#intuitivecollage

Hi frens, Sunny here for this week’s #MindfulMonday.

We’ve been talking a lot about mindfulness for humans, but did you know that us pups need to address our mental health too and can also benefit from mindfulness?

In our home, we’ve found that music can really help me.

While we were working on separation anxiety training, we were introduced to Wholetones for Pets. If you’re not familiar with Wholetones, it’s a healing frequency music project from Michael S. Tyrrell.

The Wholetones for Pets music is specifically at the frequency of 396hz and is designed to give relief from separation anxiety as well as loud noises such as fireworks and thunderstorms.

It’s worked so well for me that now whenever my human plays the sound, I know to head to my crate for some relaxation time.

You can find Wholetones for Pets on their website.

If you don’t want to purchase Wholetones, you can also find calming music for dogs on Spotify. One playlist that my friend @kaleiahskyy shared is called “Dog Music” from @pryvemusic.

Another thing that helps to calm me down is that at night time my human plays the Ocean at Dusk soundscape from @headspace. Once I hear it start, I find my spot and curl up to sleep.

Have you found that music helps you or your pets? Which music did you use? ⤵️

Hi frens, Sunny here for this week’s #MindfulMonday.

We nearly didn’t post today because my human found out some sad news about people she cares about. But when she feels sad and overwhelmed, one thing she finds that really helps her is meditation combined with intuitive collage.

So we thought we’d share as a few of you have asked about intuitive collage before.

Intuitive collage is a concept from @mysouldust that was introduced to my human earlier this year.

This is how she’s modified it for her:

Take me for my morning walk.

Do a 10 minute @headspace meditation.

Put on a calming playlist like Brain Food on @spotify.

Set a 5 minute timer and go through a pile of collage materials (she repurposes random calendars and well designed things she’s received in the mail as well as People magazine because one of our neighbors leaves them in our mail room after reading) pulling out anything that grabs her attention.

Set a 5 minute timer to refine to pile.

Set a 10 minute timer to assemble the collage.

Reflect on the completed collage to see what her subconscious is trying to tell her.

She did this for 30 straight days when she first discovered intuitive collage and it really helped her to get through a very low period of 2020. It also helped her realize just how much she missed hiking and camping which led us to say yes to several responsible hikes throughout the year.

You can modify the above to what works for you, but know that the goal is to let go of perfectionism, which is really hard for my human, and to let your intuition flow.

Have you ever tried intuitive collage or something similar? What did you learn about yourself? ⤵️