Black and white. Yes and no. Up and down. Sickness and health. Positive and negative….

We live in a world of contrast. It’s the duality of Nature that makes up our physical world. Without that contrast, we wouldn’t be able to perceive. It’s in knowing dark that we can recognize light. It’s in being able to experience silence that we can hear noise. The comparisons go on and on.

As infants, people are trained to show a preference for one thing over another. Most well-adjusted (note that you have to be “adjusted”) children develop a preference for positive feedback over negative. For “yes” over “no”. For health over sickness. For “happy” over “sad.” Humans are trained from birth to compare and prefer.

What if nothing you experienced was actually “wrong” or “right,” but just an experience? How different would your world be if you didn’t judge what happened in your life, but, rather, just observed your physical and emotional perceptions of whatever showed up?

In many Spiritual philosophies, it’s the pain from living with the judgement of what occurs that is recognized as the most difficult part of being human. Release that judgement, and enlightenment is possible.

As a horse, I’m already enlightened. I don’t carry judgement about what happens. Oh, I may have an unhappy memory of the fellow who poked me in the hip to get me on that airplane in Amsterdam, but I don’t JUDGE it. It is what it is. It was what it was. That was then, this is now.

How would your life be different if you accepted “what is…”? Could you try that on, just for a day? Give it a try! Or not. The choice is yours. And that is the one constant: your choice of what you think about is always YOURS.

Your horse is hoping you choose to bring him a carrot when you go to the barn today. He says that is the “right” choice!

Love, Moshi

From Indy:

I have the most beautiful buff colored coat. It’s soft and sleek in the summer, when I’m done shedding. Jane and Rhett like to brush me, making my silky hair shine. I love to be brushed. It’s one of the loving things they do for me that helps me to know they love me.

Do you have people in your life whom you love? I’ll bet you do. How do you show that love to them? Do you brush their hair? Do you make them dinner? Do you rub their tired feet when they get home? Do you give them a hug when they are down in the dumps?

Showing that you care is not hard at all. But it does take an awareness of how the other person is feeling. This is call empathy. And it takes a true desire to make that person feel better. Those small, simple actions can mean the difference between a good marriage and a divorce. That’s how powerful they are! It’s the little day to day things that speak volumes to your friend or mate.

Every day I show Jane and Rhett how much I love them by staying close, wagging my tail, bringing them my tennis ball, and brushing up against them with a big smile on my face. I even took them dinner one night, but they made it very clear that they didn’t care for road kill rabbit. So I gave it to the barn cat instead. Now she knows I care about her too, and she started bringing me dead mice to eat. Ick! I know she cares, but… mice? ICK!

Please don’t tell her that I don’t eat them. I just bury them in the yard where she won’t find them. I don’t want to hurt her feelings. She means well.

How do you show your family you love them? Do you give them mice for dinner? I hope not!

Love, Indy

Jane Savoie
1174 Hill St ext.
Berlin, VT 05602
Jane’s Website
DressageMentor.com