"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. 

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, 

you won't be the victim of needless

suffering."   ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

 Bhudda sa det kanske före :)  Lättare sagt än gjort men något att sträva efter.

Djuren börjar skaffa bättre pälsar och ett skyddande fettlager ;) Dorado får umgås med fåren från andra sidan staketet tillsvidare. De far omkring för mycket och skapar oro. En vill ju att hästen ska hålla sig stilla som sagt.

 

Lillasyster i ett nötskal.. och varför jag inte vill släppa in folk i hagen ;) I alla fall inte vem som helst. Hennes husse är ett snäpp lägre på skalan enligt henne. Jag är högre men måste kollas varje dag.

"…think about your horse being in a herd of 10 and he’s poor number 10. He drinks last, gets pushed away from his food and spends his whole day watching out for number one and dodging numbers two to nine as they constantly move him out of their space. Then on Saturday he hears the gate creak as it opens and you walk in. He rubs his hooves together and thinks “Oh boy…here comes number 11!” And that’s just if he’s number 10, imagine if he was number one!!

Have you ever been flicked right in the face by your horse’s tail? What about when he calmly steps on the hose, or your toe, or head-butts you in the back? When Pat talks about horses playing games with you, THIS is the horse he is talking about!

It’s not your average timid little prey animal, this horse is running things his way.

Från "Help... my horse is way too smart! How to become riveting for your Left Brain Horse" von Linda Parelli, Savvy Times October 2006)"

Ser bra ut med pojken idag. Inga tecken till skav av bootsen heller. Stoppade en bit "sidentyg" modell oäkta emellan ballarna och gaiten. Verkar fungera. Ska inhandla lite äkta siden, det lär fungera ännu bättre kan man tänka. I alla fall när jag tänker på mina siden kalsonger :)
Han känner sig nog helt okey som det verkar, erbjuder mig diverse konster när jag kommer. Tror mycket riktigt att godiset ska komma fram då.

Bilderna före och efter, dock inte i den ordning man skulle vilja. Hus är inte bara att ha, inte hästar heller .  Bron hade ruttnat och tryckts ner av all snö i fjol.  Själv känner jag mig lite rutten jag också men det är bara förkylning så jag borde skämmas att klaga men det gör jag ändå ;)

Då är min prins gipsad och ohalt hoppas jag. Det visade sig att det var ett brott på hovbenet, en liten bit av ena sidan skilt från resten. Det är bättre diagnos på detta. Han går där med en boots över gipset och jag hoppas att han låter den vara på så att gipset håller sig.
Mycket glad över hans uppförande hos veterinären. Perfekt på min ära. Röntgen, hovvård, gipsning och tandraspning. Han var 100 procent samarbetsvillig hela tiden. Han fick beröm inte bara av mig.

Rosa var med , mycket mycket skönt att ha en vän med i sådana sammanhang.
De första snöflingorna föll idag.

Alla tre hästarna proffsverkades av Fia idag. Att vistas på gruset har gjort Storasyster gott tydligen för hon har fina hovar utan "godisdiken". Kors i taket!  Så långt har de andra två inte kommit ännu.. Dorado har dessutom stått och skrapat med vänsterhoven så den är mindre än den högra. Den vänstra ser utifrån ut som man vill att en hov ska se ut men sulan är antagligen för tunn. Han ska ju inte jobba på ett tag så det har förhoppningsvis ingen stor betydelse.
Ingen av de tre var på särskilt samarbetsvilligt humör men Fia gjorde ett bra jobb. Det är inte så främjande för humöret att gå på litet område när man är häst men kanske nyttigt att vara utan gräs. Spännande att se om de andras hovar också kommer att förbättras.

Hade tänkt fota men jag hade tre hästar och en hund att hålla reda på så det blev inget idag.

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Karen Rohlf hade den på sin FB sida. Något att tänka på länge..

Ett ridhus att drömma om :)   Ladd Farm USA.

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Steve Miller brukar alltid vara intressant så jag sätter detta här tills jag hinner läsa det :) Mycket nu när man inte hinner läsa sin egen blogg.

Defining the True Friendly Game: Part 1

av Steve Miller kl. den 12 oktober 2010 kl. 03:33

A few of you asked me to try a 'blog' so I thought I'd try this method and see what response I got:

It has been a pillar of Inge's teaching from the early days to incorporate the Extreme Friendly Game (ExFG) very early on in the process of teaching Natural Horsemanship. Inge had always understood Pat's teaching in the old L1/2/3 to mean that the FG always has to be in balance with the Driving Game (DG). So when she was invited to teach the first ever 12 week module in Pat's HMS University (quite an honour), she just did as she always had. Others commented and complimented her on her use of the ExFG vs DG but Inge responded that this is what she thought every other PP did! LOL!

These days, Inge's goal is for the horse to read our intention and not our body, not our stick and string and not our degree of energy (unless it is focused on them or shows them a path to follow!).

I thought I had a fairly solid FG but when I went to Inge's Foundation course in May 2010, I found that I had HUGE holes in my Parelli foundation. Yes, I could stand in Zone 1 and thwack the ground on either side of Jo's nose (missing by 1 inch!) and she stayed relaxed - but when I asked for even a light, rhythmic FG over Zone 3 in the walk, Jo either came Sideways Toward me or she was off! I had accidentally taught her that when she was on the move 'everything means something' - or had she taught me to keep 'quiet'?

This was a kind of turning point for me because instead of experiencing the highs and lows of success and failure as I often had on courses, I not only saw the large deficit in my relationship with Jo but also did not get upset by this. I recognised the importance of getting it fixed and I knew instantly that I HAD the necessary skills and that I COULD fix it. That was a good feeling. I also recognised that I needed to ignore what was supposed to be our focus for that session and get these fundamentals improved.

So, 20 mins later, I had not practised what we had meant to be doing but I did have a rudimentary FG (CS & SS rhythmically over Z3) in halt, walk ,trot and canter. Phew! This was sufficient to complete the course but I knew this fell far below Inge's dreams for us. I apologised to Inge for not working on the suggested tasks but she had noted our difficulties and was happy that I ditched the task in favour of the fundamentals and that I had got it fixed.

Back home, every time I started to think about improving my FG, Inge style, I got confused. There only seemed to be a few variables but it still all seemed to send my head spinning.

One day, not long ago, when I got bored during a seminar, I doodled idly to myself. Then my LB became engaged and I tabulated what I was actually trying to do. It all got horribly complicated. In no time at all I had tabulated;

5 Gaits = back-up/ halt/ walk/ trot/ canter (gallop not included cos I can't keep up during ground work ! LOL!)
5 Zones (at least)
2 types of Internal Energy; can be High or Low ( the horse needs to learn to ignore both UNLESS there is 'intention' behind the energy - a concept unique to Inge, I think, but one that she taught throughout her Parelli days).
4 types of Stimulus type; Movement or Noise but both of these can be Rhythmic or Random.

So for any one person+object combo (eg person with CS & SS) there are 5 x 5 x 2 x 4 = 200 types of Friendly Game!!!!

No wonder I was confused and no wonder my FG felt incomplete! LOL!

Let's take an example;

Can you play Rhythmic CS & SS over Z4 in back up such that the horse ignores your stick and string and only listens to your intention (perhaps backed up by a minimal body language cue)?

Can you make Random Noises in Zone 1 as the horse canters to you? Think of using an old fashioned football rattle as the stimulus. Now there's one hell of a strong draw to be had if you got this to work!

OMG, I forgot to include On-Line versus Liberty. OK, that makes it 400 FGs per object! But then again, there are 3 lengths of rope (at least). So that's 4 variables; 0 (=Liberty), 12ft, 22ft and 45ft. So that's 4 x200 = 800 FGs per object!!!

You can probably see why I shut off my analytical brain at this point cos it was shouting at me to not even START this IMPOSSIBLE process! LOL!

In recent times, I have learned to apply my analytical mode only on specific occasions. When I started and for the most part of my NH endeavours, 'LB Analytical' was my default position. There's nothing wrong with this and it has served me well but like everything else, it needs to be in balance - and my use of LB vs RB back then was not. Let's be honest, although PNH never stated 'LB = Good, RB = Bad', this is the message that a lot of people took and I was probably among that number. It was only this January that I found how to go more by 'feel' - to work things out IN the moment and not 'beforehand', to trust more to my instincts and inner voice (intuition). It may not be coincidence that this was when my own play drive and imagination grew exponentially and I started to just make things up. 2 horses at Liberty? If it looks like a safe option, why not just try it?!!! This was when I started to make and publish videos of my own progress on FB. I had found the FUN in fundamental again : )

Anyway, as the second Inge course approaches, I returned to my self-imposed FG homework in the realisation that there WERE some 800 FGs but that I was going to stick to a 12ft line, that I was going to get only great at the Walk first (then trot, then canter), that I already had a good FG in Halt in place, that I was only going to concentrate on Zone 2/3 to begin with. That I was not going to attempt random movements just yet (remember Pat's 'drunken Cowboy' walk?) and that I was also NOT going to worry about noise as a variable until all the movement variables were in place. So the REAL variables were;

1. My energy being low.
2. My energy being high but in an unfocused way.

In this context, all other variables being the same, if I were to focus the energy toward a certain part of the horse, I would expect (and cause) that body part to move. In other words the HIGH energy along with intention is the Driving Game. This creates a third 'Game' to play so that the horse can learn to distinguish between the FG and DG;

3. My energy being high and focused in a direction (in the manner Inge teaches)

So the difference between the Driving Game and the Friendly Game, at this level, should be only my intention; not my body language, not my internal energy (or 'Life' as Pat refers to it) and not my movement or the movement of my stick and string.

So, I had reduced my nightmare of 800 FGs to just 3; Movement of stick and string in Z3 with 1) Low energy, 2) High energy but 'unfocused' and 3) High energy with clear purpose and direction.

If anyone reads this far and is curious to hear how I got on, the mistakes I made and the solutions I found, then please leave me a message to ask for Part 2 : )



[Oh NO! I forgot that there are TWO sides to the horse, and the TOP of Zone 3 = riding position so there's 8 Zones - at least....... argghhhh!]


Steve

http://stillvital.se/

Kraniosakrala behandlingar för människa,

häst och hund.

Länken till Ingelas hemsida. 

En solig höstdag i Tunbyn. Fylld av arbete och trevliga besök av Ingela och Kitty.

Salstalönnen. Den fick jag med mig som helt litet träd vid ett besök hos Eva på Salsta.

När Ingela gör Kraniosakral behandling har hon alla djur omkring sig. Ett tag såg det såg ut som om Dorado skulle lägga sig ned han också.

Systrarna somnade.

Där hussen är finns Smilla.

Ingång sker på egen risk numera.

Hälsning från Stockholm. Tove , Linus och Snuttan. Kari tog bilden med Linus telefon.

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Consider adding Boswellia to your horse’s diet for:

• arthritis
• inflammation
• injury and wounds
• sprains/strains
• any muscle, tendon, ligament, skeletal pain

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Boswellia is something I wouldn’t be without in my horse’s first aid kit. It is a safe, non toxic alternative to Bute and other NSAIDS. I personally use a Boswellia product from Platinum Performance. It is sold separately as a .5 lb jar or as a part of their joint support products.

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Jag ger Dorado Boswellia eftersom jag själv har goda erfarenheter av det. Skickade efter det här i Sverige denna gång. Ser att det finns mycket skrivet om det på amerikanska sidor. Ännu inte så mycket på svenska. Hoppas att det ska öka chansen att få gossen frisk. Syns fortfarande att han är halt i vändningarna. Bara att hoppas att han håller sig lugn så att läkningen kan fortsätta.

Hon är bra fin den lilla trots magen. Lillasyster är klar att flytta till ett Parellihem vilken dag som helst. Hon tycker att det går för långt nu, gå omkring här uppe på ridplanen och ha tråkigt. Ingen vill leka med henne varken folk eller fä.

Vi har hämtat skiffer i Jämtland. Det låg snö på fjällen :) Glad att få återse Jämtland i höstskrud, står sig bra i fråga om skönhet.

Smörgåsbordet serverat och en tidig julgran. Man får roa sig så gott det går.
Lillasyster tycker för det mesta att det verkar godare det som Dorado äter.