You need to create a safe and peaceful place for your animal if they are near something that is causing them to be stressed or afraid. You need to be able to reduce thinking quickly, in order to calm the animal. This is about establishing a listening environment to create a peaceful environment.

The invisible lead creates the peaceful environment. Thus allowing the animal to reassess the situation. The animal's learning and engagement with this new environment is called Realisation Learning. The animal will hopefully learn that if they are peaceful the surrounding situation can be peaceful too.

Be a responsible teacher to your animal. Help them feel peaceful. The result is a better trusting relationship between yourself and the animal. The animal will start to want to listen to you.

Persistence and patience is key if the animal is a high thinker.

A dog with a busy mind can't hear. So its difficult to teach them anything.

The idea with the invisible lead is to get the animal to a peaceful state where you can drop the lead and move away from them. In moving away their focus should remain on you, because you have created a peaceful state for them. Note, make sure you don't go behind them, otherwise they will get up to re-focus on you and the idea is for the animal to stay put. If the animal moves, go back and pick up the lead.

Through this process the animal learns that you a being responsible for how they feel.

Starting at home, you will have to repeat the invisible lead in different environments, and it may feel like starting over each time. But remember, be patient and persistent.

Sometimes you might need to break the process down into smaller steps, particularly when working with ranges of distance.

Keep being persistence with creating the peaceful environment and the animal will finally respond.

If the dog scratches this is just the sensitivity rising up. Same for whining too

Yawning and twitching will sleeping is a form of release.

This is the same for horses.

When working with horses, after each action come back to the present moment to bring everyone into a calm state.

Once listening has been established then you can drop the tack, using body language, energy, sound and pace to direct the horse.

There is almost an intuited direction when leading the horse. Imagining where you would like to go, the horse then follows. Obviously when trust has been established.

Horses yawn too.

Removing the lead, often means you may have to start over again. But once again its about being patient.

One doesn't usually use the invisible lead with cats, because being present is often enough to resolve things.

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