I have written lately about Cisco and I because I’ve been pondering the meaning of life with a horse. \u00a0That sounds cool doesn’t it? \u00a0Believe it or not, the Level 4 Parelli journey with Cisco is not the same as the Level 3 journey with Velvet. \u00a0All I really remembered was the intense focus on flying lead changes. \u00a0Yes, I still have that fierce focus, but things are very different.<\/p>\n
Things are very different as I don’t have job. \u00a0I have few time constraints. \u00a0When I play with Cisco it isn’t after an 8-10 hour day at work. \u00a0It isn’t at night in the dark. \u00a0Another huge difference is that I understand tons and tons more about the principles of love, language and leadership. \u00a0I can talk much better non-verbally to my horse now. I understand physical and non-physical feel of connection with my non-verbal partner. \u00a0Slowing down has never been easy for me, but Cisco is teaching me how much he appreciates my toning down my body language so I don’t scare him to death. Yes, I can scare him to death and cause him to go right brain with just a higher level of gestures or being in the wrong place and making an gesture with my arm. He is that sensitive.<\/p>\n
So I’m thinking that only the deep kind of people that are involved with a deep level of horsemanship will understand the garble of the first two paragraphs. If you want to understand this kind of stuff, come to a clinic\/lessons with Tony and Jenny Vaught or Nichole Copple!<\/p>\n
Now I’ll talk in regular English. Maybe. Maybe I can make this clear and maybe not. What you will get out of this is the passion.<\/p>\n
I having fun playing with Cisco where he and I are face-to-face. I ask him to do tasks and he tells me immediately that he doesn’t understand. It takes me a while to understand that. Then I ask him to do the task in a different way or I might break down the task into parts. I love to play with Cisco when he has no rope or no halter on his head. But now I can see when my asking isn’t working and I go to the rope. The rope gives me physical feel so I can tell him better what I want. When he is relaxed and doing what I want while using the rope, I can then switch to liberty.<\/p>\n
People who don’t know how incredible is the horse in a face-to-face basis are missing an immense part of their horse. Many of the times I go to play with Cisco, I’m thinking about those flying lead changes or leg yield at the flat foot walk or canter. I say to Cisco, let’s just make certain your saddle is tight and then I will ride. After that, the magic happens and I get caught up in the deeply satisfying happiness of getting Cisco to understand my cues while we are playing online or at liberty. When Cisco understands what I want, he is thrilled to do it. Cisco wants very much to please his human. He overtries. He struggles to figure out what I want. If I want him to move a step, he thinks five steps will be better. Is that right! Is that right!<\/p>\n
I’ve watched thousands of liberty acts. I grew up with Dr. Paul in Osceola who had a liberty act with six white horses. I’ve watched circus acts. I’ve watched it all. I could never figure out how Dr. Paul and all those other people could get horses to do all those things, much less six horses. I still can’t figure out how Dr. Paul and the circus people can do it. I can’t understand how David Lichman does it. I can’t understand how Double Dan James can do it! What I can do is figure out how to ask Cisco to do tasks, I can spend enough time with Cisco that eventually, we click and he discovers what I’m asking. Then I glow with happiness and my life is extended for five to ten minutes. Yep, this horse stuff will make you live forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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