conversation? Perhaps little cats have big telepathic ears!
There are a few points to remember when learning to communicate with animals. First of all, it helps to quiet your mind. Usually people are very busy thinking and worrying about past and future events. To pick up telepathic impressions, you need to be “in the now” and have your mind free and clear of your own thoughts, so you are able to pick up on the thoughts of another animal.
Try to communicate with animals you don’t already know, and ask someone who knows the animal to validate what you receive. This will help you determine that you really did get the information telepathically.
Finally, try to be open minded and not judgmental of the information you receive from the animal. It may not make sense to you, but it could be meaningful to the person that lives with the pet. I know I’ll always be grateful to the workshop participant who bravely related; “Your cat says she wants to go to France”!
