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Working with a horse in counseling opens up a different realm of communication. With a horse people are able to allow vulnerability and openness; this is because there is a trusting in the animal in places they have been unable to trust before.  I have seen people get to their feelings and emotions more easily.  There is a mirror displayed by these gentle giants allowing a view that they had not seen before.  This view, given by the horse enables the person to see what reality looks like and how they may have been living in non-reality.When working with a horse, the horse being an animal of prey, will see the Authentic Self, not the Adapted Self that has been created by abuse, unresolved issues, unmet needs, addictions, and codependency.

This Adapted Self is unconscious and this unconsciousness is viewed as being unsafe by horses. The horse will react to the Adapted Self and express through action what is going on inside the person, a view that has been hidden by the behaviors, views, and beliefs of the Adapted Self.  Horses have a language of their own, and the simplicity of this language, once you learn it, will lead a person into conscious awareness of the moment and out of the Adapted Self.

Truly being with nature is quite different for most and it asks of us that we remember our authenticity, something most of us have lost along the way while becoming unconscious in the Adapted Self.  Equine Assisted Counseling will assist in the process of getting back to who you are on the inside and show you how to live from that which is the Authentic Self.  The Authentic Self is no threat to horses; in fact authenticity is what horses do best.

" The Celtic people used communing with horses for human development, awareness, and spiritual growth.  Horses, if given the opportunity, would highlight the defenses that stood in each human being's way, thrusting people into ever-increasing levels of self-awareness.  By accepting the equine reaction, a person would commune with the hear of nature while also questioning personal habits and beliefs.  Dialoguing with a horse was also a vehicle for intensifying intimacy with God, for the Celts believed the Infinite One speaks through all Creation." - Horses and the Mystical Path

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