Energy, Josh Nichol Clinic, Engagement Party

Starting this blog just a tad deeper than normal but it's something that has been on my mind for sometime and I just can't let it rest.

Energy is in, around and left behind by everything on earth.

Some energy we hold with us.  We don't let it pass through our hearts.   We hold tight to this energy as we try to process it.  We let it disrupt our energetic vibrations.

This past year I have come to recognize that energy is meant to be felt, processed and then let go.  Energy needs to be experienced and passed through us, not blocked by our hearts.

Blocked energy has a way of turning up over and over again in our lives as a way for our minds to process it and let it go.  

I have come to realize that my entire life experiences change as energy gets blocked by my heart.  

Blocked energy changes your entire life.   Life in the now competes moment by moment with the stuff that didn't make it through.   Life in the now is clouded by the noise created by blocked energy.   Because blocked energy doesn't just sit silently waiting for you to process it!   It starts that dialogue within you.   It drives you crazy.   Blocked energy patterns that don't make it through your heart stay with you until you are ready to process them and let them go.   This energy is real.  It's packed full of details and emotions.   Blocked energy wants to be processed through the mind and when it can't get mentally processed...it goes to the heart.   This creates emotional turmoil.   This unfinished energy pattern leaves an impression of the past.   

I have come to learn that unfinished energy patterns end up running your life.  They do this by changing your day when an event that triggers an energy pattern you have stored and blocked in your heart resurfaces.   Something inside you changes.   You may become moody or emotional or irritated or your temper is short.   An event with tremendous detail is triggered by a single detail that replicated the events of the blocked energy.  It may have nothing to do with your current day but that blocked energy changes the flow of the energy in your heart and mind on that day unrelated to the day it was blocked.  That unfinished energy pattern is stored and reactivated until it can be let go.   

So...as much as I know what to do with unprocessed energy...I know it has to be let go...it's sometimes a hard choice...even when the mind knows it's how to clear it and let the heart be open.

On to lighter things!

Josh Nichol Clinic

I got to spend my Thanksgiving week being grateful for wonderful friends, open learning and no judgment.  We also got to spent a few hours together in a sharing circle where everyone let go of their egos and stepped into vulnerability.    We got to see our own horses and the horses of the people on this journey with us improve with greater connection and reverence.   

I am personally grateful that this energy connection I share with Josh has been able to grow and guide me...with horses; with being a better human.   

Sometimes the smallest of gestures to both horses and humans that can change a thought; change the energy.

Group - Oct 2016

Erla settling in

Erla in the arena

Thanks to both Barb and Dianne for taking these shots...She's a special horses.   She has a wise, old soul eye that has so much healing within it.

Horses

Izzy needed some maintenance work at her tree.

Before

After

Erla and I got the pleasure of seeing the sunrise on a day off in Oct.   

The horses have been enjoying fall grass after we have had a very dry and virtually grass-less summer.

I also spent a day out with one of my truest and best friends Reta at the Charlotte Dujardin clinic.  For those who do not know the queen of dressage, she is the British dressage rider who is the double Olympic gold medalist from London and Rio.    She is a delightful trainer who was focused on the lightness we need to achieve in the bridle not through pulling but by using our body and weight as the primary aids.   Her comment of the reins are for steering and not holding the horses head up or holding the horse back from running off.  YES, Yes, YES...

Reta and I took a cruise to the back on the RTV into the woods along the trail.   This is a place we both love...the forest.   Surrounded by the trees, the smell of the earth, the cycle of life.

I was able to show Reta the "round-a-bout" tree that my dad currently has marked as the dead end in the trail.

The Front Garden

Papa Bear helped me cut out the front lilac.   He cut and I hauled away the brush to the back.   Then he took out the old hydro pole and the stump.   Big transformation...all inspired by Mama Bear's vision and horticultural background.

Before

After

Running

Lots of running in the last while.    The fall racing season is here!   Hurray!

Sunrise run on a Saturday's long slow run with Carla and Tony.

One of the best parts of running with North Shore in Port Dover, after the wonderful group of people; is the lake.   How lucky to have this view over my shoulder as I celebrated working limbs, breathing lungs and beating heart.

Raced the Turkey Trot 5K with Theresa.   Ended up 1st in my age group and 3rd female overall.

Took home some great prizes from a well run country community race that was super inviting and friendly.

Cooling Runnings 10K Trail Race

Finished this one in a good time 11th overall and 5th place female.

Ran a second 10K loop with Theresa after the race since she got stuck working that morning until after race start.

Enjoying the Learn to Run (LTR) Coaching.    This is an enthusiastic, motivated group.   I am really proud of how far they have all come already on their running journey and I look forward to seeing them through to Dec when they run their first continuous 5K!

The trails are stunning right now.  Lucky to have 3 different perfect running trails right near me.   

This is the Chippewa Trail.

And saving the best til last....

The Engagement Party!!

DH and I hosted an engagement party at the farm for my niece Bell and her fiancee Jon.   Chilly but fun evening as we celebrated the love of a young couple.