Why Horses
Hollins College students learning “Join Up’ technique
E.I.A. works with horses for several reasons:
- Horses are the closest animal to a human. We both walk the same way; we both eat the same way; we both reproduce the same way; we both digest food the same way; we both defecate the same way; we both require dental care; we both require vision care; we both are codependent on others around us for the needs of life-especially when we are young; we both are designed to help one another; and we both require bodily grooming.
- Horses are remarkably intelligent.
- Horses experience many of the same emotions humans do.
- Horses (unlike humans) accept everyone, and one another, on equal terms.
- Horses have perfect memory. They can remember every moment of their life but in so dong the memory is not clouded, or influenced, by their emotion.
- Horses communicate silently. In this way clients then are never “told” what the problem is. Instead, the client “experiences” the problem, and then discovers a solution to it, as it is unique to their life situation.
- Horses are impressive animals and so, if for no other reason than their sheer size, they command respect.
- Horses are social animals and desire to “belong” and engage in “bonding” with other horses, other animals, and humans.
- Horses (unlike humans) are non-predatory by nature.
- Horses are exceptional negotiators and will actually continue to negotiate with a predator right up until death.
- Horses have exceptional vision, just short of 360 degrees.
- Horses can reciprocate feelings and emotions expressed by a human.
- Horses can detect, and then indicate, the presence of inner pain a person is experiencing.
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