{"id":30695,"date":"2021-12-03T07:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/course\/hanging-out-to-build-trust-3\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T06:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T06:24:29","slug":"bo2-02-15","status":"publish","type":"tva_lesson","link":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/course\/bo2-02-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Out to Build Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

You should greet your horse first before starting to hang out. Don\u2019t you say hello to an old friend every time you see them? It\u2019s the same thing with your horse.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of different things that happen in this first interaction between the two of you.<\/p>\n

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  1. You are showing your horse trust by greeting him and saying hello in his language.<\/li>\n
  2. You are asking your horse to trust you by meeting you in the middle.<\/li>\n
  3. You are allowing yourself to be open and allowing your horse to see who you really are.<\/li>\n
  4. You are allowing your horse to read your intentions and get to know you better.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Now that you\u2019ve done that again, you can start to hang out together. If your horse looks like he still isn\u2019t sure of your intentions, go greet him again and then walk off to just hang out again. Each time you do this, you are building more trust. Just don\u2019t do it every 5 minutes. ????<\/p>\n

    Hanging out with your horse may seem simple at first and even may seem simplistic. However, the power is in the details.<\/p>\n

    The reason you do something, the intentions behind what you do, how you do it, and the order in which you do it is all very important. Every little detail means something in your horse\u2019s world.<\/p>\n

    I think because the human world is so complicated and so full of \u201cstuff\u201d and sometimes confusing that the details can sometimes get lost. Horses are more attuned to nature and there\u2019s not as much confusion.<\/p>\n

    So even though there is less to learn in the horse\u2019s world than there is to learn in the human world, that actually makes it easier for us. There is less to learn but each item has more importance. Does that make sense?<\/p>\n

    In the human world, we try to learn a little about a lot. In the horse\u2019s world, we need to learn a lot about a little.<\/p>\n

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    Here are the 3 basic steps to hanging outwith your horse \u2013<\/p>\n

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    1. Just go spend time in the pasture, paddock, or the arena with your horse. Be close, but not right on top of him. Let him have his space and you find your space. Most of the time when you see horses in a pasture in a herd what are they doing? They are just hanging out, grazing, rolling, and standing around with each other. So, that is what we are going to do with our horse. This shows your horse that you don\u2019t always want to do something and you can just share some quality time together doing nothing. This actually builds trust.<\/li>\n
    2. Use the whole arena, paddock or pasture, and walk around slowly. Sometimes towards your horse and sometimes away from your horse. Watch your body language. It should be slow, relaxed, comfortable, and soft. When you are walking around be present to your surroundings and notice the sand or grass beneath your feet, notice the birds singing, notice the heat of the sun or the cool of the breeze, notice everything in your surroundings. Also, notice where your horse is and what he is doing. If you start walking towards him and his ears go back, turn around because he obviously doesn\u2019t like it. Allow him to feel relaxed and comfortable with you around. If you are using an arena, have some food and water in the arena for your horse when you hang out. You want the arena to be a pleasant, sociable area that horses would enjoy being in doing nothing but hanging out.<\/li>\n
    3. If you get tired of just walking around, bring in a chair and just sit or lean up against a fence like I did in this video. Make sure your horse isn\u2019t afraid of the chair that you bring in though. Keep it simple and relaxed. At this point you are now doing nothing but sitting and enjoying the peacefulness of nature. Your horse may come up to you to stay close and spend some quality time with you. As long as you are safe, that is great. Observe your horse, his behaviors, his attitude, his personality and if and when there are changes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Observe your behaviors, feelings, emotions, body language and see if and when there are changes in you and in the two of you when interacting together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-30695","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-bo2","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tva_lesson\/30695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tva_lesson"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tva_lesson"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}