What Is Relationship Energy And Its Impact On How You Relate To Your Pet

Oct 7

Every relationship with a pet is an ever-evolving connection that lives and breathes its own life force energy. Each of you brings many intricate layers of energy into your relationship. These layers are created by each of your personalities, histories, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. And where attention goes, energy flows.

What is Relationship Energy?

Animals are naturally sensitive to energies around them, so your animal is aware of whatever you focus on, be it something from your past, present or future. So if you think or feel it- they know it - they didn't need to be present when it happened, and they may not fully understand the context, but they feel the shift in your energy.

Animals also bring their energy and interpretation of their surroundings to the relationship, and you will naturally respond to them with your energy. Your energetic field senses their fears, anxieties, trauma, and behavioural or physical issues. But often, when we are caught up in thoughts or worry, we have a harder time being aware of the influence of their energy on us. Regardless of each other's level of awareness, the energy exchange between you influences your relationship and how you relate to each other and it is along these energy exchange pathways where your Relationship Energy exists.

Ask Yourself…

When your relationship is challenging, when you are experiencing behavioural or physical issues, or similar traumas or pasts, it's an opportunity to look at your relationship energy and ask:

What are you bringing into the relationship?
What is your animal bringing into the relationship?
How are you being influenced by each other's energies?

This reflection begins to shift the focus and helps you stand back and take a bigger picture of yourself and how you relate to one another.

A healthy, energetic relationship is balanced between three aspects - you, your animal and your relationship. When the energy of one, two or all three factors are out of balance, it affects the flow of your shared relationship energy. As you make changes within yourself, your pet transforms. When your pet changes, you transform. In my animal communication sessions, I witness this when the pet's voice is shared, they shift, and their parents shift after learning their perspective. Your relationship dynamic is continuously influenced by the other.

The Benefits of Having a Healthy Energetic Relationship

Realizing your relationship has its own energetic life force allows you to step back and see it as its own loving entity. This provides an objective perspective to grow and expand regarding misunderstandings and issues with boundaries. It also strengthens your existing bond or establishes a new connection with a new pet. It helps in the healing of shared emotional wounds and also explains your relational purpose together.

In my relationship with Soulstice, we have a history of past trauma. Acknowledging her fears and anxieties and how I relate to her behaviours when they show up, I see similar feelings arise about my issues at hand. How I relate to Soulstice teaches me how I need to have the same kindness towards myself. Most pet parents treat their animals better than they do themselves. When they become aware of this and treat themselves the same way as they do their pet, the energy dynamic of the relationship changes. As I discover new ways to support and build Soulstice's sense of safety and security, she teaches me I must also relate to myself similarly. The more I go within and heal, the more she heals, and our relationship reflects these changes daily. The changes are subtle and poignant as we come into yet another layer of compassion, patience and love for each other, our relationship and mutually healing.

With your new awareness, you gain an inner knowing you never had and begin integrating a new perspective of them, yourself and your relationship. Recognizing this begins to help you separate your limiting thoughts and emotions easier from your relationship struggles. You gain healthier attachments when you see your relationship and each other as separate energetic beings. Your relationship energy becomes an essential healing channel of connection between and within you.