Latest / Back In The Closet - Two Crazy Cat Ladies / Sound Therapy for Cats with Dr. Amaya Espindola
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- 0:02I'm Jay, I'm Adrian, and together we are those two crazy
- 0:05cat ladies I'm going to cut. You.
- 0:09I think I just peed. Buckle up.
- 0:11We're back in the closet. Welcome.
- 0:18To another episode of Back in the Closet with the 2 Crazy Cat
- 0:21Ladies. Guys, we are so honored and
- 0:24excited to be joined today by none other than Doctor Amaya
- 0:28Espindola. All the way from Spain.
- 0:30All the way from Spain and we are going to be talking about
- 0:33sound therapy for cats, which I know so many of you guys are
- 0:37really into. And some of you guys have
- 0:39actually helped us along the way with some of our cats and using
- 0:43music therapy or sound therapy for cats.
- 0:45So I know you guys are going to really enjoy this episode
- 0:48because she's like the expert in this subject.
- 0:52Now I don't know that many of you, I, I, I don't know how long
- 0:56a lot of you have been with us, but like it's been years.
- 0:59It's been years. But we used to go live together.
- 1:02We used to do lives on Facebook and stuff together pre like
- 1:05podcast and things like that. So excited to be able to
- 1:09actually meet in real life Doctor Amaya in Spain just.
- 1:15Like to say that you are a very very good hugger.
- 1:17Yes. Very good.
- 1:20Yeah, I love hugs and I was so excited to meet you finally
- 1:24after all these years, right? I know, I know.
- 1:29So for our audience joining us, maybe listening in the podcast
- 1:32or from our community that might remember you or for people that
- 1:36don't quite remember you or I have never heard of you, could
- 1:39you share a little bit about who you are, your background and why
- 1:43you're just so. Changing the world.
- 1:46Awesome. Oh.
- 1:48Thank you. I'm going to blush.
- 1:53Well, I, I would say that I started because I was afraid of
- 1:58cats. And that's what started my
- 2:00journey and how I decided to as a vet, I decided to move that
- 2:06and say, OK, I'm going to face the fear and see what happens.
- 2:09And that became a passion. And I had many adventures along
- 2:14the way. And one of the things was I, I
- 2:18started working at a cat shelter and that's what changed
- 2:21everything. Working with the cats, having
- 2:23the time to work with them, being able to practice a little
- 2:28bit of more integrity, holistic views.
- 2:30And once the pandemic hit is when, OK, I said I had to take
- 2:35everything. Velvet already existed at that
- 2:37time, but it was more home and you know, just for certain
- 2:40clients. And after the pandemic is when I
- 2:43decided to go worldwide and launch the real Velvet online
- 2:50services with consultation. It's more a second opinion vet
- 2:53where you can get insights on holistic medicine for cats,
- 2:59behavior, nutrition, natural nutrition for sure.
- 3:03And now one of the things that I'm into is neuroscience and
- 3:08sound therapy. And you think I'm not looking
- 3:11back after this this? Is it this?
- 3:15Is it I? Love this.
- 3:16I I can't wait in your brain and on this episode and find out
- 3:21like more about why this is like your passion that you're not
- 3:25turning, turning back from and like the differences that you've
- 3:29seen using it because you've already been, you know, been
- 3:32practicing with, with sound therapy.
- 3:35And it's, it's, it's mind boggling to me.
- 3:38So when I was in college, I actually wrote a thesis on music
- 3:41therapy for humans because I found that, like, for me, I
- 3:46didn't, I wasn't thinking about animals at all at that time.
- 3:48But for me, it's still like, I listen to music every day, all
- 3:53day long, right? Like, it is, it is part of,
- 3:55yeah, it is part of my and, and it's, you know, specific genres
- 3:59depending on my mood, right? Or where, you know, if I'm high
- 4:03anxious, I'm listening to like Kenny G jazz type music, right?
- 4:09And if I'm like just excited and, and like just want to like
- 4:13pump it up or like I'm maybe I'm sleepy and I need to wake up,
- 4:16then I'll listen to more like pop and you know, upbeat.
- 4:18I love all kinds of music. But but this is this is super
- 4:23interesting that we're going to that we're going to discuss how
- 4:26it affects cats specifically. I love that you said that you
- 4:28really got into neuroscience and sound therapy because you think
- 4:32it's like sound therapy as kind of like a woo, but you're
- 4:35talking about it from a neuroscience point of view.
- 4:38Can we can we kind of start there?
- 4:40Yeah. What do you?
- 4:41Yeah, that's where I want to start actually, because I, I
- 4:45always, I always believe that I, I believe in all that wool
- 4:49stuff, right. But I try to be very practical
- 4:53as a vet because you need to make sure that you create steps
- 4:58on how to actually make it work. Otherwise you can say, just play
- 5:02music and see what happens. OK.
- 5:06But there is a lot of background that I wasn't, wasn't even aware
- 5:11of. So to understand a little bit
- 5:14why it's important and why I always also challenge most of
- 5:20the behavioral things going around all the some of the
- 5:24research on behavior, I'm not entirely happy with it because
- 5:30they don't understand the neuroscience behind it is that
- 5:36we always talk about the autonomous nervous system, the
- 5:39one that we call the adrenaline, the sympathetic and the
- 5:43parasympathetic branches of that.
- 5:47And that allows us to fight or flight or relax, right.
- 5:52So that's kind of the basics and that what what we understand so
- 5:56far of what the nervous system does.
- 5:58But The thing is that there is a new thing.
- 6:01Well, not new, it's pretty old. It not many people talk about it
- 6:05is the Poly vagal therapy sorry theory, which explains that it's
- 6:11more complex. It's not just about fight or
- 6:14flight, It's not just about relaxing.
- 6:19And once after the stress or the shock happened, you can relax
- 6:26and go directly to the parasympathetic, right?
- 6:29So what the Polyvagal says is that there are different ways
- 6:34for you to, whether to relax or to collapse at the same time
- 6:39with the parasympathetic Dr. And let me explain this in, in, in
- 6:43normal words, because this is this is kind of complicated.
- 6:48So when, when, when you, when you encounter stress or any
- 6:53situation in life, because not always even that something is
- 6:57not dangerous for you, but it's new.
- 7:02You can stress, you know your first reaction is OK, it's new,
- 7:07so your body relax to it. And this is how we adapt to our
- 7:11to the environment. OK, if we are had a beautiful
- 7:15childhood, which I don't know many people who did.
- 7:18But anyway, if your life was really nice and everything was
- 7:21nice, you adapt to your environment and your nervous
- 7:23system will react to the new things in a more calm way.
- 7:28But if the stress has increased by any any trauma or any
- 7:34accidents or anything that happened, then your body will
- 7:38react in a completely different way.
- 7:40So how does this happen? Is that once you hit the stress,
- 7:46the body would say, OK, what is this?
- 7:49Is this danger? If it's danger, I may react in
- 7:52two different ways, fight or flight, or I may also go to a
- 7:57social engagement and gather with other people to feel safe
- 8:02or I may collapse and shut down South suddenly.
- 8:06We had at least three different ways to react to something that
- 8:11before we only said this too. So the parasympathetic Dr. has
- 8:18also the collapse and the play dead kind of way and the social
- 8:22engagement. So social engagement is
- 8:26explained that if you don't feel safe, you try to go near the to
- 8:30the nearest your friends or you know, just try not to be alone.
- 8:34That's the social engagement. You look for partners, right,
- 8:38Which this is the one we are going to try to explain through
- 8:41voice based sound therapy, right?
- 8:44You try to to give safety to, to the nervous system by social
- 8:50engagement, right? So the bagel, the vagus nerve
- 8:54that goes all around from the brain to all all in the back has
- 8:59very several branches. So it can affect the heart rate,
- 9:03it can affect lungs, it can affect all larynx, voice,
- 9:07breathing, the ear, everything right.
- 9:13And it has it's separated indoors and ventral.
- 9:17So it depends on if you collapse or if you go to social
- 9:21engagement. You know, it uses different
- 9:24branches of the same vagus nerves.
- 9:26OK, so that is that is how you explain a stress or something
- 9:32that happened, you know, a shock that you had and that will allow
- 9:37the way you regulate that and the way you move from because
- 9:40all of them are necessary. Sometimes you need to run, you
- 9:44know, sometimes you need to fight, sometimes you need to the
- 9:47social engagement and sometimes it's best to play dead.
- 9:51But The thing is when any of those things aren't unregulated
- 9:54and you maybe switch from relaxing to to automatically
- 10:01fight or you know, the typical thing that I pet the cat and
- 10:06three times and then he bites or hyper.
- 10:09The cats suffer from hypersthesia that they may they
- 10:12may be really loving cats and suddenly they will attack you.
- 10:17So all of this is that they don't have that nervous system
- 10:20regulated. And this is the basical thing
- 10:25that what we are doing with sound therapy, what we're trying
- 10:28is to teach the body with different techniques how to
- 10:33regulate. Because the way you perceive the
- 10:36environment is something that it's, well, it will shape your
- 10:40personality in a way, right? But it's not definitive.
- 10:44So because as as being that we have neuroplasticity, we can
- 10:51always learn and this is the fascinating part of it.
- 10:54So I hate when they just fixate on this is the cat is like this
- 10:58or or they they always will react that way.
- 11:03No, it's the way they perceive reality and that's why we have
- 11:07to work on. So you're saying that sound
- 11:09therapy can actually shift perception?
- 11:13Yeah, momentarily of course, but if you practice this, then you
- 11:17can become become a safety point for your cat in all different
- 11:22situations. So it's, it's essentially like,
- 11:25you know, cats, you know, working with a female
- 11:27behaviorist, it's like use your words.
- 11:29So we have certain words for this or positive reinforcement.
- 11:33If we say this word, they know they're going to get a treat.
- 11:36So it's kind of that same association then?
- 11:39Well. That is more conditioning.
- 11:41You are conditioning a certain word to a certain.
- 11:45That is more a the Pavlov kind of reaction.
- 11:50So I get a treat, I will get a benefit from it.
- 11:53This goes much deeper. This goes to the to the root of
- 11:59how I feel safe. And this can affect even
- 12:04transitioning a diet. It can go that far.
- 12:08OK, so start sharing like some practicalities here for us.
- 12:13So maybe we do have a cat with that is really reactive.
- 12:17You know, you've had them three times and then they bite or or
- 12:22you want to transition a diet like what?
- 12:24What are some things? What are some of the main things
- 12:28that you've seen are really effective?
- 12:34Somebody's organizing the closet.
- 12:38And he's like, hey, yeah, let's talk about this.
- 12:40What are some of these issues that cats may be dealing with
- 12:43that we humans don't realize that sound therapy could really
- 12:47be that breakthrough for us? Yeah, well, I can tell you the
- 12:50story of how I I found out. And then I studied all this
- 12:54because I it was an accident. Like every single thing that it
- 12:59becomes amazing is an accident. Usually it happens like that
- 13:05well, as if people for the people that don't know, I'm also
- 13:09a singer. So I started and and I am a
- 13:13person that it's very driven, very social.
- 13:16You know me now and you know, I can be very intense sometimes.
- 13:19So if you work, if you work with cats that have coming from a
- 13:24shelter or they are very fearful and they are hiding and, and you
- 13:28are the vet that has to microchip them or vaccinate them
- 13:31or, you know, everything just to have the take protocol for the
- 13:36shelter done and everything done.
- 13:38And he had and everything has to happen in a certain amount of
- 13:41time. At first I was kind of OK, how
- 13:46do we do this? You know, we got the towels, we
- 13:48got everything to handle the cat.
- 13:51And one day, I remember I walked into the adaptation room and all
- 13:55the cats were, like, disappeared.
- 14:00Yeah. I, I think I I went in like,
- 14:02very fast and just, you know, very intense.
- 14:06So I said, OK, I understand. I was like, all right, yeah,
- 14:11that was too much for everyone. Let's all calm down.
- 14:15And I started singing one of an Argentinian song that I really
- 14:19like. And I just sat down facing and
- 14:24facing back to them just just to relax.
- 14:26And I was like OK let's breathe, let's relax.
- 14:30And I started singing. For me, that's a way to regulate
- 14:33myself, which I didn't know by the way, but it is not.
- 14:38And I started singing and one of the cat, there were like 2
- 14:42little sisters, like tabby sisters.
- 14:45They were coming and they started like like coming around
- 14:49and one of them just got in on top of my shoulder and I was
- 14:53like I couldn't believe it. I was like, don't move, don't do
- 14:57anything. What are we doing that this is
- 15:01this is working, right? And that was like a surprise.
- 15:06And then I said to the to the the nurse that was working with
- 15:10me and I said, OK, we have to sing every time we're doing
- 15:13things. And we decided to sing, but I
- 15:16didn't know anything about this. And of course, the handling was
- 15:20much easier. And then we practice with other
- 15:23vets when we had to take them to the hospital for any reason.
- 15:26We always like, can we avoid using anesthesia because we
- 15:29were, you know, as a shelter and as a vet taking to another vet,
- 15:35you have a little bit of more authority.
- 15:37So it was like, don't do any anesthesia.
- 15:40I hold the cat for you and and we've managed to handle cats,
- 15:47very traumatized cats without anesthesia just by talking to
- 15:52them and working always voice based and keeping them calm,
- 15:59grounding ourselves, breathing because we had to keep it calm.
- 16:04And that taught me a lot about how I I was able to regulate by
- 16:10singing, which I didn't know at the moment.
- 16:12I understand the way I do today and I was able to manage cats
- 16:19much more easy. So imagine if that was placed in
- 16:23every single clinic, imagining if well, there are studies,
- 16:27there are studies in dogs like you use less anesthesia if you
- 16:32if you put music, there is a there, there are sounds, for
- 16:37example. Well, this is not very happy,
- 16:39but there is one in the wildlife that certain certain animals
- 16:45react more to human voice than to the predators itself, because
- 16:48they are more afraid of us now than the the predators because
- 16:53of how we are hunt, hunting them.
- 16:56And so, so there is an impact on The Voice, on the tone.
- 17:00There are other studies as female voices, it seems to be
- 17:05better forecast than male voices, which is not always
- 17:08true. But you know, there are some
- 17:10studies that will suggest that the the voice has an impact so.
- 17:16I noticed I found a study on on cats.
- 17:19You remember when we were emailing back and forth, I was
- 17:21like, I wish there was more research around this, but I but
- 17:24we did find a study talking about the effects of music on
- 17:28behavior and and physiological stress response of domestic cats
- 17:32in the veterinarian clinic. And it says.
- 17:35Music for cats. Yes.
- 17:37And it, and it says exactly what you're saying that that, that
- 17:40there was a positive benefit on both the handling and the, and
- 17:46the stress levels and in cats and in vet clinics using music
- 17:51therapy. And, and they, they also
- 17:53analyzed the difference between using classical music and music
- 17:57is specifically designed for them, which I, I really, I
- 18:01really like that study and I, and I really enjoyed the work of
- 18:05David Tay with the music for cats.
- 18:08And but classical music can work as well because what I found out
- 18:12especially, and then the other story is my cat.
- 18:15He has a hypersthetia syndrome. And he's the I said he's my
- 18:20other singing teacher because when I started singing certain
- 18:26songs that were like, you know, I like Aretha, Aretha Franklin,
- 18:29I like Janis Joplin. So imagine the tone of what I'm
- 18:33talking about. And he will go and attack my, my
- 18:37ankle. So he will like try, try to get
- 18:38near my voice, but to attack me, right?
- 18:42And I, and I again, I didn't know what I was doing until
- 18:47when, when I moved here and I started working more in hotels
- 18:50and singing and, and using my voice and preparing myself much
- 18:54better. I learned that I regulated
- 18:56better now. And he doesn't do that.
- 18:59Now he actually wants to be on me when I'm singing, especially
- 19:04these high pitched notes. But suddenly he gets overwhelmed
- 19:09and he needs to stop because he, you know, he, he relaxes a bit,
- 19:14but then it's like, OK, yeah, it's enough.
- 19:16But he started attacking me to this.
- 19:20So the difference, it's huge and it's amazing.
- 19:25You know what, what you can do. And, and he relaxes now, he
- 19:31likes to be near me when I sing. Or for example, when I, when he
- 19:35moved to when, when I first met him, let's say he was very
- 19:41frightened as well. And he was, he was afraid of
- 19:44the, of the broom. You couldn't just clean your
- 19:47house or because he was always afraid.
- 19:49So I became without knowing all this was intuition and I just
- 19:53simply nailed down. I said, OK, come here.
- 19:57And I just became like his shelter every time he was
- 20:00afraid. And I started using my voice.
- 20:04So I have I have several trials with him.
- 20:09And and then I started trying this with my deaf cat and
- 20:15amazingly, she also reacts. Really.
- 20:19So is it vibrational? She has to be closer.
- 20:23That's the only difference. She has to feel my voice close,
- 20:29closer. But it seems that it in humans,
- 20:34it seems that your voice can activate certain parts of the
- 20:37brain even in deaf people. Wow.
- 20:42That is fat. Imagine the potential.
- 20:44I mean, I, I'm like always, I never understood why certain
- 20:47clinics would say, you know, you have to whisper because we don't
- 20:51want to stress the cat, you know, but you can whisper very
- 20:55nervously, you know, and that won't work.
- 21:00Well, there's a there's a good question then.
- 21:02So when you find so, well, first of all, is your cat a fan of
- 21:06Janis Joplin now? Well, the way I sing it now,
- 21:09yeah, he likes it, but he likes more.
- 21:11He likes the classical songs and he likes songs that are in CC
- 21:18pitch. Oh, OK.
- 21:21Yeah, I realized that because I started looking at certain songs
- 21:26and every single song he likes to be on me, it's AC or E Manor.
- 21:31No, sorry, a Manor. So which is the relative?
- 21:36And I realized that that kind of scale has no alterations.
- 21:45If. You look, it's all, it's all the
- 21:47when you look at the keyboard, the C scale of C, it's, it's all
- 21:52white. How do you call that the white?
- 21:57Key. Exactly.
- 21:59It's all white keys, so it's no alteration.
- 22:02So he likes that type, that type of sound, sound.
- 22:06Other cats like different things.
- 22:08It's not always the same, but I realized he starts purring when
- 22:13a song. It's in C&A minor.
- 22:16And I found this because one day somebody send me a song, a tango
- 22:22actually. And it was really, you know,
- 22:24tango. I know it's not an easy music,
- 22:27isn't it? It's very complicated.
- 22:30And it was played by the harmonica, which my cat would
- 22:33run away. And he was actually enjoying it.
- 22:36And I was like, I don't understand, why are you doing
- 22:40this? And now I started looking
- 22:43because he's my my study guy. I study everything with him
- 22:47where when he gets tired, what type of music he likes and he
- 22:52doesn't care if it's a high pitch or low pitch.
- 22:54He likes the you know, as long as he's in city or there is
- 22:59another one. I'm I'm still trying to figure
- 23:01out if E minor also is good for him, but so far those are.
- 23:07So then, well, my next question is we're talking about the the
- 23:12nervous whisper, right? How important because we talked
- 23:15to a lot of a lot of beautiful people just like you, other
- 23:18veterinarians as well that we, you know, call woo woo where
- 23:21because and we talk about energy a lot and how how energetic our
- 23:25cats are and how important our energy is because it affects our
- 23:31cats. So how important.
- 23:32So just for all these beautiful people joining us tonight, how
- 23:37like if you were to teach, just like the average cat parent
- 23:40maybe doesn't really have a a great voice, but loves to sing.
- 23:44I feel like our cats don't care about that, but might not, you
- 23:47know, I wouldn't know what pitches what she's she's the
- 23:50musician here. I'm I'm like a.
- 23:52Jay's actually a very good singer.
- 23:54But I. Heard her.
- 23:56I wouldn't know how, I wouldn't know how to be like I'm going to
- 24:00sing this in E minor or. A.
- 24:03Whatever, like I wouldn't know it.
- 24:05I wouldn't know any of that, right.
- 24:07So how important is it that we our energy around singing to our
- 24:13cats? How important is is that?
- 24:17Or is that too broad? Your energy before you use sound
- 24:20sound therapy. Sorry, sorry again.
- 24:23Like, do you set your energy? You know, you're talking about
- 24:25the vet clinic. You sat down, you took a couple
- 24:28deep breaths, and then you started singing.
- 24:30So is that really important? Like for us humans using this in
- 24:34a practical way, should we set our energy before implementing
- 24:39sound therapy? Yes.
- 24:40And I would say that there is a technical part that it doesn't,
- 24:44doesn't mean that you have to, because when people say I Can't
- 24:48Sing, everybody can sing. It's not, it's not something you
- 24:52will have your voice and it's unique and it's nobody has the
- 24:57same voice. You know, it's a kind of a,
- 25:00something that it's unique, which creates that really nice
- 25:04bond with your cats and with people as well.
- 25:07And there you have their commercial voices, which are
- 25:12not, are not, aren't always regulator or, or, or, you know,
- 25:17they are a little bit fake at the same time because they try
- 25:19to post something. So when we when we relate to
- 25:23that and we say I Can't Sing because I don't sing like Mariah
- 25:27Carey. Yeah, I don't want to sing like
- 25:30her. I want to sing like me, right.
- 25:32This is how how my voice is good.
- 25:34And so there is a technical thing that it's the diaphragm,
- 25:39the diaphragm, which is the way we use it to breathe and we use
- 25:43it to ground and relax. I've noticed that people that
- 25:48aren't relaxed or grounded usually don't know how to use
- 25:54that muscle. Right.
- 25:57And, and especially women, and this is also cultural.
- 26:02We have in our minds that thing that we can sing.
- 26:06OK, That's the first thing we get in our minds.
- 26:09Oh, I can't say I wasn't allowed to say if I, if I speak loudly,
- 26:16people would say things. So there is a lot of judgement,
- 26:19a lot of it. And then we have the cultural
- 26:23side of the Corsa in in the past that we will breathe from the
- 26:31ribs up and it will be a shallow breathing.
- 26:35And the shallow breathing only gives a superficial voice.
- 26:40So the tendency for most people, for most women, it's going to be
- 26:45a voice that is so soft like this.
- 26:48And when I get mad, it's going to be very nasal and I'm going
- 26:53to start screaming here and here.
- 26:56Nobody understands. Nobody, nobody's going to listen
- 26:59to you. You know you're just going to
- 27:01create anxiety to to the other person.
- 27:04Sounds like anxiety. And this is the thing.
- 27:09So that's why if you whisper, but you're whispering like this,
- 27:12it's there is no diaphragm involved.
- 27:15You know, you're just using this part of the body you're pressing
- 27:19with your abdomen and there is no movement there.
- 27:23So when the man actually had the opposite, they don't use the
- 27:29diaphragm because they use the belly too much.
- 27:34They tend to, you know, so the diaphragm is always doing like
- 27:37in the man is it's a little bit deeper, but it still is not
- 27:42working properly. So the idea and how you get
- 27:46there is I always, I like to use visualization as a way to, to
- 27:53understand. But just imagine you're trying
- 27:56to set the cloth on the table, right?
- 27:59So the diaphragm, it will go like this, right?
- 28:06The only thing you need to feel is confident.
- 28:10That's the only thing you need to be grounded and actually use
- 28:13the diaphragm properly. Because we're here, we are not
- 28:16trying to sing like anyone. So there are more things you can
- 28:19do with the diaphragm, but the first thing is that when you're
- 28:23when you're exhausted with something, you don't want to
- 28:26say, you know, you've been arguing all day and there's a
- 28:30point where you say this is enough, This is enough.
- 28:34And then you get, you know, the, the word has a weight it, it
- 28:39weighs on the, on your body and you feel it that fall here.
- 28:43And that's, that's the, the actual good word you used in all
- 28:47the discussion you had. It's when, when it has some
- 28:52weight and you say, when you say no, you feel the no, it goes
- 28:59down to the diaphragm and actually down to the floor.
- 29:02You can, you can feel the weight as much as you want.
- 29:05You don't have to raise your voice, but it's deep and it has
- 29:09all the colors and, and sound. Everything in your body will
- 29:13resonate with that No, right? And that is where you have to
- 29:18sing you the, the, the air will resonate in different places of
- 29:25your, you know, if it's, if it's high pitch, will it will
- 29:28resonate here. And if it's low pitch, it's
- 29:30going to resonate more here. There's mixed voice as well, but
- 29:33that I don't care about that. We just need to be certain of
- 29:37what you're going to say. So Despite that, I love calling
- 29:42my cat, Oh my little cat, and I love you.
- 29:45This doesn't mean anything because it's not connected to
- 29:50anything. But if you say to your cat, and
- 29:53this is something I encourage everyone to do every morning, is
- 29:58say thank you to your cat. Because if you have a sincere
- 30:03thank you, you're going to be using your diaphragm.
- 30:09OK? So if you wake up and just say
- 30:12thank you, thank you for another day is there you get that?
- 30:21You know that weight on the word If you say, if you say I love
- 30:26you, the same thing. Just make sure that you pay more
- 30:30attention to the vowels because the vowels are the ones that
- 30:33make the sound. The consonants will break the
- 30:36sound. So if I if I say I love you,
- 30:41there's no way you just put anything there.
- 30:45But if you you say I love you, that O will have some weight.
- 30:53I love that, and Jay's going to implement this more than me.
- 30:56So for those of us that that really, you know, may not, may
- 31:00not want to say to our cats. Right.
- 31:04We are very curious about sound therapy.
- 31:06I know back in the day, one of the most powerful moments we had
- 31:09was learning that classical music could help calm cats, and
- 31:14we had not really implemented it that much ourselves.
- 31:17No, we had not really explored it.
- 31:18We had just learned it and our, you know, our motto is learn,
- 31:21share, grow. So I had so I did a cat tip and
- 31:24this is years ago, like I want to say 20/18/2017 something like
- 31:27that. It's a moment I always go back
- 31:29to though. So I had recorded or I'd posted
- 31:33a cat tip on on what we had learned.
- 31:36And I said, you know, if you're one way to, to help your cats
- 31:40getting them, you know, to the vet in the car is to play
- 31:43classical music. And there was like some research
- 31:46study or something that, that I was that I was citing.
- 31:50And I said, so if you want to, you know, so if, if you need to
- 31:54get your cat to the vet or you want to get to your cat to the
- 31:55vet, try playing classical music.
- 31:57And then it was I don't know how long later we were at a
- 32:02conference, a cat conference, and somebody came up to us and
- 32:07she said, I want to thank you. You guys saved my cat.
- 32:10And we were like, oh, like, so that's awesome.
- 32:12What, you know, like what we thought maybe she was using our
- 32:15products or something like that. And she said you, you posted a
- 32:18cat tip and you said, you said that classical music helps calm
- 32:22cats so that you can take them to the vet.
- 32:24And because of that, I was able to play classical music, bring
- 32:28my cat to the vet and we caught his cancer before it, before it
- 32:31spread, before it was too late. And I was like, Oh my God, like
- 32:35that was still to this day, I get the chill bumps hearing that
- 32:38because it's like, it wasn't something, you know, it was
- 32:40literally just something that we, we learned and that we
- 32:42shared. And it wasn't something that we
- 32:44benefited from or anything like that.
- 32:46It was like we, we really help someone by just sharing
- 32:50information. And that was like, that was our
- 32:52moment of like, we're never stopping this, ever.
- 32:55And Fast forward to just this year, our Madison Grace was in
- 32:58the ER and had about a pancreatitis.
- 33:01And it's almost like you forget about all the tools in your
- 33:03toolbox when you're going through it.
- 33:06And someone messaged us on Instagram and said here is this
- 33:12sound therapy for increasing appetite.
- 33:16If you would like to try that with Madison because she at
- 33:18first she didn't want to eat. And we used it and it worked and
- 33:22it was like a YouTube video of a sound therapy.
- 33:27So is it you know, what are some of your favorite ways to?
- 33:31That probably has something to do with the when you're when you
- 33:34said it also helps to with transitioning diets too, which
- 33:37you know, because we spoke in Spain about that.
- 33:39You know, that's like our passion, our passion passion
- 33:41subject this year. So so is that is that you?
- 33:45Do you find that certain frequencies of sound helps for
- 33:51helps cats appetite or helps them want to eat a new food
- 33:55better? Well, to answer that question,
- 33:58there are there's different ways into sound therapy.
- 34:02You have for example bioacoustics which uses natural
- 34:06sounds. They measure the frequencies
- 34:09that nature gives and they can, they can say that if those
- 34:15frequencies can help different organs in, in the cat or in the,
- 34:19in humans as well. It can also regulate the, the
- 34:23circadian cycle. And there, there are many, many
- 34:28ways. I, I know one here in, well, she
- 34:31lives in the north of Spain and she's called sound and life and
- 34:35she travels around the world recording with high quality
- 34:38sound. And she, she uses as therapy,
- 34:42which is a great tool, especially for clinics if you
- 34:44don't want to be singing right. And, and that is for me the most
- 34:50scientific I know so far, because then you have other
- 34:54frequencies, like the chakras have certain frequencies and you
- 34:58can, you can use the chakras with those frequencies as well.
- 35:01And then you have the sulfaccio frequencies.
- 35:05And, you know, there are different schools with different
- 35:08sort of frequencies. And I'm, you know, I played them
- 35:11all. And for me, the chakras, I would
- 35:16say it worked really well. The bioacoustics is amazing.
- 35:21There are even, there are some studies, even a cat recovering
- 35:25from a toxicity that they get, you know, they gave him a few
- 35:28days to live. And actually the cat recovered
- 35:31completely from using bioacoustics.
- 35:36And then the voice based sound therapy, which is the one I
- 35:40like, is the one that led to the lullabies for cats.
- 35:44Yes, my. About that.
- 35:46Yeah, and the The thing is that when I recorded the lullabies,
- 35:51somebody instead of singing them, he she simply played them
- 35:55to her cat. And the cat wasn't eating as
- 35:58well. And I didn't know she she called
- 36:01me saying I can't believe they how they worked.
- 36:03My cat wasn't eating and suddenly I play your your tunes
- 36:06and and now she's eating. I was like, really, that wasn't
- 36:10the point. I didn't know that could happen.
- 36:15OK, we have to investigate. So now I'm into a little bit of
- 36:19research. You have the you can access to
- 36:22the lullabies and I'll explain in a minute what they are, but
- 36:25you can access to them Spotify and if you let me know how they
- 36:29affect your cat, I would love that.
- 36:30I'm doing that research. Send me an e-mail telling the
- 36:34story. You know, guys, we have the link
- 36:38in the description here. So when we're when we're done,
- 36:40go ahead and click on that and it can and it will, it will
- 36:43bring you to, yeah, to the lullabies.
- 36:46Yes, well, and how they were created.
- 36:49The idea came through the cause of what The thing is that you
- 36:54can use music therapy as a sound or or Sound of Music.
- 36:58It depends. It has lyrics or not or if it's
- 37:00a melody in instrumental melody or not.
- 37:04But I I've tried them all and I think they all work perfectly.
- 37:09The music for cats works perfectly, but I wanted to do
- 37:12something where if you had nothing, if you couldn't play
- 37:16music, if you, if you only had the 5 minutes on the hospital
- 37:21visiting your cat, if you only had that moment where the
- 37:25ultrasound is going and you have you're holding your cat or even
- 37:30you know, you use a gabapentin to get it, but then they don't
- 37:34recover really well. I wanted to have something that
- 37:37you know as a kid you want your mom to be with you in difficult
- 37:41situations. In this case, you are the mother
- 37:44and you can improve. I think this can be an
- 37:47enrichment as well and in the home.
- 37:51Oh, I think I just got it for the first time, like the
- 37:55lullabies part, like I don't, I don't know why I didn't connect
- 37:58that before, but that, but that's the a great explanation
- 38:01because it's, you know, like you just said, like, and I remember
- 38:04when I was a kid, when I was, you know, just small and I was
- 38:08sick or I was scared or something like that.
- 38:10My mom would hold me and she would sing to me and she would
- 38:13rock me and that would always calm me down.
- 38:15Right. I mean, so many of us have, you
- 38:17know, mothers or grandmothers or maybe dads or something like
- 38:19that, that, that have done that, that made you feel safe, that
- 38:22made you feel comfortable and that you're right.
- 38:25You don't need a radio. You don't need a phone.
- 38:27You don't need, you know, if you're in a vet clinic, you
- 38:29probably aren't going to go, you know, turning on some music
- 38:32anyway, unless you're us. We did.
- 38:35But but to be able to just, you know, or in the car or wherever
- 38:40you are, right. Like to be able to maybe.
- 38:41I mean, so many of You Beautiful people here are rescuers, right?
- 38:45They're trying to, they're trying to rescue cats or trap,
- 38:48you know, trap, neuter, return. And they're trying to, you know,
- 38:53transport cats or they find cats that are.
- 38:55Yeah. Or they're trying to, they find
- 38:57cats that are injured and like to be able to, you know, to be
- 39:01able to, or our own cats right when they get sick, to be able
- 39:04to hold them and sing to them. A lullaby is you don't need
- 39:08anything except for yourself. Wow exactly.
- 39:11And there's there's another thing when you're traveling, if
- 39:14you don't, if you put play the music with your phone or even
- 39:19using Spotify for example, because Spotify doesn't have the
- 39:22best quality sound. There are others that may use
- 39:25it, but we tend to have lower quality sounds recorded because
- 39:31it's easier to have it on the phone and different devices and
- 39:34that's it. So those frequencies get lost.
- 39:37So you may get some effect, but imagine if you have a good
- 39:42device that plays that music. So you have to carry a really
- 39:46good headphones or anything that speakers anything.
- 39:52So it's not always easy to have to have that at hand, right?
- 39:57And you, you may get some effect, of course, but the real
- 40:02effect with music and sound therapy is the quality of the
- 40:06sound. And even YouTube, the YouTube
- 40:08has a lot of beautiful sounds, but they are they're not well
- 40:12recorded. When you use sound therapy, the,
- 40:14the bioacoustic sounds, you realize that what you have, you
- 40:18have at home. The YouTube videos are not the
- 40:21best. It's like, Oh my God, the
- 40:24difference is huge. So here you go.
- 40:29A. Lot of people they, you know, I
- 40:31don't know if Sally's here tonight or not, but a lot of
- 40:34people are just like, they love to go to concerts.
- 40:36They love to, you know, they, they prefer versus listening to
- 40:39music on the radio or lexer or something, right?
- 40:42They prefer to, to hear live music in person because, because
- 40:47of that, because the music is so much better.
- 40:49The the sounds are so much better when it's when it's right
- 40:52there in person versus versus on the screen or on a radio or on a
- 40:57phone. Exactly.
- 40:59And and we don't we don't look at we don't look at really good
- 41:05sound now it's like we like the tune, we like the music and we
- 41:09don't care. But the cats are very sensitive
- 41:11to that. So the idea of the lullabies was
- 41:15through the science of lullabies for humans.
- 41:19It was I rocking my baby. I'm doing, you know, I'm just
- 41:22making feel it better and all the all the research doesn't say
- 41:27in any ways that you have to be a singer or that you have to
- 41:31sing. Well, you can even just do
- 41:33humming if you don't want to sing.
- 41:35The important thing is that you use that relaxed and you know
- 41:41the breeding comes from here and not superficial, that you take a
- 41:45few breaths before you do this and you are not trying to calm
- 41:50your cat while you're very anxious, right?
- 41:53Because it's not going to work. And you have to release all
- 41:57expectations from sometimes they will react and sometimes they
- 42:02don't need it and that's OK, but you need to do it very often.
- 42:07And the idea was that my songs at the the lullabies have a
- 42:11scientific, there's a lot of scientific background.
- 42:18It's because they are not just songs, they usually very simple
- 42:23songs that have a repetition. They have a, a very round
- 42:32melody, melody and the the words that are used are very loving
- 42:40and happy and respectful and thankful and grateful, right.
- 42:44So all those things, everything is proven to be good for the
- 42:50nervous system to regulate it. If you, if you want to make a
- 42:54test, you can say I love, love, love many times and then say
- 42:59this like for 30 seconds and you can try hate for 30 seconds and
- 43:04you will, you will feel different because the words have
- 43:09an intention and that that hasn't, you know, the way you
- 43:12use it, the way you, you speak, even the, the music that you
- 43:17hear. If you are listening to songs
- 43:19of, of hatred or, or you know that they contain aggressive
- 43:25language, you will have a name a different impact.
- 43:29That's why also we, we like certain music when for different
- 43:32moods, right. So everything is explained
- 43:35there. And then the repetition usually
- 43:38goes in 60 bits per minute because it's the it's, it's
- 43:43trying to get a synchronicity with the heart rate of a baby
- 43:47that it's relaxed. That is interesting.
- 43:52Oh my God. That's why there are very slow
- 43:56songs, you know repeatedly they you can that people can
- 44:00memorize. It's important that also you
- 44:03sing it in your own native language because it's easy.
- 44:08It's easier for you to relax on your native language.
- 44:11Of course, the others it may, it may be difficult.
- 44:15And and the other thing would be that in cats, the normal rate of
- 44:23heart, you know of relax normal heart rate, it's double.
- 44:28It's never going to be 60. Of course, if you use 60, it's
- 44:31going the cat is going to relax, but it gives you a broad, a
- 44:37broad expect spectrum of music you can use because their heart
- 44:41rate in relaxed, relaxed heart rate, it's over A120150.
- 44:48You know it can be. It can be much higher, so you
- 44:50can use happier songs. That's cool.
- 44:55I do love though that I mean, I think that's, you know, us as a
- 44:58community. I think that's something that
- 44:59like every cat parent loves so much.
- 45:02I mean, pet parent really in general, right, But is that you
- 45:05don't you don't get any, you don't get any judgement from
- 45:08your, you know, from your you can sing all day to them.
- 45:10And even if, you know, if you're singing to your family or your
- 45:14friends, they might be like, you know, like stick with your day
- 45:17job or, you know, like that right.
- 45:20But our, but our, but our cats love anything that's coming from
- 45:24the heart. So you don't have to sing at a
- 45:26certain, you know, a perfect pitch or you don't have to.
- 45:30You know, it doesn't have to, it doesn't have to sound good to a
- 45:35human. It still sounds wonderful to
- 45:38your cats because they're, they're they're hearing your
- 45:41energy. They're not hearing your your,
- 45:44just your voice. It's the intention.
- 45:46It's the intention. It's that weight of every word
- 45:50that you're saying, like you mean it, like you're feeling it.
- 45:54You can even hum it if you're not, if you're overthinking,
- 45:57because usually if the cat is not reacting, it's because
- 46:00you're overthinking. I, I, I've seen, I've seen
- 46:04people trying to, to sing and they're like, they are thinking
- 46:08the note they have to sing, right?
- 46:11And no, you just have to feel it, make it, you know, and
- 46:15again, the commercial music doesn't mean commercial singing
- 46:19doesn't mean is the best singing.
- 46:22So somebody can have a very commercial voice and some people
- 46:28will have beautiful voice and it's not commercial.
- 46:31So you know, other people will say you don't sing like and so
- 46:33you're saying you're you're not good singing.
- 46:36That's not true. Your voice is unique and and if
- 46:39you work it with your cat that has no judgement at all, you can
- 46:43improve communication with other people later on.
- 46:46Yeah. Without even noticing.
- 46:50That's beautiful. I love it so.
- 46:52A question then as far as implementing this like I love
- 46:55the the clinical application that you're talking about as far
- 46:58as in high stress situations, but earlier you were talking too
- 47:02about using sound therapy in a regular basis.
- 47:04So it's something that we should intentionally try to make a part
- 47:09of every day. Is this something that we can?
- 47:12Use I think all of us have like made-up songs for our cats,
- 47:15right? Like, I mean, we do, right?
- 47:18We usually make a song around their name and we, you know,
- 47:22sing some cheesy little song to them.
- 47:25But maybe if we do it readily and do it intentionally with,
- 47:31you know, good energy versus like.
- 47:33Mr. Beatles. Right.
- 47:39I mean, we used to have a, a, a little song that we sang to Mr.
- 47:43Beatles so that we just made-up, but we both sang it.
- 47:47But if we did it, if we did this on a regular basis with our
- 47:50cats, that's what you're saying is that, that it, it, it works
- 47:53better if you're doing it intentionally and, and often
- 47:56consistently. Then it'll help.
- 47:59I can give you some tips. For example, as, as we were
- 48:02talking about transition, you know, there's a especially let's
- 48:07say if you, if you have a cat that likes certain meats, but
- 48:12they don't like others. You know that when we are
- 48:16serving the food, we are worried already, you know, and, and we
- 48:22are thinking he's not going to eat it.
- 48:24You know he's not so so you you start to panicking before you
- 48:28just set the plate wherever it is, you're already panicking so
- 48:33one way and and that that makes the cat feel unsafe because
- 48:37suddenly you're just putting the food and you are like, I don't
- 48:43know if you're going to like on your energy they.
- 48:48Up on your energy. They take it, of course they do,
- 48:50is that you're trying to give your medicate the medication and
- 48:53you know the cat is already hidden and he knows that because
- 48:56you've been thinking about it all day and you've been showing
- 49:00that energetically, right? So what I found out is that when
- 49:05you, the cat needs to feel safe in order to feel good about
- 49:11change. That's why I don't like the word
- 49:13neophobic, because neophobic. It's not it's not actually true.
- 49:17The cats actually like change. The thing is that how you pose
- 49:21that change is that environment that is chaotic and it doesn't
- 49:25you know, it doesn't have any, any boundaries and limits or
- 49:29anything. So of course I am going to be
- 49:32neophobic if that's the case, right?
- 49:36But if you have a routine, if you if you create some, some
- 49:41safety for a cat, some cats need to have eat in a box and some
- 49:45other cats will eat next to the other one.
- 49:48So you have to understand that safety and how can voice make it
- 49:52happen is that can be a point. You can be a point of safety.
- 49:56And there is another example for that when you sometimes you pet
- 50:00your cat and then after that he will eat.
- 50:04I don't know if you've ever seen this.
- 50:06It's affection eaters, yeah. Yeah, we call them affection
- 50:09eaters. Because food is emotional.
- 50:14So if you create with voice, with singing, with music, with
- 50:19whatever, anything, you create a routine that is not always
- 50:22petting your cat just before they are going to eat and you
- 50:27create other things like saying a word or singing something or
- 50:32hamming when you're serving the food or, you know, just given
- 50:36the intention of this food is great for you.
- 50:40It will have an impact, of course, not the first day.
- 50:43Maybe if it's a very picky cat, but especially those
- 50:46affectionate eaters are looking for food that nurtures their
- 50:51soul, their emotional part of things.
- 50:53It's not just that what you're said.
- 50:55Put it on the on the on the plate.
- 50:59So that's one practical way of using it.
- 51:01But then you can use it all the time instead of trying to, for
- 51:07example, you have a sick cat and, and you need to give
- 51:10medication or you need to handle them and you need to trim their
- 51:14nails, whatever you have to do. I always tell people that if you
- 51:18explain that to the cat, even with this grounded voice, the
- 51:24cat is going to perceive that you are, you know, I am, I am
- 51:29doing this. You need to, this has to be
- 51:31done. And you can, you can say
- 51:33whatever you want. You can say because my furniture
- 51:36needs some love. I need this to be done.
- 51:41And the content is not important is the intention.
- 51:45Right. Of what you're saying OK and and
- 51:49it can make it really easy and people that don't don't sleep
- 51:53well. I sometimes, you know, I know my
- 51:56cats want I want to sleep 10 more minutes or I want to do
- 51:59something. My cats don't wake up.
- 52:01I'll just say, come on, guys, just a few more minutes.
- 52:05Thank you, you're great. Let's do it.
- 52:08I know we can do it and they they don't, they never magnitude
- 52:13to wake up or you know, or start going around and meowing, asking
- 52:18or demanding for food because I'm constantly talking to them.
- 52:22And even if I don't know what to do, let's say you're trying to
- 52:25do something I like and you don't know if you're doing it
- 52:28right. You can tell your cat I don't
- 52:31know what I'm doing and just feel it.
- 52:36The important thing is that you feel it and you will see that
- 52:39the cat is easier to handle, easier to give medication,
- 52:43everything. That's the power of the.
- 52:47I love that and IA 100% believe that.
- 52:49I know, like in our presentation, we talk about the
- 52:52importance of our energy while we're preparing the food, right.
- 52:55And talking about like when you are, when you are, you know,
- 52:58feeding a good species appropriate raw diet.
- 53:00For those of you guys that are raw feeders, you, you know,
- 53:03probably you feel the same like you're preparing, preparing the
- 53:07food is, is a little bit more time consuming, but you put
- 53:12what, whatever energy you put into that food while you are
- 53:16preparing it or even just putting it on the plates, right?
- 53:18Like that, that is going to affect how your cats take it as
- 53:22well. And I would so, so I would say,
- 53:25you know, maybe we'll put that in the in the presentation that
- 53:29that maybe we sing to maybe we, maybe we sing or we hum a happy
- 53:35tunes while we're preparing the food to help to help our cats
- 53:39better eat the the foods that we.
- 53:41In the better ground, our own energy, right, because we're
- 53:44doing something new. Yeah, right.
- 53:45Like that's. Yeah, that's awesome.
- 53:48And it's not going to be just for you.
- 53:50It's not going to be just for your cat.
- 53:51It's not going to be for you. This is going to help you be
- 53:54grounded more often, be present more often.
- 53:57Because we talk about presence, like, yeah, you need to be
- 54:01present. But most of the time, we're in
- 54:03our minds thinking, you know, what we have to do next.
- 54:06What? Yeah.
- 54:07So if you practice this, then you'll be more present without
- 54:13even noticing and you'll be able to make better decisions at the
- 54:17vet if you just take a moment to, to think about it.
- 54:23And you're going to speak with a voice that has more intention
- 54:26instead of yelling like this, you know, and, and it has so
- 54:31many effects. So that's, that's what I want to
- 54:33keep working on because it's a way for us to become better cat
- 54:39guardians. And, and, and this also can be
- 54:42used in dogs as well, of course, but I love cats.
- 54:48They can use the lullabies. And this is this is the teacher,
- 54:52the second teacher. Oh my God, what's his name?
- 54:56Nilo like, like the well, like the river in Spanish, like the
- 55:01river Nile. Oh yeah.
- 55:05Beautiful boy, Beautiful. 13 years is going to be in January.
- 55:12Oh my goodness. But he's been the teacher of
- 55:15everything. He's he's really happy in
- 55:18Mallorca because there's less noise, environmental noise.
- 55:23So that's another thing. If you live in a busy city or
- 55:27you have a noisy environment, you will benefit by using
- 55:32especially bioacoustics for that, you know connecting with
- 55:36nature sounds or if you have insomnia or anything that
- 55:41doesn't allow you to sleep, you know many people will complain
- 55:45about my cat doesn't allow me to sleep.
- 55:48The thing is that you have a problem sleeping first because
- 55:51the cat is bothering you because you are semi awake, you know, so
- 55:58you can use you can use bioacoustics to relax to get a
- 56:03good night's sleep. And if you look at that at her
- 56:07page, you have for immune system, you have for chronic
- 56:11illnesses. I've tried one time and this was
- 56:15really amazing that she has like the sound of different fires.
- 56:20You know, she usually goes with blessed fire from a place in, I
- 56:25don't know, in a very weird place in one night.
- 56:28She has meditations on the 11th of November of 2011.
- 56:33So you know, dates like that or she has that.
- 56:36Yeah. You know, there is an energy
- 56:38content in all her sounds. And I used one time the the
- 56:43fire, one of the fires and I felt warm just by listening to
- 56:49the fire. I felt.
- 56:51Warm and like I had like heat around me and I think.
- 56:56That would be good for all of us.
- 56:57And if you think about that, if bioenergetics work with cats
- 57:00like that, for the cats that are, you know, in the like that
- 57:04are outside that are it's, it's winter now.
- 57:07Things are getting really cold. Like could we play some, you
- 57:11know, and what's, what's the, what's the website to find for?
- 57:15It's a sound sound on life. I'm I'm I'm trying to help her
- 57:18get everything in English as well, but she has it in Spanish.
- 57:23But if you contact me, I can I can guide you on which ones
- 57:28because for example, for kidneys or for liver issues that fire
- 57:32that keeping the warmth of the body when it's needed it, it can
- 57:37be really helpful so. That's awesome.
- 57:42That's awesome. All right.
- 57:43We are like past. Time really past time, but
- 57:46quickly, could you just kind of share what you envision you
- 57:50know, like sound therapy is something that's kind of like
- 57:53you said, it's very old, but what do you envision for like
- 57:56the future of sound therapy? It's implementation I guess have
- 58:02parents but. I am working.
- 58:05On something I am working on something that I want to create
- 58:09a membership where we study all this and we share as a
- 58:13community, especially women to, to discuss all, all what we are
- 58:19our voices, the cultural things that we have to erase from from
- 58:24our ancestors and being able to communicate and be better.
- 58:28Because I think if you start with your cat, then you'll,
- 58:31you'll be better at life in general communication, maybe
- 58:35communicating with your vet. So the extent of how far it can
- 58:40go, it can improve everyone's life and it can, it can improve
- 58:45the way I wish. I would love to say that in
- 58:48every clinic, but this is going to be the, it's going to be from
- 58:54the pet parents, you know, that we have to push it ourselves.
- 58:57And I don't think any we know the, we know that classical
- 59:02music, you know, reduces the amount of anesthesia and nobody
- 59:05does it anyway, right? So we still need to, to
- 59:10implement this in a clinic would be very difficult.
- 59:13But if we get the word across and we start doing all these
- 59:16things, we can provide health to our pets.
- 59:22And it would be another way of doing, if you can find, for
- 59:25example, this with self selection, you will, you will
- 59:29have a first aid kit for your animals.
- 59:34You'll understand them better you and, and you know, there's
- 59:38still a lot of research to be done, but it is said that it can
- 59:43I, I don't know if you heard that now there is this, this
- 59:47thing is the way where you get in touch.
- 59:48If, if, if you just simply get in touch if somebody's sick and
- 59:52you hug them while being naked. So the skin to skin, it gets
- 59:57connected, the other person instantly feels better.
- 1:00:01So imagine if sound if getting, you know, getting closer,
- 1:00:07getting in community, getting, you know, all these things can
- 1:00:10heal. We don't know the extent of how
- 1:00:13far we can go. And don't limit and don't limit
- 1:00:18your manifestation because I do believe that it can one day soon
- 1:00:22be in clinics as well. I hope so.
- 1:00:25I would love to see it. The thing is that we need to
- 1:00:27erase the the way healthcare it's, it's going, it has more
- 1:00:33economical interest than healing.
- 1:00:36So we need to, we need to ship the shift that first.
- 1:00:40But that that starts with us the the pet parents, right?
- 1:00:44Like that's where it starts. And then and and then once our
- 1:00:46demand becomes that, I mean, you look at the dog food industry,
- 1:00:50right? Like, like it the demand is for
- 1:00:53dog parents is changing the way that the pet food industry is
- 1:00:57creating their foods, right? So and so, you know, the more
- 1:01:02that we, the more that we, it starts with us, it always
- 1:01:05starts. With us.
- 1:01:07But it it will absolutely be in clinics one day, yeah.
- 1:01:10I hope so. I really hope so.
- 1:01:12And I hope we, we start changing the way clinics are and be more
- 1:01:17integrative and, and accepting that we don't know everything
- 1:01:22and you can have you can have protocols.
- 1:01:25I, I don't think we are, we're ever going to find out how far
- 1:01:29our brain can go because I, I also, I already think that what
- 1:01:35Joe Dispenser, for example, is doing is incredible and, and,
- 1:01:38and the extent of his work is, is incredible.
- 1:01:41So, and I don't think that's the limit.
- 1:01:44So imagine I have no idea where we can get but every single time
- 1:01:52I'm fascinated by cases that you don't understand, There's no
- 1:01:57clinical explanation and you just simply played a tune or
- 1:02:03simply or you got connected with nature suddenly, right.
- 1:02:08And that's what I want to promote.
- 1:02:09I want to promote self selection because I believe the wisdom of
- 1:02:13animals and actually can help us reconnect, reconnect with what's
- 1:02:18good for us. Yes, Yep, it's true.
- 1:02:22It's true. Wow, Sir Amaya, you're amazing.
- 1:02:26Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us
- 1:02:28and thank you guys so much for joining us.
- 1:02:31Just, I mean, the, the information is, is just like,
- 1:02:35like mine. Yeah, we could keep going for
- 1:02:38hours. And so, yeah.
- 1:02:41So we, we, we we have to have you back.
- 1:02:43We have to have you back in our closet again.
- 1:02:45Link for the lullabies and I love it say lullabies.
- 1:02:48I know lullabies, lullabies. Yeah, lullabies for cats follow
- 1:02:54me. I will I will like come with
- 1:02:57this. So just keep my social for cats.
- 1:03:00I will post things there and if you're interested in singing or
- 1:03:06learning on how to, you know, properly use your diaphragm,
- 1:03:09that is going to be very soon on on my community as well.
- 1:03:15Yay. Oh, that's exciting, Yeah.
- 1:03:17I will invite you someday so you know we get we would go.
- 1:03:24Oh, awesome. All right.
- 1:03:25Thank you guys so much. Yeah.
- 1:03:27Thank you for staying up so late with us and and you.
- 1:03:31Will I love it?