Have you ever wondered how wild animals perceive us? Do they talk about us? Can we communicate with a wild animal? And how?

I did wonder, so I did some research, and here is what I found out..

In short, you communicate with wild animals through your energy, even when you are not consciously doing it. Your state of mind determines the energy that you send out and what animals pick up on. By understanding this, you can truly learn to reconnect to nature and blend into the wild.

Why Would A Wild Animal Storm Toward You?

If you have read My Spiritual Awakening Story, you may recall and also wonder why 7 large roe deer came storming out of the forest and ran straight toward Anna, who was sitting nowhere near the deer’s usual path.

Why did the deer come storming toward Anna? Instead of storming over to me or Laura? (We were all sitting somewhere along the hill on the edge of the forest about 50 meters away from each other)

Why did the deer storm over to a person at all? A person who was (in our eyes) clearly not a threat to them.

I had never seen nor heard of a deer that has stormed up to a human being in such a prominent and imposing way before. It certainly doesn’t seem like their usual behavior.

Becoming A Part Of Nature: Why We Don’t Fit In Anymore

This incident got me so intrigued that I wanted to know more, so I began by reading the amazing book Becoming Nature by Tamarack Song. After reading this, it all started to fall into place. What I strongly sensed in that moment on the hill, also started to make sense rationally after reading this book.

Fear Isolates

The reason the deer stormed towards Anna, was the state of mind that she was in. The deer could sense that energy very clearly, and from a far away distance too.

While sitting on that hill, Anna was in a constant state of fear, and the deer identified that energy as something foreign or possibly threatening. It certainly was standing out to them in their surroundings.

To wild animals a state of fear gives off an energy that stands out like a sore thumb in the environment. Therefore fear isolates us from our natural environment.

The Animal Mind vs The Rational Mind

While most modern humans have underdeveloped their natural perceptive abilities, wild animals still rely on these abilities for their survival. They are not familiar with a rational state of mind, but are constantly in a state of mind that we can refer to as the animal mind.

The animal mind is as much a part of us humans as our rational mind is. Although we have told ourselves that we need to push the animal mind to the background as it is inferior to the rational mind.

Why We Have Lost A Part Of Ourselves

From the moment that we started to define ourselves as a rational species, we have lost a very fundamental part of who we are as humans.

Our lost ability to communicate with nature unfortunately causes all kinds of feelings of disconnection, depression and suffering that we feel we need to fight with external experiences or achievements, while often missing the more profound cause of the problem.

Many of the struggles we are experiencing in our modern world can be overcome by ‘simply’ reconnecting with nature and regaining our perceptive abilities that we all have naturally inside of us.

A State Of Being vs A State Of Thinking

The animal mind is a state of being, rather than a state of thinking. This is/was the state of mind we humans need to be in if we really want to blend in in nature (hence why this is a crucial part of being when tracking animals in the wild).

How Wild Animals Live In The Moment And Perceive Events

This is how wild animals live in the moment and perceive events:

• They accept things and events as they are
• Experiences come and go, and when they go, they are gone
• Animals don’t need to prove right or wrong, they just need to be
• They take things at face value, what you see is what you get (f.e. when a wolf is hungry the deer know to look out for it. When a wolf is not hungry, they let the wolf come very close without moving)

Why Do You Need To Restore Your Connection With Nature?

Reconnecting To Your Intuition

Einstein once said: “The only true valuable thing is intuition”. Our rational mind can only provide us answers from the limited perspective of its own knowledge and within the boundaries of its believes.

Our animal mind (or intuition) on the contrary, can provide us with answers that come from a deeper ‘knowing’ even if rationally those answer sometimes don’t make sense to us. It is known that many famous inventors have used techniques such as lucid dreaming to tap into deeper levels of consciousness to source their ideas (but more on that in another post).

The Only Way To Reach Your Full Potential

This means that by being out of touch with our intuition, we can never live our best lives and reach our full potential. Limiting believes and fears will always try to keep us where we are, as that is the nature of the rational mind (i.e. the ego). It wants to keep us safe and protect us at any time, which can be useful, except for when it takes over your life and keeps you stuck in your comfort zone.

How Can You Restore Your Connection With Nature?

Ok, so that sounds great, but what can you actually do to regain this connection? In our current world, most of us don’t live in nature anymore, and we have to deal with a very rational oriented world that is mainly focused on competition and proving yourself.

We need to therefore re-sharpen our perceptive abilities and get away from verbal thought that is ruling our minds on a daily basis. This is the only way we can experience a true sense of peace and freedom that cannot be found outside the self.

Things We Need To Realize About Ourselves

There are several things that we need to realize first:

1. Firstly, we need to realize that the biggest favor we can do for ourselves, to be more whole as an individual, is to reconnect with our animal mind. We might initially experience some form of resistance, which is our rational mind telling us that we need to judge a situation and come to some form of conclusion in order to increase our chances to win. The rational mind can try to tell us that an animal is not on the same level as we are as rational beings, and therefore tells us that we are superior and better. Just realize that, as much as the rational mind may want to judge it, our animal mind is as much a part of who we inherently are as our rational mind is.
2. To the animal mind there is no judgement, things just are what they are. If we learn how animals think, we learn how our native ancestors used to think and we become our true selves again.
3. Fear isolates us from the world around us. It closes off our senses and stops our feeling of connection to what is around us.
4. Realizing the limitations of the rational mind
5. We need to start living in the now
6. We need to learn to listen (without judgement)

How Can You Start Living In The Now?

To ‘start living in the now’ may sound easier said than done. Especially after coming from a lifetime of programming and having our minds switched on, it can take some time to actually get there. There are a few practical things that you can do.

What Can You Do To Start Living In The Now?

• Try to accept things as they are. It is totally natural that the rational mind is making a judgement, but by realizing that it does that, we can change the conversation in our head.
• Experiences come and go, don’t ponder on it. An event does not have to be analyzed or categorized.
• There is no right or wrong, therefore you don’t have to prove anything to anyone
• Be selective with your media intake (as this shapes our personal reality more than we think)
• Get out into nature and immerse yourself (pick a sit spot in a park or forest and just sit and observe for a while. Focus on what sounds the birds are making and how the feel, volume and sound of their songs fluctuate. Do this a few days in a row and notice what is different.)
• Meditate

How To Find Wild Animals And Communicate With Them

Great! So now you master the most important step of getting into the same state of mind that wild animals are in. This is the basis of all communication in the forest!

You can now move into your animal mind, be present in the now and blend into the natural environment.

You might wonder where you can go to find animals so you can practice your communication with them, and start noticing how they react to you.

A fun and easy way to start, is to start with the birds. Go for a walk through a park or forest and observe how the birds communication changes when you walk by.

Does their communication change? How? Does it change when you change your energy? When you are walking, try changing your pace or pause for while, and see what happens. How do they react to you, or to other animals that walk by?

Find a Sit Spot

Even better, pick a sit spot and sit there for a longer period of time on different days. Observe how the baseline pattern of sounds changes at different times of the day, or different days in the week. What do you notice?

If you sit somewhere and a person walks by, how do the birds react to that person? And how do they react to a different person? Just listen and observe. You will be amazed about what you find out if you start to listen closely.

I would love to get more in depth on bird communication patterns (which is also a great way to spot other wild animals!), and to practise telepathic communication with animals, but more on that in another post!

5 Easy Ways To Find Wild Animals

To see more and other wild animals, here are a few tips on how to spot them:

• Do as they do: find out what their daily patterns are
• Dawn or dusk: many animals are most active right after they get up or before they go to bed
• Drinking spot: this is a good place to observe from a distance (sit down wind) and wait for animals to stop by for a drink
• Breeding season or migration season are good times to spot animals are they are less cautious to be seen around this time
• Find a busy animal trail, then you know where you will likely spot an animal. (Be careful not to sit on the trail!)

The ultimate way to learn how to track down animals, is to see things from their perspective. In many ways, animals are not so different from us. They have the same basic needs they are trying to meet on a daily basis, and take most of their decisions out of the need to preserve energy. If you keep that in mind, their actions will start to make sense.

What Can You Learn From Wild Animals?

Animals Are Your Mirror

Animals are our mirror and they have a lot to teach us. Let’s use that opportunity and be grateful for it. Be aware of any preconceived believes that you may have (we all have them) and open your mind to see beyond what you were taught. Then you can really start to explore the natural world that is there for all of us to see. The power of nature and therefore the power of your own mind are infinite!

And if you don’t believe me, just ask the birds 😉

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