The name of the book is Make Light Work: 10 Tools for Inner Knowing and my friend’s name is Kate Sutherland. Her website is http://www.makelightwork.org, and if I remember correctly, there is a sample chapter you can download.

Knowing what you know now about horses, can you even imagine telling someone to keep a horse alone? Yikes.

You raise an important point: The lessons learned with animals, the growth that these lessons allow, enrich our lives with humans as well.

You have made a crucial point:

“I listen to my inner voice–and I also have to discern whether it’s my authentic inner wisdom speaking or whether it’s fear posing as my inner voice.”

I think I may need to do a post just on this point.

Can you share the title of your friend’s book?

I ask questions and I do my own research because it’s what I’m driven to do by nature and by training. I question the vet, I question my doctor (and if she’s really unlucky she gets 10-16 pages of research to read for her edification), and I don’t necessarily accept what I read at face value, either. I listen to my inner voice–and I also have to discern whether it’s my authentic inner wisdom speaking or whether it’s fear posing as my inner voice.

One of my friends wrote a great book on inner knowing–it’s full of tips and tools for developing our inner knowing and learning how to listen to that voice. When we learn to tune into that inner wisdom I think we make our lives a lot easier and it makes us more intuitive and able to pick up on other beings’ innate wisdom.

I love your last two lines:

“Following the horde is not how great innovations occur in any arena. We all need to listen to our inner voice and be good students.”

And when the decisions involve animals, they just about always know the right answer. If we’d just listen to them, we’d save ourselves–and them–a whole lot of grief.

Thanks Pam!

I think this habit of questioning, researching and exploring, weighing options, and listening to our inner voices is a critical process not only in the care of our animals but in the care of ourselves, our children, our environment (starting with our own backyards), our governments (starting with our local councils)–in every aspect of our lives.