On Cloud 9
HORSES ARE GIVING creatures and we owe much of our own happiness to them. Ensuring that they are as happy, content and as well as they can be should be the priority of every owner.
“Wellness leads to lasting resilience and longevity, which leads to success of a species in an ever-changing natural environment,” explains wellness and resilience coach Beccy Smith. “All living things experience a sense of wellness when all of who and what they are is in balance. Each living thing has the innate ability to be well for a full lifetime, provided the environment they live in is supportive of this.”
Wellness is completely natural and the optimum expression and fitness of a being.
“It is experienced and expressed outwardly through the being’s actions (or non-actions), behaviour, interactions and inwardly through physiological functions,” adds Beccy. “Because of our ability to empathise and connect energetically with other beings, including horses, we have the potential to recognise signs of wellness in others.”
So, how is wellness achieved?
“Wellness is determined largely by the environment of the being,” Beccy says. “If the environment isn’t supportive of balance in all the bodily systems, the flow or ease becomes dis-ease and this can manifest in any area and in myriad forms. In addition, the individuality of each being will result in the need
