22/01/2021
HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR (d)OODLE CALM DURING BUSHING AND GROOMING?
If you own a Doodle or oodle, I am sure that you have already noticed how it responds to your energy. Basically it adapts it's energy to yours, but we are not always aware of this. As people we sure are not always aware of which energy we are eminating, because most of the time we live in our heads (constantly talking to ourselves, having doubts, thinking about the next thing on our schedule, being preoccupied with the things we think we MUST do, in order to (fill in the blanks) and NOT in our bodies. But your Doodle ONLY lives in its body and NOT in its head. It doesn't know how to. It only is! And that's why we love them so much. This being the case, they are very intuitive and respond to even the smallest change in our energy.
So how do we emanate our energy?
What does your Doodle do when you are asleep? What does it do when you are quietely reading a book, or listening to calm music? I am guessing it sleeps next to you? Or it's chilling somewhere, just like you are. Because you are. This is its natural state: calm, peaceful, totally at ease.
As soon as you take action, your energy changes and your Doodle becomes alert. That's logical, because your Doodle expects something of you. Action means food! or going for a walk! or guests! Or something else that's going to happen and your Dood wants to be a part of.
But Doodles are so intuitive, that they don't need action to respond to. They feel every change in your energy. The change in (the tone of) your voice, in your presence, in your thought patterns even, and in your body awareness. And they feel if you mean what you say or do: if your thoughts and actions are "congruent". So, let's say you want your Dood to sit down, so you say "sit", but you don't feel confidence in yourself as a leader, so the way you say it, doesn't sound sincere. Your Dood can feel the difference in energy between your presence (or thoughts) and the words you speak ("sit") and starts to question your assignment to him, because it's not genuine.
This is what happens during the grooming process. It could be that you are expecting a certain kind of behaviour of your Dood and not getting it, because your Dood can feel your uncertainty, or your thoughts being elsewhere (maybe your thinking about the groceries you need, while you are giving your Dood a certain demand).
If you recognize this and would like to change this: start by becoming aware of the thoughts you are having while you are asking your Dood to do something. And always make sure that when you are adressing your Dood, you are focussing fully and only on him.
Please let me know how it goes! 🙂 Enjoy this excercise! ###
PS Please share this with other (D)oodle parents and invite them to the Doodle & Oodle Self Grooming group where we talk about all things grooming (in a natural, fluffy way), health, natural care, using your Dood as your life coach and much more.
We have about 4200 members at this time, but the more owners join us, the more we can learn from each other. So hope to see you there! 🙂
