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Horses read energy.

It is very easy to prove this. Just go out to work with a horse or dog, have angry thoughts about something, someone…basically a negative attitude… and see what happens. The animal will mirror us to perfection. I watched a woman trying to catch a pony the other day and the more frustrated the woman got the more the pony evaded her and so the gathering of negative energy expanded. It was a wonderful example of universal law of cause and effect in action.

We are energy and matter. I think about our soul being both our mind and emotions and our spirit being expressed through our senses and nervous system and that we require our physical matter to express all. With that said I think about how I taught riding to students. I quickly realized that the first order was to teach the rider about themselves and what they are thinking and feeling and what emotions they are using before I could teach the mechanics of riding. The horse mirrors the rider. There is no exception to this rule.

When we are truly comfortable within our mind and body this positive energy field is shared with the horse and everything and everyone we come in contact with. We express ourself through our senses and when on horseback and in a positive energy field, this translates as simpatico; communication and cooperation between animal and rider. We become one in movement. There is harmony between horse and rider and it is an incredible sensation. But when we are using a mind of fear, all levels of fear, from panic to mild doubts, the horse will accurately read this energy and react accordingly; our energy field at this moment in time is negative, chaotic and repelling. We have unconsciously shared this toxic energy first with our own cells and then on out to share it with the horse and whatever and whom else is around. Energy knows no geographical boundaries.

I feel that most people who have horses or work with horses have a love and appreciation for these noble creatures. I hope that all horse people take time to learn to know themselves as energy and matter and to know that horses read energy better than most people. This of course is not limited to horses; dogs are also brilliant at reading energy fields.