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You're listening to the Feathermane Soul Blogcast, an 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,280 audio reading of the blogs posted on Feathermane 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:07,520 Soul. 4 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:11,460 Blogs are read by Kit Kaelstow, spiritual storyteller. 5 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,400 For links or additional information associated with the 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,440 blog, please visit feathermanesoul.com slash blog and 7 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,320 click on the title you're interested in. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,540 Enjoy this blog post. 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,860 Horse Wisdom Blog. 10 00:00:27,260 --> 00:00:29,540 Trusting in something larger than yourself. 11 00:00:30,580 --> 00:00:32,460 Every day my horses tell me about the 12 00:00:32,460 --> 00:00:33,400 power of trust. 13 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:35,680 Whether it's the rescue who lets me love 14 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,160 on her after being standoffish and skittish for 15 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:40,600 so long, or the senior heart horse who 16 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,540 calls for lunch knowing that I'll do whatever 17 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:44,500 it takes to make sure she's cared for. 18 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:47,440 The roly poly baby of the group, who's 19 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,480 12 by the way, lets me hug her 20 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:51,180 and give her all the attention just like 21 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:52,020 her daddy does. 22 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,780 And even the diva tolerates my attention and 23 00:00:54,780 --> 00:00:56,640 is learning that she gets fed and treats 24 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:57,480 when the others do. 25 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,440 For those whose spiritual stories are marred by 26 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,739 trauma, learning to trust, especially in ourselves, can 27 00:01:03,739 --> 00:01:04,420 be difficult. 28 00:01:05,420 --> 00:01:07,880 Where horse wisdom and trust really come into 29 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,180 play is trusting that you're doing the right 30 00:01:10,180 --> 00:01:10,520 thing. 31 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,120 Growing up undiagnosed nor divergent often means that 32 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,060 you're told, rightly or wrongly, that what you're 33 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:16,800 doing is wrong. 34 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,580 Often you're being told that it's because of 35 00:01:19,580 --> 00:01:22,340 your behaviors, be they stimming or getting up 36 00:01:22,340 --> 00:01:24,540 from your seat too much or whatever, are 37 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:26,520 seen as the wrong behaviors in the moment, 38 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,400 even when the behavior isn't hurting anyone. 39 00:01:30,060 --> 00:01:32,320 As an adult, I fear being punished for 40 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,280 something as simple as taking five minutes to 41 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,660 myself or needing to decompress, and obviously that's 42 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:40,560 where the trauma and CPTSD come into play. 43 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,720 I lean on horse wisdom. 44 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:45,000 Watching the horses in the herd, there are 45 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:46,880 times when an interaction between the two of 46 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,340 them, such as the goofy gilding coming into 47 00:01:49,340 --> 00:01:50,920 the pen when I'm about to feed my 48 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,640 senior heart horse, earns pinned ears and maybe 49 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:54,140 a glare. 50 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,020 But goofy gilding doesn't worry that he's doing 51 00:01:57,020 --> 00:01:58,100 the wrong thing in the moment. 52 00:01:58,660 --> 00:02:00,800 He's acting on his intuition and instincts. 53 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,760 I'm there, he might get fed, ergo he 54 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:04,640 goes into the shed. 55 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:06,960 He takes the reprimand in stride. 56 00:02:07,380 --> 00:02:09,820 Hey, we can't all make perfect decisions all 57 00:02:09,820 --> 00:02:10,280 the time. 58 00:02:10,920 --> 00:02:13,040 The trick isn't not to make any decisions 59 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:13,580 at all. 60 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:15,820 It's to understand that the vast majority of 61 00:02:15,820 --> 00:02:17,580 what we do will be the best decision 62 00:02:17,580 --> 00:02:19,920 we can make, and no matter the outcome, 63 00:02:20,060 --> 00:02:22,660 we're working with the best information we have 64 00:02:22,660 --> 00:02:23,820 at the time. 65 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,380 Part of the difference here is that horses 66 00:02:26,380 --> 00:02:27,200 live in the now. 67 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,700 They do learn from their past mistakes, but 68 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:31,460 they also learn from the things they've learned 69 00:02:31,460 --> 00:02:32,140 in the past. 70 00:02:32,580 --> 00:02:34,700 I recently moved where I feed Holly, the 71 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:37,220 rescue, and while she still goes and stands 72 00:02:37,220 --> 00:02:40,020 down where her bucket used to be, after 73 00:02:40,020 --> 00:02:41,700 just a few days I can call her 74 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:43,340 name and she looks and you can see 75 00:02:43,340 --> 00:02:43,920 the process. 76 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,620 My food is up here now, she realizes, 77 00:02:46,620 --> 00:02:48,660 and she comes towards the bucket. 78 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,500 Often she's standing in the right spot, just 79 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:54,320 impatient, and I take too long to get 80 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,320 the bucket to her, so she thinks it's 81 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:57,460 going back to the old spot. 82 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,220 It's not, I'm just slow moving these days. 83 00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:02,300 There are a lot of what would someone 84 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:04,400 do memes going around, with some obvious ones 85 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:05,080 come to mind. 86 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:07,660 One question I'm starting to ask myself is 87 00:03:07,660 --> 00:03:10,560 WWHD, or what would horses do? 88 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,680 You can insert nature, wildlife, or even a 89 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,580 specific animal in that if you want, but 90 00:03:16,580 --> 00:03:18,700 in asking the question I'm aligning myself with 91 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:21,100 my wild spirit, and I'm moving beyond the 92 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:23,080 stories that I've been told, namely that everything 93 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,060 I do is wrong, and the more I 94 00:03:25,060 --> 00:03:27,560 trust myself, the more I trust the horses, 95 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:29,980 the less those messages have a hold on 96 00:03:29,980 --> 00:03:30,260 me. 97 00:03:31,140 --> 00:03:32,600 Want more wisdom from the horses? 98 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,820 Purchase a horse wisdom reading at feathermanesoul.com. 99 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,060 Thank you for listening to this episode of 100 00:03:40,060 --> 00:03:43,560 Feathermanesoul Wisdom Extra, an audio recording of 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