There is a growing trend throughout the world in which horses are being used to heal humans. With several thousand therapeutic riding programs operating on the planet and programs in which at-risk teens interact with horses, plus millions of everyday people enjoying their interactions with horses, there seems to be emerging a very clear message. Interaction with horses is healthy for humans from all walks of life. Domestic horses raised in captivity lead very complex lives compared to those growing up in the wild. Often times they are handled from the first hour of birth and this continues throughout their lives.
Humans become an everyday event.
Sometimes this is good and sometimes it isn't. In many ways humans have lost the natural ability of understand and empathize with horses. That ability was used everyday in centuries past. Today interaction with horses is mostly recreational. The horse exists for the human's pleasure, not his survival.