Bhakti is the practice of loving devotion designed to bring you closer to the divine. Spirituality is the connection to something larger than yourself, something outside of yourself, and doesn't necessarily have to do with religion or divinity. What do these two things have in common? Because when you put them together with tools for…
It seems whenever someone starts to talk about difficult feelings like grief or anger, someone usually shuts them down with phrases like "think positive" or "don't be negative". As part of that brief conversation, a value judgment is placed upon whatever the person is feeling, and that is usually that the emotion is negative or…
Horse vices are undesirable behavior in horses, and often are determined to be ways of coping with stress. In horses that are often stabled, cribbing (biting down on wood and sucking in air) and weaving are considered ways in which these bored or stressed horses cope with the stress. And studies have shown that horses…
When you purchase a horse from a kill pen there often isn't much history that goes along with them. When I adopted Holly, I was told that she was in foal (She wasn't, just a big mare.) and that she had worked in a feedlot pushing cattle. I have my suspicions on her breed (Probably…