Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust Between Horse and Rider
by Mark Rashid
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Author: Mark RashidEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN: 1602396701
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Book Review: Can't Get Enough!
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this up as a 2-fer with another Rashid book I'd been looking for. As it turned out, this is going to be one of those books I'll reread frequently. As is his habit, Mark Rashid uses words to explain the unexplainable and does it in an eminently readable style. I wound up keeping this one in the tack room so I could read it after my rides while hand-grazing my horse. If it were smaller format, it would probably go with me for reading at stop lights and during boring social events as well.
In Whole Heart, Whole Horse, Rashid goes beyond basic training into what really makes a horse tick and how a human friend can use true understanding to improve both the relationship between them and the horse's life in captivity. I found so many insights that I couldn't read more than a few pages without rushing out to apologize to one or another of my horses and try some new approach. I won't pretend to have Rashid's amazing ability to sense what a horse is thinking, but there are some tales in the book that led even me to a higher level of sensitivity in dealing with my equines.
My only complaint is that my entire herd is so calm and happy now, I'm running out of funny stories to share with friends and add to my own books!
Great book from a great horseman!
Summary of Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust Between Horse and Rider
Many horse trainers, even those who espouse the so-called natural horsemanship approach, take the position that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view. In his words, "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that particular moment in time. . . .How we perceive that information dictates how we respond to it."Whole Heart, Whole Horse focuses on this idea, covering such subjects as gathering information from the horse, turning rider/trainer mistakes into positive experiences, developing realistic boundaries between you and your horse, understanding how and why horses release energy from real or perceived traumas, and reaching a comfortable balance point between horse and rider. Rashid analyzes developing softness, consistency, dependability, trust, and peace of mind in both horses and humans, as well as how to become a leader whom your horse will willingly want to follow and work with.
Full of examples that extend beyond the training pen, Whole Heart, Whole Horse offers good sense and information that will make you a more astute, capable, and sensitive horseman and person.
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