What a Rabbit Taught Me About Being an Empath

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Insight and gifts come to us in many shapes and forms. When I spend time in nature a multi-dimensional dialogue always happens, much in the way that two people would speak with words; except in nature it is more of a telepathic conversation. To reach that space, we have to let go of everything else and find a space within, beyond judgement; beyond expectations; surrendering into the moment. That’s where the real conversation happens. You become at one with nature. You weave and dance together in a place of unity consciousness, where all souls unite. It’s divine.

As an empath, I am often happily reclusive; spending time on my own or with my very close loved ones; or spending time in nature in communion with my animal friends as far away from people as I can get. The other day I was walking in the countryside around Glastonbury. My walk was naturally semi-meditative. As I felt and worked with the energies of the land, I found a large colony of rabbits on the hill.

Rabbits are super sensitive empaths

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Rabbits are highly sensitive beings, picking up every flutter, every ripple, every whisper in the air – upon their radar-like whiskers. Rabbits are the perfect animal-spirit-guide for empathic people. They are natural born empaths, darting and hiding at the slightest ruffle. They feel particularly threatened by clunky ‘out-of-natural-alignment-ness’ of human beings – which to be honest, is most of us!

“Please don’t run away”

Upon finding these rabbits, my initial feeling was one of absolute awe; awe at the divinity of these little creatures. A whole bunch of them darted down their rabbit holes, white tufts bounding through the air. I froze still. I’d interrupted their world; their games; their opportunity to bask in the sun and forage in peace. ‘No, no, no, please don’t run away’, ‘what have I done’ – I thought to myself.

Quickly attuning to the energy of the rabbits, I felt how my humanness had barged into their space. As gentle as I was being, as much as I love nature, my energy field was causing a foreign ripple to their otherwise harmonious world. I immediately knew; I just knew how they felt. I’d felt this invasive feeling my whole life. The chaotic ripples that tumbled and tossed through my field whenever I was in any social space, any strange place, with people or man’s unnatural creations. As an empath, I’ve felt other peoples energy as if it were my own. It’s an invasion of the senses. I knew exactly how these rabbits felt.

What the rabbit showed me

I opened to divine guidance, asking the rabbits to show me. Through the ether I offered them my humility, my willingness learn. Then one rabbit – one who’d stayed behind when all of his friends fled away – looked me in the eyes with an ancient wisdom and showed me…

“Be light, like a blade of grass in the breeze. Surrender, let go and feel your etheric beingness moving you. With each step, each movement allow the light of your soul carry you forwards. Be divine.”

The rabbit communed with me from a few meters away, then carried on to clean his fur before nibbling the grass again – comfortable, unthreatened, giving me the space to be in his wild presence. Didn’t need to scarper off. Coming from this space of absolute serenity meant that he could feel my energy, the divine being in me, unhindered by my human clunky-ness. He could feel that I wasn’t a threat. He felt everything. It a the space where we could meet and communicate soul to soul, together as one. Heaven on Earth. If only the world could be like this all the time. Ahhhhh!

Helping me thrive as a highly sensitive person

I find life in this world difficult at times. Not that most people could ever tell. I wear it well! But being a highly sensitive empath, when you can feel all the crazy outside-world inside of you, is a hell of a lot to bare. I know why I need to be sensitive. I know my origins and that I am not best suited to be incarnated as a human. I am much more etheric in nature, much more suited to feeling everything without the hindrance of an emotional body. That’s my gift – although putting that through a human body, with all it’s clunky-ness, makes it a really challenging gift to integrate.

Being an empath or highly sensitive person, isn’t a disease that needs a cure. I was told in my younger day ‘you are far too sensitive’, like it was some sort of disorder. My life changed and those people who saw it as a curse, fell away. It’s a gift, that needs to be embraced and supported. Us sensitives just need to learn how to become at one with our gifts, step by step. I am not saying that integration is easy. First you have to want to. You have to acknowledge the gift in it. The rest will the flow to help the process.

Embracing what rabbit showed me

The message from the rabbit was a powerful gift. It would be totally overlooked by most, I am sure. Both the rabbit and I are highly empathic. I was shown that this same gift (the way of being that allowed me to share the space with the rabbit) would help me exist in this world of chaos, feeling everything outside of me, within. The same ‘beingness’ that allowed the rabbit to be OK with me, that same beingness, allows me to be OK with the world outside. I was shown that when the crazy world is too much; when I want to close down, hide away – it is that same surrendered openness, feather-light, allowing each movement to come from my soul – it is that same beingness, that which enables me to be OK with everything out there, everything I feel.

Suurendered, openness is the opposite to what a lot of people do. Most people build shields and barriers as protection. Barriers create fear. They create a target for negative energies. Barriers disconnect us from the divine flow. Barriers cut us off from who we truly are, from our gifts of beingness. That’s why ultimately, nothing but divine, surrendered openness to the flow of higher consciousness, really works.

I see a world beyond this one, where there is mutual respect for all sentient life. No need for disconnection; where we can embrace one another, with the deepest love.

Soul to Soul,
Trinity

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About the author:

Trinity is an experienced, empathic energy worker and the author of ‘Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen’, a recipe book designed to inspire the soul through conscious vegan, wheat-free cuisine.

Around 18 years ago, during a profound spiritual awakening, the world around her shattered. She became engulfed in a white, universal, timeless, formless light until nothing else existed – other than the nameless truth at the core of all sentient beings. During this life-changing experience Trinity experienced the soul of all other sentient beings, trees, creatures, people as one pulsating energy. Transcending her into a higher realm of unity and oneness, this experience imparted a divine energy that she has been sharing through spiritual work ever since. She has integrated a wide variety of multidimensional gifts, and works hand in hand with the Angelic Realms, guided by a deep compassion for the Earth and environment.

Understanding that the energy of our food directly impacts sentient life on all levels, Trinity founded Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen, a website devoted to inspiring the soul through conscious vegan cuisine. She is the co-founder of the Openhand Foundation, an organisation dedicated to the evolution of humankind. She works as the divine complement to her soul mate Open to help facilitate the global Ascension process and feels incredibly blessed to be of divine service.

For more conscious recipe ideas, pick up Trinity’s book Trinity’s Conscious Kitchen.

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