“Diana is a photographer and is immersed in a deep crisis due to the breakup of a love relationship. This situation forces her to deeply question her way of relating and the very foundations of her life. A chance encounter leads her to meet a Mapuche shaman to whom she asks for help. The man will introduce her to a new vision of existence. Diana will learn the twelve principles of the “Art of Giving and Taking,” an ancestral wisdom that allows her to understand the delicate balance of which every creature is a part and to which we are all subject. It will teach her about care and about the consequences of breaking this balance. The man's revelations will lead Diana down a path of no return. Her view of herself, of relationships, and of the world will never be the same again. This most of the mistakes that cause relationships to fail.Explains why many attitudes lead to misery and restriction instead of abundance.Brings understanding of why we feel unmotivated for some tasks.Recovers the need to have a good relationship with the planet in order to be happy.It invites us to recover the dialogue with nature, one of the reasons for lack of joy.It deepens more than any other published book on the balance between what we give and what we take—that is, to say the third order in family constellations.This story has been written from a psychological perspective, and the purpose of presenting it as a novel is that the reader can access the contents through emotion; this guarantees learning much more than traditional studying. You learn by empathy with the characters.
“It is a philosophical book that confronts, integrates, and educates. It opens consciousness at all levels of in our intimate relationships, in social, community and environmental issues, and in public and political opinion. The language of the book is modern, appropriate to the time we live in, and also carries the wisdom of the great books that endure over time. It's a universal book!” —Tiiu Bolzmann