Swimming with Dolphins Helps Raise Emotional Intelligence

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Angelika...

 

> International Conflict Resolution Expert claims Dolphin Swims raise

> Emotional Intelligence sufficiently to help resolve Interpersonal

> Conflicts.

 

What I have read suggests that swimming with dolphins is a lot better

for humans than it is from the dolphins. The dolphins evidently get skin

diseases and other infections from their human swimming companions.

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Aloha,

Thank you for the opportunity to share some information about dolphin

health and well being. Dolphins held in captive facilities where

people can pet, hug and hold onto the dolphins do require the regular

administration of antibiotics. In the wild, dolphins form a protective

film over their bodies. This transparent, slimy layer acts as a

barrier that helps naturally protect the dolphins from disease and

bacteria in the water. In captive facilities where human touch takes

place regularly, this layer is wiped off and not allowed to

re-establish itself - and thus the need to administer antibiotics is

regularly required to maintain health. Though this is not very healthy

for the dolphins overall.

 

Swimming with dolphins in the wild is a very different situation. I

live on the Big Island of Hawaii and conduct retreats in which people

can enter the water with wild dolphins. I and every boat captain here

inform everyone who comes for a wild dolphin swim not to ever try to

pet or touch a dolphin. Even though a brush or pet would not hurt a

'healthy' dolphin because their immune system could compensate for the

occasional brushed off area of the protective membrane, this behavior

is considered invasive and disrespectful to the dolphin. Ask yourself

if you would like a stranger grabbing you in the street??

 

Humans swimming with dolphins in the ocean do not create a health

risk. The pollution of our oceans does. The deployment of low

frequency active sonar by the navy in dolphin prone areas, such as

here in the Hawaiian islands were war games took place for two months

this year using this life threatening technology to all mammals, is

very disruptive to dolphin health and it is diminishing the number of

dolphin pods here and around the islands. Net fishing, which has

killed over one half of the dolphin population since its use began in

the 1950's is also a major threat to dolphin health and the longevity

of the species.

 

So why swim with the dolphins? Scientific studies have been made over

long periods of time in my own backyard, Kealakekua Bay. This bay is

known for dolphin pods regularly entering its naturally protected area

and people swimming here too. It was found that when dolphins entered

the bay and people were present, the dolphins would swim directly to

the humans and interact. They do not try to avoid or to keep a

distance, even though the bay is large and could easily hide a dolphin

pod from human swimmers if the dolphins wanted privacy. But most of

the time they do not! And remember that dolphins can out swim with

ease the fastest human swimmer in the world. It only takes a flick of

their tale to propel them out of site of a over enthusiastic swimmer,

and yet again, they keep coming back to interact and play.

 

In the end, people who come into the wild to meet the dolphins can

honor and respect this species' freedom and their personal space while

gaining all the benefits too. The dolphins have demonstrated beyond

doubt that they enjoy human company, and when we honor them in return,

we can swim eye to eye with a dolphin and feel ourselves transformed

by their joy, trust, intelligence and advanced sonar healing capacity.

Many people who have had this experience then go home inspired to

protect animals and all life forms on the planet. People who have

looked into a dolphin's eyes want to help protect our environment and

go home and do something - becoming activists or active in some way

that contributes to changing abuses of nature.

 

Even dolphins in captive facilities influence countless people to care

more about this planet and all life here. But in striving for a better

world, we must envision and create a reality in which no being must

sacrifice itself for the education of another. Yet we already have

that solution in the wild, in the ocean where we can be with another

intelligently advanced species, the dolphins, and take upon ourselves

the responsibility to protect its health and well being by cleaning up

the oceans and protecting the waters from all man-made dangers.

 

They give us joy and love, we give them a protected and clean home -

this is our real inner-species relationship expressed in balance.

Let's all get to work for our children and for theirs!!

In Peace,

Angelika Whitecliff

www.EQ4Couples.com

 

 

 

, " Joel P. Bowman " <joel wrote:

>

> Angelika...

>

> > International Conflict Resolution Expert claims Dolphin Swims raise

> > Emotional Intelligence sufficiently to help resolve Interpersonal

> > Conflicts.

>

> What I have read suggests that swimming with dolphins is a lot better

> for humans than it is from the dolphins. The dolphins evidently get

skin

> diseases and other infections from their human swimming companions.

> --

>

> ------

> * Joel P. Bowman, Ph.D.**

> /Subtle Communication Systems/

> SCS Matters, LLC*

> Voice: 269-267-1419

> www.scs-matters.com

> *Discover the power of...

> TimeWarp Technologies™* <http://www.scs-matters.com>

>

[Guest guest]

Hello Angelika,

Thank you for your thought provoking post. Could you

elaborate on what you termed " advanced sonar healing capacity. "

regarding the dolphins? - thank you -