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Introducing healthy daily habits facilitates psychophysical balance and consequently heart-to-heart communication.

Dear reader, from this article onwards I will call you by your first name. I intentionally want to step outside the form. I will call you by your name because when we speak from heart to heart, the formalism vanishes. I will call you by your first name because non-human animals themselves call each directly with all the essence of…

“We are what we constantly do” wrote Aristotle. So if we want to change (…), it is from the daily routine of our actions that we must start. For everything begins simply, one day like any other, when the soul is ready.” (Cited Valentina C. – L’importanza dei piccoli passi) As human beings, language is a fundamental part of our…

“Death is always near us and always will be. It is an inseparable part of human existence. That is why it has always been and is a cause of deep consternation for all of us. Since the dawn of humanity, the human spirit has pondered death and sought an answer to its mysteries. Because questioning death is the key that…

It is possible to communicate with all animals (wild and ‘domestic’) on a deep level, with benefits for our and their well-being, because true communication goes beyond words. The word telepathy comes from the Greek (tele ‘distant’ and pathos ‘feeling’), so it could be said to be communication of feelings. It is the oldest means of communication in existence, used…

The relationship between humans and pets dates back centuries, indeed millennia. Anthropology, archaeology and history have analysed this relationship in many ways through material and written evidence, all converging towards a picture of close and harmonious coexistence, without the exploitative dynamics that have increasingly characterised our evolution. In archaeology, the practice of burying a pet in its own tomb or…

An old woman in Yunnan, a lay chan follower -as Zen is called- in China, ran a teahouse along the main road. She was famous for imparting edifying lessons of wisdom to the monks who stopped at her inn. Many of them preferred to avoid her: only the most daring, or the true seekers of Truth had the courage to…