What do meditation and dog training have in common?

You might be surprised, and you'll find out next on Live Happy Now.

Once you have that foundation of being in the moment and being calm and being aware of your surroundings, then after that it's just all technique.

Hello, this is Jeff Sanders, and welcome back to another episode of the Live Happy Now podcast.

This week we're talking to John Miller, a Dallas-based dog trainer who brings a unique approach to his practice.

John is the guy people go to and other techniques have failed, and his work brings in elements of meditation and Buddhism.

John's approach has had lasting results for both the

dogs and for their humans. Let's listen as Live Happy science editor Paula Phelps talks with John about

how we can all learn to be better humans for our dogs. John, welcome to Live Happy Now. It's a pleasure

to have you on our show today.

Hello, thank you for having me.

Well, you and I have talked before for our Live Happy Radio podcast and a subject,

everybody here at Live Happy Loves, and I know a lot of our listeners do too, and that is Dogs.

So can you tell us why you're here today to talk about dogs? So the reason I'm here

today is to tell you about how dogs and people communicate to each other through their energy

and body language. And since this is Live Happy magazine, we're also going to be talking about

how dogs can make us happy and why dogs make us happy. Yeah, because I love,

there's so much research that's come out that shows that having a pet is good for you emotionally.

It does cheer you up and it's also good for your immune system and lowers your stress level.

So I think we tend to focus on what dogs or cats, but mostly dogs do for us, but we don't always think about what our moods are doing for our pets.

Exactly.

So, yeah, so can you talk about that?

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