Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Well, I’ve got to tell you, I am as surprised as anything I have ever been surprised about. For those of you who have read Zen Connection with Horses, you might remember our racehorse, Desert Moon (aka Sunny) as being a horse who fights when she is afraid. (You know, there are horses who run when they are afraid, horses who freeze and horses who fight.)

Well, it turns out that the fight reflex was not genetic like I thought it was.  It was imprinted into her by humans who cornered her – trapped her in a small space when she was young (a foal by the feel of it). 

It is such a normal thing for us humans to do, I have done it dozens and dozens of times myself in the old days before I knew a different way.  You get the horse in a corner where they can’t get out and catch them when they give up. (Go get Zen Connection with Horses if you are looking for a different way or have a hard to catch horse.)

The end result of that automatic reflex was, that Sunny kept putting herself into corners and getting ready to fight whenever the pressure went on – whether that pressure came from a human or another horse.

It was pretty untidy looking, I can tell you, chasing her out of a corner every time she boxed herself in – telling her “no sunshine, we’re not doing anything at all in that corner with you – get out of there!” Anybody who was watching without tuning into the energy, would have thought I was a crazy woman who was being way too hard on her horse.   Good horsemanship doesn’t always look sweet and tidy.

Please understand, though, that what we did here only came after much work, much trauma releasing and Sunny had no fear of me.  The timing was right.

The proof of the benefit of what we were doing came when her whole body changed, when she softened, yet still moved with incredible power, but with a softness that was awesome and she wanted to be with me.

Sunny felt very, very different afterwards - but the real proof came yesterday.  I was standing directly behind Bobby and chasing a bot fly (nasty stinging things that drive the horses crazy) and slapped at it on Bobby’s back legs, with the confidence that comes from knowing your horse’s reactions intimately.  Well… Sunny levitated away from the slap and jumped forwards.  Whoops, wrong horse.

Just a few weeks ago, that would have got my head kicked in.

There’s the proof – we now have a happy flight reflex horse…  Wooo hooo!!!

For those of you who haven’t got Zen Connection with Horses yet, the book, but specially the series of audio lessons in the back of the book, will make catching your horse so easy and all sorts of other things so easy you will be awed.

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