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Acting like we have all day

Nancy Crowe

If you’re feeling stuck between what happened and what’s coming, you’re in good company. Tuff the camp horse had already nuzzled and checked me for treats, ditched his fly mask (twice) and decided he was tired of being on welcoming duty with two other horses (who’d moved to the other side of the pasture). Now here I was relaying the message that he couldn’t go back in the barn just yet. All he wanted to do was get on with his day.

I told Tuff he was welcome to share a Let Animals Lead® meditation with me in the meantime. He grumbled but took me up on it. After a few minutes, he stopped fidgeting, lowered his head and began licking and chewing. By the time he went back into the barn, he was much happier. 

Horse trainer Monty Roberts said that if you act like you have 15 minutes it’ll take all day, but if you act like you have all day it’ll take 15 minutes. 

Getting on with your day or your life is easier if you stop and refresh. Who knows, maybe that is getting on with your day. 

Want to help your horse, cat, dog or other friend have happier days? Contact me for an animal communication or Let Animals Lead® session today.

When a ‘problem horse’ isn’t the problem

Nancy Crowe

Here’s Rosie on her recent 40-mile walk, with horse and human companions, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to her home barn in Angola. Those are makeshift (diapers and duct tape) hoof boots on her front feet.

I was one of many professionals, volunteers and friends who worked with Rosie when, in July, she wouldn’t get on the trailer to go home. When I communicated with her about it, she showed me she wanted to go home, but the image I kept getting was one of a seriously stuck gear. The way a 12-15 year old rescue horse’s “gear” gets stuck is probably about the same way any of our gears get stuck: trauma, illness and factors only God knows.

If you can’t unstick a gear by the usual means, you have to figure something else out … maybe even something better. Rosie’s human was determined to find not only a fear-free, force-free solution but the larger lesson. As a therapy horse, Rosie has encountered humans with their own stuck gears. Like her, they’ve struggled with seemingly ordinary tasks and taken on the frustration and judgment of others.

To prepare Rosie, I continued our regular Reiki sessions, sharing a healing space with no expectation. Then I told her what was going to happen, visualizing the horses and humans and country roads, complete with rustling autumn leaves, and the barn and her friends back home.  

Though I wasn’t on the walk itself, I followed the live video updates on social media. As the group drew closer to home, a weary Rosie’s ears perked up and she ever so slightly picked up the pace. She knew where she was.

Was this the easiest solution? Of course not.

But aren’t we all, as Ram Dass said, just walking each other home?