If you’re not a Parelli Natural Horsemanship student, then you’ve probably never heard of horsenality. This may seem like a silly term, but it’s a product of science and psychology and I’ll explain the importance of this chart in a moment. First, here is the basic definition of horsenality from http://www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com/horsenality-horses/:
“Horsenality™” is the term that Pat Parelli coined to refer to his system of understanding horses through their basic personality types. A combination of the words “horse” and “personality,” Horsenality™ is a convenient way to talk about horse psychology in the Parelli Natural Horsemanship method of horse training.
One of the main goals of the Parelli program is to help horse owners understand their horse’s individual personality and to educate humans about how to teach their horses in the ways that are most effective for each personality type.
The Parelli natural horse training Horsenality™ system helps students quickly identify a horse’s innate character. Students can then create instant rapport and achieve great results by knowing what’s uniquely important to that individual horse. This approach to understanding horses helps horses – and their humans – become more balanced, centered and confident.
As I was journaling last night about all I have been studying regarding the Law of Attraction, setting Segment Intentions throughout my day, and Prioritizing Intentions, I realized why this was so mind-blowingly important to me. I flashed back to my time at the Parelli International Study Center in 2009. There we studied Horsenality and Humanality. We studied the horsenality chart and figured out where each of horses charted, which helps training immensely. Imagine if you went to kindergarten and your teacher(s) worked with you for a while until they could fill out your chart and determine the ways you learn best, how to most effectively communicate with you, what your strengths and weaknesses are, and develop a teaching/learning plan with the focus on developing you in your natural strengths while simultaneously helping you grow into a more centered human being where you weren’t naturally as strong. This is what the horsenality chart helps students (teachers and alpha horse to their horses) do with their horses. However, we also charted ourselves and through Parelli you can, now, actually get a horse/humanality report to see where you and your horses chart in order to understand where you are going to have trouble as a leader/teacher for your horse in combination with your horse’s natural learning abilities and learning curves.
My breakthrough came when I remembered I am a Right Brain Extrovert to the core. My strength is DREAMING, and it’s a powerful strength, but my weakness is FOCUS and it’s a powerful weakness. Right Brain Extroverts also tend to be too quick to act. When working with horses, going slow enough, being patient enough, is a challenge. And this translates in relationship to other people as well. I tend to “get” something very quickly and instantly I’m ready to run with it while others are standing there scratching their heads or arms folded, unsure of things. And sometimes I do get too ahead of myself! I’m a big dreamer, I’ve got a million ideas, I’ve got a lot of energy and drive, and once I know what to do for sure, I have unparalleled focus… HOWEVER, sorting and channeling all of these dreams, ideas, all of this energy, all of this drive… can be tricky at best! So learning in detail HOW to set intentions for future goals as well as throughout each day has been… I cannot describe how intensely important this is for me! Not only do I now have the blueprint for channeling all of my ambition, but I’ve got the blueprint for channeling all of my ambition in perfect vibrational harmony with my soul’s deepest desires and dreams.
I find these charts to be much more helpful and to the point (in understanding both people and horses) than any other personality charting I’ve ever done, and I did quite a few different ones for a couple of different classes in college. As far as profession goes, they all said I should be a teacher, and I can’t argue with that. I am constantly studying and constantly sharing what I’m learning. I’m, as Pat Parelli would say, a learn-a-holic and share-a-holic, to the core! One of my dreams is to become a certified Parelli Instructor, but I would also like to do something that combines all of my spiritual studies with all of my horse/human psychology studies. Being that humans are the ultimate predator and horses are the ultimate prey animals, it is such a divine union when the two come together in a harmonious, communicative, love relationship. And to me, there is no greater way to understand people than through learning the language of the horse, because being a prey animal, every aspect of their psychology is different from ours. You really have to understand their language and especially your own, on a whole other level, in order to have that dream relationship of riding off into the sunset together. This is a direction I want to take with my artwork as well… demonstrating the love of horses in spiritual and educational manner. Also, do you know the scientific name for horses? It’s Equus… the only animal in the entire animal kingdom we see as an equal to ourselves. How beautiful is that?
I wasn’t able to find a Humanality chart example of the Left Brain Extrovert, but here are a few others, maybe you’ll see yourself!
To be CONSCIOUS and AWARE of ourselves, how we naturally think, how our minds naturally function, is just as important as what we think. When you have both knowledge on an intimate level, it’s very empowering. Knowing my Right Brain Extrovert natural strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies in combination with the Law of Attraction knowledge and understanding… priceless!!
I hope others find this information fascinating as well and maybe have some personal revelations regarding their humanalties!
I’m going to close with some dreamy pictures of Pat and Linda Parelli that always inspire me personally to strive to do and be my best as well as inspire me to pursue my horsemanship dreams and goals. Happy Trails!
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