Be present

Learning this approach will require a good bit of intellectual effort and using that as you start to work with animals. In a way, this is paradoxical in that being truly effective requires slowing the mind chatter and calming the mind to a slower pace and bringing your attention to this time and place. Be Present. The intellectual learning part can be effective and necessary but remember to stay tuned into how you are being while you are thinking about what you are doing.  If you lose sight of that and fall into the trap of approaching this from a mechanical, step-by-step, rote way, then you are doing it TO them and, trust me, they won’t respond well. Always remember you are doing this WITH the animal. 

Your resonance is part of the healing. 

As you focus on being present,  let the incessant chatter in your mind be gone. Your intention is the focus of what you want to have happen. This plays as much of a role in your effectiveness as remembering which technique to use on which part of the animal. Remember that you are working with a living being and every one of them is unique.  As you learn the techniques, it is critical to remember that we are not just working on a back or a spine or a neck. We are working on a living, breathing, and feeling being. We are never treating the part, we are treating the whole being.