Why Am I Feeling Like This… (Animal Communication Part 2)

Many pets have the art of communicating with us via emotions…if one of their people are eating a snack, they know just the right looks to give us in hopes we will feel guilty and then just maybe it will lead to them getting the highly coveted t-r-e-a-t! Just as they can feel and read our emotions, many can also send what they are feeling to us. Some are pros at it and others are learning. And just like us, it takes practice. It takes practice to send, and it takes practice on our part to be open enough to receive and understand.

One of the first tips for us in determining why we are feeling a certain way is to address the bigger question – how were we feeling before this sensation came over us? As that is the key indicator of identifying whether you just entered a conversation with an animal friend who is utilizing sensation as a conveyer of communication. Although it would be beneficial to know and have done an inventory of yourself beforehand, rarely does it occur in that order. Asking yourself, the following questions can clarify whether the new experiences belong to you:

-        How does my body feel? Am I sore, uncomfortable, thirsty, or hungry? Where do I feel it?

-        Where are my thoughts? What am I focused on?

-        How do I feel emotionally? Am I happy, sad, content, lost, anxious? Where am I feeling it?

-        Am I present or in the past/future?

Once you have queried your body and self for the answers and know your status, then you are more apt to believe, trust, and understand the body’s response to the final question of is this mine? The answer when not yours on some level will cause whatever the sensation is to go away quickly unless there is something you are to learn or need to understand to comprehend the mystery of the feeling on a deeper level.

Some examples include:

-        One early morning as I was leaving one pet’s home on the way to the next kid’s house only to feel like I am ravenous. Asking myself why I am hungry suddenly is the first clue to the shift in whose energy I am feeling. Then taking that inventory and stopping to ask was I hungry a few minutes ago? The answer of no is telling and immediately a face appeared in my mind of the next pet kid. I say aloud hi (and their name), I am on my way - just about 10 minutes out and I will feed you as soon as I get there. I know the message has been received when the hunger disappears just as quickly as it arrived.

-        On another morning upon waking up, I immediately became aware that I had an anxious feeling in my stomach (solar plexus area), and I was going through the inventory to see if there was any connection to me. It just didn’t feel like my energy, so I asked the question “is this mine” – and it went away instantly. Now for me, I was able to link it to a being that is new who wanted to connect but was apprehensive and so the understanding that this would be a slower process for them to work through their own emotions to get to a place of feeling more at ease going toward meeting each other for the first time.

-        With one kid, it was the overall sensation of me wanting to eat a turkey sandwich and something sweet to once again hear his message of looking for things outside himself to connect to the sweetness in life and for him that meant the companionship of his brothers who both passed in the last year – but it also had a further meaning for me…I too was missing something special in my own life and was looking for it unknowingly as I ordered that turkey sandwich. Now for the kid, he loves turkey; for me I am good with just having it one time a year so finding myself eating a turkey sandwich was a surprise, but it also would have been something my dad would have ordered.

Animal communication and intuition go together, but asking ourselves the right questions can assist the process. Being open to believe and trust in what we are receiving is important to why we are feeling a sensation and understanding the message the beings seeks to share with us. As with any new language, it takes practice to learn along with love and compassion with yourself until listening to them and gaining a grasp as to the dialect (hearing, feeling, sight or through nonverbals, scent, or just a knowing) of how they choose to communicate becomes natural.