Power of Choice

As I mentioned last week, life is already hard enough.

Why make it harder than it needs to be for yourself, others and even your companion animals.

While our own suffering in the wake of becoming more aware of what is important to us doesn’t need to be compounded any additional pain.

Other’s pain doesn’t need to become our pain and this is also the same for our dogs.

When you are ravaged by your thoughts and feeling pangs of resentments and in the midst of judging others and even yourself, please know these thoughts and beliefs are not you.

They are the conditioning that created how you perceive yourself, but they aren’t you.

When you lift this veil of how you perceive yourself and yourself in the world, you can end your suffering.

The veil is only perceived and created in your mind.

This keeps you from living with kindness and love.

Making the choice to live from your heart is totally within your control.

Find it in your heart to be compassionate to yourself, others and your companion animals.

Life’s Challenges

Life meets us with challenges everyday.

Ever since we entered this world.

Challenges are presented for our dogs.

One of the biggest challenge is living in a human centered world.

Us humans aren’t the easiest species to live amongst lol.

For most of us, we live in our heads and unaware of ourselves at the deepest level.

When the mind controls how we live we get wrapped up in the judgements of our own beliefs or even the judgements by others who are also living in their minds.

Then we suffer.

Suffering becomes unbearable and now when you dog barks, your dog becomes the object of your suffering.

Blaming your dog for how you feel or what you think causes a disturbance in your relationship with your dog.

Because you’re living unaware that things outside of yourself isn’t what is the cause of your suffering.

You are see your dog as your antagonist and your enemy.

The cycle of looking outside of yourself to feel better or blaming when that reality doesn’t match our desired reality, continues.

You continue to suffer.

Instead of looking to control each moment of your life, let go and live with what is.

When you live presently, you respond to life.

Your connection with yourself deepens and your relationship with your loved ones transform.

Tap into your own inherent ability to access the present moment and invite in how your dog already sees the essence of who you are.

Just Be

Do you want your dog to make you happy?

Are you so focused on what your dog is doing or not doing and when your dog does the opposite of what you want, do you feel annoyed, irritated and overwhelmed?

If so, you are putting a lot of expectation on your dog to make you feel a certain way or to relieve the stress of your life.

At the same time, you set yourself and your dog up not to be successful and you both continue to suffer.

Dogs are without self concept. They are pure being-ness.

They are without judgment of themselves or others.

They live their life with an aliveness that sometimes as humans we lose our connected to presence we don’t see experience what is happening in the heart and now.

I invite you to sit with your dog and be still.

You nor your dog have to do anything for a few moments, just be present and allow thoughts to bubble up.

When thoughts show up, look at your dog and know your dog is free of thoughts and just is and you can be that way too.

The thoughts running through your mind are not you, it’s just chatter that takes up the space and keeps you from experience what is now.

Your dog’s presence in your life is much more than the doing. They teach you how to live.