Naz Ahsun - Discover Your Power Animal: Learn How to Work with Your Animal Guide

For the animals,
with deepest gratitude

First published in Great Britain 2021 by Trigger

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Finally, a beautiful little book that speaks from the voice of the animals, sharing their wisdom and knowledge with us as messengers and teachers of the natural world. Overflowing with in-depth personal experience, Naz shares her unique stories of our animal helpers who choose to walk by our sides as our protectors and guardians.

Barbara Meiklejohn-Free - The Highland Seer
Bestselling and award-Winning author of The Shaman Within,
Shamanic Medicine Oracle Deck, The Shamanic Handbook.

This little book is an easy and informative guide to help us understand and harness the magic of animal medicine. It will tug at the soul of anyone who has an affinity with animals, our co-inhabitants of this planet. Naz has a natural writing style and intuitive connection to the animal kingdom and gives us a very real insight into the magical messages that the animals are trying to tell us, if we will just open our hearts and listen. Finally, the animals have their voice!

Flavia Kate Peters - The Fairy Seer

During these times of rampant industrialised consumerism and technological alienation, human beings have become miserably disconnected from the natural world. This book helps to reconnect. As an intuitive guide, Naz walks along-side the reader encouraging them through this wonderful soul journey of animal medicine. Full of practical tips and methods, this book will equip you with the tools you need for not only a greater connection of the many layers of self but also a deeper connection to the world soul.

Tree Carr, author of DREAMS: How To Connect With Your Dreams
To Enrich Your Life

I love dipping into this little book whenever Im in need of extra inspiration. Reading Discover Your Power Animal is a wonderful ignition to ones own intuition.

Menna Van Praag, author

When I look into the eyes of a gorilla, I feel a deep connection; being in their presence is therapeutic. This book has reaffirmed why I have those feelings and provoked me to delve deeper into discovering the amazing power of animals. It has shown me that the more we connect with animals and protect nature, the better off we are. A remarkable message!

Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, National Geographic Explorer and Founder, Conservation Through Public Health

This is a brilliant little book, which will empower everyone who reads it with an open mind and heart. Naz Ahsun writes clearly and precisely, never preaching but always offering excellent advice. Embrace the wisdom that permeates this book, and move forward to a higher state of consciousness. I thoroughly recommend this amazing book and hope it helps and empowers every reader, as it did for me.

Kit Berry, author of the Stonewylde Series

Oh my goodness what a gem of a book. The inspiration to connect to your chakras and your power animals is ingenious! What insights and BIG ohhhh moments I received. It truly is a book of personal and spiritual discovery. Thank you so much, Naz, for birthing this beautifully crafted and insightful book. I love it!

Caroline Mitchell, Dragon Path Oracle Cards

O ur connection to the animal kingdom has been a continuous love affair. From the earliest history of humankind, we have been dependent on the animal kingdom and nature for our very survival. When we consider the ancient society of the Mesopotamians, the Celts and the indigenous cultures of the world, such as the Salish, Apache and Lakota of North America, the Konkani people of south-western India and the Aborigines of Australia, it is clear that the interdependent relationship between humankind and nature is an ancient one.

Irrespective of our technology-filled world, our connection with and love of animals continues to thrive, whether as cat and dog lovers or through the names we use for clothing brands and cars. Even our language is immersed with animal symbolism for example, in descriptions like as angry as a hornet, as blind as a bat, eager beaver, as free as a bird and so on. When you begin gathering the evidence, it is astonishing really how much we still maintain our connection with the animal kingdom, irrespective of the high-speed, stress-filled ingredients that make up modern-day living.

So, is this just coincidence? Or is there something else at work something beyond the material world and the mechanical function of our minds?

In early 2012, my life was particularly stress-filled. I was racing through my days at high speed, focused solely on my goals. I wasnt particularly satisfied with this lifestyle, as I was essentially existing from one task to the next. No surprise really that my stress levels were high and my sense of wellbeing at an all-time low.

I recall a particular Sunday evening when I was feeling especially down about my job, my home and my life in general. I felt lost, stuck in a quagmire, slowly sinking deeper and deeper. Thats when I decided to call a close friend and ask her advice about how to get my life flowing again.

I dont know quite what I was expecting, but it certainly wasnt the advice she gave me, which felt like something out of Avatar! She suggested I should look for the answers through animal messengers or power animals, as she called them. If I slowed down, tuned into my environment and then asked the universe to send me a message through a power animal, they would appear. But how would I know if the animal was a messenger or just a random sighting, I asked. My friend assured me that I would be able to tell the difference, as the power animal would gain my attention by behaving in an unusual way. I was very dubious but, feeling I had nothing to lose, I decided to give it a go.

The next day, I felt more than a little foolish as I drove to work at half my usual speed, mentally asking the universe to send me a message through a power animal. I wondered how this would happen on a journey that mostly involved motorways. My scepticism seemed justified, as not one animal showed up, not even a gnat. By the time I got to work, my disappointment was complete. I felt beyond stupid and even lower than the night before. How gullible was I? Just as that thought crystalized, a miracle appeared.