Wouldn’t you love to do it like that horse in the photo? Just release all that pent up feeling and with a big flick of your feet feel it flying away? With a bit of practice, we can buck our anxiety away just as fast.
Here’s the thing – it’s not anxiety that’s the problem – horses or people – it’s being STUCK in anxiety that’s the problem and as soon as we understand what to know or do about it, “pfft” it just disappears.
Yes it really IS that simple.
All that crap – all that powerlessness of stuck fear – it ends the moment we understand what to know or do about each fear we experience – pfft! it just disappears.
Just… freaking… disappears… that… fast…
And I PROMISE you, that understanding fear and anxiety – getting that knowing all the way to our bones – is something that we’re very good at leading you to experience here.
I am not for one minute dismissing the suckiness of anxiety, that horrible feeling of dread, even the terror we can feel at times. I’ve experienced all of them, far too often and for waaaay too long. I’m a fear expert – bought the T-shirt and thankfully wore it out before I threw out the rags. The sheer relief of releasing that rock of dread that had plagued me for most of my life – I’m not sure if I’d been born with it or whether I had just been feeling it for so long that it felt normal. When it released it was like ten tonnes came off me and any layers that come up occasionally, still release that easily.
Horses taught me how to do that releasing and they can teach you too how easy and simple it can be.
Our horses BEing and FEELing safe is part of that simplicity.
Horses have taught me to recognize that not all the fear I’m feeling is mine and TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT – to make myself feel safe and to help my horse feel safe. They’ve taught me that this is not some airy fairy thing, it’s a simple function of the connectedness of all things and EVERYone experiences their unique version of it.
If this is the first time you’ve come across this concept, I get it, it’s a biggie. We’ve been experiencing this connection to others – feeling others’ feelings – all our lives, even when we didn’t know it.
We did a seminar a year or so ago about understanding fear and eliminating anxiety that I’m gifting to those who would like to know more. You can experience some of that relief for yourself. Check it out.
Seminar – Understand fear, eliminate anxiety
Getting rid of stuck anxiety for you and your horse is only one of the opportunities in the new Fast Track program.
Fast Track – Effortless confidence
Today’s photo is an incredible moment of a horse leaping at the beginning of a buck, captured by Marie Richards from New Zealand. You can see more of her lovely work and connect with her on Instagram here.
