Commuication with my Cat Fred

A Communication with My Cat Fred

I was outside in the garden when my cat Fred sauntered over to join me.  As we sat together enjoying the early summer sun, I decided to check in with Fred.

My first impression was one of complete contentedness. Fred showed me his gratitude for being given the freedom to come and go as he pleases. He showed me secret cat paths through bushes and trees leading to an open field filled with sunlight. He showed me the simple pleasure of curling up for a nap in the sun whilst listening to birdsong and the scurrying of small creatures. He showed me the feel of a sinuous stretch upon waking and the joy of returning to his house and finding one of us to give him a nice rub and food.

He suggested that I should get out more too. I left our communication thinking what a wonderful and wise cat I had in Fred. How very Zen of him.

Teachings from Fred

Many of us spend too much time with our ‘must do’ tasks, either doing them, on our way to do them or worrying about doing them. We all need to remember the adage, “Take time to stop and smell the roses.”

Set aside some time to go outside into nature and just be.

Oil Spill

Oil Spill Meditation

Brilliant blue water surrounds me and there are brightly coloured fish and corals everywhere I look. A small clump of seaweed undulates with the water, I look closer and  spot a seahorse clinging tightly. I’m entranced with the diversity of life. A big silver fish glides over head and I follow him away from shore, some anemones wave as I swim past.

The water becomes colder and darker as we swim ever deeper.

Some dolphins come up beside me. They tell me that they cannot go further, there is something strange ahead. The water smells and tastes different, they are confused. This is the way to their hunting ground, they have traveled this way for generations.

They don’t know where to go, where they are, everything is wrong with their navigation system. It’s worked for millennia, was perfected over millennia and was destroyed in an instance’s carelessness.

A school of fish approaches, hysteria has taken over, they are as disoriented as their dolphin counterparts.

I cannot help these animals in their confusion, but I try anyway, I must. I send out a white light of protection with the message to avoid these waters. They seem to take some comfort in the white light, but my message conflicts with their instincts and their instincts are stronger. They have to continue on their way, they have no choice. I send more light and more light with the hope that they will listen to my message, my pleas.

They continue on.

I send more light, more light….the oil covers it.

This Oil spill is still affecting the under water animal. Please send Light and Love. 

Example of my Meditations

 I enjoy meditating on different animals and at times they send me messages. Here is an example of one of my meditations.

Meditations on the Humpback Whale

At first, all senses are overwhelmed by the vastness of body. Yet for all this mass, I am so light in the water. I am weightless. In the current’s flow, I take a downward flight to the cold, dark deep. There I find solitude, a stillness that is sacred and pure.

I turn to the dim light far above and begin my journey up. The water warms with my ascent. I break the surface embraced by the sun’s heat. My back follows my head up, I take in a giant breath of clean air as the long curve of my body cuts the water’s surface, finally lifting my tail out to kiss the sunlight and air before sliding back into the depths.

Back into the silence of the sea to be covered again by the pure solitude and peace of the Divine.

My existence in solitude is pure beauty.



Teachings from the Humpback Whale

Everyone needs to experience solitude. Make a time and space for yourself to dive in and feel the pureness of the Divine surround and fill you like the waters of the sea.



Humpback Haiku

Grand form surfaces
A fluted tail waves good-bye,

Downward again swims.


Karen McCormack