Why So Combative

Why do we get so combative?

Some might say as humans, we are on the 'predatory' end of the scale which makes us more included to 'fight' than flight.

However, I feel it goes quite a bit deeper than that, all the way to a cellular level.

The world we live in promotes dysregulation of our own nervous systems and many of us live subconsciously out of balance; from emotional regulation that we may not have learned from parental figures as children to the influx of information in the media all the way through to an inflammatory diet affecting our gut health, these accumulating factors combine to give us.

Feeling unsafe within a situation, or unsure of what to do, may be predisposing us to respond to our horses in a defensive way in tandem with social conditioning promoting our behaviour and nervous system to be primed for a more sympathetic response; if we ourselves can bring awareness to this, we can begin to change our perspective, and therefore our application and approach.

Piece by piece, we can change the way we interact and work with our horses to one that is more sympathetic in approach than sympathetic in tone, to both them and us.

Doing so may allow us to enter a whole new level of consciousness and wholeness in out lives.

And again, all thanks to the horse.