If you have ever watched your animal closely and suddenly knew what they needed, you may have wondered whether you were actually picking up on something or simply imagining it.
And if you’ve watched someone else communicate intuitively with an animal, you may have thought:
I could never do that.
I don’t believe animal communication is limited to a select group of people who were born with a special ability.
I believe that as a person develops their intuitive skills, there may come a point where animal communication becomes a possibility.
The bigger obstacle is often that we decide what we can and cannot do before we ever give ourselves the opportunity to try.
Do You Have to Be Gifted to Communicate With Animals?
People are very good at putting themselves in boxes.
I’m a medium.
I’m an empath.
I get feelings, but I don’t see things.
I’m intuitive with people, but not animals.
I’ve met people who confidently identify one intuitive ability while assuming another is completely unavailable to them.
I was fortunate that my own intuitive development teacher was very intentional about making sure her students didn’t put themselves into those kinds of boxes.
That has stayed with me.
To me, intuitive communication is energy. If you’re capable of intuitively connecting with one group, I don’t believe you necessarily have to stop there.
That doesn’t mean everyone will choose to communicate with animals or that everyone will develop their abilities in exactly the same way.
It means you don’t have to decide ahead of time that you can’t.
Why Animal Communication Can Feel So Difficult at First
One of the biggest obstacles I see when people begin practicing animal communication is their expectation of what communication is supposed to feel like.
They are waiting for a loud, booming voice.
They expect the animal’s message to arrive so clearly and dramatically that there could be absolutely no question about what just happened.
That isn’t usually how intuitive work happens.
Instead, something subtle may come through.
A thought.
An image.
A feeling.
A physical sensation.
A knowing.
And because it feels so ordinary, the person immediately discounts it.
I made that up.
That was just me.
That doesn’t make sense.
The problem may not be that they didn’t receive anything.
They may simply not be familiar enough with their own intuitive language yet to recognize what they received.
Learning Your Intuitive Language Comes First
Before you can become more confident communicating with animals, it helps to understand how intuitive information comes through for you.
This is why I teach people to notice what comes first.
Then notice how it came.
Did you suddenly see an image?
Did a word or thought appear?
Did you feel something in your body?
Did an emotion come through unexpectedly?
Did you simply know something without knowing why?
Start there.
You’re identifying the sequence of your intuitive information.
Once you become familiar with that sequence, you can begin discerning whether what you’re receiving needs further attention.
This is also why intuitive development and animal communication are so closely connected in my work. The more familiar you become with your own intuitive language, the easier it becomes to recognize when information is coming through.
Don’t Edit the Information You Receive
One of the most important things I encourage people to do when practicing animal communication is write down what they receive.
And don’t edit it.
Especially when it isn’t logical.
If an image appears, write it down.
If you hear a strange word, write it down.
If you suddenly feel something in your body, write it down.
If you get information that seems completely unrelated to anything you were expecting, write it down.
Don’t immediately try to make it fit.
Don’t decide what the animal must mean.
And don’t throw it away because you can’t understand why you received it.
When you’re learning, the information that seems insignificant or strange can be some of the most valuable because it gives you an opportunity to see what happens when you don’t interfere with what you receive.
Validation Helps You Learn to Trust What You Receive
This happens every month in the Tier II animal communication practice circle inside Whispers of Knowing.
Someone receives something they aren’t sure about.
It seems random.
They question whether it could possibly mean anything.
Then comes the validation.
That process was an important part of how I learned animal communication myself, and I still believe it is a vital part of learning.
Notice.
Practice.
Trust.
You notice what comes through.
You practice receiving without immediately changing or dismissing the information.
Then, as you begin receiving validation, you learn to trust what you’re noticing.
That doesn’t happen because someone tells you that you’re capable of communicating with animals.
You develop that trust through your own experience.
Can You Learn Animal Communication If You Aren’t Intuitive?
I believe we are all intuitive.
What varies is how connected we are to that intuition, how we receive information, how practiced we are at recognizing it, and how willing we are to trust it.
If you don’t currently consider yourself intuitive, I wouldn’t make animal communication the test of whether you have intuitive ability.
Start by becoming curious about how you already receive information.
Notice what happens in ordinary life.
Pay attention to the thought that seems to come from nowhere.
Notice the physical sensation you can’t immediately explain.
Notice when you know something before you have the facts to support it.
Instead of immediately dismissing those moments, pause long enough to notice them.
You may discover that your intuition has been communicating with you all along.
How Do You Start Learning Animal Communication?
You don’t need to begin by trying to have a long conversation with your animal.
Begin with noticing.
Practice becoming familiar with your intuitive language.
Write down what you receive without editing it.
Allow information to be illogical.
And give yourself opportunities to practice where you can eventually receive validation.
The goal isn’t to prove that every thought you have came from an animal.
It’s to become familiar enough with your own intuitive process that you can begin to discern what deserves your attention.
That takes practice.
It also takes a willingness to be wrong, learn, and keep going.
What If I Don’t Think I Can Communicate With Animals?
You have a choice.
You can decide that you can’t communicate with animals.
Or you can give yourself the opportunity to try.
I can’t promise what someone else’s intuitive development will look like or exactly how animal communication will unfold for them.
But I have watched enough people surprise themselves to know that deciding “I can’t do that” before you begin leaves very little room to discover what might actually be possible.
You don’t need a booming voice.
You don’t need to receive information exactly the way someone else does.
And you don’t need to put yourself into a box based on what you believe your intuitive abilities are today.
Start by noticing what comes first.
Notice how it comes.
Write it down.
Don’t edit it.
Then practice.
That is where the notice, practice, trust process begins.
If you’ve ever wondered whether what you’re picking up from your animal is real or whether you’re simply making it up, download my free guide, Is It Real or Am I Making It Up? The Self-Doubt Buster for Animal Intuition. It will help you begin recognizing the intuitive information you may already be receiving.
If you want a place to develop your intuitive skills and practice animal communication with others, Tier II of Whispers of Knowing includes our animal communication practice circle, where we practice receiving, sharing, validating, and learning to trust what we notice.
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