A Quiet Moment In The Darkness. I often record my little short podcasts on my phone when I'm out because they're usually made in the spur of the moment and and my phone is always at hand.
This was one of those times, just as it was getting dark, I was deep in thought after listening to a wonderful soul called Nahshon Cook on one of his live posts that he makes on his fb page.
If you've never heard of Nahshon check out Warwick Schiller's "The Journey On Podcast" episode: 19 to listen to this amazing young man.
There are so many wonderful people on his podcasts with amazing life stories. Nahshon Cook is most definitely one of those people.
I'm sat in Toot's shelter. It was really windy earlier but it's dark and it's still now, but I've just heard so many noises um as it gets dark you can hear the animals calling and you can hear dear and you can hear the birds and the Hawks and there's lots of noises. I was just sat outside, close my eyes and just doing a little breathing meditation to Jay Shetty that was doing a live stream and it was lovely, it was a really nice, just breathing. Even though there was noises but um when you come back, it's like your sense is a bit more heightened and the sounds more audible. Then I was just listening to Nashawn cook who was doing alive talking about one of his horses and he has such a beautiful, eloquent way of describing these beautiful creatures that he works with with such compassion and empathy and understanding. It's very humbling to listen to him and he was talking about horses when you're training, when you're doing rehabilitation training it's very different. And he was talking about you work with a horse you have on that day, which I know we've heard before but he explained. It's the way he explains things, it's just lovely to listen to it it's like listen to a meditation actually and I find him fascinating. I seen lots of people fascinating but he has a gentle ways when he talks and describes things. And when he talks about the horses he has such love for them and he was talking about a horse that he was riding. Actually I won't go into details cause that's his, that's his page and I asked if I could speak about it, he was just lovely and if anybody hasn't heard of him, his name's Nashon Cook and he did a podcast on Warwick Schiller. And it was mind blowing, it was yeah you need to listen to it realy I can sit here and tell you what it was but you need to listen to it and then meet your own opinion. But for a young guy, he's very, very soulful, very, very wise. Um, anyway yeah I'm sat here getting ready to go soon. I love spending time down here and it's going off down the field. She had a T and stayed for awhile. Then she had a bit of a moment because a big lorry turned up and when it gets dark, she prefers to be in the field and I was trying to do a feet and she was not engaging cause head was in a different pace. So I put head collar on and brought her back. She didn't run off you know, she just goes off and I did it calmly and just did her feet and then I actually walked her out with a head collar on to where she wanted to go. I thought, there you go. I'll take you out there now. And then I came back here. and The next thing, she was stood at the end, thinking I want to come back with you. So that moment I got it right. Sometimes I don't get it right, quite often. I don't get it right because my emotions are in the way and I'm not talking about high emotions. I'm just talking about my day to day stuff. I'm not really paying the attention or not seeing it the way it is or not engaging in listening with the feel, the stillness with her. Yesterday was a lovely day I spent time playing with her, which is a first time engaging where she wanted to, since my friends moved away, that was September. Uh and it just brought me such joy. And we played and it was lovely and she wanted to engage with me and it was nothing big, nothing major. It was just, just her walking with me, her being with me. But that was precious to me, that was, that was precious um and then you get hope for things you think right okay. So I've started to make a few little plans. Put some poles down and start walking over the polls and do some ground things to help her with her mobility because she's had some amazing people work with her and it's ongoing because she's 20. It's actually 20 years her body it wasn't right to start with. That's another story. Yeah so she came into the world with twisted body. So she compensated as she grew and she worked the best way to her ability but then it starts to break down and then you get a diagnosis that somebody says it's that, and you put a label on it and actually that's a symptom of something else. So you never get him back to the main thing the cause and she 20 year old so there's lots of muscle memory in there as well. You're thinking what is she talking about, I'll talk about that with the people that helping her another time. Anyway, I thought I just share that with you. Even this morning, when it was really windy, I was sat with her. Come rain or shine I spend time with her. Now up to now, it's been a little one-sided, I've done that but I felt you know, I could be there or not really it's at times, and that's fine, that's fine but yesterday was lovely and it made a difference to me and she was calling me as well. And today she was nickering and she was calling more, not just for feed she was calling. I can tell the different, it's the feel um that's different and it's lovely. And that's what, that's what you work in for. Everything else that you get with your horses is a bonus and it's whatever you want to achieve is a cherry on the cake. But the connection of just being in that horses presence and space and them wanting to communicate with you is such an amazing feeling. And it's a privilege, it's not a demand, you know it's their choice. And if you listen, they will interact more but when I say that, I say that from a person that even though I'm an animal communicator and this is my work, my passion with my own horse, it is more difficult. It's not impossible. You just have to work at it a bit harder on yourself. And then some times there in a moments where they just need to be in those moments and you just have to not take it personally and allow it and back off and just do what you need to do. And January is a funny month after Christmas, you got the short days, dark nights. So it can feel heavy sometimes for you, but as the daylight gets longer, you get excited about that. And the horses do too because they feel emotion you know, seasonal things the same as we do, not the same as we do but they have they're breeding time and it's time to mate and all those other things horses doing the wild is still there in them, different degrees. I'm just talking out loud. I hope you have in some precious moments with your horses and don't give up and remember if they give you the tiniest thing and you see that and they know you see that and let you know, in a lovely way, then make sure that you are grateful for that because it's not a God-given rights. You have to earn it. There you go. So thank you for listening. Have a lovely day, a lovely evening, cause I'm about to go home and it's really still, I love being outside and in the dark sometimes, it's lovely, just with your thoughts and the noises in the background. Have a lovely day, have a lovely evening and speak to you soon. Bye for now.