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All Critters Care is a website I put together to share what I've experienced since quitting the big-city corporate grind. Although I'd been able to transform a 15-year paralegal job into a career I mostly enjoyed, with time enough left for hobbies and interests, I still felt something was missing. When a personnel situation finally forced me to recognize that work was not fulfilling my true purpose, I decided that it was time to explore the next phase of my life. So I left that job with no overall plan, but with clear objectives to spend time being physical in the outdoors, in nature, with animals, and in my garden. And although I wanted a horse of my own, my living situation was not ideal for that, so I got a couple of baby goats instead.  I soon recognized how soothed and connected I felt, just being around animals and nature. I enjoyed it so much that I went out and found jobs shoveling horse poop, grooming and feeding animals, gardening, and just generally helping out on farms. It was quite a departure from the hour-long commutes with a Starbucks coffee, the makeup, high heels -- and those regular paychecks. But I found that shoveling horse poop was meditative, weeding lavender beds calming, and playing with dogs, baby horses and my own goats a joy.  It was at this point that I noticed something strange happening in many of the barns where I worked. When I'd show up, I'd feel a whole story playing out around me. I'd know which horse, duck or goat was cranky that day, who was playful, who perhaps had a leg ache or a problem in the gut. I'd hear thoughts and see visions coming into my head. I knew the thoughts and visions weren't mine; they actually interrupted my own thoughts. I tried to make sense of this. After 35 years was my brain finally giving in? Did I have a tumor? Was I being fanciful for lack of a more intellectual life? I didn't have answers to these questions, but on the brave assumption that I was not 'losing it', I tried a new tack. I started going with the flow, listening to the thoughts, acting accordingly, and 'thinking' back. I made mental requests to see if I could effect some action among the animals. And things started happening. Horses would move where I wanted, without my verbal request --sometimes from far across a field. I would ask an animal a question and get a physical pantomime in answer to my question. Most amazingly, I would actually 'hear' a response in my head to the very thing I had been asking about. I don't remember how I came across books on animal communication but that was the next step. I read all I could, practiced more, and started to delve deeper into how we sense these communications. And I began learning energy work, which has enhanced my communication work, and vice versa. Soon after, I started helping folks with their animals. Dawn's workshops take animal communication as a given, and ask us the harder question: "What are the animals (plants, Mother Earth) more profoundly saying to us - and what will we do about it?" Dawn Hayman is a master teacher of our time, and I urge anyone who would like to develop their sensitivities in these areas to go to upstate NY and listen, learn, bring it back and share it with others. | Soon to be added somewhere on the site: Testimonials Jan's thoughts/experiences Other links to great sites | |
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