Hey-sorry for the lack of photos in this one too, guys. It seems I might be using the library computer for a while to update my blog posts-maybe I can bring my camera next time. It'll be a tricky bet, because I have no where to put my photos at the moment-so the few clips and photos I take will have to be well planned and well shot.
Last night I had quite a few obsessions-later I'll type up the notes I wrote on here. Anyways, it basically had me looking into not only human psychology, but also predator psychology a lot more deeply than I had originally done. Like wondering what exactly was the different between fear based anger and dominance anger? I figured that the fear based anger happened quicker, while the dominance anger tends to build up before blowing up. It had me looking at what it was in not just me, but human-kind that makes us want to force things to go our way. That in and of itself had me looking at the term 'braciness', because I really feel there's a connection between 'brace' and 'force' in predators. Like I said, next time I blog, I'll bring the fifty billion pages of notes and BFO's I obsessed over for the night while watching parelli videos. Oh, the fun of the truly incurable horse/human psychology addict.
So, I started looking more at Chase's half of the partnership-and I realized he's really showing dominance over me. YIKES. And unfortunately, the more he does that, the more I want to force and brace against him, which in turn causes him to brace against me. Which in and of itself, as you can probably tell, is a mess. I realized we have to go back to the porcupine and driving games, and I have to be more aware of when he pushes into my space. Above all, I can not be aggressive-which is a hard little monster to suppress when he's being DISRESPECTFUL. *shakes head at self* Chase doesn't get afraid when I get aggressive-he just gets more dominant. LOL. The good side-we have a very, very good friendly game to fall back on. *sigh* So, I have reached my new level of conscious incompetence. Hopefully over the next week or weeks it'll change to conscious competence. Anyways, I guess that's all I have to say for now. I'll also include Ginger's first update next time I blog. Caoi guys!
hmmm... how interesting! I agree that our forcefulness often causes brace in a horse... and a lot of this could be because they (rightly) perceive us as a predator... which of course would mean that they don't trust us as their leader, which would result in them taking charge.
ReplyDeleteI think us humans often find that offering leadership is a challenge, especially as it doesn't need to be emotion-based. With the dominant horse, its difficult not to get aggressive when giving a phase 4; especially when we feel as if our horse doesn't care!
I look forward to reading your notes :)
Kerrin
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