Raising a Dog & Mastering Calm Assertive Energy | Cesar Millan
7/6/20262 hr 38 min
Cesar Millan is a world-renowned dog behavior expert. We discuss how to adjust your energy and behavior to ensure your dog is calm and happy and always follows your lead. Cesar shares specific tools for: returning home to your dog each day, structuring their walks, and eliminating aggressive behaviors and anxiety. We discuss how to determine if your dog is front, middle, or back of the pack order—a hardwired feature that determines much of their needs and personality. And we explore how human-human interactions are based on balances in energy, too. Both dog owners and non-owners will gain extremely valuable insights and tools from this episode.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Cesar Millan
(00:03:54) Animal Instincts & Human Energy
(00:06:31) Spirit, Sending Energy, Tool: Silence, Calm & Confident
(00:16:48) Sponsors: LMNT & Joovv
(00:19:30) Walking Dog; Pack Order, Tool: Picking a Puppy
(00:26:44) Human & Dog Hierarchy; Greeting Dog, Tool: No Look, No Touch, No Speak
(00:35:11) Calm Dog, Structured Walk, Tool: Weighted Backpack
(00:44:17) Sponsor: AG1 & Eight Sleep
(00:46:57) Exercise, Discipline & Affection
(00:50:23) Relationship to Death, Spirituality
(00:55:30) Human Energy, Rescue Dogs; Sensing Stress
(01:01:36) Animal Intelligence, Cats; Being a Pack Leader
(01:07:27) Calm Greeting, Humanizing Animals, Safety & Security, Anxious Dogs
(01:12:41) Safety & Horses, Respecting Dogs; Human Selfishness, Pack Leader
(01:21:31) Sponsor: Function
(01:23:15) Human Leaders; Pack Order, Prioritizing Affection
(01:32:17) Picking Human Partners, Good Pack Leaders
(01:44:40) Dog & Testing Boundaries, Tool: Calm & Confidence
(01:52:34) Cultivating Self-Awareness & Self-Discipline, Life Values
(01:58:02) Clearing Mind, Tool: Cold Plunge
(02:02:22) Honoring Pet Death, Celebration, Expressing Sadness
(02:12:13) Understanding Energy, Dog Training & Hard Work
(02:17:25) Dog Breeds & Exercise, Fostering Dogs; Spay & Neuter, Humping
(02:23:50) Petting Dogs; Barking & Destructive Behaviors, Tools: Early Walks, Challenges
(02:31:31) Spirit & Instincts, Training Humans; Acknowledgements
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsCesar Millan· Guest0:00
I'm not saying not to give affection. I'm just saying give affection to patience and calmness and open mind, right? 'Cause when you, when your dog misbehave, you want him to go back there, go back to your good state of mind, right? You don't want the dog to do fight, flight, avoidance. Those are the bad state of mind. The good state of mind is patience, calm, surrender, or happy-go-lucky. Those are good state of mind.
Andrew Huberman· Host0:24
[Instrumental music] Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Cesar Millan, better known as The Dog Whisperer and the preeminent dog trainer in the world. Today's episode is truly for everyone, not just dog owners. You're going to learn a lot about human psychology and behavior, and it will help you better interact with other humans in every type of relationship. For instance, you will learn a simple tool that allows you to move through the world with a clear, calm state of mind that will allow you to interact with others more effectively, to listen and act with more clarity and intention. And not incidentally, that clear, calm state of mind is also what dogs respond to best and what makes them feel safe and healthy. Today we talk about the critical importance about understanding dog biology and psychology and the fact that they are pack animals, and that we have to remove our human sense about these animals as our pets, and of course they are our pets and they're extremely cute, they are