Vivre en intégrité avec Ren Hurst: Incapacité acquise (sous-titres français)
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New World Sanctuary
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In a world where conformity rules
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One woman
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looked within
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and found herself
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A woman
who became
a trailblazer.
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Living in integrity
with Ren Hurst
Hi, Ren here,
i'm the author of Riding on the Power of Others
and i'm at the New World Sanctuary Foundation
and this is probably the 4th video
that i've made and today
i just want to talk to you a little bit about
learned helplessness and how it relates to some of the topics
i've already covered. A lot of people don't realize
what's possible when you stop controlling
horses. And by control i don't just mean
the obvious forcing them to do things.
I mean the very subtle things we do
like halter them every day,
the way we micromanage their living
areas and the way they're just
expected to fall in line and do what they're conditioned
to do on a daily basis.
And unfortunately because
they're in our control,
if you exercise even these subtle forms of control,
-this is Badaboom crying that you hear-
they get to a place
where they don't really realize they have much of a voice
in their situation. This isn't that
much different than a lot of people
in society today, so it's really hard to recognize conditioning
in an animal if you yourself are a product of conditioned society
which brings me to talk
about why this work is so important.
By freeing up these horses, i've
liberated myself to be a free thinker
and challenge the norms and that's one of
the gifts that this work has to offer.
But, i learned helplessness is a real thing.
When we're constantly controlled
in subtle ways, it keeps us less
intelligent than we're capable of being,
so sadly to say, most horses you've met
that are conditioned with management and
halters ans any sort of
control devices, even treats,
they're not operating at the same level of awareness
and intelligence that
a free animal is. You can't just have
a conversation, you can't just say: "Hey,
i don't really want you to stand that close to me" or "Hey,
please don't bite me or
be aware of your surroundings"
you have to rely on
training methods and really ridiculous things
that aren't necessary when you can just have a
conversation. And i'm not saying
necessarily that they understand the exact words even though i think
a lot of them do to a great extent
but if i don't like
something that one of the horses do, i don't judge them,
i just say "Hey, that's not really cool for me"
or just something like that and energetically they understand
what i mean because they are aware enough to pay attention to
what i'm putting out when i say it.
With a typically conditioned horse, you don't really have that,
you have to teach them
all sorts of ways to just respond
to specific stimuli. It's so much easier
just to have a conversation and,
see this cat and this horse have this conversation all the time.
Right now, the cat is biting me because he wants attention-Badaboom,
knock it off- And that's all you gotta do
and that's how they talk to each other when they're not fighting
for survival. And they taught me a lot about this.
One of the greatest reward
for removing control from the horses lives is that
they've become so easy to take care of.
I can walk out here
and ask any one of these guys if i can trim
their feet and they just stand there and let me and
hand me their hooves and as a professional trimmer,
the contrast is, it's so difficult
because when i'm out trimming on a schedule and having
to put horses in cross ties or have
their owners hold them on the halter just because that horse isn't aware
of a different reality, it's so hard
to continue doing any of that when i can come home and trim any one
of the 19 horses here in less than 20 minutes
simply because they walk right over to me,
stand completely unencumbered and
let me do what i need to do to take care of them.
Brings me to another thing, is,
horses are not expensive to take care of
if you are taking care of them the way biology
designed. Horses only really need about 4 things
to be healthy and happy in this world.
They need free choice access to roughage,
the food they are designed to eat, mostly grass
available to them at all times,
and i know a lot of people are gonna be upset and think,
oh my horse overeats and i can't
let him do that. Horses only overeat if there's another problem
just the way humans do.
It's always a sign of an internal stress response, to either pain
or some emotional disturbance or something like that
so there are ways to correct that but i'm not going to get
into it in this video. So, number 1, horses need
free access to roughage based
food constantly.
Number 2, they need to live in an area
just big enough to allow them
to have as much movement
that allows them to move in any way they like
as much as they like and without
any fear of moving that way.
So, some of the most
healthy herds i've managed were 5 horses
set upon a paddock paradise one 1 acre. But horses
don't really need a lot of space.
They just need a lot of freedom in their
mind and a lot of balance and health in their body.
And they will take care of themselves quite well.
On top of free choice hay obviously
they need access to salt and water. But they need
to have companions that they enjoy
the company of, not forced friendships
like we do so often in domesticated situations
and they need proper mechanical hoof care
so that their foundation is correct from the bottom up
in terms of balance and the way it's
affecting the rest of their body. That's really it.
So, even if you have zero graze,
a healthy horse that you're not using
in some way and not having to buy all sorts of crazy
supplements and equipment for, costs about
a 100$ a month. And trust me, we know, we have 19
horses here, they cost about 2.000$ a month to feed.
Which is crazy expensive if you have 19 so i don't
suggest that but i get it,
when people are scared to stop
using horses as a paycheck and do something different because that's
what we did and it's hard but we're figuring it out along
the way and we're going to turn it into something that really helps other
people too. Just remember,
i didn't really go into details on learned helplessness
because i'm tired and this horse is tired and we just kinda want to take a nap,
but there's so much more
to this than people realize and i'll keep showing up and
i'll keep talking about it a little bit more and break it down more and more
but the benefit to this isn't about
finding out, oh, i've been doing this horrible thing.
I know i've come on these videos and told you, horseback riding
isn't vegan, it's harmful, i've destroyed all your lives
and you don't know what to do now.
Operating the way i do now with these horses has taught me
more about love in action and relationship.
Not just to horses but to everyone,
every one of my personal relationships
including and especially the one with myself has improved
in ways that i never knew were possible.
The sense of inner freedom that i have experienced
by allowing these animals to live
undomesticated in captivity has changed
who i am and for those of you
complimenting me, thank you so much but read the book and
you'll understand that i really, really had
a lot of issues before now
that i'm so glad that this work has helped me overcome.
There's so much more benefit to me,
to loving horses like this than
using them in some way. So, i'm really excited for the
opportunity to share that and why it's so important, not just for horses,
not just for me but for everyone who can see the benefit
in learning how to take love and put it into
action in all relationships in our lives.
Thanks for watching, I'll keep rolling
these out. If you have any questions, if you have any topic you want me to cover,
send me a message. Boo's gonna fall asleep now.
And if you're interested in what we do here,
you wanna learn more and wanna help, please
go to NewWorldSanctuary.org and consider donating.
All of the money goes directly to the horses and
if we can just get these horses fed on a
regular funding source then we'll be able
to use some of the rest of the money
that comes through here to develop opportunities for people to come here
to learn and so that's what we're trying to do.
Thanks so much for helping and thanks for watching again.