Horses, what amazing animals! I experience each day the spirit, knowing and beauty these animals share with us. It also amazes me how many people have horses and are not yet able to see the amazing brilliance they have. I watch handlers 'tow' their horses around unable to get the understanding of what it feels like to move a balloon instead of a 1000 pounds of lead. With that said I also understand that we cannot understand something that has not yet been shared with us and we cannot see what we are not looking for.
There are ways to teach our horses and learn for ourselves, in very small palatable steps, with grace, peacefulness and reassurance that allows our horse to maintain his dignity while keeping him in a 'learning' frame of mind. This actually applies to us also. When anyone, horse or human is unsure of what will happen and afraid or unsure of who is teaching there is no way that positive input will come of that situation without being tainted with some negativity . When being introduced to new ideas or information the most ideal learning situation is in a calm, reassuring setting with the ability to ask all the questions we would like and not be judge for asking but commended. Horse's ask questions naturally, accept we do not understand that they are asking questions. We take their question asking as being 'bad' or 'uncooperative' - judging them, when in actuality they are usually 9 times out of 10 asking us a question...do you want this or this?
Suspending judgment is an amazing exercise and brings us closer to being sentient beings ourselves. I challenge each of you to work on suspending judgment in your time with your horse and carry that out into your day. To observe what happens and use that input to make different decisions without judging yourself or whatever it is you've observed.
As in all my posts I love to hear from you if what I have written helps you in some way. Email me at spirittools@earthlink.net
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