About three months ago I was staying at my friend’s apartment in Hasparren in the South West of France. I enjoy walking around this quaint little village in the countryside. There is a lovely forest walk alongside a small creek with a waterfall, and most of all I loved the fact that it enabled me to get to know some sheep better, whom live just down the road from her place. After spending some time with them I felt that sheep are generally more talented herbalists than most humans who specialize in this career, there knowledge is quite incredible.
So some days ago I went to chat to them more extensively about this. I sat in the paddock a fair distance away from them; I am becoming more and more aware of being very respectful when visiting other non human animals in their home environment. Usually there contact with humans can be quite stressful in various ways and so obviously they can be weary of humans. Even the kindest farmers may be expecting things from them; movement when they do not feel well, a visit from a vet, or many other examples which can disturb their day to day life. I sat for a while consciously relaxing. Listening to the birds, watching butterflies, having a look at what plants were growing in the paddock and watching the sheep from a distance. I was sitting on the ground, and then had the feeling to put my hands flat on the ground, palms facing down. I took off my shoes so my bare feet were touching the ground as well. I started exploring what it was like to have all “four feet” touching the ground as such. It was a nice feeling.
All the sheep were in a group eating, and did not seem to want to be disturbed. I had been sitting there for about an hour and decided it was time to start chatting with them. At that same moment, the sheep dispersed in various directions from the group they had been standing in, some walked away and formed smaller groups. It was like their group meeting was over and they were ready for something else. So I asked if I could speak to a representative who was knowledgeable about plants, and I sensed who it was as she casually walked from one group to another. I asked about how their knowledge of plants works, and how much detail they know about what healing it is doing in their body, how they choose which plants to eat, and how they experience the effects of the plant etc.
So my answer came in an incredible way. With my feet and hands touching the ground, I experienced how connected to the earth sheep feel, about how we as humans standing up and using our hands for other purposes gives us a different experience of living on the earth. Then I became aware of how the earth was assessing my needs and at the same time my body was sending signals into the earth about my systems and what it currently requires. I sensed that the sheep felt some sort of magnetic feel, and it was like a thin stream of light coming up through a blade of grass that guided them to eat it. This happens on a natural instinctual level, for example there is no thought process happening saying first eat this piece of grass, then another etc. It is happening very fast and it is like they are being guided by a magnet.
So I was taken through the experience by experiencing a rush of energy coming up through my feet, and I felt incredibly grounded. I was guided to a piece of grass/leaf (not sure what it is called but just knew it was edible) and ate it. I sensed my small intestine and gall bladder were out of balance in some way and eating this leaf would help. So the sheep was just guiding me to experience what level of detail they could understand about what balance is happening in their body if they wish.
I was really grateful for the way my question to the sheep was answered, I like to feel and experience something for myself, that’s the way I like to receive information telepathically and it enables me to be able to translate the experience into verbal language. I am so thankful to my sheepy friends and found the experience incredible.
Tags: herbalists, Sheep