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COLD FEET
Hoofcare advice for the winter
Breathe easy
Your natural resource!
Run-in Rundown Tips to keep your outdoor horse cozy
Equine Detox
Acupressure tips for respiratory problems
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Change those
SOUR ATTITUDES
Exercises for barn or buddy sour horses
Treats
WITHOUT
sweets
TAP your powers How EFT releases fears & anxieties
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Cold feet
Depending on where you live, cold weather poses special challenges to your horse’s hooves. 18
Sweet dreams
He doesn’t need as much sleep as you do, but regular shut-eye is still important to his well being. 25
Run-in rundown
A well planned run-in may be all your horse needs to stay happy and comfortable, even in winter. 28
Treats without Sweets
Try making these healthy sugar-free goodies for your equine partner this holiday season. 34
Breathing easy
Acupressure may provide some welcome relief from respiratory problems.
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Success – just a tap away!
EFT provides rapid relief from anxieties, fears and other emotional issues in both horses and humans. 44
Sour attitude
Is your horse barn or buddy sour? These simple exercises will help him back on an even keel. 55
The sound of music
It’s music to your horse’s ears! Soothing melodies can keep him calm and in harmony. 60
Is he good to go?
Warming up and cooling down should be an integral part of your horse’s routine, especially during the winter. 63
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Bon voyage!
Check out these tips for planning the perfect equine vacation.
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Equine detox 101
Environmental contaminants can make your horse sick. Here’s how to detox him so his body can heal itself.
Nov/Dec 2008
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
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HOLISTIC VETERINARY ADVICE Talking with Dr. Hannah Evergreen
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A NATURAL PERFORMER
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DID YOU KNOW?
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YOUR HEALTH
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BOOK REVIEWS
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HORSEMANSHIP TIP with Anna Twinney
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TAIL END
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EDITORIAL
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EQUINE WELLNESS RESOURCE GUIDE
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HEADS UP!
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CLASSIFIEDS
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MARKETPLACE
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Success –
Just a Tap Away!
EFT is a popular modality that provides rapid relief from anxieties, fears and other emotional issues in humans and horses. All you need are your fingers! by Cheryl McKenna
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id you know you can literally tap yourself and your horse to success? The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Simple Energy Technique (SET) are two methods I use in my performance and relationship programs. These meridian-based energy therapies involve using our fingertips to tap on specific acupuncture points. These techniques are simple, effective and growing in popularity. Once learned by heart, they are tools you can use wherever, whenever.
What are EFT and SET? In 1980, Dr. Roger Callahan was working with a female patient who had an intense water phobia. She suffered from several physical symptoms all related to her fear of water. She had been seeing therapists for years with no obvious improvement. Dr. Callahan had also been trying to help her with conventional methods for over a year without much progress.
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One day when she came in with an upset stomach, he tried something “new” and outside the normal bounds of conventional psychotherapy. He had been studying the body’s energy system, and decided to tap with his fingertip just under her eyes (an end point of the stomach meridian). To his astonishment, she immediately announced that her phobia was gone, and to demonstrate went to the closest water and splashed it on her face. The phobia and all its symptoms went away, never to return. Gary Craig, a Stanford-trained engineer, drew on Dr. Callahan’s landmark discoveries to develop the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. He reduced years of diligent research and endless trial and error to one simple, practical procedure that often provides quick relief from physical-emotional issues such as trauma, phobias, anger, fears, anxiety and cravings. Taking EFT one step further, Dr. David Lake and Steve Wells of Australia further simplified the procedure into what they call the Simple Energy Technique or SET.
The tapping technique Basic EFT uses 13 points, but for the purposes of this article I will use the SET procedure which only uses seven points. They are:
The inside corner of the eyebrow
Tap these points lightly with your index and middle fingertips, either in sequence or at random, while you focus mentally on whatever problem or issue you wish to change. No particular point is attached to a feeling in EFT and SET. Although some points belong to specific meridians, we have found that just doing the sequence works.
The outside corner of the eyebrow Directly under the eye, just on the edge of the eye orbit Under the nose Under the bottom lip At the center of the collar bone just below the throat
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