Your Dog Breed's Spiritual Purpose
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Akita:
These dogs help when one is feeling a sense of profound spiritual separation and isolation which manifests as self-doubt and a lack of self-compassion. Akitas bring an energy that help us to reconnect our will and material desires with a higher spiritual connection, bringing a sense of trust and peace to our physical presence in the world and teaching us compassion through understanding.
Afghan Hound:
An afghan hound will bring the energy of courage which does not come from a place of survival but one that comes from a deep sense of trust in the world and a belief that the world is a place of excitement. This dog’s deep spiritual connection will teach you to come from a heart-centered place where challenges are taken as a form of delight and to compete with yourself to overcome obstacles for achieving your potential.
Alaskan Malamute:
These dogs carry the energy of powerful magnetism and charisma. They have the wonderful ability to work with the lower energy centers and some of the powerful and threatening energies these chakras generate when expressed in a negative fashion. These dogs bring the energy of fearless confrontation with these powerful energies and come out victorious. This dog teaches us the ability to confront and transmute negative, violent and threatening situations.
American Eskimo Dog:
When we feel shy and timid, this dog reminds us of our confidence and ability to move forward in any situation. They help transform timidness, fear and a tendency to go internally into inner strength and a desire to move outward. They teach us how to give self-permission to allow personal expression in our external world.
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Beagle:
These dogs help people who spend inordinate amounts of time trying to get the approval of others but underneath feel a lot of rage. These people cannot acknowledge their rage as it would violate their self-image of being good. Beagles help one to see the shadow side of being “good” all the time. They help us realize that we are lovable even when we are not good. They help us to learn that “not being good” comes from our own self-judgment and that we do not have to exile our authentic reaction out of fear of rejection.
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Bouvier des Flounders:
These dogs help a person see through their own denials and illusions. By helping us to be self-honest, we can identify the issues that need to be transformed rather than camouflaged with our “stories” and “justifications”. In this way, this dog helps people to breakthrough and to become aware of their essential Self.
Boxer:
The boxer gives a sense of feeling competent at accepting the challenges one experiences in life. These dogs are especially helpful to people who feel unsafe in the world and incompetent to handle the situations life may throw at them. These people often see themselves as unworthy in the eyes of others. Boxers help repair this connection with others. They help with the discouragement and grief involved in finding the courage to connect to areas where one feels alienated.
Having a boxer around helps people who have felt a lack of support from their fathers change to a sense of unconditional love and support. A boxer helps us when our minds are clouded by worry and excessive self-sabotage which prevents us from taking clear action. They help us create a sense of trust that we are competent for taking action in the world. It lets us know that we can be supported and successful for taking action.
Bulldog:
A bulldog is especially helpful to people who need to become comfortable with the instinctual aspects of oneself. When people cut-off their instinctual self, they may have difficulty trusting their body or “gut instincts”. They may elevate their morality or spirituality above having to deal with ordinary life circumstances. A bulldog helps one to connect, love trust and value one’s instinctual self. It allows us to want to partake in the “real world”. They also help us to become deeply appreciative and confident of ourselves when taking practical action.
Border Terrier:
A border terrier is especially helpful to people who need to develop comfort with their emotional and physical presence. Oftentimes, these people experienced traumatic rejection in infancy. They carry a profound sense of pain and rejection which manifests as an inability to truly experience what is going on around them. Instead, these people become caught in their heads, defensive emotions and rarely feel a sense of calm and trust and ease. These thoughts are so chaotic, blaming and critical of others that it feels like a form of internal psychic violence. A border terrier helps to soothe this violence.
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Canaan Dog:
This dog is especially helpful for those who are doubtful of their own power to influence situations. These people don't trust that their power is inherent and always there for them simply because they exist. They may use excessive will to compensate for this feeling of being powerless or they may just feel collapsed, feeling unable to access any power. Consciously or unconsciously, they feel that any attempt at using their power is thwarted or blocked. This dog helps teach these owners to trust in their inner connection to power and that they can access this power and energy and use it towards positive goals.
Cocker Spaniel:
This dog is especially helpful to people who need to learn to bring a sense of energy and vitality to the full expression of ourselves. If we have been repressed for a long time and become excessively morally righteousness, we may lose our exuberance for expressing our true reaction in the moment. These dogs remind of us how necessary it is to give authentic expression to ourselves which, in turn, will free a tremendous amount of vitality and positive energy for life.
Chihuahua:
This dog’s energy is especially helpful to people who need to heal and release spiritual patterns of feeling disconnected and separate from Source. This dog helps us to hear and feel energy from the “other side”. They easily mediate, connect and bring the spiritual and mundane worlds together. A chihuahua helps people open to spiritual energies that would allow them to reconnect and recognize that the possibility for spiritual new beginnings are infinite. With infinite opportunities for new beginnings, this dog reminds us that human possibilities are endless.
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Dachshund:
This dog is especially helpful to people who have learned to cope and project their deep sense of insecurity and vulnerability by blaming and criticizing others. This in turn, is a projection of someone who is highly critical of themselves. A daschund helps them with tolerance within themselves and towards others. The daschund helps them open to feelings of unconditional acceptance of the imperfections in themselves and others. It allows them to trust feeling imperfect and vulnerable.
Doberman Pinscher:
Dobermans are particularly sensitive to the energies around them. They make wonderful watch dogs because of this sensitivity to the environment. They reflect back to us the degree of emotional upset that pervades our environment. They teach a person to be sensitive to and become aware of stressful and chaotic energy. They let us become aware how these negative energies effect our environment and give us a wonderfully sensitive barometer to enact change.
