Spirit-to-Spirit Horsemanship

.....the ground pole. See this? Doesn't look very threatening does it? Look again... Now do you see it?  The scary monster that lives within it, around it, through it???  No?  Me neither. But she sees it....or feels it....or just wonders.... what the deal is.... This sweet little mare can be completely undone, transformed into something closely resembling a badly-cartooned version of a tazmanian devil ......by just a close proximity to this evil ground pole.   I'll bet I can conservatively estimate us as having 30+ hours of work on ground poles over the last few years.  I've even broken it down to just a stick on the ground, even just drug my foot through sand and worked with that.   Doesn't matter.....she can still become completely unhinged....at just the hint that we are going to go work on groundpoles.   For a while they were on my 'avoid at all costs' list with her, but I always knew we would have to ...