Baseball65
Beloved Grand Eagle
I was sitting outdoors with my spiritual teacher.
She LOVES hunting. She loves it for the sake of doing it...no blood lust, just pure unadulterated fixation on a task, no matter how long she has to sit still. Complete concentration. She will turn down play with other dogs, food and companionship to just fixate on a kill.
Reading about Pavlov, I think people get confused at the duration of necessary repetitive stimuli to create a conditioned response.
Twice? Done....
Three times? Might as well tattoo it on your Brain.
A contractor backed into my fence and broke a hole through it into my neighbors yard.
Out of that hole came ambling the Dumbest Rabbit I have ever seen...without even a pause, he came loping into our yard and almost Bumped into Sophie. If I did not intervene, he would have been a DEAD dumb bunny.
But I distracted her long enough for him to run back through the hole , after a long chase of switchbacks and trick moves.
A SECOND Rabbit came out of that hole. After the nip and tuck chase, Sophie now knows that to get the Rabbit, she must wait and fixate on that hole. It is clearly the 'Rabbit dispenser' and she is a very sensitive dog. She also knew to Hide behind my Ladders so she sees the Rabbit before it sees her. She doesn't think it might happen...she is CERTAIN it's gonna happen
Where is MY Rabbit hole. The thing that I fixate on because I am certain it is coming...not intellectually, but from conditioning. We fancy ourselves intellectual; we understand conditioning....but there is a little voice of ego saying "I'd know it if it was happening to me and it's not" It is. Where? I better sit still.
Did it happen twice? I'm probably conditioned. Three times? It's tattooed on my brain
The only way to get free is to know that I'm not.
She LOVES hunting. She loves it for the sake of doing it...no blood lust, just pure unadulterated fixation on a task, no matter how long she has to sit still. Complete concentration. She will turn down play with other dogs, food and companionship to just fixate on a kill.
Reading about Pavlov, I think people get confused at the duration of necessary repetitive stimuli to create a conditioned response.
Twice? Done....
Three times? Might as well tattoo it on your Brain.
A contractor backed into my fence and broke a hole through it into my neighbors yard.
Out of that hole came ambling the Dumbest Rabbit I have ever seen...without even a pause, he came loping into our yard and almost Bumped into Sophie. If I did not intervene, he would have been a DEAD dumb bunny.
But I distracted her long enough for him to run back through the hole , after a long chase of switchbacks and trick moves.
A SECOND Rabbit came out of that hole. After the nip and tuck chase, Sophie now knows that to get the Rabbit, she must wait and fixate on that hole. It is clearly the 'Rabbit dispenser' and she is a very sensitive dog. She also knew to Hide behind my Ladders so she sees the Rabbit before it sees her. She doesn't think it might happen...she is CERTAIN it's gonna happen
Where is MY Rabbit hole. The thing that I fixate on because I am certain it is coming...not intellectually, but from conditioning. We fancy ourselves intellectual; we understand conditioning....but there is a little voice of ego saying "I'd know it if it was happening to me and it's not" It is. Where? I better sit still.
Did it happen twice? I'm probably conditioned. Three times? It's tattooed on my brain
The only way to get free is to know that I'm not.
