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Horse Wisdom Blog.
Trusting in something larger than yourself.
Every day my horses tell me about the
power of trust.
Whether it's the rescue who lets me love
on her after being standoffish and skittish for
so long, or the senior heart horse who
calls for lunch knowing that I'll do whatever
it takes to make sure she's cared for.
The roly poly baby of the group, who's
12 by the way, lets me hug her
and give her all the attention just like
her daddy does.
And even the diva tolerates my attention and
is learning that she gets fed and treats
when the others do.
For those whose spiritual stories are marred by
trauma, learning to trust, especially in ourselves, can
be difficult.
Where horse wisdom and trust really come into
play is trusting that you're doing the right
thing.
Growing up undiagnosed nor divergent often means that
you're told, rightly or wrongly, that what you're
doing is wrong.
Often you're being told that it's because of
your behaviors, be they stimming or getting up
from your seat too much or whatever, are
seen as the wrong behaviors in the moment,
even when the behavior isn't hurting anyone.
As an adult, I fear being punished for
something as simple as taking five minutes to
myself or needing to decompress, and obviously that's
where the trauma and CPTSD come into play.
I lean on horse wisdom.
Watching the horses in the herd, there are
times when an interaction between the two of
them, such as the goofy gilding coming into
the pen when I'm about to feed my
senior heart horse, earns pinned ears and maybe
a glare.
But goofy gilding doesn't worry that he's doing
the wrong thing in the moment.
He's acting on his intuition and instincts.
I'm there, he might get fed, ergo he
goes into the shed.
He takes the reprimand in stride.
Hey, we can't all make perfect decisions all
the time.
The trick isn't not to make any decisions
at all.
It's to understand that the vast majority of
what we do will be the best decision
we can make, and no matter the outcome,
we're working with the best information we have
at the time.
Part of the difference here is that horses
live in the now.
They do learn from their past mistakes, but
they also learn from the things they've learned
in the past.
I recently moved where I feed Holly, the
rescue, and while she still goes and stands
down where her bucket used to be, after
just a few days I can call her
name and she looks and you can see
the process.
My food is up here now, she realizes,
and she comes towards the bucket.
Often she's standing in the right spot, just
impatient, and I take too long to get
the bucket to her, so she thinks it's
going back to the old spot.
It's not, I'm just slow moving these days.
There are a lot of what would someone
do memes going around, with some obvious ones
come to mind.
One question I'm starting to ask myself is
WWHD, or what would horses do?
You can insert nature, wildlife, or even a
specific animal in that if you want, but
in asking the question I'm aligning myself with
my wild spirit, and I'm moving beyond the
stories that I've been told, namely that everything
I do is wrong, and the more I
trust myself, the more I trust the horses,
the less those messages have a hold on
me.
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