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Written by Val Heart • Reading Time 8 Minutes

Mastering Communication With Animals: Achieving the Highest Level of Competency

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Like with any skill, your competency and proficiency at communication with animals will increase with proper practice and use.

Earlier this last week I got the message that one of our student’s pets was ill and needed help.

I was not just chilling and hanging out in my sanctuary with nothing to do but focus and access higher healing energies and engage in communication with animals with a pet halfway around the world at the time.

No, it was my day off and I was driving around running errands.

And, I don’t normally do emergency sessions. I unplug and go offline on my days off.

But it felt urgent. The Universe brought the situation to my attention, and I felt compelled to do what I could to help.

So, still watching the road and paying attention to my driving, I simply shifted my subtle focus. It feels a bit like flipping a switch.

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I connected and communicated, and then I accessed and downloaded the needed higher dimensional healing frequencies on the spot.

Then continued running my errands.

When I got back home and checked in with my student, she could feel the energy.

And the pet said he felt much better too.

Would you like to be able to do that too?

I hope so, because this is my goal for you and for every animal lover.

It’s why I teach students the way I do using the Heart Wisdom Methods I developed and teach through our complete suite of animal communication online classes at The Heart School of Animal Communication®.

Being able to communicate with animals like this on the fly is called being “unconsciously competent”.

It’s helpful to understand this when you’re trying to learn anything “new” because Your Plan versus The Reality can be very different!

communication with animals plan vs reality

The competence concept suggests that individuals are initially unaware of how little they know. They are completely unconscious of their incompetence.

That’s where you were before you discovered animal communication even existed.

Then, as you recognized your incompetence, you made a choice to go about consciously acquiring the needed skills, then consciously began learning to use them.

This is where many of our Club members and students are, from beginners to advanced, and yes, many of our Tribe are working professionally now, too, so they’ve acquired a high level of proficiency (competency).

Eventually, the skills can be utilized without it being consciously thought through.

At that point, the individual is said to have acquired unconscious competence.

This is where successful practitioners are, and yet, everyone has more to learn (and master) before becoming unconsciously competent with animal communication and healing on all levels.

The 4 Competency Stages are:

(definition courtesy of Wiki)

1. Unconscious incompetence

The individual does not understand or know how to do something and does not necessarily recognize the deficit. They may deny the usefulness of the skill. The individual must recognize their own incompetence, and the value of the new skill, before moving on to the next stage. The length of time an individual spends in this stage depends on the strength of the stimulus to learn.

2. Conscious incompetence

Though the individual does not understand or know how to do something, they recognize the deficit, as well as the value of a new skill in addressing the deficit. The making of mistakes can be integral to the learning process at this stage.

3. Conscious competence

The individual understands or knows how to do something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires concentration. It may be broken down into steps, and there is heavy conscious involvement in executing the new skill.

4. Unconscious competence

The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it has become “second nature” and can be performed easily. As a result, the skill can be performed while executing another task. The individual may be able to teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned.

Many students feel frustrated thinking they should be at Stage 4, enjoying their unconscious competence, but they’ve not put the needed effort into it and are still in Stage 2 or 3…

And to be sure it’s a very worthy goal.

Because that’s where the magic happens, where it looks and feels effortless, where you are in Flow, Sync and Harmony 100% of the time.

Where others look at you in awe, wondering how in the world did you do that? (I get that a lot…)

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Here’s the thing:

It takes doing your inner work to become competent, more practice to get it right, lots of experiences and training to become proficient just like it does with any skill.

So…

If you’re at Stage 2 but you expect yourself to be at Stage 4 (hurry up already, what’s wrong with me, I should be better, this is so frustrating, why won’t you talk to me… blah blah blah… ), and are beating yourself up because it’s not as easy as you want it to be yet…

Then simply knowing which stage you are in on your Soul’s Journey to become unconsciously competent (proficient) is helpful.

Understand that there is an evolution in your education, a bit more inner healing to be done, and self-growth to become first competent and then unconsciously competent.

Because now you know where you are, where you’re going and what’s possible, and yes, what it takes to achieve unconscious competence.

Where are you in your journey to becoming unconsciously competent communicating with animals?

Your job is to continue to grow, to learn what you don’t know you don’t know yet, to acquire advanced skills of competency and proficiency.

Otherwise, you miss important information that animals need to talk about.

You gloss over their messages and miss them entirely.

When it seems to take ages to be able to focus, get out of your own way, quiet and still the mind, connect through the heart, know the right ways to open a conversation, how to guide a communication so you ask the right questions in the right way and timing…

Take heart, Val, because then it becomes effortless. Easy.

These are the things I coach students and clients through in our mentorship program for animal communication students.

Imagine that.

Communication with animals is a natural state of beingness.

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It’s your mind that trips you up, sabotages your efforts, blocks or limits or stops you in understanding their messages.

Honestly, the hardest part of becoming unconsciously competent is to get your mind out of your way!

Once you know you have a switch to flip and how to control it, you will be able to hear their voices anytime you wish no matter where you are or what you’re doing at the time.

Breathe, set your intention to communicate, get out of your head and into your heart, flip the switch, and connect.

It can happen lickety split quick!

Faster than greased lightening!

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

When you know how.

Speaking of training you to become unconsciously competent communicating with animals…

Recently I announced the new Heart Wisdom Masterclasses Syllabus for the year, and have received wonderful feedback!

Lee said, “Now that is one fantastic, all-star syllabus!!! I am too excited about ALL of it. I will add one request. If at all possible, could you cover meridians?”

Thanks, Lee! I’m excited you’re excited!!

Of course, I’m happy to add training on working with and balance meridians for people and pets.

There’s always a fine balance between my teaching you what I know you need to improve your skills, vs you getting what you think you want.

Ultimately, you’ll always get exactly what’s needed when you show up, set your intention, and trust the discovery process as you become more competent every step of the way.

Learn How to Talk with Animals

Here’s a few of the advanced communication with animals intuitive skills Platinum Animal Talk Coaching & Mastery Club Members are learning in our extraordinary series of Heart Wisdom Online Masterclasses:

  • Behind the Scenes Working Professionally as an Animal Communicator
  • Vaccines and Vaccinosis Healing Protocols
  • EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Healing for Animals
  • Achieving a Quiet Still Mind with Faster Heart Connection
  • Advanced Healing with Inner Parts
  • The Power of Focusing for Healing and Communication
  • Enhancing Your Healing Gifts with Hands of Light
  • Chakras Part 4 – Accessing and Using the 8th Chakra
  • Healing Painful Emotional States and Negative Self Talk
  • Advanced Communication Q&A Mentoring – Claircognizance
  • Developing ALL Your Intuitive Abilities – Clairsentience
  • Developing ALL Your Intuitive Abilities – Clairvoyance
  • Developing ALL Your Intuitive Abilities – Clairaudience
  • Developing Your Less Commonly Known Intuitive Abilities and Senses
  • Communicating with Pests
  • Communicating with Problem Cats
  • Communicating with Microbes, Parasites and Genes
  • Exploring the Paranormal, 6th Sense, Working with Ghosts and more
  • Communicating and Healing with Farm Animals
  • Finding Lost & Missing Animals with Guest Tim Link
  • Soul Repair Healing for People and Pets
  • Communicating with Trees and Plants
  • How to Quicken Your Connection & Improve Your Accuracy
  • Advanced Communication Q&A Mentoring
  • Advanced Group Communication Exercises
  • Behavior and Problem Solving With Pets
  • Chakra Balancing Series – Parts 1, 2 and 3
  • Time Travel and Shapeshifting
  • And so much more!

Sound good??

Our uniquely different Live Q&A Coaching Calls and the extraordinary advanced trainings disguised as Heart Wisdom Masterclasses are all about answering your animal communication and healing questions in an exploratory, advanced, intensive kind of way.

Which is exactly what it takes to become unconsciously competent and proficient with communication with animals!

This level of Heart Wisdom Masterclass Animal Communication “Competency” training isn’t available anywhere else.

The Heart School of Animal Communication® offers a complete series of animal communication online classes and Animal Talk Coaching & Mastery Club memberships to further and advance your intuitive abilities.

You won’t want to miss this. Seriously.

Join us for a fun filled, entertaining and educational experience and watch how much more quickly you’ll advance your skills from Stage 2 or 3… into Stage 4.

If you’re not a Platinum Club Member yet and want to be, now’s the time.

Be loving, kind, with your animals and yourself.

Practice is part of the path to developing your skills, confidence, proficiency, and ultimately becoming unconscious competence.

We have approximately 300 or more animal teachers to choose from in the Club to practice communicating with so you can receive feedback and the proper guidance to know when you’re doing it right, and when you’re not.

And that’s how to become unconsciously competent!

Continue your Communication with Animals Competency training >> HERE

See you on the Heart School campus!

We love you and your wise teachers and healers disguised as animals,

Val Heart & Barb Cotta

Val “Practicing and Acquiring Skills for 30 years is How I Became Unconsciously Competent” Heart, Founder of The Heart School of Animal Communication® and host of the BEST Online Animal Talk Coaching & Mastery Club, with Barb “Co-Pilot” Cotta, Club Moderator & Student Liaison

Download my FREE Ebook Hidden Secrets to Communicating with Animals – just click on the picture below!

Questions?

If you’re looking for excellent animal communication online classes, courses and live coaching, then you found it!

Our next Live Q&A Coaching Call for Gold and Platinum Animal Communication students is held the second Saturday of every month.

Heart Wisdom Masterclasses are for Platinum Animal Talk Coaching & Mastery Club Members, and are held the third Saturday of every month.

Be there or be square! Be cool, stay in School!

Because THIS is where you develop your competence.

And that is a life skill worth having.

>> HERE! <<

Be sure to leave a comment below!

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Did you enjoy this article about increasing your competency in communication with animals? Here are some more all about animal communication:

5 Steps to Communicate With Animals Using a Picture
11 of the 27 Brilliant Reasons to Learn Animal Communication
Every Animal Lover Needs to Know How to Talk to Animals

 

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