Animal Spirit Guides Candle with Amulet
The characteristics of animals—from birds and insects to mammals, fish, and reptiles—relate to our human walk on this planet, providing us with lessons and helping us mindfully focus our intentions for our life experiences. Animal medicine offers us a powerful signpost for self-knowledge and clarity on life’s challenges. When a creature from nature appears to you repetitively or in some out-of-the-ordinary way, it is time to pay attention and find the message that nature is bringing you. This requires mindfulness and contemplation. Read the messages within these pages and take time to think about what these characteristics symbolize for you.
Remember, everything is energy, and all energy has a vibration. Plants and animals hold an energetic vibration. Rocks and crystals hold an energetic vibration. Colors hold an energetic vibration. Energetic vibrations reveal themselves to us as symbols and signs, offering us clues to light our path. Being aware of these signs and symbols is important for gaining the insight we are looking for to keep us on our desired course in life. Maintaining mindfulness is the key to self-actualization, which allows us to create our vision. Actualization is simply the action that makes something real in our lives. Mindfulness is our living experience, clearly realizing and being conscious of our thoughts and feelings in the present moment.
Bear totem teaches the value of going within and just “being.” Bear teaches us the power of awakening the consciousness below the surface of our awareness in order to know the truth. The still, small voice within is available to everyone. With a little effort, turn off all outside distractions, and find your way into a place of non-doing and just being. Bear teaches that retreat, or doing nothing, is sometimes more powerful than taking action. The symbolic energy of Bear and the cave signal a time for inner reflection. Just as a bear uses its energy stores during the long winter for nourishment, you can use your inner wisdom stored in your consciousness to guide you.
Bears can hear beyond the frequency of humans. Bear medicine is a reminder to be quiet enough to hear, as it is within the silence that you find answers. Bear experiences life through scent because its olfactory abilities are extremely sensitive, one hundred times greater than a human’s sense of smell.
~ excerpt from Animal Totems and the Gemstone Kingdom by Margaret Ann Lembo
