Jul 16 2017

The Gift of No-Agenda Listening

Your animal friends want you to understand their experience. To feel the world from their point of view. To know what brings them joy, what makes them sad or fearful, and how grateful they are for you.

They sometimes even have powerful insights for you.

Things they know and feel through the purity of their love and the relative simplicity of their minds.

Every time I start a session, I can feel their enthusiasm and anticipation, especially as they decide among themselves who should share first, and what they want to say to their person.

They want to share so much with you. It is such a gift to animals to listen deeply to them.

Learning How to Be Still, Listen, and Trust

When I was first learning animal telepathy, this deep listening was so easy for me with other people’s animals. There was a beautiful flow that came and it was so tangible. It was like, “Oh, I know this way of being.”

But when connecting with my own animal friends, my inner skeptic got in the way.

It was hard to know what was real and what was my own mental projection, because I felt I already knew so much about them.

Then one evening after a busy day I said to myself, “Forget it, I am just going to quiet my mind and trust what I feel.”

And something beautiful happened.

I went into my office where my dog Sadie was resting on the floor by the sofa. I sat down next to her, with a yellow pad of paper and a pen. I felt my heart connected to hers and asked her to share. And I wrote everything down that came to me.

After writing 3/4 of a page, I looked up. Sadie had the sweetest, most grateful look in her eyes.

This is a photo of her outside in the yard, but it shows her with the same sweet expression!

And THEN, the most amazing thing happened. One by one, my other animals came into the room, a dog and two cats, kind of forming a line, waiting their turn.

I couldn’t believe it.

From other parts of the house where they were hanging out that evening, they felt me opening up my heart to connect with Sadie and receive her feelings. And they wanted their turn too.

Each of them shared, and each of them was shining with appreciation afterward. The power of no-agenda, unconditional listening brought a softening to each of their eyes.

Clients often email me with the same surprising experiences after sessions and courses

My client and friend Carrie Mae shared after a recent communication with her dog Tulip: “After the session, she came into the room and sat right next to me and just stared up at me with the most loving eyes.”

A client named Blair wrote of her horse Alex: “I went to the barn today and he was so affectionate it was beautiful. I feel like our relationship is even better since you communicated with him.”

And a client Rosine shared this about her rescue dog Sparky, and her whole animal family: “Thank you! And you are totally wonderful! Sparky seems relieved today, and the overall energy around here is so sweet. They all seem to be saying, ‘Now you understand.’ So Rick and I have spent extra time today grounding in what came through. Everyone has gotten lots of communication and attention.”

We all long to feel understood, deeply seen, and unconditionally listened to by the beings in our lives we adore.

I hope to share this gift of listening with you and your animal friends very soon.

With love and joy,
Sharon

Jul 13 2017

Making sure an animal understands you

Sadie, me and my mother in Arizona after a breakfast of scrambled eggs.

How to successfully communicate with your animal.

One really fun option is to sign up for my Basic 1 Course in Animal Communication. In the meantime, here are some pointers on how to ensure that when you are talking to your animals, they will understand.

Look them in the eyes and speak your message. (SEND THE THOUGHT)
While telling them your message, think of images describing this message. (SEND THE IMAGE)
Also imagine the feeling (all the emotions and bodily sensations) of this message. (SEND THE FEELING)

As you are doing this, be as grounded and fully present as you can. In other words, communicate coherently from the whole of your being, rather from your mind only (something we humans do so much of the time!). It is easier than you think! I teach this and more in my Basic 1 course.

What NOT to do ….

Here is a story that shows what happens when you DO NOT communicate with your animals using all three ways — sending the thought, image, and feeling all together.

Shortly after I moved to Arizona, my mother came to visit. This was a few years ago and my dogs Rufus and Sadie were still alive.

Rufus and Sadie LOVED my mother. She would babysit them when my husband and I would travel, and feed them scrambled eggs and bacon off a fork every morning for breakfast. Seriously.

So a week before her arrival in Arizona, I looked Rufus and Sadie in the eyes and said, “Guess what? Your Granny is coming next week!”

If I had been on top of my communication game, in addition to verbalizing this message, I would have also sent an image of my mother here in sunny Arizona, as well as the feeling of her kind and mothering presence in our living room, with the smells of scrambled eggs and bacon and the sound of her laughter and more.

But I only sent the thought.

Rufus and Sadie looked at me and wagged.

The next week when my husband pulled up in the driveway with my mom in the truck, I opened the front door so Rufus and Sadie could run out and greet my mom with me. Sadie trotted out very proudly as if to say, “Hi Granny! Welcome to our new home!”

Meanwhile, Rufus followed behind her, oblivious to what was really happening.

But then Rufus saw my mother, and he started yelping wildly and ran towards her. “You didn’t tell me GRANNY was coming! Why didn’t you tell me?!? Granny, you’re here! It’s so good to see you!!”

So, what happened? Why did Sadie understand me, however Rufus didn’t receive the communication?

Just like with humans, animals have certain parts of their being more telepathically open than others.

Rufus was a very feelings-centered dog.

Rufus had an intelligence that was very special in his heart, a deep wisdom and presentness. He brought calm to Sadie, to me, to anyone that was around him. Rufus was very awake in his heart—telepathically sending and receiving information on the heart level all the time.

If I had sent the images and feelings of my mother’s visit, and been more present in my own heart while communicating, Rufus would have understood, no problem.

But, like most humans, I was more in my head that day, and I only sent the thought about my mother arrival, so he missed it.

Sadie, on the other hand, was a very intellect-centered dog.

She had so many clever games she would play. For instance she would fake out Rufus when he had her favorite chew toy, pretending there was a noise at the door, so he would get up and go bark with her, then she would rush in for the chew toy steal. And this is just one example. On the level of thoughts and planning, she was very intelligent.

Accordingly, because I was more connected to my own mind when I communicated this message, Sadie understood perfectly clearly that my mom was coming to Arizona the next week.

Come into this amazing world with me.

All this is so fascinating, no? I love all this nuanced understanding of communication. Each of us is unique in the way we hold our energy, how we position our consciousness. And this has powerful consequences for how we connect with others and the world around us.

These are among the basic principles we explore and master in the Basic 1 and 2 courses. And there is so much more. In the Advanced Program, we go into depth learning all the ways to strengthen our communication with animals so that we translate as fully as deeply as completely as we can. In the Advanced Program, you learn how to communicate from the fullness of your being, to translate so that the most can happen for people and their animals.

If you would love to learn more—reawaken and master basic telepathic communication in the Beginner Program, or refine your animal communication ability such that you can practice professionally with the Advanced Program—don’t hesitate to reach out today.

I would love to bring you into this amazing world. It will change your life in ways you can’t even imagine.

With love and joy,

Sharon

Apr 27 2017

The Importance of Opening

Growth is a mystery.

The Spring Equinox is a time when the forces of growth stir inside every living thing.

I was feeling into this yesterday, this thing inside us all that makes us push through limits.

Where does it come from? Why do some of us get stuck and give up while others weave our way through obstacles, finding the help and inspiration we need, both from inside and from outside ourselves?

As a teacher, I live with this question in my heart all the time.

The answer came from a special student.

When I was in my early 30’s, I taught high school art in a drop-out prevention school for at-risk teens. I remember wondering who would thrive and who would spend a life in struggle, just getting by, or worse.

Also, I wondered what I could do to help—how could I as a teacher tip the scales toward growth.

There was one student in particular, Carl, whose family at a certain point became homeless, and the assistant principle took a spare bed from his own home over to Carl’s aunt’s house so Carl wouldn’t end up in foster care.

There was something really special about Carl, a shining quality in his smile and a light in his eyes that revealed the beauty of his heart. We all did everything we could to support him.

And Carl received it. Carl’s open way of being inspired help to come, and he always welcomed it.

He is in his early 30’s now, and has a partner, a child, and a meaningful career.

Animals and young people understand opening.

I see the same light in the eyes of so many of the dogs and cats and birds and horses I communicate with. They understand, better than we do, this force inside that trusts life, stays open, receives help, and continues growing, even—and especially—in the difficult moments.

These qualities are essential to learning, and to life, really. Staying open, receiving support, and surrendering to the process of growth. Young children and animals do this very naturally, but it can be so hard for adult humans sometimes.

In my introductory course in Animal Telepathy, I read the following poem to help initiate my students into this mysterious aspect of the adventure of learning telepathy.

“It Felt Love”
By Hafiz

How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart

And give to this world
All its
Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being.

Otherwise,
We all remain

Too

Frightened.

At Equinox, a time when all of life moves toward light, I wish you a year of opening and beauty. So much is possible.

Aug 20 2016

It’s a Conversation, Not a Reading

Animals feel me telepathically communicate with them.

The hardest thing for people to “get” about telepathy is that animals know that it is happening and are fully participating.

There are moments in sessions when this is obvious, and my human client jumps in the conversation to share.

A client in Washington State with 2 cats and a dog had an a-ha moment when she realized her cats animals knew . After the first 10 minutes of translating what her dog, Simon, had to say, Trinity, her female cat said, “Now it is my turn to share.” The woman chuckled and said, “Trinity has been looking out the window the whole time, but just as you said translated this for her, she turned to look at me with such intensity.”

Trinity

Sometimes, an animal physically demonstrates the emotions they are going through while sharing their story telepathically.

A dog, Bradley, in Tucson, Arizona began the session sharing what a strong, proud, happy and noble fellow he is and all the specific things he loves about his life. Then his person asked why he barks at men, and Bradley showed me his life as a puppy in another home, and a man with a loud voice scaring him and hitting him with objects. His person jumped in and said, “my god Sharon, he has been sitting here on the sofa with me seeming so happy since the beginning of the session, but now as he is telling you this he is trembling.”

Bradley

Other times, an animal goes out of his way to show his human that he REALLY MEANS the thing he is saying via Sharon, the translator.

A woman in Pennsylvania who has several cats of her own but also fosters was having issues with two of her cats. Connecting with each one, the answer was, “the new foster is stressing me out; please don’t bring any more fosters in the house.” She has a wise older orange tabby named Dillon, who I could feel butting into the conversation several times during the session saying, “I have something important to say about this.” At the end of the session Dillon expressed his concern how her life is changing, and fostering cats is no longer supportive to her. And, Dillon explained, all the other cats in the house felt the stress of her transition, which she was having a hard time admitting to herself. Dillon was very insistent on the importance of this message, and when I shared this to my client, she said, “Oh I get it. He won’t leave me alone. I was sitting in one room, and he came up and stared straight at me. I got up to go to the other room and he followed me and is still staring at me, as if to say, ‘this is really important, are you getting it loud and clear? No more fosters.”

Dillon

“But my dog just looks like he is sleeping. How can he be communicating with you?”

Most often, however, animals rest there lying on the sofa or floor next to their people, seemingly taking a nap. But they are not napping. They are deeply involved in the telepathic conversation, actually focusing, using all of their energy to receive and send feelings, thoughts, and images to me telepathically which I translate for their human.

A client in Florida, Angela, said she noticed her dog Bentley goes into a deeper state of relaxation when I communicate with him. She was so fascinated with this that in the next session when I connected with her horse, Casa, she went to the stable to watch his reactions during the session. Just like with Bentley, Casa relaxed. He lowered his head and dropped his lower lip—a telltale horse sign of deep peacefulness. And to prove this further, I had to pause the session for 3 minutes about half-way through to ask the landscaper outside my office if he could resume his noisy work after my session. At that exact moment, Angela said Casa lifted his head and his lip, and turned toward his hay and began munching. He felt my brief absence and decided to take a short break too!

How is it that humans have forgotten how to telepathically communicate?

You may wonder, “how is it possible that there is a conversation happening in concepts and images and feelings and knowings, in real time, and the simplest of animals are able to participate in this, but we humans have lost this capacity?”

I agree, it is huge to fathom. It opens up all kinds of questions about the true nature of communication and the fabric of life itself.

But if you put the cosmic questions aside for a moment, and just look at your own life experience, you can probably remember moments when you have had knowings and feelings come to you from some silent place inside. And later you understood it was your own intuition, or the feelings of someone you love pulling on you, and the situation made total sense.

We humans are animals too, held and connected in the larger fabric of life. But we get so locked into the predictable world that our logical minds carve out for us, and we really believe that is all there is and we understand everything.

We don’t understand everything.

And doesn’t it just put us in our place, or show us something about our own arrogance as a species, that our sweet dog or cat or horse or bird, and the coyotes or squirrels in our backyard, understand so much more about telepathic communication than we do.

Aug 20 2016

Asking Wild Animals To Cooperate with Humans

My work is just as effective communicating with wild animals as with companion or domesticated animals.

For example:

A flock of pigeons who had set up a nesting headquarters on an apartment balcony in Japan left the day after I communicated with them.
A family of javelinas bedded down in the backyard of a Sedona client’s home for 3 long months left the day I communicated with them.
A single rat who took up residence in my client’s Houston office space for several weeks was never seen again after two short sessions.
A hawk who was picking off my Sedona client’s free-roaming chickens flew away and never came back the day I communicated with him.
A colony of ants who were marching single file across my client’s house in Washington State turned around and went back outside the day after I communicated with them.

In every case, after a telepathic communication session, the wild animals honored the human’s request and left. They all had their stories for why they had moved into human territory. And while some were more stubborn than others, they all realized they were in the wrong space and left right after I communicated with them.

It’s really amazing, no? You can imagine why a person’s dog or cat or horse would respond to telepathic communication and change. They get food from us or approval. But wild animals? Their motivation to cooperate with a human asking for a favor is not as obvious.

The fascinating part for me is feeling their consciousness—it is different. To me it feels more silent, more expansive, and more still than the companion animals I most often connect with. It’s as if I can feel the spaciousness of the natural world that they rest on. That’s a whole topic there …

So how do I get wild animals to understand and cooperate?

The short answer? . This is what I am really skilled in—what I do in consultations and teach in my courses. The story “Jen and the Hawk” is especially interesting and illustrates this well.

Jen and the Hawk

Jen Marie, owner of Chocolatree, a local raw foods restaurant, is one of my favorite local clients in Sedona. She has a home out on a hillside with all kinds of animals—chickens, goats, ducks, dogs, pigs, and even wild animals who make frequent appearances on her land.

She hired me a while back to help solve a problem for her chickens. They are free-roaming chickens with an open pen, and several of the animals on her property had decided a chicken might make a nice snack every now and then.

One of these animals was a hawk who had become a daily visitor for about a month. He had been hanging out up in a tree and “helping himself to the buffet,” as Jen put it.

Jen understands that we are all part of the food chain, and though she herself is a vegetarian, she respects these laws of Nature and sees them as sacred.

Nonetheless, she wanted to create an oasis from this on her property; a place where all the animals could live in harmony and get to know each other as fellow beings across species lines, apart from the food chain.

In the session I connected telepathically with this hawk Jen had seen on her land. At first I could feel the hawk’s surprise. He sent the feeling, “A human? Telepathing with me? This is strange.”

But after a minute or so he showed a curiosity to hear what I had to say. So I asked him, “Would you be willing to find your food somewhere else?”

In response, he sent the thought that he doesn’t see any reason he should cooperate with us. He specifically sent, “I will do what I need to do.”

I responded, “Well, it could be dangerous for you. Humans are very clever and will set traps and such, it could be lethal for you. Jen and her husband Kelly are peaceful people, but they might not continue this approach if you keep killing their chickens. They would prefer to respect you and ask you to stop peacefully. They kindly ask you to stop eating their chickens.”

He seemed nonplussed. He sent the thought, “they are there, I am going to eat them.”

So I continued with another approach, “What about the mice and other birds? You need to do your part to keep things balanced in Nature. Jen’s birds are not part of the wild web of life—your world. They belong to humans and live in civilization—this is a separate world from you and the rules are different. The food chain rules don’t apply here. These chickens are her friends.”

He was listening. I could feel him taking in what I was saying.

I continued, “These chickens can’t fight back or protect themselves as prey animals in your world can. I am trying to appeal to your sense of fairness and order as an animal who is a predator in the web of life. You have an important role in the realm of Nature, and by eating Jen’s chickens you are stepping outside of where you are meant to be.”

Then I could feel something click in him. It was as if he got it, he realized this situation is something else, something outside of his world.

I told Jen, “He is considering this.” Then Jen said, “We are happy to put out an offering of seeds or anything if that will help, but we will protect our homestead.”

He responded by sending me the thought, “No there is no need for that. It is a kind offer, but I prefer chickens, I prefer to eat meat. That’s my job. It is my job to cull the weak.” A moment later, he showed me his new awareness, it was something like, “Oh ok, these chickens are not weak and stupid, they are part of some other organization or system that I do not quite understand. They are not mine to eat.”

It was as if the hawk had had an epiphany and he realized the inappropriateness of his actions now.

I then asked him, “Mr. Hawk what would you need to just fly away and hunt animals in the web of life?”

He responded with an image of him flying away.

I told Jen, “Something in him has shifted.”

She shared with me a few months later that they never saw that hawk, or any hawk, again after the day we communicated.