Neil Sattin
Author, NaturalDogBlog.com
I found Kevin Behan in my quest to help my dog, Nola, overcome her aggression towards other dogs, since no ‘traditional’ method of dealing with the problem had worked. Kevin’s Natural Dog Training methods transformed not only Nola’s behavior, but also my entire way of understanding the canine world. And the human world, for that matter. The methods are practical, and the results are tangible. The first time I saw Nola flip from being aggressive to play bows, I knew that I had stumbled onto something amazing with Natural Dog Training. Now, years (and an apprenticeship with Kevin) later, and having witnessed many other dogs similarly affected, I can say without hesitation that Kevin’s work is truly important in the canine community. Thanks for all your help, Kevin!
“So when the “wave action” of the car over a hilly road accelera…”
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I am deducing a model from observing animal behavior without reading thoughts into their minds, and thus, parsing apart my own subjective emotional experience to wherein I find universal correlates. Since human beings have an animal nature, this is a logical extension to the proposition that emotion is universal to all living things, so as a matter of fact our emotion and feelings are our most objective instrument of inquiry. If however my interpretations don’t then hold up to observations of behavior, I discard them. But in general they tend to lead to finer and finer distinctions so that the model becomes more developed. So when we are fully connected to an energy system, be it our own body jogging, a seesaw, riding in a car or in an emotional relationship, these all subscribe to the same emotional dynamic, we enter a state of emotional suspension and we are encapsulated within a “bubble” that makes us feel connected to what we are attracted to, this is a frame of reference. Within such a frame of reference, a feeling can continue to elaborate into more and more complex expressions. If there were no such frame, we wouldn’t be able to divine a focus and the internal sense of a psychic pressure would be so diffuse we wouldn’t be able to “do work.” So when the car accelerates to the upper or lower reaches of this bubble that is inseparable from the feeling of flow, we are made aware of the gross physical sensations that otherwise escape our attention because in the daily workings of our mind they are far more subtle. Also because we are capable of thinking, we will weight the linear, rational precepts by which we think things are connected by cause and effect, rather than the deeper workings of our animal mind which work according to this dynamic.