Not all animals want to talk about food. But some do. And the ones that do, oh boy, it’s like the level of passion you might witness on the great British bake off or Masterchef.
As an animal communicator, I’m taking a backseat and listening. Picture it like a conversation you have with one of those friends that’s really passionate about a subject and as soon as you get them on ‘that topic’, they speed up, they become more expressive, the enthusiasm and energy fills the room.
That’s what it can be like with some animals that want to talk about food. Dogs in particular!
It can be anything from a dislike of a certain texture of food, a feeling they want to eat on a different surface as they don’t like their whiskers touching the sides, to sharing the certain types of foods their body and indeed their person’s body is lacking. Yes, we know they can detect cancer cells, so they absolutely have feedback for us on what we need to thrive too. But that’s for another day….
But food isn’t just about nutrients or energy….
Enid is a Pointer and during my chat with her she said ‘snacky snack snacks’. There was a really playfulness to her words, like she was ‘huff-huff’ laughing when she said it.
But it wasn’t just “I like food”. It was a thread that ran through the whole conversation. Food for her is a full on ‘get the kids in the car we’re going to Disneyland’ kind of feeling. Love paired with unexplored possibilities.
It began on a walk in the woods where she loves following scents, the possibility of snacky snack snacks and ‘debris’ left by others. Both animals and people.
Then ducks. I mean they’re just living their life but for Enid, watching ducks stimulates the digestive juices. “Food” hehe.
It was so clear that for her, food isn’t just something she consumes for energy.
Alongside all of that enthusiasm for food, she showed me something that felt so good in my body.
Love. The act of sharing food together. Like the Disney scene from lady and the tramp over a bowl of spaghetti. (*Readers go off to YouTube the clip…*)
Then my whole body expanded, as she showed me her mum looking at her. Not just looking, but really looking. That soft, open, I love you so much kind of gaze. The one where you’re not thinking about anything else, you’re just there with them.
And she said and “that is nourishment too”.
She said her body feels different when her human is in that state.
And that’s not random.
When messages like that come through it’s never random. Our animals are always honest and maybe that’s one of the main reasons we love them. Their authenticity and drive to do the things they love.
And that was one of the beautiful reflections for us, the human animals.
We get caught in shoulds and habits and opinions and programs that perhaps once felt good to us, but we change.
And perhaps today our love and passion is taking us in a different direction. Just like Enid following her nose on the trails. Changing pace, changing direction.
Enid’s bigger picture message is not just for mum…
but for me her intuitive messenger, for you the reader too. To follow the breadcrumbs of who we really are and what we love. Today.
Because it’s not just about how we are with them. It’s how we are in ourselves. When we’re doing something we love, when we’re in that same open, connected, present state, they feel that too.
It moves through the shared field. It becomes something they receive, just as much as anything in their bowl. Nourishing to mind, body and soul. Both theirs and ours.
So in the same way we think about giving them the “right” food, the “best” nutrients, the things that will help their body function well…there’s another layer.
The way they feel. How we listen to them. How we connect with them. The things that light them up. All of that is feeding them too.
And perhaps that’s the bigger message she was sharing.
That love isn’t just something they feel emotionally.
It’s something they experience physically too.
