Okay he's come up a bit there. You see how his head went up? So you're just gently going to look at him
and where would you say from thinking levels from 1 to 10, where do you think he is at the moment?
Well because of all the meowing I would say quite high. Eight. Okay, well done.
So you ready? Am I looking back at the spot? Yeah we're gonna we're gonna wait for him to
settle down again so you're just watching him, watching his behaviour
and yeah he is wanting to come out again. I think the present moment is very, very strong for him.
So to me he seems like he's come down, so now you're looking at a spot just past him .
That's it.
Well done and I'd come out there, lovely, so
it's a gentle little balance and his thinking levels are quite high
so the higher the thinking levels, the harder it is to actually find that balance.
That's it, well done. So you're waiting for him, there he goes, there's all the cleaning.
So he's back down again so you can get present again, so looking just past him.
Well done so much easier this time because he was still wasn't he? And then of course so when he
moved we know that his thinking's just come up so it's a lot easier. The quieter their mind, there's
the yawn, the quieter their minds, the easier it is to regard them. The higher the thinking level,
the harder it is because it's hard to tell if they come up. There we go, his eyes are closing
so we'll wait for him to come back down. There it is. You can get present again so just past him.
This time you tell me when you think his thinking levels come up.
Yeah so now you're just looking at him and thinking about him.
Certainly overall he's got a little whine there but his eyes were getting all sleepy then
and you're still thinking about him so his mind definitely came up a bit.
Now it's starting to come back down so you tell me when you think he's back to where he was.
So in other words you tell me when you're going to get present again.
Now. Yeah.
Stop. Yeah, well done. So even if he stays absolutely still, after about 30 seconds you can have a little
bit of a breather but that was beautiful and can you see that he's going into that level two?
Like he's starting to lose his consciousness but this is actually,
this is actually a very sensitive area for him to go from two to one.
It actually takes, it's gonna take him a lot of trust to completely let go in this environment
and I think it's really interesting as well you know, he's up but he came in to say thank
you to you, came for a rub. I don't pat him then? No, when we can get
him into one and zero so he actually goes to sleep, when he wakes up he's going to be
so much closer to you but the closeness will be him showing it to you rather than you having to do
the strokey thing and thinking. There's always a place for affection but this is
actually helping him to be more peaceful so I think he did really, really well. You've got the
whole idea of how to regard him, it's not hard is it?
Okay yeah, he's yawned, he went sleepy but you can see what's happened. You know that
level two thinking, if he was a peaceful cat, right now he'll be fast asleep but instead
you're making him peaceful and he goes I'm fighting it, holy crap I can't be peaceful
because of this and that, so we have to wait for all of that to calm down now before we can go into
that space again and that's his sensitivity. Now, yes it's not as rewarding at the beginning for the
human because you'd love him to go fast to sleep and you go wow that's amazing but actually for him
as an individual what you've just done is huge. It's absolutely massive and from our experience
of knowing sensitive animals, the more sensitive an animal and the more you have to focus on the
mindful regard, the more you're going to do for that individual and you can see that this is a
totally different focus from sitting there going well he's doing that again and having the feelings
that you share with each other because what you're doing is you're getting present. He might react
and you're completely non-reactive, you're not sharing any of that feeling back
but he's okay so he's looking at another place to leave. Now us working in this environment
and then putting him into a space where he's a lot more comfortable,
it's going to be really, really strong when we do this later so if he's under your bed and you work
with this, he'll just go straight to sleep I would imagine. The best place to work with any nervous
animal is the place that they are the calmest and most relaxed, especially for the first time so we
opened the door and on route Biscuit had a little snack and then he did go underneath Jody's bed.
Yeah so he's just her. Yeah so you're gonna go, you can lie down almost next to him really.
So this is a place that he feels quite peaceful so we're gonna do exactly the same again, you're
gonna say in and out, I can see what you're up to so that's really good. Okay in. Yeah.
Out. Lovely, well done, so now you're looking at him, you're thinking about him and you're
gonna wait for him to come back to the space where you just were.
Yeah, no, no. No, not quite is it.
Lovely, okay in.
Yeah, well done.
And out.
And it's often better you know to be more sensitive to him than less
so that's really nice and let him look around and that's absolutely
fine. You're gonna wait for him to come back to stillness because he was quite still.
Really good and we have to be very sensitive to him when he gets into that level two thinking,
when his eyes start getting soft.
Okay. Out.
In.
If you can just pull the other side of that curtain up a little bit, that's it.
Yeah quite hard for me to see him, yeah that's good, lovely. Are you ready? Off you go again, in.
Yeah beautiful, well done Jody because you're actually aware of what his eyes were doing.
And what tends to happen is that there's an accumulative effect so even the
ones that you've done earlier will be having an effect on him. So there's that cleaning
but you can see this is on such a lower level this time than what was happening earlier and
yeah, he went into level two and he's had to come out again so now we know where we
can really help him. So it's almost like a little dance isn't it?
And we can watch him and wait for that moment to happen. I quite like really thinking about what
they're doing basically and there is a more advanced part of the Trust Technique where when
they come out of that present moment you can find out a huge amount about them and that process can
begin with you just thinking about what they're doing when they come out.
Yeah. That's it, well done, he's almost ready again isn't he? Getting there, a bit more cleaning.
He's really gently just going through that and often you'll find when you do come
out of the present moment, that they go sleepier quicker as well. There is an accumulative effect
and it's nice, I mean he opened up a bit because he moved and he opened up a bit because I spoke but
look how quickly he's gone back and there he is in a different place again isn't he? So off we go again.
Really good.
Have a little breather yourself. Really good and what's interesting is what we assessed
earlier is absolutely right. I mean I think we could probably move around a little bit and he
would shuffle about a bit and then he'll go back to that position and we're very gently helping him
to go into level one but it's actually requiring a lot of focus to help him to completely let go
but this environment is much easier than what we were doing earlier
because his thinking that was already there but his issue is going from
from two to one to zero and it's really lovely to watch him go through that process where
you can do that. Yeah he's getting a bit closer to you, this is a different type of closeness now Jody
because you're the peacemaker not the lovey person that wants cuddles but the person
who actually makes him feel peaceful and that's a very different space. I mean already look how he's
looking. That whole focus is different. Go on then, off you go again, bring him down again.
He's so funny because he's going into one but he's just keeping a tiny slit open.
Just about to peek out but yeah look he's going now, he's off.
So it took us all that time or you that time to help him to go into one
and he's still got a peek eye sticking out but you can see I'm talking now when he's sleeping.
I thought I did see a couple of twitches. Yeah.
Yeah so you can get present and this time you're aware of the twitching.
Yeah well done, yeah he's off deeper now isn't he? There's me talking and his eyes are closed. Lovely.
So it's taken a bit of time to bring him down into that level one but how rewarding is that?
He still looks like he has little slits but not opening up like he was. Yeah, no, they're
going. It's interesting isn't it? They're just different, he breaks down level two to one
and has about six steps in there but look I'm raising my voice, I'm talking normally
and he's off, which is brilliant so that's you influencing his thinking levels.
A big breath.
And look that's really confident for him to do
because he can't even slit his eyes to see us anymore
or to see me. He's actually turned to go to sleep so that's a really nice place to finish isn't it?
Jody reported back that that night Biscuit climbed up onto the bed, lay on her
and peacefully went to sleep. Now he is going to need lots of work
because there's a lot of sensitivity to get through but what a great start.