To be honest to calm them down you don't need any magick words. Your animals and you are already connected in a way that gives you all you need. You trust your cats and they trust you why else would you allow a sizable predator to share your home without a thought that it could attack and damage you at its whim. In the same way your cats trust that in a time of danger or stress they can rely on you to act as a cat would.
Firstly listen to your cat:
Your cat or any animal will let you know what it wants or needs even if it is just to be left alone. Cats give off signals all the time to how they feel and can become 'very' frustrated if you do not respond in kind. Physical contact is not always appreciated but cats like to be acknowledged. While you will not hear a little kitty voice in your head telling you 'Me like fish now' you will in time pick up in an empathic way the needs and wants of your cats. The more you understand your cats the more you will know what is stopping them from being calm as it will be the same thing that stops you from being calm.
Cat tips for two legs:
Cat greetings:
The head bop: Rubbing the side of your face along each others. For a cat this is a way of not only leaving their scent on you but detecting if you have greeted anyone else in the same way. Most cats will tolerate exchanging face for a hand, while to the cat this makes no sense they are happy to play along and rub the offered hand. To be offered not hand or face is rude.
Blinking:
Cats blink as a form of greeting, If a cat does not approach you for a head bob they will blink. Not returning this blink is at best 'rude' at worst aggressive. The act of closing eyes shows trust for no matter how long it is done. Your cat is telling you it trusts you enough not to attack that is happy to close its eyes around you. You should do your part and respond in kind a fixed look is telling your cat that either you don't trust it or you are uneasy about your surrounding and so should it be.
I'm not looking to use magic for the fun of it; I wanted to do more of an energy transfer/psychological healing, which I hope would also give me good practice. I'm not talking about healing physical wounds- of course I'd take my pet to the vet!
