The Order of Harmony did not begin as a defined idea but as a journey into the unknown. At first, I only had a deep feeling that there was a strong emotional connection between dogs and their owners, one that went beyond the ordinary boundaries of behavior and training. Not as symbolism, not as obedience work, but as something essential and systemic, a bridge between two species that do not understand each other through words but feel the same.
The Order of Harmony: The Meeting with Ivana and Ela
Years ago, in New York, I met Ivana. She came to an individual workshop after hearing my television interview about the philosophy of living with dogs based on the deep interconnection between a human and a dog as one system. At that time, I still didn’t know how to explain it. I was only researching, noting behavioral patterns, and trying to understand what dogs were telling me through the behavior of their owners. Ivana didn’t come out of curiosity. She came out of pain.
The Unspoken Loss
The purest form of unconditional love exists between a mother and a child. Its strength fills the universe. To give life to another being is the most sacred task a human can experience. But what happens when that love is interrupted, frozen in time, without the possibility of expression? When pain overcomes hope, and fear silences truth? That is when those who do not speak but feel everything step in: the dogs.
The Workshop – The Last Stop
Ivana calmly told me that she had a problem with her Rottweiler, who had bitten her mother on the forehead. She was afraid the dog might become aggressive toward her children and was considering euthanasia, although she had already worked with trainers and tried various methods. The workshop was her last attempt before making that painful decision.
The Forgotten Truth
I listened carefully, letting her share everything that had happened. And then, a question arose within me that both frightened and confused me: “Are all our children alive?” As a father and as a therapist, I felt fear I did not yet know how to channel or accept as a guide. Instead, fear spoke through me as a question: “Were all your children born?”
Ivana replied, “No, I had two abortions.” I asked how many dogs she had. She said three. In that moment, it was clear, but I was too fragile to face it fully.
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A dog as a silent witness to our tears – truth that sets free and connects.
The Order of Harmony and Dogs as Mirrors
The Order, however, was watching over me. We ended the workshop at a point where Ivana felt safe, and I told her that I believed we would see each other again soon. There was one more step for both of us to climb, but we would have to be ready.
A few minutes after she left, Ivana called me and said she had forgotten to share something she rarely talked about anymore. As a young woman, she had given birth to a child with developmental difficulties who, at her mother’s urging, was placed in an institution. The child had died. Although Ivana had worked on herself for years, she had never truly spoken about it. The memory faded over time, covered with layers of pain, anger, guilt, and shame. We agreed to meet again the next day.
Healing Through the Order of Harmony
When she returned, I asked her again, “Are all our children alive?” In that moment, everything became clear. And everything healed. Suddenly, everything was filled with light. Ivana began to cry. She spoke about the pain and anger she had suppressed for years. She realized that her anger toward her mother had never been truly resolved. Instead of releasing it, she had only pushed it deeper.
That was not the end of pain, but the beginning of new life. The moment that truth was spoken aloud, the dog Ela never again showed a trace of aggression. She was not at the workshop. I never saw her. Yet everything changed. The Order of Harmony is not a theory. It is an experience. Dogs do not carry our secrets; they reveal them.
Science Confirms the Order of Harmony
In psychoneuroimmunology research, such as the study published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science in 2023, it has been confirmed that stress in owners affects the behavior and health of dogs. Dogs that live with anxious or depressed people often develop behaviors that mirror human disorders: aggression, anxiety, hypervigilance.
Moreover, there is a documented link between chronic stress and cancer development in dogs, as shown in veterinary oncology studies (MACVETREV-2016-0088). Science confirms what the soul already knows: everything is connected.
The Gaze That Heals
But we don’t need scientific studies to recognize this truth. It is enough to look into a dog’s eyes. In a world where everyone is quick to suppress pain with a pill, dogs remain the only ones who do not run away. They sit beside us in silence and wait. For us to feel. To admit. To remember.
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The Order of Harmony – a meeting between human and dog that reveals a deep connection of soul and love.
Pain as an Ally
Because pain does not have to hurt. We only believed it must. If we honor it and carry it with respect, it becomes a source of endless strength and creation. In the teaching of the Order of Love, which forms the foundation of the Order of Harmony, pain and anger are not symptoms to be removed. They are impulses pointing to disruption, exclusion, or forgetting. They live on through our children, our illnesses, and our dogs.
Dogs as Companions of the Soul
Dogs are part of our energetic field. When we acknowledge what belongs to us, we free them to be who they truly are: companions, not carriers of our burdens. A dog does not ask us to be perfect, only to be truthful.
The Legacy of a Bond: Ivana, Ela, and the Order of Harmony
Ivana and Ela shaped me as a therapist, as a father, as a man. Their story became part of the foundation of the Order of Harmony. Ela continued to live loved and at peace. She was never aggressive again. She died years later, peacefully. Ivana continued to grow, to feel, to live as a mother and a woman in wholeness.
The Light of the Order of Harmony in Life
Some pains stay with us forever. And they should. Not as wounds, but as light that reminds us of where we no longer need to go and of all the places we still can.
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