With this new mindset I went back and looked again what happens in the interactions when a DRP is being applied. Firstly, the owner is told that the dog is "trying to take over". This sets the war metaphor in place and reframes the owner’s experiences in that light – the dog coming up with a toy is not just wanting to play, but it is in fact a part of a long term, devious strategy to grab all the power and become the Hitler of the household.
In our last unit, we talked about what happens in medical interventions when war metaphors are applied, and we had an experience of accepting the problem unconditionally in the "becoming the vortex" exercise. Do please note that the vortex is the same vortex, but as we change our perspective or frame of reference from war to understanding, we receive a rush of new insights and the universe expands all of a sudden.
In DRP interventions, the relationship universe contracts as the dog becomes the enemy. You contract it too much and you will reduce the possibility of incidences of "good energy exchanges" to the point where the creature in question experiences such a shortfall of this essential energy (and make no mistake, it is absolutely essential and systemically built into any species that forms relationships, no matter how rudimentary, with others of its kind) that a systemic collapse occurs and the relationship simply dies. It is this shortfall of essential energy that drives behaviour disturbances, stress related illness and in the end, systemic shutdown and death.
