![]() Yet dogs are already living in the present moment - exactly where all our self-help and personal development journey guides us towards! We are supposedly better able to survive because of our thought or ‘intellect’. Not ‘thinking’ doesn’t make them less of a being it actually makes them stronger, more receptive and better able to sense the world than a human. Whereas Thought is kind of a pointless attribute for an animal like a dog, especially when you recognise that their ability to FEEL is so blimmin’ strong! It's undoubtedly way more honed than most humans ability to act from Feeling instead of thought. They sense the world and their options in front of them, rather than thinking about them.įeeling is sensing frequencies in the environment to help navigate life, such as electromagnetic frequencies, sensing smells, sensing how a person or another animal feels, or sensing which route feels the safest to travel. They do so without thought, but with Feeling. Dogs respond to anything that comes up in front of it, in each moment, as it occurs. Besides, dogs are not capable of plotting, planning or even knowing it has ‘got the better of you’ in some way! If a dog needs to cross a room it doesn’t think about it, it just does it. I’m so fed up, next time I see that person who wronged me, I will confront them!Īgain, none of these are thoughts a dog needs to have living in the Present. When I am on my walk, I will go left at the junction this time as I want to see what's down there. When my friend gets here, I will make her a cake! I am worried about that forthcoming event. What will happen to me when that time comes? What about Future thoughts?Įxamples of thoughts about the Future include: OK, so we know Present and Past thinking is not applicable to dogs. Although it's not been proven where memories are actually stored, memories have been shown to absolutely NOT be in the brain! Many theories exist about memory location (check out Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s lectures for more information). It can seem like a thought to us humans, as we have over-developed the use of our minds and will add a language to the memory in an instance. When a dog re-encounters a person, something about the person will trigger their memory - usually primarily smell. If the emotion is weaker, it's likely to be forgotten more easily. If the emotion is a strong one, it will be a stronger memory. However, the memory of how that person made him feel is stored as a memory. A dog does not reflect on a person he met earlier, he doesn't consider if they liked him, or if he will see them again. Instead, they are an imprint of information that is within our field of knowledge. Memories are simply there for us and just appear when triggered. We know this from how a smell can suddenly bring on a memory that we were not trying to ‘think of' at the time. They don't concern themselves with what could have been or should have been. None of these are thoughts that a dog needs to have because they live totally in the moment. Therefore, our thoughts (and potentially our dogs) must always either be about the Past or the Future.Įxample of thoughts about the Past include: Our other senses are heightened and we start to open up to our Heart's (electromagnetic) frequencies, becoming more intuitive and able to know things without the need for thought (just like Eckhart Tolle's teachings state). ![]() In this thought-free Present Moment of pure awareness, all possibilities become available. For thoughts to come, but to then go again, never focusing specifically on them, just allowing them to Flow. We don’t actually have thoughts in the Present Moment – that's the point of being in the Present! All empowerment and self-development coaching ultimately gets you to be in the Present Moment: to find your inner-self, to encourage an allowance of your thoughts, letting them simply wash over you. I hope this article goes some way to explaining why this matters: why we must open our hearts and minds to the world our dogs really live in, in order to fully understand them, their behaviours and learn more about ourselves too. Instead, could it actually be something to celebrate? ![]() ![]() The question also arises: do they even need to think to be part of our world?Īnd if they don’t think, does that really make them ‘lesser’ in some way? They do not tell themselves off or mentally reflect with hindsight about something they did or didn’t do, should or shouldn't have done. Neither do dogs judge themselves for how they look in a certain jacket, or in photos. So we know they cannot be ‘thinking’ in the same way. Dogs of course, do not have a language as we do, in term of words and sentences. When we think, we tend to think in a language, usually our first learnt language. Back to Insights What Do Dogs Think About?
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