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.

Oneness

When you are kindness, you are showing love.

Through love you are connected to those around you.

Connection is a state of being and our dogs are an embodiment of that expression.

They are never judging us or thinking ill of us or of themselves.

They are the purest expression of love.

When we begin to turn into ourselves, we begin experiencing our senses much like our companion animals.

We see, feel, hear and even taste what is in front of us in the present moment.

As we pass through that doorway of sensory perception, we start to become one with our dogs.

We experience life as they do.

Freedom from our thoughts and just being in the present moment.

As we go deeper into ourselves and connect with our inner knowing, we merge with the oneness of animals.

We are the kindness and love that our dogs already know exist within us.

Take a breath, experience your senses and feel the deep knowing that you are love and are loved and your dogs presence is an embodiment of that oneness in the world.

Be Still

What if you let go of labeling an experience as good or bad and instead just saw it as is?

Take for instance, your dog barking. If you let go of taking the barking personally, then labeling the behavior as being bad because your preference of no barking goes away.

How would that change how you feel about the experience?

When the experience doesn’t match what you desire to actually be happening, your expectation overrides what is actually occuring right in front of you.

When you slip out of the present moment, your thoughts take over and your inner critic emerges and gets louder and louder.

You may also may become worried and anxious about the future.

In the instance of your dog barking, when you slip out of the present moment, you may judge yourself for being bad for not being able to stop your dog from barking, or even label your dog as bad and blame him for doing what is natural to him.

Or, you may be worried about the what ifs of your dog barking when guests are planned to come over for a party at your house over the weekend. The anxious mind spins wildly out of control which then makes you feel like you have no control.

When you get back to your grounded being, you begin to access your creative mind and you begin seeing you have choices of what you can do.

Take a breath.

Be still.

Be open to what creative options show up and feel free to share below 🙂