Enlightened Dog Training: Become the Peaceful Alpha Your Dog Needs and Respects

Description: Enlightened Dog Training by Jesse Sternberg A complete guide to raising and relating to your pet in a mindful way that leads to calm, intuitively-obedient dogs FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A complete guide to raising and relating to your pet in a mindful way that leads to calm, intuitively-obedient dogs • Reveals the principles of the secret language of the animal kingdom to help you communicate with your pet and read their signals • Offers cutting-edge, unique solutions to everyday canine problems by looking at behavioral issues through the lens of your pets emotions • Shares training exercises and powerful meditative practices to do with your pet as well as on your own to help soothe anxiety, overcome aggression issues, and transform tension into harmony Are you aware of the body signals through which your dog shares his or her perspective of the world with you? Understanding the language of your pet allows you to communicate better and naturally transform your dog into a calm, relaxed companion for life. In this guide, meditation teacher and dog trainer Jesse Sternberg reveals the principles of the secret language of the animal kingdom and offers commonsense yet unique solutions to everyday canine behavioral problems. Using case studies that resonate with every pet owner and dog lover, he explains how most of our pets issues arise from intense feelings caused by the environment, ourselves, or prior conditioning and how these emotions are acted out by the dog. Combining mindfulness teachings with animal psychology, Jesse suggests training exercises and powerful meditative practices to do with your pet as well as on your own to help build a calm and peaceful mindset for both your dog and yourself, so eventually you will find yourselves aligned and able to gracefully master even unexpected situations. Enlightened Dog Training offers unique training techniques for soothing anxiety, healing neuroses, overcoming aggression issues, and transforming tension into harmony. Communicate nonverbally with your dog using the signals dogs use with each other and address problems with leash training and guarding resources and territory.Helping you cultivate empathy, awareness, and confidence to become the peaceful alpha your dog craves, this guide shows how to strengthen your human-animal bond, communicate with actions, and command with respect and love. Author Biography Jesse Sternberg is a mindfulness teacher, meditation instructor, and master dog trainer. The founder of the Peaceful Alpha Project, he has been working with animals for more than 30 years. Jesse lives in Toronto, Canada. Table of Contents Prologue 1 Becoming a Peaceful Alpha 2 The Secret Language of Dogs 3 Enlightened Dog Training Principles 4 Commanding with Respect and Love 5 Power Objects - The Solution to Your Dogs Embarrassing Behaviors 6 Crate Training - Meditation Chambers for Your Canine 7 Healing Neuroses and Anxiety 8 Mindful Leash Walking 9 Zen and the Art of Deflating Aggression 10 Abundant Happiness and Vitality for You and Your Dog 11 Adoption - Earning Trust and Opening Hearts 12 How the Wise Feed Their Dogs 13 Puppyhood 101 - Teach Them When They Are Young 14 Children as Peaceful Alphas Epilogue Review "Jesse Sternbergs Enlightened Dog Training is a revelation not only in how we humans communicate with our pets but also how we interact with the entire animal kingdom surrounding us. Revealing the secret language used by animals across the planet, Sternberg provides dog caretakers with unprecedented wisdom, training, and know-how to become confident peaceful alphas of their pack and masters of communication with the natural world." * Jonathan Talat Phillips, author of The Electric Jesus and cofounder of the Evolver Social Movement *"In Enlightened Dog Training, Jesse Sternberg teaches us that through increasing our awareness and expanding our consciousness, we can become the peaceful partners our dogs have been seeking. His easy-to-follow lessons and supportive meditations further lock in his teachings. Highly recommended!" * Lynn McKenzie, animal intuitive and author of Bark, Neigh, Meow *"Get ready to move your dog interactions to a new level of consciousness! Jesse Sternberg sheds light on the most prominent dog behaviors and issues that many canine guardians are faced with each and every day. This wonderful book is filled with valuable tools and resources that will undoubtedly help you to cultivate a loving, respectful, and peaceful relationship with your beloved companion. Enlightened Dog Training is the perfect antidote for dog lovers seeking a more conscious and enlightened way to train their canine companions." * Tammy Billups, certified interface therapist, teacher, and author of Soul Healing with Our Animal Co *"Jesse Sternbergs Enlightened Dog Training is a revelation not only in how we humans communicate with our pets but also how we interact with the entire animal kingdom surrounding us. Revealing the secret language used by animals across the planet, Sternberg provides dog caretakers with unprecedented wisdom, training, and know-how to become confident peaceful alphas of their pack and masters of communication with the natural world." * Jonathan Talat Phillips, author of The Electric Jesus and cofounder of the Evolver Social Movement *"As a professional dog trainer, I love discovering new ways of framing concepts and techniques. This book certainly delivers and I will be adding the knowledge that I learned from Jesse to my own training!" * Preston Henshaw, NDTF (National Dog Training Federation) * Review Quote "Jesse Sternbergs Enlightened Dog Training is a revelation not only in how we humans communicate with our pets but also how we interact with the entire animal kingdom surrounding us. Revealing the secret language used by animals across the planet, Sternberg provides dog caretakers with unprecedented wisdom, training, and know-how to become confident peaceful alphas of their pack and masters of communication with the natural world." Excerpt from Book From Chapter 2. The Secret Language of the Animal Kingdom Actions Create Emotions The key to understanding the Secret Language of the Animal Kingdom is realizing that every action an animal makes has an intention. Through her research on "Calming Signals," Norwegian dog trainer Turid Rugaas demonstrated how dogs lick their lips, yawn, raise a front paw, and even walk in semi-circles on purpose. If you are wondering why they do all these things, and more, it is because they understand that each action generates a subtle emotional vibration in themselves and others. Dogs intentionally use feelings to connect with each other. It is how they broadcast and receive signals. Once we become aware of this simple code, the depth of our empathy spontaneously starts evolving because we love our pets so much, we never want to cause them any distress. When we give our dogs verbal commands, what they are primarily paying attention to is the emotion within our voice (its tone), our posture (is it confrontational or is it calming), and our relative position within the environment (what is our status in, and our awareness of the territory, and how we are making use of the angles). They perceive all of this information at the vibrational level and they assess, overall, the level of goodness and truth in the authority of our command. In this sense, because dogs think primarily using feelings, you could say that their brains are in their hearts. Animals do not really have labels for their feelings, but they do know that their experience right now is pleasant, unpleasant, or tranquil. This is the simple part that kids and dogs just get. When things feel pleasant, your pet tends to want to do them more. When they are unpleasant, then it tends to want to stop doing them. When things feel neutral (or tranquil), then life is awesome and it is just as it is supposed to be for your dog. He appreciates the safety of this emotion and behaves with a natural, joyous curiosity that nature intended for all of her creations. In these moments born from tranquility, your dog is incapable of being anything but a good dog (no training required). The trouble with too much pleasantness or unpleasantness is that there is an attachment that happens to the former, and aversion that accompanies the latter. Attachments and aversions take our pets out of the tranquil state, and hence, trigger an emotionally charged response that leads to behavioral outbursts. Many dog trainers encourage owners to be "very excited" when they are giving commands to their dog, yet this is rather foolish because it only revs up the pets emotional engine. The wise understand that an overexcited dog cannot also be a calm and obedient dog (in the same moment). Emotions must be acted out of the body, and this is the source of all kinds of undesirable behaviors (lunging, jumping, barking, etc.). The vibration of tranquility is where all of nature desires to be, including humans. There is a security and peacefulness found in experiencing this vibration for long durations because it leads to blissful serenity and inner harmony. Another practical reason why we would want to become familiar with this tranquil feeling is because this is where your Peaceful Alpha power comes from. When we consciously send a signal that generates either love or fear, (the feeling of pleasant or unpleasant), from a place of placidness, the contrast of the emotion from your dogs perspective becomes very heightened. Thus, the directive you are giving to your pet will become very clear. Here are the basic emotions a Peaceful Alpha uses (on purpose) to be the master their pet both needs and respects. Love reinforces your dogs current behavior. Calmness means "feel safe and be peaceful." Fear means "stop," "submit," or "something isnt safe right now." Stress : This emotion doesnt persist very long in nature. It communicates uncertainty and creates anxiety in your dog. Love, Tranquility and Fear are the major feelings that a Peaceful Alpha uses to communicate with their pet. Practice tuning into how you feel when youre around your dog. Do your actions line up with your feelings? If not, youre confusing your pet (and this leads to anxiety, frustration and neuroses). Let us take a closer look at how dogs use these principles on one another so we can get an idea of the subtleness of this language, and how it plays out even when we are not intentionally using it. When we observe an older dog around a puppy, most of the time it is just calmly doing nothing while it lets the puppy explore, or do whatever it wants. Calmly doing nothing is actually a conscious action for a dog. The emotion it broadcasts to the puppy neither reinforces the puppy to do it more, nor scares it to make it stop. Thus, the puppy receives the emotion of neutral presence, and realizes its behavior must be ok with the older dog. Communication can only take place in the present moment. Actions, even non-actions, create emotions. Consider how when we are on the phone, not paying attention to our dogs, they take our emotion of tranquility to mean they are allowed to keep chewing the baseboard or to keep peeing in the bedroom. The key lesson here is that we need to show up and "be in the moment" in order to communicate to our dog. We make our first step toward becoming a Peaceful Alpha with the intention of being present. Calming Signals Dogs communicate with their posture by making a myriad of gestures known as Calming Signals. Though there are many different Calming Signals, their meaning always falls into one of three buckets: (1) Me calm down, (2) You calm down, or (3) something in the environment needs to calm down. Your Dogs Most Essential Calming Signals lip licking yawning blinking raising the front paw lowering the head lowering the body Consider the following three examples to get a sense of how canines communicate using Calming Signals. 1. Me Calm Down - An owner is tidying up the counter top and accidentally jingles his car keys. The pleasure of this familiar sound triggers excitement into his dog, who was sleeping on the floor just moments ago, and now thinks it might be time for a joy ride. The dog realizes there is no car ride happening, so he yawns, not because he is sleepy, but because this action tells himself to calm back down. The yawn actually triggers the biology of his nervous system to engage in the automatic process of relaxing. 2. You Calm Down - At the park, a small dog approaches a tennis ball that he sees lying inches away from a bigger dog. As the small dog gets closer to the toy, the big dog suddenly becomes aware of him. Stealing a toy is grounds for conflict, so the little dog communicates his peaceful intentions by raising his front paw. The little dog says to the big dog, "dont worry, I am not going to steal it, I just want to check it out." The big dog sees this from afar and decides to stay tranquil. He blinks at the small dog, saying, "thanks for not disturbing me." The efficiency of natures communication trumps every verbal language invented by humans. 3. Environment Calm Down - A dog senses a train going by on the railroad a half-mile away. The vibration of the ground wakes him up and alerts him, so he licks his lips a bunch of times, communicating to those that are watching that something in the environment is disruptive. If youre looking for a tangible way for you to see what your pet is trying to communicate, simply observe its Calming Signals. Your dog makes hundreds of these every day. With just a little practice, you will gain tremendous insight into your dogs emotional world. Interestingly, not every dog will use the same signals. A particular dog will likely only have a few Calming Signals that they consistently use. Regardless, we know that every signal can only fall into one of three buckets. The more present we are, the more adept we will inevitably become at identifying these signals and intuiting whether it is a: me calm down, you calm down, or situation alert. This is a really important first step. Just taking this action is enough to start earning some major loyalty points from your pet. You can cash them in later for better listening, calmer behavior, and more attentiveness to you. This is the way of the Peaceful Alpha. Details ISBN1644113708 Author Jesse Sternberg Short Title Enlightened Dog Training Pages 176 Language English ISBN-10 1644113708 ISBN-13 9781644113707 Format Paperback Imprint Findhorn Press Subtitle Become the Peaceful Alpha Your Dog Needs and Respects Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company Place of Publication Rochester Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2022-02-17 UK Release Date 2022-02-17 Illustrations 15 b&w illustrations AU Release Date 2022-01-18 DEWEY 636.70835 Audience General Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-11-23 US Release Date 2021-11-23 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134344489;

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