How Horses Help Us
Venturing into the Quantum Aspect of Horses
While exploring the concepts and applications of Quantum Biology, we learned that we are solar batteries that need regular recharging, and one way we recharge is by grounding—by touching bare skin to the ground, or touching trees rooted in the ground, or touching animals standing on the ground.
This started us thinking about horses and some of the myths and romanticized ideas about how they help humans. Here are some examples of those.
Horses are mirrors reflecting our moods and minds.
Horses can sense human pain and transform it for us.
Horses offer us a warm shoulder to lean on.
Horses are our teachers and friends.
Horses strengthen our emotional intelligence.
Horses form strong bonds with humans which creates safety for riders.
Horses help psychotherapy clients with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
Horses downregulate our physiological arousal.
These imply horses fill roles for us humans in a myriad of ways, as a mirror, analgesic, therapist, safe other, and/or nervous system regulator.
What if horses are just horses even though we assign these qualities which may or may not be true?
What if horses help us simply by what we experience when we spend time with them?
The benefits we experience as human solar batteries can be attributed to being outside where we connect to nature’s sunlight, sounds, magnetism, and rhythms. Our bioelectrical processes are immediately enhanced when we ground to the earth. Our blood pressure lowers, our circulation is improved, our breathing shifts into a calm rhythmicity.
Being outside lowers stress when we are in motion while our senses receive the sights, smells, sounds, and sensations of nature. Our autonomic nervous system functions improve—we become more at ease, and more fluid with our thoughts, emotions, and actions.
When we are around other beings who live in this grounded state (such as our horses), our bodies immediately respond on a quantum level because we are always seeking coherence with nature.
Our modern lifestyles are organized around indoor activities where we spend time under artificial lights, sitting, and looking at computer or TV screens, with cell phones close at hand. These drain our solar batteries.
Humans (and all mammals) are biologically designed to be grounded to the earth 24/7. Our bodies rely on this signaling, this input for health and a sense of wellness.
Another way we gather electrons is by movement, especially those parts of our body that we don’t move on a regular basis. When we ride horses, we get a continuing rocking throughout our hips and spine, generating the same free electrons that we get from standing on the earth barefoot, or touching a horse while outside. We get some of the same movement benefits when we lead or groom a horse.
The quantum biology paradigm recognizes we are bioelectric beings with signaling inside our bodies that happens at the speed of light. Our bodies need to receive nature’s signals—these electrons—in order for energy to flow and health to exist.
Being outside connects us to the frequencies known to support relaxed and regulated nervous system states. For example, the geomagnetic pulse of the Earth vibrates at six cycles per minute. This is the same rate that our cerebral spinal fluid flows up and down our spine. Also, this is the rate of our breathing when we are in a coherent state, also known as coherent breathing. Another signal that we respond to is the Earth’s Schumann resonance which is anywhere between 7.83-20 hertz. This is the same frequency as our brain when in an alpha state. For comparison, being inside we have constant WiFi on, and these signals range from 2.5-5.8 gigahertz. A gigahertz is one billion hertz per second. And one hertz is one vibration per second. Our biology does not understand these intense pulsations so we stay in an elevated state.
Horses help by getting us outside where we can charge our batteries in numerous ways. Those who are regularly outdoors with horses are lucky.
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Lasell - how interesting, thanks for this post. In researching for my book, I learned about EAGALA, which is basically horse therapy. I'd guess you already know about it, and I love how what you write here enhances my understanding of how it works.
Absolutely 100% agree :-)