October 23, 2024 • 27 mins
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When people talk about soulmates, we usually mean a special bond we feel with another human.
But pet soulmates are just as real - and just as much a part of our soul family!
My pet parent clients often ask me for help understanding the lessons their pet wants to teach them. And for my clients who are seeking to reunite with a departed pet through pet reincarnation, they also ask about how they can identify their reincarnated pet in their new body.
In this episode, I take you into the spirit dimension and talk you through exactly what the pets have shown me about how they pick "their" person. You will hear about:
🌟 Why it is NEVER an accident that a particular animal is in your life!
🌟 What the pets do to find you out of all the other people looking for a pet
🌟 What your pet does next after they locate you and pick you
🌟 Why you never have to worry that the pet who is meant for you won't find you
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Shannon Cutts (00:12):
Hi Shannon here, Welcome.
I am an animal sensitive andintuitive Reiki master
practitioner and an animalcommunication teacher, and my
passion is sharing animalcommunication with you.
Animal communication haschanged my personal life forever
for the better, and not justbecause it has helped me be a
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better pet parent to my animals,to be a better guardian and
steward of wild nature that'sall around me, to help me be
more sensitive and empathic evento the animals that I share
this planet, my world, with, butreally because it has become
(00:55):
the best self-development,self-evolution program I have
ever found.
I have discovered so many bellsand whistles within my own
human organism.
Of course we have our physicalbody, we have our mental body,
we have our emotional body, wehave our soul body, our embodied
(01:17):
spirit living in our soul body,and so most of us, as we are
soul body, and so most of us aswe are going through our journey
, we only really get training,we only really get education
about how to use our physicaland our mental body.
Even our emotional training iswoefully underserved in most
(01:41):
cases and we don't get much, ifany, training in the soul aspect
of who we are.
And so what I have learnedsince I have embarked on my own
personal animal communicationjourney is nothing short of life
changing.
I have not only learned thatall of these different bodies
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where my energies reside, theyall have relationships with each
other and they're designed towork together, but I've also
learned that there's no accidentwhy and how we cross paths with
significant others in our lives, regardless of species.
What that means is, it is noaccident the animals you invite
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to share your world.
It is no accident when youthink, oh well, my animal just
wandered into my life.
And what I say is and this isbolstered by hundreds upon
hundreds of animal communicationconversations I've had what I
will say to that is wandered inby design.
The other day I was speakingwith a pet parent client and she
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had just adopted a cat and thiscat was very beautiful and very
friendly and very good with allages and very good with dogs,
which not all cats are, and sothis cat was very much in demand
.
Lots and lots of people wantedto adopt this cat and she
discovered him, knew he was hersole cat, but there were already
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like 20 different applicationsin for this cat from other
families and she just said toherself I'm just going to go
ahead and do it anyway, becausesomething in my heart just knows
that this is my cat.
And so she went ahead andfilled out an adoption form
anyway, even though she wasthinking well, I'm number 21 on
the list, how will I ever evenhave a chance to adopt this cat?
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Well, it turns out, this cathad some special needs and the
other adoptees, the otherpotential adoptees, couldn't
meet those needs, and she endedup being able to adopt this
beautiful, beautiful cat.
And so there really are noaccidents.
If we're meant to be together,we will be together.
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Does that cancel out free will?
Does that cancel out otheraspects of being an embodied
soul who may make lots ofdifferent choices along the way?
No, it doesn't.
But if we truly have the heartdesire to be together, we
actually rehearse our meetinghere in the physical plane.
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We rehearse it beforehand whenwe're in the soul state.
And what I really love about thework?
Well, there are so many thingswhen I say what I really love
about this work that I do, butone of the things I love the
most is right from the start,right when I was doing my very
first animal communicationsessions, I was so super curious
about how animals choose peopleLike how did my petal bird
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choose me?
How did my tortoise maltychoose me?
How did our dachshund flashGordon?
Why did he choose our family?
And what the animals often showme looks a lot like a really
old school job board, kind oflike, if you can imagine, back
in the days when, instead ofonline job boards that we can go
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to, we had like old school corkboards on the wall and little
pushpins and there would be likenewspaper cutouts for different
jobs.
And what the animals show me isthat they're all crowding
around these old school jobboards and they're peering over
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each other's heads or they'redipping under each other's toes
and there's all differentspecies together and they are
all looking for their person.
They're looking for the perfectmatch because, of course, no
matter what species we are, wealways come into these physical
bodies to grow in wisdom and tolearn to love better.
Some of us may call thatlearning life lessons.
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For me, there's only one lesson.
The lesson is always aboutunconditional love.
The lesson is always aboutgrowing closer together,
learning to grow in wisdom andlove each other better and love
ourselves better and love thisplanet better and learn to share
better.
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And so each animal is coming inwith their own lessons that
they need to learn so that theycan evolve, that they can love
even more.
We may think, oh, animals, theyalready love us unconditionally,
absolutely.
Of course they do.
And underneath all of ourlimitations and all of our
lessons and all of the thingsthat have happened to us along
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the way, we actually do too.
Our default is unconditionallove.
We just have some peeling awayof some layers sometimes that we
need to do in order to fullyget there, in order to fully
share the unconditional love,the unconditional loving being
that we are.
And so animals show me this oldfashioned job board and they're
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all just peering around eachother.
And when an animal finds theirperson, the perfect match for
them, the one that they knowlike their background, where
they are in their soul,evolutionary journey, their
strengths as well as theirweaknesses, their opportunities
as well as their obstacles, andthey see a job posting seeking a
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cat who is a young adult, whois full of energy, who is
friendly, who is scaredsometimes and needs some help
opening up, when that cat findsthe person who is skilled at
helping shy animals open up, whois confident, who has a
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cat-friendly home, all of thesedifferent points that we're
looking to kind of match up sowe're going to have the optimal
environment for the lessons thatwe want to learn, so that we
can grow in wisdom and learn tolove better.
When an animal finds theirperson, their person's
application, I see themliterally grab it off the wall
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and hold it up and yell I foundmine, I found mine.
And then they go take it overto the soul relationship, the
soul contractor, soul agreementcoordinator, and they say I've
found my match.
Now, chances are good.
There isn't actually a physicaljob board in the light dimension
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, because there are no bodies.
There aren't physical creationsthe way we experience them in
the 3D, there's only particlesof energy.
I love what Einstein saidEnergy can neither be created or
destroyed.
However, it can be transmuted,it can show up in so many
different forms and so in thespirit space likely there is a
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light based version of what theanimals show me, but they're
showing it to me in a formatthat is easy to share with the
pet parent who's wondering whydid my animal choose me?
Or what would it have been likeif we hadn't found one another?
What I want to share, based onwhat all of the animals have
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shown to me is that this part isprearranged.
What that means is you havesaid yes to that animal and that
animal has said yes to you inadvance, and so when you meet
one another, one of the waysthat you recognize each other is
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this feeling that you have ofwe're just meant to be together.
Many pet parents they talkabout just knowing, or they
share a story that seems sowildly improbable.
And here I will stop and sharea story from my own background,
and it involves how my rescuedbox turtle, bruce, came into our
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family.
Now Bruce has since rewildedhimself and that was also part
of our soul contract, and thatis a whole separate story.
But basically what happened isthat I had added my red foot
tortoise, malti who is now 10,to our family.
Malti was really, really little.
She came to me as afive-week-old hatchling, and so
I had gotten in the habit sinceI was not living in a space at
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that time where I had an outdoorarea where she could stay
safely on her own without mesupervising.
I had gotten in the habit oftaking her outside every day to
walk around, stretch her legs,experience the great outdoors,
get the UV light that she neededto grow in a healthy way but
also have that safety and thatprotection of me watching over
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her.
Well, I had just got distractedfor a moment and Malti somehow
wandered away and I was so upsetat the time because I thought
to myself she's so little, likeshe was the size of like the
inner part of my palm, and Icouldn't imagine how I could
ever find her again, and I wasso angry at myself and I was
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just felt like the worst petparent in the world.
I can't even keep track of atiny little tortoise.
She can't walk very fast.
And this was in my pre-animalcommunication days, as far as,
like I was not yet working as ananimal communicator
professionally.
But I was hiring animalcommunicators and I reached out
to my usual communicator and shereally wasn't available, and so
I had to go and search for adifferent animal communicator.
And I reached out to my usualcommunicator and she really
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wasn't available, and so I hadto go and search for a different
animal communicator and I founda communicator who was willing
to work with me and was willingto work with tortoises, and I
discovered that a lot of animalcommunicators really didn't feel
comfortable working with anyother animals other than dogs
and cats, and so I really had tohunt for a communicator who
believed that tortoises couldcommunicate.
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And once I found a communicatorthat was willing to work with
me, one of the first things shesaid to me was that Malti didn't
get lost.
She deliberately went off tohave an adventure and to decide
if she wanted to be a pettortoise, if she wanted to live
a wild life, and this wassomething that was so new to me.
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I had no idea at that time thatthere was anything other than a
lost animal.
When an animal went missing.
I was really just learningexponentially through this
experience, and yet I couldn'tstop blaming myself.
I couldn't stop saying tomyself you're just a terrible
pet parent.
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You are so careless.
How could you take your eyesoff of her?
Now she's lost, she's in danger, etc.
Etc.
So this experience really wokeme up to the independence of
each animal inhabiting a body,regardless of species.
We get to choose.
We have the right and theability to choose, and, malti,
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it would take me seven days tolearn that what the animal
communicator told me absolutelywas accurate and that there were
two fundamental reasons for it,only one of which was Maltese
desire to experience life as awild tortoise and decide if she
wanted to have the pet life.
The other reason began to revealitself just only a handful of
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hours after I had lost track ofMaltese physical location,
because my mom came over rightaway, because, of course, I was
hysterical.
So my mom came over right awayand we started creating missing
tortoise posters and we startedwalking around the neighborhood
posting them everywhere and westarted accosting our neighbors
and strangers on the street andasking them to keep an eye out
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for this tiny tortoise.
And not long after we postedour first poster, I got a phone
call and the woman on the otherend was very excited and she
said I think I found yourmissing tortoise.
So of course, mom and I got soexcited and she told us her
location and I was like, wow, ifMalty is at that location, that
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means she is much faster on herfeet than I thought.
So we went running literallylike jumped in the car and sped
all the way over to where thiswoman was and her dog had found
a tortoise trying to kind ofburrow under some bushes and the
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woman whose house it was pickedup this tortoise and handed it
to me.
And I looked at this tortoiseand knew immediately it wasn't
malty, and the woman whose houseit was handed me this tortoise
and said oh, you lost a tortoise.
Well here, do you want this one?
And this was a huge teachingmoment for me on so many levels.
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But, looking back, the thingthat impacted me the most was
this small still voice inside mesay and I didn't say this out
loud, but I said to myself whatdoes she mean?
Do I want this tortoise?
This animal is not hers to give, nor is it mine to take.
And I just said, no, this isn'tthe animal that I'm looking for
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.
And I went along my way.
Now I spent seven days searchingfor Malti.
I searched everywhere.
We had neighbors out searching.
My mom would come over and helpme search.
We're out beating the bushes inthis area near my house, where
she had gone off I'd say gottenlost, but she'd gone off to have
.
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Her adventure was thisundeveloped piece of land that
they were just starting totransform into what would become
kind of a row of townhouses.
But it was not.
It had not been developed yet,and so it was lots of brambles
and lots of briars and just lotsof weeds, and then surrounding
that there were houses and I wasjust searching and searching,
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and searching and then we hadthese epic rains and I would be
out at night with an umbrellaand a flashlight and I was
looking under cars and I wouldhave people stop me as I'm like
moving their trash cans andcrawling underneath their trucks
and ask me, what are you doing?
And I would say I lost my babytortoise and would show them a
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picture and they would havethese really weird reactions
like okay, good luck with that.
You know none of the compassionthat you might expect If I had
said I lost my pet cat or I lostmy pet dog.
It was kind of like you'relooking for a pet tortoise, okay
, good luck with that.
Anyway, I kept looking and Ilooked, and I looked and I
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looked and I looked and I hadstarted working with two other
animal communicators and whatwas so interesting is all three
of these communicators told meto look in the same direction.
I just wasn't able to findMalti.
Well, on the seventh day I wasfeeling so exhausted and
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discouraged and I kept saying toMalti inside myself, even
though I didn't know that Icould communicate with her, I
kept saying I am going to keeplooking for you until I find you
.
But I was feeling so exhausted,just really wiped out bug bites
, I was sunburned, I waswaterlogged, I was miserable.
And I got a message from one ofthe communicators that said
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walk to the north and you willfind her.
She's not far away.
And this gave me a little bitof hope, a little bit of renewed
energy.
But I still wasn't feeling veryhopeful and right about then I
got a phone call and the womanon the other end said I think I
found your missing tortoise.
We found this tortoise about tostep off the curb on a really
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busy street and we're drivingover to your house.
Now everybody knew the housewhere I was renting the garage
apartment, because it was thisbeautiful stately manor with
this very fancy chicken coop onit.
So I had given my corner, youknow kind of the street
coordinates, and they all knewexactly which house I was living
at.
So the woman said well, we'redriving over to your house Now.
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We have your tortoise.
She got out of the car.
It was this really sweet youngcouple and she gets out of the
car and she's holding thistortoise.
And I look at the tortoise andit's not multi and I'm all set
to just say, no, I'm sorry, thisisn't my tortoise.
When all of a sudden I realize,oh my goodness, I recognize
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this tortoise.
This is the tortoise I met onthe first day.
Malti went missing.
This is the same tortoise.
How is this possible?
And this young woman was sohappy and so excited and I said,
oh, this isn't my tortoise.
And her face just fell.
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And I looked at this tortoiseand I thought, wow, where she
found this animal is quite far,several blocks from where I
first met this animal.
And so I reached out my handsand of course I'm feeling so low
and I'm feeling so discouragedbecause I haven't found Malti,
and I said give him or her to meand I will foster until I can
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make a suitable arrangement.
And I took Bruce, turned out tobe Bruce in my palms.
He turned out to be not atortoise at all, he was a box
turtle and they can hinge theirshells up so that they close
completely.
They're really remarkableanimals.
And he was just.
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He just had his shell open,just enough so I could see his
eyes and I just, something in myheart just oof, I can't even
describe it.
If you've ever you've just hada soul meeting with an animal
you know Turns out this isexactly the species of tortoise
that and I use the word tortoiseand turtle and box turtle very
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interchangeably species wise,taxonomy wise he's a box turtle.
So he's technically a turtle,but we could get into that
another time.
That's a whole separateconversation.
But he and I were meant to betogether because right after I
said yes to Bruce I walkedoutside, walked two blocks to
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the north in the direction thatall three communicators had told
me to go, and found maltyunderneath a flowering bush
beside one of my neighbor'sdriveways.
And I share that story for somany reasons One, because it
opened up my eyes to how realanimal communication is.
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Three different communicators,one in California, one in
Arizona and one in India, alltold me the same exact
information about Maltesecoordinates and all three of
them were correct.
Two, because I learned thatanimals make a choice to wander
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away.
It's not they got lost.
Sometimes it is, but it canalso be.
They made a choice.
Three, because if Malti hadn'tgone missing, if Malti hadn't
gone off for her great adventure, I would have never had the
opportunity to meet Bruce.
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And four, because the primary,the lead communicator that was
helping me locate Malti.
I then asked her to do acommunication with Bruce because
I just I told her.
I said I've got this vibe basedon how he reacted when he was
inside my home.
He crawled up on top of thisgiant stuffed alligator that was
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Maltese little baby hiding areaand he crawled to the top of
the alligator and this is a verylarge stuffed alligator and he
stared at me like I'm home now.
And I told this communicator Isaid I'm just getting this vibe
that he wants to stay, that he'sacting like he's home now, like
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he accomplished his objective.
And she said he did.
He loved your energy, he lovedyour respect.
He actually had heard my innerdialogue with myself about this
animal is not yours to give ormine to take and he really loved
that energy and so he took offin the direction of your house.
He could feel your energy andhe took off in the direction of
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your house and that's why he wastrying to cross that busy
street to get to you.
Because the second locationwhere he was found was much
closer to me than the firstlocation where I met him.
And so I learned that animalschoose their people in a very
tangible way and that he hadchosen me, and she also said to
me he really needs your help,he's very hungry, he's very
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scared.
That dog that had alerted thewoman to his presence initially
was just one of many dogs thatwas harassing him.
He was a wild animal that hadbeen taken out of the wild and
rehomed several times.
He had a very sad story he washungry, he was scared, he was
lonely and he had kind of lost abelief in his own ability to
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survive on his own in this urbanarea, and so he needed
nourishment, he needed safetyafter all of the distress that
he'd been through.
And the communicator also saidhe's in your life to help you
learn how to manage your energy.
And I didn't know what thatmeant, but that sounded very
intriguing and also very muchlike something I really wanted
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and needed in my life.
And it turned out that, bruce,by opening up my eyes to so many
different facets of our soulrelationships, our soul
contracts, our soul agreementswith one another across species
boundaries, if I hadn't been soopen to experiencing so many
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different facets of Maltese BigAdventure, I probably wouldn't
be sitting here talking to youtoday and I would have missed
out on the ride of a lifetime,because animal communication is
awesome.
It has just opened me up.
Bruce taught me how to managemy energy.
He taught me how to communicatewith him.
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That's a whole other story thatI could just spend hours
telling.
He rewilded himself seven yearsafter we met because he was
ready at that point.
He was ready to go back to thewild.
I wasn't ready to let him go,but he was ready to go back to
the wild.
He was confident, he wasnourished, he was strong, he was
brave, he knew who he was and Ihad become an animal
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communicator.
I was just about to step overthat threshold and become an
animal communicator, and if wehadn't met, if Malti hadn't
taken off for her greatadventure, we would never have
met.
And I look back now and I thinkshe knew.
She knew that part of her roleand part of her place in our
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family was to help me crosspaths with Bruce.
And so there are so many nuancesto what happens when an animal
enters our life, even if theyhappen to take off for a period
of time.
There are so many reasons for it, and animal communication is a
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pathway through which we cangrow in wisdom and learn to love
better on so many levels bywaking up to the full
consciousness that we have,regardless of species, whether
we're a horse or a turtle or atortoise or a bird or a dog or a
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or another species.
We have a physical body, amental body, an emotional body
and a soul body with fullcapabilities in every level, and
so that is just kind of aspoiler alert, if you will, for
the wonderful adventure that isanimal communication and why I
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believe that animalcommunication is the best
self-evolution, soul levelself-evolution program you could
ever find.
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode.
I would love to hear your ownstories of how your soul animals
found you, how your paths cross, how you knew each other was
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the one, and I've got plentymore stories of my own to share
with you as well, so I lookforward to welcoming you back.
I send you all my love and byefor now.
Hi Shannon here, Welcome.
I am an animal sensitive andintuitive Reiki master
practitioner and an animalcommunication teacher, and my
passion is sharing animalcommunication with you.
Animal communication haschanged my personal life forever
for the better, and not justbecause it has helped me be a
(00:34):
better pet parent to my animals,to be a better guardian and
steward of wild nature that'sall around me, to help me be
more sensitive and empathic evento the animals that I share
this planet, my world, with, butreally because it has become
(00:55):
the best self-development,self-evolution program I have
ever found.
I have discovered so many bellsand whistles within my own
human organism.
Of course we have our physicalbody, we have our mental body,
we have our emotional body, wehave our soul body, our embodied
(01:17):
spirit living in our soul body,and so most of us, as we are
soul body, and so most of us aswe are going through our journey
, we only really get training,we only really get education
about how to use our physicaland our mental body.
Even our emotional training iswoefully underserved in most
(01:41):
cases and we don't get much, ifany, training in the soul aspect
of who we are.
And so what I have learnedsince I have embarked on my own
personal animal communicationjourney is nothing short of life
changing.
I have not only learned thatall of these different bodies
(02:02):
where my energies reside, theyall have relationships with each
other and they're designed towork together, but I've also
learned that there's no accidentwhy and how we cross paths with
significant others in our lives, regardless of species.
What that means is, it is noaccident the animals you invite
(02:27):
to share your world.
It is no accident when youthink, oh well, my animal just
wandered into my life.
And what I say is and this isbolstered by hundreds upon
hundreds of animal communicationconversations I've had what I
will say to that is wandered inby design.
The other day I was speakingwith a pet parent client and she
(02:47):
had just adopted a cat and thiscat was very beautiful and very
friendly and very good with allages and very good with dogs,
which not all cats are, and sothis cat was very much in demand
.
Lots and lots of people wantedto adopt this cat and she
discovered him, knew he was hersole cat, but there were already
(03:09):
like 20 different applicationsin for this cat from other
families and she just said toherself I'm just going to go
ahead and do it anyway, becausesomething in my heart just knows
that this is my cat.
And so she went ahead andfilled out an adoption form
anyway, even though she wasthinking well, I'm number 21 on
the list, how will I ever evenhave a chance to adopt this cat?
(03:32):
Well, it turns out, this cathad some special needs and the
other adoptees, the otherpotential adoptees, couldn't
meet those needs, and she endedup being able to adopt this
beautiful, beautiful cat.
And so there really are noaccidents.
If we're meant to be together,we will be together.
(03:54):
Does that cancel out free will?
Does that cancel out otheraspects of being an embodied
soul who may make lots ofdifferent choices along the way?
No, it doesn't.
But if we truly have the heartdesire to be together, we
actually rehearse our meetinghere in the physical plane.
(04:17):
We rehearse it beforehand whenwe're in the soul state.
And what I really love about thework?
Well, there are so many thingswhen I say what I really love
about this work that I do, butone of the things I love the
most is right from the start,right when I was doing my very
first animal communicationsessions, I was so super curious
about how animals choose peopleLike how did my petal bird
(04:42):
choose me?
How did my tortoise maltychoose me?
How did our dachshund flashGordon?
Why did he choose our family?
And what the animals often showme looks a lot like a really
old school job board, kind oflike, if you can imagine, back
in the days when, instead ofonline job boards that we can go
(05:04):
to, we had like old school corkboards on the wall and little
pushpins and there would be likenewspaper cutouts for different
jobs.
And what the animals show me isthat they're all crowding
around these old school jobboards and they're peering over
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each other's heads or they'redipping under each other's toes
and there's all differentspecies together and they are
all looking for their person.
They're looking for the perfectmatch because, of course, no
matter what species we are, wealways come into these physical
bodies to grow in wisdom and tolearn to love better.
Some of us may call thatlearning life lessons.
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For me, there's only one lesson.
The lesson is always aboutunconditional love.
The lesson is always aboutgrowing closer together,
learning to grow in wisdom andlove each other better and love
ourselves better and love thisplanet better and learn to share
better.
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And so each animal is coming inwith their own lessons that
they need to learn so that theycan evolve, that they can love
even more.
We may think, oh, animals, theyalready love us unconditionally,
absolutely.
Of course they do.
And underneath all of ourlimitations and all of our
lessons and all of the thingsthat have happened to us along
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the way, we actually do too.
Our default is unconditionallove.
We just have some peeling awayof some layers sometimes that we
need to do in order to fullyget there, in order to fully
share the unconditional love,the unconditional loving being
that we are.
And so animals show me this oldfashioned job board and they're
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all just peering around eachother.
And when an animal finds theirperson, the perfect match for
them, the one that they knowlike their background, where
they are in their soul,evolutionary journey, their
strengths as well as theirweaknesses, their opportunities
as well as their obstacles, andthey see a job posting seeking a
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cat who is a young adult, whois full of energy, who is
friendly, who is scaredsometimes and needs some help
opening up, when that cat findsthe person who is skilled at
helping shy animals open up, whois confident, who has a
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cat-friendly home, all of thesedifferent points that we're
looking to kind of match up sowe're going to have the optimal
environment for the lessons thatwe want to learn, so that we
can grow in wisdom and learn tolove better.
When an animal finds theirperson, their person's
application, I see themliterally grab it off the wall
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and hold it up and yell I foundmine, I found mine.
And then they go take it overto the soul relationship, the
soul contractor, soul agreementcoordinator, and they say I've
found my match.
Now, chances are good.
There isn't actually a physicaljob board in the light dimension
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, because there are no bodies.
There aren't physical creationsthe way we experience them in
the 3D, there's only particlesof energy.
I love what Einstein saidEnergy can neither be created or
destroyed.
However, it can be transmuted,it can show up in so many
different forms and so in thespirit space likely there is a
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light based version of what theanimals show me, but they're
showing it to me in a formatthat is easy to share with the
pet parent who's wondering whydid my animal choose me?
Or what would it have been likeif we hadn't found one another?
What I want to share, based onwhat all of the animals have
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shown to me is that this part isprearranged.
What that means is you havesaid yes to that animal and that
animal has said yes to you inadvance, and so when you meet
one another, one of the waysthat you recognize each other is
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this feeling that you have ofwe're just meant to be together.
Many pet parents they talkabout just knowing, or they
share a story that seems sowildly improbable.
And here I will stop and sharea story from my own background,
and it involves how my rescuedbox turtle, bruce, came into our
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family.
Now Bruce has since rewildedhimself and that was also part
of our soul contract, and thatis a whole separate story.
But basically what happened isthat I had added my red foot
tortoise, malti who is now 10,to our family.
Malti was really, really little.
She came to me as afive-week-old hatchling, and so
I had gotten in the habit sinceI was not living in a space at
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that time where I had an outdoorarea where she could stay
safely on her own without mesupervising.
I had gotten in the habit oftaking her outside every day to
walk around, stretch her legs,experience the great outdoors,
get the UV light that she neededto grow in a healthy way but
also have that safety and thatprotection of me watching over
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her.
Well, I had just got distractedfor a moment and Malti somehow
wandered away and I was so upsetat the time because I thought
to myself she's so little, likeshe was the size of like the
inner part of my palm, and Icouldn't imagine how I could
ever find her again, and I wasso angry at myself and I was
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just felt like the worst petparent in the world.
I can't even keep track of atiny little tortoise.
She can't walk very fast.
And this was in my pre-animalcommunication days, as far as,
like I was not yet working as ananimal communicator
professionally.
But I was hiring animalcommunicators and I reached out
to my usual communicator and shereally wasn't available, and so
I had to go and search for adifferent animal communicator.
And I reached out to my usualcommunicator and she really
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wasn't available, and so I hadto go and search for a different
animal communicator and I founda communicator who was willing
to work with me and was willingto work with tortoises, and I
discovered that a lot of animalcommunicators really didn't feel
comfortable working with anyother animals other than dogs
and cats, and so I really had tohunt for a communicator who
believed that tortoises couldcommunicate.
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And once I found a communicatorthat was willing to work with
me, one of the first things shesaid to me was that Malti didn't
get lost.
She deliberately went off tohave an adventure and to decide
if she wanted to be a pettortoise, if she wanted to live
a wild life, and this wassomething that was so new to me.
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I had no idea at that time thatthere was anything other than a
lost animal.
When an animal went missing.
I was really just learningexponentially through this
experience, and yet I couldn'tstop blaming myself.
I couldn't stop saying tomyself you're just a terrible
pet parent.
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You are so careless.
How could you take your eyesoff of her?
Now she's lost, she's in danger, etc.
Etc.
So this experience really wokeme up to the independence of
each animal inhabiting a body,regardless of species.
We get to choose.
We have the right and theability to choose, and, malti,
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it would take me seven days tolearn that what the animal
communicator told me absolutelywas accurate and that there were
two fundamental reasons for it,only one of which was Maltese
desire to experience life as awild tortoise and decide if she
wanted to have the pet life.
The other reason began to revealitself just only a handful of
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hours after I had lost track ofMaltese physical location,
because my mom came over rightaway, because, of course, I was
hysterical.
So my mom came over right awayand we started creating missing
tortoise posters and we startedwalking around the neighborhood
posting them everywhere and westarted accosting our neighbors
and strangers on the street andasking them to keep an eye out
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for this tiny tortoise.
And not long after we postedour first poster, I got a phone
call and the woman on the otherend was very excited and she
said I think I found yourmissing tortoise.
So of course, mom and I got soexcited and she told us her
location and I was like, wow, ifMalty is at that location, that
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means she is much faster on herfeet than I thought.
So we went running literallylike jumped in the car and sped
all the way over to where thiswoman was and her dog had found
a tortoise trying to kind ofburrow under some bushes and the
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woman whose house it was pickedup this tortoise and handed it
to me.
And I looked at this tortoiseand knew immediately it wasn't
malty, and the woman whose houseit was handed me this tortoise
and said oh, you lost a tortoise.
Well here, do you want this one?
And this was a huge teachingmoment for me on so many levels.
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But, looking back, the thingthat impacted me the most was
this small still voice inside mesay and I didn't say this out
loud, but I said to myself whatdoes she mean?
Do I want this tortoise?
This animal is not hers to give, nor is it mine to take.
And I just said, no, this isn'tthe animal that I'm looking for
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.
And I went along my way.
Now I spent seven days searchingfor Malti.
I searched everywhere.
We had neighbors out searching.
My mom would come over and helpme search.
We're out beating the bushes inthis area near my house, where
she had gone off I'd say gottenlost, but she'd gone off to have
.
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Her adventure was thisundeveloped piece of land that
they were just starting totransform into what would become
kind of a row of townhouses.
But it was not.
It had not been developed yet,and so it was lots of brambles
and lots of briars and just lotsof weeds, and then surrounding
that there were houses and I wasjust searching and searching,
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and searching and then we hadthese epic rains and I would be
out at night with an umbrellaand a flashlight and I was
looking under cars and I wouldhave people stop me as I'm like
moving their trash cans andcrawling underneath their trucks
and ask me, what are you doing?
And I would say I lost my babytortoise and would show them a
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picture and they would havethese really weird reactions
like okay, good luck with that.
You know none of the compassionthat you might expect If I had
said I lost my pet cat or I lostmy pet dog.
It was kind of like you'relooking for a pet tortoise, okay
, good luck with that.
Anyway, I kept looking and Ilooked, and I looked and I
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looked and I looked and I hadstarted working with two other
animal communicators and whatwas so interesting is all three
of these communicators told meto look in the same direction.
I just wasn't able to findMalti.
Well, on the seventh day I wasfeeling so exhausted and
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discouraged and I kept saying toMalti inside myself, even
though I didn't know that Icould communicate with her, I
kept saying I am going to keeplooking for you until I find you
.
But I was feeling so exhausted,just really wiped out bug bites
, I was sunburned, I waswaterlogged, I was miserable.
And I got a message from one ofthe communicators that said
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walk to the north and you willfind her.
She's not far away.
And this gave me a little bitof hope, a little bit of renewed
energy.
But I still wasn't feeling veryhopeful and right about then I
got a phone call and the womanon the other end said I think I
found your missing tortoise.
We found this tortoise about tostep off the curb on a really
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busy street and we're drivingover to your house.
Now everybody knew the housewhere I was renting the garage
apartment, because it was thisbeautiful stately manor with
this very fancy chicken coop onit.
So I had given my corner, youknow kind of the street
coordinates, and they all knewexactly which house I was living
at.
So the woman said well, we'redriving over to your house Now.
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We have your tortoise.
She got out of the car.
It was this really sweet youngcouple and she gets out of the
car and she's holding thistortoise.
And I look at the tortoise andit's not multi and I'm all set
to just say, no, I'm sorry, thisisn't my tortoise.
When all of a sudden I realize,oh my goodness, I recognize
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this tortoise.
This is the tortoise I met onthe first day.
Malti went missing.
This is the same tortoise.
How is this possible?
And this young woman was sohappy and so excited and I said,
oh, this isn't my tortoise.
And her face just fell.
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And I looked at this tortoiseand I thought, wow, where she
found this animal is quite far,several blocks from where I
first met this animal.
And so I reached out my handsand of course I'm feeling so low
and I'm feeling so discouragedbecause I haven't found Malti,
and I said give him or her to meand I will foster until I can
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make a suitable arrangement.
And I took Bruce, turned out tobe Bruce in my palms.
He turned out to be not atortoise at all, he was a box
turtle and they can hinge theirshells up so that they close
completely.
They're really remarkableanimals.
And he was just.
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He just had his shell open,just enough so I could see his
eyes and I just, something in myheart just oof, I can't even
describe it.
If you've ever you've just hada soul meeting with an animal
you know Turns out this isexactly the species of tortoise
that and I use the word tortoiseand turtle and box turtle very
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interchangeably species wise,taxonomy wise he's a box turtle.
So he's technically a turtle,but we could get into that
another time.
That's a whole separateconversation.
But he and I were meant to betogether because right after I
said yes to Bruce I walkedoutside, walked two blocks to
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the north in the direction thatall three communicators had told
me to go, and found maltyunderneath a flowering bush
beside one of my neighbor'sdriveways.
And I share that story for somany reasons One, because it
opened up my eyes to how realanimal communication is.
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Three different communicators,one in California, one in
Arizona and one in India, alltold me the same exact
information about Maltesecoordinates and all three of
them were correct.
Two, because I learned thatanimals make a choice to wander
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away.
It's not they got lost.
Sometimes it is, but it canalso be.
They made a choice.
Three, because if Malti hadn'tgone missing, if Malti hadn't
gone off for her great adventure, I would have never had the
opportunity to meet Bruce.
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And four, because the primary,the lead communicator that was
helping me locate Malti.
I then asked her to do acommunication with Bruce because
I just I told her.
I said I've got this vibe basedon how he reacted when he was
inside my home.
He crawled up on top of thisgiant stuffed alligator that was
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Maltese little baby hiding areaand he crawled to the top of
the alligator and this is a verylarge stuffed alligator and he
stared at me like I'm home now.
And I told this communicator Isaid I'm just getting this vibe
that he wants to stay, that he'sacting like he's home now, like
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he accomplished his objective.
And she said he did.
He loved your energy, he lovedyour respect.
He actually had heard my innerdialogue with myself about this
animal is not yours to give ormine to take and he really loved
that energy and so he took offin the direction of your house.
He could feel your energy andhe took off in the direction of
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your house and that's why he wastrying to cross that busy
street to get to you.
Because the second locationwhere he was found was much
closer to me than the firstlocation where I met him.
And so I learned that animalschoose their people in a very
tangible way and that he hadchosen me, and she also said to
me he really needs your help,he's very hungry, he's very
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scared.
That dog that had alerted thewoman to his presence initially
was just one of many dogs thatwas harassing him.
He was a wild animal that hadbeen taken out of the wild and
rehomed several times.
He had a very sad story he washungry, he was scared, he was
lonely and he had kind of lost abelief in his own ability to
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survive on his own in this urbanarea, and so he needed
nourishment, he needed safetyafter all of the distress that
he'd been through.
And the communicator also saidhe's in your life to help you
learn how to manage your energy.
And I didn't know what thatmeant, but that sounded very
intriguing and also very muchlike something I really wanted
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and needed in my life.
And it turned out that, bruce,by opening up my eyes to so many
different facets of our soulrelationships, our soul
contracts, our soul agreementswith one another across species
boundaries, if I hadn't been soopen to experiencing so many
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different facets of Maltese BigAdventure, I probably wouldn't
be sitting here talking to youtoday and I would have missed
out on the ride of a lifetime,because animal communication is
awesome.
It has just opened me up.
Bruce taught me how to managemy energy.
He taught me how to communicatewith him.
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That's a whole other story thatI could just spend hours
telling.
He rewilded himself seven yearsafter we met because he was
ready at that point.
He was ready to go back to thewild.
I wasn't ready to let him go,but he was ready to go back to
the wild.
He was confident, he wasnourished, he was strong, he was
brave, he knew who he was and Ihad become an animal
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communicator.
I was just about to step overthat threshold and become an
animal communicator, and if wehadn't met, if Malti hadn't
taken off for her greatadventure, we would never have
met.
And I look back now and I thinkshe knew.
She knew that part of her roleand part of her place in our
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family was to help me crosspaths with Bruce.
And so there are so many nuancesto what happens when an animal
enters our life, even if theyhappen to take off for a period
of time.
There are so many reasons for it, and animal communication is a
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pathway through which we cangrow in wisdom and learn to love
better on so many levels bywaking up to the full
consciousness that we have,regardless of species, whether
we're a horse or a turtle or atortoise or a bird or a dog or a
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or another species.
We have a physical body, amental body, an emotional body
and a soul body with fullcapabilities in every level, and
so that is just kind of aspoiler alert, if you will, for
the wonderful adventure that isanimal communication and why I
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believe that animalcommunication is the best
self-evolution, soul levelself-evolution program you could
ever find.
So I hope you've enjoyed thisepisode.
I would love to hear your ownstories of how your soul animals
found you, how your paths cross, how you knew each other was
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the one, and I've got plentymore stories of my own to share
with you as well, so I lookforward to welcoming you back.
I send you all my love and byefor now.
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