Your Speaking Dog: The Language of Energy
Did you know there was a universal language instinctively known to all animals?
– Yes, even human ones.
The thing I’ve noticed about humans is that you have really strange ideas of what the world is like. You seem to be totally oblivious to the sort of energy that animals use to survive, and how you yourselves project yourselves to others.
What kind of communication do you use with your dog?
Do you implore him to come to you while he dashes madly down the street after a squirrel?
Do you try to baby-talk him into giving back your favorite shoe?
Do you scream at him to get off the couch?
Let me guess. It doesn’t work?
That’s because you can’t “reason” with a dog. What you are doing is exuding the type of energy a dog would not follow in a pack. You must remember, a dog is first and foremost an animal. A pack animal. And you and first and foremost the pack leader. Never forget that. Your energy will determine how your dog reacts to you and the world around his pack.
The Universal Interspecies Language: The Communication of Energy
What if I told you that the famous human tale of Dr. Doolittle is not just a story?
It’s true. What’s more is that every animal on this planet – even a human one – is born instinctively knowing this language. It’s called energy in your restricted verbal vocabulary.
Unlike you humans, we animals don’t have to ask how anyone is feeling. We already know, instinctively. Have you ever noticed that a whole group of animals can just go from relaxed to tense and alert in an instant? We can sense the energy of a predator on the hunt, often before we even see him.
Energy in the Wild
In the wild, a predator is not dangerous all the time, and every animal knows this. All the other animals around a predator usually know if it’s dangerous or not by the sort of energy it projects. If it’s projecting a peaceful energy, the animals around it will also be relaxed. But if a predator is projecting a hunting energy, the surrounding animals will be anxious, frightened, or aggressive. Most of the animals in the kingdom are in tune enough to catch exactly when this change happens.
Except for humans.
Humans seem to be blind the sort of nuances in animal energy that to us animals, are blaring red lights!
Energy in Humans
I believe you humans have much more in common with us animals than you would like to admit. You humans expect your leaders to project a calm, charismatic, dominant and powerful energy. This is “calm-assertive” energy, and the ideal energy for a leader in any animal species.
That similarity aside, you humans have concepts of morality in right and wrong that have no place in the animal kingdom. We cannot lie and cheat in the animal kingdom – we have no concept of it!
In the animal kingdom, there are only rules, routines, and rituals that are based on survival of the strongest, not the nicest or the prettiest.
Energy and Scent
Animals sense vibrations of energy. That is how we communicate, but smell is our next strongest sense. Smell is connected to the deep limbic system in all animals, and is deeply linked to emotion.
Every animal has an individual scent. It’s their “name” in the natural world. When we smell you, we’re learning everything there is that your scent can tell us. It’s a lot to take in.
As soon as we meet you, we know what you’ve been doing, what you’ve had to eat, and exactly where your hands have been.
Have you ever heard the saying about the “scent of fear” and we dogs sensing it? It is one of the one of the most accurate of your inane human sayings. Our noses are a thousand times more accurate than yours, and we can pick up miniscule changes in your body chemistry. We can smell you from much further away than you might think.
Energy and Emotion
One of the most appealing virtues we animals have to you humans is that we know what you’re feeling.
Our sense of smell detects miniscule changes in your body chemistry, which in addition to your body language, lets us know what you’re feeling at any given moment. We always know exactly when your calm, happy, excited, sad, depressed or sick. We might not be able to comprehend why you’re feeling the way you are – we have no concept of divorce, or losing a job, or winning the lottery. These are very human situations and mean nothing to us.
We are not just in tune with energy from other animals, we are also in tune with the energy of earth. You have all heard stories of dogs “predicting” earthquakes and cats hiding in the cellar hours before a tornado. These are all true. We animals have a sense about the earth’s energy the same way we have a sense about your energy.
What you must remember is that we are reading you and your energy output, every moment you are with us.
We dogs often consider the loud vocalizing by humans in an excited emotional state as a sign of instability, and not a desirable trait in a leader. If we perceive such a trait in our humans, our reaction will be to either remain unaffected by your tantrum, or to be confused and frightened by it.
We certainly won’t relate it to your rules about the couch, or your shoes.
The Barking Dog’s Secret
America has an abundance of what I call “Red-Zone Dogs.” Red Zone Dogs are ones that are out of control, and are serious business. More on that later.
The barking, growling red-zone dog has a secret. He has a deep, deep secret that he doesn’t ever want you to ever know. I’m going to confess the one thing that no dog will admit to.
The barking dog is probably more afraid of you than you are of him.
But the moment you freeze in fear, this power dynamic shifts. Why? Because you are exuding a weak energy, and in the wild, that’s who gets weeded out.
Remember, your energy cannot lie.
Be the Pack Leader Your Dog Needs
The “calm-assertive” energy is the type of energy you want to show your dog at all times. A calm-assertive leader is relaxed but always confident that they are in control. These are the leaders in the animal kingdom.
Many people misinterpret this ideal energy into “angry-assertive” which displays exactly the type of unstable characteristics that no animal likes in our leaders.
Your dog needs a Pack Leader more than he needs a buddy.
Many people love their pets too much. Having a “best friend” may be therapeutic for people, but it can be psychologically damaging for the animal.
What if you’re not a calm-assertive person? How do you react when a problem comes up? Do you get panicky and excited or defensive and aggressive?
It’s true that energy does not lie.
However, energy and power can be focused and controlled.
Fake it ‘till you make it.
Learning how to harness the power of calm-assertive energy will have a positive impact on your own mental health – and all your relationships, human and animal alike.
Learning techniques like those in biofeedback, yoga, meditation, and other relaxation techniques is an excellent way to learn how better to control the energy you project.
The Calm-Submissive Dog
The proper type of energy that a follower in the pack should display is that of a mentally stable, calm-submissive dog. Submissive does not mean a pushover, it only means relaxed and receptive.
For true dog-human communication to be possible, the dog must exude a calm-submissive energy.
Remember that body language is the function of the energy that is being projected; the two are always connected.
You can learn to interpret what your dog’s body language is by the visual clues he gives you, but remember too that context is important. The energy always creates context.
For example, one dog mounting another may be a show of dominance, or it may just be an act of play. Only the context determines the difference, and how the animal’s energy changes as they interact with one another.
Greet and Sniff
Scent functions as a language to dogs. A dog’s anal scent is the equivalent of his name in nature. A dog can tell others where they live and where they’ve been by leaving a splash of urine on a signpost like a bush, tree, rock, or a pole.
When a new dog is introduced to a pack, it is only polite to let the others sniff him. If he stands quietly, allowing the others to finish sniffing, he will be more easily accepted among them.
A sign that a dog is antisocial is one that moves away or becomes aggressive about being sniffed. That is a dog who hasn’t learned any manners – much like a human who refuses to shake hands.
While smelling is a great way for your dog to recognize you, projecting the correct energy is the key to you becoming your dog’s pack leader.
Once you understand your dog as an animal and not a four-legged human with fur, you will be in a better position to understand his language and able to truly understand what he is saying to you.
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