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I've Been Thinking

27/2/2014

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It's a bit cliche, I realise, but I have been thinking, quite a lot in fact, and for quite a long time too, about how this world can work in a different way.
For most of my life I have kept my views fairly close, with only a select few being allowed to hear them.  This from the fear of judgement of me as a person for holding such views or opinions.
Well, this has just changed, there is something happened inside of me that is in the process of bursting out and that something is my views and opinions about the world in which we live.  Maybe I have become old enough to have something to say, maybe I have an opinion, maybe things have just gotten bad enough now and now maybe I don't give so much of a shit to what people think of my views.
Anyway this blog is my attempt to find my voice.

Over 30 years ago I went farming and one of the main motivations for this was a general dislike of people or more to the point the judgement of people.  Being around animals was definitely a safer feeling for me.
After about 10 years of relative isolation I travelled, did my big OE; wow, did that open my eyes.  NZ although a great country to live in was just a pimple on the backside of the world, be it a very beautiful and natural pimple.

When I returned to NZ after about 18 months I realised that I needed to do something with people and this is when the opportunity to work with horses and people presented itself.  I can tell you now that I don't know what scared me more, the thought of working with people or the thought of working with horses.

To cut a very long story short it was the horses that opened a door for me to find my way back to people again and more importantly a way back to myself.
The horses' have taught me and helped me to learn a great many things, way more than I could have dreamt of in my wildest dreams.

Lessons from the horse about life and living it, in essence what this blog is about.  What we can learn from them and their community or herd, how to create harmony in living together, independence within a group, freedom and responsiblity, the list goes on and continues to grow as I learn more.
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JOHN MAINE link
27/2/2014 07:06:51 pm

Good on you Ian, for sharing some details of your personal journey In my journey I have learned likewise that horses can speak to those who choose to ask and listen to them, rather than demand from them.... speak in ways that they have been waiting patiently to share with us humans. ..... Arohanui my friend: Shanka-wakan, nagi-ki uachi elo” - I want the soul of this horse (to be ONE with mine!) ~Native American Sioux Horse-whisperer's prayer ~

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Barbara Alford
27/2/2014 07:24:59 pm

I owe my life to horses, not in the sense of physical death, but in being the person I was allowed to become because they were there for me. If you let them, they teach you truthfulness, awareness, how to BE here and now, tremendous clarity about right and wrong, they teach to you to value and listen to your own heart and that acceptance and calm are essential ingredients of joy... I owe them forever and do my best to repay a little bit of what they have given me every single day...

I really look forward to seeing again you maybe this year

Love
B x

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Nicole link
28/2/2014 08:34:01 pm

Please keep on thinking aloud! So many people share the same dream, but never dare saying it aloud. So raise your voice and write it down :)

Lots of love and let the horse be with you!

Nicole

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    Ian Benson has lived in this North River Valley for over 30 years now and has seen a lot of change in the community of the valley, the township, the district, the region and the nation.  Some of this change I see as positive and some not so.
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