Danielle MacKinnon: Animal Lessons
When I started asking them, and we’ll go, why are you doing this? They started giving me answers like, well, I’m barking this much because I’m all hyped up because she is anxious all the time. My human, and if she can call herself down, I will calm down as well. And their answers started to be about the human rather than they’re the animal’s own circumstances. However, that’s not the business I wanted. I wanted a business where I just told the animals what to do and what to change, and it was all fixed.
I resisted it for quite a while until I ran into, Jesus, the Chihuahua. His human brought him to me because he was peeing in the kitchen peeing in a plant in the kitchen. So, I thought, well, this is great. I can fix this. I can just tell him not to pee in the plant.
I’m still resisting this other level of information from the animals. And when it came time for me to address the problem with Jesus psychically, I’m having a conversation with him, I’m saying, you know, you’re peeing in the plant in the kitchen. You got to stop. It’s causing a problem in your house. Your humans are upset. You’ve got to stop doing this. I said to him, are you peeing in the plant because you don’t know where the outside is? And Jesus basically said, no, I know we’re outside is Danielle, okay? Are you tired? Are you lazy? I Kind of played 20 -20 questions. I went through all these different iterations of why he could possibly be peeing in the plant. Because of course, at that time I was assuming that I knew more, so I would be able to find the answer that he would agree with and he didn’t agree with any of my potential answers.
Finally, I kind of broke down, and I said, all right, why are you peeing in the plant? And he proceeded to tell me that, his female human, the one who had brought him to me was in an abusive situation and whenever he peed in the plant was when the abuse was happening, and he was doing it to remind her that this is a time to take care of her own needs above all else. And that he would stop peeing in the plant when she started taking care of herself in that way. I really didn’t want to tell her that. She didn’t tell me she was in an abusive situation. She didn’t open up to me that way.
Then, finally, he helped me through, telling her what was going on. He gave me the words to say, and I said it in a very soft way so that I wasn’t, putting her in an uncomfortable position. And it was that moment that I realized, wow, this animal is putting themselves in a challenging, dangerous place to help his human evolve and grow and learn how to get out of this situation, learn how to take care of herself. So that is what soul level, animal communication is all about. It’s all about that ulterior motive that the animals have at the soul level to take the people that involved with and help those people become the best people they can be, reached their potential, grow and learn the things about themselves that they’ve perhaps been resisting learning all along.
Sandra Sedgbeer: So, rather than looking at our pets, is our creatures. We’re looking at them as our guides. When I look at the statistics that show that by far, you know, dogs are the most popular animal for people to have. Um, cats come second and then, horses and other animals peak after that. Do would you say that it’s more dogs that have this ability to be our guides or do horses, cats, birds and other creatures also, communicate in the same way and come into our lives to teach us lessons?
Danielle MacKinnon: I agree with dogs, it’s usually easier to see, but every single animal, whether that animal is a pet or a wild animal or an animal that you read about on social media, they all have this capacity. They all access this capacity for everybody that they come into contact with or everybody who gets to know them in some way. So even the squirrel that has been hit by a car and is dead on the side of the road is there’s something for you to learn from that. And that squirrel at the soul level knows that.
Sandra Sedgbeer: So, do you believe that our animals choose us and that we have prearranged contracts to work together?
Danielle MacKinnon: I do. And the reason I believe that is because, that’s what they told me, the animals told me again and again. They’ve told me that, we as human beings, we have these soul lessons that we’re working on learning. Usually, the soul lessons revolve around mastering unconditional love, some form of mastering, unconditional love of ourselves and then of everybody else. So, I may believe I’m not good enough, or I’m not lovable. I’m not worthy, I’m not safe. That’s usually how one of the four ways that these lessons manifest themselves. So, when we incarnate into our human bodies to evolve our soul, we’re working on learning one or all of these lessons.
Animals know this prior to incarnate, they basically get together with our soul and say, hey, the animals, they’ll get together with our soul, said, hey, I’ll help you learn. I’ll help you work on that one in this upcoming lifetime. And so, when we incarnate it, you can call it a contract and agreement. Uh, but somehow that animal is going to come into your life and in some way give you the opportunity through your relationship with them to evolve and grow.
Sandra Sedgbeer: In animal lessons, you make the point that animals not only possess the capacities that understand the full range of our human emotions, they often take those emotions into themselves; I want you to expand on that.
Danielle MacKinnon: They basically choose one of three ways to help us. And the one you’re talking about is mirroring. So, the animal will mirror your emotional state, will mirror your behavior. And it sounds like with you it was mirroring, mirroring your emotional state, because a lot of the time it’s easier for us to see it in somebody else and address it than it is for us to be in ourselves. So that mirroring piece tends to be a pretty popular way that the animals choose to help us.
So, there’s, there are three ways that they do it. They can mirror, meaning they take, they take the whole, the same way you hold. They feel the same way as you feel. They act the same way. They model, which is maybe somebody who’s dealing with depression. And so, their dog decides, well, you know what? She’s depressed. I’m going to be incredibly happy, so I can show her what that is like. The Third way. And it’s a way that it took me a little while to understand. It took a lot of readings with animals for me to fully get it is when the animal provides you with, something that creates emotion and support that you’ve never had before. A lot of the time it shows up by, while I’ve never been able to talk to anyone before about this kind of thing. And yet my dog is my confidant, my horses are everything to me.
Sandra Sedgbeer: So how, how do we figure out what lesson are pet is teaching us, what role they’re playing in our life?
Danielle MacKinnon: There are lots of ways to do it, but I’ve kind of put together, where to start because the first piece of this is that you have to go into the relationship with the animal, with the belief or at least the, trying to believe that this animal actually knows more than you. That this animal is not just a 3D based creature, but actually has a bigger purpose and a bigger understanding. This animal in your life is a guru, a teacher, a mentor, a trainer. So many of us even complete and total animal lovers, we look at animals like they’re in need of us. That we know more. And this is what I was doing when I first started connecting with animals. I thought I knew more. I know the answers. And yet what I hear from the animals all the time is they know the answer. They have mastered unconditional love. We haven’t. They’re ahead of us. So, the first thing that you need to do to understand your animal lesson is given in to that idea. Let it exist. The animal knows more than you. So that means any behavior with this animal, any experience, any emotion that comes up, all of this is part of the package. There are no coincidences. Now when you can do that, then you can go into, the big first step, which is looking for the place and the relationship with that animal that creates the biggest wave, the biggest emotional wave, brings up the most for you. And so, when you find that biggest wave, that’s the area where an animal is working with you to teach you.
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