Conscious Living With The Help Of Horses

Wellbeing spoke to Emma Colyer of Intuitive Horse, Ringmer, a little while ago, about her work with horses & healing. My work at Intuitive Horse uses horses to help people recognise their behaviours towards others and the consequences of their behaviours. These behaviours may be very subtle, others may be more conscious. We all behave in different ways, many of which we learnt as a child. As young infants we look to our parents for guidance and safety and we devise strategies to get what we need. The strategies we learn as infants often stay with us throughout our lives; some are conscious behaviours, but most are subconscious. We all have parents and we pick up a lot of our behaviours from them and then mould them into our own ways of behaving. The trick is to spot these behaviours and then decide whether they serve you in your life. I truly believe that if we have an awareness of self and some simple life skills, then we have the power to make effective decisions and choices about the way we live our lives. When we understand the drive behind why we do what we do it's like a breath of fresh air! When you work with a horse at Intuitive Horse you are interacting with a ‘live being'; one who does not use our vocal language and cannot be fooled by words. Interacting with a horse is an experience more of body language and of using the feeling sense - the same as we used as infants. By working with a horse you not only start to see how others respond to you, but also how the horse changes behaviour when you change your behaviour. This is because horses don't carry the same emotional complexities that we do so they are able to just respond to you in the ‘present moment'. By working in this way with a horse you connect with your feelings, start to understand the drives behind your responses to the world as well as the response of others towards your actions and have the opportunity to choose a new response. This gives you instant feedback and a direct experience with yourself. There is quite literally no hiding; it is exposing but very empowering. Intuitive horse can help anyone - you do not have to be suffering from any huge trauma to benefit from a session with a horse. I offer private sessions, 1 day workshops, days with the herd and 3 day retreats. Or why not buy a voucher session for a loved one for Christmas. For more info please visit my website www.intuitivehorse.co.uk or ring me on 07825 036 301

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