Understanding what horses represent.

For me personally it’s all about understanding what horses represent.

Understanding their softness, willingness, balance, …

If we are able to understand their presence, their way of being then we are also able to avoid every problem in our interaction with them.

These days many people try to connect and understand horses in different ways.

Trough groundwork, walks in nature, sitting on a pasture, …

But  what I have experienced is that to understand them you have to look at the bigger picture which is life. It’s impossible to understand them profoundly when you turn off a switch when you go back home and take up your daily routine and habits.

If horses thought you that day to stay calm in every situation then try to keep that emotion when you go back home. Don’t think this is only necessary when you are around horses.

I know it asks a lot of discipline, understanding and practice to hold on to this emotion especially sitting in a traffic jam, being around difficult people, … But imagine the strength and calmness you will integrate being able to.

For me this is one of the many thing’s horses can teach us.

They live in a world most us even have no idea it exists.

The older I become the more beautiful they become and the more I understand there way of seeing things.

I still remember my connection with them before it became my work.

When I had no worries, responsibilities, …

I understood them, there was no problem jumping on their back even if I didn’t know them and they were not been ridden before.

I was able to do so because there was no reason for them to be afraid or have trust issues towards me. My energy was in connection with theirs.

Let us say, you put a small baby on a horse. I saw it couple of times happening, people doing this while holding them so they can take a nice picture.

What is the reason horses don’t go crazy that moment even if they are also not been ridden before? They don’t stress or panic that moment because they have love and softness on their back.

Horses don’t think like humans, they feel their surroundings. If everything feels safe then there is no reason to be stressed.

The situation is so that when we grow up we go through a lot of chapters in life which can change or lose our inner connection. We start having fear, lack of confidence, anger, …

If we are now getting around horses it becomes different for both of us. We represent a feeling they don’t trust anymore, therefore difficulties start happening. Our response will be to want even more control over them as a lack of trust so they lose even more confidence towards us. It’s a negative spiral.

So, for me it’s not about finding a nice trick to calm horses down or desensitising them before riding or doing exercises. But about understanding them, becoming that child again who just enjoys being around horses. Feeling their warmth and security they have to offer us.