End of Life
There's a lot of fear in the good old US of A around death and dying. Then we put it on our animal friends, all that fear. What we need to do is take a lesson from them.
They are plugged in not only to this physical world but wherever it is we go when our 3-D body stops breathing. They have no fear of death; to them it's a passage to "the next place."
If they look fearful or act fearful, it's because they feel those things from us, and they want to comfort us by hanging around. We do them a great disservice.
What we need to do is listen. Closely. Anyone can do this, but it takes a lot of presence of our own mind, to let go of our learnings and ideas and all that deep-seated stuff about life and death that we drag around with us.
Before I got seriously into animal communication work, I was always afraid when my animals died. I would never see them again! When my cat Harvey disappeared I cried for two weeks and searched for her for a year.
She eventually came back, but not as Harvey. Lesson Number 1. And if I had been listening closely, I would have known that she never left me at all. That came later.
It took several cat lives before I got the point. That this was about THEIR journey. That I had no right to dictate what their end of life looked like. We need to have a serious consult with them, and then carry out their wishes.
Isis
Sometimes they want help. Sometimes they want to do it themselves. My cat Isis lived to 18, and he decided he wanted to die without help. I remember sitting on the bed with him, while he had several seizures, telling him it was okay, he could go. I would be okay. It was agony to see him suffer. He hung on. I don't know if he believed what I was saying or not. I was as close as I could come to being "okay" with the process he had chosen for himself.
He decided to leave his body while I was out of town. I guess I learned enough. Or maybe he just wanted some peace in the process. My crying and moaning was a distraction, I'm sure.
The bottom line is that they have a say, and we need to listen closely, and feel with our heart what is best. They will tell you.
They will also tell you to forget about guilt. You did everything perfectly, even if it's nothing. It's all about learning and listening, and nothing about what anyone did wrong. There is no wrong.
If you are in a situation where you just can't and don't trust your intuition, you can always call upon a professional for help. I'm happy to listen with you.
