Sunny would often stop on a walk and just take it all in. Now Vicki has a greater understanding of how exquisite this sensation-al immersion is for her. She truly is a connoisseur of life. She notices the details and wants time to revel in the multi-sensory delights.
Sunny by name and personality. She is a dearly loved family member, who's humans wanted to check in on a few behavioural changes as she aged and find out if there was anything they could do to improve her life. One of the first things Sunny wanted to share was how much she enjoys pausing and taking in the smells, sights and sensations of the natural world.
She communicated this with a mind movie of her explaining in great detail what she experienced standing by a rotten tree stump. 'This smells wonderful' she said, with so much to pick up on - the complex earthiness and animals that have visited. She then expanded the vision to her paws enjoying the cool, soft, giving texture of decomposing wood fibers and the sunlight dancing through breeze tickled leaves and sparkling on a body of water with dark shapes moving languidly below the surface.
What a lovely invitation for us to get to know our beloved animals even more deeply by opening ourselves to experiencing their world as best we can.
Stopping to sniff the post at the entrance to the forest is a must for our dog Marby - we call it reading the newspaper. Our hurried human agendas don't tend to prioritise total immersion in an experience, absorbing every last detail. Yet when we do its glorious how life reveal itself.