While you do not love an animal your soul will be asleep

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While you do not find out what love means an animal, you have not been able to understand what the nobility and the awakening of emotions that can heal the soul. Give love a dog, a cat or any living being for smaller, more restless and unique it is, is to enrich and discover that they may have feelings as valuable as ours.

Everyone has read many times about the benefits of having a pet at home. Now, what is more interesting is to find out that all this has a clear impact with regard to the economy on public health. According to various surveys, the animals save us several visits to the doctor, which helps health save about 3 million per year in countries like Germany and Austria.

Love an animal is seen reflected in his eyes waiting all of us, which calls for a caring, plucking a smile and noble emotions. The only thing he asks in return is love.

Each of us could report with great care this moment someone very special came home and left it inside out. Just as with our hearts. Something awakens within us when we adopt a dog, when we rescued a kitten from the street, hungry, dirty and in need of affection.

It's like a background light is lit, as if a peculiar mechanism moved the change of gears to also help us to be better people.

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The animal "medicine" and the miraculous therapies
We will start counting the case of Claudia, a woman with Alzheimer's who had left to feel interest in the world. No activity performed at his residence produced change in their status, except one: when the socio cultural animation technicians brought four dogs trained for this type of therapy.

Claudia had preference for one of the dogs. Claudia when see the dog, the look of claudia awaken with a lot of energy to connect with strength to reality. Never failed. Second later, this patient took this animal in his arms, kissed him and told him many things. Thanks to this interaction was able to decrease the administration of various medicines geared to the physical, cognitive and emotional. The animals are real medicines for people.

According to a study published in the journal "Frontiers in Psychology" this "awakening" may be related to activation of oxytocin, known as the hormone of love, affection and care. When your levels increase, a number of psychological and psychophysiological triggers that encourage people to be more present and, in turn, they are more receptive to everything that involves emotional aspects emerges (hugs, caresses, endearments ...).

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The look of our animals

Sometimes an animal can even establish a better emotional connection with the look of a person.

An animal has an emotional connection capability really amazing, is through a simple gesture or a look. In fact, it is known that the eye contact between a dog and its owner is so genuine and sincere that, thanks to this, the bond between them is strengthened.

There are many types of love, but you may feel for an animal is one thing exceptional that takes the best of ourselves and that, in turn, helps us to become better people.

According to an interesting research published in the journal "Science", the dogs recognize the smile of the person, show empathy and even know how to interpret our emotions look us in the eyes only. All this would be the result of many years of evolution in common, in which it created an exceptional bond that goes beyond breeds and sizes. Emerges directly from genes and heart.

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We become what we see in the eyes of our pets

They say that the eyes of our dog is the best mirror to see the reflection of our own souls. It is a truth so true that deserves our attention.

If any of the animals that we created dodges and her gaze is a reflection of fear, for sure there is something which is not going well. The fear is nourished by an emotional impact negative.

Now, few things can be as therapeutic and come home discouraged and tears burning like grains of sand in the eyes to suddenly see ourselves reflected in the eyes of our own dog or cat of our own. It's like they embrace us and tell us that "everything will be OK."

For our animals we are the most beautiful thing of their world and this does not refer only to the need for food. They also need to receive affection.

The look of an animal serves as a mirror to promote our "self-acceptance". His sincere eyes give us another perspective with which relativize the problems, anxieties and stress. Suffice it to embrace them and soon the world back into balance.

This wonderful dose of oxytocin that our pets give us enables us to reconnect us with the reality, combining the affection with the dream to win the clouds of daily living with more security. Because we are all "a little sleep" until we discovered what it is to love an animal.