We had an interesting question on our discussion group yesterday that has prompted this blog. The question was how do you use the stuff in Zen Connection with Horses with your normal training and lessons?
And my answer was – don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. i.e. Don’t throw away the things that you already know how to do – ADD the Zen Connection with Horses approach to what you already know, that already works.
My advice is to use the audio lessons at the back of the book to develop your feel for your conscious connection to your horse, use the lessons to develop a good strong sense of what Not Quite Right feels like for you and use them to cultivate the habit of taking action when you feel Not Quite Right.
“Not Quite Right” is an early warning signal, before what happens happens. It’s an opportunity to pay attention to BEFORE something happens, BEFORE our horse jumps out from underneath us, BEFORE we are afraid, BEFORE we get frustrated or angry.
When you apply your conscious connection to everything that you do with your horse, they will be able to let you know what changes are important to them and to you as and when they become important.
And if that relationship is like many others that I have seen working with this conscious connection, including the one with my own horses, that will evolve beautifully – as and when we are ready. My experience has been that as I keep listening to my horses, they let me know when they need something different or done differently.
The variety of ways in which people are applying this connection with their horse warms me up just thinking about it.
- People are adding this connection to their lessons with trainers in all kinds of disciplines - teachers and trainers who are sympathetic to their goals with their horse and how they want to treat their horse.
- Others use their horse as their teacher.
- There are a whole heap of people who have used the Zen Connection with Horses way of being with their horse to go on wonderful journeys of personal growth (since being excellent with horses means having a deep sense of confidence and serenity, that happens a lot!)
- Even further, there are a whole heap of people who have realised how the deep connection with their horse is paralleled in their human relationships, to the benefit of those relationships.
- A bunch of people have even used it to find expanded consciousness – wow!!!
- Some people have added this conscious connection to their horse, to the framework that Bobby came up with, that I wrote about in Bobby’s Diaries – Straight from the Horses Mouth to You. (Zen Connection with Horses was written after Bobby’s Diaries and reflects a much gentler and more deeply conscious approach.)
Sometimes it is appropriate that we throw out everything that has been done with a horse and start again because that’s what they need. This is usually when a horse or a person has been chronically frightened or traumatised. I have helped many people start from the beginning, de-traumatising as they go and it has had seriously beautiful outcomes – you can read about some of them in People’s Stories and Readers Letters (scroll up, the buttons are on the right hand side of this page.)
But for many, many of you reading this blog, just add the understanding that you get from the book and the conscious connection that you develop with the audio lessons in Zen Connection with Horses, to the things that you already know and do, to produce a truly outstanding result and relationship.
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