The Real Dr Doolittle Show with Val Heart – Dr Fred Haney Interviews Val Heart About Talking With Dogs (part 2 of 2)

Dr Fred Haney of My Doggie Says… radio show interviews Val Heart about dog talk, animal communication, dog behavior… He asked me some really great questions!  This was an hour show, and for ease of listening, it is presented here in 2 parts.  This is Part 2 of 2 – Enjoy!

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The Real Dr Doolittle Show with Val Heart – Dr Fred Haney Interviews Val About Talking to Dogs (part 1 of 2)

Dr Fred Haney of My Doggie Says… radio show interviews Val Heart about dogs, dog talk, animal communication, dog behavior… He asked me some really great questions!  This was an hour show, and for ease of listening, it is presented here in 2 parts.  This is Part 1 of 2 – Enjoy!

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The Real Dr. Doolittle Show – Animal Talk, Shamanism and Avatar

Learning how to communicate with animals is such a remarkable, life enhancing, magical experience!  Anyone can learn, if they want to.  In this show, we talked about the movie Avatar and how the storyline was taken from Peruvian Shamanism.  The ability of the native people to communicate with their world is not just a great story – it’s the way we are meant to connect with our world too.  The movie was also based on the actual biology of plants (I didn’t know that part!).

I shared an amazing story I haven’t ever told before about the wisdom of the primal rainforests and the trees who are living, sentient, wise and long lived beings.  We talked about the importance of respect for animal’s viewpoints and purposes, and the jobs they have with us.

I told Jody’s story – a dog who almost lost her life because of a simple misunderstanding…  We also had fun talking about the secret behind training dogs, and Einstein’s fabulous new trick:  Shutting the Door (posted on YouTube now for your enjoyment).

And you’ll get to learn the first, most fundamental animal talk tip.  Plus, we had a really great insight:  Telepathic interspecies communication is like the wireless internet!  All animal lovers can plug in whenever they’re ready.  Enjoy!!

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The Real Dr. Doolittle Show – The Joy of Animal Communication

Any animal lover can learn how to talk with animals, if they want to.  In this show, we talked about how you can learn animal talk, and why it’s critically important to respect and listen to your animal’s viewpoints. After all, how can you know what’s really going on with them if you don’t ask them first?

Key Secret You Need to Know:  What animals do is often a reflection of their person’s unspoken (and unconscious) fears, emotional scars, woundings and imbalances.  The Human Animal BodyMind Connection has to be recognized, and what a difference knowing what your animal is thinking can make.

In this episode, we talked about Yvonne’s dog Sasha who was aggressive toward her husband, and how finding out the cause of the problem was not at all what anyone would have thought.  Sasha was in danger of losing his life – until he was able to tell us why he was behaving that way. His answer will surprise you – and it went a long way toward helping their marriage, not to mention saving his life.

We talked about animal’s contribution to Star Trek and the similarities to the Vulcan mind meld technique.  We discussed how our states of mind affect our animal’s behavior, about Scott’s friend’s dog Milo, and how dogs demonstrate this for us on the walk by being aggressive, pulling us on the leash, and acting out other problems.

Einstein, my dog, shared his surprising viewpoint about why most animals shut down trying to communicate with humans. And we talked about the basic rules of animal communication.  Enjoy!!

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The Real Dr. Doolittle Show – Can you Talk to Your Pets?

Welcome to our Show!  I want to teach you what I know about animal communications.  You can learn how to talk to your animals.  It’s critically important to hear your animals viewpoints and when you connect at the heart level with animals, you become a better person. Animal Talk is also an exciting journey into Self, the nature and reality of our world, a behind-the-scenes look at the complex interactions between us all.

Any animal lover can learn how to communicate with animals, you can too! Connect at the heart for a magical bonding experience with your animals.  

In this episode, we talked about the conscious energetic connection of the human animl bodymind awareness, how I got started working as a professional animal communicator, how animals were my best friends growing up and how they helped me survive my difficult, manically depressed and suicidal teenage years… How we actually share information already telepathically, and what happens when we treat our animals like aliens.

“May the love of animals bless you, teach you, inspire you, heal you, reconnect you to the circle of life…” – Val Heart & Scott Paton

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Aromatherapy for Your Pet’s Health and Happiness

Pets can enjoy the therapeutic effects of aromatherapy as much as humans can. Aside from possibly eliminating bad odors and giving your pet a pleasant perfume, essential oils also serve many practical functions such as boosting your pet’s immune system, fighting off bacteria and viruses, preventing the growth of yeasts and molds and repelling insects.

Aromatherapy is used by enthusiasts, groomers and pet salons to treat mild ailments such as skin inflammations, itchy skin ear infections, rashes, bad breath, flatulence and motions sickness. Psychologically, certain oils also have a calming or relaxing effect on animals. For example lavender oil not only helps kitties repel insects but it also makes them feel sleepy or content. Roman chamomile can be used to treat an ear infection as well as soothe the nerves of a dog in pain.

Essential oils are also frequently used as home remedies. However before you attempt to use aromatherapy on your own pets, keep in mind that essential oils are always diluted before they are applied to a pet’s skin or sprayed on their coat. Almond oil, olive oil and jojoba oil are common base oils to which a few drops of the essential oil is added. Usually all that is needed is about one ounce of the base oil combined with two to three drops of the essential oil.

Essential oils can also be diluted in a spray bottle and misted onto the pet or the pet’s bedding. You can simply dilute a few drops in distilled water or you can use water and a mixture of aloe, witch hazel or cider vinegar. The traditional recommendation is to use 20 to 30 drops of oil per eight ounces of liquid. Any less might not be effective and any more might be toxic to the pet.

Oils can also be diluted in vodka or brandy and dabbed on the bottom of the pet’s paws or on an acupressure point such as the tips of the ears. This is the technique to use if you are dealing with a panicky pet. Never feed your pet alcohol or essential oil directly.

Essential oils are also effective flea and tick repellents and are nearly as effective as sprays and powders that contain a lot of toxic chemicals. Oils such as peppermint, citronella, lavender, eucalyptus, lemon, geranium, bay and myrrh have been components of herbal flea sprays and flea collars for many years. You can easily make your own flea and tick spray by combining about 25 drops of any of these oils into eight ounces of water. Shake the mixture well and spray it on your pet, being careful to shield its eyes from mist. This mixture can also be sprayed anywhere that you suspect there may be a breeding bug infestation.

When using essential oils it is also essential for you to remember that a dog or cat’s sense of smell is much more acute than our own. Signs that an aromatherapy treatment is too overwhelming for your pet are tearing eyes, sneezing, pacing or whining. Cats may lick themselves excessively and dogs may rub their head on the ground in order to escape the smell. Many pets also have allergies to essential oils. For instance, chamomile is related to the ragweed plant, which is a common allergen for both pets and humans. This is why it is so important to use a mild solution at first and use your powers of observation the first few times you use an essential oil mixture on a pet.

 Special thanks to Geet Singh for her contribution to this article.

Are Animals Natural Healers?

One of the wonderful benefits of my Animal Communication Practice is to see first-hand the healing powers of animals.  In my own life, my cats kept my husband’s cancer at bay for 10 months!  I have also been witness to countless examples of how animals can mirror an illness, recognize and show their human friend a trouble spot and reduce the stress levels in a home.

More than 60 percent of U.S. households include pets, and those pet owners pour $41 billion a year into pet care [source: APPMA]. This may seem like a lot of money. But when you consider the fact that owning a pet could very likely add years to your life, a pet can quickly seem like a wise investment.

According to a study by the Minnesota Stroke Institute that followed more than 4,000 cat owners over 10 years, owning a cat can dramatically reduce a person’s chance of dying from heart disease [source: Mundell]. Specifically, people who owned cats were 30 percent less likely to suffer a heart attack. Although those researchers cannot make the same conclusions about dogs based on the data they gathered, they suspect a dog study would provide similar results.

That study reinforces what I’ve been saying for some time, that having animals around you can significantly increase your health. For example, psychologists have found reason to believe that owning a dog helps lower your blood pressure and your cholesterol [source: BVA]. And other research shows that pets help us feel better overall and help us to deal with stress, which can be a source of illness [sources: Laino, BBC News].

And let’s not forget the benefits for the elderly. For example, one study observed neural activity in seniors while they walked or interacted with a dog [source: Motooka]. It turned out that walking with a dog gave seniors a boost in parasympathetic nervous system activity, which is good because the parasympathetic nervous system helps calm and rest the body.

Stories abound about the healing abilities of pets. For instance, one boy who did not talk for six years finally chose to start talking after a therapy dog visited his school [CBS News]. Organizations, such as the Delta Society, train dogs to help disabled people perform tasks. The Delta Society feels so strongly about the health benefits of animals to humans that it is dedicated to spreading knowledge about the issue as well as services.

The psychological benefits of pets can make a big difference in someone’s life. This seems to be especially true for kids who are struggling to deal with death or illness in the family. Certain studies have concluded that children with dogs cope better with these serious situations [source: Howie]. Researchers believe this probably has to do with the obvious fact that pets provide love and with the fact that the structured routine required for taking care of a pet is a positive for the child. Kids aren’t the only ones who benefit from pets during these difficult times; the spouses of cancer patients said they believed pets helped them cope as well.

The health benefits of dogs go beyond psychological factors. As it turns out, dogs might be useful in the field of medicine to detect and predict medical problems. In one study, trained dogs were able to identify patients with bladder cancer by smelling their urine [source: Willis]. Although the dogs were not accurate all the time, they identified the right patients at a rate much better than chance. This revealed surprising evidence for the use of dogs as well as further knowledge about the effects and detection of bladder cancer.

What’s perhaps more amazing, however, is that certain dogs can predict when their owner is about to suffer an epileptic seizure. Trainers can teach some dogs to help a person in various ways during a seizure. In addition, some of these dogs end up developing the mysterious ability to actually warn the owner before he or she suffers a seizure [source: CBS News]. The group that trains these dogs, Canine Assistants, claims that most dogs develop the prediction abilities within merely a year of being with their owner. Researchers are at a loss to explain how exactly dogs can do this.

Getting the right animal for you and your family is critically important. If you find that an animal causes more stress, then one or more things may be the cause.  That animal may not be right for you, they may have a message for you, the job you are asking them to do is not a good fit for them, you may be rewarding bad behavior in some way and/or a host of other factors.  Getting the aid of an animal communicator to help in the beginning will go a long way to ensure that you and your animal friend are a good fit for each other and that your animal friend will indeed be a boost to your health.

Special thanks to Dr. Andrew Jones, DVM, for his contribution to this article.

Canine Cancer Secrets

Did you know that dogs have a 1 in 2 chance of developing cancer?  That means that 50% of dogs WILL develop cancer.  It’s an epidemic!  Did you also know that you can easily increase your dog’s chances of remaining healthy significantly?  It’s very simple, feed your dog a healthy diet and educate yourself about the everyday hazards that your dog faces.

Andrew Lewis has done a remarkably good job of educating K9 lovers about preventing cancer, AND, if your beloved beastie already has cancer, you’ll learn what to do to help them recover too!  Check it out at:

http://budurl.com/caninecancersecrets

HO’OPONOPONO – A Hawaiian Healing Practice

I came across this article written by Dr. Joe Vitale, and it is so amazing I wanted to share it.  You can use this practice to heal yourself, and thus possibly heal your animal friends.

“Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients–without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved.

“When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t logical, so I dismissed the story.

“However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho ‘oponopono. I had never heard of it, yet I couldn’t let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. I had always understood “total responsibility” to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it’s out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We’re responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does–but that’s wrong.

“The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist.

He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years.

That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous.

Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit.

“Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal.

“‘After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,’ he told me. ‘Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.’ I was in awe. ‘Not only that,’ he went on, ‘but the staff began to enjoy coming to work.

Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.’

“This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: ‘What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?’

“‘I was simply healing the part of me that created them,’ he said. I didn’t understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life- simply because it is in your life–is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation.

“Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don’t like–is up for you to heal. They don’t exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn’t with them, it’s with you, and to change them, you have to change you.

“I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho ‘oponopono means loving yourself.

“If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you.

“I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients’ files?

“‘I just kept saying, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’ over and over again,’he explained.

“That’s it?

“That’s it.

“Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.

“Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message.

“This time, I decided to try Dr. Len’s method. I kept silently saying, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you,’ I didn’t say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance.

“Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn’t take any outward action to get that apology. I didn’t even write him back. Yet, by saying ‘I love you,’ I somehow healed within me what was creating him.

“I later attended a ho ‘oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He’s now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive.

He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book’s vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve.

“‘What about the books that are already sold and out there?’ I asked.

“‘They aren’t out there,’ he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. ‘They are still in you.’ In short, there is no out there. It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves.

“Suffice It to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there’s only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it with love.”

For more information on Ho’oponopono please visit http://hooponopono.org

SeaWorld Orca Tragedy

In the latest podcast episode, Scott and I discussed the SeaWorld Orca Tragedy, and how communicating with Wildlife (and all animals) is so critically important.  The traumatic incident that cost the trainer her life and that has left Tilikum, the whale’s life in jeopardy has made us reevaluate our treatment and consideration of these amazing and wonderful giants of the sea, as well as other wild animals held captive in other types of theme parks.  We also discussed the case of Ginny, the zoo elephant who killed her trainer that I got to work with personally and what she said about why she did it.  We talked about sharks and Scott’s experience with Flake and Chips in Australia.  And we talked about the role of animal ambassadors and volunteers from the animal kingdom who have the job of touching our hearts and challenging our beliefs and notions about who animals really are.  Listen and then give us your feedback, ok?  What do you think?