That was the question recently posed to me by one of the students who took my professional series a few years ago. She said she talked with a woman’s cat and the woman said everything was wrong wrong wrong. Nothing like that to brighten your day, eh? We talked on the phone about it and I told her that everyone who does animal communication intensively can and probably has had this experience. There are many reasons why a case can be “all wrong”. Here is the short list:

• the communicator has perfromance anxiety and is not connected well to the animal. or for some other reason is not physically. emotionally, or mentally optimal (i.e., you can’t do this if you are really upset about something in your life)
• the client is in denial about the animal, has some kind of emotional/mental problem,  or just doesn’t know the animal well (it happens)
• the communicator slips and makes assumptions or starts analyzing and trying to figure things out vs just receiving impressions

Beyond why you can be off on a case, she wanted to know how to deal with it. She was feeling like it was time to quit. My response was that doing intuitive work forces you to face your insecurity and to learn how to find and trust your inner truth. It can be a very challenging field, but it can lead you to a place of strength and truth you won’t find elsewhere. I told her that I had had the same experience as she had a number of times and I just politely told the client that I must be off for some reason and let it be. I then worked to analyze the reasons and did what I could to address the core issue. My advice to my student  was  the same:  look at how to address the possible causes that were within her control,  and  realize that there is always the possibility that what she got was accurate and the client just couldn’t or didn’t want to see it. Sometimes you just have to live with that kind of ambiguity. I also advised her to go back to doing first impression practicing with friends’ animals as a way  to take the pressure off and also have some quick and easy successes to build back her confidence.

If you have a question about your practice please send it in. I will be happy to answer it in the blog.

Clean Your Screen

This is too cute.. Need your computer screened cleaned? click here

http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclean.swf

Practice Tomorrow

It’s not too late to sign up for the practice groups tomorrow. Go to my schedule page to register

http://martawilliams.com/WorkshopSchedule.htm

or call or email if you have questions.   Note: to participate you have to have had some beginning experience with me or elsewhere.

Action Alerts

If you have not already, please sign the petition to ban the rollkur in dressage

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-rollkur

Also, if you are not aware of the what the US government is doing  the wild horses of America, read here and please get involved in turning this around.

http://www.examiner.com/x-37163-Equine-Advocacy-Examiner~y2010m2d3-The-BLM-is-killing-wild-horses-and-breaking-our-hearts

Quote

 
A beautiful quote from Howard Zinn, the great historian and liberal advocate who just died.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.