The Real Horse Whisperer
FROM THE BOOK “NOD WHISPERS"
ISBN 978-0-9560301-0-8
BY SCOTLAND’S HORSE WHISPERER PETER NEILSON
The story of the healing of the horse Nod will bring tears to the eyes and resonate
with animal lovers the world over. They are people who long to be able to ‘talk’ to
their animals and better understand what they need, in order to perform their tasks
and to better integrate with their human and animal companions.
Anyone who was touched by the film The Horse Whisperer based on the novel by Nicholas Evans will be aware of the magical link between man and horse - but here is a true story that illustrates what can be achieved to help our equine friends.
Peter communicating with a horse
Nothing had prepared Peter for the journey he was to undertake with his horse Nod to heal his physical and more importantly his mental traumas. Nor the things he was to learn about his own abilities to participate in that healing process, including the ability to ‘talk’ to Nod and get answers back from him. And that this would involve delving into previous lives to effect a cure for problems in this one.
The book Nod Whispers tells of a deeply unhappy horse who failed to respond to a broad spectrum of conventional and complimentary healing therapies until Peter learned to communicate with him at a deep soul level.
The product of a conventional and privileged background Peter had enjoyed a happy childhood in Scotland urrounded by dogs and ponies - with whom he knew he had great empathy. After twenty years in engineering he returned to his Scottish roots to farm. But the Gods were not kind and after a second bad summer put paid to his crops and his livelihood he was offered the chance to be a master of the Duke of Buccleuch’s Foxhounds.
It was a job for which he was superbly suited utilising his skills as a horseman, leader of men and his great gifts with children. It required him to have a number of horses which performed superbly across the lovely borders countryside crossing whatever obstacles lay in their path.
In need of an additional horse he set sail on a tour of potential candidates, which took him to Yorkshire where he first met Nod, who seemed ideal but had a few obvious physical problems. Finding himself in Cheshire about to write a cheque for a different horse, Peter received a loud and clear message that the brown horse in Yorkshire would really like to come home with him.
And so it was that Nod came to the borders to fulfil the task of a master’s horse. It was soon apparent that he was totally unsuitable for this onerous job or for anything else and really ought to be put to sleep.
His physical problems, including a major crisis requiring a spell at the renown ‘Dick Vet’ horse hospital near Edinburgh, were initially solved by a combination of conventional and alternative methods.
But his major problems were clearly psychological - he had two paces, walk or flat out - he was literally a danger to himself, to Peter and to anyone else in the vacinity. He was completely unable to behave or respond normally and beyond walking was only able to bolt at full speed with his brain dislocated.
Nod had such a hold over Peter that he was determined to find out what was troubling his lovely horse. Peter embarked on a journey which incorporated therapies he had never heard of - Feng Shui, Radionics, The Tellington Touch Approach and led him to people like Kate Solisiti an American ‘animal communicator’ who lectures all over the world. It was a world so far removed from his well-ordered life that he questioned the wisdom of embracing such extraordinary thinking and yet he knew he had to do something. A journey more moving than ‘The Incredible Journey’.
Despite their help Nod still clearly had serious mental problems, but along the way Peter was to discover that the answer lay in his own hands.
With help from Morag MacDonald-Worsley, an animal communicator and spiritual healer, in Scotland, who taught him all she could and then had to leave him to battle on himself with it, he began to realise that he could in fact communicate with Nod himself. And that what was necessary was to delve into Nod’s previous lives. In particular a life in which he had been badly injured as a cavalry horse.
It is a story that will make most horse owners stop in their tracks with questions about their own horse’s problems and make many green with envy at Peter’s ability to solve them.
Unlike us humans, animals know that they will come back to this world again - and that they have a choice of where they return and to whom - which is of course why Nod sent Peter the message to rescue him.
Scotland's horse whisperer, Peter Neilson
So the book also introduces us to other horses, part of the team required for Peter to carry out his job, which have come to live with and be healed by Peter. These he now knows had chosen to come to him in this life to be healed of their problems which sometimes originated in another life and to come together with horses with whom they had shared experiences in past lives.
Morris who refused to go into the lorry because of a dreadful experience in a lorry when he once lived in Mexico - another horse who had rescued a companion from a fire and needed to be healed of the guilt of leaving other horses to burn to death.
The poignant ending of Nod’s life and the subsequent celebrations of his healing throughout the animal kingdom will leave no animal lover untouched.
Tributes to Nod Whispers praise the work of an inspirational, down to earth. practical horseman who has come to realise his gift for healing through his special love for one horse.
Peter has now dedicated himself to helping others heal their animals and his work has been the subject of profiles on BBC television, Channel 4, Borders Television and numerous newspaper articles.
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