Emotional Leadership – Excerpt from Joan Ranquet’s Article

(Artist Meg Metager)

How can we calm down our animals and help them be more secure, while still attending to our needs as a human being? I call it being in a state of Emotional Leadership.

Emotional Leadership means you are centered, grounded, aware of your animal’s needs, but aren’t taking on their stuff, or allowing them to take on your stuff. Ultimately, while the energy fields of each individual are merged, there is autonomy. I talk about Emotional Leadership in my first book, “Communication with all Life: Revelations of an Animal Communicator” published by Hay House, and in my new book “Energy Healing for Animals,” published by Sounds True and coming in summer 2015, I go into even greater detail.

We are the emotional thermostat in the household. If we are generally happy, our animals are happy. If we are experiencing lows, our animals will sulk with us. Sometimes they will even do wacky, fun things to get us out of our state or rut.

Our emotional life can create a great deal of stress for their emotional life. If we are experiencing emotional highs or lows as a result of something outside the home, or experiencing stress with other humans in the household, the animals will feel this. It is important to maintain some sense of self and take emotional responsibility. That’s not to say when you are upset you can’t cuddle with your cat or your dog, or allow your horse to take you for a long relaxing trail ride to decompress.
However, make sure you thank them and let them know how much they helped. And then pull yourself together as much as you can so they can see you are fine.

Emotional Leadership allows you to drop the unnecessary emotions that clog the clear communication. Taking Emotional Leadership in your household is also important so you don’t feel guilty because you have to leave them at home while you work or feeling frustrated because you can’t spend more time with them. It is also saying no matter where they are in health, they are O.K., rather than putting unreasonable expectations on them.