by Jane Broccolo | Jan 18, 2010 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, The Human-Animal Connection
David Schwartz of WPKN in Connecticut interviewed me on the radio last night regarding my new book, LIKE an ANIMAL: When Being Human is not Enough. In the book I mention that at age four, I turned my attention from a “normal life” to relate more to...
by Jane Broccolo | Mar 25, 2009 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self
Like any animal, humans have an innate capacity for empathy: the ability to feel in our bodies what someone else is feeling in his/her own body, i.e., suppressed emotions. Sometimes, when I cho0se not to funnel my anger through non-violent communication, I dramatize...
by Jane Broccolo | Mar 19, 2009 | All Posts, The Human-Animal Connection
This morning I woke up far from a teardrop of joy in my eye. I felt anchored to the bottom of the sea with lead in my heart. Whenever depressed, I have no other choice but to breathe deep within to find the cause. Usually, the heavy feeling is caused by my thoughts...
by Jane Broccolo | Mar 9, 2009 | All Posts, Animal Intelligence, The Human-Animal Connection, The Human-Animal Self
Some of us connect more easily with animals and nature because we let our intelligence thrive naturally like an animal, in circular all inclusive whole-brain patterns of thought. Free beyond the limitations of exclusive linear logic used by men and women confined to...
by Jane Broccolo | Mar 8, 2009 | All Posts, Pet Health, The Human-Animal Connection
I received a strong impression from a cat that she wanted frowns on her friends’ faces, instead of their constant gooey smiles of affection regarding her feline self. She communicated that she began biting the base of her tail making it bald and inflamed because...
by Jane Broccolo | Feb 21, 2009 | All Posts, Animal Communication, Animal Healing, Animal Intelligence, The Human-Animal Connection
A client called about her horse’s aloof behavior. I quickly assumed that the equine wanted to be alone and didn’t like exercise because it was her nature to be lazy and withdrawn. We invent logical reasons to say why an animal acts the way s/he does;...
