Animal meditation E-Book

Carolin Ruckert

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 62

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

There are many reasons to meditate and various techniques, but hardly anyone experiences it with their animals. In this book you learn to feel the silence with your animal. Later, you can also share this feeling in your everyday life. Step-by-step instructions show you how to become calmer inside and how to share the meditation with your animal.

Leseprobe

Disclaimer:

The following are suggestions and inspirations for people who would like to meditate alone or with animals. If you have physical or psychological complaints, you should clarify before starting to meditate whether this makes sense or whether meditation is not advisable (for the time being). As soon as joint pain occurs, meditation should be stopped immediately. Meditation stimulates mental processes and past or unprocessed issues can come up again. Sometimes this only comes to light after a delay. This can be consciously recognized and used for processing and transformation. Anyone who feels overwhelmed by this, does not wish to do so or suffers from severe anxiety, depression or other mental illnesses or past psychological trauma should urgently consult a doctor or therapist beforehand or postpone meditation until a later date. I accept no liability for any damage that someone may attribute to meditation. Everyone practises voluntarily and on their own responsibility. I will point out obstacles and hurdles during meditation to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Table of Contents

Meditation is just a technique, what counts is the intention

About the flying squirrel

The story of foundling squirrel and the meditation

The purpose of silent meditation with animals

The postures in meditation

Dealing with sensations during meditation

Breathing as an aid

The art of counting to ten

What is silence?

Meditatingg with animals

Touch in meditation

Silence in everyday life with animals

Epilogue:

Meditation is just a technique, what counts is the intention

When we talk about meditation, it can mean many things. There are so many different forms that they cannot be put together. The common sense is that meditation means devoting your mind to one thing and concentrating on it. There are techniques that involve physical sensations, visualizations, mantras or the pure perception of silence. So if you are thinking about trying it out, you should find out what your motivation is behind it.

The most important thing at the beginning of meditation is always the question: Why do I want to meditate? What do I hope to gain from it (if this would be possible from meditation)? This is the basis for the technique that is then practiced.

The intentions of animal meditation in this book are:

Connection with your inner nature (essence) Cultivating calm and serenity Feeling the intuitive connection to animals Deepening the animal-human relationship

The flying squirrel has five innate abilities: Climbing, swimming, burrowing, flying, running

About the flying squirrel

We are just like this. Just as it can climb, swim, burrow, fly, and run by nature, we are born with the ability to meditate and be mindful. But are we able to do this consciously?

Squirrels are clumsy at flying compared to birds, and clumsy at burrowing compared to moles.

His skills require practice!

It's the same for us.

Through regular meditation and mindfulness practice,

we train our innate abilities and become flying squirrels.

You don't always need to do something. Sometimes it's enough just to be there.

The story of foundling squirrel and the meditation

The video a friend showed me of a young squirrel she bottle-fed after an accident showed the animal sleeping on her hand. Its little legs and body twitched as if it were processing the fall from the tree in its dream.

When I asked her what she had thought at that moment, she said, “Nothing!”

What had happened? By thinking nothing, doing nothing except offering the little animal a place to sleep in her hand, she gave it the space to process its fall in its dreams. Although my friend was not consciously meditating and probably thinks this might be difficult, she intuitively did just that and thereby created a space for what was healing.

In silence, you feel your animal

The purpose of silent meditation with animals

Meditation is a wonderful thing, which is very natural in itself, which every child masters, but learning the fine art of it can be a lifelong journey. This should not discourage you, but rather encourage you that, even though there is nothing to do, it does not become boring.

There are so many reasons to meditate and different techniques, but hardly anyone experiences the meaning through animals. In the animal meditation of this book we enter into silence. Here, the body is kept calm in the classic basic positions, in a balance of attention and serenity. The mind comes to rest while remaining alert, which, however, requires some practice to maintain for a longer period of time. This is the main challenge in meditation: to be calm, relaxed, and alert at the same time, without actively moving body or mind.

Now you might ask yourself:

Why should I do this? Does it make sense?

Because doing nothing can really make a difference in the world! First of all, it's good for the meditator. But over time, it becomes clear that everything is interconnected. Whether you move or not, everyone has an impact on everything around them at every moment. This is where the description that we are all one comes from. Those who meditate regularly will carry this attitude and feeling into their everyday lives, and it will also influence other actions. In meditation, there will also be challenges and unpleasant moments. When we are alone with ourselves, in silence, we learn to deal with feelings and sensations that we consider unpleasant.

Over time, we will encounter these sensations again in everyday life. This sometimes leads to insights, and since we are already practiced in meditation, it is now easier to apply this to everyday life. Sometimes, however, it is only through the experiences in meditation that we see certain events in a new light.

When you enter into silence in the presence of your four-legged friend, this also has an effect on the animal. We can see this in animals themselves.

On the other hand, it also influences us. This is where the effect of resonance comes into play. Sometimes we can perceive this soft vibration. I believe that everyone can feel this. How sensitive you become to it and how you learn to deal with it is, in turn, individual. Because through our senses and different forms, we are all a little different and therefore unique.

By entering into relationships with others, especially with animals, we perceive both the differences and the similarities. This is so delicate and yet so great that over time we become more humble and compassionate—towards ourselves and others. We see ourselves in the other, even if they are different.

Animals teach us about life. Sometimes the insights are simple, sometimes they transcend our comprehension. Take the cat, for example, sitting and watching like a true Zen master. It embodies everything you read about in mindfulness books. But then we also see that animals have conflicts, that they suffer just like us, and that they need help. Just by observing them, we learn a lot about other living beings, about ourselves, and about life. Then there are the areas of illness