It is the animal whose vibration is the most identical to a person’s unique and authentic essence. A spirit animal is someone’s animal equivalent. But differentiating between them is important. Most people do not differentiate between a totem animal and a spirit animal. Members of certain indigenous cultures even practiced the art of shape shifting into the specific animal that they resonated with the most. They recognized that within the spirit of each person is a special relationship to an animal (potentially more than one) and that the developing of this relationship would lead to both personal development and enhanced life experience. Many cultures, especially indigenous cultures, recognized this relationship to certain animals at a spiritual level. Many even helped us to survive and line up with our own expansion. Animals held deep symbolism for us and deep meaning. Our valuing of power made us envy and respect (even though we feared) large predatory animals like tigers. Our valuing of loyalty made us love dogs. We favored animals that were examples of traits that we, ourselves value. To the opposite, we formed antagonistic relationships with other animals that we perceived were a threat to us, such as snakes and mosquitoes. We developed an even deeper relationship to those animals. We began to live symbiotically with certain animals, for example we began to live with dogs and cats or use animals like horses to ride on or use goats to pack things. Over the course of human existence, people have had a very special relationship to other animals, some animals more than others.
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