So a car could be parked with the engine revved, and the tachometer registers 3000 rpm and to a passenger the car is generating a lot of vibration. Then, on the open highway the car could be going 80mph at 3000 rpm and now to the passenger it all seems grounded since the energy is being smoothly transferred to the wheels and translated into forward motion. The two situations appear completely different but then if the driver were suddenly to kick the car out of gear, then the underlying intensity of engine output would be apparent. And then in between these extremes, the car could be in 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd gear and we would again see various degrees of vibration coming from the system at 3000 rpm, but the intensity value, the rpm of the engine, is exactly the same and so whatever resistance is being encountered from the systems’ or car’s point of view would be categorized in terms of that same intensity level.

That intensity ratings can run consistently across the behavioral spectrum is significant because it is how animals are able to link a chain of moments together into a contiguous sense of experience. For example, as a dog is “loading” it becomes more intense; let’s say it’s going from 1 to 10 on a scale of intensity, and then on the other side after taking action at the peak of a state of 10, on the descending side of the energy curve it will revisit 9 through 1 as matching values on its way down. What this means is that say for example a dog won’t push-for-food on the ascending side of the scale because that increasing rate of intensity (high-rate-of-change) has shut down its temperament through negative/instinctual experiences, but then after an outburst at a peak of 10, as its coming down one is far more likely to induce a dog to push in for food since it’s experiencing the rate of intensity as decreasing and is in the process of relaxing with that specific energy state. (This is akin to being physically and mentally okay with the same degree of pain on the descending side of the healing process, whereas it was fear inducing on the ascending side of the pain curve.) So I slip in the behavior I want on the downhill slope of the energy scale, i.e. push-for-food at say level 5, knowing that this vastly increases the likelihood that I can induce push-for-food at 4 if not 5 on the ascending side of the slope.

I’m thinking here specifically of taking a dog with incredible prey instinct down to my chicken yard. (This training sequence may be on/line as a Quantum Canine episode via FACT TV). As soon as the dog sees the chickens it goes into “missile-lock” and so I wait for it to begin to express energy into action. Meanwhile I’m holding the dog on a long lead at some distance from the chicken yard. At some point after dissipating some degree of tension in a futile expression of energy, the dog will turn to me and begin to show interest in the food, and then because I’ve already pre-conditioned the response I’m hoping for, it begins to push in with a fury. It’s now channeling chicken-energy into me at intensity state 5. On subsequent outings, its ability to turn to me for its release quickens. Soon, before it locks up it begins to willfully seek me out for the pushing outlet at full bore and little by little I increase MY INTENSITY to equal the high state of 10 that the chickens are able to induce. This becomes what killing a chicken begins to feel like. I’m turning prey instinct into prey DRIVE, i.e. be in harmony with me AND with the chickens. (Once I can get reliable drive energy, I can soon have dog and chickens eating food cheek to beak in the chicken yard with dog on a loose lead. Then I have dog search for egg in yard with chickens squawking and flapping so everybody gets the essence that Drive craves.)

Now the dog is learning that an increasing rate of tension doesn’t necessarily lead to a peak overload and paralysis of its temperament. This is why it’s so vital in the NDT system to not correct a dog for explosive behaviors (however I must make it clear that until the dogs’ Drive is strong enough to solve matters on its own, the dog is only put into safe situations so its expression of energy can’t do any harm to other dogs-or chickens-OR ITS OWN TEMPERAMENT.) because no matter how successful it may look in the short term, it only reinforces the old pattern of a shut down temperament in a high rate of change moment and with energy going toward the path of least resistance.

So resistance is synonymous with intensity, and all sensations of intensity are on the continuum of the fear of falling. For example, when someone is in our face, even though they may be passive in the way they’re intruding, we begin to feel a compression and this is directly related to the intense sensations affiliated with falling as an infant. These old physical memories are what make a “bad” feeling feel bad, although I also have to add that the physical memories of cramps and nausea are instinctual templates for why “bad” feelings feel bad innately. (When you think about it, why should a bad feeling feel bad?) When someone is compressing us either with their physical proximity or their words, if we pay close attention, we can feel the physical memory of our physical center-of-gravity rushing up our “First Primal Pathway” (spinal cord and alimentary canal) and then getting stuck in our face. (This is why we reflexively smile to dissipate nervous energy when we encounter someone (balance) whereas we intuitively smile in a far more relaxed manner as we open up and “ingest” or let someone into our being (hunger); like the newborn baby looking at her mother, no resistance, no physical memory; the wide open eyes and smile a pure expression of unmitigated Temperament.). And as I believe I mentioned somewhere else, we seek to “break our fall” by pushing them away with our hands, either physically, or literally with words. The most extreme expression of this would be slapping someone in the face.

All physical memories are catalogued in the body/mind in terms of the sensations of intensity. So let’s just say that a dog has the physical memory of having stepped on broken glass and cutting its foot, and a year later a door opens on its foot, the intensity values relative to that part of its body sensitized by physical memory are close enough so that it will relive the broken glass experience. I believe this is where the phenomenon of sympathetic injuries comes from. A dog breaks its leg and an owner tends it with great care, the intensity of the experience now being affiliated with the R value of the owner. Then a year later the owner gets mad at the dog and it “feigns” a broken leg. It’s not faking it, it’s reliving it. Then, if that works in this new context, it takes on a life of its own as a way of dealing with stressful situations of that intensity value.

Since Temperament is a circle, physical memory is a circle as well. It is a memory of how the body was aligned in a sensual/sensitive pattern about the physical center-of-gravity that either led to unresolved emotion being acquired, released or resolved. This is how dogs know how to “plug in” their body to another body, sensitive (-) pole to sensual (+), sensual (+) pole to sensitive (-).

I want to preface the following by saying that life on planet earth is characterized by friction and fractiousness (unlike the weightless resonance of life in the womb or the vacuum of outer space) and so by default it is impossible to have an experience, even in the first seconds of life, without acquiring physical memory because there will always be sensations of intensity that the world of resistance imposes on its constituents.

A physical memory isn’t a logical and literal remembrance of what happened, rather it’s formatted according to energetic terms, in terms of Temperament as a circle, with a direction of rotation for the flow of energy, like a clock hand sweeping clockwise across the clock’s face. This hand can only move in one direction, towards increasing complexity, which is why I believe we perceive Time as having a discrete direction and why calculus cannot work the same forward and backward in terms of evolution, as it can with the movements of billiard balls.

When the hand isn’t moving in sync with the conductivity of the surroundings, the individual experiences a sense of compression and unresolved emotion is acquired. The emotional collapse of this circle is directly hardwired into the balance circuitry and the more sudden the collapse, the more intense the sensations affiliated with it, and the more unresolved emotion is acquired and stored in the deepest cells of the emotional battery.

From the individual animal’s point of view, this clock hand “points” toward the most intense predatory aspect in the situation, this becomes 12:00 high, this is the negative (-) pole, and if energy can move toward that variable, that feels to the animal like “access-to-the-positive,” the positive or preyful aspect that carries the most arousal value to ground out the intensity. If this movement is in accord with the conductivity of the surroundings and context, some degree of unresolved emotion can be released. If not, then more unresolved emotion is acquired. Taking on more of a charge may be a problem from an individual’s point of view, but not from evolutions’ perspective because Nature has all the time in the world and from its point of view, energy has nevertheless been captured by the individual becoming charged.

When access to the positive becomes secured, we should now visualize Temperament evolving into a compass face, with a North, South, East, West Poles, and North/South and East/West axes, and finally a center, or midpoint. This is a vital elaboration because it allows individuals to “flip polarity” from one magnetic pole to another WITH NO LOSS OF EMOTIONAL MOMENTUM and really get the needle spinning like the armature in an electromagnetic engine.

This invisible architecture is embedded in any and all states of attraction and serves as the scaffolding for physical memory as it’s acquired when an emotional state of attraction leads to resistance or to a collapse. If the whole of this imprint can be felt by the dog (when dogs go into a new situation, they orient around it like homing pigeons flying in a circle when first released, trying to pick up these temperamental values of rate-of-change, most intense variable, most preyful arousal, direction of energy transfer, magnetic attunement to the variables in the moment), then I say that temperament is on/line and in this state the dog can calmly learn.

However the intensity of a past experience can be so severe that it may not be able to sense the circle in its entirety, and this could lead to avoidance or missile-lock. That the circle must become physically manifest each and every time is why when two dogs meet they must initiate it like a booting up process a computer goes through when turned on (although with fast doggy buddies it can happen so fast we may not see it.) So whenever a dog “wants” something and/or is attracted to something, this template or some lesser aspect of it is the filter it sees through, not to mention whatever physical memory is attached to the particular degree of intensity triggered by the situation at hand.

Here’s another classic example of physical memory from the wild. When the ruffed grouse is fledged, it flaps its wings rather uselessly in its first attempts to fly. It’s arousal for flow knocks itself off/balance. Then when it has chicks of its own and a predator comes around, it flaps its wings rather uselessly, the “broken wing” ruse and the predator comes after mother hen while its chicks get lost in the ground cover. The grouse isn’t cognitively trying to protect its young. It’s more attracted to the predator than usual because its prey drive is aroused by its young, but the predator has so much of a charge it knocks mother hen off/balance and so it can only express its attraction to predator with the broken wing. My rooster does the same thing when it’s courting (hassling?) the hens. It circles them in the broken wing dance.

Here’s an example of a reflexive response (rather than Drive) to physical memory from human behavior. And in the case of dysfunctional behavior we’re dealing with the analogy of a clock face for Temperament as a circle instead of the compass with the four Cardinal points since we’re dealing with an electrostatic discharge. So you could say that the clock face evolves into the compass when the flow of emotion as electrical current renders a magnetic field.

At any rate, a boy is beaten by his father and he then grows up to be a father and is going to have to contend with the physical memory of having been beaten. One might think that the tendency with intelligent human beings would be to have an undue compassion for his own son but unfortunately we know that the exact opposite is the truth. The man’s emotional battery carries the imprint of energy moving along the path of least resistance, from a place of highest resistance (father figure at 12:00 High) to a place of least resistance (young boy at 6:00 low) so that father-losing-temper-at-son is energy moving from 12:00 to 6:00. Then that boy grows up and when he finds himself at 12:00 as a father, when his young son cries, whines or acts up, he will be revisiting, compliments of his emotional battery, the exact same experience of intensity that he experienced as a boy. In his animal/emotional mind HE DEFENDS HIMSELF from his son who is causing the recapitulation of the memory, in other words, his son is his father from his animal point-of-view. The abusive father is now expressing the energy he was forced to internalize when he was helpless. Instinctively, the man accords to the predatory aspect of his son the intensity value of his father, but since his son lacks the emotional mass of his father, he now has the instinctual license to vent from 12 to 6 in accord with the imprint in his emotional battery. (Alternatively he may leave the room, go for a drive, develop a cutting wit, or even tune out in general as a means of coping.)

In the father’s animal mind, he is only defending himself from his father who is no longer present logically, but energetically certainly is within the deepest layer of his emotional battery, in the physical memory and habituated reflex of energy dis-charging from 12 High to 6 low.

Physical memory is omnipresent. It’s impossible in my view for a dog to ever have a conscious experience that hasn’t first been filtered through the template that formed in the first days of life, and then did build up some degree of physical memory; for example, the struggle that the newborn puppy experiences in the first seconds of life, which is an incredible surge of nervous intensity that can’t be grounded into smooth muscle action because the pup doesn’t even have the motor capability yet, and then being flipped over and rolled around by its mother every day for the next weeks to boot. (I am going to go into this at great depth in my next book, “Your Dog Is Your Mirror” which will be published by New World Library in fall (hopefully) 2010.) This is necessary because physical memory is the only means consciousness could evolve to reliably transmit information of an emotional content through time.

Degrees of intensity are the basis of all later sensations related to the experience of any kind of resistance whatsoever. So while a dog may have a thousand different types of experiences from a door shutting on its toes, to climbing a steep grade, to prolonged eye contact, these are all related to the intense vibrations of its central nervous system associated with the condition of being “disconnected” from the womb. And given the fractious and friction-filled reality of life on planet earth, this problem is constantly relived every time there is some degree of change in its environment. Our task is to see through the mirror of our own thoughts and see the truth of how energy moves. And there’s no better guide than the one already available to us, the animal most familiar and ubiquitous in our world, the most misunderstood animal on earth, the dog by our side.

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Because the dog wants its “self” back.

We often wonder how dogs see themselves. Do they see themselves as a person like their owner, or do they see their owner as a dog like themselves? However, because in my view dogs don’t think (my definition of thinking being the capacity to compare one thing to another thing, or one moment relative to another moment) these kinds of questions are only of relevance to the human mind. The human intellect, being primarily focused on comparing one thing relative to another thing, fixates on the forms of things and how these forms are connected through a linear chronology of one moment relative to another moment. The human intellect conceptualizes nature, and the only way to get beyond this filter is to consider nature in terms of energy. In my view, this is why modern physics – as opposed to modern biology and behaviorism – is a true science.

Dogs are ultimately attracted to the energetic essence of things, i.e. the energetic makeup within the form, with the signature of this energetic makeup being broadcast by how the form moves and carries itself. Visually, a dog divines this energetic signature by projecting its “emotional center-of-gravity” into the form and then feeling vicariously, but literally, what’s going on within the form when it moves – or even when it doesn’t move. This is quite literally a form of “emotional sonar” and is adaptive because the exact same emotional dynamic is at work within its own body/mind, as it is in all animals. So what a dog feels by virtue of this “mirror effect” is what it apprehends as its “self”. Nature is always a paradox; what all animals have in common is simultaneously the source of their unique individuality.

What is the emotional center-of-gravity? It is the cumulative physical memory of all resistance ever experienced; it serves within as a lump sum aggregate quantitative “mass” (like an entrepreneur’s net worth) that was acquired in pursuit of objects of desire. This emotional imprint is attached to sensations affiliated with its physical center-of-gravity, thus a dog’s sense of emotional well-being derives from its emotional center-of-gravity just as its sense of physical balance derives from its physical center-of-gravity. A dog has no idea of its “self” as a self separate and distinct from other selves. All it can ever know of the world (and this turns out to be quite a lot) is from what it feels within its body. In the dog’s mind, the world is in its body.

On the other hand, in those occasions when a dog can’t project its emotional center-of-gravity onto the form of a thing to thereby derive a feeling for it, then it will not be attracted to that thing and for all intents of purposes that thing will not exist in its body/mind in that moment.

This sense of self projected onto objects of attraction is always elaborating into higher and higher states of apprehension through the complexities of social interactions. Nevertheless, it is never a mental concept of “I am something relative to something else”. As a matter of fact, it’s a function of gravity rather than thoughts, which is why it is shared by all beings and therefore a universal platform for communication. So if a dog could talk (without thinking) and we were to ask a dog what it considers its “self” to be, it would say, “What I want and how I feel is who I am”.

When we throw something for a dog, it’s just as if a huge dose of essence shot out of our body, and since the dog has automatically attached its emotional-center-of-gravity to our form, the dog’s emotional center-of-gravity is proportionately displaced. The dog now feels driven to reconnect the missing essence with the form in order to return to emotional equilibrium. The dog wants its “self” back.

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Clients and readers have also mentioned that they have trouble with the Pushing Technique because their dog doesn’t seem to have enough energy for the exercise, or simply seems disinterested. We encourage you to watch this clip in particular, as you can see an example of a dog with such a temperament, and Kevin explains what is really going on with this behavior. To watch Kevin conducting the same type of exercise with a dog with a much different temperament, click here, and see if you can spot any similarities between the two.

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In contrast, calm behaviors were always cooperative in nature and appropriate to the context the dog was in. The run of this gamut was especially vivid in the police dogs I trained. The better they bit the sleeve, the harder they fought the criminal, the gentler they were with children, the more they loved contact with strangers and were easy to kennel in down time. Therefore if I could learn how to change a dog’s emotional state from electric to magnetic, which should be possible because in nature electromagnetism is but one phenomenon, then I could turn a “problem” behavior into an appropriate or “drive” behavior.

For this reason I realized that the fundamental problem for a dog was to “make contact” with whatever it was attracted to, because once it is emotionally grounded into this object of attraction, its emotional juices as a virtual electrical energy could flow. And in basic physics when electrical energy flows this then induces a magnetic field, and this virtual emotional magnetic field was now something the dog could socially navigate. In other words, animal magnetism didn’t stop evolving with the ability of geese to fly north or south, or salmon returning to their natal waters, it continued to evolve into social behavior. Perhaps this is why every mammal, even if it has no migratory cycle in its evolution, nonetheless has a tiny crystal of magnetite in its inner ear canal.

So when a dog feels grounded it becomes magnetically and therefore emotionally, aligned with the object of its attraction because it can feel which way points north. So I developed the jumping-up-to-make-contact technique so that a dog felt connected to its handler.

Meanwhile Operant Conditioning was hitting the marketplace and I found myself strongly resisting what it had to say since I couldn’t abide by the notion of nature as a random scattering of variables that an animal randomly makes sense of through a schedule of reinforcements. Knowing that nature and emotion were mirror templates to each other, I dug in my heels and didn’t want to use food, or perhaps only sparingly because I did make the exception with dogs that were fearful or too sensitive to want to make contact with me.

My guiding principle was that the prey instinct was the conduit for all emotion and it existed in service to the one drive, the Drive-To-Make-Contact. The prey instinct is the main pipe by which emotion moves (this is true of humans as well) and this movement is a matter of emotion as a virtual problem in electrical conductivity. A predator acquires an intense electrostatic charge, and then the prey absorbs it. However, this can simultaneously induce a virtual magnetic field so that if the prey resists being made prey on; then the predatory impulse in the predator evolves into a whole body state of sensuality, in other words, animal magnetism. Energized in this way, a dog is simultaneously informed as to how to make social contact with the object of its attraction. I wrote “Natural Dog Training” featuring the Drive-To-Make-Contact in service to the prey instinct as its overarching principle.

I have learned nothing in the meantime that contradicts that premise, however one day in the mid-nineties my understanding of animal electromagnetism made a significant improvement. I had trained a particular dog by inducing physical contact and he learned to heel, down, stay and recall and looked pretty good doing so. He became “light on the leash,” stopped jumping up on people and would settle himself when nothing was going on. Then while he was in a down/stay on the training field, I secured a particularly active dog to a post so that this dog was twenty feet or so off the path my dog in training would have to take to get to me when I called it on command.

When I called the dog, he instantly leapt into a full dead-out run, but even though he wasn’t even looking at the other dog, he couldn’t resist arcing towards him. While he was still looking and coming straight at me, there was this growing bow in the trajectory of his path. It was just as if he was a satellite almost being captured by the gravitational pull of a planet, or more precisely, a steel projectile being influenced by a powerful magnetic field it was trying to pass through. The dog never actually made contact with the distracting dog since his “emotional velocity” to get to me remained intense, but his drive was clearly bent.

It wasn’t that I had never seen such a deflection of behavior before, but what struck me now was the involuntary nature of what was happening to him. He was trying to come to his name, but it was as if he had to fight through this invisible field of energy that surrounded the other dog. And if I had a way to measure it in terms of the dog’s perceptions, I know the strength of the field would be inversely proportional to the distance from the source, just like a real magnetic field.

From this observation, I next realized that while I had built up an enormous electric charge between me and the dog, nevertheless my “magnetic field” must not be as strong as the other dog’s, which made total sense to me since I am an upright human being with a predominant predatory aspect, as opposed to a more prey-like animal such as a four-legged bouncing, barking dog. The training dog would play with me, but I had to concede now that he really wasn’t “making-prey” with me as a police dog in training would be.

So I finally began to turn to food in earnest because hunger is the only way available to us by which we can turn electricity, which is generated by the neurological circuits dedicated to the sense of balance, into magnetism, which is generated by the neurological circuits dedicated to the sense of hunger. (This is why working with prey objects was so powerful because obviously the prey instinct/drive is the confluence of the balance and hunger circuitry into one composite value. Thus the predator can compute the movements of the prey and intercept it.) By focusing exclusively on the hunger circuitry I wouldn’t be simultaneously invoking the balance circuitry and therefore inadvertently reinforcing whatever emotional values had built up in the dog’s mind over the years.

But I want to point out that I still wasn’t using food as a reward. Rather I was trying to increase the dog’s perception of me in a magnetic sense. While at first this distinction might not seem worth making, it ultimately factors out to be of overwhelming significance. I wasn’t using food as a reward because I wasn’t giving it to the dog to encourage him to perform an obedience behavior. I wasn’t after obedience, I was after something else.

During this time I was also giving a lot of thought to what I came to call the “emotional battery.” In other words, the canine mind wasn’t a straightforward electrical switch. It was a circuit capable of regenerating itself and so canine consciousness has a means of internalizing and storing energy so that it is available for later use when in a time of greatest need. For example, it doesn’t do any good to have wind turbines generating energy if there isn’t some means of storing the energy for peak load times or for when the wind isn’t blowing. Therefore the dog’s energy cycles through its emotional battery.

This emotional battery is “formatted” in that it is composed of layers of stress, physical memories of states of attraction that didn’t come to fruition because the resistance encountered was too intense for the individual’s capacity to overcome at that time. Any given layer of stress corresponds to the degree of intensity that caused it to be internalized and stored in the first place. This is the basis of canine memory. (The emotional battery determines its perceptions of things. In other words a dog doesn’t experience the world directly, first its battery is triggered, then it feels, and then it experiences the world, indirectly.)

The most important understanding of the emotional battery is that this latent energy was only triggered and available when that specific and originating degree of intensity was encountered again, but now with this stored reserve available to draw on, the individual could pack a bigger emotional punch and this “new energy” allowed it to make contact with the object-of-resistance. The trigger doesn’t have to be the exact same stimulus, just the exact same degree of intensity.

Of particular interest to me was the deepest layer in the battery that had been caused by the most intense experiences, what I came to call the last .01% because so many of my clients would say to me “99.9% of the time my dog listens to me.” I realized the truth was that when that last .01% was triggered and came to the surface, not only was this behavior likely to be explosive since it had to burst through so many layers of inhibition, but in these instances the dog never ever listens to its owner.

Ultimately, this came to mean that I had to gain access to this last .01% by offering the dog a high degree of resistance in order to trigger the deepest layer in its battery. Once the dog overcomes the resistance I’m offering, he is immediately inspired to align with me, which is in the final analysis is how the emotional battery computes for cooperative behavior in a wolf pack on the hunt, or when a working dog is in drive.

This deepest layer in the battery is like a master valve. And when those oldest, deepest, virtual electrons flow, the dog experiences a whole body state of magnetism and cannot resist the magnetic field it feels toward the object of resistance. So if a dog pushes into me with all its might, I am using hunger to turn stored electricity into an active state of magnetism. In the dog’s mind an object of resistance becomes is new true north.

I developed the pushing technique because in dog training, just making contact isn’t enough. A dog has to make contact with its owner with that last .01%. The truth is that if we don’t have 100% of a dog’s energy, we’re in control of nothing.

Keep On Pushing!

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Inside your dog is a battery, an emotional reservoir filled with “unresolved emotion”. Unresolved emotion is created when emotion, a primal force of attraction, meets resistance and doesn’t come to a point of complete resolution. Unresolved emotion is an emotional “charge”, a concentration of energy that builds in intensity in order to overcome resistance.

Individuals do not have access or control over the unresolved emotion they carry in their emotional battery even though resolving it is the fundamental motive underlying all behavior. Unresolved emotion can only get out the way it went in; it is attracted to objects of resistance. In other words, any given layer of unresolved emotion can only be activated and ultimately resolved by the degree of resistance that caused it to be formed in the first place. It takes an external trigger of specific intensity to bring a given layer of unresolved emotion to the surface. And because unresolved emotion can-only-go-out-the-way-it-went-in, the emotional battery “tunes” the animal to that which can potentially resolve it.

Normal activity, positive experiences and physical exercise cannot resolve the deeper levels of unresolved emotion because they cannot trigger this energy. Therefore I train a dog to “PUSH” – i.e. to overcome resistance in order to get something I want the dog to have – for two reasons. First, I want to access the energy held in the dog’s emotional battery, particularly the deepest layers. This teaches the dog to tune in to me no-matter-what. Secondly, I want to be the means of its resolution. This teaches the dog to attune to me, no-matter-what.

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