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Who Or What is Hathi?... |
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It's Me!!...
People ask, "What does Hathi mean?" and "Why Hathi Therapies?". Well the very simple answer is that Hathi is me!! It's a nickname that I have "Hathi" (it's formally pronounced hah-tee but we say Hatti! Either way the second h is silent!). In fact I often get called Hatti, Hat or even Hatz! Some people know me as Helen and others know me as Hatti!! And I really don't mind either - though people can look a bit puzzled if they don't know!
It first came about when I started volunteering with Scouts and it was felt I should have a nickname to help my children differentiate between my role as Mum and my role as a scout leader. Hathi is a character in jungle book who is an elephant and I have a bit of a 'thing' for elephants!... So the scouts decided that Hathi would be appropriate but as they struggled with the pronunciation Hah-tee, then Hatti stuck!
Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant; an animal highly regarded for its memory, wisdom, and strength. My fondness of elephants, also comes from admiring their natural intuition and empathy.
Just A Bit About Elephants!...
Daphne Sheldrick of DS Wildlife Trust, describes elephants as: "human" animals, encompassed by an invisible aura that reaches deep into the human soul in a mysterious and mystifying way.
They share many human traits; the same span of life, (three score years and ten, all being well) and they develop at a parallel pace so that at any given age an elephant duplicates its human counterpart, through toddlerdom, childhood, adolescence and reaching adulthood at the age of twenty. Elephants also display many of the attributes of humans as well as some of the failings.
They share with us a strong sense of family and death and they feel many of the same emotions. They grieve deeply for lost loved ones, even shedding tears and suffering depression. They have a sense of compassion that projects beyond their own kind and sometimes extends to others in distress. They help one another in adversity, miss an absent loved one, and when you know them really well, you can see that they even smile when having fun and are happy.
They can be happy or sad, volatile or placid. They display envy, jealousy, throw tantrums and are fiercely competitive, and they can develop hang-ups which are reflected in behaviour. They also have many additional attributes we humans lack; incredible long range infra-sound, communicating in voices we never hear, such sophisticated hearing that even a footfall is heard far away, and, of course they have a memory that far surpasses ours and spans a lifetime.
Each one is, like us, a unique individual with its own unique personality.
People ask, "What does Hathi mean?" and "Why Hathi Therapies?". Well the very simple answer is that Hathi is me!! It's a nickname that I have "Hathi" (it's formally pronounced hah-tee but we say Hatti! Either way the second h is silent!). In fact I often get called Hatti, Hat or even Hatz! Some people know me as Helen and others know me as Hatti!! And I really don't mind either - though people can look a bit puzzled if they don't know!
It first came about when I started volunteering with Scouts and it was felt I should have a nickname to help my children differentiate between my role as Mum and my role as a scout leader. Hathi is a character in jungle book who is an elephant and I have a bit of a 'thing' for elephants!... So the scouts decided that Hathi would be appropriate but as they struggled with the pronunciation Hah-tee, then Hatti stuck!
Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant; an animal highly regarded for its memory, wisdom, and strength. My fondness of elephants, also comes from admiring their natural intuition and empathy.
Just A Bit About Elephants!...
Daphne Sheldrick of DS Wildlife Trust, describes elephants as: "human" animals, encompassed by an invisible aura that reaches deep into the human soul in a mysterious and mystifying way.
They share many human traits; the same span of life, (three score years and ten, all being well) and they develop at a parallel pace so that at any given age an elephant duplicates its human counterpart, through toddlerdom, childhood, adolescence and reaching adulthood at the age of twenty. Elephants also display many of the attributes of humans as well as some of the failings.
They share with us a strong sense of family and death and they feel many of the same emotions. They grieve deeply for lost loved ones, even shedding tears and suffering depression. They have a sense of compassion that projects beyond their own kind and sometimes extends to others in distress. They help one another in adversity, miss an absent loved one, and when you know them really well, you can see that they even smile when having fun and are happy.
They can be happy or sad, volatile or placid. They display envy, jealousy, throw tantrums and are fiercely competitive, and they can develop hang-ups which are reflected in behaviour. They also have many additional attributes we humans lack; incredible long range infra-sound, communicating in voices we never hear, such sophisticated hearing that even a footfall is heard far away, and, of course they have a memory that far surpasses ours and spans a lifetime.
Each one is, like us, a unique individual with its own unique personality.
"The proper study of mankind is man, but when one regards the elephant, one wonders."
(attributed to Alexander Pope)
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