Thursday, September 3rd, 2009...7:46 am
Get off that horse!
If you are feeling anxious, nervous or a lack of confidence when you are on your horse, then get off that horse. Make yourself safe – get off that horse and learn how you and your horse can enjoy riding all the time.
Anxious, nervous and a lack of confidence are all words that we use to dismiss our fear. The problem is, we are supposed to listen to our fear, not dismiss it.
Our fear is designed to keep us safe.
Yep, that’s right – we are supposed to listen to it, we are supposed to know something about it or we are supposed to do something about it and then we are supposed to take some kind of action to make ourselves safe.
What? Nobody told you that either?
I don’t know about you, but I am over 50 years old now and the ground has got harder every year – so being as safe as I can be is a very high priority for me.
These days, I don’t wait until I feel anxious or afraid to make myself safe. I pay attention and take action on a very small early warning signal that I call Not Quite Right. Listening to Not Quite Right and taking action on it has taken me on the most amazing journey, both with horses and in the rest of my life.
When you get off that horse, I don’t know how long you’ll be with your horse on the ground. But I do know that you will enjoy being on the ground, developing a relationship with your horse that world class riders would envy.
By the time you’ve finished the 8 simple audio lessons that you take out to your horse on your MP3 player (the 8 lessons that are in the Zen Connection with Horses book and CD package) you will be getting back in the saddle with a different and wonderful perpective on what a horse and human can be together.
And you are entitled to not only be safe – but feel safe.
Zen Connection with Horses comes as a printed book and CD package or you could be reading the e-book in five minutes and I’ll post the CD of the audio lessons out to you.
Zen Connection with Horses, like all my books, comes with my personal ”love this book or get your money back” guarantee. Click here.
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