• We can pick up on people's moods without entering verbal discussions with them. We can tell if people are angry without getting near them.
• We feel great relief when we are in a traumatic situation and help arrives that we consider to be calm and in control.
• We tell actors and orators that they have to put “feeling” into what they are doing – they have to put some sort of emotion across to us to be convincing – it’s something about the emotion and feeling that helps convince us whether they are being truthful or not. We expect the same from singers and they convey their emotion through their music, often without them being present to display it through body language

I believe the best way to describe this form of communication is the sharing of feelings and emotions. If this is something that we as humans do, then how does this apply to animals? Any horse-riders reading this article will almost certainly have experienced or witnessed that:

• A rider who is nervous and on edge will usually cause a horse to be nervous and spooky.
• A calm, centred person riding the same horse would find it to be calm and not nervous at all.
• Equally, if a horse suddenly becomes nervous, the rider takes this on as well – or they acknowledge the feeling but calmly address the situation to help the horse through it.

These situations all follow the same principle…emotions and feelings are being shared between the person and the horse and vice versa. Obviously in this situation, the human is in direct contact with an animal but what about other pets you might live with? Have you been in a situation where…

• You were upset and your pet came to comfort you?
• You intend to take your pet to the vet and suddenly they are nowhere to be found, or they seem anxious?
• Your pet seems to know you are going away long before the bags come out to be packed?
• Your dog is ready to go for a walk as soon as you think about it but before you move or say anything?

If your answer is yes, then you have already experienced sharing your feelings and emotions with your animal! This method of communicating with our animals through feelings and emotions is given the general term “Animal Communication” and this is the basis of how Animal Communicators work with animals. They are able to pick up on what the animals are sharing or are trying to share with us.

As humans, we all have the capacity to be animal communicators but the fact is that many of us are missing out. We have learnt to rely on our logical mind and words rather than the part of our brain that works more along the lines of these exchanges of feelings and intuition. We all have the natural ability to share emotions and feelings, we just have to develop our awareness of when it is happening. Often we have shared feelings even though we hadn't realised it. Animal communicators develop their skills – some people are aware of their “gift” when they are young and grow up still communicating, the rest of us are able to develop the skill but obviously we have to want to do it and look for the right help to (re)awaken our abilities.

Communicators are able work at an in-depth level with the feelings and emotions that animals share. Once a connection is made with an animal, a whole new opportunity opens for us to understand them better and help them. When an animal communicator makes a connection with an animal, it can choose to share images, feelings, emotions, sounds, tastes and sensations – the human takes all this on and then translates it into human words. Sometimes phrases might be used as the best way to describe a feeling.

Owners have the opportunity to find out all sorts of things about their animals – how they feel physically, what their favourite activities are, what they think about different situations, what advice they have for their owners…the list is endless! Some communicators will even be able to help with behavioural problems of animals.

© Faye Stacey November 2009

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