Since I came home from the states I discovered I have a new understanding about the Parelli program, I made big steps towards becoming more of a horseman. That means that instead of just a human, I spent some very intense moments sharing and understanding a horse in such a manner that this deeper understanding brought a little piece of 'horse' into my way of thinking, feeling, acting and dreaming. To me this has been a magical experience, and I am quite sure it's one of the most valuable events that can ever take place in a human lifetime.
I learned so many things at the center that it's very hard to explain it in a constructive and comprehensive manner. I'm still going to try anyway...
Let me start by trying to convince you of the importance of principles: A basic ingrediënt of Parelli is CHANGE, what leads in a positive way to PROGRESSION. There are 2 ways you can change: you can change the way you ACT or you can change the way you THINK. They both affect eachother. But if you want to change the way you act without knowing why, chances are after a while you'll just continue with the same old behavior.. because you lack the motivation and the clear understanding to practice the new behavior long enough to make it feel natural to you and eventually master it. If you want to change the way you think without also supporting it with acting in a different way, you never give yourself the chance to experience the new behavior, and reinforce the idea when it works or replace the idea by another when it doesn't work. Either way, if you want to change your behavior successfully, you need to have a clear, structured motivation: A PRINCIPLE. Principles are the roots, the foundation, of everything you ever want to achieve in your life.
In the Parelli Programm, there are only 8 principles. If you have a true understanding of those principles, you dream, feel, act and think like a horse. Then there's more than just a horse and just a human... there's horsemanship.
EIGHT PRINCIPLES
1. Horse-Man-Ship is natural
2. Dont' make or teach assumptions
3. Communication is 2 or more individuals sharing and understanding an idea.
4. Horses & humans have mutual responsibilities.
5. The attitude of justice is effective.
6. Body language is the universal language.
7. Horses teach humans & humans teach horses.
8. Principles, pupose & time are the tools of teaching.
I'll explain them in my next posts, but I suggest you learn them by heart. To me, these principles are the beginning, the middle and the end of everything I do with horses, and it makes everything so much easier... I can guarantee your horse is going to adore you when you master these principles...
*Car broke... at the garage... is going to cost me WAY TO MUCH money for such an old WRECK... but I don't yet have a job, so the damn thing has to run untill it dies... I am SO pissed off! *Still looking for a job, the chat with the Proximus guy didn't go so smooth, but I still have 2 other applications running. *Next week I have the evaluation test for the police. *I want to go to the nice and warm fitness center... but I first have to wait untill my car is fixed.
And I'm dreaming about my own appartment, a fine job, a nice new car and especially A HORSE! Last weekend we went for a walk with Crumpie and got a little bit lost. At the end of an agricultural we found a beautiful pasture, with an even more beautiful 2yr old warmblood in it. She was alone, and came floating towards us, in a nice flowing trot. My heart melted!
Obama is the official president of the United States...
And I am officially subscribed for the first recruitment test of the police! I am also training pretty hard to run longer and faster... Yesterday I ran 1600m in 12 minutes, which is an average of 8,5km an hour... this after only 12 days of training...
Yes! I finally have an appointment with a serious company! They're looking for extern sales people for a phone company. If the first months go well I get a car.. Sounds interesting!
Yesterday I went body jamming, it was fun! This evening I go to the yoga class... becoming balanced!
2009 will be the year of building emotional, mental, physical and financial fitness... I am still looking for a job, which is actually more difficult than I thought at first. There are a lot of crappy jobs, but I am looking for something that looks nice on my resume... but I guess I'll just have to hang in there, and keep on looking.
So my days were quite lazy, altough I have the time to get things in order, like paper work for instance.
BUT the main thing is that I took a Gold Pass at Health City, a very nice fitness center! For the next 12 months I can go everyday to train, lift, run, swim, cycle, jump, and all that stuff... and afterwards I can take a shower, sauna, steam bath or relax under a solar screen I wonder how much better I will look and feel next year
I started just this Friday, so I only did the Cardio training, but after the tests with my consultant next week i can start doing the strenght exercices. Tonight I am going to do my first lesson of Body Jam, that's a work out on music...
I hope I can maintain this standard of happiness I feel right now, that I find my way into a job that suits me, so I can buy a horse in a reasonable period of time...
Horses give you the feeling that everything else is less important.
Apparently, I had to do more than just the test of French... in the end I spent all afternoon making tests... It's been a while since I challenged my brain, so I was out of my comfort zone. At the end of the day I called the agency, and I was positively surprised by the results:
(Maximum score is 5) English: 4 French: 2,5 Calculating: 3 Logical thinking: 3 Speed and accuracy: 3 Understanding a written explanation: 4
I had a special remark for my test of English: I had 74 correct answers out of 80 questions! Yihaa!
These results are really okay, so they're going to introduce me at Proximus, which is the biggest phone company in Belgium..... I'm looking forward to it!
*recovering from a major jet lag. *celebrating christmas here at home with my family. *getting my application forms ready to send. *celebrating new years eve eating gourmet and stone grill, and afterwards we went dancing a little bit. It was fun! Today I have an online test French, later they will call me for which vacancies I'm suitable. Interesting!
My dog is ill... she probably won't make it much longer. We've been to the vet 3 times already, and she's still very sick. Monday we'll go to take pictures of her intestins.
