Transcending 3 Blocks to Intuitive Animal Communication

I talk to a lot of people who love animals but believe they’d never be able to connect with them intuitively. Like, you can’t be an accountant or a teacher and be a psychic medium, too. (Beg to differ :))

The truth is, the only thing holding us back is ourselves — our own false beliefs, blocks, resistances, and misconceptions about how it all works. Through several years of talking to animals intuitively, I’ve learned to squash the mightiest of those obstacles. Here are a few common culprits and how to overcome them:

1.     I don’t have the gift. Psychics and mediums always blew me away and felt other-worldly and separate from who I was. But when I started exploring Reiki (because it was the only thing that helped my chronic health issue), I learned how we are energy beings and energy carries information. When the animals I did Reiki for started giving me messages, I learned to work with my own energy and receive more messages…realizing that this ability is there innately. It’s always at our disposal.

Think about when you feel someone looking at you from behind. Or you get a gut feeling about someone or some place. You’re receiving energetic information and understanding it, that’s all. It’s natural. So is intuitive animal communication.

Years before I started studying this work, my cat sat on top of me one morning in bed, and I heard “I’m bored” in my head. It felt like it came from her directly, and it sounded a little electric and crackly. I didn’t even know what animal communication was at that point, but Willow had succeeded in reaching my extra senses. Be open to surprises like that.

By the way, the same voice that says “I don’t have the gift” will also say, “I’m just making this up”. It’s easy to feel that intuitive connection is all in our imagination. Animals can give us a picture in our head, a word or phrase, a feeling, or a knowing, and they can all feel made up! But that’s just the part of you that feels safer not venturing into the unknown. Your ego tries to keep you in the comfort zone of physical senses because that’s what you know. What helped me was to think, could I have really come up with that message myself? Animals surprise me all the time, with stuff I could never have predicted.

In one phone reading early on, the first thing the client’s cat showed me was a snapshot of an orange tabby frozen in time, like a still photograph. Typically animals show me themselves moving in some way, so I thought maybe my mind was playing tricks. When I told the client what I was seeing, she said she was sitting in front of her ceramic statue of an orange tabby cat. Turns out her cat was having a bit of fun with me, which was on brand for him. The more you do this work, the more you’ll say, “You can’t make this stuff up!”

2.     Intuitive animal communication means I can tell my animal what to do (and not to do). In the beginning of studying animal communication, it can feel like a means to finally get your dog to stop barking so much, for example. But you’ll send your dog that intuitive request, only to find it doesn’t get you anywhere. That’s because through this work, you can’t really tell an animal what to do. They are their own being with their own reasons for everything. You can connect with them and ask what has led to this behavior and what can help shift it. You can look at what’s going on with yourself and your own energy when your animal’s behavior comes up, to see if it’s a signal around how to be more in balance. It’s always a conversation, and the working together is the magic.

I once asked my cat to not always wake me up at 7:30 A.M. by meowing up a storm. The next morning she woke me up at 7:30 by silently walking all over me. I then explored more of a conversation and explained why it was important to me to sleep later in the morning for my health and well-being. After that she let me sleep in. (Turned out it was a lesson on speaking up for my own needs.)

It can feel like animals aren’t working with you or responding to you, when in fact all you need to do is adjust your approach or be open to going deeper.

3.     I can’t get clear enough to connect. Many people have resistance to meditation or stillness exercises. I get it — it’s a crazy world full of stimuli and technology and busy schedules. That’s why I always recommend accessible baby steps. Stop and take three deep, slow belly breaths. Or listen to a short guided meditation. Practice relaxing your mind in the shower or on a nature walk. Do what resonates with you, something that feels like a gift to yourself rather than a chore.

The most important thing is to remember that the animals will help you. They are the experts in intuitive communication (it’s their natural method). Once in the beginning of my practice, I had put a lot of pressure on myself going into a reading with a dog. As soon as I connected with the dog, she told me to stop and take some deep breaths before we continued. She had a totally maternal/teacher vibe and knew exactly what I needed to do to hold up my end of the bargain energetically, and I was so grateful to learn from her.

We are creative beings. We’ll come up with reasons why we can’t do something that’s unfamiliar or new. But the reward on the other side of unfamiliar and new is incomparable and full of love. Just ask any animal. (Because you can.) 💜