Ep. 3 - Training Your Subconscious (Part 1)

Your subconscious mind controls upwards of 80% of all your decisions in a given day. That means that if your subconscious is not properly trained, you are setting yourself up for failure. In this episode, we discuss some of the things you can do to start training your subconscious mind, and what in the world this has to do with handling and training dogs.

1. Train your mind to concentrate / Become aware of your thoughts
2.  - Drill 1 - What was I just thinking?
3.  - Drill 2 - Did I just interrupt my own thoughts?
4. Identify your negative thought/action loops
5. Replace negative loops with positive loops

So what in the world does this have to do with handling and training Protection Dogs? Dog handlers, and sadly many dog trainers, as completely unaware of their own thoughts and actions. This leads to many bad habits, confusing communication between the dog and handler, and often to the dog being blamed for the failure of the human they are trying to serve.