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GAZEHOUND’S ANIMAL COMMUNICATION NEWS
August 2009
Lucky and Harley Laraway
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Keeping in touch with the animals….
and the people who love them
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Those Pesky Blockades
There are many who really don’t consider animal communication as one of the psychic sciences. I’m not really sure why this is, as, when you break it down into its active components, you will find it’s a combination of telepathy and empathy, with some remote viewing, clairvoyance and clairaudience, a bit of psychometry, and various other details tossed in. Perhaps it’s just the word “psychic” that some people aren’t keen to embrace. However you categorize it, though, animal communication features many of the same blessings, and problems, as other psychic skills.
One issue many people who use various psychic skills encounter are blockages to the input they are trying to receive. Once in a while even the most experienced psychic, or communicator, will find themselves saying, “I’m just not getting anything”. It happens, and it’s normal when it does. No human is perfect; we all have our bad days. There are various things that can cause the inflow to dam up, a key one being emotions.
In order to receive, we must have quiet minds. “Quite seas” is a term often heard, and it certainly does help when our mental and emotional waters are not being tossed about by a maelstrom. If we are troubled, worried, scattered, it is important to learn how to toss those distractions overboard, and return to a peaceful focus. If you were an animal, would you want to bare your soul if the mind trying to connect to yours was full of chaos? Even when the animal does want to share, our minds are in confusion, the thoughts and feelings won’t be received clearly.
During times like this, it’s best to establish a special focal point. When practicing meditation, if we build an image that we can use readily as a quieting focus, it gets the mind working in the right direction, blocks out the distractions, and allows the information to flow once again.
I have a special tree that always helps me to get more “rooted”. There is a book by Annie Dillard, called “Pilgrim At Tinker Creek”. In it, she uses a line which, though it’s just mentioned in one small section, has stayed with me for many years. “The tree with the lights in it”. This image affected me so deeply, that I’ve used the image as a focal point ever since, and it almost never fails to calm and ground me. Each person practicing any kind of psychic skill will have some special image of their own that will help them in the same way.
Quieting our mental seas will allow the waters to flow freely.
It is usually emotional turmoil of some sort that unsettles the mind, even if it seems like other things are the primary distraction. If our kids or pets are making a ruckus as we’re on the phone with a client, it’s easy to blame the kids and pets as the distraction … but it’s actually the resulting mental confusion and frustration that actually blocks the inflow. It is possible, with practice (lots and lots of practice), to get to the point that one can quiet our minds even in the midst of chaos. (I haven’t gotten there yet, but that’s what they tell me.)
There are, of course, some emotional blockades that simply run too deep to easily overcome. Even the best focal imagery won’t help us through the barriers, and at those times one must simply accept the limits, at least temporarily, as we continue to work through those feelings on a soul level.
For instance, for the time being, I am not accepting lost animal cases. This isn’t because I don’t like to do them … as, in fact, they can sometimes be the most satisfying consultations. It is because, due to a series of extreme changes in my life, I’ve lost the ability to block out the strong emotions of the people and animals involved in the situation. Those feelings, even though they belong to others, are so powerful (and rightly so) that I’m unable to receive clear imagery from the missing pets.
In situations like this, all we can do is to continue to test the waters periodically, to see if we’ve returned to our old levels of emotional control to the point that the barriers to receiving can be cleared.
There is no shame in finding that we’re blocked from receiving. It’s a problem that everyone who has feelings will eventually (and sometimes frequently) encounter. We can only try our best, and develop tools that will allow us to regain our emotional control and open the empathic gates again. If we work on our meditation practices we can build a repertoire of imagery that will often help us to return to the proper attitude of calm focus.
And always remember: as we practice animal communication with our own pets, and the pets of others, we always have a helper close at hand. There have been many occasions where one of my animals will tell me, “Calm down”. Those gentle reminders are usually a wonderful aid in returning me to quiet seas.
FYI NOTES and NEWS
Thank You!
To everyone who has sent their good wishes to me, and to my Dad, during our recent health issues and mishaps. And thank you all, too, for your patience as you waited for consultations as I was running back and forth to the hospital. I am currently trying my best to catch up with everyone who has been waiting.
Don’t Forget….
… that gift certificates do have an expiration date. If you’ve given them as gifts, or have them tucked safely away at home, check those dates and be sure to redeem them before they expire. I’ll continue to post this reminder in each issue of “Creature Thoughts”.
Gift certificates are always available at a special discounted price. Visit http://www.gazehound.com, and view the Rates and Services page for details.
There has been a rate change as of July 1st, 2009. The new rates are:
* Basic session up to 1/2 hour: $36
* Per minute charge beyond the 1/2 hour: $1.20
* Gift Certificates: 1 for $36, 2 for $70, 3 for $90 (which once again buys three for the “old” rate of $30/session)
Website Features
Recent Ramblings!
In Photos, Phlowers, Phur and Phun: Daylily Macro Photography
…and : NY Wildlife Rescue Center’s Open House
More News On-Site
Don’t forget that you can always keep up with changes and info on rates, policies, and “other fun stuff” on my website: http://www.gazehound.com, and that you can find archives of this newsletter and other articles on my Creature Thoughts Blog: http://www.gazehound.com/category/creaturethoughts/. Archives before May 2009 can still be found at the old blog site: http://gazehound.blogspot.com.
Whole New Site! As you probably know, Gazehound.com | AnimalCommunicator-NY.com has undergone a total overhaul. The site is now easier to navigate and, most importantly, more interactive. I encourage visitors to leave comments on the site, express their thoughts on posts, and engage in lively conversations! There are subscribe buttons at the top of each page where you may subscribe to RSS feeds either on the web or via email, so you always know when something new has been posted (which is almost every day).
Testimonials: One fun way the site has changed allows people to leave comments on the Testimonials page, if they have had an experience where they feel I’ve been able to help them better understand their animal friends. Feel free to view the page, and leave your own thoughts on the site!
E-News List
It has become more important than ever, that all of my clients are subscribed to my e-news list. Thus, whenever anyone inquires about information, or sets up an appointment, they will receive both an invitation to the list and a separate note from me letting them know they’ve been invited. I strongly encourage all my clients to stay in touch, by remaining subscribed to this list. And please feel free to forward this newsletter issue to any friends, family, and acquaintances whom you feel might be interested in joining us. On the new site design, there is a subscription box for the newsletter in the left sidebar of every page.
Free Help For Our Animal Friends at NELR
Northeast Llama Rescue and Barnyard Sanctuary and New York Wildlife Rescue (an IRS 501(c)(3) charity) accept Paypal donations through their website at http://www.redmaplefarm.net. I’ve dedicated much time and love in the past several years toward helping to build a safe place for our wild friends in need, and our livestock rescues, and am extending the offer to all of you to aid in their care as well. And now, we have a totally painless (and free) way for anyone to support the animals at NYWRC/NELR. If you sign up to shop online through iGive.com, at no cost to you, every purchase you make through the iGive gateway will earn a donation for the animals.
To sign up to shop through iGive for NYWRC:
http://www.igive.com/NYWildlifeRescueCenter
And even if you don’t sign up (but why would anyone not sign up since it’s free and painless?), you can still earn money with each internet search you do simply by logging in to the iGive search engine rather than Google or whichever other search engine you normally use:
http://www.isearchigive.com/NYWildlifeRescueCenter
I set the above link as my homepage in my browser to remind me to search through iGive and earn pennies for the animals each time I search. iGive’s usual one cent per search is doubled through the month of December, too, so get using it now while we can earn the big bucks!
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Gayle Nastasi (of Gazehound’s Animal Communication) is a professional animal communication consultant and writer, who hopes her connection to the animal world can serve as a way to help her fellow humans enrich their relationships with their animal companions. By better knowing our non-human friends, we ensure a kinder future for our world and we learn what it means to be a unique and essential part of all that is. Permission is given to forward this article to anyone you feel might enjoy it, as long as it is understood that copyrights are held by Gayle Nastasi, and the author’s name, and links to her website(s) are left intact. If this publication has been forwarded to you and you would like to subscribe to Gazehound’s free monthly e-newsletter, “Creature Thoughts”, just visit the newsletter link below.
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