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At 09:55 AM 3/23/2004, Barbara McCrary wrote:
>  I am working now with a very smart horse, one who has taught me all the 
> stuff you mention

It took me a very long time to learn what I learned, and my best (and 
breakthrough) teacher was one very incredible horse - Ben Nasrif.  He came 
to us freaked out and wound tighter than a coiled spring.  It fell to me to 
ride him, and none of my techniques worked except mind control - that is, 
control of MY mind, not his.  He was the perfect biofeedback machine, so to 
speak - a most highly reflective member of a highly reflective breed.  If I 
got uptight, he was instantly uptight.  If I breathed deeply, relaxed and 
gave him my heart, he breathed deeply, relaxed and gave his heart back.

We covered a lot of miles together, had our ups and downs, he did save my 
life not once but twice, and what I owe him far exceeds the cost of his 
living in a comfortable retirement for the rest of his hopefully long life.

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