Condition 01: Perceived safety. A nervous system can’t settle while it’s scanning for threat.

Condition 01: Perceived safety. A nervous system can’t settle while it’s scanning for threat. That goes for yours and your horse’s. Safety is a physiological state, and your horse reads it before you’ve noticed it yourself. It’s why “I’m fine” doesn’t land in the paddock when your shoulders are still up around your ears. This is the first of five conditions the research points to for co-regulation between horses and humans. The other four are in my latest carousel. Comment NOTES below and I’ll send you Research Note No. 1, the full breakdown with peer-reviewed citations and two decades of paddock observation. The paddock as Laboratory Peace & Love, Melissa 🥰🎥 @melissajeanpt #coregulation #nervoussystemhealing #equinetherapy #polyvagaltheory #paddockaslab