Animal lovers know how much our animals teach us about opening our hearts to give and receive unconditional LOVE. They are true spiritual masters of compassion.
Our animals walk through life leading with their hearts and perceiving with their hearts. In Chinese Medicine, they say the Heart houses the Shen or the spirit and is the Emperor of the body. Buddhists speak of our consciousness, our Buddha-nature sitting in the heart center.
Thousands of years after the ancient Taoists were talking about this, a book has come out discussing the link between consciousness and microtubules in the heart, The Embodied Mind, by Thomas R. Verny, M.D.
Every animal communicator will tell you that animals communicate heart-to-heart. When we open our hearts, we can also receive messages from other animals, from plants, stones, trees, and other sentient beings in nature.
Feeding the actual heart (that is the organ) to our dogs and cats will keep their hearts beating strong and healthy. The heart is a densely packed muscular organ that contains all of the nutrients the heart needs: amino acids, blood, iron, hemoglobin, vitamin b12, and Coenzyme Q10 to name a few.
For all of you raw feeders out there, I have included a video of me slicing up a big beef heart, preparing it to feed my dog and cat. Fresh or frozen whole heart has the most nutrients.
If you can’t get your hands on an actual heart, you can often find chicken hearts or air-dried beef and chicken hearts. Real Dog Box is one of my favorites for organ treats.
It may look gruesome, but the way I look at it, we are utilizing the whole animal and not letting anything go to waste. We are actually honoring the animal that gave up its life by using all of its parts. My father was a hunter and I learned early in life if you were going to take an animal's or even a fish's life, you were not going to do it for the fun of it. You were obligated to utilize as much of that animal as possible.
The heart has always been a most precious part of a slaughtered animal. There are stories of the Plains indigenous women cutting out hearts and livers immediately, to eat on the field after a buffalo hunt, while they were butchering up the rest.
Hit the button below to watch the video. If you are squeamish, it may not be for you. I do point out some of the anatomy, ie valve leaflets and cordae tendinae. The biologist in me can't help myself.
Wishing you and your animals lots of love this Valentine's Day!
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Thanks, Josie! This is great. They certainly do live from the heart. I miss having a dog. Maybe one day. ❤️