Peace of Mind

I went to the pasture today after a long time gone. I missed my ponies. As I was just standing there enjoying their presence I became aware of how quiet it was. This seemed strange and abnormal to me.  The pasture is usually a peaceful place that I can find solace. But this was not the usual kind of quiet. There were still birds and cars and noises. Then I realized that the quiet was in my head.

It’s been a long time since I’ve put my lessons down on paper, or screen that is.  The past year has been like nothing that I have ever thought that I would experience. I’ve had the heartbreak of my life, my world turned upside down, and then found an amazing educational program that has begun to show me the answers to the questions of my humanity that I have held for as long as I can remember. That’s the short version.

The lessons I have been getting from my life and my horses this past year have been way too intense to formulate into words. They have been immense lessons which I am sure will someday make their way from my cerebral cortex into my spoken language. But it seems like the dust is beginning to settle, and once again, I can see more clearly the lessons in the communication that I am receiving from my beautiful  equine friends.

As I am standing there in that peaceful moment in the pasture today, realizing that the quiet was in my head, I got a glimpse of what it must be like to be a horse. I realized that there were only two things in that moment that existed. Action, and Communication. There were no thoughts, opinions, rackets, and other forms of blah blah blah. Just Action and Communication.

Its tough to get out of my head sometimes. Well, really most of the time. I often think that if I simply wrote down all the stories in my head, I could be a very successful teen fiction author. There’s lots of drama up there. It can be fun sometimes, but it doesn’t work for a real life. Turns out that the only things that contribute to a real life are Action and Communication.

It would be great to be a horse and have it all come so naturally. But as humans, what comes most naturally to us is thinking, and over thinking, and making up stuff, and processing it, and worrying, and stressing, and making up more stuff, and making that stuff mean something. It can be very noisy. But the good news that is the more that we get out of our heads and into communication, or into action, the quieter it can become.

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