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The road we travel is paved with our good intentions. Then, we hit a pothole. Where did it come from? Potholes arise from changing temperatures. Thaw to freeze to thaw to freeze. Inconsistency. After repeated stressors the road begins to tear. Then, the tear magnifies into that pothole that can become gargantuan in no time at all. The good intentions that paved the road are shredded into nothing but gravel and sand. A million grains of sand. We're stuck in the pothole and sinking fast. ...
Think of the analogies I've just laid out. The road is paved with good intentions. We all have good intentions, right? Especially when it comes to our horses. We want that blue ribbon. We want that ethereal, magical connection with our 1200 pound animal with flying mane and tail. ... with hooves pounding out a rhythmical song on the earth while we float and melt into the body beneath us. Whoa! Wait a minute. There's a pothole up ahead! Our song on the earth just turned to sour notes - a disharmony that raises the hairs on the back of our necks. Our good intentions just went south into the pothole. Maybe all the way down to China! Now what the heck am I talking about? Hang on ... and read on. Horses are animals of prey that depend on their senses to survive. One of the strongest senses is the ability to read the frequencies around them. The air is filled with frequencies; with energy that moves wildly about in the wind. One hundred feet of gut inside the horse senses and reads every cell of energy that surrounds them. It receives the frequencies and translates them into that which the horse can understand perfectly. This is their survival system. Once they receive these frequencies, they register it all in their primal cortex; in their amygdala where the flight or fight messaging system begins. The messaging system is so efficient that it flash starts messages to the rest of the body in less than a split second. Flee? Fight? Relax, everything's cool? In a split second the horse knows. Our intentions and thoughts cause our cells to vibrate with frequencies. Frequencies that, yup, you guessed it ... that the horse senses and can understand. Frequencies that let the horse know whether we're friend or foe. Frequencies that illuminate our INTENT! So now, we begin to pave the road. Every second we're with a horse we're paving that road of good intentions. Are they always good? Hopefully. What happens, though, when our intentions are intermingled with frustrations and angers and hurts from the day? Can the horse separate the good from the not-so-good? If we allow him to do so. If we allow ourselves to separate them. If not, the horse senses interminglings that cause incongruencies which, in turn, cause confusions to the horse. The natural horse's world is a world of order and predictability. Horses naturally are very uncomfortable with things that are new or out of place or changed. In light of that, our own confusing incongruencies causes apprehension in the horse who is receiving our frequencies. What happens next is a spiral downward. The more the horse senses confusion the more fearful it becomes. The more fearful it becomes, the more it begins to move its feet and body around. Horses are designed to MOVE when they're feeling threatened. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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