Living in Integrity with Ren Hurst Episode 3 Consent
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Living in integrity
with Ren Hurst
Hi,it's Ren again. I have no idea
how to start these videos especially since we're gonn
continue them but i'll figure that out along the way.
So,i've been reading some of the comments
from the last video i posted about
horseback riding being exploitation
and i saw a few things that got me inspired to
run out here and address a new topic.
And this one is about consent
because what i'm seeing is
for the riders and trainers defending
themselves and saying
that their horses want to be ridden and say yes all the time.
I get it.But
what i want to express to everyone is that
domesticated animals just like children
aren't in a position to offer consent
for the use of their body.
So,when you have an individual like that,
that you are 100% responsible
for their care and well-being,
and ultimately you control every aspect of their life to some degree,
it's irresponsible to take
advantage of that,truly.
And so even if you have a horse or a dog or a child
coming and say:"Yes, i'm ok with that."
If that looks like you're
using them or their body,
please take that into consideration
because that's just
gross misconduct of our responsibility
as their caretaker.
There's no difference in
a horse saying yes to the use of his body
and you allowing yourself to do that,
especially since almost all domesticated horses
are operating from some state of learned
helplessness having been controlled and managed and manipulated
from day one of being brought into a domesticated situation
which i will make another video about how you correct
that at some point. But it's just
irresponsible of us to put beings
in our care and then use them,
even if they say yes,
because the truth is, is a truly free
being, a being that really,really
knows they have a choice, i haven't met one
yet that will say yes,
knowing what that is. I mentioned in my last video that i have a horse
here that i took through the Nevzorov school that has and will continue
to say yes to being ridden. And the main reason
he says yes is because he's never been ridden so
he has no idea about how uncomfortable it gets after 10 or 15
minutes when the blood supply to his muscles start shutting down
and his back can no longer feel all the sensations just as if you sit
in the same position for very long. We adjust ourselves.
Horses don't really have a way to do that very well when the rider
is on their back.Again, another topic i'll get into a little bit later.
So,consent is a big deal to me
and i also saw some comments from some very
seemingly intelligent ladies discussing
my assumed previous abuse
and how i was personifying horses
and that horses were not equal to people. And when i
talk about equality, i'm talking about every
living being's equal right to the same love
and respect that i wish to receive, not
saying horses think,feel or
are as intelligent as us necessarily but i am
saying that we don't really know any of that for sure,
which leads me to one another aspect i wanna cover on
this topic because of the area that i live in
and some of the nature of the work i do, i've had a lot of
animal communicators come into my space and i wanna say
first that i have a deep respect for that level of
communication which i do believe is possible. However,
if it is not grounded in
very practical reality, it can become a way
of bypassing what's right in front of you.
So again, just because you can
receive consent from an animal,
or hear that they like to do something or want to do something,
it does not give you a right as their caretaker
to do that to them if it looks like
using them in some way,
especially when science proves behind a shadow
of a doubt that it is harmful to ride horses
in almost all ways
after about 10 or 15 minutes of being on their back.
Again another topic i'll get into a little bit later. But
i just wanna address those because i got fired up on it.
Not very much fires me up on this topic other than people
defending their right to continue
to choose control over love when something so much
bigger is available to us if we'll just be
open-minded and open-hearted enough to pay attention
to what is really going on. Domestication in itself
is not a loving situation
so we have to do the best we can with it
and that looks like essentially undomesticating
the lives we control and turning them into conscious relationships
we can all benefit from. And i'm gonna show you a little more about that
as i show more and more interactions with myself and my own horses
because i specialized in starting horses under saddle
and retraining and rehabilitating the kinds of
horses no one wanted to deal with whether they had
physical issues or emotional issues
they were the ones most trainers gave up on
and we have a pretty large herd here and everyone of them
operates from a pretty balanced sense
of healing just because
we totally changed their experience and do things very
differently here. But that's
about all i have for consent.Please continue sending
your questions, lots more topics are on the way
because they're pouring in and i just wanna tell you all
so much how grateful i am for
the response to these videos, to this work
and how incredibly uplifting it has been
to see how many people are not only ready
for this but are happy to see it being talked about.
These horses and i have gone through
hell in the last 3 years and we're really excited to
do something positive with everything we've been
through, so thank you so much.