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How the Energy of Gratitude Improves Your Bond with Your Animal Friend

11/24/2025
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A Thanksgiving reflection on heart coherence, connection, and the invisible threads of love.

 

During this season of gratitude, many of us instinctively pause to reflect on what (and who) has supported us and shaped us through the year. For those of us who share our lives with animals, our hearts naturally turn toward the companions who faithfully and unconditionally walk beside us every day.

There is something profoundly healing about the bond between an animal and the human who loves them. It’s a bond beyond words. It’s felt. It’s sensed. It’s alive.  When gratitude comes into sharper focus this time of year, we have a beautiful opportunity to deepen that bond through the energy we carry in our hearts.

 

Gratitude Isn’t Just a Feeling—It’s an Energy Field

Gratitude produces one of the most coherent energy patterns the heart can generate. When you feel genuinely thankful, your heart rhythm becomes smoother and more harmonious. Scientists call this heart coherence, which is an optimal state where the emotions, nervous system, and brain communicate fluidly.

But here’s what’s truly magical…

Animals can sense heart coherence.  They feel your emotional energy long before they understand your words or actions.  When you shift into gratitude, your energy softens. Your presence becomes safer, warmer, and more regulated. You become, quite literally, easier to be around.  And your animal notices.

 

How Gratitude Strengthens the Bond You Share:

 

  1. Your Animal Can Feel When Your Heart Opens

When you intentionally focus on gratitude, especially gratitude for your animal, your heart energy expands. Animals often respond by coming closer, lying down beside you, or fixing you with a soft gaze. They’re aligning with your openness.

 

  1. Gratitude Lowers Your Stress (Which Lowers Theirs)

Animals are natural empathic co-regulators.  When you’re stressed, they feel it, and when you’re peaceful, they feel that too.  A daily gratitude practice shifts your nervous system into calm, positively influencing your animal’s emotional state.

 

  1. Gratitude Helps You See Your Animal with Fresh, Loving Eyes

Instead of focusing on behaviors or challenges, gratitude draws your attention to the things you love and appreciate about them like their sweetness, their loyalty, their silly antics that bring you joy, their unique personality, and the quiet ways they support you.

This shift in perspective enhances your connection and helps your animal feel more understood.

 

  1. Gratitude Deepens Mutual Trust

When your animal senses your softened energy, they trust you more deeply. Trust grows not just from training, but from the energy of safety, appreciation, and consistency you radiate.

 

A Simple Thanksgiving Practice to Try With Your Animal

Here is a simple practice you can do at the dinner table, on a quiet morning walk, or curled up together in the evening.

  1. Place a hand over your heart.
  1. Take a slow breath in… and a long, gentle breath out.
  2. Think of one moment this year when your animal comforted you, made you laugh, or taught you something.
  3. Let your heart fill with gratitude—warm, soft, expanding.
  4. If your animal is near, slowly extend a hand toward them and imagine sharing that warmth with them.  No words are needed.  Just your breath, presence, and love.

You may notice your animal:

This is heart-to-heart communication.  This is the energy of true gratitude in motion.

 

The More You Practice Gratitude, the More Your Bond Deepens

Your animal doesn’t need you to be perfect.  They don’t need elaborate gestures.  They don’t even need the holiday season to understand love.  What they feel most profoundly is your energy—your calm, your appreciation, your genuine presence.

When you bring gratitude into your daily rhythm, you create a nurturing energetic field that strengthens your bond in ways words can’t capture.

During this season of giving thanks, take a moment to honor the animal who has walked beside you—gently teaching you the gifts of patience, joy, mindfulness, and unconditional love.  And know that as you do, they feel every bit of it.

Testimonials

Healing happens within the context of relationship, and that is right where Beth starts!

Beth has worked with two of my dogs. One was declining from cancer, and the other was suffering from a traumatic fall.  During their treatment sessions, she helped them feel safe and comfortable, and both responded immediately to Healing Touch and Craniosacral therapies, and the healing stayed with them.

Beth has always been readily available when needed, follows up as appropriate, and can be completely relied upon! Her practice is an extension of her mighty heart, and I’m grateful she is here in our community!

- Aimee and John D.

Before her relocation to Durango, Beth was a regular volunteer at the small animal shelter that I work for.  You would not believe the difference in the dogs while she was visiting and providing them with her wonderful Reiki energy.  If you’ve ever been to a shelter, you know how loud it can be.  During and after her visits, the dogs became so much calmer and more relaxed.  The shelter was quiet!  That is the “proof in the pudding”.

Beth has helped countless “failure to thrive” kittens, mostly by distance work after providing her with a picture of the failing baby.  She continues to help remotely with any animal we think could use some extra assistance.  I have seen the difference it makes.  I am so grateful for the valuable assistance that Beth has donated and continues to donate to shelter and rescue animals to help them have the happy, healthy life they deserve.  Thank you, Beth!

- Kathy B. – Teller County Regional Animal Shelter

I took my son to Beth, of Spirit Wolf Energetics, due to chronic muscle and joint pains.  She was incredibly warm and welcoming, which quickly put him at ease.  The Reiki session was calming yet somehow vibrant at the same time.

My son immediately felt less muscle tension and happily stated that his shoulder wasn’t popping as it had been earlier. As an added bonus, he slept much better that night!  A huge thanks to Beth for the wonderful experience!

- Travis H. – Durango, CO

Beth didn’t just support me — she showed up like a soul ally when I needed it most. I had experienced an injury, and in that raw moment, she held space with such grace and strength that it felt like something bigger was at work. Strangely — and beautifully — a couple walking their dog were drawn into our situation and stayed to help until everything settled. It was as if her energy called in what was needed.
I’ve since had a Reiki session with Beth, and the only way I can describe it is: transformational. I left feeling not just relaxed, but rebalanced — as though my body had remembered something it had forgotten.
There’s something magnetic about her — the kind of quiet power that draws people in and creates instant trust. You see it in her eyes. You feel it in the room. And when she works with animals? That connection is almost beyond words. They sense her — and respond.
Beth isn’t just a healer. She’s a force of compassion, calm, and energetic precision. If you’re lucky enough to cross paths with her, don’t hesitate. Say yes.

- Kathleen Carlson

Masha is a big, energetic Lab with loads of enthusiasm for life, but she has some fear issues that cripple her in certain environments.

She quickly calms down when Beth starts her therapy session of Healing Touch and Reiki, and the changes in her are immediately apparent. Masha’s fear lessens after her therapy, which allows her to more comfortably navigate the places that cause her stress and fear.

Thank you, Beth, for loving animals, especially mine! You absolutely make a difference.

- Katie and Don G. – Florissant, CO