I have a dream that all animals be treated with mindful regard, that we can recognize the difference between trust and fear motivation and that we can work with trusted cooperation.

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Now is the time...

That we adopt a wiser understanding that recognizes the difference between fear and trust motivation.

Now is the time to explore animal intelligence with trusted co-operation.

I Have a Dream

The Horses he shows in this video are rescued horses that have been rehabilitated from abuse, abandonment and neglect.

@ Mane Chance Sanctyary

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I Have a Dream Interview

H: You've made the wonderful video. I have a dream made at Mane Chance Sanctuary working with the horses.

J: Those are wonderful horses.

H: With our wonderful horses. You've created some real magic there with your trust technique. Alot of people out there that don't know what the TT is about. Who might want to share that kind of work with their own animals. So can you fill us in.

J: Let's keep it really simple. The trust technique recognizes the animals and humans share feelings and it involves mindfulness in that interaction. Whereas normally people might interact with fear and anxiety.We bring in mindfulness that produces peace of mind.

H: I want to stop you there. What is mindfulness, because it's a key word.

J: Absolutely. Mindfulness in our description in the TT is the ability to be not engaged in thinking. Not to say we're thoughtless but we're not thinking. When we engage in thinking our energy level comes right up so the more we are saying things in our own mind the more that expresses itself physically and emotionally it comes out. so when we find the gaps in the thinking so when we're not engaged in the thought our energy levels come right down to a peaceful level.

H: And how do you do that James? Do you have to sit and concentrate on being very still what happens when you do that.

J: Well, when you look at yourself as three parts. There's a physical part, an emotional part and a spiritual part. Physically (flesh and blood), emotionally (it's our ablity to think which produces feelings), and then we have our spiritual side (peace of mind.)

For us to be able to focus in right areas it allows us to get into this spiritual place. And the wrong area is when we're engaged in thinking. Our thoughts are so fast we forward in time we worry, we're backwards we're angry, we're resentful, we're planning. I mean we're not always there, our brains are so fast there's nothing faster than the speed of thought.

But our bodies are right here/right now. They don't do the time/space trick. We're born into something which is right here/right now which is what we call mindfulness or the present moment.

By focusing on being really still we can very easily come into/stay in the present moment.

H: Is that why you see in the video people sitting on the ground staring into ground/at horses?

J: They're not actually staring. There's a very specific way to deliver the present moment. It's based on regard/ It's going at the animals pace and reducing our thinking levels in a true regard sense. Which is very rare in the animal world. Because normally our agenda is what the animals have to fit into. And by practing mindful regard with animals then what we're actually doing is working at their pace.

H: If I've understood it regard is observation, empathy and that terrible word respect which emplies alot of other things why we don't use it. It's that total package of really reaching out to the animal and understanding it.

J: Let me put it in real simple terms. When we're being mindful what we're saying to the animals around us is right now be peaceful. Now if you were upset and someone said be peaceful you'd tell them where to go. So when we create this space and you have a very anxious animal and you start bringing their mind down they jolt and say they can't be this relaxed around a human. At that moment we regard them and then keep bringing their mind down until they can experience pure peace. Now pure peace for an animal being rehabed is going to sleep by that person. When they wake up they feel you're ok because they slept beside them. Animal may not be worried about people but about environment. True sense is we work at animals pace, if we slow down we can see it.

Alot of discussion tonight about finding the stillness.

YOu help people because you have to help people to help the animals. If you don't change the environment animal will go back so we teach tt to others. We help the people that help the animals. WOrking at this level you can't stop thinking about each other you'll be like teens in love. Feel each ohter.

Alot of rescued animals the problem is people. They were abused by people so when a person makes them feel peaceful they have a process that goes on in their mind their memories don't match their experience. Now is the time that we adopt a wiser understanding that recognises the difference between fear motivation and trust motivation.

H: Most people train horses and dogs with fear motivation but you're talking about trust motivation.

J: It's very hard for people to understand this process because it's been so engrained in our society that we have to be the boss, and to use tools of feat bits, whips... Not bad in self but fear of them can be terrible. Fear motivation is you do this or you'll be in trouble. I pressure you til you do what I want you to do then I take the pressure off.

H: Is it because world works at fast pace where you say work at animals pace. Or have you learned way reward motivation. Speedign up animals learning at animals pace.

J: You've been pushed you're hurting your response is ouch...

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Everything has to be about trust. We need to go to a place of nonthinking to do this. Let them guide the way.

We can't be in the past or future and here and now at the same time.

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