Unaddressed worries screw up our ability to create what we want.
I’ve had periodic worries pop up around the scarcity and limitations of water on our farm for a while now. As my herd reduced I’d given paddocks back to the landlord and I thoughtlessly gave back the only paddocks with access to stock water, which further limited my water. I had to prioritize watering my horses with garden water and allow my vegetable garden to die.
It’s been getting drier and drier, we almost ran out of water a few weeks back and then yesterday we did run out. The water pump was choking on air.
Then woohoo! Today it rained buckets, in a beautiful steady rain that drank into the earth and filled our rain tanks.
Another ahhaaa moment today, this time about how I made it rain.
Even while I was worrying about water, I was using the principles of Feel that the horses taught us so well, that you’ll also find in 30 Seconds to Change Your Life and in every horse program here. Every time I noticed a worry or caught myself catastrophizing about the limitations in the new water set up, I’d drop into my internal guidance guidance system and look for whatever I needed to know or do for that worry to disappear. Sometimes it would happen effortlessly, sometimes I’d have to notice and take action more deliberately.
My ahhaa moment this morning showed me that there’d been a clear fork in the road. One fork had me running out of water and getting all hung up and cranky about getting access to water. The other fork cleaned up all those worries so they weren’t running – even in the background – and it created rain to fill up the tanks. I remember when the water ran out, feeling quite peaceful about it, knowing that there was a couple of days of water in the troughs and that it would all turn out perfectly.
How can the same Feel I use to communicate so clearly with my horse have such a dramatic effect on my ability to create change that I could make it rain?
Does this mean that I’m officially a rain dancer? I’m laughing to myself here. Some of you are going to be thinking that the rain filling up the rain tanks was totally coincidence and that Jen’s gone a bit batty in her old age.
And I’m still smiling here because, like so many things that have been happening perfectly, rain fell in perfect timing into our empty water tank.
The diagram and explanation in this excerpt from 30 Seconds to Change Your Life is about how unresolved worries keep us stuck and reduces our choices in not creating what we want or changing what we care about.
We’re going to be talking about mastery soon – much, much bigger than the book – an opportunity for creating mastery through the grace of our horse.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6… talk more soon!
No magic wand needed.
Today’s photo: Sunny girl loved splashing water on her chest on a hot day, specially when the paspalum grass was sticky.
