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Page 257,
According to Karla McLaren, this misunderstood emotion
:
Karla McLaren,
Becoming an Empath: How to Develop the Power of Your Emotional Intuition
(Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2005), quotes transcribed from the audio book section on sadness; emphasis mine.

Page 260,
For more information on how to work through grief
:
Deborah Morris Coryell,
Good Grief: Healing through the Shadow of Loss
(Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2007). This tenth-anniversary edition of a book originally published in 1997 by the Shiva Foundation features an audio CD of the author reading select passages from the text.

Page 260,
A RAND Corporation study found that people with depressive symptoms
:
The RAND Corporation statistics were reported in K. B. Wells, M. A. Burnam, W. Rogers, R. Hays, and P. Camp, “The Course of Depression in Adult Outpatients: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study,”
Archives of General Psychiatry
49, no. 10 (October 1992): 788–94.

Page 261,
“interpersonal conflicts, work demands, organizational politics, …”
:
Quoted in Andrew A. Cox, M. Kathryn Ness, and Robert F. Carlson, “Depression in the Workplace,” undated, 2–3, Counseling Outfitters website,
counselingoutfitters.com/vistas/vistas08/Cox.htm
. The report is based on a program presented at the American Counseling Association's Annual Conference and Exhibition, March 26–30, 2008, Honolulu.

Page 261,
Classic symptoms of clinical depression include
:
D. J. Conti and W. N. Burton, “The Economic Impact of Depression in a Workplace,”
Journal of Occupational Medicine
36, no. 9 (September 1994): 987.

Page 261,
“Treatment,” she notes, “includes medication, short-term talk therapy, …”
:
Sherman's article has been printed in numerous employee-oriented newsletters and websites. One source is
page 1
of the
Faculty and Employee Assistance Program Newsletter,
published online by the University of Virginia Health System.

Page 263,
“In a world where we're taught to ignore our emotions …”
:
Karla McLaren,
Becoming an Empath: How to Develop the Power of Your Emotional Intuition
(Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2005), audiobook.

Page 266,
Depression takes over when “what we were doing …”
:
Ibid.

Page 267,
The suicidal urge, McLaren says, often “emerges …”
:
Ibid.

Page 268,
“If you ask these questions prayerfully and ceremonially…”
:
Ibid.

Chapter Fourteen. Guiding Principle 2. Listen to Your Horse

Page 275,
“the body posture won out when the subjects …”
:
Frans de Waal,
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
(New York: Harmony Books, 2009), 81.

Page 275,
the Body First Theory, which holds that
:
Ibid., 82.

Page 276,
“our mood can be improved by simply lifting…”
:
Ibid.

Page 276,
there “are times when matching the other's emotions …”
:
Ibid.

Page 276,
“driving emotions in the right direction…”
:
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee,
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
(Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2002), summation on front flap.

Page 282,
“The primacy of the body is sometimes summarized…”
:
De Waal,
The Age of Empathy,
82.

Page 284,
brain injury patients who've lost contact with key emotional centers
:
See the intriguing case study of “Elliot” in Antonio R. Damasio,
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
(New York: Avon Books, 1995),
chap. 3
.

Page 284,
people must learn to “feel their thinking”
:
Christian de Quincey,
Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship
(Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2005), 33.

Chapter Fifteen. Guiding Principle 3. Manage Contagious Emotions

Page 298,
leaders learn to drive others' emotions “in the right direction…”
:
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee,
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
(Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2002), summation on front flap.

Chapter Sixteen. Guiding Principle 4.
Master Boundaries and Assertiveness

Page 310,
“Incorporating what I've learned from my Eponaquest experiences …”
:
Lauren Loos, email interview by author, May 2012.

Chapter Seventeen. Guiding Principle 5.
Develop a High Tolerance for Vulnerability

Page 343,
“weaknesses, skill deficiencies, interpersonal shortcomings, …”
:
Patrick Lencioni,
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002), 196.

Page 343,
“the higher you go, the more your problems…”
:
Ibid., 195; Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter,
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful!
(New York: Hyperion, 2007), 42.

Page 343,
“in the context of building a team, trust is the confidence …”
:
Lencioni,
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,
195, 196.

Chapter Eighteen. Guiding Principle 6.
Choose
the Programs;
Be
the Programmer

Page 355,
“something that never was, but is always happening… .”
:
Jean Houston,
Myths for the Future
(Boulder, CO: Sounds True Audio, 1995). The Houston quotes in this paragraph and elsewhere in the chapter were transcribed from this audio presentation.

Page 358,
“this doubleness, this strange duplicity of life… .

:
James Hillman,
The Soul's Code: In
Search of Character and Calling
(New York: Random House, 1996), 180.

Page 358,
the “twin nature of light as waves and particles …”
:
Though the paper that originally introduced me to Teich's work has disappeared into the ether since I came across it during an Internet search in 2003, I highly recommend reading his article “The Twin Heroes: Campbell's Solar/Lunar Vision of the Masculine,” which can be viewed on Teich's website,
www.solarlunar.com
. As
The Power of the Herd
was going to press, Teich also referred me to his 2012 book,
Solar Light, Lunar Light: Perspectives in Human Consciousness,
which I'm looking forward to reading.

Chapter Nineteen. Guiding Principle 7.
Conserve Energy for True Emergencies

Page 361,
As a radio announcer on Florida's Gulf Coast
:
I originally presented the “radio station in a hurricane” analogy in
Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for Self-Discovery
(Novato, CA: New World Library, 2007), a guidebook accompanied by a deck of horse-wisdom cards with images created by Kim McElroy.

Chapter Twenty-One. Guiding Principle 9.
Prepare
for Difficult Conversations

Page 374,
Bob's “structured format for coaching”
:
Bob Wall,
Coaching for Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to Developing the Star Potential in Your Employees
(New York: AMACOM, 2007), 111–18.

Chapter Twenty-Two. Guiding Principle 10.
Engage in Consensual Leadership

Page 384,
In this trio, the dominance hierarchy varied
:
I first presented observations of this herd's behavior in relation to the notion of “consensual leadership” in the book portion of
Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for Self-Discovery
(Novato, CA: New World Library, 2007).

Page 385,
“Researchers have often assumed
a priori
that…”
:
Larissa Conradt and Timothy J. Roper, “Consensus Decision Making in Animals,”
TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution
20, no. 8 (August 2005): 454.

Chapter Twenty-Three. Guiding Principle 11.
Cultivate Emotional Heroism

Page 388,
“When another person makes you suffer…”
:
Thich Nhat Hanh,
The Heart of Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
(New York: Broadway Books, 1999), 196.

Chapter Twenty-Four. Guiding Principle 12. Enjoy the Ride

Page 401,
“Chauvet Cave had art that was not simply…”
:
David S. Whitley,
Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit: The Origin of Creativity and Belief
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009), 53–54.

Page 401,
“This first art consists of true aesthetic masterpieces …”
:
Ibid., 255.

Page 401,
“many archeologists believe the ancient art we see …”
:
Meg Daley Olmert and I exchanged several emails discussing her work, as well as her opinion on the cave art. This quote comes from comments she sent me on August 13, 2012.

Page 403,
the cave artists
“knew
these animals…”
:
Meg Daley Olmert,
Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2009), 35.

Page 403,
They “approach you, slowly, oblivious…”
:
Whitely,
Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit,
75.

Page 404,
“Our ceaseless need to assess the strengths…”
:
Olmert,
Made for Each Other,
5.

Page 404,
“Oxytocin may have stoked the warmer social climate …”
:
Ibid., xvi.

Page 405,
“Animal bones excavated from living areas …”
:
Whitley,
Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit,
31.

Page 405,
“In the middle of the Ice Age, the human heart was melting…”
:
Olmert,
Made for Each Other,
65.

Page 407,
the belief “that a kind of collective consciousness …”
:
Larry Dossey,
Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search
(New York: Bantam, 1989), 101–2.

Page 407,
“in the nonlocal, collective consciousness …”
:
Ibid., 105.

Page 407,
“I cannot help but wonder about the centrality of the horse …”
:
Whitley,
Cave Paintings and the Human Spirit,
77.

Page 408,
“It is well known that emotions acutely affect heart rate …”
:
Ann Linda Baldwin created this summation of heart-rate variability as an informal handout for my students in 2012.

Page 409,
“The results show unequivocally that horses make us feel
great . .
.”
:
This and the following quotes from Baldwin were created for a currently unpublished article on the study results that I helped write.

INDEX

abuse/trauma survivors

boundary setting for,
310–12

emotional heroism of,
393–94

equine-facilitated therapy,
261–62

fear types and,
362–63

hair-trigger responses from,
204
,
207

healing theories,
171
,
178

horses as,
150–52
,
173
,
182–83

immigrants as,
192–93

Jackson as,
198
,
206

“perpetual assistant” phenomenon among,
284

accountability,
218–20

Ackerman, Sherry,
71

acupuncture,
178

Adam and Eve, fall of,
79–81
,
221

Adams, John,
55
,
59

Adams, John Quincy,
194

adaptability,
51

affect contagion,
277

fear management and,
38–40
,
364

managing,
298–305

use of term,
37

See also
emotions, contagious

affection,
410

Age of Empathy, The
(de Waal),
275
,
282

Age of Reason,
156

aggression,
135–37
,
252
,
392–93

agitation,
247–48
,
271

agriculture, industrial,
128

Alexander the Great,
23
,
42–43
,
167
,
170
,
198
,
226

Allen, Karen,
186–88

Allen, Shawnee,
149–50
,
181

All Things Considered
(NPR program),
94

Almost a Whisper
(Powell),
82–83

Amado (AZ),
94–95

American Psychiatric Association,
43–44

American Scientist
(journal),
117–18

Amphion and Zethus (Egyptian mythological figures),
357

Andrew Jackson
(Brands),
195

anger

boredom/apathy as repressed,
246

as boundary-overstepping signal,
243
,
313
,
321

deflected,
243–44
,
245

frustration vs.,
237
,
243
,
244
,
295

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