by Yunuen López Ortiz
“Until the unconscious becomes conscious, the subconscious will continue to direct your life and you will call it destiny.”—Carl Jung
Have you heard this? Does it attract your particular attention?
The use of horses for human activities is not new, and therapeutic activities, such as equine therapy, are very popular today thanks to the benefits that contact and work with the horse can bring in the improvement of physical and emotional conditions. This may not be strange to you but let me explain a little more.
We can start in a technical way by describing what it’s about; this activity is a dynamic of emotional learning in which we use horses as catalysts or mirrors that allow us to see from the outside, with a real and clear perspective, the elements that can slow down or affect the life of a person. What does that mean? That horses help us to become aware of our environment to help us understand the life situations affecting us.
And now an important question that perhaps crosses your mind: Why horses? Because they are prey animals and extremely sensitive and capable of reading and responding to external stimuli. This includes us, when entering their space, as the predator that we are; how we call their attention and then they must decipher and externalize our interior is how they reflect our inner world, allowing us to see and become aware of those areas or aspects of our life that we need to work on.
I would love to explain this with an example, something that happened to me in an exercise with horses. A few months ago, I had the opportunity to meet Tanja and Ricardo, creators of this model, at their ranch in Tapalpa, Jalisco. I arrived intending to learn more about the magic of horses. In an exercise with them, as soon as I entered the corral, I felt like crying—it was as if my body barely saw a scene between the horses and experienced a deep pain and sadness. Accompanied by my horse and human teachers, I began to think and reflect on what I saw. I remembered my parents and how they made me feel. I thought of my sister, thanks to a horse that stood between an unpleasant scene for me and a very nice space; they asked me, “Who has been in your life like that horse, someone who prevents you from returning to the known and drives you to look for new challenges and paths?” I immediately thought of my sister, and how she has been a pillar in my growth and an accomplice of crazy things.
The horses showed me a scene that made me reflect on my whole family, my way of relating, my way of living now. By “solving” it with them, it made my whole being understand, and my whole being find a solution or a new way of relating and understanding.
I can tell you that today the way I relate to my sister has changed and I love and respect her in a deeper way. I appreciate what she’s taught me, and this is something that maybe I never talked to her about. But somehow, the horses helped me to see from the outside and make it possible that in my whole being there was a deep and complete understanding of something that happened inside me that I had not been able to speak about or decipher.
This is some of the magic that horses are for me, and I want to share with you. If you are interested in knowing more, I will gladly be able to accompany you in this process that has been so pleasant for me. They say that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. For me, that has been my encounter with the horses.
Psic. Yunuen López Ortiz
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