Equine Leadership
ease. Give the mind a job of prioritizing sensory information, and it begins to function with intuitive clarity.
INTUITION PROVIDES INFORMATION Eight weeks ago, two new Mustang mares arrived from quarantine. Arya and Sansa were in quarantine because they came from the “killpen”, their lives spared from slaughter by the action of humans who find value in their existence. Why were those two saved and not the others? How do people choose to save one wild horse and not another? In this particular case, the horses and the humans are making choices together. There are some horses who put out the call, through their heart and their energy, that they are ready for a new kind of life. Human hearts sense this call. Human intuition produces a feeling through the body. A human mind recognizes the feeling and takes action. Kerri & Kalvin with Laverne
Along with experience in evaluating the health and management of a horse, people simply make their choices by “feel.” Experience alone offers only a partial foundation that can provide the greatest support when integrated with intuitive information. Horses may know how to find water from their experience in the terrain, but it is their intuitive sense that lets them know whether it’s a good time of day to approach. When a person is open to recognizing sensory information, their intuition will always guide them to dynamic and nourishing choices well founded in experience.
A FRIENDSHIP WITH THE MIND A wild horse’s education is all about sensing the world around them. Because our general human education did not include language and guidance for our senses and intuitive connection, the mind has been expected to notice, label, interpret, calculate, analyze, decide, attempt, re-group, try again, re-analyze and try again all by itself. No wonder it produces anxiety! What if the mind isn’t really a problem? What if it’s just missing some important sensory information? Separating the mind from the senses is impossible they are designed to work together. Senses provide information, and the mind translates it. The mind was never meant to figure out “how to be human” all by itself - it’s meant to work in harmony with its good friends: the body and the heart.
Arya and Sansa are ready to be released from smaller pens to join the herd. They’ll move onto the five acres to integrate and harmonize with Annie, Lucy and the others. What’s the best way to release them? Together? One at a time?
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Annie and Lucy are not using their mind to analyze whether this group of humans are safe to approach. They are feeling a sense of safety. No matter how much analysis the human mind engages in, people also take action because of how it feels when they do. Asking people to
February 2021
