The trick is to hold a positive picture of the desired behavior in your mind's eye. Rather than holding on to that negative picture, the trick is to hold a picture of the desired behavior in your mind's eye. Replace your negative emotions and pictures with positive ones. Worrying that an animal will do the wrong thing sends the picture of that wrong action to the animal, which simply reinforces the behavior. Remembering the past.
Animals remember their past in pictures and emotions.
Samantha says that if she is dealing with a frightened animal, she tries to create a visual space for them to re-experience the first time that the trauma happened so that new behavior can then be introduced to replace it. One cat she treated, Tonga, was very aggressive. Samantha asked her what had happened and received back an impression of Tonga being picked up by a man at some earlier time very roughly. Since then, Tonga was afraid of being picked up or touched on a particular part of the back. We are equal beings.