What Healing With Horses Can Do For You...
Understanding...The Body Keeps Score
We have come to appreciate that so much of our personal history and soul forming experiences as children reside in the body's memory recorded at a time when we had not the words to either understand or record the narrative of our sorrow. It follows that healing from these preverbal wounds needs to be addressed via non-verbal intervention.
Be "Un-Conventional"...Neuroplasticity
Neurologists have discovered that the brain is capable of rewiring its neural networks. This "Neuroplasticity" enables new pathways to be implanted, thereby enabling healthier more adaptive responses to incoming stimuli. The importance of this to trauma is obvious... find new healthy pathways by trying new techniques that were around way before we decided we knew exactly how to do conventional therapy.
Release...Letting Go Of What You Have Carried
Some of what we carry can't be talked through. It lives in the body in tension, in patterns, in the places that tighten when you least expect it. Grooming a horse is terrific therapy for humans. It lowers our heart rate, slows down our breathing, allows us to practice being in the here and now, and engages our nurturing instincts.
"I am no longer afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott
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