Learning the Beauty of Humility With Horses: Calmness Amidst Chaos
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Facing a traumatic brain injury will change your life - but working with horses offers a beneficial perspective. It allows you to practice humility. Striving for humility and selflessness will change your perspective. A humble woman does not talk about herself often or broadcast her life to others. Horses openly reflect a rider's attitude through their behavior. Our attitudes are affected by our relationship with Jesus Christ. Having humility promotes a gentleness that can improve your relationship with horses. Let Patina show you how both your relationships with both horses and humans can grow!
"Do you ever feel humiliated because of your traumatic brain injury? Do you consider it ironic to hear others say, "Humility is a virtue," because it doesn't feel good to experience?"
Patina Malinalli
Patina lives in the Midwestern United States. She enjoys riding horses, reading, writing and gardening when she isn't working as an aide at a local school.
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Learning the Beauty of Humility With Horses - Patina Malinalli
Do you ever feel humiliated because of your traumatic brain injury? Do you consider it ironic to hear others say, Humility is a virtue,
because it doesn’t feel good to experience?
What if I told you that humility (and riding a horse!) could be the doorway to experiencing more joy in your life? I am going to tell you how but first let me start by telling you a little bit about myself.
One afternoon when I was 17, and driving home from a horse farm, I pulled out into an intersection and was hit on the driver’s side by another car. The accident was my fault, but thankfully the other driver involved was uninjured. I incurred a traumatic brain injury though and had to spend the entire summer before my senior year of high school in the hospital recuperating. The doctors were initially not even certain that I would live. They told my parents that I might miss my entire senior year of high school. Later that summer, they said that I would return late, but in the end I left the hospital in time to return to school on schedule.
My biggest blessing here was that I had therapy in the afternoons quite often, so I switched from the honors degree I had been pursuing to a regular high school diploma. This allowed me to go to therapy in the afternoons. I finished therapy before the school year was over. When we had a half-day of school, I was only there for a couple of hours before spending the rest of my day at the horse farm. It was fantastic. I feel that the time I spent caring for horses and horseback riding played a large part in the success of my recovery.
For example, I was regularly lifting weights
in a couple different ways while working there. When the hoses freeze during the winter, it is necessary to carry two-gallon buckets full of water (there wasn’t an automatic system at this time). The best way to do this is to carry both at the same time—one in each hand, so you can walk with a nice even balance. Mucking[i] was also a full-body workout—particularly mare and foal stalls. You have twice the mess and the babies are not exactly picky. Stallions are actually the neatest. They do all of their business in