Developing the connection with your pet
Hearing your pet intuitively is a simple as being quiet.
Simple. Not easy.
It takes practice and patience to develop the skill of understanding your own intuitive voice first, then being able to listen to hear another being. It is the delicate balance of making the effort, but not trying too hard.
If you don’t try at all then you’ll never devlope the skill. You have to take action to get any results at all. But this isn’t something you can do through effort. It’s the delicate balance of the wuwei concept that comes from the ancient Chinese, which can be translated into “effortless action.” Learning to be still and allow information takes practice, but too much effort will block the information from coming. Second guessing yourself and questioning every thought that floats through your mind will prevent you from hearing the actual information coming from your own intuition, let alone what’s coming from your pet (or anther being).
It's like a blooming flower - you can't force a flower to bloom. There are lots of things you can do to create optimal conditions for the flower to bloom, but it will still bloom in its own time. Creating optimal conditions is important, and necessary, but standing over the plant begging it to bloom won’t create blooms any faster, and wastes a lot of energy in the process.
Learning to hear your pet is about creating those optimal conditions which allow the space to hear your pet. Then it's up to your pet - they can choose what to say, or not say, from there.
It’s not really any different from human conversations. When you are in a busy place with lots of people, like a restaurant or coffee shop, you can choose to listen to conversations around you, or not. There may be several different conversations going on simultaneously, and you could try to listen to all of them, or pick one specific conversation to focus on. You can listen to only the person who you are with, or even choose to ignore everyone.
Intuitive conversations are very similar. It depends on how focused you are on ‘hearing’ things, and even how rested and well (or not) you are feeling. And just like human conversations, the being you are attempting to connect with may or may not want to converse.
I do find that most of the time our animal companions are thrilled to connect so there’s rarely a problem with striking up a conversation together. But it would be rude to make the assumption that they are always in the mood to talk, just like it is rude to expect another human to want to talk all the time, too. But just like humans, sometimes some of them want to connect so badly, or feel their message is so important that they will “butt in” and insist on connecting, regardless of when or what is happening at the time.
Check the next post for tips on how to practice connecting with your pet!
