Is your animal an ambassador to raise your awareness?

Words VIV ADCOCK

We are all navigating an unprecedented time of change. Our ability to relax through major transitions is being challenged on a deeply personal level.

Does our emotional state affect our pets and can they play a part in easing us through those moments or days when our own survival instinct is triggered?

Animals communicate and function telepathically and energetically. When we become stressed our adrenalin levels peak, sending out an energetic distress signal. Have you noticed your pet’s response to your voice tone or mood for instance?

I have heard many people say that their pet is sensitive. I ask them “are they sensitive or highly aware of something?”

In the animal kingdom, a stressed animal is sensed on the airwaves by any opportunistic predator, which can threaten the safety of the herd or pack.

I recall watching my young horse being introduced to the concept of going into a horse trailer. Her survival instincts were being triggered, she was unsure and reactive as she did her best to side-step and avoid putting her foot on the ramp. As her energy escalated upwards, I noticed four swallows, seemingly flying in a formation about three metres above her. She calmed down, and the birds disappeared. As she was encouraged to take steps inside the float (which can initially be scary for a horse) her reaction heightened again and the swallows came back, flying over her. Were they contributing to dispersing her stress?

Some of our pets are healing animals, meaning they have the ability to calm, change and sometimes take on our emotional and physical issues (think of the Calming Goat on the movie Ferdinand!)

If you have an anxious animal – is it actually the animal’s natural state to be anxious or has it taken on the anxiety from a situation, environment or one of its two legged pack members? What if the anxiety was a signal, not a problem as we so often conclude? Could the animal’s aim be to dissipate the energy and raise awareness for the owner and contribute to changing something?

You could practise asking your animal questions to expand your awareness of what is going on for them. Questions can open up energetic communication, as the animal perceives you reaching into their world.

What awareness are you giving me?

Can you make it clear so I can get it?

Is this yours or someone else’s?

Can you dissipate this with ease?

Also practise BEING with your pets. Consciously connect with them as a being and learn to receive from them.

Viv Adcock is a Talk to the Animals Facilitator. Email: info@vivadcock.com www.vivadcock.com