Oct 19 Tip: Learn How Animals Can be Compassionate

Oct 19 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace

Learn from Fredericka Chambers Learn about the Love and Compassion Animals Show Humans

Compassionate Clients

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Fredricka Chambers

As an animal communicator, I am constantly touched by the love and compassion animals show humans. I am privileged to work with animals on a very personal level and have many examples of simple, but great acts of kindness. 

Last year, I volunteered to help rescued elephants in Thailand and Cambodia. These beautiful beings had been viciously abused for many years, but the rescue teams placed them in sanctuaries with loving care givers to assist in their rehabilitation. I communicated with the elephants to get their back stories, i.e., what had happened to them before being rescued.

One female elephant, who was about 65 years old, had been so beaten and starved that she didn’t know what a pineapple was. That’s the equivalent of an American not knowing what bread tastes like. This elephant’s thoughts were confused and truncated due to her starved and beaten body, so it took a couple weeks to piece together her life story. One day during a session, my head started pounding because I was focusing so hard. I didn’t pay much attention to it, but the elephant said that we should stop and rest because she didn’t want me to be in pain. After all she had been put through-witnessing her mother being murdered in front of her, and then being taken from her family and being used as nothing more than a slave-she brought tears to my eyes. She was sensitive to my minor discomfort rather than being bitter about her treatment from other humans. 

There are so many other examples that I see daily, for example, the therapy dogs who take on illnesses attempting to relieve the humans they’re working with, cats and dogs who wake diabetics up in the night when their blood sugar drops, and the patient animals who assist in animal communication classes so that humans can learn to communicate with them. When we chose to see the compassion of animals, we can be inspired to open our own hearts to a greater degree. 

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