HOW do we get ‘Out of the Human Ego, and into the Spirit, --‘with’ the horse?  

As we have discussed in Level #1, we must learn to BLOW DOWN, to relieve some of the pressures, and stress from our bodies.  

What has become apparent over the years, is the Blow-Down, will release energy from the body from the rib-cage up, including the arms.  These areas will begin to relax, with the blow down.  However, the job is not yet completed.

We would work to get the rider sitting well ‘into’ the horse, allowing the natural body rhythm of the moving horse to ‘rock’ the rider into more relaxation.

With several different exercises, we work this process, and have found that many can not get the ‘feel’ of the horse completely.  We ask why?  

The upper body will work back to tension, as soon as possible.  It is a constant ‘issue’ to remind riders to ‘let down’ by blowing down again, and again. I decided this must be a mind thing!  

To watch the mind work, and see the tilt of the head, as the rider ‘thinks’ through a process, drew attention to the area around the head, arms, and upper trunk. This ‘ball of energy’, now seen, as containing the human ego, must somehow be released!  

If we are ‘in’ ego, and desire being in Spirit, we must first take a hard look AT IT!  We must learn to ‘see’ which we are in, --ego or spirit!

I learned many years ago, that is helpful, in life to back up, and place your own life onto a TV screen, and to watch that screen, as an observer, without any attachment to that person.  Be non-objective!  Observe, then make your critique, without all the emotional connections, or issues.

I also saw something else, --that impressed me as peculiar.

Fortunately, OR unfortunately, I saw a cat lying behind the wheel of a car. Unknowingly, the owner entered the car, and backed right over that cat!  I was horrified, but just had to ‘watch’ what was happening.

I ‘saw’ this cat’s spirit wiggle right out of it’s hide.  It was as if that cat threw OFF its hide, like ‘flipping’ off a glove, and ‘pulling the hand quickly ‘back, --out of the glove. 

I am a very spiritual person, having had a near death experience myself at age 17, and I have been quite ‘sensitive’.  I have ‘seen’ things that may appear to be imagination, and I have just been ‘open’ to what might be learned, by these coincidences.  This experience with the cat, --proved to be informative also.  

The cat backed out of the glove, then took off, (in spirit) running to get away.

I asked, ‘why’ backing out of the flesh or hide?  I would hold this question for when it was needed.  Many years later, that answer came.

Seeing the rider, who could not ‘feel’ the horse, but could ride well, who tried to do better, with much regret, we would do anything to help this person.

The horse, being of spirit, I questioned, that IF the cat, --backed out of the hide or body, then could our own ‘backing out of EGO help?

As an experiment, I asked the rider to blow down, while riding, and again, saw the upper body tension released.  Then, I asked her to begin to slowly count backwards, from 5 to 1, --slowly, to allow ourselves to back out of ego, and to get into the ‘spirit’ of the horse. We were going to try to ‘give’ of ourselves to the spirit of the horse!  

The rider, at a walk, began her countdown.  On three, she took a breath, and on four, I saw something happening.  The rider began to ‘give’ of herself, --to the horse, in her ‘lower body’.  On five, I saw her lower body, and her upper body, just ‘melt’ into the movement of the horse, who actually melted down himself!  I could hardly believe what I saw.  All the work we had done previously, was conquered, --by simply counting backwards, from five!

On further study, we both felt ‘something’ –seeming to ‘drain from our upper bodies, as we counted down from five.  That ‘something’ was just let loose, and it dropped to our ‘seat’.  What was then amazing, is this ‘something’ seemed to just melt, into the horse.  

The horse seemed to be waiting for ‘something’ to happen.  When this ‘energy’ was released, the horse just relaxed, and perked himself up, as if to say, --‘It’s about Time’…

Dwelling on this, I realized, that the horse waits for us to ‘give them’ what they wait to help us with, and that is the elimination of the unreal, --the un-natural, or that human ego we cling on to.  This appeared to be quite a healing session for both the horse and the rider.

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A week later, we tried this experiment with two other riders.

1( felt nothing.  2. was such a relaxed rider in the first place, that her ‘body’ did not seem effected.  BUT, --Her FACE showed a remarkable let-down.

I personally experienced this myself, and ‘saw’ this in rider number two.  Her facial muscles, --just began to relax, and her entire expression changed.  She felt ‘something’ happen, but it was not body relaxation. This was a ‘spiritual’ release from within.  It was quite obvious to the ‘eye’ to see this happen.

Rider #1 was a different type of person, who appeared to have her life in order.

 

What is interesting is the study, of the different types of people, and finding the ones, who are searching, and those who know it all, and those that are just happy to be who they are.  This is interesting!

Quantum Horsemanship is NOT --for everyone!  

 It is for those who want a much deeper understanding of the relationship between horse and human, and for those who are not satisfied with technique, or positional riding.

Riding in the ‘Spirit’ –with the horse, is an ‘uplifting’ experience.  

Getting there, is a lot of ‘inner work’

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