How Animal Communication Works
My understanding is that there is a universal language that all beings understand and this forms the basis of why animal communication is possible. One way of describing this language is in the notion of the "thought before the thought"- the fraction of time between a thought arising and it becoming verbalised in our minds. For instance imagine that you are standing on the pavement and suddenly you see a loved one on the other side of the road and that person starts to cross the road to come to meet you. You notice a car coming and an impulse arises in you before you manage to say "STOP!". The point at which that impulse becomes formed in your belly before it makes its way up to your throat to shout is the point when an animal will register your signal.
This universal language is made up of the energy of intention, mental imagery, emotions, feeling, a sense of knowing as well as word thoughts. This is how a clairvoyant medium receives information from a spirit contact and how they are able to communicate with those in spirit whose native tongue is different to their own.
As an animal communicator, I have often thought about how animals communicate with me in the English Language and so far the best explanation that I have, is that I have a translator in my mind that instantly translates from the thought impulse, the pre-word thought to a word thought.
Of course, animals also communicate to me with sensations that I receive in my body. I am not sure that the animals are always sending these to me on purpose or whether I just pick them up from tuning into the animal's energy body during a communication. Either way, I will feel these sensations in my own body as if they are my own. The only way that I know that they are not, is when I have the thought, "Ah, maybe this is not mine.." and if it isn't then the sensation will disappear.
Our body minds are like mini-radio-stations receiving and relaying signals all the time. Animals are already experts in this field and are just waiting for humans to catch on! Have you ever watched a shoal of fish moving as if they were one organism? We are not as separate as we like to think...
All of us possess the ability to pick up on another's emotions and thoughts and indeed do so throughout our daily lives, though not always consciously. In fact, many people actually find it hard NOT to pick up on another's emotions - how many times have you entered a room and ended up with a knot of tension in your stomach because someone else was tense? Do you find it difficult to shake off another's negativity? You are already using telepathy or empathy!
