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This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of being open to learning from everything and everyone (today and every day).
Comment from Marie: Humans mostly believe they are the most intelligent and aware beings on the planet... but perhaps that is a delusion. If we open our mind, our heart, our intuition to connecting with "all our relations" -- four-legged as well as plants and nature in general -- we may discover a simple wisdom that surpasses that of humans.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
October 28, 2024
The focus for today is:
I choose to have an attitude of openness
to learning from animals and nature.
Today's inspiration was written by Suzanne E. Court:
All animals can teach us on a spiritual level, as can any aspect of nature. Sitting on the banks of a river and watching the water flow by teaches us patience and perseverance through modelling the power of letting go and allowing life to flow. Dogs teach us about loyalty, affection and how to have fun with simple things.
Job of the Bible knew these things about three millennia ago when he is reported to have said: “Ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you, or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.”
As regards animals, to derive great benefit from their company we need do very little other than have an attitude of openness.
CONTINUE READING: Read the complete article here.
Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
What Horses Can Teach Us About Life
by Suzanne E. Court.
Read the complete article here.
The focus for today: I choose to have an attitude of openness to learning from animals and nature.
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RELATED BOOK: Soul Connection with Horses
Soul Connection with Horses: Healing the Mind and Awakening the Spirit through Equine Assisted Practices
by Suzanne E. Court.
Soul Connection with Horses introduces concepts of awakening and spaciousness as understood in many spiritual traditions and demonstrates that horses effectively model awakening for humans. Through this approach, horses help re-establish natural bonds and intuitive ways of knowing that have become obscured by conditioned thought and ineffective individual narratives.
Horses show us that we can trust our intuition and learn how to live from the soul while making meaningful connection with ourselves, other people, animals and the natural environment. By considering how horses experience the world through their senses, how they process emotion and how they express their needs, we see that they live through the same social, psychological and spiritual paradigms as humans. This book invites us to walk in the hooves of the horse, to experience the horses’ worldview and to access our own soulful wisdom.
Click here for more info and/or to order this paperback book. Also available as a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Suzanne Court, PhD, is a qualified equine assisted therapist and mental health practitioner with over 30 years' horse experience and ten years’ experience working professionally with horses in the mental healing and spiritual space. She teaches group and individual courses and gives lectures on Equine Assisted Therapy. She comes from a musical and academic background, having been a performing classical guitarist and a professor of music. She has published widely in historical musicology, and this book is her first regarding horses. She lives in Waikato, New Zealand.
