mistakes that writers make without realizing it when we
want to do the very best for our horses, we don't really want to
be making mistakes doing. But sometimes we don't even realize
that we're making mistakes, maybe you are making a mistake,
maybe you're doing wonderfully in that area. But this is a
perspective that will help you to, to maybe look at it a bit
differently and see if this is an area that you are making a
mistake, perhaps. So hi, my name is Chris Adderson, and I'm the
founder of Harmony For the Horse. I've helped 1000s of
writers to bridge this gap with their mistakes, right? find the
missing pieces. Maybe it's in the area of feeling the
kinesthetic or maybe it's in the mindset area. Or maybe it's to
do with techniques, or how to solve problems with your horse,
filling in the holes, and finding out where your mistakes
might be in your horsemanship, or I like to say horse kinship
is critical for you to advance and to make progress, I have
five areas. Number one is that you lose focus on your body
language, whatever you do with your horse, you are always
working on some form of body language with whatever you're
doing with your horse. And that's either consciously or
subconsciously. So our horses pick up on the slightest of
micro movements or the minute body language that you are
doing. And for us humans were unable to pick up on that we're
able to train ourselves to that depth of subtlety that the
horses have naturally, whenever you have a thought that comes
into your mind, or a word that you think about happens is then
you get a vision, right you get a picture of what your thought
or your word was, which is a really good thing to get this
picture, maybe an interpretation of what your thought is or what
the word is. Or maybe it's an even an anticipation of what's
coming next, when you have that thought or that word that comes
into your head. And then there's a body movement behind it, or an
action. And the horses pick up on this right? It can be a
change in your breathing or a slight tension difference are a
slight difference in muscle tone. But horses pick up on
this, right? All of these things our horses, learn to read from
us. So if we don't have focus on this, if we are making the
mistake of not putting enough attention to this, this will
hold us back.
And I'll give you an example. And this is what we do in our
program, we do Liberty work. The and this is very, one good
reason why we do Liberty work in our program is because this puts
our riders in tune with their bodies and what their bodies are
doing. And the horse is picking up on their body language. And
every body language that you are doing consciously or
subconsciously, is getting imprinted on your in your horse.
And so at liberty that can teach you so much about what you're
doing, and what you're not doing and what mistakes you're making.
And I'll give you just another example of what happened to me.
I used to trim all of my herd of horses, barefoot trimming. And I
then had a back injury. So I wasn't able to do the trimming
myself, I had to hire someone else and I and I actually ended
up teaching her and training her how to trim. But in this process
when I'm doing this when I'm training or teaching her how to
trim or when I'm even just watching her, I find that my
body is going through the motions of trimming. And it's
subconscious. I can't stop it. But I get this happening and I
feel it in my body. So that's an example of how we can train our
body language. And the second mistake that most writers do,
and they sometimes don't even realize they're doing it is they
lack clarity mean knowing your direction, right? Knowing where
you are going with your horse. And knowing the outcome that you
seek. Do you are aware of these things and you have attention to
it. That's when you can start to fine tune by working on balance
and working on your understanding of more deeper
concepts. But there must Not be fear involved in there, right?
You cannot have fear. And we work on this too in our program,
we work on this in a very deep level with you if you have any
fear based issues.
And so once you have fear cleared out, and you have
clarity of where you're going and your outcome, that's when
your communication can truly come from feel, you can truly
feel things. And your feel can become an innate response in
your body. And when we have this feeling, we also would like to
have relaxation along with it right, we would like to have
balance, we would like to have self carriage. Without the
collapse of our bodies, when our bodies don't collapse when we
have self carriage, then we can therefore help our horses to not
collapse in their bodies in whatever way it may be. Whether
it's through spine, the spine is processes collapsing from one
side to the other, or the shoulder or whatever you're
seeing or feeling. If we are helping our bodies to not be
collapsed, we can then help our horses further. getting clear on
our outcomes, any outcome of good training in any equity
pursuit is that your horse remains sound, it must remain
sound in his or her work, and hopefully get better, get more
even get more balanced, have more self care. So then you can
work towards collection and, and building a superb athlete. And
this all comes from the clarity part and they can be a willing
partner for you, you can then build this superb athlete, and
you can have purity of your paces and your gates and give
your horse their true movement that gives them comfort, we want
to have the balance and the tone. And we want to have the
connection of the entire whole horse's body through the proper
use of the spine. Number three is that maybe a rider goes too
fast, or maybe they go too slow. The symptoms of going too fast
are probably that you're going to over face your horse and make
yourself too. If you're going too slow, then you're probably
going to get frustrated. Right? These are the things I hear from
riders, I don't understand I'm overwhelmed, I can't do all of
this at once. Or this is all taking too long. I want things
to happen faster, I need more results to feel happy with what
I'm doing with my horse, I want to help my horse to be better
faster, I don't want it to take so long. He types of timing when
you're dealing with your horse who have timing within the
moment you have timing within the movement. And the third one
is you have timing within the mission. So that's moment
movement and mission, oh, this relates to rhythm as well to
feeling and having a timely hand and a timely body when you work
with your horses. And so when we work in our program with our
riders, we have a multidisciplinary approach. It's
so we help you to change the visual into the kinesthetic and
of course we do that on the ground. First, we do it in hand,
we do it at Liberty, and we have different modalities that we
use. And this allows the rider to first see and then to feel
right to sense it to feel it through the ground perhaps to
visualize it, and then to actually feel the reactions that
you're getting back to feel the movement that you're getting
back or the responses whether they're negative or they're
positive, to feel the pressure and to then take that feeling
and and push it into the subconscious so it becomes a
habit and that enhances our writing skill, your feeling
becomes a habit on the ground and then you can transfer that
to the writing. And then the mission part of things that's
well that's your goal. That's your overall goal, your
intention, your target outcome that you're looking for. If this
is resonating with you, you can always get notifications of when
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get the notifications coming. Alright, number four is being
versus doing
all right, this is where riders can make the mistake of not
balancing the being and the doing. So what I mean by that is
you may be focusing too much on being Write too much on just
being with your horse. And hanging out and, or doing body
work or, or what and I'm not saying these things are not
good, they're all fantastic. All things that you need to do, but
we also want to balance the doing. On the other hand, I see
some writers who are too much in the doing thing to the end of
things, trying to get all the cues sorted out trying to get
their aides clear trying to put their body here and do this with
the leg, do that with the head, this with the head, right, this
with your horse's head, look, all this stuff, and they get so
carried away with all of the doing. You need to find the
balance between the being and the doing, because it's a
synchronicity of the two of them. And when this is out of
balance, that is a mistake that can hold you back quite
seriously, is that their take things to seriously work on your
self mastery, drill that work on that every day, I do that. And
the writers in my program do that. But then you need to take
it and have fun, be curious, take the next step from curious
curiosity and play that it takes 400 repetitions to create a new
synapse in the brain. Whereas if it's in play, it's only 10 to 20
repetitions. So we do this in our program too. We help you to
find out how to change that to play. Right? So you take your
technique you make you create curiosity around it, and then
you play. And a good example of this is a writer we had in our
program, who was a very good learner, right? She was very
obedient. And she would study and do exactly as she was told
all of the time. Yet she was still not making any progress
and getting intensely frustrated by it. So much so that she was
exasperated by the slowness. When we work with her in her
program. We helped her and encouraged her to step out of
the box to trust that she had some good techniques. Yes, you
can always improve on your technique. But go out of the
box, take your techniques that you have. And ask questions,
experiment, play with it, play with your horse. And if you
would like help finding how to bridge that gap, how to find
where your mistakes are the holes that you have perhaps and
you don't even know that you're making, then ride your horse
that that that wants to explode in excitement and joy and power
but willingly contains that for you. Because he or she is your
partner. Then click on the link that somewhere around this video
and we'll show you how we can help you. It's a wonderful
feeling to have your horse in that place where you have the
power you have the understanding you have the control and you are
working as a partnership. So thanks so much for being here.
It's great to have you here and I will see