Have you ever been in a situation where you feel your choices have been taken from you?  Where your opinion is cast aside when it affects you?  How did that make you feel?

When I am put into situations like that, I feel disempowered, unimportant and not in charge of my own ‘being’.

When we enforce situations onto another, is that not a failing that we have within ourselves?

Over the years, I have learned that it is much more productive to have willing participants in any sphere of life, whether it be work, personal or animal relationships.  I have put this into practice in my work with the horses over the past few years, building the relationships with each horse without demands or enforcement.  This has proved to be very productive, I have learned to be more patient, to communicate better, to listen deeper and to be more understanding.

Horses that are showing ‘issues’ are trying to communicate something to us.  Once you start listening, that’s the beginning of getting to the bottom of the ‘issues’.  Can you imagine being in a foreign country where no-one understands you, you are desperaretly needing help and trying to communicate this to people but they just ‘don’t get you’?  How frustrating would that be?  How would you eventually react to this?

We live in a time where everything moves so fast, we want results quickly from almost everything we are involved in, we seldom take the time just to ‘listen’, whether it be to our fellow man or to animals trying to communicate something to us.  If we live and breath, we should always be listened too, whether we be man or animal.

I would rather my horses felt empowered and be willing participants than to feel enforced and their will taken from them.