Sometimes you can Believe in Magic

It's not often that I believe in things that science can't prove, but when it comes to horses you can trust their responses. Through them I have learned that there can be a little bit of magic, especially when it comes to healing.
Anyone that knows me knows the saga of my mare. Given to me in an utter mess, her hooves the size of tea-cups and her back bent like a bannana so she had no definition of wither or rump, it has been a very long, hard 2 years on both of us to get her to her current condition. Along the way she has taught me more than any course, person or book ever could, she is the one that has pushed me to learn, and also the one that has made me try to help others where I can. There is one person in particular who I owe a lot to for her recovery ( although there are many many others to!) and that is her muscle therapist. She has seen her through from the very beginning, encouraging me along the way while she helped my mare. More still she has the courage to say "I can't do" rather than just ignoring what can't be done and just keeping on going, even though there would be no results.
I owe her such a debt of gratitude, I only wish I could repay it some day.
Last week that day came.
I received the horror phonecall from a friend that my mare was lame - crippled I think was the word, so I rushed down to see her. When I arrived all I could think was she's torn a ligament or actually fractured her leg. Lame like this wasn't in my mare's vocab, she had huge problems when I got her and never a day lame. I checked her joints and feet and couldn't find the heat or lack of movement. The vet arrived shortly and decided on abscess, well maybe an abscess, maybe a bruise.... maybe we should rule that out so we know it's definately not that.
I believe in vets and science.

Poultice and boot on, we're set to treat this - even though I don't think it's the problem.
I call my muscle therapist to see if she can help the horse's recovery as I can feel the pain is high on her leg and across her hip. If nothing else a good rub-down will help. She arrives to a horse who is walking like a puppet in the hind legs, and looks at the boot and me and says it's not in the foot. We get my mare comfy in her stable eating her hay and see if she'll allow any work to be done. Not on your life is that going to happen. She may not be able to put it down but she can threaten very well with the sore leg. So we let her eat hay and discussed the options.
Suddenly we are accousted by a back end in our faces, my mare has decided that she wants treatment and positions herself by backing up into us ( yes she left food for this!!!!), and ensuring that the therapist is lined up with her sore side. My mare turns around to look at her, as if to say "Please will you do somthing about this, it is annoying me". There's not a lot the therapist can do - there's too much muscle spasming and tightness to work through safely. She lays her hands on the points of pain and starts to talk to me as if we were just chatting about life, as my horse's posture starts to change and become more relaxed. After ten minutes or so, she asks me to walk the horse out so was can see if there's any change.
We couldn't believe it.... there was a change, she moved far more freely!!! But nothing was done? How did it happen? The therapist nearly cried... it was her on of her first attempts at doing Reiki on a horse, and something had happened. More than a something - a positive change.
The next 2 visits gave more and more improvement, the muscles relaxed so quickly she could work in deep in the problem areas. A week after I watched her walking around like a cripple, she is now walking around better than ever before, her stride has lengthened and she swings. What we were expecting to be at least a few months of recovery time and rehab has reduced to a few weeks. You could knock me over with a feather.

Maybe science can't prove the healing energy's effect on pain and injury, but a horse can not believe in it and hence no placebo effect can occurr. Insano-horse-person logic, A horse can't lie, therefore the effect must be real.
I don't care as it helped and maybe sometimes my logical mind can believe in a little bit of magic every once in a while.