Good Reasons For Bad Behaviour? Read On......

Now I hadn't heard of the Tellington methods for looking into the way horses behave as they do. I have to say that I'm quite sceptical of the 'make a real friend of your horse' training methods because most of them are not based on an understanding of horses in the wild...their very nature in fact.
The system, called the Tellington Method and authored by Linda Tellington-Jones, is based on a discovery that working on a horse's body releases fear, tension, discomfort and pain in a way that changes his behavior, influences his personality and enhances his overall health and well-being.
Now I'm not sure that I agree with the some of the techniques put forward in this method, but the basis for this type of training is relatively sound. If any of you have ever heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for humans, then none of this will sound strange to you albeit developed for the horse. If you want to know more about Maslow go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow
If you want to read the article, courtesy of Equisearch, go here:
http://equisearch.com/horses_care/health/behavior/tellingtonjones_121506/