Re: RC: Re: Re: skeered to ride

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi Ed
I use the same technique-- really works! I believe horses "see" the pics
we put in our brains. I guess that would put me in the woo-woo category
with some; I don't care. The brain produces electro-magnetic energy;
perhaps horses are smarter and more receptive than most give them credit
for being. I know they surpass a lot of people I know. <BG>
Bette

Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote:
> 
> I have been reading this thread with much interest.  I have been very lucky
> during the last 30 years of riding that I have never hurt myself seriously,
> even though I seem able to get adequate air time.
> 
> In the 60's (yes I am a child of the 60's) I got interested in Zen.  Last
> year one of the things I learned then was reinforced by a talk by a sports
> psychologist, at the UMECRA convention.  This truth is the power of positive
> visualization.
> 
> It is a human tendency, reinforced by the way we are taught things, to
> visualize bad outcomes, often without knowing we are doing it.  For example
> a riding instructor says: Don't lean so far forward!! so far the rest of the
> lesson we concentrate on (and visualize) being to far forward.  The better
> instructor encourages you to sit properly and then says when he/she sees you
> doing it right (if even for an instant) Great!!  Remember how that feels!!!.
> 
> We do the same thing to ourselves.  Suppose we have fallen on a road.  The
> next time we ride we say to ourselves:  "I'm not going to be scared, I'm not
> going to tense up.  My horse is not going to rear throwing me in the path of
> a semi, who will roll over my legs and leave me a paraplegic in extreme pain
> for the rest of my life".   Part of our mind does not hear the negative, so
> we get more scared, tense, etc.
> 
>  Instead of this we should visualize, deliberately as many times a day as
> required, a time when we rode and had a good ride.  The mental conversation
> is something like:  "Ranger and I are trotting down Green Mill Road, the sun
> is shining and it is a beautiful spring day.  His head is up and his ears
> are straight as we go past the junked car and stop at the main road.  A
> shiny new F350 extended cab pulling a 4 horse slant load trailer just like
> I've always wanted goes by.  The driver smiles and waves.  When it is past,
> Ranger trots confidently across the road and into the field..."
> 
> Both Wendy and I use this type of visualization and can report that it does
> work, and can be adapted to any sport or activity
> 
> Ed and Wendy Hauser
> 1140 37th St.
> Hudson, WI 54016
> sisufarm@mmmpcc.org
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Bette Lamore
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I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!