A Mixed Nose Bag
Jul 13th, 2010 by Carolyn Resnick Method
Today’s blog is a bit of a mixed bag of items I’d like to bring you.
The first is to say that after having some trouble getting access to my original Facebook page, we have had to set up a new one. This was a bit frustrating as I had nearly 500 fans and have now lost them all. So it would be great if you could visit the page and ‘Like’ me 
You will find the page here:
Carolyn Resnick on Facebook
Speaking of Facebook, you can also give each my my blogs the Facebook Thumbs Up by clicking the little button at the top of each post.
Next I’d like to tell you about progress on my new book. The book is a detailed ‘how-to’ on my Method and I am currently working very hard to try and get it finished by the fall, which will hopefully mean publication sometime next year. In order to do this, what I’m thinking of do is bringing you regular excerpts from the Waterhole Rituals Insider Class on the Tuesday’s blog so you can learn from the participants and I will have more time for my book. I will of course continue to bring you new blogs on Thursdays with my latest thinking, so hope that’s OK with you.
That being said, here’s one question that came up I thought would be of great interest to all my readers………
I’m aware that time of day makes a huge difference to my horse’s reactions and interactions. I mainly get there after work in the evenings, but at weekends I see him all through the day and see the differences.
Secondly, my horse is not part of a herd that runs out together, although of course the other horses around him in his barn are his herd too. I don’t think he was in a herd for much more than the first year of his life, if that, actually, and he is now 15 (with me for four years).
I would like to hear you speak about this kind of horse and the differences it makes to how we start and continue with the Waterhole Rituals, if any.
Regarding your question I want you to work with your horse without this information. I want you to relate to your horse as he behaves not from your own point of view of him. This is where true learning can guide you better than information. What you are doing is training herd behavior into your horse. A horse that has not been exposed to herd interaction is missing out on how to conduct himself socially and you are teaching him how to get in touch with his instincts more clearly so he can more successfully fit in with you and other horses. I hope that helps.
To finish up today, I have a couple of questions for you and would love to read your comments below as usual. The questions are:
What does my Method mean to you?
and
What’s the biggest benefit you gain from the Waterhole Rituals?
It would be really helpful if you could try and sum up your answer to each question in 6 words or less in the Comments below.
Thank you and speak again on Thursday.
Carolyn
No related posts.
My love in life will follow me ; as long as I just “Let It Be”
Your method allows freedom and desire for for horse and human.
The biggest benefit: The relationship I have with my horses.
Dear Carolyn!
Your methods means that I have found a way of training and connecting my pony which fit my temper and my fysics (I have rheumatoid arthrititis)
The biggest benefit of WR is that it is legal to share at lot of time together with my pony, especially in her box at winter.
Best regards
Helle
1 confirmation to use my instincts
2 support and wisdom from a tried and true system
thankyou
What does my Method mean to you?
Empowerment to create my own program that works with horses
What’s the biggest benefit you gain from the Waterhole Rituals?
I can finally understand my horses, and then act on another level
Sun and Rain from the Caribbean!
1. What your method means to me: The answer to my prayers – there is finally a truly humane and horse-centered way of being with horses.
2. The biggest benefit: Learning to live in each moment.
Carolyn,
1. Communication and connection, presence and joy
2. Transformation! Nothing less than transformation.
(I could go on, but that would be longer than six words!)
1 Freedom, trust, patience, security, connection
2 That it is ok to stay in the moment and just wait and see what will happends to day
Anna-Karin
(Insider Circle)
Dear Carolyn,
What does your method mean to me:
Forming a practical & magical horse-human relationship.
What’s the biggest benefit I have gained from the WHR’s:
Finding the intimacy that was missing.
I too, very much look forward to your new book!
Holly Vanasse
1. Joy, freedom and guidance I can trust.
2. Feeling closer to my horses and having a language to communicate with them.
Heartfelt thanks.
Peta
1) Freedom, relief, and fascination, less worries.
2) exciting experiences in connection with my horse.
1. creating space for heightened sensitivity
2. Everything comes to s/he who waits .
Your method, your reflections sharpen my perception not only of my horse but of everything, person, animal, plant around me, and let the love and well-being, I already have inside, but sometimes forget about, emerge.
In these moments – and they get more and more- I feel to be a better person, a free person and I feel I go back to my origins of who I am and how deeply I’m related to every living thing around me. Sharing territory is the strongest of all rituals for me, because, as you said in your post “allowing the drama to turn to harmony”, it reflects the harmony who is the “natural order of things”.
That post is one of your best for me.
Mita kuye oyasin – all my relations
Andrea
In-the-Box Student
1. I’m not inadvertently abusing my horse; and
2. Communication and bonding makes anything possible.
Thank you Carolyn – I can’t WAIT to see the book!
Hi Carolyn,
1. Freedom
2. Freedom
Many many thanks!!
Ang.
To me your method means:
getting out of the human brain, into the intuition and instinct of the horse.
My biggest benefit:
My horse really enjoys spending time with me.
Thank you, looking forward to the book!
Your method joyfully re-patterns social relations, athleticism, and expressiveness.
Dear Carolyn,
It is a true blessing. I knew there was a better way to “be”.
It has freed me to enjoy and learn from every interaction my horses give me. Even when they say no thank you.
Love from
Regina, Moon & Micah
Thank you Carolyn!
1) giving back to my horse what was stolen from him; receiving from my horse the fruits of that for me.
2) learning to slow down and become part of the bigger picture
best and kind wishes
susan
(IC Italy, vacationing in cool and rainy England!)
Carolyn,
1. The Waterhole Rituals Method offers my horse and me a shared language, which allows us to talk, listen, and understand each other. The foundation of a great relationship.
2. The biggest benefit is learning balance.
Karin
- it’s building a common language
- it’s translating our combined souls’ thoughts
- it’s downloading harmony into the human matrix
- it’s tinder for the expression of our own fire
- it’s an adventure in interspecies expression
- it’s helping to evolve animal-human interactions
- it’s a way to thank horses for who they are
I could go on!!!! Thanks, with joy, Amber
relating to the horse in his language
my horse accepts my communication willingly
- A sensible way of relating to horses,
- a deeper understanding of the horse and continuous evaluation of how the horse experiences things
Hi everybody
Freedom and time together are the way to gain friendship and heartfull, respectfull controll.
Knowledge in conscious horsemanship.
Have a nice holiday, I’ll be back in 4 weeks.
tine
Thanks Carolyn
The greatest thing about reading your blog and learning more about your method has been the ‘permission’ to focus on what I already knew was important and contact with kindred spirits!
What does the method mean?
1) It means relating to one another in an organic way.
Biggest Benefit?
2) Learning to withhold negative judgement indefinitely, for both of us!
In-a-box student
Dear carolyn,
1.Guidance to interact with horses in the way i always felt was natural but didn’t previously have the key.
2. My horse and I adore each other!
Many thanks
In a box
meaning– freedom from traditional restraints
benefit–I KNOW my horses love me.
I’ve learned patience and leadership, and the greatest gift has been how to live in harmony with all my horses. Thank you for this wonderful gift! –Carol
Dear Carolyn
1. Major change in life style
2. Great Gift, how to approach all living beings on Mother Earth
Thank you Carolyn
Monique Ros
Being able to communicate with horses in their language.
They now have a voice and they know I am going to listen to them.
So thank you again Carolyn you have certainly changed our lives.
1. We can be allowed to be.
2. Time together with no pressure.
Thank you, Carolyn.
Your method means to me:
suitcases with invaluable tools, to take with me on my own unique journey with my horses.
The biggest benefit: for the first time really being able to read and feel my horses, a life-changing experience!
Very much looking forward to your new book Carolyn
!
Your method is a type of salvation to horses, almost like an answer to their pleas to have their voices heard.
The biggest benefit is realizing that your method is a life changing method, not just a horse training method.
1. It’s not the ride – It’s the journey.
2. Enjoy the journey.
The method allows me to connect with each horse as an individual. The biggest benefit is that I understand my horses more and can recognize their differences, strengths and challenges in relationships.
Allowing the horse to go away makes the coming back even better.
1. a path to freedom and joy
2. the bond with my horse
1) Body language and focus leading to connection.
2) Feeling JOY in playing with the horses.
I’m so happy to have found this new world in being with the horses.
Thank you Carolyn.
What does my Method mean to you?
Liberty Rules – That Which I Free Returns To Me
What’s the biggest benefit you gain from the Waterhole Rituals?
Harmony.
1. At last I can talk to my horse.
2. Self-knowledge, to help my horse be a better horse.
Lifelong gratitude from Bonnie, Folly and Chance
Hello Carolyn,
1. Happy horse and happy human connecting.
2. Learning to think and use imagination.
1. Liberation! No more struggles.
2. Heart Connection. Trust in horses & myself.
Thank you Carolyn for helping us so much.
Moyna, Hero & Buddy
1) It’s a compelling way to engage with a horse in his own language.
2) Long version: When I treat my horse with confidence, respect, patience, creativity and thoughtfulness, my horse treats me with interest, respect, patience, effort and kindness.
Short version: Horses are a human’s guru if we allow them to be.
1. humans learning the horse vibration
2. allowing the magnetic connection to build
1. Dream come true.
2. Safety.
1. Peace, understanding, contentment, happy horses
2. Nourishment to be a better human
Thank you Carolyn
Kim Male
Carolyn
Very excited to see your new book, and the new Tuesday blogs.
to answer your questions
1) A perfect way to connect
2) My horses connect with me
Sorry for using the word connect in both answers
Off to join you on facebook
Your method is subtle but powerful, and the greatest benefit of the waterhole rituals are helping me to create a symbiotic relationship between me and my horse. Thank you Carolyn again for your blog!