Responsibility is our “ability to respond”. To be able to respond there first has to be recognition that there is something to respond to. The thing that makes it hard for us to recognise that our horses have an issue that we need to respond to is the fact that they are so willing to please us that a lot of horse people wouldn’t notice unless they found that their horse had a leg missing.
Equine Performance
I was recently observing at a horse school and noticed that as hard as those horses were trying to get it right, there wasn’t one horse expressing more than 15% of their physical potential.
Now assessing their physical potential is a fairly nebulous measure it does give us a clue of their ability to perform, and also a measure of our ability to influence the situation.
Some of these horses were expressing less than 1% of their physical potential, and that was expressed externally by their failure to relax onto the bit, by their high head posture, their head shaking, their inability to collect, their wringing tail under pressure and many more expressions of extreme discomfort.
Horses love to perform, they love to work, & they love to please. We owe it to them to learn to be more observant and in tune with them. If a horse is not performing the way we would like or expect it is generally not because they are rebellious (although this does happen), they either don’t understand the question or it’s causing them considerable discomfort.
Learning “Innate Healing for Horses” is a perfect way to quickly and regularly assess the wellbeing of your mount, and restore them to harmony and balance quickly and easily, without having to have a degree in this therapy or that treatment. Recognizing and utilizing the bodies own innate capacity to heal and repair (without interference) would be one of the greatest gifts you could give your equine friend.
Enjoy!
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