Betty
Our dog, Betty, is a social butterfly. She goes to doggy daycare twice a week to play Bite Your Face, Can’t Catch Me, and other canine games. When I picked her up Thursday, the owner of the place asked me what I do. Uh-oh. Would she think I was a kook?
Instead, she thought I was joking. Maybe because I don’t dress like the gypsy stereotype.
“But, like, how do you do it?” she asked, holding out her hand for me to read her palm.
“Dogs sense energy, right?” I said. “They know how everyone’s feeling. They even know what’s coming up next.”
She agreed. “They even know when they’re going to be picked up before you pull into the driveway,” she said.
I’ve had dogs who knew the sound of my car. Betty? She barks like an intruder is on his way in every time I drive into the garage. I’ve heard that dogs know when it’s time for you to return from work, that they measure the amount of your scent is in the air. As it diminishes, they know it’s time for you to arrive home and give them a treat.
We can’t exactly ask our dogs how they know these things. And we can’t get into their Cocoa Puff-sized brains to find out, but my theory is they use all their senses in a way that is similar to what I do when I’m working with someone.
I might hear music or suddenly remember a line of a song. I sometimes taste food or a drink. I can smell perfumes or nature or hot asphalt. I might see a scene or a color. I feel pain in my body as if it’s happening to me, sometimes quite violent things like a gun shot or a heart attack.
I put words to what I’m experiencing and that starts a conversation. While I’m talking, I’m also clearing the energy.
According to Deepak Chopra, “In its essential state, our bodies are composed of energy and information, not solid matter. This energy and information is an outcropping of infinite fields of energy and information spanning the universe.” As I sense energy, I remember that behind all form is energy. Clear the negative energy or the energy that doesn’t belong and the healing begins.
Everyone senses energy differently. Some people can see energy patterns, some people see colors. Some people get a deep knowing or sense of things, and some people just use their imagination. There is no right or wrong way to sense energy. And there is no right or wrong way for angels, spirit guides, and dead people to send me signs and symbols. I try to remain open so I can receive the messages however they’re sent. Just like dogs do.
Even if you think you are not able to sense energy, you are in your own unique way. It will develop through time if you remain open, trust yourself, and stick with it. Just as catching a frisbee in mid-air with your teeth takes practice, so does reading and decoding energetic messages.
