{"id":300,"date":"2020-01-10T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T16:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:02:34","slug":"casper-day-34-trust-confidence-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/post\/casper-day-34-trust-confidence-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Day 34&#8230; Trust. Confidence. Connection."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Casper Day 34&#8230; Trust. Confidence. Connection.<br>Casper is very responsive and a clear communicator. I am demonstrating how to support and guide him. His over sensing (self preservation) is a lot like my dog Auzzie.&nbsp;<br>Yes, it is about working with the physical -asking for step forward, step back&#8230; but the bigger picture of awareness for Casper is spiritual, emotional, &#8211; Can I leave, do I want to leave? How can I pay attention to details when I need to watch everything else going on?&nbsp;<br>He is curious, and the treats and chewing allow his body and mind to keep releasing nervous energy (TMJ motion &#8211; the most proprioceptive nerves in the body run through the TMJ) so that I can ask for calm and he can give calm.&nbsp;<br>The more I am able to get him feeling calm, the more he will seek that place in himself, because it feels good&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/10RVC2K4LDg\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Preparing an untouchable horse to stand still and allow me to touch his face. Haltering him is impossible unless forced into an area he can&#8217;t escape. \nGetting close to him has taken time. Casper will stand and face me, will take treats, will allow me to touch the end of his nose. I move to stand beside his neck or shoulder and he moves away&#8230; I&#8217;d like him to be OK with being touched and handled.\nThe work I am doing is Equal Partnership, and he is beginning to connect and become a partner. When I ask too much, he leaves, when I get too close, he leaves&#8230; but today &#8211; 18 minutes total, he didn&#8217;t feel the need to leave.\nHaltering is the intent, when he allows me to put a halter on, I will be very pleased, snow storms and below zero temps will be coming soon, I would like him to be with the other horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casper Day 34&#8230; Trust. Confidence. Connection.Casper is very responsive and a clear communicator. I am demonstrating how to support and guide him. His over sensing (self preservation) is a lot like my dog Auzzie.&nbsp;Yes, it is about working with the physical -asking for step forward, step back&#8230; but the bigger picture of awareness for Casper is spiritual, emotional, &#8211; Can I leave, do I want to leave? How can I pay attention to details when I need to watch everything else going on?&nbsp;He is curious, and the treats and chewing allow his body and mind to keep releasing nervous energy (TMJ motion &#8211; the most proprioceptive nerves in the body run through the TMJ) so that I can ask for calm and he can give calm.&nbsp;The more I am able to get him feeling calm, the more he will seek that place in himself, because it feels good&#8230; Preparing an untouchable horse to stand still and allow me to touch his face. Haltering him is impossible unless forced into an area he can&#8217;t escape. Getting close to him has taken time. Casper will stand and face me, will take treats, will allow me to touch the end of his nose. I move to stand beside his neck or shoulder and he moves away&#8230; I&#8217;d like him to be OK with being touched and handled. The work I am doing is Equal Partnership, and he is beginning to connect and become a partner. When I ask too much, he leaves, when I get too close, he leaves&#8230; but today &#8211; 18 minutes total, he didn&#8217;t feel the need to leave. Haltering is the intent, when he allows me to put a halter on, I will be very pleased, snow storms and below zero temps will be coming soon, I would like him to be with the other horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}