Talking with animals
4 Questions to ask your pets in an animal communication session
Plus I’ll be sharing some tips on how to phrase your questions to get better, clearer answers.
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Hello Dear Intuitive One,
The time and space to connect and communicate with your animal is powerful gift you are giving each other. To help you both get the most from your session, Id love to give you some tips on what to ask and how to ask certain questions.
In over a decade of offering animal communication sessions there are Four-categories of questions and missed opportunities that I’d love to talk with you about today…
1. Ask open ended questions
Open ended questions will give you SO much more information than, yes or no questions. Questions like, "Does she like her new food?", is a perfectly valid question that will offer us a one... maybe two-word answer. However, to fish a bit more information out of our animals, (pun very much intended!) regarding her new food, I encourage you to try asking instead, "What can she tell me about her thoughts and feelings on her new food?" Chances are they will open up and spill the beans with greater ease knowing they have your attention and permission to speak freely.
2. Ask location specific body and pain questions
When asked the right questions, animals can share with animal communicators, (like me!) specific information of what they feel, where they hurt and the kind of pain levels they are struggling with. However, like us, animals feel as much going on in their body as we do. Asking open ended location specific questions like, “Can you tell me about what you notice in your knees?” Or “Can you tell me how you feel when you breathe?” helps your pet and animal communicators know where to focus.
On this same topic, it’s helpful for us humans to remember that not all animals who are struggling with pain or not feeling well, know what they need. It is an unfortunate limitation of animal communication, but like some of us people, we just know that it hurts and we don't like it but we don’t know what will help. However, knowing what they FEEL and sense in their body can go a long way in understanding what they are going through and allow your animals to be a part of the health care choices you make on their behalf.
3. Avoid asking animals to “just stop it"
Animals typically do things for a reason. There is a reason they are peeing on the floor, barking, or whatever it is they do that may be driving you a little bonkers. When we try to fix it by just telling them to stop it, to stop being afraid, acting out or to stop whatever it is they are doing, we are actually doing them and your friendship a great disservice.
Animal communication isn’t about controlling animals into submission. (heads up, if that is what your looking for, I’m going to invite you to stop reading now, and close this web tab… because I am certain we are not a fit to work together!) Animal communication IS all creating better understanding. It’s also about communicating with one another to come up with solutions that work for both human and animals.
When you do need to talk with your animal about a behavior, I encourage you to start by asking open ended questions like we were just chatting about in #1. This will give your animal friend the chance to tell you what’s going on from their perspective…. WHY they are peeing outside the pan, WHY the are feeling upset and WHY the are barking. All this information will give you the human, way more information to work with to create a collaborative shift for you and your animal so you both feel happy, heard and loved.
4. Ask your pet what they are here to do in this life
Just like us humans, most animals have a pretty good idea about what their role is in life and the family. Let’s give them the chance to voice it! Knowing what their purpose is and what it is they are here on earth to learn about will help you the human know how to best support them with it. Heads up too, animal’s purpose and family roles are not always as cut and dry as "to serve and protect" as we might assume!
Just like humans, the role and life purpose of animals can be be as rich as our soul's purpose here on earth. Some animals feel they are here to do deep inner work and transformation or support us to do ours. Some they are here to learn about specific situations in life, like how to trust and receive care when they are ill or at the end of their life. Like us humans, it’s also not also just one thing they are here to learn or achieve. Life purpose can change and evolve as they do.
Thanks for spending a little time with me today, and please say, “hello” to your animal friends from me.
XO
Joanna
