Books with Spirit - Horse Riding

Well, first of all, I’ve NEVER been kicked in any healing session over 14 odd years of working – I’m in this really gentle, healing space and the horses are in that gentle, receiving, quiet place and it simply just doesn’t happen.  So I was seriously shocked even though it was not a bad kick.

If one of my horses at home had kicked me like that, I would have gone beserk with anger, driven them away from the herd, run them around vigorously for some time, made them stay out there away from the herd and generally made sure that they realized that I was the boss and no way was it OK to kick me.  And then I would have missed out on the wonderful insight that Apples was able to give me because of my not so dramatic reaction.

Because  I was in “healing” mode, my reaction was quite different.  I did raise my voice sternly though and say “No, that is not OK” and moved him around a couple of steps.

When I approached him to do the next Bowen muscle move, being careful to not get within range of a kick …  Apples bit me.  A full mouth bite that closed over my whole arm.  But again, he didn’t leave a mark on me, just shocked the heck out of me again.

Well, by this time, I’m standing back, feeling pretty cautious about going in there again for another dose.  And I’ve got another Bowen muscle move to do.  And I’m seriously considering how I can do this move from ten feet away.  It sounds funny now, but it was seriously unfunny at the time!

As I’m approaching him very carefully, worried about what he’s going to do this time, approaching him from the side and watching with great trepidation for any warning signs that he might do something like that again, he said, loud as anything in my head  “See….  THAT’S what it feels like”. 

Hmmm.

What he was telling me was that every time we whack our horse, or Phase 4 them, or give them an encouraging little crack with the whip, no matter what pretty language we coat that in, even if we haven’t raised a welt or really hurt them, they feel that kind of fear in approaching us the next time.  Every time….  Oooo…

Half an hour or so later, I’m doing the next horse, Jygs, and as I approached him, I felt his energy change.  I growled at him gently, telling him that he didn’t need to get in on the act, that Apples had already given me the message.  “NOT QUITE”  said Jygs, in this really clipped, loud tone of voice in my head. 

When I got home to Australia and was in the paddock the next day, our thoroughbred Celtic Peace grabbed my arm with a bite that again didn’t hurt or leave a mark and said “Us too.”  

The message is very clear.  Like I said to Apples when he kicked me, the horses are saying to us “that is not OK”, “that is not acceptable”.  Keep in mind the context of this - which is that I am teaching other people to have an extraordinary relationship with their horse and these horses are helping me to do that. 

An extraordinary relationship isn’t based on fear, it’s based on communication. 

And that’s the reason for existence of the extraordinary book “Bobby’s Diaries – Straight From the Horse’s Mouth to You”.  Showing you how YOU can hear your horse like I heard Apples and how you can use that “hearing” to get an extraordinary relationship of your own and the results of the confident and gifted rider.  You could be reading this book in five minutes time, downloaded onto your own computer. As you can see, it’s extra – ordinary!

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