01/17/2024
The Subtle Realm
When around horses we quite naturally enter “the subtle realm”. And, if we do so consciously and with intention then we can enter ever more deeply.
The Subtle Realm is where our usual physical five senses become gently expanded and we start to access our “extra-sensory” capacities: Our intuition, empathic capacities, energetic sensitivity, gut feelings and hunches, and even at times at the level of psychic inter-species communication.
Everything within ourselves and between us and the horses and other people, becomes softer and more fluid. Intuition takes a more prominent role instead of our planning, logical reasoning part of our brain being in charge. We shift from being much more left-brained into our right hemisphere where we begin to make deeper connections, both within and around us. Emotions can flow more freely too, offering up their wisdom and insights into the true depths of our longings, feelings and desires.
We are capable of picking-up so much more information from within ourselves and in the environment as a result.
The heart softens and also expands, swelling for a time beyond its usual capacities and tendency towards protectiveness. Opening instead of staying closed. As a result, our connections reach a truly sacred level, where time and space are suspended and anything seems possible. And, we enter a raised level of conscious awareness of our body, mind, soul and connection to others.
This realm is not honoured in our culture and so many of us had to quash these capacities as children as neither were they welcomed in our families. Therefore, having opportunities and places where such qualities are not only welcomed but also encouraged is vital for our own restoration and ability to thrive as we now harness these gifts instead of denying them.
Horses naturally inhabit this exquisitely beautiful realm, and if we approach them and their environment in the right way and with sufficient sensitivity and willingness to learn, then we too can be blessed for a time with a sense of deep expansion, inner peace and harmony. It truly is a blissful realm, so quiet and different to the usual din going on in our minds and the outer world. We enter the realm of the horses and in so doing, realise this is also our true realm, it’s just that we humans have long forgotten and forsaken it in the pursuit of one-sided progress.
So, let yourself come back to your original true state and allow the horses to lead you home…
©Angela Dunning
The Horse’s Truth
www.thehorsestruth.co.uk
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