You’re going to apply this “meet and melt” to many things!
Photo: Meet and melt, featured in this lesson, was possibly the greatest gift that we gave Oliver, who is pictured here with Steve. Used as a RELEASE, this technique facilitated enormous healing in the spinal joint where the neck meets the body and in the shoulders, produced a visible physical change and a lightness and willingness in Oliver that had simply not been there before. There’s two more lessons in the forum to go with this lesson.
The lesson
Are you getting sick of me saying that here is another pivotal lesson that will fast track you to your ridden dreams?
Well, soooorrry! (No I am not really! 🙂 ) And yes this IS another one of those pivotal lessons – a VERY big deal in fact…
RELEASE, RE-LEARN and RE-PROGRAM will apply to many of you with this task too. So remember, if you are waiting a long time for The Chew then your horse is most likely in the release stage and it WILL be worth waiting for!.
Here’s an important note – the more time that you spend in the good feelings that come up during this whole process, the more time that you spend soaking up those good feelings, stopping and taking the time to enjoy them – the FASTER your horse is going to put things into muscle memory where you simply won’t have to worry about teaching that thing again.
Not Quite Right
And… here’s an opportunity to sink into how YOU experience Not Quite Right again, to get really good at it, so that you Feel exactly at what point in the exercise to meet, what point to melt and what point to step away and allow your horse time to process this incredibly healing exercise.
Keep your mind and your heart open to notice how YOU feel inside, that could be YOUR HORSE’s breathing, heart rate, tension, blocked posture, yucky feeling energy, anxiety, frustration or worries.
Can you see how ALL the five ways Feeling – in WHATever way YOU uniquely experience them – can help you to some extraordinary breakthroughs?
If you’re having trouble with this or want to speed up the learning process, come on into a Live Seminar, let me know beforehand, because even if it doesn’t “fit” for the seminar itself, we can help you in the 15 minutes before the seminar starts. Or pick up a private lesson if it all feels just too hard.
Click here for a short audio introduction to the Lesson – and there’s a written version of the audio below the video). The video below is Part 2 of the lesson.
Written Version of the Audio Introduction
I don’t like to tie horses up and hardly ever do. However there are circumstances where that might be necessary and it’s dangerous to tie a horse up who hasn’t been taught what to do when they feel the pressure of the halter, so we should prepare them properly ahead of time.
Anyone who has ever seen a terrified, mindlessly panicking horse pulling back while tied up has no doubt experienced deep fright themselves. It is a terrifying thing to watch.
I tied Celtic Peace up once. It didn’t occur to me that race horses are cross tied (two ropes one tied to each side of the halter) and many have never been taught to tie up on a single rope and I thought he was going to kill himself when he pulled back.
It was one of my most terrifying horse experiences.
When horses have dreadful reactions to being tied up like Peace does, we can avoid doing anything about it forever, we can just not ever go there – but then he will carry that trauma for the rest of his life. Or we can help him release that trauma – even if we never tie him up again.
As an alternative therapist I have seen many, many, many horses carrying the mental, emotional AND specially the physical damage of pulling back while tied up.
And worse than that, many horses actually die each year in Australia just from pulling back like that.
OK, I’ll lighten up, I’ve made my point! Now we know it’s a big deal, what can we do about it? So how are we going to get our horse OK to be tied up?
Prepare. Prepare. Prepare.
And don’t even THINK about tying a horse up until they can do the following exercises on auto pilot.
For most of us, we are going to have to release the old trauma or resistance from being taught to tie up originally, or from any pull backs that they have already had and that’s going to take at least one, maybe more of those long sessions waiting for The Chew.
Very few horses can come forwards off the pressure of a rope when they are in their “Oh Shit” Zone.
I want my horse coming forwards off the pressure of a rope under all kinds of circumstances before I would consider tying them up.
I want a useful “Oh Shit” Zone reaction – I want a useful automatic brain pathway established first.
So have a look at this video to see how we are going to do start to do that.
Up Next
In the next Lesson, we take this tying up preparation further where your early warning signal that something is Not Quite Right starts to get VERY VERY important.