What does highly sensitive mean?

Our pets can help us learn just how sensitive they can be. You may not even realize that he or she is picking up on something you are experiencing as whatever is occurring isn’t what we would classify as a behavior shift in them.

It can be a medical-related response. A sore that keeps coming back on a paw. Yet, goes away during a round of medication and returns shortly after. Or it can be the pet who routinely gets the runs when one change occurs in the household dynamic and only at that time.

Once he or she is checked over by a veterinarian, the next step is whether the solution and source of the reoccurrence is closer to home. In many of these situations it is connected to a person in the household. A response to something occurring within her or him or a situation outside the home.

As we know, many dogs can detect subtle shifts in a person’s scent, a spike in cortisol levels, and yes, our emotions. Cats also can know when something is occurring that is different from the norm. Many animal companions are highly sensitive beings that are very much connected to us and can sense and feel our aches, pains, emotional shifts, when we are feeling low, and the way in which we react or respond to situations.

Having it appear in their own body is often a way they are working to communicate that we need to shift the way we are handling our emotions or dig deeper into why it is occurring. They are often more in the know than we are with our own emotions and physical sensations as we tend in the early stages of awareness to push it away or think it is a minor inconvenience in our life that we do not have time to address.

These highly sensitive beings are teaching that taking care of us when the small stuff occurs is important to it not manifesting in a larger way.