The Whole Body Intelligence System (W.B.I.)

The Whole Body Intelligence System involves a series of interactive exercises with the horse designed to combine our desires and goals with our personal power or "will to do".

It is said that we humans use under 10% of our brain's capacity................through our research we believe that the potential of the remaining 90%plus is hidden in our intutive left brain

W.B.I., therefore is a method that works with the horse to align left and right brain OR  I.Q. and E.Q. with "gut intelligence

Once this is achieved the client can then focus this powerful resource of their whole energy field ("whole body intelligence") to obtain his/her life goals

It is a practical method, an art and a Science.

It works on the premise that everyhthing in the universe is connected by energy and it is this total energy field or "whole" intelligence that the horse "picks up on"...................... a "blueprint" level of energy where personal growth and healing takes place.

Our bodies are primarily enrgy eminating an energy field also known as our aura.

Put simply when our aura or energy field is low we get ill and attract negative experiences to ourselves conversly when we strengthen our energy field or aura (through our W.B.I. System) we are well and our life is positive

This energy field is imprinted with our Spirit where we carry our thoughts, emotions and feelings; both negative and positive; the more positive the thoughts the more positive and stronger the energy. The horse, because of his/her finely tuned sensitivity can "read" our aura and then, through a phenomenon called Entrainment can help us balance our personal energy field.

It is a technique whereby the mirroring or bio-feedback from animals (specifically horses) become the catalyst to bring the human body back to a functioning whole unit.

Health practitioners will speak of the need for an Holistic approach to health. In our holistic model of body mind and spirit if the spirit is healthy (we follow our higher guidance and we have a purpose) and our thoughts and emotions are positive our body will automatically be healthy this is because we are living our lives intuitively through our higher Self.

Through these interactive exercises the horse allows us to recognize and claim our intuitive right brain, our creative side that is home to our potential. It is the inner wisdom, inner strength and inner knowing part of us that has been hidden or lost. To function successfully in the future we will need to have these two aspects of the brain aligned

Through a series of exercises the W.B.I. system not only works on balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain but also balances the chakras. The energy of the lower 3 chakras meets the energy from the higher chakras which then activates the heart centre; often discribed as Kundalini rising

It is a process that balances the head and the heart allowing us to "think with our hearts and Love with our minds"

"As above so below"

W.B.I. system links Oneness through the Spirit of Horse (the Spirit within the nature kingdoms and the Spirit of man).

As we move into this future New Age we will all become increasingly more aware of and sensitive to our surroundings. This is an age of progression into ONENESS having understood the lessons of the last 2000 YEARS AND; the message of "do unto others" and "treat they neighbour as they self". This philosophy of basic Christianity was merely preparing the way for us to be in the collective energy or oneness.

In other words for us to understand that we are all "in this together" and that every human being is an expressions of this oneness.

"Whole Body Intelligence" offers a unique method for personal growth. It is a system that uses the ("mirroring effect") of feedback to gain an understanding of ourselves and the way we live our lives. The W.B.I. system aims to balance left/right brain function (or duality within the personality) and integrate it within the chakra system.

At Holistequine this is achieved through interactive energy work with our horses and other animals. This can be done on site as one -on -one sessions or by correspondence for distant horse owners. OR we can offer this system via internet access replacing our horses with your own "mirrors" people, situations and animals. or anything that is in your life to give you feedback.......please contact us if you need a more detailed explanation of this concept.

For example..... We have people and situations in our lives that bring up an array of emotions ie. frustration, fear, anger.

Instead of confronting these people, issues or events what most of us do is blame, label it as negative and move on from them only to find the same issues are again in our face.

Once we understand what these aspects are "mirroring" within our own energy system we can clear the issue and change our reaction. In fact in the future when in the same situation we do not re-act at all

The outcome of the W.B.I. System is that we have replaced this wanting to "run and hide" attitude with a strong sense of self. We have created a balance of intellectual intelligence IQ with intuitive "feeling" intelligence EQ.

This integration has now created a "whole" or Holistic outlook on life. We discover our passion, our purpose and our personal power.

Our whole body intelligence cannot function if our energy or self esteem is fragmented by duality.

That is if our internal dialogue is bringing up doubts, fears or other factors that negatively affects who we are. This conflict within weakens our whole energy field and render us dysfunctional. During the W.B.I interactive exercises with the horse we are not only shown this weakened energy field but also shown a solution.

Some examples of this dualistic mental state which causes conflict within

• We say one thing and mean another
• We are frightened to speak up for ourselves and then get annoyed later
• We daydream and then sharply come back to reality
• We are too giving or generous of Spirit and then have to economize somewhere else
• We think we are OK and then get a negative reaction from someone.
• We have a goal or "to do list" but cannot generate our doing side into action
• Something within us keeps sabotaging our goals

We have a conscious, a subconscious and higher state of consciousness. The W.B.I. method brings the 3 levels together so that we function as a whole being. It integrates the sub-conscious ( the part of our mind that carries our past programming, our doubts, fears etc) and our higher mind (that knowing, intuitive feeling aspect of ourselves) into our daily consciousness. While interacting with our specially prepared horses the exercises trigger the release of these "hidden" conflicting aspects of ourselves. Because this system works with a persons whole intelligence (the 3 levels of consciousness together) at the level of whole energy fields is t is cleared effectively merely by changing one's intention. Through the process of Entrainment the horses have somehow negated our dysfunctional patterning and we are able to move through it. Similarly every aspect of anyone's life can be "read" the same way by understanding the interpretation of why someone or something is in your life.

The Holistequine W.B.I. method (Equine Assisted Therapy) helps us to understand and utilize the energy field connecting all of life. In doing this we begin to feel "connected" through the human body, to the earth body and the heavenly bodies. Through the W.B.I. technique this connection, or intelligence is re-enforced within us through the powerful energy field of the horse thereby giving us the strength to reach our goals.

Physics and Metaphysics become one

The W.B.I. system is probably best explained through an understanding of the concept of Entrainment. We found over many years of working with our horses that being in the energy field of the horses improved our wellbeing not only physically but also spiritually and emotionally even to the point where minor physical ailments would somehow disappear after spending time around our horses. It was then suggested by a college Ken Grimmer (author and researcher of electro-magnetic energy fields) that what we were probably experiencing during this interactive work with the horses was a process known by neurophysiologists as Entrainment.

What is Entrainment and how does it influence our lives?

Entrainment is a physics phenomenon of resonance. It was first observed in the 17th century and has an effect on all of us. Entrainment is defined as the tendency for two oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony. It is also defined as a synchronization of two or more rhythmic cycles. The principle of entrainment is universal, appearing in chemistry, pharmacology, biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, astronomy, architecture and more. The classic example shows individual pulsing heart muscle cells. When they are brought close together, they begin pulsing in synchrony. Another example of the entrainment effect is women who live in the same household often find that their menstrual cycles will coincide.

The history of entrainment is linked to Dutch scientist, Christian Huygens in 1665. While working on the design of the pendulum clock, Huygens found that when he placed two of them on a wall near each other and swung the pendulums at different rates, they would eventually end up swinging in at the same rate. This is due to their mutual influence on one another

The phenomenon of Entrainment can now help explain our observations during the sessions researching whole body intelligence at Holistequine; why when working with a more powerful energy field (the horse) we somehow absorb his positive characteristics and mindset and then go on to improve our own lives

The Whole Body Intelligence system offers an exciting new challenge to explore the way we "think". W.B.I. marries the intelligence stored in the cells of our physical body with the intelligence of our higher intuitive centres. The outcome of this is a balance between our mental intelligence I.Q. and our emotional intelligence E.Q.

What are Mirror Neurons?

Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and understand their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we generate empathy remains a subject of intense debate in cognitive science.

Some scientists now believe they may have finally discovered its root. We're all essentially mind readers, they say.

In 1996, three neuroscientists were probing the brain of a macaque monkey when they stumbled across a curious cluster of cells in the premotor cortex, an area of the brain responsible for planning movements. The cluster of cells fired not only when the monkey performed an action, but likewise when the monkey saw the same action performed by someone else. The cells responded the same way whether the monkey reached out to grasp a peanut, or merely watched in envy as another monkey or a human did

Because the cells reflected the actions that the monkey observed in others, the neuroscientists named them "mirror neurons."

Later experiments confirmed the existence of mirror neurons in humans and revealed another surprise. In addition to mirroring actions, the cells reflected sensations and emotions.

"Mirror neurons suggest that we pretend to be in another person's mental shoes," says Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of California , Los Angeles School of Medicine. "In fact, with mirror neurons we do not have to pretend, we practically are in another person's mind."

Since their discovery, mirror neurons have been implicated in a broad range of phenomena, including certain mental disorders. Mirror neurons may help cognitive scientists explain how children develop a theory of mind (ToM), which is a child's understanding that others have minds similar to their own. Doing so may help shed light on autism, in which this type of understanding is often missing.

How does an understanding of Mirror Neurons help us?

It helps us understand exactly what is happening in our lives. It helps us understand that every situation, person, animal etc. that we have attracted into our lives we have done so to gain an understanding of how our own life works. By what is being mirrored back to us we see a reflection of ourselves and what we need to change to become "whole" again.

During the W.B.I. process (when we work with the horse) we bypass this personal journey by clearing our energy field. The horses show us energetically where our holes are so we can gently plug them and then life does not need to be a negative experience

The horse as an archetype for Whole Body Intelligence.

The only way we can get the Energy to succeed in life and accomplish our goals is to clear our Energy field. With the Holistequine horses the Whole Body Intelligence technique can achieve this outcome.

The W.B.I.System is incorporated into our online horse courses while working with your own horse