Navigating Your Sensitivity
November 26, 2024 Filed in:
Being an Animal CommunicatorSeveral students attending my Advanced Animal Whispering Course had great questions about handling their sensitivity—a follow-up subject to my last blog on protection.
I am seeking your help with two common events that impact me personally. The first is human impact upon wild animals through injury by vehicles. Other than NOT physically touching the animals and asking for energetic help, is there anything else I can do to ease suffering?
My second issue concerns the taking of trees and land clearing. I feel the loss of habitat for the animals and the loss of life for the plants so profoundly, it hurts to the core. My question is, how can I transmute this pain into a helpful act for my nature friends? I realize my own stories of loss play a part, but I would rather it be a motivation than a hindrance.
Animals Struck by Vehicles
Living in rural areas, I have seen many wild animals injured or killed by vehicles. For animals lying at the side or on the road, I may stop at a distance that will not heighten the animals’ distress or risk my safety in traffic.
Even if I can’t stop, I communicate with the animals to assess their condition. I ask what the animal would like to have happen or what I can do to help. For those who are dying, I may pray and hold energetic space for them to go in peace and fulfill their soul journey.
Animals severely injured by vehicle collisions leave their body at the moment of impact and don’t return if the body is close to death. The spirit does not feel the pain and trauma that the body has undergone. After death, the being moves on to the spiritual realm. Or they may immediately reincarnate, often to continue their experience as that species.
Animals who can still move after being struck by a vehicle usually flee to an area away from the road. If they are in shock and cannot move yet, sending them healing energy at a distance can revive them enough so they can go to a safe place to recover.
It may help to to tune into their feelings to assess their state. A wildlife rescue organization may be able to help them through their pain and injuries. You can also let the animals know what rescue personnel will do if they come to help.
I have communicated with many animals killed by vehicles. Most were killed quickly and moved on easily to the spiritual realm. Some animals in spirit are confused by the fatal impact and may hang around their lifeless forms. They may not know if the body will come to life or what they should do. I communicate with them to help them realize what has happened or to release any trauma, which assists them to move on.
Using your power to communicate and understand animals may help you feel more effective and aligned with their journey so you don’t get stuck in feelings of grief and overwhelm. While I may feel a shock when I first see an injured or dead animal, communicating with them is a relief. It puts me in touch with what is right for them on their spiritual journey.
Just focusing on the dead body and feeling loss blocks your connection with the present reality of that ever-alive being. A simple way you can help release an animal’s trauma if they have not already done helps them and you. Breathe deeply, letting feelings transform into loving energy.
Being helpful through communication, prayer, respectful connection, and healing energy shifts the encounter from tragedy to uplifting service.
Destruction of Habitats
Destroying trees, landscapes, and animal habitats affects us all. Those who communicate with other species may feel the loss even more. However, we can enlist our sensitivity to help.
Other species mourn, especially for loss of their homes, families, and groups. They generally accept what happens as part of life and move on quickly to the next phase of their journey.
The spirits of felled trees will often merge with other trees nearby and permeate the area with good energy to nurture it for future growth. These responses can provide clues for what you can do as a human.
We can ally ourselves with nature beings, including trees, mountains, animals, the sun, moon, stars, and Mother Earth, feeling all of us together as part of the ever-transforming cosmos of life swirling through many interactions and reiterations. Getting the bigger picture, we don’t get stuck in loss as our dominant state. Life is always here to engage with.
Be grateful for the land and beings around you. Honor life through ceremonies, healing songs, and sacred connection. Plant trees and nurture them. Work with or donate to environmental organizations that support, restore, or help create healthy habitats. Read eco news about all the good things happening to support and heal Mother Earth. Take good care of yourself, raising your energy so you can help.
You are free to choose what energies you take in and what you transmit. Burdening yourself with too much heavy energy or bad news does not help anyone. Consciously choose what you bring in. Transform the uglies into nurturing energy for all as you breathe out. Call forth all the positive thoughts, feelings, and actions you can muster, and you benefit everyone.
Some uplifting sources for good things happening for other species and their habitats that may also inspire your state of being and action:
https://happyeconews.com/
https://www.dailyclimate.org/good-news/
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tag/environment/
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/good-news/environment
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/10/31/positive-environmental-stories-from-2024
Here are a few simple ways to help yourself through painful feelings anytime they come up. Do one or more until you feel focused in the present environment and no longer caught in tangled thoughts and emotional states.
- Talk a walk, slowly looking at things around you one at a time, noticing their color, size, shape, and texture.
- Walk up to an object and feel it firmly and consciously. Slowly repeat focusing on and touching other objects.
- Sit with your spine upright in a chair with feet on the ground or sit cross-legged or lying down on the floor. Feel your feet or whole body connected to the earth. Focus on your breathing, each breath, in and out.
- Lie down and notice any tight places you feel in your body. Consciously tense a tight body part, hold for a few seconds, and let go with a deep exhale or sigh. Then, go over your whole body that way, starting with your feet and going up through your legs, hips, belly, chest, hands, arms, neck, head, face. Then, clench your whole body and release with a big sigh.
- Sit quietly near an animal. Feel your feet connected to the earth (sitting in a chair or cross-legged on the floor). Feel connected to the animal through the ground as you breathe slowly and deeply. Notice everything positive you can about the animal.
Another student communicated:
I was very moved by a participant during our last class who shared her realization that she is ready to open up to the level of deep sensitivity she shut down some years before. Since then, I have been living with the question: Am I ready to open fully to my sensitivity?
Many years ago, I was trained by a clairvoyant to do channeled psychic readings for people, and I did readings for many years. A key part of doing these readings was to open for the reading and close afterward. I was a bit of a mess picking up other people's feelings, thoughts, and body symptoms before I began training with this woman and was taught how to open and close. I think a block to interspecies communication for me is a fear of opening up to all the human psychic flotsam and jetsam again. I yearn for the experience you describe of opening to the whole.
Opening to the Whole
Your intention is everything. You can intend and decide to open energetically to whoever or whatever you wish and not from others. Practice making that conscious decision, forming the intention to open to that which will be beneficial to your well-being or helpful on your spiritual journey. Some things we need to experience for our growth may not be pleasant, but we reap the bounty in facing and going through them of being closer to fully experiencing loving wholeness.
We decide at each step of the way what we can and wish to handle. There’s no one way to go about this. Be kind to yourself by being sensitive to what works for you, opening and stretching to encompass more of life as it feels right. Ask for help and partner with allies throughout Nature and in spiritual dimensions.
You can be open without being subject to energetic bombardment by being fully present to yourself and what is around you. Then the flotsam and jetsam pass through and are transformed by your light and positive intentions.
Living with the polarities of dark and light can be a harmonious dance rather than a conflict. Serve with your unique talents, radiating your light and good energy for yourself and all.
Here’s a book that many have found helpful: The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People by Judith Orloff, MD
