What I Learned from my Horse about Power

What horses teach you about power….

I have not only competed since I was 5, worked as an Equine Vet Tech to the world's top dressage, jumper, & event horses (and riders), retrained countless Off The Track Thoroughbreds, rehabbed rescues, & raised babies. I have also operated an equine assisted therapy program with the Canadian Mental Health Association.

It is safe to say horses have been my life for my entire life.

I have learned a thing or two about power from horses:

🐎 Energy matters more than strategy.  You can have the best strategy yet your energy matters more.  Try to force your strategy & you will lose.

🐎 The more embodied your power the more humble you become.  Arrogance is false power.

🐎 Everyone falls, and the higher the horse, the further the fall.  

🐎 There is a difference between authentic power & force.  Forcing may get you money, make the ego feel good, submit the other, or the “quick wins” in the short term but in the long run you lose yourself & others.

🐎 True power is not dominance over another.  

🐎 The more you ground into your power you begin to realize how little you actually know, and become the learner again. You realize that those you may have previously seen as “below” you, in some respect, have more to teach you than you realize.

🐎 Authentic power honours the power in the other. 

🐎 When both individuals are in their own power there is no trying to one up the other, prove the other wrong, dominate, or make the other feel small.  The union is based on mutual respect.

🐎 When you are grounded in your power the more compassionate you become for those around you.

🐎  Your embodied power & calmness sets the frequency for everyone (and everything) around you.

🐎 You take your power back when you stop trying to prove your power, and be present in the moment.

Horses teach you something no one else ever will.  In fact, I recommend spending time around herd flight animals. 

Also, if you ever wondered how a Splenic Authority actually operates walk a fit show horse on high energy food on a windy day when a bag suddenly flies by… Walking to the paddock was a yes, until it was a oh hell no!

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ashley