March 3, 2010
When I went to the movie Avatar I was blown away by how much one of the scenes emulated a recent experience in my life. It was when Jake Sulley was being taught to ride the horse by feeling it. He was essentially getting out of his masculine, thinking world to connect with feminine energy and that's what I did recently when I tried a method called "Horse Medicine".
I sat atop the
bare back of the horse, without the benefit of either stirrups or reins. My
eyes were closed and my hands were placed on my thighs. The situation felt
precarious, but Skip, the horse whisperer my husband and I met in Sedona (www.redmoonranchsedona.com),
instructed me to relax my breathing and release all fear. As Skip led the horse
around the corral, he urged me to feel the spine of the horse beneath me and to
get into the rhythm of his walk.
Eventually I
relaxed and sensed the horse’s simple gait. I was amazed by how quickly my
balance adjusted and my confidence grew, even without the ability to see. Now
comfortable, I couldn't resist showing off by sticking my arms straight out from
my shoulders like a kid on a bike saying, "Look Ma, no hands!"
Skip
encouraged me to consider my interaction with the horse as if it were a dance;
I laughed, warning him that I've never been a good follower on the ballroom
floor either!
The horse
sensed me becoming more at ease and more in tune with his movement, and he accordingly
sped up into a trot. I took this as my cue to let go of control and simply
respond. Thinking and analysis was out of the question – it was imperative to
just feel and to trust in the process.
And it felt
euphoric! In our hectic world it is not easy to let go and allow things to
unfold, but that is exactly what happens when we ride bareback on a horse with
our eyes closed. The experience gave me a great sense of the true meaning of
feminine energy, leading me to these concluding thoughts:
1) There is a
rhythm to the world that we can feel if we shut out our thinking long enough to
let it come through.
2) We can
trust our feelings to guide us. Rather than trying to control the process,
we can live with more harmony if we allow things to evolve and choose to simply
respond to these changes.
This helped Jake
Sully in Avatar, and it helped me.
Can you see it helping you?
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