Brief Mindful Moment At The Barn: Sounds of Your Horse
Listen to the sounds around you as you stand near your horse. Notice the textures and shapes of the sounds around you. Listen to the silences between the sounds.
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Brief Mindful Moment At The Barn: Catching Your Horse
Here are two suggested opportunities to bring mindful awareness to time spent at the barn and with your horse. For each of the suggested exercises in these series, try these at various times of the day and on different days to note the variations in your present-moment experience. When you go out to the pasture to visit or catch a horse that is far away, take a mindful walk towards the horse. Specifically—walk towards your…
Brief Mindful Moment at the Barn: Aromatherapy and Your Horse
This particular mindfulness exercise may not be what you think. While there are various ways to incorporate essential oils into the care and upkeep of your horses for physical and emotional well being, they are not the focus of this brief mindful moment. Rather, this moment is about resting in the special scent that makes your horse uniquely them. Horse lovers have all done this at one time or the other. This exercise is a…