Training with Energy
Often I work with animals that have had negative experiences. Initially, my energy, body language and telepathic communication are the only methods which can be used, because the animals won’t let me work any closer.
During a month long learning trip in New Mexico, I had the pleasure of working with a miniature donkey, Chocko, and a blue roan Quarter Horse, Dusty. They both taught me the same lesson.
They were each out in the pasture among many other animals and were both distrustful of humans. I was using my typical approach, involving body language and round pen techniques (without the round pen) to engage Dusty. I was doing okay, but things were going slowly.
I then connected energetically with Dusty, by opening my heart chakra and running energy from my heart to his heart, from about 20 feet away. Although, for one hour, he’d been shy of me and the halter I was holding, he walked right up to me and put his nose on the halter. He then allowed me to put it on him. We practiced this exercise several times over the next few days, with the same result.
I practiced this heart chakra exercise repeatedly during my time in New Mexico and it drew the critters like a magnet each time. Chocko, who was extremely timid and didn’t even approach for food, would walk right up to me and touch my cheek when I opened my heart chakra to him.
In all interactions with horses, we want them to respond to the subtlest of cues as possible. Training with energy helps immensely. A horse will recognize a hand held out like a traffic cop as a sign to stop, and not come closer, but it has much more affect if the energy and intent behind the gesture is to stop. That same hand held out, with the intention and energy to draw the horse closer, will do just that.
We can ask our horses from a distance to step over, come, yield a shoulder or step away their hindquarter with the energy we project and the intent behind our body language. This reduces confrontation and is a lovely way to communicate with animals.
It is often necessary to use physical contact to interact to train horses, but using energy is an additional method that makes the interaction more clear and kind.
