Animals are teachers, healers, and guides.  The more I meditate with animals and listen to their musings with an open heart, the more conscious I become of my spiritual essence and interconnections with all species in the web of life.

Here are five lessons I’ve learned from meditating with animals:

1. Animals mirror our strengths and challenges on the path of self-awareness. They also reflect our energetic state of being. 
2. Meditating with animals creates peaceful and balanced energy, which brings about healing in all aspects of our lives. The more we meditate, the more this compassionate healing energy ripples outward. 
3. Animals instinctively know that meditation includes all aspects of our being– body, mind, and spirit. 
4. Meditating with animals opens our hearts at a deep spiritual level to feel our oneness with life. 
5. Animals live in the present moment, which is a state of enlightenment. 

Being on a spiritual path of self-discovery takes courage. Animals support us on our journey with their unconditional love, wisdom, and nonjudgement. 

Meditating with animals is enlightening and transformative. When we meditate with them, we become more conscious of our true authentic selves at a spiritual level. They teach us how to listen with an open heart as they guide us home. 

It’s also more fun to meditate with animals because they naturally put us in our heart centers which is a win-win.

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Meditation with Animals, Animal Communication, and Animal Reiki Feed Animals’ Souls

Animals are multi-dimensional spiritual beings. When we consciously nourish their souls with meditation, animals benefit in all aspects of their lives. 

Meditation is a simple yet potent way to feed your animal’s spirit. When we meditate with them, it brings peace, balance, and healing. It also deepens our awareness of their spiritual wisdom as our teachers, healers, and guides. This awareness builds a spiritual bridge of connection, compassion, healing, mutual understanding, and love. 

Animal Communication and Animal Reiki also nurture animals’ souls. When we learn to quiet our minds and open our hearts with meditation, it develops our intuitive and telepathic communication with animals and strengthens our heart-connection. 

In fact, meditating with animals is the foundation to growing your telepathic Animal Communication skills and sharing Reiki using the Let Animals Lead® method. Both modalities create a compassionate healing space where all healing is possible.

Mona loves Dawn Allen’s book, The Art of Meditating with Cats.

Here are some of the many benefits of meditating with animals:

• Provides relief from physical symptoms, like chronic pain and illness;
• It relieves anxiety, worry, anger, stress while promoting deep relaxation;
• Brings about balance and harmony for you and your animal;
• Keeps you in the present moment and grounded;
• Trains your mind to be quiet so you can feel in deep communion with animals;
• Develops your intuitive and telepathic communication with animals.
• Teaches you to live a heart-centered life. 
• Strengthens your relationship with animals and Nature;
• Makes animals happy and nourishes their soul and yours!!!

Meditating is especially powerful when you invite animals and Nature into your sacred space. When we meditate with animals, they experience joy, peace, harmony, balance, and healing. When practiced regularly with animals, meditation strengthens our spiritual connection with ourselves, our community, all sentient beings, and Mother Nature.

You’re invited to nourish your animal family’s soul during my monthly Animal Communication Practice Group, Animal Reiki Share, and Sunday Meditations with Animals.  

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Why does meditating with animals have such a profound effect?

Here are 5 fabulous reasons to share a meditation practice with your animal family.

Reason #2: Meditating with animals creates a powerful space of healing and compassion, which enhances your heart connection and relationship with them. 

Reason #3: It reduces stress and promotes overall wellness. Daily meditation allows animals to receive a variety of healing benefits like: 

• Pain relief
• Strengthens the immune system
• Supports the healing process
• Reduces emotional and behavioral issues
• Promotes overall wellness

Reason #4: Meditation with animals teaches us to open our hearts and connect through our heart-center. This enables a sense of oneness, which leads to a deeper bond and mutual understanding with animals and Nature.

Reason #5: Animals are masterful meditation teachers and enjoy it when we share calm and loving energy with them. 

One of the great things about meditating with animals is you can do it sitting, standing, walking, or even lying down. My cats, Mona and Elvis, prefer it when I do sitting meditations with them.

When my dog, Bodhi, was alive, we loved taking our morning Reiki walks where we connected with wildlife and communed with Nature. It brought us tremendous joy to share this sacred space together.

A daily meditation practice helps you to connect and share relaxed and calm energy. This practice can help animals feel calmer, balanced, and less anxious. 

Plus, your animal will thank you in ways you could never imagine when you spend time meditating with them.

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If having a soul means being able to feel love, loyalty, and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. 

—Jame Herriot

Animals are excellent teachers on how to be grateful. Animals recognize and trust humans when they come from a place of gratitude, which is peaceful, calm, and loving.

Gratitude, which means thankfulness and appreciation, connects us to our spiritual essence, which animals recognize and appreciate. Being grateful opens our hearts and minds to be more compassionate to ourselves and others.

Offering gratitude strengthens your bond and connection with all sentient beings in the web of life, especially your animal family because it brings about peace, harmony, love, and compassion. All of which humans and non-human animals need to live a healthy and balanced life.

Practicing gratitude is linked with increased happiness, along with increased physical, mental, and spiritual health. The more I practice the system of Reiki and offer Reiki to animals, the more I feel tremendous appreciation in my life for my animals, health, family, friends, and clients. And I experience more peace and balance in my life.

Animals show us gratitude in a myriad of ways like smiling, cuddling up to us, loving us unconditionally, or just hanging out sharing space together.

When communicating telepathically and offering Reiki to animals, it’s essential to express your gratitude and give thanks for the animal’s willingness to connect with you in whatever way they feel comfortable. Thanking animals for their desire to talk with you or share Reiki shows that you honor and respect them. Plus it opens the doors to more in-depth communication and relationships.

One way to show gratitude to animals is to practice Gassho with them. Gassho means “two hands coming together in prayer” and is a universal sign of reverence and respect that resembles praying.

The goal of the Gassho meditation is to bring all opposites together to express gratitude in unity and harmony.

Gassho Meditation

Practice this meditation often and for as long as you want. I suggest you begin with 5 minutes a day and build from there.

• Begin by sitting or standing, whichever is most comfortable for you.

• Put your hands together, palm-to-palm, in front of your face. Place your straight fingers in the prayer position approximately one fist’s length from the tip of your nose while slightly pressing your two palms together (see above illustration).

• Position your forearms at a slight angle to the ground. Don’t let your elbows touch your body. 

• Gently breathe in through your nose as you imagine breathing in unconditional love or Reiki (Spiritual Energy). 

• As you exhale, feel this spiritual energy as it moves throughout your entire being in your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body.

• While you continue to breathe in the energy of Reiki, see this loving energy nurture your being as you exhale. 

The more you practice the Gassho meditation, the more you will be in a place of reverence, respect, and gratitude, which will open your heart to your true nature as a spiritual being.

As you reconnect with your authentic self, you will become a magnet that is an attractant to animals.

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Stress, worry, and anxiety are now part of the “new normal” as we all weather the current Covid-19 pandemic. 

If you are feeling worried and concerned, then there is a good likelihood your pet will take on your stressful feelings. Why? Pets are incredibly sensitive to the energy in their environment, whether it’s joy, peace, anger, anxiety, or stress. Plus, they don’t like it when their humans suffer and want to help us feel better.

Your animal family can experience stress and anxiety more often than you may realize. Stress, if left unchecked, can negatively impact your pet’s behavior, health, and overall quality of life.

As a pet parent, it’s essential to recognize when your pet feels stressed-out. Animals offer clear signals when they’re feeling anxious and worried. Then it’s up to you to provide your animal family with balanced and peaceful solutions like daily exercise, play, and Reiki.

Yawning can be a sign of stress in your pet.

Animals use a variety of physical gestures and body language to communicate stress and anxiety. 

Bodhi demonstrates 2 signs of stress: lip licking and yawning.

11 Signs of Stress in Pets:

1. Excessive panting, even when it’s not hot;
2. Tail between hind legs;
3. Excessive whining or other types of vocalization;
4. Constant lip licking and/or excessive yawning;
5. Excessive scratching, paw licking/sucking, and over-grooming;
6. Restless pacing and can’t settle down;
7. Hiding behind and under furniture or in closets;
8. Decreased appetite, or refusal to eat their food especially special treats;
9. Peeing/pooping in irregular locations like in the house or out of the litter box;
10. Clingy and not wanting to leave your side or lap;
11. Excessive Shedding.

Animals prefer to live in a peaceful, calm environment. Given a choice, healthy pets will remove themselves from the source of their anxiety, like moving to another room, hiding in a closet, or going outside. If your pet feels unheard, they may act out on their concern by chewing paw, plucking feathers, growling,  or even biting.

3 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Pet’s Stress:

1. When possible, give your animals regular exercise, fresh air, and play, which helps release excess energy and stress. 
2. Animals do understand the reasons behind their behaviors. Like humans, animals appreciate it when they feel heard and validated. If you think your pet is stressed, but not sure why then contact me so I can give you insight into the source of your pet’s stress and discuss how best to alleviate it. 
3. Animal Reiki naturally alleviates stress in animals and you. Animal Reiki gently releases energetic blockages and imbalances. The goal is to create a healing space that allows animals to go into a deep, relaxed space.

Experiencing stress and anxiety doesn’t feel good to pets. It’s up to you to learn how to read your animal companion’s body language to determine your pet’s state of mind.  Your animals will appreciate your efforts to alleviate the cause of their concern and worry as soon as you can.

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