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Evolving Wisdom of Equus

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23.01.2022 Brilliant article it has helped me understand why I had trouble with my old mare who is usually great to do feet with but on this day she appeared unable to balance herself and became very resistant. That day has puzzled me for years and I think this may have been the explanation.

22.01.2022 That’s a given.

22.01.2022 Many authors dispute that horses can learn through observation in a social situation. However these researchers appear to have demonstrated that horses can lea...rn through observation of the actions of another species (humans). This interesting research had a good control group that helps make a stronger case for the existence of social learning across species in the horse. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27866286 See more

22.01.2022 Two days ago, a group of people came together, working as a team... Saving a mare in labor but losing the foal... Today a group of people, working together, the... same mare as two days ago, was introduced to a foal who had lost her mom.... This picture is taken an hour after the introduction.... It speaks for itself. #equine #foal #breedinghorses #waaijstud #adoption #paarden #veulen #fokken #adoptie See more

18.01.2022 We are waiting for news on the Snowy Mountains Brumby’s. Some reports say they became trapped during the fires however it’s best to wait for the Snowy Mountains Brumby Heritage Group to get in there and see who has survived.

17.01.2022 It’s Friday! Let’s go out!! Very smart horse! #horselove #horsesofinstagram #horses #horsegram #instahorse sent by @franciscofjunqueira and @prensapolo video by @diegoaraya79

15.01.2022 Yes so true we are often in a hurry to get a result. That rushed tendency associated with human behaviour gets a result we often don’t want.

12.01.2022 No need to desensitise just get your horses to desensitise each other

12.01.2022 If you can teach a horse something you can teach it something else and once they know the job they will do it beautifully.

11.01.2022 Just the best! : Francis Dumouchel

11.01.2022 This tugged at my heart - How beautiful. These two horses had been separated for a few months and on a reunion the following photograph ensued and totally shows... the love that is shared by animals as well as us humans. The love and admiration on their faces is stunningly beautiful. It is the kind of photograph I would love to have as a painting. The softness and happiness in their eyes is so wonderful and proof that love and companionship conquers all.

10.01.2022 This is Ebony’s older sister he is two years younger. He’s recovering nicely from his accident a few weeks ago. It’s still a mystery as to why he jumped four fences. Either wild pigs or dogs is my guess.

09.01.2022 what can I say!!!!!!

07.01.2022 We are constantly relating to horses and others via a shared field of intention and emotions. Horses are innately attuned to this unseen, yet felt sense throug...h the energy underlying the emotions of herd members and humans because of this two way herd effect. Simply stepping into the field of horse (or a room with people) we have a profound impact on this field. Yet how conscious are you of the impact you have on your horse and other people? It has been said that all emotions are variations of two basic ones - Fear and Love. Love or fear - for many it's not always a totally conscious choice. If you have any unresolved developmental or unprocessed trauma, then fear response is your survival mechanism. Recognising that this is a past response that may no longer be serving you and moving through it via loving connection and in safe relationship, can help you to move, live and love beyond the fear. Coaching with horses can help you to do this When you are doing the thoughts and energy of 'fearing', this creates stress and an autonomic imbalance which impacts your physiology. This stress is highly contagious and causes contraction (shutdown) in both horse and human. It also inhibits creativity, brain activity, clear thinking and selective perception, along with clear decision making ability and down regulates the immune system. Long term, it can lead to ill health and breakdown, particularly with issues to do with heart and gut health. Being Loving (positive beliefs and emotions) also impacts your physiology and has a huge impact on the field - its essence is relatedness. When we become aware of this relatedness we see self and other without separation and with practice, we can experience and feel it as the impulse toward true unity. We can also express and manifest this unity through our actions. When love becomes a conscious choice and hence second nature to us, it becomes an expansive state of being which enhances creativity, physical and mental clarity and endurance and greater productivity in a shorter time because you make quicker and wiser decisions due to being open, receptive and highly perceptive and intuitive. Love is the most powerful healing energy and catalyst for real and lasting transformation. It can become our state of being, characterised by the feeling and awareness of relating. Through the energy of love, we are able to resonate not just with a horse or a special person but with our own self, all others, with all animals, with nature and with everything else in the universe and beyond. So which field are you and your horse choosing to play in today? Windhorse Wisdom is based near Melbourne, Aust and offers training, coaching and workshops locally, interstate and overseas for both equestrians and non riders - if you would love to host a workshop please get in touch, we'd LOVE to hear from you! "There are only two feelings. Love and fear. There are only two languages. Love and fear. There are only two activities. Love and fear. There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results. Love and fear. Love and fear". - Michael Leunig

07.01.2022 Horses have more emotional awareness than you think.

06.01.2022 Bonds The most incredible thing about wild horse behavior is that their society is basically based on deep love and caring. These sentient animals form strong b...onds that last a lifetime, which you can describe scientifically, or you can just call it love. This is quite obvious to most people who watch wild horses, but there are many scientific behavioral studies on the subject of social structure and conscious choice in wild horses. If you are interested in reading some studies this is a good link.. https://link.springer.com/chapt/10.1007/978-3-540-75957-7_9 Beyond the obvious nuzzling between horses, the sharing of food, and the mutual grooming, there are other signs that wild horses make conscious individual choices in who they like and who they want to be with, and it is not just based on instinct or survival. * There are friendships between individual horses who don't stray farther from eachother than 5 to 10 feet, year after year after year. It is so reliable, that if you see one without the other, you can assume something bad happened to the missing one. * these relationships are not just between the stallions and their favorite mares, or mares and their offspring, but also between sisters, brothers, cousins, or random unrelated best friends. They consciously chose who they love. *stallions as well as some mares would rather lose their own life than lose each other. When you care more about another life than your own, it is called love. *bands consistently stay the same make up of the same horses, reliably, year after year. (Except for young offspring who leave the band when they are grown up) * horses have approximately a 3 month grieving period when they lose an individual they love. This is evidenced by weightloss, lethargy and hanging head. * Out of a herd of over 400 horses, one horse is able to find the specific horse they love when they lose each other, even it it is after several years. * a stallion would rather lose his entire band than lose the one mare he loves the most, even if he loses his rank. *even after years of being apart, horses will recognize each other and decide to reunite again. *If you've ever seen a horse go crazy and run around galoping and screaming, then you've seen a horse who lost sight of a horse he/she loves. We have documented instances of all of the above observations but there are many more. Documenting these horses throughout their lifetime, we see the most incredible signs of love, every single day. It is the most beautiful part of preserving them. It is also the saddest part of not preserving them and tearing families apart, to never see each other again. We are positively thankful that we get to preserve the incredible bonds, the beautiful families and the true LOVE between all of the Salt River wild horses, by working hard to keep them wild and free. SRWHMG. Written by SRWHMG Simone Netherlands. Picture by SRWHMG Rick Blandford. (Will be in our calendar)

06.01.2022 A recent study in Psychological Science supports the rationale for our training and programs in that mindfulness and cultivating the highest expression of each ...of our brains - head, heart & hara (gut) is a more effective approach to our evolution than cognitive behavior therapy. The Highest Expression of the Heart is Compassion, the Head is Creativity and the Gut is Courage. Helen Y. Weng and researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a study to see whether compassion training might change pathways in the brain in response to suffering, and make people more altruistic. 2 groups - one did compassion training (loving kindness meditation) and one did reappraisal training (reinterpreting a stressful event, based on cognitive behavior therapy). The experimental group did 30 minutes of compassion training each day for two weeks, and the control did 30 minutes of reappraisal training every day for two weeks. The were then re-assessed looking at pictures of people suffering and neutral pictures The results of the study are promising. During the first part of the study, researchers measured neural responses to each picture. For the compassion group, fMRIs showed greater activation in the inferior prefrontal cortex, part of the brain involved in the mirror-neuron network which helps us understand the actions of others and greater connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens. Neither of these changes were found in the reappraisal group. The second part was a game where people donated money and the compassion group gave 1.84 times more money to the victim than did the reappraisal group ($1.14 compared to $0.67). While not exhaustive, the results imply that compassion and altruism are traits people can learn and strengthen. This aligns with our coaching approach with growing the neural networks of the 3 centers of intelligence. Plus, compassion training actually seemed to change how the brain reacts to suffering.

04.01.2022 Had clear message from my Stallion this morning. He had lifted his feed bowl over the door of his stable and thrown it were I would fall over it when I entered the stable block. I think the cold weather is making him hungry lolHad clear message from my Stallion this morning. He had lifted his feed bowl over the door of his stable and thrown it were I would fall over it when I entered the stable block. I think the cold weather is making him hungry lol

02.01.2022 Ebony’s full brother