09/03/2024
Some great thoughts on togetherness and friendship.
Some thoughts on friendship, and leadership, and safety
Have you ever been in the presence of someone truly together? Someone who’s energy is calm, who has excellent awareness of the environment, themselves and you? Someone who has the ability to guide you exactly as you need when you need?
People talk about feeling safe, and making a horse feel safe - but it’s all talk, until you feel it, and know it. You’d try your heart out for someone like that. You’d go above and beyond expectations without being prodded or coerced, because you truly want to, because you feel good about yourself when you do.
There is a depth to it, a feeling of being seen and understood. I believe this is at the heart of peoples most basic desire: to feel seen.
The horse can be your best friend, if you can be theirs. To see them, understand them, to be an aware and calming presence in their life. If we can have excellent awareness of the environment, ourselves, and them, and guide them as they need when they need.
Friendship can’t be coerced or bribed or bought. Friendship can’t be made and nobody owes it to you. It’s that two way street that leads to center, the safest place in the world for your body and heart- we can create that for a horse, if we can be a friend to ourselves, and to them.
