The power of the left eye

Dear friends,

For years on end I have been observing the (body-)language of dogs. It is how they speak and it enables me to understand them, to communicate with them and educate them.
This lead me to observing my own body language and that of my fellow humans. Now this is a very interesting and fascinating study.
My work as a New Warrior in MKP and the fact that I am a student of martial arts gave me even more insights in how I feel and accordingly how I behave and communicate with my body language.

Do you remember how I used to say that the less you say to a dog, the better the communication works?
Do you remember how I invited our group to walk for ten minutes without saying anything?

Well if you are interested in discovering the difference between our two modes of thinking, the verbal and the non-verbal switch to the following website and read about The Power of the Left Eye.

http://www.scienceofsoulmates.com/The_power_of_the_left_eye.htm

You will read how our left eye is literally the window to our soul and the indicator of the hidden, unmasked true self.

Enjoy.

Love and blessings from Bruno

The Lion and The Hunter

Responding to my letter Do Not Feed My Dog, Muriel wrote me the following:

Hello Bruno, No, I don't like anyone else to feed my dog that is strangers. At the moment I am trying to make him slightly less attached to me so my daughter or son in law give him his proper food in the evening . I'm not perfect - he sometimes gets a bit of plain biscuit from me!l Muriel

Nobody is perfect Muriel, except the Universe.
According to me Mother Nature (the expression of the Universe on our planet) is always right, is always perfect, because she never makes mistakes.
Unspoiled children of Mother Nature, like for instance canines, are according to me also perfect. A dog is a dog. (S)he cannot be anything else but a dog. Which means (s)he cannot be right or wrong. (S)he simply IS.
Traumatized animals cannot be found living in the complete freedom offered to them by Mother Nature.
On the other hand, millions of unstable animals with traumas can be found while living with humans.

Strange you should say this about making your dog slightly less attached to you by inviting your daughter or son in law to give him food, while you are then giving him a biscuit.
Now and then.

What a beautiful human way of thinking this is. But, according to me, it has nothing to do with correctly understanding your dog.

Do you think a canine pack leader wants the members of his pack to be slightly less attached to him?
For what purpose?
Will the harmony in the pack become better?
Will the pack hunt more efficiently?
Will the pack members respect their leader more?
Will they pay more attention to him?
Will they feel more secure?
Will they trust him more?

Then there is the giving of the biscuit!!

Do you assume any canine pack leader will ever distribute biscuits in his life?
Do you think he will bribe members of his pack by offering them a biscuit?
Do you think his charisma, his presence, his calm assertive energy, his sense of leadership will increase if he does this?

Allow me to quote a magnificent African proverb for you. It was a present given to me by a wise black MKP brother from South Africa.

"Until the lion has his own storyteller, the hunter will always be the hero".

I see myself as a teacher of human beings and when teaching, I am translating what the dogs tell me. When I translate for clients, what their dogs are telling me it is usually the opposite of what the humans have assumed.

So I will now slightly adapt the African proverb in order to give it a canine "turn".

"Until the dog has an interpreter like me, the human will always assume (s)he is right and the dog is wrong."

The beauty of learning how to understand our dogs correctly is that they offer us the means to start understanding our own behaviour.
That is why I call dogs my teachers.
Dogs are showing us how we can live without lying, without blaming, without moaning, without criticising and without worrying.
I am not the only one to write about the fact that many people are not willing to think and feel like that. About the fact that they are sailing along the river called Denial. I fully understand and accept that, for I was sailing down the same river in the same boat until I learned how to listen to my feelings and how to work with my shadow.

I quote from the book titled "Be the pack leader" by Cesar Millan, page 210:

"Psychologists share an inside joke.
D.E.N.I.A.L, they say, stands for Don't Even Notice I Am Lying.
Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.....But we are also the only species with the access to consciously CHANGE our mental or emotional states."

More and more dog caring people are beginning to think and feel like that. By correctly understanding the behaviour of their dogs, they start understanding their own behaviour and the behaviour of their fellow human beings. This leads to more acceptance, to more solidarity and more empathy and honesty in our relationships.

Refering to what scientists working in the field of quantum physics have discovered, Cesar Millan writes:

"What does any of this have to do with dog psychology and becoming a better pack leader? It means that you, with your more powerful consciousness, can do something your dog cannot. You have the ability to control your reality - and with it, the energy you project - in ways that you probably do not even think possible......If you can positively project the intention you desire through real strength and honesty, your dog will instantly react to that calm-assertive energy."

Thank you Muriel for inspiring me. Your lovely message triggered something of in my brain, transmitted my interpretation of what you wrote to my fingers and look, here is the result.

Keep on writing.

LOVE

Bruno

Clear communication or telepathy?

Carolyn made me smile with her message.
These are my comments.

Yes, Carolyn,

I am smiling. I am smiling because your message is a magnificent present for me. You write a few lines and these few lines put a smile on my face. Can life be better?

It is my opinion (and opinions are the cheapest commodity on this planet because we all have more than enough opinions about everything), so .....it is my opinion that we are all well-trained human beings.
But I make a difference between those who are conscious of the fact that we have been trained and many others who will strongly negate that we have been trained.
Don Miguel Ruiz calls this not "training" but the "domestication" of the human being.

If I know that what I am thinking or doing Now is the result of a training I got when I was a child, I become the observer of my own behaviour.
Then I can switch off the training program, come to the present moment, and start acting like the adult I am NOW. That moment I can take action or make decisions as a conscious human being and not as an unconscious domesticated child in an adult body.

Our dogs know this. They live in the present and can read our body language, feel our feelings-vibrations and read our minds in an amazing way.

I quote from your message:

But when he sits in front of me and stares at me, I know exactly what he wants - no water in my bowl, I need to go out, I am bored and want to play. If only he understood me as well!!

If you think your dog does not understand you well, go inside yourself. Get to know yourself. Look into your heart. Feel your feelings. Analyse and ask your self the question if you act and speak with clear communication.
It is my perception that clients who cannot communicate clearly, consistently and honestly with their dogs, cannot communicate clearly, consistently and honestly with other human beings and can certainly not communicate clearly and honestly with themselves.
These are the people who will say at the end of my first home call "I will call you". While they are saying it I can clearly read in their body language that they will NEVER call me.
When I am dealing with Spanish clients they will say things like "hablaremos". Translated it means "we will talk later" but I do know it really means "jamas hablaremos", meaning "we will never talk later".
These are the people you meet in the street, who love to talk about the weather. Before leaving they might say "You and your wife, you must come along to our place for drinks." When I then ask when, where and at what time they want us to show up on their doorstep, they will say they will call, something they never do.

These are a few examples of the superficial way we behave in many situations. Many times we simply pretend.

Our dogs never do this. They do not pretend, judge, blame or criticize. They never lie. That makes it so easy to understand them. At least for people who do not lie, pretend,judge, blame or criticize.....

LOVE

Brunothedoglistener

On 5 January 2011 19:25, Carolyn Gratton wrote:

I agree - I go to the UK most months to see my mother. I never get my bag out of the cupboard until the last minute but Jack is restless all day. He settles down OK with John whilst I am away until the day I am coming home and then John says he is "like a cat on hot bricks". Several hours before it is time to go to the airport he starts whining and being a general nuisance until they get in the car to go and pick me up from the airport.

Now, whether you would call this telepathy or whether I am just a well trained human I don't know. But when he sits in front of me and stares at me, I know exactly what he wants - no water in my bowl, I need to go out, I am bored and want to play. If only he understood me as well!!

Hope the above makes you smile!

Carolyn