Male Speaker: Being together with a horse puts me in the very fortunate position of always having a living mirror at my side. Body language conveys to the horse at all times the mental and outward attitude of a person, in other words, the complete person. Every horse reflects the characteristics of a person in his own way.
Female Speaker: Simplifications and moralizing are out of place and don't help anyone. The owners of the horses shown here have long since begun to look for alternatives. What helps to begin with is that they so believe the way they are. These pictures are not the rule, but they are also not so very exceptional. The statistics for accidents involving horses show that they are at the top of the list of dangerous things to do. Putting aside any question of bad intentions, we still cannot close our eyes to one fact, when we look at the relationship between man and horse. Hasn't the horse existed and doesn't it too often exist as an object, but is exploited in one way or another?
Everyday, it's a new fight to see who is boss. If you really pushes things to the limit, then he wins. I have to admit that frankly, I can't fight him directly. I have to ignore his stubbornness and gymnastics and try to ride straight all and always start from the beginning because it begins to fight and really uses all his strength, I've lost. Don't these few pictures show that with people and horses, two basically foreign world confront one another? One appears to have nothing in common with the other.
If we did want to force them together, what other alternative is there? Could it be that an important link is often missing without which an understanding appears to be impossible, even with good will, with the best of intentions? So possibility of finding common ground between man and horse at a deeper level requires dealing with clear recognizable realities. Equally important, perhaps more so, according to Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, are the interrelations which are often hidden from people. Now the phrase, Body Language, becomes magic. It is really extremely difficult for me to interpret the horse's reaction as a mirror of myself correctly.
Male Speaker: Yes, this is altogether the most difficult thing in being with horses or at least one of the most difficult, interpreting reactions properly. For instance, I often don't know if late back years mean fear or mean uncertainty or mean aggressiveness or too many demands. Late back years in relation to me are, of course, a signal for me, but what do they mean? This is why we missed recognize external signals and learn to understand their sensitivities.
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