Using Your Core Energy Story
Jun 4th, 2009 by Carolyn Resnick Method
On Tuesday I was speaking about using Core Energy with the first Waterhole Ritual, and I promised you a story. Before I start the story, I want to say that when the core is strong it is the blue print of who you are, and what you know and your intentions and a instant way to communicate with like minds. When cores communicate, there is a magnetic attraction.
I had a lovely gelding named Navarre and he loved people and did not like horses as a rule. One day Sutter, a beautiful palomino stallion, wild most all of his life arrived at my ranch who could talk from his core. When I took him out of the horse trailer all the horses were on alert. Because of the core energy both horses held, Navarre and Sutter clearly communicated with one another with no sounds, thoughts, or anything tangible. We all acknowledged that we were aware of their connection. I could tell that Navarre had a different feeling for Sutter than he had ever shown to any other horse. My core energy could feel the energy that hung in the air around is. From reading Sutter’s, core energy, Navarre fell in love with Sutter at first sight. Both Sutter and Navarre went into a horse ritual I had never witnessed before. My core told me that it was safe to let them meet, to bond and that to allow this was very important for them to experience. So, I led Sutter to Navarre and Navarre did a strange thing. He stuck his nose up into the air which with a new horse he would normally have bowed his neck, danced around making a statement that he was planning a fight and win the fight at all cost.
Though I had never seen this behavior, I understood it and maybe I will be able to put it into words someday. I led Sutter up to Navarre, Navarre stuck his nose straight up into the air, and Sutter grabbed his throat gently and held on for several minutes then turned him loose. They did this greeting over a few days and in between this ritual, they shared the tightest bond I have ever witnessed.
This story demonstrates strong core energy for communication and making judgments. From using the first Waterhole Ritual, with the intention of building your core energy, you will acquire a communication line and be able to read the intentions of horses and what they are saying silently, as well as to develop a magnetism that many horses are drawn to.
This story should interest you to sit more often reading books with your horse, with a greater understanding of why it is important to do so. You must have this understanding for your core energy to grow from sitting with your horse. Just sitting isn’t enough, you need to understand the purpose for your sitting and then expand your awareness in the moment like a horse does. It is important to choose to be aware of being in the moment and feel connected to everything that surrounds you. To pay attention to the changes in every moment, like a lead horse in a state of watchful restfulness. Doing this with the intention of developing your core is the best and fastest education I can think of for developing a friendship, leadership, and bond with horses. This is why you need to take the time to share real time with your horse. It will enable you to build the connection as well as the dance you are looking for.
But first you must give up the rush, the agenda, even the longing, and expectations and wanting to get on with it. If you cannot sit, sit anyway because from sitting, you will give up all things that are in your way and then you can move into the next stage of building your core. I promise.
Enjoy your weekend and for those of you in the Insider Circle Club, I look forward to speaking with you on Sunday or Monday!
Carolyn
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Dear Carolyn,
Thank you for your most kind words – I think I will start a journal – written and video on my relationship with Oreo… It is really more of a love story of unconditional love from both sides… Just as people have various personality traits so do our horses. He is by his nature an aggressive colt and stubborn, so we have gone through our trials together – but like any relationship – it takes work…Sometimes I’m the teacher he is the student – and other days I am the student and he is the teacher….we continuously switch roles with each other. And forgive each other for the mistakes we make. His adolecense at times was borderline violence even though I did nothing to provoke that type of aggression having shown him enormous amounts of love, especially getting him so young…
However, my enduring love, patience, and devotion broke through his aggression – although I had many black and blue marks from his biting during our journey…. He would never think now to engage me with his teeth as he ipodimizes the word “friend” – ONE ATTACHED TO ANOTHER BY AFFECTION OR ESTEEM – A FAVORED COMPANION…
Seeing as his young years were confined to a stall except for our daily time together – I always felt there was a deeper reason for his behavior – one must look at ALL the circumstances the horse is enduring before making a judgement… Now he is my Kinght In Shining Armour – we have overcome obstacles and come out victorious!!! I know the best is yet to come as our journey continues!!
He is my King and I tell him he is “King Oreo!” he responds by standing tall and bold with his head held high and a look of pride and confidence in who he is…I stand in front of him with my head under his jaw and circle my arms around his rock solid neck – knowing this powerful beautiful creature embraces me with his heart – I can see it in his eyes… I feel blessed to know him…
Thanks for the idea about the journal – I’ll also send you some photos.
Laura,
Thank you for sharing and your appreciation for my blog.
One day the blog will be filled with soul connections with horses as you are having with your “Friend”.
You are also a beautiful writer. You should video your relationship like they do will virtual reality shows. We would all enjoy your journey.
Maybe you could send some pictures.
I’m so blessed reading everyones beautiful posts and feeling the love we all share for our Horse Friends!! I experience first hand everyday the soul connection with a horse that is unlike any human connection I have ever experienced…
I have had the priviledge of sharing my life with my colt since he was 7 months old – so our time together has been hours and hours of bonding and connecting… He just turned 3 and I have not backed him yet… I believe our horses choose us – the moment I saw him on the Internet I knew he was to be with me. When he arrived at midnight after traveling 5 days from The Netherlands to Caliornia to Chicago, my heart skipped a beat when the van door opened and there was my new friend – the most beautiful colt I had ever seen and the aura coming off him was of nobility!! It was an instant connection of our souls…and continues to grow daily – he watches for my car to pull up and screams the barn down and jumps up and down in his stall as soon as he sees the car everytime we meet… He knows the click of my boots and screams for me without me saying a word – people walk around the barn all day with boots on – he does not call for them – my boyfriend stopped at the barn the other day and held the phone up to my colts face and I called his name – he started screaming and jumping up and down – This is how sensitve the souls and spirits are of our horses – I think some of the people at the farm where I keep him are jealous because of our bond – they can have the same bond – but it takes time, love and commitment – hours and hours of just BEING with them as friends – loving them unconditionally – just like Carolyn says – it’s all true!!!! It’s not about throwing a saddle on and demanding performance….it’s a shared love and respect for each other… Sometimes in the pasture I’ll walk beside him allowing him to lead like a friend, then I’ll step off and he follows – I’ll stop abruptly and look into the distance and he mimics me – I relax my body posture and he instantly drops his head – safe once again…his friend is watching his back… I touched the electric wire on the top of the fence the other day and jumped – he was about 5 feet from me and he too reacted – trotted away about 10 feet and them came running back to me to see that I was okay……..gave me a kiss and went back to eating – but he never takes his eyes off me…everyday I sit in the pasture for 1 hour with him – he will come trotting up to me about every 15 minutes touch me with his nose then trot back off…
Never goes too far from me though. I walk up to the gate after 1 hour and
sit down and let him come up to me to tell me when he is ready to go in… He always does – He knows about 25 verbal words which he responds to and hand language….I would encourage everyone who wants this type of connection to put in the “LOVE TIME” with their horse – you will experience something that very few people in this lifetime will ever experience – to connect with an animal as magnificent as a horse – to be able to truly call them
“FRIEND” is one of the greatest gifts I have ever experienced. Thank you Carolyn for helping to enlighten people that they too can have this connection with their “Friend.”
I love the post from the woman with the endurance mare – I’m so hoping I have that connection with my colt when I finally back him and connect in a different spiritual way when we start our riding adventures together. I know in my soul – he is not quite ready yet – he will let me know when he’s ready…
Thank you everyone for your lovely posts!
Dear Carolyn,
These last two posts are so incredible and important and you have expressed them so beautifully.
Your second to the final paragraph should be etched in bronze somewhere—it is what every human should be exposed to in a very real way when they meet a horse…I am so happy to have you as a teacher and friend–I believe that many are finally ready to hear–truly hear– what you have to offer so that we can take it to all of our other senses.
Many thanks for making it such a fun and new adventure!
Connie Funk
Carolyn, I know you are helping us work on our own core energy. At risk of jumping the gun here, I was wondering if you could say something — maybe in a blogg post — about times when we can draw on/ from our horse’s core energy. I know this is a tricky thing — horses don’t like “meely” energy and “needy” people, but I know there are times when my horses rise to the occassion. My endurance mare Gypsie, always seems to be setting examples up for me … in races, when we are 40-50 miles out, and its 98 degrees in the shade, and we come around a corner and there is a sheer cliff straight up the mountain, she just arches her loins and digs right in! I ride here with just a side pull- she really gets to own the race. But she competes with such incredible SOFTNESS and LIGHTNESS — like she is in pure joy of movement. And challenges seem to spark her inner joy. Also, she reminds me on the trail that home is where we are, at any moment, the woods are home, the streams are home… It helps me not to be in such a hurry to get to the next hold, but just to ride effortlessly and smell the roses, too!
Also I know my stallion ChoCho will be like this too. Except he is still only 5 years old — and his character, although mature in surprising ways– is not yet grown to that same place. He is so eager to BE in the world..
Finally, I have that 3 year old who “sits” … She is more tentative, but perhaps with the right “shaping” as you say, she also might be as solid.
The babies– its hard to tell right now.
Anyway, if you could say something about how to recognize and shape horses like this.
Thanks,
Bonnie
Today during my dressage lesson, my horse was resisting my inner tenseness. I have to consciously release my tension and go as soft as I can,(this takes trust on my part, but i get an immediate reward when I soften) she immediately softens and comes more round for me.
While I was riding, all of a sudden it came to me “Oh, our energetic bodies have to get to know each other!” That’s what it is all about. Our minds are different, but we are both animals, and our animal bodies need time to get to know each other. So, my guess is, that no one way is the right way, but finding a way to get out of our heads and be with our horses without an agenda…Carolyn is sooo right! I think the book and a chair is brilliant, but there probably are other ways of being in this conversation with horses and our horses.
Of course, this is just something that I ‘got’ today and it could also be wrong?Doesn’t feel like it, tho. anne.
Thank you. I understand. x
Carolyn and others, I hope people still read these comments today, yesterday I saw this interview with the Dalai Lama and immediately, I had to think about this blog post and about things that Carolyn and Klaus Hempfling said at the horse concious interviews. He said something about transparacy that I think is also very applicable to this new relationship with horses that we all try to accomplish here. For the people who are interested: I hope it’s okay if I post the link here? Just skip trough the first part, the introduction is in Dutch, but the interview is in English.
http://www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/extra/miMedia/2009/week23/do_dalaiextra.avi_plain.xml
Becky,
We are always altering our conciouness as well as numbing it. I am asking not to alter the conciouness. But to become awake and alined.
Empathy and undersatnding is a good thing.
I am olny asking you to return to the present and to be conciouness and crediting the horse with this ability. Becoming aware of everything in the moment brings safty.
This state is the animal mind.
I want the mind to stop flooding with thoughts so you can be clear thinking and 100% present to the moment.
The reason I suggest all this is that this will help you with your horse.
Horses never miss a trick and we need to be as present as a horse so we can make the right choices and the horse can feel appreciated from you being present with him.
Today, I was sitting with my mare as she ate her extra stuff I give her, (not going to get into the food/supplement issues/preferences here), I sat down near her and we enjoyed each others company while she munched. It was not the safest place to sit, as it is a bit confined and if she wanted to turn around quickly, I would be in the way. She finished and went back to eating her hay, and I decided to go to the far corner of her pod, sit on a rock, outside the fence and watch the jumping arena from a distance. I wondered if she would come over, as she had had her extra treats. I spent time going into my center, I do this by pulling in all my cords, thoughts, feelings until I just feel relaxed, centered, grounded and as thought-less as possible. I felt the wind whispering on and around me and felt my mare come up to me. The feeling was delicious. The horse in the next pod came too, and she slowly and quietly worked her way over to me, and eventually breathed in my ear. (which I love, it feels so special) My eyes were closed in the centering, but open and very soft for part of our breathing together. (I did take off my hat and sunglasses, as i stayed sitting and she was directly above me.) I imagined a yellow cord of light from each of our hearts connecting. As soon as I started to become aware of the broken fence, exposed nails, and who might be watching etc., she wandered away. Once my attention wandered so did she.
The other thing I want to share is the thread of how my horse and my riding abilities mirrors exactly how my life is working/flows. When I am stuck and cannot go forward, both my riding and my life does the same. Is it the horse or me? Who is healing/helping whom? Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon?
I am grateful for Carolyn for bringing this action of being with a horse to the public, for a better core connection, especially when it makes no ‘mind’ sense. It’s magic!! It’s also, to me, the abc’s, of learning horse!! What you call core, I call my authentic self. When I am aligned to this, almost every horse seems interested in me. I actually have more fear in a pasture with many horses because they will crowd me and I haven’t conquered my ‘bite’ yet!! I was thinking that I need to ‘take rank’ with some of the people in my life and my horse! I wish I could pin my ears back!
I seem to have some fear of stepping forward and moving others out of my way, people and horses. Looks like I found just what I need to work on. THANKS, Anne.
I find that story very interesting Louise. The fact that you have called the water hole rituals, ‘rituals’ carolyn, makes the experience very Shamanic – the becomming connected to all things, the dancing is almost likie a Shamanic extatic dance (except maybe less repetetive and more conscious). To think and feel what a horse thinks and feels is altering your state of consciousness.
I do worry sometimes, as i hear you refer to it frequently, that i have the wrong horse though. I love my Charlie deeply, but i sometimes think he is too powerful for me. When i bought him ferral at the market, i thought he was a new forest (native pony from southern england, great for kids..) crossed with a heavy cob. I felt he had a calm inner core. But now i think i was drawn to him because i have always been drawn to Welsh horses (known for their firey spirit)…i found out that he is in fact crossed with a welsh section D. The first pony i worked with as a child was a welsh A, then i bought a welsh B at 15, then in my late 20′s, a welsh c, and now…Charlie, a section D. There is an obvious pattern here and obviously there is something deep in the nature of these horses that drawer me to them. But i feel i might be foolish to be working with Charlie as maybe he is too powerful for me.
How do i know if he is the right horse for me? We share a bond, and he has got better, not worse, in my hands. But then he was sooo bad when i got him at 3 years old (untouchable), i don’t think that counts really.
I think i worry that i’ll get so deep in the rituals, that he’ll catch me by surprise one day and flatten me. Maybe i know more about horses then i can practice. Hmm.
Carolyn,
years ago I read a book about a man who looked after his wife who was very ill and required him to spend long periods with her in a state of watchfulness, he describes how he would lay on the bed beside her for hours at a time and he taught himself to stay awake. Over a period of time he noticed that he was entering into a state of altered consciousness and in this state everything became sharp and focused, he became aware of many little things he had not noticed in the past, but perhaps more to the point he describes feeling connected to all life, his awareness had expanded and he felt he was acutly aware of the consciousness of animals he came into contact with. He describes this state as his soul consciousness. Your description of the first ritual and core energy made me think of this.
Thank you for that last entry. Just reading those words lifted the pressure I was feeling on my shoulders. In this crazy world I have found it a real struggle to remember who I am. I will take the time that is necessary to re-connect with my spirit and make myself open to the places it will lead me.
Hi Carolyn, your nice story makes me think at what I have noticed one day in our little herd.
From the first moment Patusco and Raban have met, they accepted each other without any need to show who’s who, very strange for the two of them, especially as Patusco is the leader of the herd at home. We let them together from the first moment because we also felt their close friendship. One day we wanted to introduce Raban to the other members of Patusco’s herd. All the gelding came to meet him but and there were no problemes but the mare Vanille came very nervous and shased him away. All of them ran into the pasture exept of Raban, Vanille blocked his way to the others. Patusco ran in the pasture from one side to the other but Vanille did not allow him to go back to Raban. He felt unhappy and stayed staring at Raban while the others were grazing. After about 15 minutes, Vanille leaded Patusco in front of her to the gate and they both entered the paddock where Raban was still standing on the same spot as when the others ran away. Suddenly she bucked, turned and ran in full speed to the others in the pasture. To me it was as if she gave permission to Patusco to go back to his friend and meanwhile she would take care of the herd. Raban never tried to enter the pasture and stayed in the paddock close to Patusco until he had to go back home.
Isn’t that an interesting world!
Fun article. My gld. stud-piles, so every day I rake and tidy the piles up (3-4 per day), turning a 15min job into about a 45min. He will wander up once inawhile to check up on what I’m doing, then drift away but with his eyes on me all the while. If he approaches or we hear something I stop and take a min to just share.( I’ve been studying these defecation protocols for awhile and where, when, and why are very impottant to him.) It seems like I’m just another horse out grazing. Very relaxing for both of us. The other day some viewers expressed concern about sitting on the ground with their horses. I’ve found they will graze right up to your foot or knee, then around, then away. When I’m asked if this makes me nervous the answer is always “no”. He knows where his feet are, horses just have to. If he has no reason to step on me he won’t. And why would he bite my finger if I give him a treat. He can take a mouthful of grass and spit one leaf of bad stuff out. If he has no reason to hurt me, he won’t. And if he feels he has a reason, it is my responsibility to find out why. It might be something I am doing, or something from his past, but either way, I’m the human here and if I can’t see things from his perspective then I need to go take a good look at myself. The more empathy I show for him, the harder he works for me. We are bridleless now and LUVING it. The more I understand him, the more he understands me. What joy!! Oh, and a realization yesterday, the hardest task, at least for me, has been to get out of the habit of reaching for that rope or reins all the time. I’m learning to make my first move, well,, nothing. Giving him the chance to do the right thing before I react, ie. if he jumps from a noise or movement, leave him alone, trust that he knows the right thing to do. I’m finding he trusts ME more as a result, and listens much more closely. But those gut feelings you have are the true answer. How many times have we all said “I had a feeling,,,”. Well,, you have those feelings for a reason, hmmm. Subject suggestion;I would like to lay my boy down, but on his terms. I’m just not sure how to get the “concept” across to him. Until next time, Happy Trails.
Nichole,
Thank you for sharing. It is always nice to hear from you and from everyone who wants to share a stroy about connection.
It is especially nice to hear how much my method brings to the bond, dance and perfromance.
Thank you
Carolyn,
I had never simply shared space with my horses. I have wonderful horses who have been more than tolerant of my learning process through the years, and I have started a new road with them that they (and I) love. I finally started sitting with them, simply enjoying them, not feeling like I need to groom them, or pet them, or even touch them. I didn’t need to make sure they had grass or food to be happy with me – in fact that is counterproductive. And now the bond I have with my horses is stronger than I’ve ever felt before – I’ve had Bandit for 16 years and Trace for 9. When I ask them to try something for me, at liberty, under saddle, with a line on, they try happily. I’m achieving things I never thought I could, and it’s easy! It’s because that bond is there. For people new to this concept I can’t stress enough: Take the time to spend time with your horse! You aren’t doing NOTHING, you’re doing SOMETHING that will get you to your dreams, and faster than you thought possible!
Thanks so much Carolyn. I look forward to all your blog posts!