- If you've just lost your pet,
or you are in the process of losing your pet
you're probably grieving very deeply.
Today, we're going to talk about what I've learned
as an animal communicator, helps people
deeply in grief understand and move through the process
of adjusting to their pet no longer being with them.
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Hi, my name's Danielle MacKinnon.
I am an animal communicator,
I help people and their pets.
Today, we're going to talk about
what helps people deeply in grief understand
the more spiritual aspects
of the dying process of an animal,
so that your heart can start to heal.
That's my whole purpose.
Animals are always helping us learn lessons,
that's their purpose.
They've aligned with unconditional love,
they've mastered it, and they want us to do the same.
I have my "Animal Lessons," book
that you can read about that,
I have my "Why don't Dogs like Hugs," video
that you can check out as well,
to give you more in-depth information.
But for now we'll move forward,
knowing that they're always teaching us a lesson.
They use their behavior,
they use emotions that they stir up in us,
they use their passing
all as methods to help us grow and evolve.
So when you experience something with your pet,
whether it is their passing
or it's inappropriate barking,
if you can step back and look at it from a spiritual level,
that animal is actually doing that
in order to help you learn something about yourself.
Oh, my dog is barking,
the neighbors are going to get upset,
then we're going to have conflict,
and I don't want conflict, I'll feel unsafe in my home.
Whatever lesson the animal is trying to teach you,
and this occurs with their passing as well.
They plan their passing,
they plan it from start to finish.
When they've done their job,
as well as they can in their life with you
at some point at a very, very deep level,
they say, okay, I am done now,
I'm going to start getting ready to cross over.
Here's who's going to be with me,
here's where it's going to happen,
here's the whole deal,
even here's how it's going to happen,
which includes accidents, it includes getting sick.
It includes horrible things as well,
which is the thing that nobody's going to
like that I'm saying.
'Cause I know I'm going to get the comments about,
I can't believe an animal would choose X as a way to die.
I get it, I understand that and it sucks,
it really sucks.
But from what they've told me,
they are doing everything they can
at the soul level to help us grow and evolve.
So a cat getting hit by a car feels and is horrific,
what can you possibly learn from that?
Is there anything where you can look
at that to understand more about yourself,
more about the feelings that it brings up,
more than the grieving piece,
but the bigger deeper piece as well.
I want to talk about the next piece
which is what is happening when they cross over.
This is where I find a lot of people have
a lot of anxiety as well.
When an animal crosses over,
first, since they're planning their passing
there is a period of time where they are actually,
their spirit is actually leaving their body.
And it's not just at the time
when they seem to be dying to us, it's actually before that.
So the spirit backs out of the body through the bum
and slowly-by-slowly over time
before the actual death happens
that spirit is working its way out of the body.
That's why you get
a dog who's staring into space beforehand
or animals that aren't quite acting like themselves.
I do have a whole video on this called,
"What Happens to the Animal Soul When a Animal Dies?
So you can check that out.
That's way, way more in-depth than this,
but I want you to understand that they're actually going
through the process before they even die.
Once they die, in order for the death to actually happen,
the spirit and the physical body have
to physically separate.
So sometimes when an animal crosses over
they have a big burst of energy.
Even in euthanasia, you'll meet an animal
that kind of seems to resist it or run away.
This is the big burst of energy
that some animals need to make that separation happen
between the physical body and the spirit.
When the spirit finally separates from the body,
it's actually a positive thing for the animal.
They stay around where they passed for a bit
and they watch it all and they take it all in.
They can actually tell me, hey, I saw my human do this,
and this thing happened and that thing happened.
They are still connected to us
and that's the next piece I want you to understand.
So now the physical body and the spirit have separated,
and we as humans think that that means
that that animal has separated from us.
And that's where all our grieving comes in
because we miss them so much.
But when I connect with animals about this
the animals are saying, no, I'm still around,
I can tell you what she's doing,
I can tell you what he said, you know,
They're still connected to us in this really incredible way.
In fact, a lot of the animals are crossing over,
in order to continue helping us learn lessons.
They want to continue working with us
and helping us evolve our soul,
but they need to not be in their physical body to do it.
This is actually the reason
why so many animals do not reincarnate
with us back into our same lifetime.
And it's because their time is taken up
with guiding us and sending us messages
and doing all this other great stuff from the other side.
Now that the animal spirit has separated
from the animal body, the animal is officially dead
but the animal now needs to cross to the other side.
And I do have a video about this,
"Who Greets My Pet on the Other Side,"
that you can watch for a much more in-depth explanation.
But the answer to who greets my pet
on the other side is everyone in that animal's soul family.
So that's everyone who's special to that animal,
whether they are human or animal.
And you know who that includes?
That actually includes you.
When we incarnate into our bodies,
our whole soul doesn't incarnate
all of us doesn't incarnate.
Part of us is back there in the spirit world, back
there on the other side, whatever you're going to call it.
So when your pet crosses to the other side,
part of you is actually there
and your whole soul family is there to greet them.
So these are the things that I've found most help people
to understand about the crossing over process
with their animals.
Our animals that have crossed over want to be with us,
they want to have a relationship with us,
we just have to be open to this idea.
We can't do it if we are beating ourselves up,
we can't do it if we're worried about them.
So hopefully you're feeling a little less worried
and you can start playing with your animal, receiving
some messages and learning from what they're teaching you.
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