How to connect with your pets

In the [first part of this series](link to Blog 1), you discovered why your pet’s communication hasn’t been landing—and what’s been blocking the signal between you.

Now let’s talk about the bridge. How to actually tune into the frequency where your pet lives. How to begin hearing the communication that’s been there all along.

This isn’t about learning complex techniques or becoming someone you’re not. It’s about returning to a natural state you already know—presence—and learning to sustain it long enough to receive what your pet is offering.

The Frequency Where Animals Live

To connect with your pet’s communication, you first need to understand where they actually are energetically.

Picture this: You walk through your front door after being gone all day. Your dog is there, whole body wagging, eyes locked on yours like you’re the only thing that exists in the entire universe.

They’re not thinking about the walk you took yesterday. Not wondering if you’ll feed them in five minutes or fifty. Not replaying the morning or planning the evening.

They are completely, fully, joyfully HERE. In this reunion. In this singular moment of seeing you again.

That’s presence. Being fully alive in what is happening right now, without mental time travel to past or future.

This is where animals naturally live. Not because they’re enlightened beings who’ve transcended worry (though sometimes it feels that way), but because their consciousness operates differently than ours. They don’t have the same capacity for abstract mental time travel that humans do.

And this is actually their gift to us.

Watch what happens when your pet experiences something difficult. Maybe they get startled by a loud noise. For a moment, they’re tense, alert, shaken. But give them safety and love, and watch how quickly they return. No story about what it means. No identity built from the fear. They simply… let go and come back to now.

Note: This is a simplified explanation. The reality is more complex—animals do experience trauma that can affect them throughout their lives.

This state of presence is also a state of openness, love, and receptivity. It’s the frequency from which they communicate. It’s the channel they’re broadcasting on.

And it’s the channel you need to tune into if you want to hear them.

And here’s what’s about to change: You’ve been present with your pet countless times without knowing what you were experiencing. Those moments were there. They’re still there. Waiting for you to recognize them. Now you will.

How to Recognize Your Own Frequency

Before you can shift to your pet’s frequency, you need awareness of where you are right now.

Your frequency is the energetic vibration you’re operating on at any given moment. It’s not abstract or mystical—you can feel it in your body if you pay attention.

Tomorrow morning, right before you feed your pet, pause. Just for ten seconds. Your hand on the food container. Your pet’s eyes locked on you.

Notice where you actually are in that moment.

Are you there—feeling your feet on the floor, your hand on the metal scoop, their anticipation in the air? Or are you already three hours ahead, mentally rehearsing the meeting you’re dreading, running through your to-do list while your body goes through the motions?

Your pet knows. They can feel the difference between you being here and you being everywhere else but here.

Start checking in like this throughout your day. Ask yourself these questions and actually feel for the answers in your body:

Where is my attention right now?

In my body, or in my head? (If you can’t feel your feet on the floor or your breath moving, you’re in your head) Here in this moment, or mentally somewhere else? (If you’re thinking about what comes after this, you’re not here) Present with what is, or thinking about what was or what will be? (If you’re replaying this morning’s argument, you’re in the past)

What’s the quality of my energy?

Open and relaxed, or contracted and tight? (Notice your shoulders, jaw, belly—are they clenched?) Flowing and easeful, or stuck and heavy? (Does movement feel natural or forced?) Grounded in my body, or floating in mental activity? (Can you feel the weight of your body or do you feel disconnected?)

What’s my breathing like?

Deep and slow, or shallow and rapid? (Put your hand on your chest and belly—which is moving more?) Low in my belly, or high in my chest? (Chest breathing signals stress; belly breathing signals calm) Relaxed and natural, or controlled and tense? (Are you forcing it or just observing it?)

These aren’t abstract questions. Your body will give you immediate, honest answers if you pause long enough to feel.

If you notice you’re in a lower frequency—anxious, replaying conversations, mentally spinning—now you know there’s static on the line. Now you can shift it.

If you’re actually grounded and present—that’s the signal clarity you want when connecting with your pet.

The goal isn’t to judge yourself. The goal is awareness so you can choose to shift.

The Practice That Changes Everything

Set aside ten minutes. Same time each day if possible—animals love rhythm and consistency. Pick a spot in your home. The couch. A corner of your bedroom floor. Somewhere you both feel comfortable.

Put your phone in another room. Not on silent. Not face-down next to you. In another room.

Sit down. Call your pet over. Or just settle where you are and let them come to you when they’re ready.

Here’s what happens next:

You’ll want to do something. Pet them in that automatic way you always do. Check the time. Make a mental note about tomorrow’s appointment. Plan what you’ll make for dinner.

Don’t.

Just be there. Watch them. Feel the texture of their fur if they’re leaning against you. Notice the rise and fall of their breathing. Feel where your body contacts the floor or chair or couch.

If they get up and walk away, let them. Don’t take it personally. Don’t call them back. Sometimes they need to move energy through their body first. Stay in your spot. Stay present. Often they’ll return once they’ve settled.

The first few sessions will feel awkward. You might feel restless, like you’re wasting time. Thoughts will pull you away. That voice in your head will start listing all the things you “should” be doing instead.

That restlessness shows you how much static you normally carry. Don’t judge it. Notice it, and bring your attention back to your body, your breath, the present moment, your pet.

You might feel emotion arise. Grief. Joy. Relief. Sadness you didn’t know you were carrying. Let it come. Your pet can hold space for it. This is part of clearing the static.

Notice your breath. Is it high in your chest, shallow and quick? Let it drop into your belly. Slow. Natural. Not forced.

Watch your pet’s breathing. The rhythm of it. The ease. Let yourself soften into that rhythm.

Your mind will wander. That’s what minds do. The practice isn’t stopping it—the practice is noticing when it wanders and bringing your attention back. Every single time you notice and return, you’re building the muscle. Ten seconds of actual presence counts more than ten minutes of forcing something that isn’t there.

By session four, something shifts. They start to anticipate this time. After two weeks, it becomes their favorite part of the day.

What Presence Actually Feels Like

You’re sitting with your pet. Five minutes into your practice time. Suddenly you notice—the mental chatter has quieted. Not completely silent, but softer. Like background noise that got turned down.

Time feels different. Not rushing toward the next moment. Just… here.

You can hear things you normally tune out. The hum of the refrigerator. Traffic outside. Your pet’s breathing, slow and even.

Your chest feels open. Your belly soft. You’re not bracing against anything or holding anything back.

Your breath is moving naturally, easily. Deep. Slow. You’re not controlling it—it just is.

And here’s what matters most:

In this state, you become sensitive to subtle things. You sense your pet’s contentment without them doing anything in particular. You feel a shift in the energy of the room when something changes for them. You know things without knowing how you know them.

This is where you can actually receive your pet’s communication.

You might feel this for 30 seconds in your first sessions. That counts. Some days it won’t come at all—you’ll sit there restless and distracted. Your pet still benefits. Your nervous system is still learning. It counts. Struggling to be present (mind wanders, you bring it back) is different from forcing it (trying to manufacture a feeling). Presence isn’t something you create. It’s something you allow by removing obstacles.

How Being Present Opens Communication

You’re wondering: How does being present lead to hearing what my pet is saying?

When you’re present, something shifts. Your intuitive receptors—the part of you that senses energy, reads what’s underneath the surface, knows things without knowing how—come online. They’ve been there all along. Waiting. But mental chatter drowns them out every single time.

Your pet’s communication is a whisper. Subtle. Energetic. Transmitted through feeling and frequency, not words and logic. When your mental chatter quiets, the whisper becomes audible.

Picture trying to hear someone speaking softly to you in a crowded restaurant. You can see their lips moving. You know they’re saying something important. But the noise around you drowns it out completely. Then suddenly the restaurant quiets. Just for a moment. And you hear them. Clear as day.

That’s what happens when you’re present.

When you’re present, you FEEL rather than THINK your way to understanding. Gut knowings. Intuitive hits. You sense what they need without explaining how you know.

This is what becomes possible when you stop trying to figure everything out with your analytical mind and start receiving information the way your pet sends it—through the energetic, intuitive channel that presence opens.

And when you’re present with your pet—truly, fully present together—you’ll feel something you haven’t felt in years: completely safe. Unconditionally loved. Enough exactly as you are. This is the gift they’ve been trying to give you. This simple, profound feeling of being fully met, exactly as you are, right now.

The Shift You’ll Start to Notice

Once you establish a regular practice of presence with your pet—even just ten minutes daily—you’ll start noticing things that were always there.

You’ll catch the subtle shift in your cat’s energy when they’re deeply content versus when something is bothering them underneath their calm exterior. Same posture. Same spot on the couch. But you’ll feel the difference.

You’ll recognize the particular look your dog gives you when they want emotional connection versus when they need physical space. It’s in their eyes. The quality of their gaze.

You’ll sense when they’re responding to your energy versus when they’re in their own experience. You’ll know when your anxiety is bleeding into them. You’ll feel when they’re picking up on something you haven’t consciously registered yet.

You’ll start to feel things. Gut knowings about what your pet needs in a given moment. Intuitive understanding of what a particular behavior is really communicating.

These aren’t thoughts you think. They’re impressions you receive when your mind is quiet enough and you’re present enough to pick up the signal.

This is what reading your pet’s energy actually looks like.

It’s not dramatic or mysterious. It’s simply what becomes possible when you clear the interference and tune into the frequency where they’re broadcasting.

A Simple Test

Want to experience the difference right now? This takes two minutes.

Call your pet to you while you’re mentally scattered or stressed. Maybe you just got off a difficult phone call. Maybe you’re running late and trying to do three things at once. Call them. Notice their response—the quality of it, the speed, the energy they bring.

Now take three deep breaths. Feel your feet on the floor. Let go of whatever thoughts you were churning on. Drop into your body. Become fully present in this room, in this moment.

Call your pet again.

Watch what happens.

Most people notice an immediate difference. Their pet responds faster. Comes more willingly. Makes better eye contact. The quality of the interaction shifts entirely.

That’s what happens when frequencies align.

When you’re actually available for connection instead of just physically present but mentally elsewhere, your pet can meet you. The communication channel opens.

And with practice, you can learn to access this state of presence not just during designated sacred time, but increasingly throughout your day. In the midst of regular life. During walks, during play, during quiet moments together.

This is the foundation for everything else.

In the next part of this series, we’ll explore how to distinguish between your pet’s behavior and the energy beneath it—the layer where their real communication lives.

But for now: Practice presence. Clear the static. Tune into the frequency where your pet is waiting.

Your pet has been waiting in presence for you. Patient. Unconditionally loving. Ready to meet you the moment you arrive.

Continue Reading: [Reading Your Pet’s Energy vs Their Behavior: What They’re Really Saying →](link to Blog 3)

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