So his attention has definitely come right up again and there's a feeling of what are we
doing and there's a little feeling of apprehension as well even though he's just been so peaceful so
straight away just by the fact of doing something has brought his attention up so if you stay there.
There's my 30 seconds, looking over to him. He's come down a little bit and what I'm saying here
is you can be peaceful when something's going to happen with you. That's a huge one for him.
He's finding it hard to keep his eyes open now and I need him not to be looking at
that head collar like that. I wanted to be looking like the head, which is
you can see, I've been getting present with him. I'm sure that when you normally bring the head collar,
his attention comes right up. Yeah. Already before you take him out the stable, you're on level six.
So now, this is really surprising that if we're teaching him to be present
with somebody holding a head collar and then we do a step closer and a step closer and we help him
to be peaceful with that a couple of times, every time we bring the head collar out, he'll be peaceful.
It's just almost every step for an animal needs to be made peaceful but straight away he's already
got a condition of I've got to do something, make sure I've got to do it right and he's excited
about it but then he, look, now is he's gone, which is lovely. So there's quite a lot of conditioning
that's happening already before you go any further so slowing down at his pace is actually helping
him to be peaceful with everything you're doing. So really as soon as you see that worried look
in his eyes, you've gone way too fast with him. Not he's worried, you've gone too fast and then
you will know his pacing. The Trust Technique only works at the animal's pace. It is by far the
quickest way of achieving anything. I promise you. Even though it might take half an hour to put a
head collar on and that seems incredibly slow, it is the fastest way of achieving anything.
I know that because I've tried for months with him. Okay, walk a couple of steps, that's it, just
normally because obviously you're never going to creep around him, that's it, stop there. Look at that.
So now I have to help him with that. You're going to step one step back
because you went one too far.
Now, I don't know if you can feel him but that's his levels of just on a feeling level
gone right up. Now, look there's the breathing because you can't hold that tension when
the atmosphere is peaceful so he'll have to let it go so then his eyes will start dropping again
but very clearly he has communicated that makes me anxious. He even moved away. Now, we're
going slow enough to see all of this. Most of the time we don't, we're thinking of other things, I've
got to do this horse and I've got to do that, you don't even recognise it but it doesn't take long
to show him. This would be two or three times only and then he's reconditioned that actually when
somebody brings the head collar out, it's a peaceful feeling but my stomach went tight with him, I
don't know if he felt, no, but my stomach went tight and as soon as I got present, he came over to me
and I would say that if we show him this enough, he's going to be so grateful because he's going
to go ah, that's what I want, I just wanted someone to go slow enough so I could feel that, oh, thanks.
Well done so I'm going to come here to see what his attitude is but that was
definitely tension in the stomach. You can feel it with the breathing, that's why he's
having to breathe because it's got tighter so it's just relaxing that down.
Lovely.
But bless, it's really worth working with his sensitivity. It's never a bad thing, sensitivity
because he'll be the horse that drives with nothing but you thinking where to go. Really? Yeah.
Yeah, beautiful.
So have another step forward, there we go, just normally, lovely and then we get present again.
There we go, nice stretch, there's the, lovely so this licking, see how he's, and the yawning. The
yawning is letting go of the old thinking and if you look, he's looked over to the head collar and
then yawned so there might be quite a few of these as he lets go but this is his old conditioned
thinking of oh my God, I'm gonna have to do something and he's starting to let go of it.
Well done but now we've come back into process so, this is so healing and it's so easy to do.
Oh, it's much easier than being pulled around on the end of a rope.
So you ready? You're going to step another step forward and we'll just look at that
process. Just stop there, lovely, this time he didn't move away. So if you go back to the door,
that's it and then walk straight up, he says don't go, and then straight back to where you were,
lovely, stop there. See how he's peaceful with that, he didn't turn away. Should I be looking at him? Oh,
don't worry about that. You don't worry? No, no. When you're getting present if you
look at a person or an animal, you will react to them and you will feel them. So when I said
I could feel his stomach, for that moment I put my full attention to him because I'm not thinking of
anything or feeling anything, I felt him. So that's a reaction, that's what animal communication is.
When you get present so the best thing to do is to look at a spot next to him but you're aware
of what he's doing with your peripherals so your attention is not on him but you are aware of him
because if you just got present and you weren't aware of what the animal's doing, sometimes it can
be too strong for them. If he was very lacking in trust with people when I got present, I might only
get present for three, four, five seconds and then I'd have to stop and then come back again because
it would be too much to cope with. He can cope with it, which is great so what we're looking at
here is yes, when you get present, don't look at him but walking up to him and everything, no problem
and this idea of being dominant and looking at animals, well, it's only the fearful animals that
would feel that so you have to teach them that you can be looked at. If you can't look at a dog
without it trying to bite you, well, you've actually got some serious relationship building to do
and when you do that one of the things is to teach them of course, you're going to look at them.
Other dogs look at other dogs. Yes. Of course you are so if that's their insecurity, you help them to
be confident. So if I looked at him and he started to get upset, I would then get present, look at him,
get present until he's all right but yes, we're not into any animal psychology, we're into
building, we don't look at whispering or anything like that. For me, that's still far too dominant
because you're pretending to be an animal in a herd and you're pretending to be the boss.
It's very dominant and it's not truthful either it's not the true,
true teacher in the herd, it's usually the quiet mare, it's not the one that's really hungry and
fearful we're not getting enough food. So we've misjudged that. So I don't agree with that side
and on the other side, if we tell them what to do all the time when we're being very human, that's
very dominating as well. What I'm looking at is that there is a world, I'm not a horse, I'm a human,
he knows that. Yeah. So what I'm doing is I'm creating a world of trust in between him and me.
A place that we can mutually cooperate and meet in, which is beautiful. That's a
feeling when we try and leave a field and the horse won't let you go, put the head over and
pull you back. It's like no, you can stay, I've got a nice field shelter, stay the night
and when you do leave, all you do is think about them and all they're doing is thinking about you
because you've got this beauty between you and what we're working at here is I'm listening to
him and I'm asking him to do certain things so we can build that beauty that he goes, you know
what? You're going at my pace, you're cool, that's what I wanted. So take another step forward,
that's it, well done. That was a little bit of movement, that's great but not as
much. We made that bit peaceful, you've done a little step and his response to that isn't much
and he'll probably get sleepy straight away without even having to get present. Now, we've
probably done enough of getting present, we can always help him if he gets upset and he turns away.
Now, for me I always if it's a fear of approach,
I repeat this and I get faster and faster until I can run up to the horse and put the collar on.
Nobody ever runs up to horses so I know if I can do that, he's pretty much sorted. Yeah.
Okay take another step, lovely. Now, that's much nicer. So there it was, there was a bit of interest,
a bit of a stretch needed, definitely time to get present so you stay nice and still,
get present, stay still, listen to a sound, feel touch.
So there's that extra thinking, there's a couple of breaths coming from him.
There it is. So he has to let go of that extra thinking now.
No space for it. The present moment will bring up all the anxiety.
There's just no space. Lovely so now he's interested rather than turning away, well,
he's actually in the middle of both of them. Yeah, a little bit processing so he's not turning
away but, and he's trying to be interested but he's not sure yet but that's lovely.
Look how it's making him stiff and achy, having to move and do all of these different
things, bless, so that's been a high thought level just somebody coming in and working with him.
Excellent so I'd like to go to the door again, remember where you were,
level with me and just walk up normally to where you were before, beautiful, how lovely is that? Yeah.
So you said to him so far, you can be peaceful when somebody approaches you with a head collar on a
rope and they walk up normally to this point here. That's as far as you said that. The Trust
Technique only says one thing, you can be peaceful with this. What a cool thing to say!
You can be peaceful with learning this, you can be peaceful taking me on your back with
no tack, you can be peaceful with scary objects outside, you can be peaceful with settling in.
Yeah, oh bless.
Well done and this is what I mean by his character. His character is going to start popping out
as soon as he's not worried anymore. How can you show your true character if you're panicking?
You can't, can you? But, you know, the cup of tea that he showed me earlier
and it will be with this as well. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be a different feeling.
And now you can approach him, come right round as you would normally,
well done, he's giving you the space for the rope around him,
beautiful, that's much better isn't it?
And then you can put it on, let's see, go, be aware and just do it normally, be aware of his movements.
Lovely, beautiful.
Now, such a temptation to give scratches and good boys after this
but that brings the mind up. The most complimentary you can be is
peaceful, that's what we're all craving doesn't matter how many legs we got.
We're actually all after, not praise, that's all the ego stuff, we're actually after peace of mind.
So you've just shown him that he can be peaceful when somebody comes in and put the head collar
on. He'll probably just go after that. That's a lot for him to digest. Now, how many
times do you think you're going to need to do that before he's peaceful with you putting it on?
Well, I can tell you exactly how many times. However many times he needs that to happen so he can be
peaceful with it because it's the pace of the animal but it won't be many if you're going at
that pace because then he is now not, what are we doing now? So when we walk out the door, he's
already on two, three. We've got four, five, six, seven, eight to help him if something upsets him.