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We get what we project.

Dogs teach us that the world will respond to us in a far better way if we respond to it from a place of rootedness.

One of the biggest challenges of the human experience is learning how to deal with our emotions. We develop coping mechanisms. Ways of numbing out. Escapes. Sometimes developing neurotic behaviors like excessive and obsessive: TV watching, video game playing, internet and social media usage, drinking, smoking, drug use, cleaning, eating, exercise, shopping, sex, and more.

Dogs mirror our internal state. They know us and recognize us on a level most of us don’t even recognize and know ourselves.

We’re their guiders, teachers, dot-connectors, and way-showers. They look to us for how to feel about what’s around them. The scenarios they find themselves in. We’re the ones providing their cues, guidance, and directives, so it’s of utmost importance we’re mindful of where this direction is coming from.

Dogs, on a very instinctual level, will not trust, respect or follow negative, insecure, impatient, frustrated, soft, passive, meek, nervous, anxious, stressed, angry, fearful energy. If they sense their human doesn’t have it together, they’ll step up to lead, protect, and fill the vacant role as leader. Every ship needs a captain.

It’s important we never address our dog from such an un-grounded, emotional or negative space. We’ll have a far more responsive audience when we approach and deliver from a calm, confident, grounded, and steadfast position. Learning to effectively deal with, cope, and handle our emotions will not only foster and create that ever-so important “trust and respect factor” with our dogs, but also with our loved ones, and anyone else with whom we interact and share space.

We’re human. We’re going to get knocked off-center, hit walls, experience hiccups, and have those face-plants. It’s not what happens that matters, it’s how we choose to deal with it. The gold lies in how we get back up, dust ourselves off, and get back in the game. What we allow to influence and affect us… and what we don’t.

Our emotions are a very strong, influential, and potent form of energy. What we generate internally gets expressed and released externally; rippling out into the world, impressing upon all. What we put out into the world, comes right back to us; shaping our very reality as we know it. We teach others how to treat us.