Susan Hamlin is an accountant turned interspecies communicator with a love for animals and a knack for understanding them.
Hamlin began her professional years running a tax practice in the Adirondacks. Although always an animal lover, it was a dreadful Monday morning in the height of tax season and a subsequent career change that brought her to do what she loves. After studying advanced animal communication with intuitive pioneers Penelope Smith and Dawn Hayman, Hamlin elevated her confidence in making interspecies connections and became Saratoga's Animal Whisperer.
As an Animal Whisperer, Hamlin helps people connect with their pets through non-verbal communication. She teaches people how use mind-to-mind communication, which is also known as telepathy or intuition. Hamlin is no Dr. Doolittle and she doesn't necessarily hear animals speak; what she does is listen through quiet to intuitively pick up the information that is lost between thought and speech, or an inability to speak.
"I'm not a mind reader or a fortune teller," Hamlin said. "I'm like a translator at the UN."
Hamlin's goal is to work with her clients to create "strategies for improving [their] animal's life" through communication and understanding.
According to Hamlin, all humans have an inherent ability to communicate telepathically. Like a mother who understands what her baby needs without being explicitly told, pet owners can translate an animal's behavior or energy as long as they simply allow themselves to feel what their pet is trying to say.
"Everybody is intuitive. Babies communicate with their mother, and that mother's eye is what we're really talking about here."
Animals and humans lack a common dialect, but they share the "universal language of energy. Hamlin uses the "energy waves" produced by an animals working mind. "Our eyes translate light waves into visual images," we are not conscious of the process because humans have a built-in machine that does the translating for them, and we trust that this process provides accurate information. When communicating mind-to-mind between different species, Hamlin trusts her own instincts; she immerses herself in the moment and catches what's in their "wiring and understanding."
"Animals send pictures, feelings, sounds, smells, tastes and 'thought blocks' that we can -sort of - translate into words.
For example, one of Hamlin's clients had difficulty getting their horse into his trailer. Hamlin explained to her client that this behavior indicated a fear or discomfort associated with that trailer, and that once the cause was identified and eliminated the horse would willingly get into the trailer. Hamlin read the horse's reaction to the trailer itself, and found that he was agitated by an opening in the trailer roof, which the horse couldn't "check out" because the ceiling was too low for him to look up. She suggested that the owner borrow a taller trailer, and the horse went right in.
"He was comfortable. He felt safe and balanced and was able to trust in the environment" because he was able to fully examine his surroundings.
According to Hamlin, humans must be "fully present in the moment," they must have an open heart and a beginner's mind to connect with an animal. In this case, the horse could not verbalize his problem, but by listening through intuition and the energy that comes before speech, Hamlin could understand the problem and used logic to resolve it.
"We have an amazing way of talking, a complex way of communicating that is only a human ability," Hamlin said. But even though this ability is a gift, the transforming thought-to-speech process is very complex; it is a heightened ability that in its advance hinders our mind's ability to understand what's not made explicit.
"As people, we are always framing what we see, hear and feel through our own ego, but to hear another species we need to set that aside and just stop thinking; thinking stops the intuitive part."
Although there is no way to determine exactly how another species thinks or perceives, it is certain that animals engage a process, their brain is certain to fire and make connections or use instinct. Humans use instinct and then thought to judge or rationalize to find meaning; when Hamlin eliminates the "thinking part," she can focus on what her pure senses are receiving; she understands by feel, rather than thought clutter.
"We miss so much intuitive information because we are expecting something noisier. Animals are so un-dramatic that most people don't hear them," Hamlin said.
But the key word here is "hear." Every animal has a "different energy and sense, like an orchestra: every instrument has a different sound," and an entirely unique design for producing that sound. But when we hear an orchestra, we hear music; not the brain waves that send messages to a musician's muscles, pushing the keys or plucking the strings that produce music.
If one were to read those brainwaves in a sequence, they could be retranslated into the sheet music expressed by sound, but without ever hearing a note. Hamlin's process is similar; she can communicate with an animal by combining her intuitive reactions "energy waves," translating energy waves into an explanation of behavior and sending this information back to the animal using the same process.
Hamlin is also an Irish-Celtic Folk singer, and as a professional musician she finds many connections between music and communication.
Perhaps Hamlin's process is muddled by explanation in the same way that human instinct is made overly complex by thought. Her methods may seem abstract, even illusive to some, but that's just it: if interspecies communication requires some thinking outside the box, shouldn't believing it's possible implore the same logic?
Hamlin provides phone consultations and barn visits for her clients, and also teaches classes about the power of intuitive interspecies communication. She resides in Saratoga with her yellow lab, Sunny - short for Sundance Kid, and her cat, Paddy. Hamlin is also a Reiki Master teacher and a literary role model. Hamlin and her music partner Brian Chevalier perform at local schools, they sing about the importance of reading and building good character. For more information or to set up an appointment, contact Hamlin at (518) 245-8010 or visit her website, www.animal-whisper.com.
As an Animal Whisperer, Hamlin helps people connect with their pets through non-verbal communication. She teaches people how use mind-to-mind communication, which is also known as telepathy or intuition. Hamlin is no Dr. Doolittle and she doesn't necessarily hear animals speak; what she does is listen through quiet to intuitively pick up the information that is lost between thought and speech, or an inability to speak.
"I'm not a mind reader or a fortune teller," Hamlin said. "I'm like a translator at the UN."
Hamlin's goal is to work with her clients to create "strategies for improving [their] animal's life" through communication and understanding.
According to Hamlin, all humans have an inherent ability to communicate telepathically. Like a mother who understands what her baby needs without being explicitly told, pet owners can translate an animal's behavior or energy as long as they simply allow themselves to feel what their pet is trying to say.
"Everybody is intuitive. Babies communicate with their mother, and that mother's eye is what we're really talking about here."
Animals and humans lack a common dialect, but they share the "universal language of energy. Hamlin uses the "energy waves" produced by an animals working mind. "Our eyes translate light waves into visual images," we are not conscious of the process because humans have a built-in machine that does the translating for them, and we trust that this process provides accurate information. When communicating mind-to-mind between different species, Hamlin trusts her own instincts; she immerses herself in the moment and catches what's in their "wiring and understanding."
"Animals send pictures, feelings, sounds, smells, tastes and 'thought blocks' that we can -sort of - translate into words.
For example, one of Hamlin's clients had difficulty getting their horse into his trailer. Hamlin explained to her client that this behavior indicated a fear or discomfort associated with that trailer, and that once the cause was identified and eliminated the horse would willingly get into the trailer. Hamlin read the horse's reaction to the trailer itself, and found that he was agitated by an opening in the trailer roof, which the horse couldn't "check out" because the ceiling was too low for him to look up. She suggested that the owner borrow a taller trailer, and the horse went right in.
"He was comfortable. He felt safe and balanced and was able to trust in the environment" because he was able to fully examine his surroundings.
According to Hamlin, humans must be "fully present in the moment," they must have an open heart and a beginner's mind to connect with an animal. In this case, the horse could not verbalize his problem, but by listening through intuition and the energy that comes before speech, Hamlin could understand the problem and used logic to resolve it.
"We have an amazing way of talking, a complex way of communicating that is only a human ability," Hamlin said. But even though this ability is a gift, the transforming thought-to-speech process is very complex; it is a heightened ability that in its advance hinders our mind's ability to understand what's not made explicit.
"As people, we are always framing what we see, hear and feel through our own ego, but to hear another species we need to set that aside and just stop thinking; thinking stops the intuitive part."
Although there is no way to determine exactly how another species thinks or perceives, it is certain that animals engage a process, their brain is certain to fire and make connections or use instinct. Humans use instinct and then thought to judge or rationalize to find meaning; when Hamlin eliminates the "thinking part," she can focus on what her pure senses are receiving; she understands by feel, rather than thought clutter.
"We miss so much intuitive information because we are expecting something noisier. Animals are so un-dramatic that most people don't hear them," Hamlin said.
But the key word here is "hear." Every animal has a "different energy and sense, like an orchestra: every instrument has a different sound," and an entirely unique design for producing that sound. But when we hear an orchestra, we hear music; not the brain waves that send messages to a musician's muscles, pushing the keys or plucking the strings that produce music.
If one were to read those brainwaves in a sequence, they could be retranslated into the sheet music expressed by sound, but without ever hearing a note. Hamlin's process is similar; she can communicate with an animal by combining her intuitive reactions "energy waves," translating energy waves into an explanation of behavior and sending this information back to the animal using the same process.
Hamlin is also an Irish-Celtic Folk singer, and as a professional musician she finds many connections between music and communication.
Perhaps Hamlin's process is muddled by explanation in the same way that human instinct is made overly complex by thought. Her methods may seem abstract, even illusive to some, but that's just it: if interspecies communication requires some thinking outside the box, shouldn't believing it's possible implore the same logic?
Hamlin provides phone consultations and barn visits for her clients, and also teaches classes about the power of intuitive interspecies communication. She resides in Saratoga with her yellow lab, Sunny - short for Sundance Kid, and her cat, Paddy. Hamlin is also a Reiki Master teacher and a literary role model. Hamlin and her music partner Brian Chevalier perform at local schools, they sing about the importance of reading and building good character. For more information or to set up an appointment, contact Hamlin at (518) 245-8010 or visit her website, www.animal-whisper.com.
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