What is animal communication? It is a technique for communicating with animals without sounds or physical signs. To give you an idea of what it is, some people call it "interspecies telepathic communication." What is is not, however, is reading an animal's mind or predicting the future. It is more like having a two-way conversation using the energy generated by thoughts. This means that I can only "get" what the animal sends me. I cannot pry information from an animal against his or her will, and some animals will even tell stories or play tricks. Some animals, like some people, also have less to "say". However, most animals enjoy being truly "listened to" and will be stimulated and soothed by the animal communication process.

To further explain the concept of "telepathy", "tele-" means distance and "-pathy" is feeling, so it is feeling or sensing across a distance. Just as your eyes perceive light waves, or your ears sound waves, there are energies and vibrations transmitted from thoughts that it is possible to pick up on if you have the practice and training. As Penelope Smith has said, this idea of communicating at a distance telepathically may take getting used to, just as the miracle of telephone or radio communication was to those who had never experienced it before. Similar to radio waves, which are invisible to our eyes, telepathic communication, which is a wavelength of energy, is happening all the time. We just have to be able to adjust to turn into the right "frequency" to receive the animals' messages.

In fact, it is widely thought that telepathy is a means of communication that we are all born with, but that we learn to supress in favour of means of communication like talking and writing, which are more acceptable to human society. If you have ever just known that your dog wanted his chew toy, not his bone, or that the phone was going to ring and Aunt Sadie would be on the other end a split second before it happened, you have practiced telepathy! To communicate with animals, you basically have to learn to attune this "sixth sense" and practice at it until it becomes familiar. Then, you learn to translate the input you get, whether it be in images, sounds, smells, tastes feelings, or thoughts to words you can relay to your fellow humans. And all of this can happen at the speed of thought!

So, if we can't see or hear when telepathy is going on, how can we know it's real? Well, although scientists have not yet been able to fully detect or measure the vibrations or energies that make up animal communication, in some studies, instruments have shown changes in type of brain waves when people are doing energetic healing or telepathic communication with animals. In addition, science is discovering new explanations for natural but mysterious occurrences all the time, such as the recent finding of the tiny organ in pigeons' brains that allow them to home and navigate better than any computer system, or the revelation that elephants communicate with sound waves at frequencies so low that humans cannot hear them. We have always been able to see the results of these things, if we observed closely, it just took time for us to figure out how they worked.

Similarly, while we can't see or measure the transference of thoughts and feelings yet, we can experience their effects. During or after communication, animals tend to become more cooperative and demonstrate that they understood or felt understood. Often they will change their behaviour, seem healthier or more confident and affectionate. The animal's human caretakers will usually notice a difference, and feel that a greater understanding has been established with their animal.

Ultimately, if you are a skeptic about animal communication (as I was for many years!), you may have to experience it yourself or read more about it to take that "leap of faith". However, if you can open your mind to the ideas I've outlined above, you may be amazed at what new things you experience.

If you have questions about what an animal communication consultation entails, please see the Consultations section of my Web site.

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