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Understanding and being understood is the great secret of every good relationship - whether between people, between animals or between people and horses. If we take enough time to understand not only the forms of communication of horses in their entirety, but also those of people, we will experience how sustainable and effective a connecting communication can lead to the goal - and always in the most peaceful way possible. CHI HORSING IS NOT A METHOD FOR... training horses, but Alexandra König explains in her seminars how horse psychology relates to us humans, how horses try in a childlike way to fulfill their needs through humans and how this is expressed in their body language and their actions. Our own needs are often entangled and suppressed today and the resulting actions are adapted in a friendly way, something we are usually not even aware of and we do not allow ourselves to feel. All wishes or demands that humans make of horses no longer contain any powerful energy that the horse could sense in order to actually bring it together with our will on all levels of thought, word and deed. But that is precisely the clarity that the horse needs in its language in order to understand us. A "flood of trivialities" in the head (depending on how we celebrate these trivialities in everyday life) and confused, unconscious body movements cause the horse to quickly stop paying attention or reacting to us in our presence. A horse would simply go crazy with our chaos of thoughts. A numb horse is then often held on a halter and rope in the riding arena and only then specially trained to respond to certain commands from the human. Other horses are chased in order to work out excess energy and gain their attention. Still other horses react so sensitively to the energies and movements of the human that they want to get away from them and the human then thinks that the horse must first be held in order to get it used to them. These are all possible approaches - more or less violent - but they are not necessary at all if we understand which messages are important to the horses in our behavior in order to be happy to follow us. How often children wish that their parents would understand them better, while their parents try to adapt them to the system in which they themselves have to function. Horses feel the same way.