Connection with Horses

10/09/2023

Love this idea to make road users aware of the vulnerability of horses in transit!

Photo credit: Choice Carriers, Gauteng, South Africa. https://www.choicecarriers.co.za/services/

28/05/2023

We know we feel more at peace when we are around our ponies, but when science backs it up…..

No wonder they are so good for our souls and so very useful in Equine Assisted Therapy Sessions or your weekly riding lesson…..and breathe 🦄🐴🥰

Recent studies conducted by the Institute of Heart-Math provide a clue to explain the two-way ′′healing′′ that occurs when we're close to horses.

According to researchers, the heart has an electromagnetic field larger than the brain: a magnetometer can measure the energy field of the heart that radiates from 2.4 meters to 3 meters around the human body.

While this is certainly significant, perhaps more impressive than the electromagnetic field projected by the heart of a horse is five times larger than that of a human being (imagine an electromagnetic sphere around the horse) and it can influence straight into our own heart rate.
Horses are also likely to have what science has identified as a "coherent′′ heart rate (heart rate pattern) that explains why we can feel better when we're close to them. Studies have found a coherent heart pattern or HRV to be a solid measure of well-being and consistent with emotional states of calm and joy-that is, we exhibit such patterns when we feel positive emotions.

A coherent heart pattern is indicative of a system that can recover and adapt to stressful situations very efficiently. Many times, we just need to be in the presence of horses to feel a sense of well-being and peace.

In fact, research shows that people experience many physiological benefits by interacting with horses, including lower blood pressure and heart rate, higher beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters acting as pain suppressors), decreased stress levels, decreased feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, better social working; and greater feelings of empowerment, confidence, patience and self-efficacy.

By: Alejandro Pascual Puig
CEO en E&C CONSULTING CEO en E&C CONSULTING
The artist is Valerie Eric. The copyright holder is Sarah Barnes, HeartMath certified practitioner. The image was inspired following a riding lesson on heart connection.

25/04/2023

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25/04/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=821309199558923&id=100050395513710&mibextid=Nif5oz

FREE HORSE AGISTMENT available in Uralba (near Alstonville), NSW. It would suit spelling/retired horses. There's currently one mare on the property and she needs company. I think it's 10 acres, fencing and water. I don't have a lot of details so if you want to know more call Stephanie on 0490852106.

18/03/2023

“How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can't carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babys before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.”

Written by Sara Huffman

Artist - Dorota Kudyba

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/dorota-kudyba

08/03/2023

This (possibly hard-to-swallow) truth will set you free 🦅⁣
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Here’s what you need to know to make leaps and bounds in your horse-human connection 💫⤵️⁣
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Your training results are 100% your responsibility—not your horse’s.⁣
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You see, horses only know how to be horses: graze, search for water, play, fight, evade predators, mate… you get the idea.⁣
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Horses must be *taught* how to operate successfully in the human world: carry a rider, don’t fear everything you naturally would, give a predator your feet to hold, get into a trailer with no way to escape… the expectations placed upon horses in our human world are pretty endless.⁣
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And horses can absolutely thrive in our world! ⁣
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❗️But it’s up to us to ensure that happens.⁣
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As a trainer (and if you handle horses, you’re training all the time!), you’re a bit like a behavioral scientist. The animal can do nothing “wrong,” because you know they are simply acting naturally. It’s you’re job to understand the behavior in front of you… and if you want something more or something else, it’s your duty to study and experiment with ways to create what you desire.⁣
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As behaviorist B.F. Skinner stated: “the rat is always right” 🐀⁣
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When studying training & animal behavior in rats, scientists learned to never blame the animals, because that route cannot lead to the desired outcome.⁣
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Imagine how silly it would be for someone to say “I want this rat to tread water,” then put him in water, only to be offended when the rat chooses to panic and swim around instead.⁣
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This example may sound like a reach, but if you think about it, it happens all the time in the horse world.⁣
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Stepping into responsibility in horsemanship is really hard. When you realize you can no longer blame the horse, you have to look in the mirror…⁣
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Where you may face fears of inadequacy, failure, and imperfection.⁣
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But when you accept responsibility, you also begin to step into your own power and freedom. You’re no longer at the mercy of the horse’s natural tendencies (which you used to think was sass, rudeness, disrespect or just a bad horse). ⁣
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You are empowered to help your horse do what you want and feel GOOD while doing it. ⁣
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- MM team 💫

Photo by This Mustang Life

25/01/2023

Wow!!!

19/01/2023

Morning motivation

12/10/2022

Monday Message: “We already are what we want to become. Even in our most difficult moments, everything that is good, true and beautiful is already there, within us and around us. We just have to live faithfully in such a way that it is revealed to us.”
Faith is always knowing the best is yet to come. It’s also knowing that even when we think something seems difficult for our horses…it’s only because we are actually making it that way.
We have all the answers available to us if we are willing to trust the process and understand that sometimes through the contrast is where the beauty really lies…we can take flight, fight the battles and have the courage never to give up.🙏🥰 Have a wonderful week!❤️