The psychic stuff and the need to make trainin and understandin horses somethin so mystical takes away from ordinary people the realization that we all have the ability to be good horse people.
I was visiting a friend who had a small child. The kid was speaking to her mum, “bufjad doowki cetlu.” I had no idea what it was saying. But her mum had no trouble and reached to pass the kid another slice of sweet apple. In what dictionary did those words come from????
I think true kindness is an expression of our humanity and it is not dependent on receiving any gain from it. Kindness is not limited to just people and animals we care about.
There is very little about riding and training that comes naturally to a horse, but fortunately, they have a strong and natural propensity to recognize and give meaning to patterns. We exploit that part of their nature every day with very little recognition of its importance.
