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Everything Horses and Livestock Magazine
Equine Emotional and Physical Trauma
While I was at a friend’s house working on my
magazine article, we had a gal come in to visit
about her new
horse.
This horse is a
beautiful, 5 yr old
brown quarter
horse mare that
was purchased
July 2016. The
owner explained
that “this mare
has issues”.
She felt that her
new horse June
Bug was emotion-
ally disturbed, not cooperative, obstinate and in a
lot of physical pain for some reason.
Grooming was a challenge because she was so
sensitive to even a gentle touch over her body.
She lacked self confidence, trust and could only
carry her saddle for a short period of time making
riding and working her very limited.
So the journey began. We assessed the situation
and knew that it was going to take a unity of Spir-
itual gifts working together to rehabilitate her. In
I Corinthians 12:1-11 the Bible explains Spiritual
gifts as unity in diversity, along with the discern-
ment of spirits.
“Bug’s” owner is a Sports Massage Therapist her-
self and works with muscle issues and deep tissue
massage. She is very kind, loving and passionate
in her work.
I work with the energy in balancing of the mind,
the body and the spirit. I use several modalities
depending on the assessment for treatment. Com-
bining our therapies and our expertise we can
facilitate change to assist the body in healing and
accomplish more in shorter period of time.
On July 13th we
assessed her pain
level and agreed it
was at a 5. I started
with balancing the
energy centers and
she showed block-
ages at each of the
7 energy centers.
While receiving the
therapy she was
very relaxed and
cooperative.
I then did Acupressure Massage. Starting with
opening the bladder meridian, I then worked on the
acupressure points on both sides. Moving to mas-
saging and photonic therapy on the sensitive areas,
I released the tight muscles. I did acupressure on
the 12 ting points and closed the meridians to finish
this part of her session.
Moving to emotional therapy, I worked on the 8
standard points. We had several releases including
a few open mouth and body stretching.
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