Aren't fields pretty?
No wonder our horses don't seem to suffer from bad moods: surrounded by fresh air, greenery, rolling clouds, ever changing light and all the gifts of nature: rainbows, raindrops and roaring winds.
How much more at peace might we be if we didn't fight traffic jams, sitting in our metal vehicles; live in houses with doors and windows tightly shut against fresh air and weather; if we didn't work in toxic offices, full of harmful computer waves, endless chatter and ringing phones - often bare of natural light?
It's not hard to realise how our 'chi' or life force begins to get zapped.
As a friend and I walked back from the field last week we both wondered how it would feel to be a horse? She felt it must be wonderful - to have your favourite foods all around you wherever you walk: literally up to your ears in food! We imagined a world full of chocolate 'to go' on tap!
I can't imagine how it feels to have to lift your head up high to take view of the sky. How it must feel to smell fear in the air. To know when the weather is about to change with more accuracy than any fancy meteorological equipment can do. To read the energy and intention of another species. To be silent, rarely making a sound yet constantly communicating using space and boundaries.
It's a different world from ours. It's this difference that can hold such appeal, often acting as a needed 'pick me up'. I was reminded of the power nature can have and the contrast our lives often deliver when a lady I recently worked with explained she rides at 'silly o'clock' each morning so that her horse gets the 'best of her' - early in the day. How sad for us that as the day wears on, it wears away the best of who we are. How great that she gives her horse her 'personal best' time but what can we do to stay better connected to our true, whole selves, despite what the day throws at us?
Perhaps next time when we are tempted to reach for a 'glass of something', a quick slice of retail therapy or carrot cake to erase the worst of the day, we take a quick trip to the field instead.
As a mood enhancer it does have the benefit of being both cheaper, and better on the hips!
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