--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, "Anna Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/3/07, pippa258 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just been watching a movie called "What the bleep do we know?" > > which explores neurological processes via quantum physics and "quantum > > uncertainty". It is fascinating! > > > > Trish > > Good movie, also ties in well with 'The Secret'. I try to watch the > movie every month or so to help remind me how important our > perceptions are in creating our own success and happiness. > > Anna >
Those are both good dvds. I've been thinking about how this ties into horses, and I think the thing is that we need to have a clear idea of what we DO want when asking our horses to do something, if we can't get clear on it, how can they possibly *guess* what we want. We might not even recognize the beginnings of it (the try) when we see it. If we have fear of the horse, we start thinking of them as dangerous, misinterpreting what they are doing, people start doing some aggressive things with horses, which causes undesired behavior in the horse, which causes the people to become more afraid, because we probably end up hurting them, and then they might hurt us. This sort of goes with having in our minds the behavior we DON'T want them to do, and then it manifests itself. I have definitely had this happen. If we think of the horse as our friends, keep our promise to them that we will not hurt them (bits, saddles, not just whips and more extreme things), and think of them as an animal who really does want to work with us and please us, they end up acting this way, safe, using no restraints, and happy. I think it's possible for the same horse to be both of these things, but I think in their natural state, they want to cooperate with us, people have to do something to them to bring out the worst. It's so simple really, if we stop being distracted by all the flashy stuff out there in the horse industry, and look at what is right in front of us. Kim
