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#horse #horses #horselanguage Understanding and being understood is the great secret of every good relationship - whether between people, between animals or even between people and horses. If we take enough time to understand not only the communication forms of horses in their entirety, but also those of people, we will experience how sustainable and effective connecting communication can achieve the goal - and always in the most peaceful way possible. CHI HORSING IS NOT A METHOD FOR... training horses, but in her seminars Alexandra König explains how horse psychology relates to us humans, how horses try in a childlike way to fulfil their needs through humans and how this is expressed in their body language and their actions. Our own needs today are often entangled and suppressed and the resulting actions are adapted in a friendly way, which 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 action. But that is exactly the clarity that the horse needs in its language in order to understand us. A "flood of unimportant things" in the head (depending on how we celebrate these unimportant things in everyday life) and confused, unconscious body movements cause the horse to quickly stop paying attention or reacting to us at all in our presence. A horse would simply go crazy with our chaos of thoughts. A numb horse is then often held on the riding arena by a halter and rope 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 humans 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 if we understand which messages are important to horses in our behavior in order to be happy to follow us. Children often 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.