{"id":7517,"date":"2014-10-28T17:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2014-10-28T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:10:28","slug":"the-comfort-of-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendywolfe.com\/?p=7517","title":{"rendered":"The Comfort of Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you feel more comfortable hanging out with animals than with people?\u00a0 Or maybe you notice how good you feel when you\u2019re with animals?\u00a0 A couple of years ago I wrote this blog<\/i><\/a>\"girl<\/a> looking at the energy aspects of animals vs. people and why highly sensitive empaths often feel more comfortable with animals.<\/p>\n

While working with a mentoring client the other day a light bulb went off and I wanted to share this insight.\u00a0 My client was relating how she has felt comforted in the presence of animals since she was a young child.\u00a0 We talked briefly about the energy connection and the unconditional love we feel from animals.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when it hit me.<\/h4>\n

The unconditional love we feel from animals reminds us of the unconditional love we knew before we came into these physical bodies.<\/p>\n

Being with animals is like \u201cgoing home\u201d.<\/h4>\n

It feels like being with God, Source, the Great Mystery, however you want to label the infinite Love source we come from.<\/p>\n

In our human form, it\u2019s difficult to give pure unconditional love to another because our ego is in a constant state of \u201cprotecting us\u201d from anything that might cause a hurt (emotional, physical, etc). The ego\u2019s job is to note experiences and then keep us safe from having to endure anything similar again.\u00a0 The ego learns its job from experiences in childhood and since \u201cbad things\u201d can happen to us at any point in our life, the ego is always on guard.\u00a0 Our brain is wired to protect us too\u2026more on this next week.\u00a0 Unfortunately this protection from the ego (and our brain) can create problems.<\/p>\n

The ego causes us to judge\u2026and as long as we judge ourselves we will judge others.\u00a0 It\u2019s human nature.\u00a0 As we learn to love ourselves unconditionally, we begin to love others without conditions.\u00a0 Yet even the greatest spiritual teachers of all time confess they have not perfected unconditional love.\u00a0 It is a continual process of accepting ourselves (warts and all), acknowledging our humanness and allowing others the same grace.<\/p>\n

These masters and some others are exceptional at emanating love.\u00a0 You feel emotionally safe and accepted when you are with them but they tend to be the exception not the rule.\u00a0\u00a0 Animals provide many of us this same feeling of safety and acceptance. They don\u2019t care if our hair is messy or our mascara smeared.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to have achieved any amount of acceptable \u201csuccess\u201d.\u00a0 We don\u2019t feel judged.\u00a0 As long as we show up they love us.<\/p>\n

Some of us have been immersed in this unconditional love for brief moments here in these bodies.\u00a0 Experiences of being out-of-body, near-death or other spiritual awakening moments reconnect us to the awareness of infinite unconditional love.\u00a0 For most it is a fleeting experience we want to recapture.\u00a0\u00a0 Meditation, ecstatic dance, drumming, and chanting are some ways of creating a similar feeling although in my experience none of these has been as intense as being out-of-body.<\/p>\n

For many, being with animals allows them to feel this love and acceptance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s our nature to crave unconditional love and acceptance.\u00a0 We are social animals and thrive on connection.\u00a0 We are seeking what we knew and felt before we came into these physical bodies.\u00a0 What we knew as pure Spirit.<\/p>\n

Animals are our touchstone to remembering where we came from and who we really are.<\/p>\n

They help us remember…<\/p>\n

we ARE unconditional love.<\/h4>\n

and by the way\u2026<\/p>\n

Love is all there is.<\/h4>\n

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