{"id":7463,"date":"2012-02-08T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendywolfe.wordpress.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:37:09","slug":"how-our-energy-affects-our-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=7463","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson from King about Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Something happened the other day at the dog park that reminded me of how much our animals\u00a0reflect our energy.\u00a0 Becky and I were walking down the path with Hanna, Doc and King.\u00a0\u00a0 All three were running freely ahead and off in every direction.\u00a0 They love that about the dog park…no leashes just total freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you aren’t familiar with my dog family, Hanna is\u00a0a Westie, about\u00a0four years old.\u00a0 Doc is going on 7, a Maltipoo who weighs about 10 lbs.\u00a0 King is 8 and though large in bravery is a\u00a0 mere five and a half pounds of\u00a0Toy Poodle\u00a0(he named himself).\u00a0 There is also Maddie\u00a0a 9 yr old Toy Poodle\u00a0but\u00a0she wasn’t\u00a0at the dog park that day.<\/p>\n

As we were walking down the path, I heard some people back a few hundred yards (or that’s my best guess…I have no clue about distance).\u00a0 What got my attention\u00a0was that the woman was clearly distressed and calling to her dogs, I could tell she was worried a fight\u00a0might break out.\u00a0 I looked back and noticed two large dogs.\u00a0 From the energy in her voice, I\u00a0was now concerned that these dogs might present a problem for mine.\u00a0 I didn’t say anything but I was listening closely and checking back occasionally to see where they were.\u00a0 As we continued walking I noticed that King was no longer running out in front with the other two but had glued himself to me to the point that I needed to be careful not to step on him.\u00a0 That’s when I realized he had picked up on my concern and was sticking close by his pack leader probably thinking he might need to take over that position.\u00a0 I noticed the woman behind us had leashed her dogs and so took a deep breath and let out the tension.\u00a0 King ran ahead and joined the others.<\/p>\n

Our animals\u00a0feel\u00a0our energy and are influenced by it all the time.\u00a0 Over hundreds (thousands) of years they have learned to stay tuned into their environment and all the energy and emotions that emanate from it.\u00a0 This has helped them to survive as a species.\u00a0 When they\u00a0live with us on a daily basis, they are exposed to our energy and often react to it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When we are anxious, angry, stressed, excited or sad\u00a0the energy of those emotions is felt by our companions.\u00a0 Fortunately, many of them are very good at deflecting the energy.\u00a0 If they are able to get outside and be a dog or cat, they have the opportunity to burn off that excess energy.\u00a0 For some, it can become too much without a release valve and unwanted behaviors surface.\u00a0 Often I have communicated with animals in these situations and by helping them understand the situation and modifying their environment to better support them,\u00a0the behavior changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The interesting part is that if the overall situation doesn’t change, the behavior may reappear after a period of time.\u00a0 And then I hear back six to twelve months later that help is needed again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mind you, I am not placing blame here or judging.\u00a0 I’m just sharing what I have observed and what the animals have shared with me.\u00a0 Fortunately, they love us unconditionally and are willing to help us in anyway they can.\u00a0 They know we are trying to live a more peaceful life and they don’t expect perfection.\u00a0 Maybe if we didn’t expect perfection from ourselves we would experience less of the anxiety, sadness, etc.<\/p>\n

From an energy sensing standpoint, we humans have moved away from our awareness of what is happening around us.\u00a0 We are exposed every day to an inordinate amount of stimulus that has actually deadened our consciousness to the energy that is us and surrounds us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As babies we come into our lives very aware of our energy body and all of the energy around us.\u00a0 But we are quickly led into a world that emphasizes thinking over feeling and speaking over reading with energy.\u00a0 Our intuitive senses are put on the back burner.\u00a0 Then enter all sorts of technology to distract us from our lives and the majority of us walk through life without really paying attention to what is right in front of us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even though we aren’t conscious of the energy around us, on some level our being is aware.\u00a0 We are absorbing other’s energy…we just aren’t usually aware of it.\u00a0 This constant barrage creates a great deal of stress everyday…stress that we are not even aware of.\u00a0 When this hidden stress triggers physical responses in our body (the flight-fight response of increased adrenaline, and cortisol) we can suffer with a host of physical ailments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is a social trend to becoming more awake human “beings” and less human “doings”.\u00a0 By studying our animal companions we can learn a great deal about being present, being aware of our energy bodies, and playing just for the sheer joy of it.\u00a0 In the process we become more grounded and provide a better environment for our animal companions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something happened the other day at the dog park that reminded me of how much our animals\u00a0reflect our energy.\u00a0 Becky and I were walking down the path with Hanna, Doc and King.\u00a0\u00a0 All three were running freely ahead and off in every direction.\u00a0 They love that about the dog park…no leashes just total freedom.\u00a0 If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,53,55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","category-animal-communication","category-animal-health","category-aura","category-human-energy","category-instinctual-nature","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry","gs-1","gs-odd","gs-even","gs-featured-content-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}