Do Animals Think?
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Written by Carol Schultz Thursday, 21 October 2010 00:00 |
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Animals represent for us a way to connect with the outside world of nature when we spend so much time behind computers and in front of TVs. They can teach us so much about life, loving, connecting, and simply being. Some may consider that they are much more intelligent than us humans in how they live their lives.
Animals can speak to our core, therapeutic and healing to our souls, so why not consider that they may be very intelligent creatures sharing this planet? Life exudes from every part of us as humans, and animals, and plants, and trees, even rocks and gems, so why not perceive that animals could be just as “smart” as us, but in a different way that can be expressed through their own physical form? Humans can often place so much focus and emphasis on mental capacities and abilities to perform. Hopefully animals help to remind us that we are whole beings with hearts and souls, and intuitive aspects that we humans can tend to forget or disregard when responding to triggers in the sometime chaotic environments in which we choose to live.
So when asked “do animals think”, my immediate response is “of course they do”. It may be on a different level, on a different frequency, most likely more in touch with nature and all of the things around us. But as we share our lives with animals, whether wild or those we have chosen to domesticate, with some thoughtful reflection we can often find that there is a little bit of us in them, and a little bit of them in us. We can easily mirror each other on many levels, with our thoughts, emotions, and physical challenges, and many perceive that animals can magically enter our lives at different times with various purposes. This may be along the lines of divine intervention, if one is so inclined to be open and trust in coincidences, and acknowledge that how the world works is not always left up to our own human thinking and form of intelligence. Seemingly part of intuitively and spiritually “waking up” and becoming increasingly “self aware” is also being open to appreciating with gratitude all that is around us, including animal intelligence, and the harmonies that exist naturally.
As an animal communicator for many years now, I have experienced a wide variety of animal intelligence and thinking. In conversation, animals in nature are typically very focused on their need for survival, plus the ebb and flow of the universe as it interconnects with others in their own species and surrounding environment. They are part of a beautiful web of collective consciousness, with insights and wisdom just under the surface of their physical being that we immediately see with our human eyes, if one so chooses to perceive and make that deeper connection.
For those animals who domestically share our lives and homes, one can tune into more of a distinct individuality that mirrors how we as humans live and look at each other as individuals. Most clients and students I’ve connected with over the years will attest to the fact that each of their animal companions who they have known intimately in their lives has demonstrated their own distinct way of being and responding to the world. Animals think, act, and respond differently to life situations based on their experiences, plus how their core personality, beyond just the experiential, has a tendency to interpret and respond one way or another. Just as some of us may be adventurers, gregarious and outgoing, others may be more quiet, reflective, and sensitive. Animals can demonstrate these types of differences in both their outward behaviors, and their telepathic communications. And just as both traumas and positive experiences affect who we are and how we interpret situations as humans, the animals are processing through their filters and memories as well.
In talking with animals telepathically, some are more verbal and particular about their word choices, others are more visual and pictorial in their form of communication, and yet others share in a more conceptual/ kinesthetic way. Or the communication with an animal becomes a combination of all avenues, depending on the topic, or the experience of the individual “receiving”.
Whether an animal has a preference to communicate very simply, keeping a happy-go-lucky and potentially “full throttle passion” about life approach, or whether they think and communicate in a more serious and restrained way, completely focused on their jobs, maybe wanting things around them to be structured and “in their rightful place”, each interaction or conversation with an animal impacts them, just like our human life experiences impact how we think about and perceive things.
For a client animal’s behavior or will-to-live to be affected in a significant way simply through conversation and talking, whether verbally (and sensitively) by their human, their trainer, or their vet, or telepathically through the animal communication avenue, I’ve learned over the years to have no doubt that animals definitely do “think”. They seem to get much more about life, and even who we are as humans, than we will probably ever be able to fully comprehend or appreciate. Their level of integrity, wisdom, and compassion seems boundless, and often their humor helps to lighten the loads that we humans so easily create for ourselves.
Animals bless us with their presence, reminding us to stay in touch with who we are, our heart and soul intelligence, not just our head intelligence. They help us to re-member that we are continuously interconnected with and impact each other, and that what we “think and do” affects others in both subtle and not so subtle ways.
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