Handler/Horse #1
Horse 1 appeared wadded up as he moved...Handler 1 wants to change directions a lot because he isn't relaxing enough to find softness.
A lot of people think that what we are seeing is good...but the truth is, Horse 1 is just conforming, he isn't submissive...not willingly surrendering his will. His feet are close to his handler. The lowering of the head and yawning is what people look for, but horse's insides aren't ok yet. Handler struggles with losing her energy (due to chronic illness) which means that horse has releases without meaning to him.
If we see no need for God, we see no need to take direction.
What do we mean by "fear?" We don't want horse to be fearful of us. Though, this might seem to be happening in the beginning.
At this point with horse/handler pair 1, I got very confused. A flag entered the picture. It seemed to scare the SNOT out of the horse and it did out of me. Everything *I* thought *I* knew was tossed out! Interestingly, his transitions up and down began to look better. He was still carrying tension in his tail...I wrote in my notes this line "I have no idea what I am seeing."
Horse 1 wouldn't change diectinos to the right. He turns in to the left to change direction or out to the left to change direction. He doesn't want to tor right at all. (Handler is on the ground.)
Session 1 with Horse/Handler 1 ended with him online again. It did look a lot better.
"All that happens when you get up in speed is an amplification of what was tehre in the slower gaits." (I am pretty sure Harry Whitney said this a couple of times during the week.) This sort of goes along with the statement that if we discover a troubled place due to being away from home or away from a horse buddy or whatever, then the trouble was likely there all along, we just now found an opportunity in which the trouble was amplified enough for us, as amateurs, to finally see/hear it.
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You wrote: If we see no need for God, we see no need to take direction.
Could you explain what you mean by this?
In response to the question about "If we see no need for God, we see no need to take direction," it was a parallel drawn between the horse in this session, who I will call JP consistently through this blog, and the handler, G. Because the horse didn't see a need for the handler, he didn't see a need for her direction. The point was raised during the camp that sometimes the dust needs to fly...sometimes there is a "wake up" for the horse. The horse goes from zoning to being awakened. It may not look pretty at first, but it happens so that the horse can participate with the handler.
Some horses check out and take care of things themselves. It helps if they see that the human can serve a purpose...and then, if that human has established that there is a value to his presence (instead of an annoyance), then the horse begins to respond and the partnership can form. Or that is how I think I see it.
Likewise, many of us go through life without looking for direction from God. We see no need for God. We are doing fine on our own, thank you very much. Sometimes, be it through trials or other means, God may allow the dust to fly. This helps us to develop a sense that we aren't able to manage things entirely on our own. We don't have all the answers and all knowledge. Our assumptions have gotten in our way, perhaps. Once we see our deficit, we begin to look for a bigger answer...that maybe life is about something more than me. Maybe there is a bigger story. When that happens, we can begin to look for God and for his direction. We begin to look for the partnership. We awaken to some of the things that life offers that we might have missed before, just as a shut down horse might miss out on things, too.
I don't know if this helps explain it or not.
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