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Communication with awareness creates understanding
There are many definitions of communication but these are my two favourites : Communication is the transmission and interchange of facts, ideas, feelings or course of action. Leland Brown Communication is the sum of all things one person does when he wants to create understanding in the mind of another. It involves a systematic and…
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Anah & Astuce – the donkeys
“Changing a No to a Yes by Honouring the No while being patient and persistant“. History Anah & Astuce had been with Esther and David nearly two years when the universe brought us all together. Anah was becoming impossible to halter and was in dire need of having her hooves trimmed. Astuce was wary about…
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Mutual Regard creates Respect
This is the third understanding of Animal Connection and Beyond. You will be regarded and respected by others if you love yourself (Understanding 1), if you are vulnerable to your feelings (Understanding 2), and if you take responsibility for your own boundaries and honour the No. You will regard and respect others who love themselves,…
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Co-operative muzzling..
Co-operative muzzling.. And other muzzling things. We are back in the spring season, when the grass grows lush and sweet, the dandelions provide sprinkles, and the horses put on weight. For some this is amazing, and a great time to run around, find good nutrients and pick up some weight after the winter. Timmy (Thoroughbred)…
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Everything is exactly as it should be.
Everything happens as it should is a difficult one to understand, particularly if right now something not so nice is happening. The trick is to learn about this when it is something you can work with, or enjoy. Then you have techniques to be able to understand and go with it when what is happening…
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Understanding the feeling you bring to your animal
It is not about the human teaching the horse; it is about the horse teaching the human….if only we could learn how to listen. Well you can….. Learning to be the best person for me and the horses that share my life is a journey of many layers. It will never end. They teach me…
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Acknowledging memories..
The animals we take into our lives all have a past that is separate to ours, with maybe one exception – when the animal is born from parents that are in our guardianship. In this case we become one of their first memories. We all have memories. Some bring a smile to the face and…
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Releasing an onion layer..
Allow an animal to have their say without taking what they say personally. When my farrier was here last week (28 Nov 22) Timmy gave us some real challenges. Interestingly Timmy is always the easy one for feet – a lot of the time I could just put his rope over his back and let…
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Risada showing the pain anticipation behaviour..
This is a follow on from a post on August 21 2022 about Pain Anticipation with Risada; http://animalconnectionandbeyond.fr/2022/08/21/pain-anticipation-with-risada/ ; and a post on 16th October 2022, regarding why Risada still bites the farrier; http://animalconnectionandbeyond.fr/2022/10/16/why-does-my-horse-still-want-to-bite-my-farrier/. This is a few clips of how Risada throws her body about when she anticipates pain. This is quite mild now…
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Opening up to a conversation
Timmy and I have done a lot together to build up our mutual trust, release and heal traumas, and learn to just be together in his environment. We have also done some work on finding and sharing the ‘present moment’ in the playpit / arena. Now, after a summer of rest and processing it is…
