(New York Post) Are you having a ruff time communicating with your pet?
The Post spoke with pet psychics about how to best get your message across to your nearest and dearest animals so that they can better understand you — fur real.
Laura Stinchfield, an internationally renowned pet psychic, psychic medium and author who studied for years as an animal trainer, told The Post that when conveying a message to your pet, “what’s most important is that you’re just really clear in your mind and your body and the images in your mind about what you’re saying to them.”
Here are four easy tips straight from the pros.
Set a clear intention
A combination of being calm and focused, being clear about what you’re communicating and being cognizant of what emotions and images you are giving off to your pet can make the difference between talking at your fur baby versus truly talking to them.
Stinchfield, 51, gave the example of a dog that barks out the window when strangers pass by and how to effectively tell your pooch to stop.
While an owner’s instinct may be to say, “Don’t bark,” that can backfire.
“If you say,’ Don’t bark,’ what’s happening is that your mind is creating an image of them barking, and you have the feeling of them barking,” explained Stinchfield, who is bicoastal and spends her time between New York State and Ojai, California.
She said dogs will misinterpret the words “don’t bark” as “bark out the window.”
“So you can say to them instead, ‘Hey, when you are barking out the window,’ while picturing them barking out the window, ‘This makes me really upset,’” while picturing yourself being and feeling unsettled.
“But when you’re quiet and you’re looking out the window, that makes me happy,” Stinchfield said to tell your dog while imagining them looking quietly out the window and you feeling happy.
Create mental pictures and emotions
Stinchfield said she’ll then psychically share with her dog mental images of all the things that go by the house that are normal occurrences, like the cars, the mailman or another dog.
“Then I tell them, ‘The smartest dogs are dogs that can be quiet and just watch.’ And then I picture that and kind of feel the energy of that. And then I also feel like what that would look like and what that would feel to me if that was going on in the house,” she explained.
Pet owners can also use this type of communication before they leave their home for a short while, or if they go away on vacation “to relieve their anxiety a little bit,” Nicole Love, a 49-year-old pet psychic and energy healer from Humboldt County, California, told The Post.
“If you’re going to leave the house — you know, you’re going to do a couple of errands and then you’re going to come home — you can kind of show your animal these pictures. I’m gonna leave and then I’m gonna go home before dark,” Love detailed.
She said if you’re going on a trip, you can convey to them a mental picture of you being away for a certain number of nights and the location where you are going — for instance, one with palm trees.
You can then project an image of you coming home when you and your pet are together again.
