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Bo was one of two dressage horses belonging to a yard owner in Somerset, who my partner Peter and I went to work with together, so we could work with both horse and human simultaneously.
However it was clear from the start that we weren't going to be able to work with Bo in person. He had a lot of anger, had kicked a hole through his stable wall and behaved very much like a hyperactive child. He would lick compulsively - his rug, his door, us - whatever was in sight. When he was distracted from this, it was to spot the slightest movement outside his stable - anything to avoid focusing on one thing for more than a few seconds. He also became extremely agitated and vocal whenever Billy in the adjacent stable was away.
When I tried tuning in to Bo, it felt like a wall had come down, shutting me out. While it's possible to work with a block like this, I knew it would be easier to work distantly using photos. So working distantly a few days later, this is a summary of the session I had with him:
Distant communciation & healing session
My initial feeling was that Bo was a very complex character whose energy was fragmented. Some 'fragments' were connected to past life memories, others possibly to the memories of energy attachments. I felt especially drawn to his neck, withers and shoulders as areas where he stores some of this energy.
Bo's restlessness and sensitivity was connected to a fear of stopping. He gave me an image of himself bolting at something when he was a colt. Something upset or spooked him, he bolted, ran into something hard and hit his left shoulder.
He felt fear and confusion about his own behaviour. He said he wanted to be helped, but every time he reached out, something distracted him and it was hard for him to communicate.
His entire head area felt blocked and inside he was like a coiled spring. He felt if he stopped licking, chewing and kicking, he would physically and emotionally burst. I then did EFT, but as soon as I began tapping, all connection went, like he just cut me off. So I did EFT on the phrase "I cut people off", which rated as a 9 in emotional pain on a scale of 1-10 where 10 was the worst possible feeling ever experienced. As I continued with the EFT, the significant phrases were:
I cut people off
I'm scared
I can't stop moving
If I stop I'll burst
I don't want to be hurt
I don't know what I'm frightened of
I'm afraid to be alone
I can't let myself stop
I have to keep going
If I stop it'll hurt
I have a pain in my neck
I have to block it
I don't understand
By this point, "I cut people off" had gone down to 5 on a scale of 1-10 where it wouldn't budge. I got a strong feeling of there being a past life connection so moved on to that, focusing on the above phrases until we found ourselves in a past life memory.
Bo's Past Life Memory
Bo and I found ourselves back in a life where he was a pack horse, climbing up a rough and rocky mountain path in the rain. From his viewpoint, his head was low and all he could see were the hooves of the horse in front of him. It was raining heavily and their hooves were sliding around in the mud as they tried to haul themselves up the path.
There was a feeling of total exhaustion, of trying to keep their balance in spite of the uneven, heavy weight of their burdens. Someone was shouting from behind and there was a constant cracking of a whip as men forced them up the steep pathway. Bo was aware of other horses behind him, that if he fell or slipped he would fall back onto them with his heavy load and take them with him back down the mountainside to their deaths. So he had to keep going, in spite of the pain in his neck and shoulders. His back was aching, his legs were giving way under the strain and he was experiencing total exhaustion.
Then a whip cracked and he felt a sharp sting on his left back leg. Something inside him snapped, he tried to rear, but the sudden jolt made him slip. There was the sound of hooves scraping on the rocks, this tired low call from a mare who was too tired to scream as they all begin to slide and fall backwards, overbalanced by the weight of the packs.
The peak trauma of this memory was that moment of total fear and panic, where Bo realised that he couldn't hold his footing and he and all those immediately behind him were going to slide down to their deaths. On a scale of 1-10 this fear is a 10, so I worked with this using EFT and the phrases that came up were:
I can't stop myself
We're all going to die
It's all my fault
At this point I was just working with the images, one of which was of seeing a glimpse of the mare (his mother) struggling in vain, using a combination of EFT and EMDR on myself until the emotions got down to a 0/10.
After blacking out, Bo was next out of body, looking down onto the dead and dying horses. He witnessed a couple being despatched by the men. I asked him to find his body, and he showed me a dark bay horse, eyes open having died instantly, very thin, with the pack still on his back covered in what looked like green tarpaulin material. Bo felt very detached from this scene and left it as soon as he could, relieved that that life was over.
Anger and confusion
But at this point I was getting a lot of emotional pain held in the stomach and neck area, which Bo carried with him from that life. The stomach pain felt like anger and confusion, so I worked with that, again using EFT and a starting point of 10 on a scale of 1-10.
I am angry and confused
I don't like humans
They led us into danger
I'm blocking this because I don't like feeling it
I'm not allowed to express my anger
I want to bite and kick
Energy attachments
At this point, the anger and confusion was still only down to 5/10. My gut feeling was that it was an energy attachment blocking us, but I knew I had to stop. Exhausted after a session that had lasted 2 hours, I emailed Peter asking him to link in with Bo to see what he picked up.
Peter then found and removed two attachments from Bo. One was linked to the same past life; the other was from an unknown origin, but it was very angry, both of which he was able to remove.
Post-Therapy
Two days later, I linked with Bo again to check the results of what we'd both done, and Bo's energy felt much calmer. When I tuned into his mouth, I got the feeling that he was still chewing/licking something, but he also wanted to yawn. It felt like something had shifted and there felt much less anxiety and compulsion to chew there. There was also less tension in the shoulder/neck area.
Afterwards, Bo's yard owner reported:
"Bo is much calmer and much more happy to work.
He isn't kicking the stable and the last two times I
have worked him hasn't bucked! Billy is being
better to ride but still having a tantrum about
cantering when I ride him. He is happy now in walk
and trot. He has also stopped turning his back on
me in the stable which is great. Thanks."
Since then, she sent the following testimonial, which you can also find on the Testimonials page.
"I asked Brigid to visit my horse Bo as he had severe
behavioural problems. I could not get to the bottom of
his problems and he seemed physically healthy. He
seemed angry and reactive often having temper
tantrums when ridden becoming dangerous at times.
"After the communication Brigid told me that Bo had
past life issues which were negatively attached to him
and influencing his behaviour. I was given detailed
information about this which I found deeply moving.
These negative attachments were cleared and
removed and Bo was given healing.
"Before seeing Brigid and Peter, Bo would kick at the
walls in his stable for no apparent reason - this
stopped the day after he received communication
and healing. In the weeks afterwards his behaviour
when ridden became much calmer and he stopped
bucking and being so reactive. I was also given
techniques to help with calming and creating
positivity.
"I would highly recommend Brigid and Peter as being
effective, professional and informative."
An update over 6 months later confirmed that Bo had remained totally different from his former self. He was calmer and more rational, he no longer lost his temper like he used to and the rage within him had gone.
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