Reading emotion in tracks

An interesting phenomenon started to occur several years ago while tracking. When looking at the track certain information would come to me intuitively.  One of the first experiences of this was while tracking leopards in India.  I came across two lines of tracks and the information I received was that this leopard was going home.  At the time I did not read the technical reason held in the track I just went with the feeling and tracked that mother leopard to where she was bringing her cubs to drink. A few weeks later I went back and looked for the technical information seeing that the toe ridges were several times wider that her other tracks. 

While teaching certain schools groups, once I had taught the basics of tracking in the sand box, I would state that it was possible to read emotion in the track.  That more could be read in the track than you could see with the naked eye looking at the person.  This would inevitably lead to some one saying ‘can you do me’ and stepping into the sand box.  For some years even though I had had isolated experiences of this type of reading I would use the opportunity to share some insight about the young person that I had observed in the previous days.  This was a powerful tool for transformation, in one instance I shared an insight and when the child went home they were so changed that their parents who run a major health food company brought the whole company. 

For example when I was teaching at Embercombe, we had covered the first three pressure release studies and were playing a game where someone stepped in the sand box while we all turned away and then we would turn around and read the tracks.  The last student stepped into the box and when I looked at the track there was no definition, yet the track had just been made, it was as if a cloud was over the track.  My offhand comment ‘all I can see is sadness’, resonated so strongly with the student that when we broke for lunch I was approached and the student told me how there life was falling apart. 

These isolated experiences gave me the sense that more was possible.  Then a corner was turned I was working with a schools group and followed my usual pattern but this time the tracks started to speak to me.  The first track was made by one of the very active young boys I could see that it looked like he had some previous back issue though he was currently extremely active. I asked him if he had had a back issue.  He was shocked saying that he had broken his back three years previously.  At the time I could point to the specific part of the track that conveyed this information.  Each child stepped in the box and deep emotional and physical information was available to me.  It was a revelation.  

Sometime later I was teaching at medicine festival and thought I would push myself by asking one of the students to step in the sand box.  One of them took me up on it, what the track told me was that he was trying to make a good impression.  Again the student was astounded because that was exactly what was going through their mind at the time.  This participant later came and studied with me because of that experience. 

This year while hosting a schools group an interesting experience unfolded. I began to read some of the student’s tracks one in particular who it looked like had had some lung issues in the past.  I put it to them and the

y said they had never had any lung issues; I was a bit confused but assumed I must have miss read the information.  A few hours later the form tutor approached me and shared that this student had as a child had some speech and breathing issues that had required some specific treatment.  He then found a quiet moment and asked me to read his track as he could tell I was able to reach far into a person’s personal history and unlock hidden insights that could be transformational and healing.