Look at horses eyes.
Do you see it?
You should instantly be able to see the horse true identity.
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The horse is baring its soul to the girl…do you see it?
Do you see the love?
See the want.
See the reaching out and meeting with the girl’s soul?
It is enveloping the girl.
Do you see it?
Your soul is your IDENTITY it is eternal.
It clearly defines who you are and carries with it all the important information about who you are and who you have always been in all the lives you have lived.
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Think of a soul as a label on an old bottle of wine.
It states the day it was created
It gives the contents and ingredients
It gives the purpose for existing
It gives instructions how to properly use itSome of us are very close to our souls.
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Come have pushed it away to a small dark corner of ourBeing and covered it with many blankets rendering it mute. I have often heard people say “I Don’t know who I am “
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Bingo….crystal clear indicator they have lost touch with their soul.
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Maybe you have never said it out loud.
Maybe you have only felt it.
But you felt it so deeply, It had weighed heavily like an elephant on your body, and the weight may be unbearable forYou.
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Always there are valid reasons and only you know what they are.
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The concept you haveTo get ready to handle is:
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your horse needs to know them too.
You need to bare your soul to your horse and it is not quite as easy as it sounds.
It will require you to get to know your reasons you behave the way you do today.
Why do certain things compulsively.
Why you avoid certain things fiercely.
Why you are drawn to a certain type of relationship both human and horse.
Why you expect to be treated a certain way both human and horse.
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The last two mentioned above are super powerful and you definitely need to contemplateThem before going further in this book.
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Please take the time to do so now.
Trust me it is reallyImportant.
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You can feel your soul when you instinctively know you don’t belong somewhere. You feel it when you immediately know you are with the wrong person or people.
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Many of us have said…” why am I doing this…why am I acting this way…this is not who I am” still other times we have been drawn to act a certain way but only to be teased and ridiculed by others around us.
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This is powerful thought and should be contemplated for a few minutes…please.
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Feeling out of place does not mean you should never be in that place…it only means you should not be there right now. Later when you are slightly more capable or wise, you may be fine.
You will know when the time is right.
The most common denominator I see with horse owners is……
they don’t listen to that little voice that keeps tapping them on the shoulder and whispering in their ear.
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Your spirit is what excites you. It is what instantly gets your attention and always has your entire life. Your spirit is what guides you, pushes, and pulls you.
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It is what gives you the Strength to run down the path full force.
Your spirit is what literally gives your body the Electric charge to beat the heart each and every time it does.
Team spirit.
The spirit of st. Louis.
The spirit that drives you
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. This is the vital life-giving element we all need to live.
To Breathe.
To exist.
Without it, we cease to exist.
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When the spirit dies there is a void and the Battery is dead. We will die and often do. Depression is the result of loss of spirit and no Medication no matter how strong can fix it.
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We have all been there and hopefully have the Skills to pull out of it in a timely manner. We all have our own way of doing it. It is very Personal. It is true to our own individual skills we have developed in our lifetime for battling Our own individual areas of darkness.
We are not alone.
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Horses too face dark times that are often overwhelming and threaten to do them in, as they do To us.
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Like us they are only simple beings bound to the same rules of the universe as we are
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they too need a healthy spirit to live.
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They too need the same basic principal ingredients to function efficiently.
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They too need love and understanding from someone or something.
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They too need to be understood and admired for their value.
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They too need to be understood.
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They too need to feel wanted.
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They too need to trust someone or something.
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They too need self-confidence.
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They too need a place to go for help.
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The most important reason To become close with your soul Is it is… It is the hinging factor
In your horse fully trusting you.
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It is at the worst times in our lives that we have the best Opportunity to make real and lasting change for the good of our Journey Thru time.
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It is important now to think of what excites you and gives you energy. It is also important to think of what drains your energy. Damages your spirit.
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Look at the things listed above a horse needs.
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Think of how similar they are to your own horse and how to identify them.
Is your horse lacking one of them?
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Are you lacking one of them?
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Go thru them one by one and write down exactly what you feel in your heart concerning each one.
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Make sure you write what you feel about your horse and yourself. Use the entire next page to let it all spill out and don’t worry about making sense right now.
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Your horse needs you
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They need to play and be silly with you.
They need you to be their friend, protector and adviser.
They need to to listen to them and forgive them when they too are Not perfect.
And make critical lapses injudgment Just as we do all the time.
We are all so easily distracted by society and the concerns of ordaily life when we are with our horse. Many of us do not even realize this…but believe me your horsedoes and it will always be an obstacle in the road you and your horse are traveling down together
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Why do I have a horse? ________________.
What do I need from a horse? ___________________.
Am I getting it? ________________________.
Is my horse getting what they need from me? ____________If not, why__.
Why do I love my horse? __________.
I trust my horse when___________________.
I do not. Not trust my horse when______________________.
The little things my horse does that makes me the happiest is_______.
My horse really likes it when I _________________.
If I could take away a bad memory from my horse it would be________.
My own bad memory to delete would be________
If I met a magic genie and got just one wish to apply to my horse it would be____________.
My horses wish would be__________.
I know this because__________________ .
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WHY… WE ARE DRAWN… TO HORSES
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Horses have been my constant source of strength even when I did not have them in my life.I use the valuable lessons They teach me And the love they store In my heart To handle the challenges Of my life.
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It is so interesting when I see young children come to our farm for the first time. Each one has such a very unique reaction.
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Some are fascinated my horses.
Some cannot keep their hands off.
Some do not want to get close and still some want to just stare at them and have no clue at all what to make of them.
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It really is fascinating to me. When I was a young child I did not trust people or like them at all for reasons that are not so relevant to this book. I believe it is that very reason I was pulled so strongly to horses. From the first time I walked up to one I felt the pull. I did not know what it was, I only knew it was different and it was interesting. It was not until a few weeks later that I began to open myself up to one special horse and my spirit shot off in a direction it had never gone before.
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If I had only known where that magic carpet would take me. I never would have believed it.
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Learning to start over May not be possible
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a horses eyes are a window to finding your own soul if you set your spirit free to guide you.You have tried and tried and tried and nothing seems to be helping you and your horse.
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You are frustrated and there is nothing that will help. You feel you spirit losing its footing and sliding away. The reason why you struggle to resolve the hardships In your present day Is because you have not learned to resolve The hardships you suffered Early in life…Or not beenwilling to face them, It is at this point you have to make a choice that will affect the rest of your life and all the relationships you have with horses from here on in.
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You must make a decision to face the demons of your past or not to.
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It breaks my heart to think of all the horses that are out there right now suffering at the hands of people who have not come to terms with the past.
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I see it so often and it is not my place to point it out to people…but you have the opportunity right now in this very moment while you are sitting here reading this book to do something all those other people cannot.
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You can see the big picture.
You can see yourself and everything around you
You can see how you react to things and why
You can see the need for a change
You can see the need for you to play a greater role in your horses life
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You can see you do not have it to offer them
You can see but not far enough. Not clear enough, not quickly enough. All you can see is a sea of drifting feelings, Moods, actions, reactions, regrets and repression. All you know is you have had enough.
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Now is when you must decide to open the closet doorand fight the boogieman or not Write your decision . My decision is____________.
The things I think I can try to change to let my spirit free are_______.
The things I know I am not strong enough yet to face are_________.
If I find a horse I am dealing with has gone thru similar issues I will _____.
The safest place for me right now is _____.
The safest place for my horse is __________.
The best memory of my entire life is___________.
My horses best memory of their entire life is _________ .
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OFFER UP YOUR PAIN & YOU WILL GAIN
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Do you see the smile ?There are certain laws of physics and metaphysics that are undeniable.There is no way around elements such as gravity, oxygen, daylight, nutrition, the earth’smagnetic field.
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Our own magnetic field, our emotions and our heartbeat for examples. If anyone of these are interrupted, life as we know it is drastically different. Sometimes not at allpossible and we will cease to exist.
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Animals rely on many of the same guiding principles to liveas we do. Granted a horse raised in the wild plains of the Nevada desert relies on a fewdifferent principals because they have never seen humans before but in general, regardless ofbeing domestic or wild, we both require many of the same elements for viability. Horses andhumans both have the remarkable ability to be both emotionally strong and emotionallyfragile at the same time.
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Many people I deal with never realize how deeply their horsescontemplate their own existence and self worth on a daily basis. Even more so when they arehandled on a daily basis such as for shores show training.
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The typical horse I see, carries with them, many of the same burdens we humans do; and just like us, they try to repress and notdeal with them in order to make life easier on a daily basis.
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Just like us, horses have mentalbreaks and become overwhelmed with situations and act out in many of the same ways we do.
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The biggest difference being the whole language thing. Setting that aside…the biggest conflicthorses and humans both have and strangely enough never seems to ever be recognized ispain. Pain is a consistent conflict because it interrupts the normal thought pattern and thenormal smooth, serene flow of life.
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For a horse…There are so many different kinds of pain
There is physical pain from ill fitting tack or riders equipment.
There is physical pain from an injury sometimes from years ago and nobody knows about it.
There is physical pain from an infected or abscessed tooth.
There is physical pain from an illness or disease.
There is physical pain from tired sore muscles or strained and pulled muscles, tendons,ligaments.
There is mental pain from knowing you have to do something today you really hate. There is mental pain from hating the person that is around you all the time.
There is mental pain from not being able to understand what a human is trying to force you tolearn.
There is mental pain from hating the stall you live in
There is mental pain from hating the food you eat or not having enough of it.
There is emotional pain from missing your home and stable mates while you are in a trainingbarn
There is emotional pain from bad dreams so bad they disrupt daily life.
There is emotional pain from watching a stable mate be hurt, whipped, beaten, etc and beinghelpless to stop it.
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stop….change.
Learning to recognize a horse in pain Is easier than recognizing your own pain. It is easier and it will open the gateway to a universe not many people are privileged to be a part of.
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Having an honest an real concern for a horse is more than just recognizing a certain condition as a vet does. Putting the well being of a horse before your own will give you an insight reserved for only the most special of horse lovers.
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This insight is empowered by the spirit of the horse you are working with and the spirits of all the other horse spirits trying to help you be a benefit to the horses you work with. There are millions of horse spirits out there are watching all of us and waiting to help us in caring for their brethren.
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They will take any opportunity they see, to make the lives of horses here, in this existence, better and more pleasant. The horses we see on a daily basis are aware of the spirit guides and interact with them.
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Have you ever noticed you horse staring intently off into space at seemingly absolutely nothing? Well it is not nothing. It is the other horse spirits coming and going and playing with each other.
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You can have the same sight if you wish. If you completely give yourself and all your energy day and night to the horse spirit guides. Giving them this energy will empower them to communicate more strongly with you. They must draw their energy from somewhere.
Let it be you.
You have a choice to recognize them,
to feel them,
to sense them and let their energy and your become one and stay that way for the rest of your life.
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Please take a moment right now.
Close your eyes and try to sense the horse spirits that are thereWith you right now.
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I promise they are there watching you reading this book hoping you will progress and graduate to a new awareness closer to them.
Greet them.
Say hello.
I know you are there.
I am trying to communicate with you.
i am Trying to sense you.
Tying to feel you.
I am trying.
Please help me.
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Take and use my energy to be strong and give me a thought right now.
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Just one thought. Please right now.
I am trying so hard.
Be still.
Wait.
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Then write down the message you get.
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That little voice In your headThis picture was taken of me and a young three year old PERCHERON gelding. Yes we are ona flatbed trailer. The horse you see in this picture was telling me he wanted to climb on thistrailer. I could not believe it and thought it too dangerous to I ignored that little voice in myhead.
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I said it was just my own stupid voice trying to pull a stunt with a horse. My adventurous nature has always gotten me into trouble and I have learned to keep it in check over the years. Every day I kept hearing the voice and the thought of getting on that stupid trailer, was so intense at times, it made me break out in a sweat. Gosh…what the heck?
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After several weeks I, me Sara shalda, relented. I led my gelding over to the trailer to climb on it. Before I could even get on it myself, my gelding leaped on top of the trailer with an enormous smile on his face.
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I have no words in my human vocabulary to express my emotions at that moment.
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It was then I became aware of that little voice in my head.
That annoying, irritating little pest that would not go away was my horse.
Wow.
Talk about a paradigm shift.
Holy….. cow.
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I spent the next several days apologizing to my friend for ignoring his spirit that was trying to communicate with me. As usual the horse forgave me much quicker than I forgave myself.
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That little voice.
What a mystery I thought.
What a completely confusing concept to deal with. How do I know if what I am hearing and sensing as a thought in my brain… is coming from my horse…or from me? I wondered and I wondered and I wondered.
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Then one day it hit me like ten ton of bricks when my horse nickered to me… as I walked up to him.
“Just ask me he said.”
It about brought me to my knees.
How could I be so stupid?
I still had a lot to learn and I needed help.
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That is when I started to develop a much more intense communication with my horse. I started using mental telepathy as we know and understand it to stay in constant contact with my horse no matter where I was during the day or night.
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At first I did this only to see how far the connection would go, what distance it would carry before breaking.
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It never broke no matter how far I was away from him. Now that I have sold him, I have told him I cannot be tuned into him anymore because it is too painful for me to be without him.
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It literally would flatten me on the floor and completely debilitate me if I truly let myself feel how much I miss him.
So I do not.
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I ask him to not communicate with me due my my overly sensitive state and it will cause me too much pain.
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He understands and keeps away until a time comes when I am stronger and have a better grasp on my new found sensitivity.
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I do not know when that day will come.
It is reassuring to know he understands and it is because my love for him is so great I have to block him out.“
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A horse comes around every so often That completely turns your whole world upside down”.
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Do you have a little voice in your head that has been trying to tell you something over the last few days?
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Please use the next few lines to think and write down your thoughts regarding this. Exactly what horse this little voice is coming from and how you have responded to it up to this point and how you are going to respond in the future.
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THAT CONSTANT TUG ON YOUR HEART…I put extra photos in this chapter because sight is the easiest way horses have to communicate theneed for our help.
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Over and over again I see horses reaching out to people with a look. A singlelook with so much energy and spiritual pull behind it. A look that is screaming for help.
Why won’t anybody help me?
Why doesn’t anyone care?
Why don’t you love me?
What do I have to do to get someone to save me?
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After the horse tries for a usually long time repeatedly to ask for help…they like us…give upand say to themselves…Nobody cares….Nobody will help me…It‟s no use to cry for help…Thereis no hope…I just want to die and get it over with…The suffering is too great.
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It happens every day to many animals and people around the world in ways we cannot evenimagine in the darkest corners of our mind unless we have actually been there to witness it.
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Please be aware once you open yourself up to the spiritual world of horses …you will be ableto sense all…all the pain they feel. The good with the bad. You will get it all and you must beprepared for that fact. It is extremely difficult and a great burden to bear.
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Horses look around and what do they see.
They see other horses. Are those other horses going to help them?
They look around and they see us. Are we going to help them?
What does your horse see when he looks at you?
If you were a horse…how would you ask for help?
What would you do if someone was hurting you
If you were a horse spirit, how would you get a horse owners attention?
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Memories
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The above horse recipient of his owner uncontrollable temperCan you feel this horses pain?We all have them. Good and bad, we all deal with them differently. I personally never talkabout mine which makes this book even more remarkable than it already is. .
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How can you tellwhen a difficult time in your life is a direct result of an earlier event? This is a question onlyyou will be able to know. If anyone professes know, they are full it.
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Many of us are recovering from extreme difficulties in our lives right now. We are amazed weare still here and actually doing as well as we are right now, myself included.
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As a professional horse trainer, my job is to make winning blue ribbons look effortless and soeasy to attain. It’s not the process; it’s the outcome that wins blue ribbons. Bla bla bla.
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I would not be who I am today if I had not been through my own personal hell as a humanbeing. Each one of us must endure his or her own nightmare once in a while.Horses too face catastrophic challenges.
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The difference here is….. Horses are not at the top of the food chain…we are. Try as they may to lead a pain free life, it is up to us in the end to hurt them or to heal them. The above photo is the result of a human who took his aggression out on a horse and onepicture truly does tell a thousand words Above is a horse that was in the wrong place at the wrong time in Iraq. This horse was left to die in the desert when the owners no longer wanted it.It is important right now to write down what you are sensing…. and the thought you arebeing given.
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When horses are angry…..
I used this photo here because it perfectly demonstrates my point of human ignorance. .
The people obviously took this picture because they thought it was funny.
Do you?
The pony would love nothing more than for that fence to not be there so he could stop the torment from this child.
I’m sure this pony has endured years of other torment which let to this extreme unnatural aggressiveness. Horses are not naturally aggressive.
Not one iota.
Even when stallions fight over breeding right in the wild they rarely seriously hurt each other.
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Horses have so may signal indicators which tell others how they are felling. When they are getting fed up and angry. They have these indicators to ward off confrontation. .
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Horses do not, repeat do not like confrontation. They have no sharp canine teeth for ripping flesh from their opponent. They have no sharp claws in which to tear and attack with.
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They have nostinger, no quills. No stink glands.
Nothing. They have virtually no defenses.
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Never really thought about it like that have you?
Well horses have and they tell me all the time how defenseless they are. How frustrating it is to endure the same torture day in and day out.
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There are so many different scenarios.
I have tried to give you as many as I could in this book but the truly desired will of the spirits who let me to write this book is for you to recognize and handle the instances on your own. Learnto see with your own eyes the white flags and hear with your own spirit the SOS of horses that cross you path.
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What would make you so upset that the only relief you could find is to chew on wood? If you looked around and saw other horses being hurt…….what would you do if you were ahorse?
Helpless and fearful.
It‟s coming and I must endure itPhotographs are memories locked in time.
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They are powerful sensory experiencesUse each one of these photos independently to feel each memoryPain is powerful and its residual energy is eternal HandsHorses don’t have hands but trust me…they wish they did. All of them.
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Every single time, you pet a horse; endorphins in the both human and the horse are released. Endorphins are a powerful chemical the body produces by itself. They are more powerful than any other drug on the planet.
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The obvious question of how do horses scratch an itch often makes us laugh because images of horse going thru allkinds of contortions to scratch that one special itch come to mind and some of them are pretty hysterical .
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Every single horse I meet a new horse, they tell me
being petted is their favorite thing.
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Many enjoy a hug or two but always petting and stroking like a mother broodmare licking her foal is what they want desperately.
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Ever since a horse gave me this analogy about being licked by its mother, it is always what I try to make my hand feel like …when I am petting a horse… and they can tell…when I do it .
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Our hands can hurt a horse when the grip the reins too tightly and smash a bit up against a horses teeth, another consistent complaint I have from horses. This action is never intentional on the part of the human, well almost never intentional. A major realization I had one day is that most people who abuse horses are helpless in the world to defend themselves so they pick on their horse.
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Usually not to flat out be cruel…but instead just to empower themselves.
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This is a powerful statement because most of us at one time or another have had to swallow our pride and do things in this world just to survive and usually keep our job or keep other people happy or avoid conflict.
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There just nothing I can do about it we say, and go on.
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All those humbling and humiliating experiences are stored away and some spilling out when we find out we can gain power over a large creature like a horse.
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We have bits, spurs, whips, twitches, tie downs, head checks, ankle chains, etc. So many ways we can manipulate a horse to behave the way we want.
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So what do all these unfortunate but true facts have to do with hands?.
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I once asked a horse a question very casually in passing and the answer stopped me dead in my tracks.
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I asked the horse…“What is the first thing you would do if you had hands?” Expecting them to say something like scratch my butt or my belly.
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But instead the horse said…I would put a bit in my owners mouth and slam that hard piece of metal in to their teeth over and over again and watch in sheer delight as they were trapped in a standing martingale and could not evade the painful shocks to their nervous system
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Please please please tell her to stop it, I beg you please.
What the heck?
Whoa…Not again. Here I go again having to save another horse crying out to me for help.
Geeze I hate this. It is too hard.
The owner is going to be a real bi&^% and think I am crazy but what else can I do.
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This poor horse is looking to me for help.
Nobody else can hear this horse.
Nobody else can help him.
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It is a this time the horse gives me his pain so I can first hand feel for myself exactly what the horse is going thru.
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The first time this happened was with that pony years and years ago and it was difficult beyond words.
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This time I had more experience but the pain was unfortunately all too familiar and all to similar to the ponies.
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All I asked for was a closer relationship to my horse and her I find myself in this mess again.
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I guess you have to take the good with the bad…Right?
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Would your horse benefit from bringing their stress levels down, or perhaps some additional therapy to aid an ailment or injury they have.
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Meeting of the spirits should be accepted or refused at the horses consent rather than with the owners request. A horse may accept or reject the offer. Their sense is extraordinary. They are far more able to know what they want and need. Some people know this spiritual union as Reiki.
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Horses regard Reiki along the same pleasure lines as food, hay and grooming. It is quite unusual to find a rejection.
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A refusal is usually to do with trust. If trust has been lacking in the history of the animal… They won‟t trust us to do anything for them other than abuse & insult. In this situation, Reiki will then be administered directly to the situation surrounding and causing the anguish …Rather than directly to the animal.
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The situation can be calmed down. Balance restored to the horses soul and spirit. Weaning Foals who need calming and stability in their lives after being removed from the only protection they have ever known, always benefit from Reiki or “hands. Ever since my own experience with this personally I use it with every single baby I come in training with. This is also useful in the treatment of injuries and behavioral problems, such as bad backs, wounds, head shaking, and problems associated with past traumatic experience. I see Horses suffering stress which cause imbalances in various ways. These imbalances can produce sudden out of character habits – rearing, nipping or bucking for example.
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Becoming one and loving your horse helps the body to heal itself. Re-balancing the areas where it is needed most. I also use it prior competition to relax the horse both physically and mentally. I can personally testify to this working. It is a must for me before every horse show. I personally re-double my efforts to communicate how much I need their cooperation and willingness to put extra effort into this event. Horses love Reiki and absorb energy very quickly.
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They often go into state of relaxation. They are very good at telling you when they have had enough! Reiki can also be given over the stable door for horses that are very nervous or difficult to handle. Used hand in hand with my everyday training methods, Reiki or becoming one with the horse spirits that surround me at all times always proves to be an invaluable tool. Some horses can take a long time to „come down‟ from a specific situation like excitement, nervousness or fear.
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There is a much kinder, effective and quicker way of getting your horse to do what you want. It is quite simple – you ask, and then make it easy for the horse to get it right. If you get is wrong, your horse will tell you.
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Correct it, and then ask again.
Wait for your horse to help you.
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Horses are born with this ability. So are you but you have never developed it until now. Body language is paramount. In the wild this is the primary way of communicating within the herd. You can see this if you watch horses in a paddock together. Direct eye contact, standing square, or dropping your eyes and shoulders all have very strong meanings in the horses world. Most of my clients only see the obvious, ears forward means happy, ears back means beware. There is much more than that.
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You can better communicate using positive body language. If you can recognize and communicate with your horse this way, you have overcome the biggest hurdle. You are talking to them in their language. Hence the term „horse whisperers‟.
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There is no black magic involved. It is logical and „natural‟.
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When you use this new found togetherness during the training of a horse, the end result is achieved much quicker, with far less anguish for the horse and trainer. It is especially important when working with many different breeds and many different horses as I do on a daily basis. I can accomplish in an hour what it takes other trainers weeks to do.
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Problems such as horses loading in a trailer can take hours. All too are often caused by your own negative body language and spiritual negativity.
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You just know your horse is going to be an ass about getting into the trailer…Your horse just knows you are going to be an ass about him not wanting to get into the trailer…. The clash of the titans ensues.
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You stand in front of the horse look him in the eye, which tells him to back off, and you then pull, he pulls right back. Negative versus negative. Ever try to put two negative ends of a magnet together?
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This is a very simple, non intrusive and extremely powerful process.
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There is no bodily pressure or manipulation, making it ideal for working with all conditions. The key here is just t treat your horse the way you would want to be treated. I know that can be hard when you lose your temper or are in a hurry.
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You must practice loading just like you practice riding. Please take a moment right now and wite down your experiences with negative energy.
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Learning to start over May not be possible
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a horses eyes are a window to finding your own soul if you set your spirit free to guide you.You have tried and tried and tried and nothing seems to be helping you and your horse.
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You are frustrated and there is nothing that will help. You feel you spirit losing its footing and sliding away. The reason why you struggle to resolve the hardships In your present day Is because you have not learned to resolve The hardships you suffered Early in life…Or not beenwilling to face them, It is at this point you have to make a choice that will affect the rest of your life and all the relationships you have with horses from here on in.
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You must make a decision to face the demons of your past or not to.
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It breaks my heart to think of all the horses that are out there right now suffering at the hands of people who have not come to terms with the past.
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I see it so often and it is not my place to point it out to people…but you have the opportunity right now in this very moment while you are sitting here reading this book to do something all those other people cannot.
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You can see the big picture.
You can see yourself and everything around you
You can see how you react to things and why
You can see the need for a change
You can see the need for you to play a greater role in your horses life
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You can see you do not have it to offer them
You can see but not far enough. Not clear enough, not quickly enough. All you can see is a sea of drifting feelings, Moods, actions, reactions, regrets and repression. All you know is you have had enough.
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Now is when you must decide to open the closet doorand fight the boogieman or not Write your decision . My decision is____________.
The things I think I can try to change to let my spirit free are_______.
The things I know I am not strong enough yet to face are_________.
If I find a horse I am dealing with has gone thru similar issues I will _____.
The safest place for me right now is _____.
The safest place for my horse is __________.
The best memory of my entire life is___________.
My horses best memory of their entire life is _________ .
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OFFER UP YOUR PAIN & YOU WILL GAIN
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Do you see the smile ?There are certain laws of physics and metaphysics that are undeniable.There is no way around elements such as gravity, oxygen, daylight, nutrition, the earth’smagnetic field.
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Our own magnetic field, our emotions and our heartbeat for examples. If anyone of these are interrupted, life as we know it is drastically different. Sometimes not at allpossible and we will cease to exist.
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Animals rely on many of the same guiding principles to liveas we do. Granted a horse raised in the wild plains of the Nevada desert relies on a fewdifferent principals because they have never seen humans before but in general, regardless ofbeing domestic or wild, we both require many of the same elements for viability. Horses andhumans both have the remarkable ability to be both emotionally strong and emotionallyfragile at the same time.
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Many people I deal with never realize how deeply their horsescontemplate their own existence and self worth on a daily basis. Even more so when they arehandled on a daily basis such as for shores show training.
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The typical horse I see, carries with them, many of the same burdens we humans do; and just like us, they try to repress and notdeal with them in order to make life easier on a daily basis.
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Just like us, horses have mentalbreaks and become overwhelmed with situations and act out in many of the same ways we do.
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The biggest difference being the whole language thing. Setting that aside…the biggest conflicthorses and humans both have and strangely enough never seems to ever be recognized ispain. Pain is a consistent conflict because it interrupts the normal thought pattern and thenormal smooth, serene flow of life.
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For a horse…There are so many different kinds of pain
There is physical pain from ill fitting tack or riders equipment.
There is physical pain from an injury sometimes from years ago and nobody knows about it.
There is physical pain from an infected or abscessed tooth.
There is physical pain from an illness or disease.
There is physical pain from tired sore muscles or strained and pulled muscles, tendons,ligaments.
There is mental pain from knowing you have to do something today you really hate. There is mental pain from hating the person that is around you all the time.
There is mental pain from not being able to understand what a human is trying to force you tolearn.
There is mental pain from hating the stall you live in
There is mental pain from hating the food you eat or not having enough of it.
There is emotional pain from missing your home and stable mates while you are in a trainingbarn
There is emotional pain from bad dreams so bad they disrupt daily life.
There is emotional pain from watching a stable mate be hurt, whipped, beaten, etc and beinghelpless to stop it.
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Learning to recognize a horse in pain Is easier than recognizing your own pain. It is easier and it will open the gateway to a universe not many people are privileged to be a part of.
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Having an honest an real concern for a horse is more than just recognizing a certain condition as a vet does. Putting the well being of a horse before your own will give you an insight reserved for only the most special of horse lovers.
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This insight is empowered by the spirit of the horse you are working with and the spirits of all the other horse spirits trying to help you be a benefit to the horses you work with. There are millions of horse spirits out there are watching all of us and waiting to help us in caring for their brethren.
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They will take any opportunity they see, to make the lives of horses here, in this existence, better and more pleasant. The horses we see on a daily basis are aware of the spirit guides and interact with them.
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Have you ever noticed you horse staring intently off into space at seemingly absolutely nothing? Well it is not nothing. It is the other horse spirits coming and going and playing with each other.
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You can have the same sight if you wish. If you completely give yourself and all your energy day and night to the horse spirit guides. Giving them this energy will empower them to communicate more strongly with you. They must draw their energy from somewhere.
Let it be you.
You have a choice to recognize them,
to feel them,
to sense them and let their energy and your become one and stay that way for the rest of your life.
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Please take a moment right now.
Close your eyes and try to sense the horse spirits that are thereWith you right now.
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I promise they are there watching you reading this book hoping you will progress and graduate to a new awareness closer to them.
Greet them.
Say hello.
I know you are there.
I am trying to communicate with you.
i am Trying to sense you.
Tying to feel you.
I am trying.
Please help me.
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Take and use my energy to be strong and give me a thought right now.
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Just one thought. Please right now.
I am trying so hard.
Be still.
Wait.
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Then write down the message you get.
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That little voice In your headThis picture was taken of me and a young three year old PERCHERON gelding. Yes we are ona flatbed trailer. The horse you see in this picture was telling me he wanted to climb on thistrailer. I could not believe it and thought it too dangerous to I ignored that little voice in myhead.
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I said it was just my own stupid voice trying to pull a stunt with a horse. My adventurous nature has always gotten me into trouble and I have learned to keep it in check over the years. Every day I kept hearing the voice and the thought of getting on that stupid trailer, was so intense at times, it made me break out in a sweat. Gosh…what the heck?
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After several weeks I, me Sara shalda, relented. I led my gelding over to the trailer to climb on it. Before I could even get on it myself, my gelding leaped on top of the trailer with an enormous smile on his face.
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I have no words in my human vocabulary to express my emotions at that moment.
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It was then I became aware of that little voice in my head.
That annoying, irritating little pest that would not go away was my horse.
Wow.
Talk about a paradigm shift.
Holy….. cow.
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I spent the next several days apologizing to my friend for ignoring his spirit that was trying to communicate with me. As usual the horse forgave me much quicker than I forgave myself.
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That little voice.
What a mystery I thought.
What a completely confusing concept to deal with. How do I know if what I am hearing and sensing as a thought in my brain… is coming from my horse…or from me? I wondered and I wondered and I wondered.
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Then one day it hit me like ten ton of bricks when my horse nickered to me… as I walked up to him.
“Just ask me he said.”
It about brought me to my knees.
How could I be so stupid?
I still had a lot to learn and I needed help.
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That is when I started to develop a much more intense communication with my horse. I started using mental telepathy as we know and understand it to stay in constant contact with my horse no matter where I was during the day or night.
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At first I did this only to see how far the connection would go, what distance it would carry before breaking.
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It never broke no matter how far I was away from him. Now that I have sold him, I have told him I cannot be tuned into him anymore because it is too painful for me to be without him.
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It literally would flatten me on the floor and completely debilitate me if I truly let myself feel how much I miss him.
So I do not.
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I ask him to not communicate with me due my my overly sensitive state and it will cause me too much pain.
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He understands and keeps away until a time comes when I am stronger and have a better grasp on my new found sensitivity.
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I do not know when that day will come.
It is reassuring to know he understands and it is because my love for him is so great I have to block him out.“
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A horse comes around every so often That completely turns your whole world upside down”.
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Do you have a little voice in your head that has been trying to tell you something over the last few days?
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Please use the next few lines to think and write down your thoughts regarding this. Exactly what horse this little voice is coming from and how you have responded to it up to this point and how you are going to respond in the future.
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THAT CONSTANT TUG ON YOUR HEART…I put extra photos in this chapter because sight is the easiest way horses have to communicate theneed for our help.
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Over and over again I see horses reaching out to people with a look. A singlelook with so much energy and spiritual pull behind it. A look that is screaming for help.
Why won’t anybody help me?
Why doesn’t anyone care?
Why don’t you love me?
What do I have to do to get someone to save me?
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After the horse tries for a usually long time repeatedly to ask for help…they like us…give upand say to themselves…Nobody cares….Nobody will help me…It‟s no use to cry for help…Thereis no hope…I just want to die and get it over with…The suffering is too great.
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It happens every day to many animals and people around the world in ways we cannot evenimagine in the darkest corners of our mind unless we have actually been there to witness it.
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Please be aware once you open yourself up to the spiritual world of horses …you will be ableto sense all…all the pain they feel. The good with the bad. You will get it all and you must beprepared for that fact. It is extremely difficult and a great burden to bear.
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Horses look around and what do they see.
They see other horses. Are those other horses going to help them?
They look around and they see us. Are we going to help them?
What does your horse see when he looks at you?
If you were a horse…how would you ask for help?
What would you do if someone was hurting you
If you were a horse spirit, how would you get a horse owners attention?
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Memories
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The above horse recipient of his owner uncontrollable temperCan you feel this horses pain?We all have them. Good and bad, we all deal with them differently. I personally never talkabout mine which makes this book even more remarkable than it already is. .
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How can you tellwhen a difficult time in your life is a direct result of an earlier event? This is a question onlyyou will be able to know. If anyone professes know, they are full it.
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Many of us are recovering from extreme difficulties in our lives right now. We are amazed weare still here and actually doing as well as we are right now, myself included.
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As a professional horse trainer, my job is to make winning blue ribbons look effortless and soeasy to attain. It’s not the process; it’s the outcome that wins blue ribbons. Bla bla bla.
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I would not be who I am today if I had not been through my own personal hell as a humanbeing. Each one of us must endure his or her own nightmare once in a while.Horses too face catastrophic challenges.
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The difference here is….. Horses are not at the top of the food chain…we are. Try as they may to lead a pain free life, it is up to us in the end to hurt them or to heal them. The above photo is the result of a human who took his aggression out on a horse and onepicture truly does tell a thousand words Above is a horse that was in the wrong place at the wrong time in Iraq. This horse was left to die in the desert when the owners no longer wanted it.It is important right now to write down what you are sensing…. and the thought you arebeing given.
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When horses are angry…..
I used this photo here because it perfectly demonstrates my point of human ignorance. .
The people obviously took this picture because they thought it was funny.
Do you?
The pony would love nothing more than for that fence to not be there so he could stop the torment from this child.
I’m sure this pony has endured years of other torment which let to this extreme unnatural aggressiveness. Horses are not naturally aggressive.
Not one iota.
Even when stallions fight over breeding right in the wild they rarely seriously hurt each other.
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Horses have so may signal indicators which tell others how they are felling. When they are getting fed up and angry. They have these indicators to ward off confrontation. .
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Horses do not, repeat do not like confrontation. They have no sharp canine teeth for ripping flesh from their opponent. They have no sharp claws in which to tear and attack with.
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They have nostinger, no quills. No stink glands.
Nothing. They have virtually no defenses.
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Never really thought about it like that have you?
Well horses have and they tell me all the time how defenseless they are. How frustrating it is to endure the same torture day in and day out.
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There are so many different scenarios.
I have tried to give you as many as I could in this book but the truly desired will of the spirits who let me to write this book is for you to recognize and handle the instances on your own. Learnto see with your own eyes the white flags and hear with your own spirit the SOS of horses that cross you path.
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What would make you so upset that the only relief you could find is to chew on wood? If you looked around and saw other horses being hurt…….what would you do if you were ahorse?
Helpless and fearful.
It‟s coming and I must endure itPhotographs are memories locked in time.
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They are powerful sensory experiencesUse each one of these photos independently to feel each memoryPain is powerful and its residual energy is eternal HandsHorses don’t have hands but trust me…they wish they did. All of them.
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Every single time, you pet a horse; endorphins in the both human and the horse are released. Endorphins are a powerful chemical the body produces by itself. They are more powerful than any other drug on the planet.
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The obvious question of how do horses scratch an itch often makes us laugh because images of horse going thru allkinds of contortions to scratch that one special itch come to mind and some of them are pretty hysterical .
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Every single horse I meet a new horse, they tell me
being petted is their favorite thing.
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Many enjoy a hug or two but always petting and stroking like a mother broodmare licking her foal is what they want desperately.
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Ever since a horse gave me this analogy about being licked by its mother, it is always what I try to make my hand feel like …when I am petting a horse… and they can tell…when I do it .
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Our hands can hurt a horse when the grip the reins too tightly and smash a bit up against a horses teeth, another consistent complaint I have from horses. This action is never intentional on the part of the human, well almost never intentional. A major realization I had one day is that most people who abuse horses are helpless in the world to defend themselves so they pick on their horse.
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Usually not to flat out be cruel…but instead just to empower themselves.
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This is a powerful statement because most of us at one time or another have had to swallow our pride and do things in this world just to survive and usually keep our job or keep other people happy or avoid conflict.
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There just nothing I can do about it we say, and go on.
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All those humbling and humiliating experiences are stored away and some spilling out when we find out we can gain power over a large creature like a horse.
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We have bits, spurs, whips, twitches, tie downs, head checks, ankle chains, etc. So many ways we can manipulate a horse to behave the way we want.
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So what do all these unfortunate but true facts have to do with hands?.
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I once asked a horse a question very casually in passing and the answer stopped me dead in my tracks.
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I asked the horse…“What is the first thing you would do if you had hands?” Expecting them to say something like scratch my butt or my belly.
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But instead the horse said…I would put a bit in my owners mouth and slam that hard piece of metal in to their teeth over and over again and watch in sheer delight as they were trapped in a standing martingale and could not evade the painful shocks to their nervous system
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Please please please tell her to stop it, I beg you please.
What the heck?
Whoa…Not again. Here I go again having to save another horse crying out to me for help.
Geeze I hate this. It is too hard.
The owner is going to be a real bi&^% and think I am crazy but what else can I do.
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This poor horse is looking to me for help.
Nobody else can hear this horse.
Nobody else can help him.
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It is a this time the horse gives me his pain so I can first hand feel for myself exactly what the horse is going thru.
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The first time this happened was with that pony years and years ago and it was difficult beyond words.
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This time I had more experience but the pain was unfortunately all too familiar and all to similar to the ponies.
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All I asked for was a closer relationship to my horse and her I find myself in this mess again.
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I guess you have to take the good with the bad…Right?
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Would your horse benefit from bringing their stress levels down, or perhaps some additional therapy to aid an ailment or injury they have.
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Meeting of the spirits should be accepted or refused at the horses consent rather than with the owners request. A horse may accept or reject the offer. Their sense is extraordinary. They are far more able to know what they want and need. Some people know this spiritual union as Reiki.
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Horses regard Reiki along the same pleasure lines as food, hay and grooming. It is quite unusual to find a rejection.
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A refusal is usually to do with trust. If trust has been lacking in the history of the animal… They won‟t trust us to do anything for them other than abuse & insult. In this situation, Reiki will then be administered directly to the situation surrounding and causing the anguish …Rather than directly to the animal.
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The situation can be calmed down. Balance restored to the horses soul and spirit. Weaning Foals who need calming and stability in their lives after being removed from the only protection they have ever known, always benefit from Reiki or “hands. Ever since my own experience with this personally I use it with every single baby I come in training with. This is also useful in the treatment of injuries and behavioral problems, such as bad backs, wounds, head shaking, and problems associated with past traumatic experience. I see Horses suffering stress which cause imbalances in various ways. These imbalances can produce sudden out of character habits – rearing, nipping or bucking for example.
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Becoming one and loving your horse helps the body to heal itself. Re-balancing the areas where it is needed most. I also use it prior competition to relax the horse both physically and mentally. I can personally testify to this working. It is a must for me before every horse show. I personally re-double my efforts to communicate how much I need their cooperation and willingness to put extra effort into this event. Horses love Reiki and absorb energy very quickly.
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They often go into state of relaxation. They are very good at telling you when they have had enough! Reiki can also be given over the stable door for horses that are very nervous or difficult to handle. Used hand in hand with my everyday training methods, Reiki or becoming one with the horse spirits that surround me at all times always proves to be an invaluable tool. Some horses can take a long time to „come down‟ from a specific situation like excitement, nervousness or fear.
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There is a much kinder, effective and quicker way of getting your horse to do what you want. It is quite simple – you ask, and then make it easy for the horse to get it right. If you get is wrong, your horse will tell you.
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Correct it, and then ask again.
Wait for your horse to help you.
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Horses are born with this ability. So are you but you have never developed it until now. Body language is paramount. In the wild this is the primary way of communicating within the herd. You can see this if you watch horses in a paddock together. Direct eye contact, standing square, or dropping your eyes and shoulders all have very strong meanings in the horses world. Most of my clients only see the obvious, ears forward means happy, ears back means beware. There is much more than that.
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You can better communicate using positive body language. If you can recognize and communicate with your horse this way, you have overcome the biggest hurdle. You are talking to them in their language. Hence the term „horse whisperers‟.
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There is no black magic involved. It is logical and „natural‟.
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When you use this new found togetherness during the training of a horse, the end result is achieved much quicker, with far less anguish for the horse and trainer. It is especially important when working with many different breeds and many different horses as I do on a daily basis. I can accomplish in an hour what it takes other trainers weeks to do.
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Problems such as horses loading in a trailer can take hours. All too are often caused by your own negative body language and spiritual negativity.
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You just know your horse is going to be an ass about getting into the trailer…Your horse just knows you are going to be an ass about him not wanting to get into the trailer…. The clash of the titans ensues.
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You stand in front of the horse look him in the eye, which tells him to back off, and you then pull, he pulls right back. Negative versus negative. Ever try to put two negative ends of a magnet together?
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This is a very simple, non intrusive and extremely powerful process.
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There is no bodily pressure or manipulation, making it ideal for working with all conditions. The key here is just t treat your horse the way you would want to be treated. I know that can be hard when you lose your temper or are in a hurry.
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You must practice loading just like you practice riding. Please take a moment right now and wite down your experiences with negative energy.
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