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Harry Whitney schreef:"A student complained that her sometimes-hot horse spooked at a rock near her barn. “The horse had walked by that rock every day for years, and this one day, she decides to spook at it!” Harry then tells us a story to illustrate his philosophy regarding the horse spooking at the rock.
“You are at home, alone, at night. A storm comes up complete with thunder and bright lightning, and you are feeling a little scared—glad to be safe in your house. Suddenly, a loud clap of thunder makes you jump just as the power goes out. A second later the phone rings and you jump again, your heart pounding as you grab the phone. On the other end of the line is someone, someone breathing heavily. “Who is this?” you shout—really scared now! They hang up. There is a knock on the back door. Who is out there in this weather? Is it the caller? You decide to barricade yourself in your room. As you head to the door in the dark, suddenly you bang into a table. You SCREAM and jump back, terrified…
The story stops there. We all just sit a minute in silence, thinking about what Harry has just said. “It’s not about the table,” Harry tells us. “You are not afraid of the table. It’s about how you were feeling right before you ran into the table.”
The room is silent. Then, one of us says to Harry, “It’s not about the rock. The horse was feeling overwhelmed inside way before she startled at the rock.” “Right”, says Harry quietly. “Say that you told someone your storm story. That person might think “…she’s afraid of the table, I can help fix that.” They take you to the table to show you it isn’t a scary table—encourage you to stroke the table and stand by the table and eat off the table. You’d think they were crazy! It’s NOT about the table.” Harry
continued, “the trick is to be able to see what the horse is feeling before she spooks at the rock.”
~Harry Whitney