Equine Energy Reflections

I came home yesterday to find Phara had somehow made her way out of the 5’ tall pasture fence, leaving her herd behind. She wandered into the barn and into Dunder’s stall where she found herself ‘trapped’.

The stall door was unfastened and only needed to be gently pulled open. And yet, she continued to push the stall door closed, reinforcing the illusion that she was stuck. So she gave up, sat quietly in the stall and stared at her sisters grazing in their pasture, waiting to be rescued.

How often do we do this? We convince ourselves we are stuck- trapped behind a ‘locked’ door, when all we needed was a change in direction? A different perspective. A gentle pull, not a harder push.

Phara’s experience- a reflection of how we, too, can fall into the belief that we are trapped, helpless, powerless. We push and push because we believe it’s the only way, when in reality— the door was never locked. We simply needed to try something different. A shift in approach. A change in belief.

Phara reminds us to pause and reassess. Maybe we’re not as stuck as we think. Maybe the way forward isn‘t blocked—it’s asking to be opened differently.

What do you perceive to be blocking your path, your way forward, that only needs a gentle nudge in the opposite direction?