Becoming Your Breath

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Conscious breathing with our Essence creates such a natural safe space, that it has the ability to have animals feel safe too. Every animal has its own consciousness and it recognizes our pure consciousness when we breathe. Unconditional love is a universal language, that doesn’t need translation.

Walking and breathing with dogs

I was raised with pets around me all the time and when I was a teenager I attended with dogs to
puppy trainings and advanced obedience trainings so they would obey commands and know what to do in all kind of situations. I read books of famous dog trainers, based on how wolf packs behave in nature,
so I understood the dog language from this point of view.

However, when you allow yourself to feel with your soul, how to relate to animals a whole new way of communication opens up. Then you start communicating with animals in an entirely different way. About 7 months ago, I was asked to be a dog sitter for somebody. I met the dog, she was cute, but I did feel she was very cautious and had the capability perhaps to attack, out of fear. So the first thing I did was staying with my breath, while I was walking with her. I could feel her checking me out, sometimes she resisted to walk with me, or she would show very dominant behaviour, as they would say in dog world. And that interested me, because I felt not to go with anything that I had learned about dominant behaviour. ( usually you have to be a very clear leader, ignoring bad behaviour, a short period of confrontations follows until the dog accepts you as their leader )

So I asked my soul, what is dominant behaviour? And immediately she responded, she is afraid, that is why she does it. So I decided to keep breathing compassion and to stay with me. Meanwhile there were moments that I could feel how the dog wanted to force me to be not nice, or to be angry with her as she was looking for her borders. And I did not give them. I just stayed with my soul breath. And gently I could feel how she felt me. I started to talk with her through my breath. I would not say loud to stop, I would say it gently, but with a very clear energy. And I noticed how she understood that language very well. Soon after that I could feel how great she felt to be with me. Sometimes she would try me out, by running away and instead of becoming angry or following her, I would stay with me and not play her games.
I did not mind if she would listen or not, I just stayed with my breath and balance.
So sometimes, against any dog rules, I would just walk towards her and pick her up.
But I did let her know in energy that the next time she should listen to me.

Right now, we walk and have so much fun, she feels as a dog with a big soul to me. We completely understand each other, she can walk without leech and when I ask her to slow down, or stop, she will.
Our connection became so loving and free and is based on trust now, coming from the breath of my essence and her essence. Every animal understands communication in energy, from essence to essence.
For some it takes longer than others to trust again, but it is a natural communication.
It inspires you to be who you are… and with that it encourages you to receive the love for you
that comes back through them.


The beautiful thing is that with her owners she is playing their game as they play with all kind of commands and special food to have her listen and when we meet, we do it our way
When we are willing to invite our soul into our daily lives, she will show us a new way of living.
A way that leads us out of our minds, into the full experience of the now moment…



Breathing with abused/traumatized animals

To be continued…






Author: Erno van Doesselaar
Date: July 2011

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