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DENSITY…

How a study of a bird an sensitize --our 'feel'.

While driving cross-country one afternoon, after I had been working with a client to teach free lounging in a round pen, `something' clicked, as I recalled seeing a large blackbird, taking to flight. I later thought --if that bird pressed down on --something to make it lift into the air, then, that same something just might be felt by the horse, as we `push' the horse (plus that something) away from us with our hands, without even touching the horse.

We our pushing an object towards the horse's hind-quarters, with our hands or lounge whip --gently used. The horse will gently move away from that something, and perhaps not only from the visual effect on our movement?

Thinking more on this, I thought about how we swim in water. Like the bird, we also push down on the water, so we can float. Of course, this is until we learn how to relax in and on the water --like a bird soars in and on the air in the sky!

Why then --can the bird fly in the air, and we only float on the water?

I thought about the bird's wing shape, then looked at my hands. When fingers are closed, we can cut the water better, just like the bird cuts the air --before spreading it's wings to press down on the air. We then --press down on the water to stay afloat.

As soon as we spread our fingers, we start to sink. Of course our fingers aren't wings or feathers, however it leaves the question, just what is it --that is so different for a bird, a human, and a horse? When birds spread their fingers, or feathers, they are slowed down, or they begin their decent downwards.

While later free lounging a young horse, I was taken by her immediate response to my waving my hand to move her forward. It was as though she didn't have time to even see my hand movement.

I questioned the extreme `sensitivity' of the horse, and now believe they are more sensitive than I originally believed.

Our hands can make waves in the water, and we can see them. The bird must also make waves within the air! That we do not see, but the horse really does sense or perhaps feel those air waves --by their hair sensors!

To take these thoughts farther, I had the privilege of then working with a 3-yr. old mustang, who would not stand --to be touched by humans, at that time.

The DENSITY of the air for a bird, the water for a human, I can now question farther.

IF the last horse I worked on earlier today showed me such intricate response --will the wild horse also show me something more?

This horse did not survive in the wild --by NOT responding to his instincts. So I watched more carefully in my first session with him. The same sensitivity was there, however almost exaggerated.

Exaggerated movement is distracting --and can be fearful to any horse on occasion, especially when the work is intense. I insist on no outside distractions whenever we work, for total attention and concentration. My students, horse or human, begin to feel this after a couple of sessions --that this is different! There is more to this!

To push the air with my hand --pushed the density of the air towards the horse, making invisible waves in the air. I thought. How stupid I am! Of course --when you fan yourself, you feel the breeze against your face. However, this horse is 15 feet away from me in this round pen.

I am appreciating the horse's sensitivity even more, and I am opening myself to that same thing, and now becoming even more aware of it.

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Is there also an energy that they feel, since they are so far away from me? Is it friction, or fusion of electrical energy, on a minute scale?

We took this wild horse into a stall. Actually, we opened the door and he went in on his own, to get away from me. I went in, very carefully, and stood in the corner so he could get used to me. The two others (owner & associate) stood quietly beside the doorway --not to show entrapment at the door. We allowed the visual for the horse to be able to leave quickly, if he felt he must.

I blew down, several times. (pull air in, and slowly blow out, or down, --while relaxing the shoulders, and body) I asked the observers to do the same thing. This `BLOW-DOWN' may now be MORE than I suspected.. The blow-down very softly pushes air from our lungs, and may be gentle or soft, --almost like making caressing waves that would seem to pacify the horse. Here, with this wild horse --is the best possible opportunity to experiment with this.

On blowing down (all 3 of us, in that stall) the horse settled. When I moved my hand he was startled and bolted strongly away from me to a corner, hitting the wall --HARD. I just stool still. Blew down again.

We did this a few times, after he settled each time. He was questioning me, and me him! I wanted to express there was nothing to fear. He had been penned before arrival at this farm, to be given shots and was naturally --severely traumatized by this. The `touch' of the human hand was a signal to panic for him. This is his survival instincts, we were watching.

Now he was definitely asking us many questions. The horse was far from stupid.

We took a lot of time to just allow the horse to settle.

(DO NOT try this yourself!) To show my trust in him I knelt down in the center of the stall so he could move around me if he wished. He stayed still. There were no waves of movement! He settled even more.

Before leaving, after about 20 minutes, all three of us entered the stall again. He accepted. We were walking very softly, so not to make waves. (Yes, we've all heard this before, and now it makes more sense, doesn't it?) To make this experiment more valuable, we all stretched our hands toward him, with fingers relaxed, and just held them there, making no waves…

To our amazement the horse seemed to relax even more. We were all now only about 2 feet from him. This was an awesome experience, and enough for his session.

We gained a lot of ground with his trust, and he gave us a wonderful lesson in sensitivity.

DENSITY…

Let us not loose respect for what there really is --between beings.

Let us soften our own beings, in mind body, and spirit, our breath, and our movement.

Perhaps then, we can all swim in the same --calming waters.

The imagined division of densities, seldom understood by humans.

There are many levels to understanding!

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'Rose at the Barn' Foreman, Founder of:

'Soft Touch Quantum Horsemanship --The Mind-Body Connection --Horse and Human'

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