‘Someday we’ll live like horses The lyrics in this song recorded by Elton John and Luciana Pavarotti challenges us to someday live like horses, taking down fences, removing the barriers that exist inside of us and between us. In doing so, we may live more freely and joyfully. I believe this is one of the lessons that horses and nature teach us’ Jackie Stevenson

Try to experience doing as living. For me this feels like using a computer or driving a car or talking with someone as simply being an animal – a friend once called me “a large male mammal” – moving through its day. The sense of living then moves to the foreground, with doing as a matter-of-fact, no-big-deal, expression of embodied life. It’s a subtle shift, but a powerful one’ (from Just One Thing by Rick Hanson)

Thomas Hubl discusses stress also as integration and evolutionary stress that can help us integrate and grow, if we can be present enough to know and discern what may be part of past baggage imposing on current challenging or demanding situations and interactions. Our past experiences can be like movie commercials imposed on the movie or an orchestra from the past playing within current moments.

‘… Integration or shadow stress is a signpost to our past. For example, we go to a job interview and we’re stressed before. Maybe we’re excited, maybe we’re afraid, maybe we feel we need to be a certain way. Whatever it is, there’s an underlying dimension of emotional or feeling awareness that is probably not fully included’

‘Difficult’, like ‘stress’ is a label that we put onto situations that are actually not stressful – they’re something else that we could name more clearly. An amazing practice is to see that all the situations in our life that we call difficult, stressful, or challenging, are actually signposts for growth’(https://www.themysticsguide.com/transforming-stress-part-2/?inf_contact_key=036c0fe0c18bb9050f502a7e7dd25bd9fed130acbfcf44d217d138a47670ef98