Hi, she is HOPE
She is a 3-year-old horse, who recently came to Fundo el Samán, where I currently work.
Being a young animal, it was necessary to tame it, to get her used to the contact with humans. This process basically consists in teaching her to follow the orders of the tamper, as well as the habituation to the use of all the clothing for her later riding.
Now, have you heard about Assisted Therapy with Animals? , I give you a brief summary.
The use of horses as a fundamental part in therapies for the recovery of patients with motor disorders, dates back to the late nineteenth century, as early as 460 BC, Hippocrates, a doctor from Ancient Greece, considered the father of Medicine has already referred in his writing to the therapeutic qualities of horses.
Step by step, collaborators of the therapies realized that not only, they have improvements in the physical aspects, but also in the cognitive and social emotional as well.
In future posts, I will let you know, more profoundly about the physical improvements and factors that allow the equines to help to train directly these pathologies.
Today I want to focus on the emotional help that these beautiful animals have to offer us.
Now, HOPE has her first patient and let me tell you that the advances are obvious, I can give you good faith because I AM her patient.
Funny huh? As a veterinarian she is my patient, but day by day she is the one who helps me.
After many years in this career, I must confess that I always feared horses, this fear originated in my childhood due to a bad experience with one of them.
The time was passing and the fears of having contact with them were still there, within my career, I had not been able to establish a bond of trust that would allow me to keep in touch with them.
A funny anecdote that happened to me in a practice of semiology with horses, was that I was so scared and I thought it was obvious, that the teacher told me "Dayana do me a favor and bite your tongue", instinctively that`s what I did with painful results, I remember well that we all laughed. Then the teacher explained that it was a method that she used when something scared her because when she bites her tongue, she diverted her attention with pain.
Honestly, her technique did not work for me, so my fear for them was (and is ) still present.
I came to believe that I could not relate to the equine world, until she arrived.
That's why the name her HOPE, since she gives me the hope of someday going back to riding and enjoying it like before.
She is also quite nervous, so we have a deal to help each other; For me it is incredible to be able to walk from one pasture to another, being so close to her and look at her eyes and the deep nobility that is hidden in them.
I know that this story only begins and I would like you to be part of it, so I will let you know about the progress and I would like to know your opinions and advices, I HOPE you will!