Pleasant realization

[hobbyhorse23]

You know, I was out at the barn last night scratching on Kody and watched him walk away towards his pasture gate and caught myself telling him that I know he wanted to go out and play tag with me but it was too dark and I'd have to play with him the next day. It was only on the way back up to the house that I thought to question how I had known so clearly that he wanted to play with me and not assumed he wanted grass or time outside. But I just KNEW, darn it.

We also have a born-wild kitten that my mom thought was totally skittish and would never tame down. I looked at him, was quiet and open for a moment, and told her that while he was shy right now if I ever laid my hands on him he would become a total love bug and never look back. I named him Hunter because he is a very sensitive, centered, calm soul and he reminded me of a true mountain man that way. You know, the ones who might have built cabins with their own hands, rescued hurt wildlife and set them free again, all that? He's very in touch with himself and the world around him. Plus I wanted to call him Orion (he's pitch black with one white patch on his belly) and the constellation Orion is also called The Hunter. So anyway, I spent one whole night sitting on the garage floor and letting him come to me and he literally tamed in one touch. Now he is the most affectionate thing and has become a complete housecat by choice while his once-friendly sister is still wild. My mom shakes her head and wonders how I knew him so well when we hadn't even been able to touch him. I just KNEW.

And of course the more I accept this skill and practice it, the easier and more accurate it becomes. I don't hear words, I never even get the sensation of "getting something" from the animal. But if I really need to know something, if I spend time with them and open myself in just the right way, sometimes I suddenly know exactly why they're doing something or what they're feeling. Hunter is the first animal I've gotten things from who I didn't already know well. I'm just excited because this gift seems to be growing and it makes me feel so intimate and connected to my animals.

I never get surface thoughts or things from a distance, just a true feeling for their soul and purpose if I'm with them. I don't know why, but it's sure useful.

Anyone else get stuff like this? Or just suddenly realize after awhile that you're getting more information from your animals then body-language alone can account for?

Leia

 

[lyn_j]

[SIZE=14pt]I didnt before but since Bonnie told me to start talkingto my horses.... I really find myself listen to them and not just talking. I am convinced I can understand them better. Even had a cat tell me once what she wanted to be named. Try explaining that to your family! Fancy my mare that was so afraid of everyone and everything sends me thought messages all the time now and even looks at me when she sends them. We had never connected like that before. Maybe the talk that Bonnie had with her for me opened up both up more. I get general understandings from some of the others but not as in depth as Fancy.[/SIZE]

Lyn

 

[hobbyhorse23]

Even had a cat tell me once what she wanted to be named. Try explaining that to your family!

Yep. Most our critters just accept the names they came with and don't mind but out of the momma cat and her two kittens, only Hunter wanted a name. The other two have made it clear that they won't accept anything formal so we just call them Mom and Sis. The Cat Formerly Known as "Brother" sort of gave me his- I sat and stared at him for twenty minutes and waited and Hunter just floated into my head and fit.

That's neat about Fancy, Lyn.

 

[nootka]

I think I notice that, too.

I guess I will always second-guess it, but I do feel that if I take the time to observe them, and let them know what's going on, our communications are better and I understand them better.

I doubt I would ever be able to communicate on a level like Bonnie, but I think we have enough of an understanding to get along very well.

My Arabian and I had a pretty good relationship, too, that way.

Liz M.

 

[Miniv]

OMG, I want to HUG all of you!!!!

YOU ARE GETTING IT!!!!!! When Bonnie reads your posts she is going to cry tears of happiness!!!!

It's those "impressions" and "Just knowing it" that come first. You JUST KNOW that it isn't coming from your own mind.

One day you will be " open" and some pictures will flash in your mind and you'll JUST KNOW that it came from your horse or your pet...... Once that feeling happens, you'll recognize it more and more...... Messages in actual words may or may not come eventually.....

Earlier this year, I cried when Larry finally experienced what Lyn described. He unloaded a little dwarf he was transporting for Chances Mini Rescue. And she told him her name. It was NOT what she was being called, however, she immediately answered to it and continued to while she was here.

You guys have NO IDEA HOW THRILLED I AM that you are GETTING "IT"......

MA

 

[ChrystalPaths]

youbetcha

 

[bfogg]

One of the hardest things to do is to make sure you don't have your own agenda going on, if you want to send out a horse to a trainer and you ask the horse does he want to go, guess what your answer is probably going to be?

Also I need to tell you most communicators will not even try to read their own animals,its to hard

I have to work 10 times as hard to read my own,as I know them to well,I used a woman who I deeply respected but sadly she is gone now. Thats just a little FYI for you.

If you take the time to listen they wil speak with words and actions!

Have fun but remember your vet is the first one to go to.

Thank you Lyn J for giving me a heads up on this thread!

Be prepared to have the old timers laugh at you and your friends as well, take it all in stride and remember to breathe!! And have a great time !

hugs

Bonnie

 

[New_Image]

You know, I was out at the barn last night scratching on Kody and watched him walk away towards his pasture gate and caught myself telling him that I know he wanted to go out and play tag with me but it was too dark and I'd have to play with him the next day. It was only on the way back up to the house that I thought to question how I had known so clearly that he wanted to play with me and not assumed he wanted grass or time outside. But I just KNEW, darn it.

I have done that too, I will answer their "Questions" or will talk for them and people always comment on how that looks like whats going threw their mind.

I swear they can understand you, A recent example, Rodeo was messing around by the barn door and I said "Turn on a light would ya?" On my way over to turn on the lights and I kid you not he flipped the swich with his nose!

My mom was in the barn just stareing lol.

I just say its the fact that I know my horses too good

 

[Sun Runner Stables]

See I knew I was not the only crazy one.

My one big mare and I have such a close connection, I feel like we "talk" all the time. When she "somehow" got bred and I came home from europe, she told me she was preggers. Everyone in my barn was quick to say there was No way, but sure enough, later that year, here came Penny, her foal.

And when she foundered from this current preganancy, and the vet said she was fine, she just needed time, she said that "Nope, somethings Bad wrong with This foot." Sure enough, she had rotation. (She's up at Peggy Flemings right now getting treated holistically (Sp?) for her founder, and the imbalances that caused it in the first place.

When I teach on her or am riding her myself, I can Tell her what I need her to do, be it "catch this kid, bad balance" or vocally asking for a Piaffe or too collect herself For the kid, she justs gets it, and is so happy with what she does with Her kids.(Including me, I am just a bigger kid to fuss over to her.

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She just amazes me with the trust we have in each other, I can ride her with nothing on and do a full dressage test, or before her founder, jump a course. She would never drop me or a kid, and tells me somehow where she's going next... I kinda rescued her,

and I feel like this is what She wanted to do, she's the one who started it all for me teaching. (I never even thought about it before her, and suddenly a few months after she came home I had kids comming over, wanting to ride. I think she called them over, I also think She teaches the kids more then I do.

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