Maybe when you're out and about you have this niggling feeling
or these disturbing thoughts about how far behind you are
with your horse or you should be farther ahead. And you feel so
bad about that, that maybe you should just quit riding
completely. Well, what I'm about to give you today, I hope helps
you when you're with your horse next. So hi, my name is Chris
Adderson, I'm the founder of the For The Horse Harmony Program.
I'm going to give you four things that I see of what holds
riders back. And I want you to listen to those four things and
see if if any of these resonate with you. There was a student
who came into our program a couple of months ago, not too
long ago, she had a very difficult horse was chomping on
the bit. Continuously lameness issues, horse was tripping, the
horse was actually falling and tumbling at the canter and
spooking, I mean everything that you could imagine. Well, there's
lots more, but this horse was difficult for the rider. And the
rider had tried a lot of things, but it wasn't working. When she
first came in, I can remember talking to her. And she said, I
did this and it wasn't working. I did that and it wasn't
working. So she had tried a lot. And this rider is a very
conscience just rider, she's very hard working. She loves her
horse tremendously. But she had fallen down the horse had fallen
down and tripped. And they had both tumbled. So she had fear, a
lot of fear as well. Not only fear from falling, but fear
about if she was hurting her horse. One thing they did have
though, was an amazing partnership, to be cherished
really such as a beautiful partnership they had together
but they were not getting results. And in fact, they were
actually going backwards. So our program was basically the last
chance for this horse. And yesterday, she came on a call
with us, we have a very small, intimate group of very
supportive riders, all who are going through the same types of
thing he had submitted her video. Well, the video was
absolutely stunning. It was a video of her trotting on her
horse. And as we'd worked through her through the program,
she had had such a problem with making transitions. And
everything I described to you just now about her horse, her
horse could not go to the right on a circle without tripping.
But this video was I mean, the horse was not tripping going to
the right owners the circle, and she was beyond that the horse
was now had lift, had suspension was chewing a lot less on the
bid and was lengthening into the riders hand. It was such a
stunningly beautiful video and picture. And this is what she
said, I think I really can train this horse. I didn't know that
the horse was looking to me for for help, or what I didn't know
what the horse needed for me or wanted from me. And I didn't
know that I could help my horse. What holds riders back from
success? Are these four things that I want you to listen to
them. And as I talked about them, pick out one or more than
one perhaps that resonates with you. And that you can identify.
Number one, you don't know how your body works efficiently. As
a rider, do you work too hard? Maybe? Do things feel too
difficult? Number two is you don't know how to build an
athlete in yourself and in your horse. Right? There's so much
confusing information out there. The terminology itself is
totally confusion just baffles me how difficult the terminology
in the horse world is. There's so many offers. There's so much
pseudoscience, it's hard to find the path that will get you where
you want to go. Number three is you're chasing after the wrong
metric. When you don't have clarity on what the real problem
is, and this actually was the reason why the writer that I
told you about just a few seconds ago, was having so much
problem because she was not clear on what the real problem
was with her horse. She thought it was something else from what
it really was. So when you don't know what the real problem is,
you often leap and jump at the first random solution that
presents
itself right whatever comes up on your Newsfield, or there's a
clinic that's happening next weekend, you might jump at it.
But this random solution usually leads you to more stuff to do
and it compounds. And it really has nothing or little to do with
being effective or the underlying problem number four,
if you can't see the trees for the forest. So you're so stuck
and mired in your own struggles and your belief systems, that
you just don't know how to let it go. So all of these things
points to one thing. So let me know put a note for me below,
which one of those you can identify with or a couple of
them? Because all of these things point to one thing in
your horsemanship, and that is lack of clarity. When you have
clarity. You don't need more fancy stuff or you don't need
the latest trend. You don't need the latest gimmick. When you
have clarity. You need a clear understanding of exactly what
your horse most needs and wants from you. And you need to have
permission to do it. So thanks so much for being here. When
you're out with your horse. Identify which one of those
resonates with you and let me know send me a note