5 Things You Must Start Doing to Use Your Intuition to Care for Your Pet

In this episode, learn five key habits you simply must cultivate if you want to deepen your relationship with your pet and tap into intuitive guidance for their care.

As you listen, you will discover.....

• How energy moves to help you receive intuitive information from your pet
• The difference between companionable separation and true connection
• Tips to shift your perspective to see life from your pet's point of view
• How to spot signs that your pet parent intuition is sending you a message
• How to build a new neural pathway that defaults to trusting your intuition

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Big Idea
• 2:13 Why Your Bond Beats Credentials
• 6:47 A Hard Lesson: Malty’s Near Miss
• 13:04 Two Channels Of Intuition Explained
• 19:38 Make Time: Focused Daily Connection
• 25:15 Step Into Your Pet’s World
• 32:29 Notice, Test, And Learn From Nudges
• 37:55 Keep Going And Find Your Tribe
• 51:07 Closing, Resources, And Invites

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:04

Welcome back to Let's Talk to Animals, the podcast all species can enjoy together. My name is Shannon Cutz. I am an animal sensitive and intuitive, a Reiki master practitioner, and an animal communication teacher with Animal Love Languages.com. And for our purposes here today, I am also your friendly neighborhood hostess and guide through the wild, wise, and wonderful world of interspecies communication. Call me crazy, but I truly believe that animal communication has the power to save, heal, and restore our planet for all species to enjoy and share. When we learn to communicate with one another, we begin to realize we are so much more alike than different. We care about each other. We become friends. On this podcast, we talk about what the animals have to say and share and why our pets truly are our partners, empathic friends, and teachers. I am so glad you have joined us here for this fresh new episode of Let's Talk to Animals. So let's dive in. Shannon here, and welcome back to Let's Talk to Animals season seven. And on the docket today, we are talking about one of my favorite topics: how to strengthen your intuition for pet care and pet parenting. So essentially, what we're talking about is how can you begin to tune in within yourself through the vibration of the energetic bond that you share with your pet to begin picking up intuitive cues about how your pet is feeling, how they're doing, what they want, what they need, what you might not be able to sense, feel, or perceive through the left brain logical, rational, analytical mind, but you can absolutely tune in through the pathway of the right brain connective, subconscious, intuitive mind. So we are going to dive in. Now keep in mind I've been studying intuition itself and intuition for pet parenting for years now. And if you are right there with me, then everything we talk about today is going to deepen and expand your intuitive toolkit. If you are brand new to intuition or to specifically intuition for pet parenting, which is one of my specializations within the animal communication field, then I want to keep things manageable for you. I don't want to overwhelm you. So we're going to hit the five high points, the key things that you absolutely must begin implementing right away if you want to begin using your intuition as the modern pet parenting superpower that it is to guide you through the very relationship that you share with your pet. You have to remember, sure, the veterinarian on your pet parenting care team, the holistic practitioner, the behaviorist or the trainer, maybe they've got plenty of certifications and lots of years of boots on the ground experience caring for all different animal species under their belts. But no matter how skilled and even compassionate they are, there is one thing that they will never have that you have naturally, which is your pet's complete unconditional trust and love. You are the one with the deepest bond with your pet. And this means that if anybody on your pet's whole pet care and wellness team is going to get the inside track when it comes to what your pet wants and needs, what they're going through, what they want to communicate, it is always going to be you. You're going to get the first insight. You're the one that your pet wants to share anything with. You're the one that your pet feels like they can say anything to, but you may be the member of your pet's care team who has the least practical experience with tuning into your pet parent intuition and trusting it. You also have the most skin in the game. You're the one who cares the most. Absolutely everybody on your pet care team, all the professionals, all the consultants, even folks like myself as an animal intuitive and a Reiki master. Absolutely, we're not in it for the money. We're in it for the love. We're in it for making a difference. We're in it because we care and we care deeply. But you are the one out of all the humans alive on this planet today that your pet chose to spend their life with. They have put their entire safety and well-being and quality of life right into your hands. It blows me away and gives me goosebumps every time when I think about the sacrifices on every level that our pets willingly make to have the chance to be with us, to become our pets, our partners, empathic friends, and teachers in this lifetime. If that isn't awe-inspiring, I don't know what is. They give up everything, where they sleep, when they eat, what they eat, and how much, where they go, who their friends are, what temperature they enjoy, their toys, when they get to go outside, their walks, everything that they would choose independently on their own if they were wild, they give all of that up and more just to be with us. So if you are still listening along and you're like, I'm not quite sure this is the episode for me, maybe I'll just pause it or skip and I'll go listen to something else. That's why I'm sharing this as motivation, as inspiration. And as an Ada girl or atta boy, if you need to hear it today, that you can do this if I can develop my pet parent intuition. You can too. And maybe I should just rewind a few steps back, give you a little bit of backstory about why I am so passionate about teaching you about parenting your pet using your intuition as your superpower. The one tool in your toolkit that nobody else, no matter how well meant, will ever have. You have it in spades. You're just not in the practice of trusting yourself. So I'm going to rewind back to when I adopted my red-footed tortoise, Malty. She is now 11 and a half years old. I have had her since she was a five-week-old hatchling. Tiny. She fit into the palm of my hand. And I do not have a big hand or a big palm. Now she is a whopping 12 or 13 pounds. I haven't weighed her lately, but she's a little mountain. And she's beautiful and she's lively and she has an incredible personality. And most importantly, she is healthy. But I knew nothing. Even though I had kept water turtles for many years when I was younger, I knew nothing about caring for a land tortoise. And when I was in my first year of caring for her, of course I did all the research. Of course, I read the articles. Of course, I poured over habitat choices and all kinds of different things. And I tried to do my very best. Unfortunately, my best wasn't good enough. And Malty developed a respiratory infection. It's very common when reptiles, especially tropical reptiles, do not get enough humidity and proper UV spectrum lighting. But I didn't really know all of that because I thought I was doing all the right things. And so, of course, I go to the vet. The vet I choose is somebody I had worked with before for a different animal species. And so I trusted them a little too much, as it turned out. Because in hindsight, I now know that they didn't have the expertise needed to care for a tropical reptile species. And by the time I realized this, it was several months in. I had been making weekly round trips, 45 minutes each way, to get injections of antibiotics. She was getting worse and worse and worse. And something in me was saying, What you're doing isn't working. Stop doing it. Try something else. But the vet's voice was so loud in my ear, and my conditioning to trust others over myself was so strong that I just kept going back there again and again and again. And I'm watching my tortoise die in front of me. And I'm literally refusing to change anything about what I'm doing and the choices that I'm making. And I'm literally refusing to look outside of the box and recognize that I have other choices out there. After all, I do live in one of the largest cities in America, but I wouldn't listen to my intuition. Obviously, this was all in my pre-animal communication days. I had no idea I was intuitive. I had no idea that I too could talk with animals and have two-way intuitive conversations. None of that was even a gleam in the eye in my life at this time. So finally we reached critical mass. And my mom said, Why don't you take her to this other vet? We happen to have a world-class exotic veterinary practice in my city. And I had been avoiding them because I thought they were just for special cases and special people with unlimited budgets and et cetera, et cetera. I had all of my reasons. And she said, Why don't you take Malty there? And when I did, they told me just how serious it was and that the next 24 hours would tell us everything we needed to know. And would you know within 12 hours? 12 hours, not even 24. We went from expecting Malty to die to making a complete turnaround. She was vibrant, she was active, she was eating, she was eliminating, she was doing all of the things that the other vet couldn't have gotten her to do. And looking back, I could see that for about six months of this horrifying journey, my intuition had been screaming at me to do something different. And I simply refused to listen. Why? Because I wasn't in the habit of trusting me. I wasn't in the habit of dealing myself into my pet's care. My precious pet, the one that I was going into debt to take care of, the one that I was losing jobs because I kept having to go and take her to the vet and take her to the vet and take her to the vet. The one that I was doing everything for, but I wasn't listening within. I wasn't listening to the bond that we had and all the information that she was trying to share with me about mom. This isn't working. You have to try something else, or you're gonna lose me. This is why I am so passionate about teaching you about intuitive pet parenting in 12 hours. My tortoise came back to life again. I found the herpetologist who has been our guide in terms of husbandry and habitat and health and all the things that we now have to do very differently, and especially because she's a very unique case. And I've talked about that more elsewhere. I actually have a whole website and a whole other project about teaching Redfoot tortoise keepers how to take good care of their animals. But for our purposes here, I want you to know that I have never shared that story before here on the podcast or in any animal communication circles. It has been such a bruise on my heart for all these years. Even though that happened seven, eight years ago. And she, even though she doesn't look like a normal red-footed tortoise today, under the shell, she is healthy and happy. And under the shell, she now knows that if anything happens, if she needs anything at all, I am listening on all channels all the time. And that is what I want for you. Whether you can relate to the story I just shared, and you two are in the process of trying to forgive yourself for all the times you haven't trusted your intuition, or you're still in the process of working your way, backtracking through all the signs and realizing, oh my goodness, my intuition was talking to me all along. Now, if only from here forward I can do this differently, then I can make meaning out of this seeming disaster. Or if you're fresh and new, you're maybe you're even caring for your first pet. It happens every day. What an amazing moment in the life of a human and the animal that they choose, and the animal who chooses them. And you just want to do it intuitively. You want to deal your intuition into the pet parenting experience from day one. These five steps that I'm going to give you are part of my regular daily pet care routine. And I encourage you to try them on for size as I present them. One, two, three, four, five, and then make them your own. Remember, from here forward, if you don't hit stop and go visit another podcast episode after this point, you are in. And your intuition has a seat at the table and hopefully has the mic. And so if your intuition is telling you to tweak these five steps, to do things a little differently, to do what works for you, then listen. That's what this process is about. It's not about listening to me as another outside voice in your pet's life and care and doing what I say because, oh, she's the expert. It's about recognizing, no, you were the expert. So do what works for you and the pets that you love. Having said that, we're gonna get started. This is tip number one. And this is a little bit of geeky brain science stuff. So bear with me. When it comes to intuition, we are now recognizing that we're dealing with an energetic two-way connection on two levels. One is that energetic connection, the energy of an embodied life force. You are a soul or a spirit or a frequency or an energy, however you like to look at that, occupying what the animals call these 3D spaces, a physical body. Your physical body gives you lots of bells and whistles that help you not float away out of this 3D earth realm and also to navigate it effectively. Your pet also is a soul or an energy or a frequency or a vibration or however you like to look at that, occupying a physical body, whether that physical body has fur or feathers or scales or a shell or fins or something else. You and your pet are essentially the same. Your costumes, your spacesuits look a little different, but you are essentially constructed in the same basic way. You're an energy, a life force inhabiting a 3D spacesuit body. And the energy that you share is going to feel strongest when you're together. There's so much about just how our 3D brains help our spirit, our soul to process the world that responds to proximity by turning up the volume on our experiences. It's why so many people love to listen to music at top 10 volume because it heightens the experience. So understand that energetically speaking, keeping company with your pet, having close proximity with them, feeling their energy and allowing them to feel and influence your energy, which is part of what intuition is. It's influencing the energetic connection that we share. This aspect does respond to proximity. And we're going to talk about proximity more and a special kind of proximity that you will need to harness to make this work. But that energy that flows between us, it's essentially in its resting state. It's in the form of a wave. It's going back and forth. This has a huge application to the work I do as an animal. Intuitive, if you're getting a little dizzy and you're watching the video version and I'm moving my hands back and forth. But if you're listening to the audio version, imagine I'm circling my hand like it's a wave rolling into shore and back out again, rolling into shore and back out again. And that is always going on between the two of you. It even goes on between you and your animal in spirit. But here we're specifically talking about parenting a pet who's still in a physical body and may have wants, may have needs, may have things going on that they need to talk to you about. It's just giving you a little context for that. And so when the energy solidifies, it solidifies in the form of mass or particles. And this can be really important when you're working with intuition as an energetic relationship you share with your pet. Because if there are blockages in the flow, if there's something going on inside your pet's body that is blocking the flow, sometimes we call that an illness or an injury. Sometimes we just call that getting older. Things are breaking down, they're not working quite as well and smoothly as they used to. That may present as a blockage or a slowing in the energy. And often, if you're tuned in, it may present as a symptom in your body or a sensation or a feeling in your body. This has a lot of application to the work I do as a Reiki master for pets and people. So any disruption or interruption in the force, if you will, this energetic flow that's constantly moving back and forth in between you represents an energetic flow getting transformed into its solid state, which can show up as a blockage. It can show up as discomfort. It can show up as visible evidence. For instance, maybe your pet is scratching their ears, and you think that is what first alerted you to the fact that they've got a growing ear infection. But if you rewind, you may notice that your ears have been feeling a little more sensitive. Or you may notice that you've just been a little bit more curious about their ears, just checking their ears and rubbing their ears, maybe just patting their ears, but not knowing why you're doing that. That can be a form of this energetic two-way flow, alerting you that there's a little bit of a slowdown or a solidification, kind of like construction ahead, or there's an accident. We're down to two lanes on a three-lane highway, that kind of thing. So if you rewind and notice the subtle heads up little signs that may have preceded noticing your dog rubbing their ears on the floor, I use this example because we're going through right now with our dog, then you can notice that the energy itself was trying to alert you to what was going on with your dog because your dog wants you to know they're not saving this as a Secret to tell the vet. And they're not trying to hide it from anyone on a conscious level. And they're not trying to hide it from you because they trust you. Yes, those wild instincts to hide frailties or infirmities are always there. But there's no conscious intent to hide, hence the ear rubbing on the carpet for wherever you're finally seeing it. But when your intuition is turned up, you can start to tune in earlier so you don't end up with a full-blown ear infection. You can just get that early warning sign and just recognize that your pet wants you to know this. And that brings us to number two. Again, a little bit geeky, a little bit sciencey up front, but stick with me. I promise it will get easier from here. Number two, what is not affected at all by distance, by proximity, is information. If you've ever had an experience when you've been, for instance, traveling. I was in Cape Cod with my parents when my tortoise Malty was first developing her respiratory infection. And I just kept getting a bad feeling. In fact, if I rewind, I recognized that I was getting a bad feeling about the whole thing before I even left for that two-week trip. But I didn't understand that I was receiving information from Malty about how she was feeling because remember, again, I was not tuned in to my intuition back then. So I didn't understand that the bad vibe I was getting about the whole situation had nothing to do with me and my finances and all the things I had assigned it to at that time. It had to do with how my tortoise was feeling and whether it was safe to leave her. Turns out it wasn't. And that vibe persisted the whole time I was away and was confirmed the moment I laid eyes on her when I got back. I knew we were in trouble. Even though I didn't know that's what intuition was called, I knew we were in big trouble. And that aspect of intuition, information access, access to the quantum field, access to the well-being of all, regardless of physical proximity, that is always available to you. So you can be halfway around the world or halfway across the country like I was, and still be completely dialed into your pet's well-being. You can still receive clearly and strongly any information that your pet wants you to know, good, bad, or just informational itself, just checking in. So while proximity can influence certain ways that your intuition may connect the dots for you, understand that if you travel a lot, if you're away from your pet for a lot of the year and you're not always with your pet physically, that does not detract from your ability to be an intuitive pet parent. So just lock that in. It's a little different how it works. But regardless, 24-7, no matter where you are and where your pet is in the world and how close or not you are together, you have access to the intuitive information field. And you have the ability to notice and act on the information you are receiving. Okay, so that gets rid of the science-y bit. We've got that locked in our memory. We've got two channels that we're listening on intuitively. We've got proximity and the energy flow between us, and we've got the quantum field, and we've got the information that is always accessible to us. Just like you can log on to the World Wide Web and get information about Portugal from Houston. There's no limitations based on geographic location. If you want to receive your pet's intuitive messages, if you want to be the first, truly be the first to pick up the message that your pet wants to share with anyone who's listening. You must carve out daily time to do this. Now, I work as a professional animal communicator and a Reiki master and an animal communication teacher. So my days start almost 100% down to the nose, 365 days a year with 45 minutes to an hour of meditation every single morning. I pretty much don't do anything else until I've had that silent time to check in, to check in with myself, to check in with my family, to check in, period, to prepare for the animals I'm going to check in with that day, to prepare for any teachings I'm going to offer, any podcasts I'm going to record, anything I'm going to do. I recognize that that is not always an option. And my profession lends itself to this. And in fact, I find, at least for me, I'm not going to speak for any other communicators or intuitives, but at least for me, required might be too strong a word. But for me personally, I would say it's required. I skip very few days and it's only on an emergency basis. For you, it might be five minutes, a very focused and very intentional time used in a very specific way. It's proximity time, it's time spent focusing solely on your pet. So there's two ways that we typically spend time with those that we care about. One way is what I call companionable multitasking. We're each doing our own thing in the same room together or on a Zoom together. Anybody who attends Zooms and they put their screen off so they can clean the floors or sort receipts or clean out the refrigerator while they're listening. That's companionable multitasking. We're together, but not together. Not really listening. The second is focused intentional quality time. We're together, we're having a conversation. We're sitting in companionable silence or not silence, if you happen to have a cockatiel like my petal pearl, but we are not doing anything else, nothing else, and no one else is tugging at our attention. This is key. You are going to miss all but what I call breakthrough emergency broadcast intuitive moments. If all you ever do with your pet is companionable multitasking, if you're on your phone while you're out for a walk, if you're raking the leaves while your cat runs around the catio in the backyard, if you are cleaning the avian casa while your parrot is sitting on your head, if you are listening to a podcast while your tortoise is roaming around at your feet. That's not what I'm talking about. Intentional, focused, uninterrupted time together. The goal and the activity is togetherness. Five minutes, ten minutes. You might find you enjoy it so much, you want to turn it into a little meditation time. And you can think about it like you're meditating on your relationship itself. Not every pet enjoys eye gazing, but there's a way that you can do eye gazing that makes it non-confrontational for any animal species. So I love eye gazing. Before I hit record on this podcast, I took my tortoise multi outside. It's a beautiful day. Get her some natural UV. And I spent five minutes with her down on her level. She's about the size of a short boot in terms of her height. So I got down on her level and I did eye gazing with her. And what I did is I noticed her eye, started to notice the details of her eye, and then I let my gaze soften and expand so that I was seeing the entire range of what there was to be perceived around her eye, around her body, around in the greater environment. So it's non-confrontational, it's not scary for animals, especially prey animals, like a red-footed tortoise who would recoil at intense eye gazing. And it's simply a way to connect. And those of you who have strong, clear seeing, clairvoyance, you may even start to pick up colors or images or information in that subtle, softer sixth sensory vision that this practice creates for you. So that's one way. Another way is you can simply rest your hand near or on your animal's body. Sometimes I just like to sit with Malty and just put my hand on her shell. She doesn't mind this. In fact, she really likes having her shell padded or scratched, especially when she's growing. And you'll see those videos of tortoises shaking their booties. That's what they're doing. They're having growing pains, and it feels really good to have their shells scratched. So if you have a skittish or a shy animal or an animal you're trying to socialize, or an animal who's joined your family who's never been handled before, simply extending your hand and placing it near them with the intention to connect is enough. It's a way to focus your awareness. If you're new to me, I'm a huge fan of intention setting. And this is a really great way to set an intention for these five or 10, or maybe you're going to stretch to 15 minutes if you really enjoy it. And this is your intuition training, it's your focus training. It's like you're putting blinders on yourself, like they put blinders on skittish racehorses or focusing your attention on the task at hand, which is this is my time, my focused bonding time with my pet and my pet parent intuition training time. Or I'm sensing what I call their energetic signature, the unique frequency that says them. I can tell when Maltis entered the room versus when my box turtle Io or our Dachs and Flash Gordon or my cockatiel pedal has entered the room. They have a different, unique energetic signature. It's like their soul thumbprint. As you spend this five or 10 or 15 minutes, you are beginning to recognize your pet's energetic signature. And that's how when you're working at a distance with the informational field aspect of intuition, you can recognize which of your animals is reaching out to you. Oh, that's multi. Oh, that's petal. Oh, that's Io. Oh, that's flash. I've spent the time I've built that intuitive muscle. So that's number two. That's non-negotiable. So this is really where it starts is carving out intentional focused time with your pet. Imagine you have ever had a conversation with somebody and they're always looking at their phone every five minutes or every five seconds, or they're texting, or they're on their socials at the same time. And how demoralizing it is, how off-putting. Before you know it, you find I no longer want to be in this conversation. I don't really feel like talking to you anymore. I'm pouring my heart out. You're not even half trying to listen. So we have to show our pets that we're serious. I am here to listen. I am carving out time. I cannot emphasize this enough. It sounds so simple. If I had only known to do this, if I had only been brave enough to try it, if I'd only had the self-esteem to deal myself in as the one that my Malty trusted the most, everything would be different. Now I recognize my Malty as a teaching animal in my life, partner, empathic friend, and teacher to her core. And she led me straight to this path so that I could teach you about this. So I will be forever in her debt and forever grateful to her. And I now understand it was part of her sole mission. I'm not taking her personal power again. She signed up for this and I now understand that. But just saying if anything about our experience can shorten that learning curve for you and your pets, it is my honor, I mean that from the depths of my being, to share this with you. Number three. Now we talked a little bit in step two, just spending focused time with your pet, about eye gazing and doing it in a non-confrontational way, or even placing your hand on or near their body just as a way to get acquainted with their energetic signature. They're already very well acquainted with yours, by the way. So it's really us. We humans are the ones that need to do this. Now we're going to take it a step further because you want to be, or at least I'm going to go out on a limb and assume if you are still listening at this point, you are the kind of pet parent who wants to be the one your pet can say anything to. That is exactly why when I created my signature student learning program, I called it Animal Communication Adventure to Mastery. It's not about going pro, it's about wanting to do your best to be the pet parent that your animal truly can reach anytime and can say anything to. Well, if you want to be that pet parent, it's time to take a walk inside your pet's world, in their skin, in their fur, in their feathers, in their scales, in their shell to get to know their perspective, their experience of the world. Now I have a free tool called Intuitive Pet Parenting Workshop that I'm expanding on this next month. We're calling it 28 Days of Intuitive Pet Parenting. And we are going to be spending five to 10 minutes a day together, every day for 28 straight days, doing various versions of what I'm about to unpack for you in step number three. There is a link in the show notes for how to enroll in this free 28-day journey into intuitive pet parenting. And if you've been waiting for a sign or looking for a way to add this to your daily routine and build it, create the neural pathway, strengthen it every day, and really step into the life of an intuitively led and guided pet parent, then this is your sign. This is your invitation. I have poured my years of experience and my heart and soul and my personal pet care experiences and the stories that I have experienced helping pets and their people communicate over the years into this 28-day experience. So I invite you to join me for it. But I'm gonna just give you a summary here in this step, which is that I want you to spend maybe two or three of those focused minutes that you're spending out of five, imagining that you've just done a body swap and a consciousness swap. Imagine that they've become you and you've become them. Instead of you being the Homo sapien and they're the feline or the avian or the Tortugan or the canine or the equine, you're the equine. They are you. And all of your attention and focus is on what is it like to be a cat? What is it like to have a body that can move like that? What is it like to have whiskers and a tail or even a tail nub? What is it like to be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? I've always wondered that myself. And if you have multiple pets and you're feeling like, oh my God, this is gonna end up being 25 minutes or 60 minutes, just pick one. Just pick one and do it for the whole 28 days. If you join us for this adventure, just pick one a day. This isn't meant to be overwhelming. Intuition doesn't respond very well to overwhelm, it responds to love and enthusiasm. And so this is not something to pile onto your to-do list to add to your workload and to start to dread. Intuition shuts down in the face of dread and anxiety and overwhelm. So anything you can do to avoid that will be to your benefit and your pet's benefit. So be fun, be lighthearted, be playful. What is it like to have wings? What is it like to have paws with paw pads and toes? And what does it feel like when I walk along the ground? And what does it feel like to shake your body the way that they can shake their bodies? And most of us can't pull that off with a tail. What does it feel like to have your spinal column extend beyond the length of the end of your torso? That's incredible. What is it like to have such a keen sense of smell or hearing or vision? What is it like to walk around with a shell on your back or to have no fur at all, but just have scales or scots, that's what a tortoise has, covering your body and really walk inside your pet's world. And we start with the physical because that's their gateway drug. It's the easiest to access. Einstein called imagination the gateway to intuition. They both use the same subconscious pathway through the right brain hemisphere. So you want to access your intuition at a deep level, immerse yourself in your imagination, not to the point where you're making things up, but to the point where you are sensing into the information. Remember, we talked about the quantum information field. You're sensing into the information that's already there to be perceived and received. So imagination, it's not just for kiddos anymore. It is a powerful pathway to insight and intuitive understanding. We need it. We cannot pull intuition and imagination apart. They are besties. They're joined at the hip. So if we want one, we need to make friends with the other, which is what I'm inviting you to do in this exercise. I do a meditation with my students called Meditate on Your Pet. And I want to invite you to find your own version of that, where you are literally so immersed in your pet's version of reality to the point where if health and safety permits, you can get down on their level, see what the world looks like through their eyes and their perspective and their point of view. What do they see as best as you can? Go pull up those human-to-dog eyes photo examples online. The internet can be our friend here. It can help us develop our intuition and see what the same exact houseplant that looks so green and bright to you would look like if you were looking through your dog's eyes instead of your own. If you have a pet that can jump up high, if it's safe or you have somebody to support you, get up on a chair. Notice what the world looks like from that vantage point. Open up your sensory awareness and step into your pet's point of view and their experience of navigating the world that you share together. And I promise you, you will discover things about your animal, things they want to share with you that you could never access in any other way and had no idea were even there to be shared. Your pet spends 24-7 in your family, in your life, trust me, they want to share this with you. It's just about meeting them halfway. Number four, one of my intuitive teachers is very fond of telling us either way, notice your intuition because either way it will teach you. So if, like me, with the story I shared earlier, you can look back now and see with 2020 intuitive hindsight all the signs and the nudges and the aha moments that you missed, intuition will teach you that way. Now, going forward, one of your daily practices, very, very important. And I should probably stop here and put in a little medical disclaimer, a little veterinary disclaimer. I'm not talking about Triage cases. I'm not talking about rushing to the emergency room here. I'm talking about in situations where you've got a little wiggle room to play with, to learn through, then this is what I want you to do throughout the day, starting when this episode concludes, starting now, if something pops up, if you get a nudge, if you get a vibe, if you get a hunch, if you get an aha moment, if your spidey sense starts tingling, if you see or hear something, if you begin to notice the same information crossing your path again and again and again, I want you to stop and notice this. When I start my animal communication students off, my brand newbie students off, their very first assignments are hearkening all the way back to the great maestro Leonardo da Vinci. He used to send his students, his art and painting students, into random places to spend the whole day just sitting and noticing things, just noticing whatever was there to notice. Now I don't make my students spend all day, but I do encourage them to begin to notice. Notice everything. Notice what's outside your ordinary field of awareness to notice. So I want you to start with a very particular kind of noticing. Notice anything going on within you. Notice if you suddenly feel queasy and you can't think of a single reason why it might not be you. It might be your pet. Remember, proximity information field, it's always there. They want to share it with you. So we don't throw out any information at this stage. It's all a teaching tool. It's all something to be interacted with and considered. Not talking about making snap decisions based on this information either. I'm talking about noticing it. And if you're getting a nudge to do something or to try something or to stop something, follow it. Again, not saying stop the vet prescribed medications. We're not talking about emergency room stuff here, but where it is safe and viable to do so. If you get a nudge, get an insight, if you get a vibe, follow it. See where it leads you. It's trying to teach you something, whether it's don't go that way or go that way, whether you learn it now or you learn it later when you're looking back over your intuitive journey. It is your teacher. It's showing up because you've actually invited it in. You've said, I want to learn from you. Show me what you got. So every day, sense into the energetic field, sense into the information field as you're doing these steps. If something pops up, maybe you've never offered your dog a little bite of apple before. Again, not dealing with food allergies here, but you just suddenly get the sense that maybe your dog would like to try it. And you offer and you discover your dog likes apple. Who knew? This can be especially useful if you've got a brand new animal in your family and you have no idea what their favorite foods are. You don't know what they like. This is a great way to find out rather than throwing the refrigerator at them and seeing what's left standing. Follow your subtle guidance. If you're eating something and it's safe for dogs or cats or whomever's in your pet family and you get the vibe that they might want to try it, let's check it out. Let's see what happens. It's fun. And I'd love to hear your experiences of it as you go along. And of course, join me for 28 days of intuitive pet parenting, and we're going to be in each other's lives anyway. And we'll be chatting and we'll be talking. And there will be a live Zoom debrief at the end of it so we can all meet one another and share our experiences and our stories and how we've grown. But you're welcome to email me now to or whenever you're listening to this episode, even if that adventure has passed, or drop a comment in the show notes comment section and let me know. And number five, this one's short and sweet. Do not stop steps two, three, and four in perpetuity. Now remember, we're not talking about an hour. We're talking about five, maybe 10 minutes, and we're talking about being flexible. So maybe you get out your smartphone and you decide I'm gonna do this at 7 a.m. every single morning. But you're two days in and you realize at 7 a.m. is my dog's walk time, or it's my cat's breakfast time, or my horse needs to be fed or groomed or whatever, or my kids need to get to school, or my partner needs help, it's not a good time. Maybe on Mondays, 7 a.m. works great, but on Thursdays, it's crap. So maybe you do it at 7 p.m. on Thursday. So the intuitive journey, journey of flexibility. It's a journey of being guided moment by moment. If you haven't attended my intuitive development for pet parents webinar series yet, this is what we talk about in that webinar. We talk about the difference between reacting and interacting with life. Reacting to life is setting a schedule and then beating ourselves up if we don't meet it or feeling frustrated all day because we can't hit our goals. Interacting with life is finding a creative flow through it all. Life is going to keep lifing no matter what our plans are. How do we flow with it? Maybe five minutes for you one day is the five minutes that you spend waiting in the vet office for their annual checkup. And you just tune out everything that's going on around you, and you don't check out on your phone. You just spend that five minutes with your pet in this very intentional form of intuitive two-way connection. So find a way for what we really desire within our heart, within our inmost heart of hearts. There is always a way. Ask your pet for help. They are delighted to help you. They might know just the perfect break in your schedule on a particular day that you had no idea was coming, because they always live in an inner active state moment by moment. We're the ones that are constantly playing catch up with them, with ourselves and with all of life. So if you notice your pet just suddenly seeks you out, ask yourself, is my animal telling me now's a good time for our five minutes? Stop, drop, and do it. Just give it a try. It might reshape the entire rest of that day's experiences for the better. So that's what I've got for you today. Number one, be intentional about spending this five to ten minutes of quality time. If you've got 10 pets like some of my animal communication students do, start with one. Rotate it if that's what you need to do to make it work. Or just start with one, do it for a week, and then rotate to the next one. Whatever works for you, figure it out. The heart always finds a way, but do it. Start it now. Number two, imagine as if. Meditate on your pet. Take a walk inside their skin, inside their world, inside their point of view, inside their senses. Get to know what life is like as my animal as best you can. Use the heck out of your imagination to intuition pathway. If it's good enough for Leonardo da Vinci and Einstein, it's good enough for you and me. Give it a try. See how it goes. Open up your world. Find your inner joy again. Become playful. Give yourself permission to connect and explore. Create your own mini-movie of my life as my pet. Rewrite your story together. Next, as you begin this adventure, and especially if you're continuing on with us for 28 days of intuitive pet parenting, notice when your intuition is tugging at your shirt sleeves or nipping at your heels or tapping on your shoulder, giving you that vibe again. Notice it. Stop. Interact with it. Take action on it. See what shifts. Allow it to teach you. And finally, do not stop. Keep this going. Intuition requires neural pathways, just like any other life skill we want to add to our lifing toolkit or our pet parenting toolkit or both. So keep going. That's what 28 Days is designed for. That's what this podcast episode is designed for. No, you are not alone. There are many intuitive souls around the world who are efforting towards recreating their daily life flow to include this type of intuitive connection with and communication with their beloved animals. So you are in good company. Come join us. Join us for 28 days of intuitive pet parenting. Join us for Animal Communication Adventure to Mastery. Join us for Animal Communication Adventure Practice Circle, the monthly life practice circle I run. Join us. Find your tribe. Find your people. Imagine this, the people you really can talk about anything with, where nobody's rolling their eyes or looking around the room for somebody else to talk with or telling you off or trying to change your mind. The energy of finding your tribe, of finding your people is transformative, not just for your life, but for your pet's life with you. And just know you are invited. So thank you so much for sticking with me through this episode, for being open to giving these tips, these steps a try for sharing your life with beautiful animal souls and inviting, not just allowing or tolerating, but inviting them to teach you and guide you and truly embody their role as our partners, empathic friends, and teachers. And thank you for being my friend in intuitive interspecies communication. 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