Animal insights: Using Animal Images to Enhance Your Life

By Gini Graham Scott PhD

ANIMAL INSIGHTS features a system in which you focus on two different animals each week for a year to gain insights from these animals for more success and satisfaction in your life. 

You cut up and mix up the Animal Cards, which are printed four to a page, and remove the cards for the animals you feel the least affinity for, so you end up with 104 cards.  Then, mix up the cards and draw two each week.

Once you select your two Animal Cards for the week, think about them in various ways. 

The animals selected come from a list of well-known animals -- from crustaceans, insects, and fish to reptiles, birds, and mammals.  You can draw on these qualities for success in your life, and some of these qualities may suggest changes you can make for more success. 

 

GINI GRAHAM SCOTT, PhD is a writer, publisher, and film producer, who has published over 200 books, 50 for traditional publishers and 150 for her own company Changemakers Publishing, specializing in books on self-help, popular business, and social issues. She also writes, reviews, and ghostwrites books and scripts for clients. She has written and executive produced 12 feature films, documentaries, and TV series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Changemakers Publishing
• Release date: Apr 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201808532

Gini Graham Scott PhD

Gini Graham Scott is a screenplay writer, executive producer, and TV game show developer, plus a nonfiction writer who has published over 200 books, 50 for traditional publishers and 150 for her own company Changemakers Publishing. She also writes, reviews, and ghostwrites scripts and books for clients. She has written scripts for 20 feature films and has written and executive produced 11 film and TV projects. These include Me, My Dog, and I and Rescue Me, distributed by Random Media,  Driver, distributed by Gravitas Ventures, Deadly Infidelity, distributed by Green Apple,  Death’s Door, a TV series based on a co-written book. At Death’s Door, published by Rowman & Littlefield, The New Age of Aging, distributed by Factory Films, and Reversal distributed by Shami Media Group. Several other films have just been completed or are in production: Courage to Continue and Bad Relationships She has recently developed a TV series The Neanderthals Return, based on a series of books about the Neanderthals coming back into modern society. She has written and produced over 60 short films, including dramas, book and film trailers, TV show pilots, documentaries, and promotional videos.  Her IMDB resume is at http://imdb.me/ginigrahamscott. She is the author of four books on filming, including So You Want to Turn Your Book Into a Film?, The Basic Guide to Pitching, Producing, and Distributing Your Film, and The Basic Guide to Doing Your Own Film Distribution, Finding Funds for Your Film or TV Project.  and The Complete Guide to Distributing an Indie Film. She has been hired to write over two dozen scripts for clients, adapted from their novels, memoirs, or script ideas. She reviews books for their film potential and writes treatments and scripts for three major companies that publish books and promote them for authors. Her scripts include action/adventure scripts, suspense thrillers, psychological character films, and contemporary dramas.  Some recent scripts are the sci-fi suspense thrillers Brain Swap, Dead No More, Deadly Deposit, and Reverse Murder.  Other scripts include the crime action thrillers Rich and Dead and Deadly Affair; and the suspense thriller Bankrupt.

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ANIMAL INSIGHTS

A Guide to Using Insights from Animals Each Week

to Enhance Your Life and Work

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by Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

ANIMAL INSIGHTS

Copyright © 2021 by Gini Graham Scott

All rights reserved.  No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Animals can be a source of great insights about yourself and about what you can gain from the qualities of that animal.  To do so, think about your associations with that animal and how that can apply to yourself.

For example, you might associate a bee with being busy and hard working. What insights does that suggest to you?  Maybe you are too busy and you need to relax more.  Maybe you need to complete some tasks that you have been putting off.  Or maybe you should appreciate an associate who has been a very hard worker.  The particular insights will depend on your associations with that animal and what those associations mean to you.  What is important is your thoughts about the qualities you associate with that animal, which might be common associations, or they may be less usual ones, though meaningful for you.

Animal Insights has been written in this spirit.  It is a follow-up to The Best Words from A-Z, which provides a system where you focus on different positive words each week for a year to incorporate the power of these words into your life. 

You can use this book by itself or with The Best Words from A-Z.  In that case, after you gain some insights from your two positive words, think about your associations with your selected animals for the week. 

However, unlike thinking about the words from A-Z, you will not select the animals in alphabetical order.  Instead, cut out the Animal Cards, which are printed four to a page, and remove the cards of the animals you feel the least affinity for, so you end up with 104 cards.  Then, mix up the cards and draw two each week.  Once you have used those two Animal Cards, put them aside, so you won’t draw them again.  In this way, you will draw the cards much like Tarot cards to select those that are especially relevant for you for the week.

Once you select your two Animal Cards for the week, think about them in various ways.  You can focus on both animals and imagine how the insights from each of them might work together.  You might think about one animal in the morning and one at night.  Or think of one animal for three days, the other for the next three days, and both on the seventh day. Or on this last day, reflect on your insights from thinking about these animals for the past week.

The animals selected for Animal Insights come from a list of well-known animals—from crustaceans, insects, and fish to reptiles, birds, and mammals.  Where the animal has many species, such as a dog or cat, there is a photo with