so today's topic is
learning how you can improve your horse riding and your horse riding confidence
with visualization it's probably something that you're already using
and it's um something that is used by professional and elite level
athletes regularly to improve their game um
and by other people as well in life and in business
anybody with high results is probably is using visualization
if this is your first time joining me I'm Anne Gage, The Horse Riding Confidence
Coach and I help anxious horse riders get back in the saddle with confidence
and joy and I'm the author of the book Confident
Rider Confident Horse which is available on my
website confident horsemanship dot com and if you
order it by August 21st there's a 10% discount
which I'll tell you about at the end of this video
let's get right into it first of all what is visualization well
it's mental rehearsal so any time you're picturing yourself doing
something if you're worrying about doing something
you're visualizing and unfortunately you're visualizing in
a way that is not helpful to you if you're visualizing a
negative outcome um if you're visualizing yourself not
succeeding or not doing well that is visualization that is harmful
hey Loretta nice to see you too um so how do you visit
visualize correctly hi Holly oh everyone's popping in now
hey Robbie nice to see you all here so talking about visualization
so when you're future thinking and seeing things go badly or seeing
yourself not be successful or seeing a bad
outcome that's visualization that's mental
rehearsal and because your brain doesn't know the
difference between what's real and what you're imagining it
unfortunately believes what you're visualizing if it's a
negative but you can turn that around and get
visualization working for you in a very positive way so you get the success
like the high-end athletes do by taking these three steps so
step number one is see yourself doing whatever this thing is in
great detail as if you're watching a movie
making sure you're seeing the result you want to get you see yourself
doing it well
and you want to bring all of your senses and positive emotions into what you're
seeing so whether that's a picture or if you can make a little movie that's even
better you want to see yourself doing the thing
doing it well and seeing what you would see
hearing what you would hear feeling what you would feel
you could even bring senses like smell and taste
into it and feeling the emotions so step number two is to be seeing that
movie or sorry step number one is seeing that
movie as if you're watching it up on a screen
on a tv screen or a movie screen and bringing all of that
information into it all of those details into it
and you can make it bigger you can make it closer
to you you can make it panoramic you can make the colors really really
bright you can turn the sounds up whatever works best for you
then step number two is to now step into that movie put yourself in
that picture or that movie so that um you are actually doing the
activity so if you're riding your horse you're
you're seeing what you would see if you were sitting
on your horse's back you're seeing his ears you're seeing what you would
see in the area that you would be riding you're hearing
the things so it might be noticing the birds singing or seeing
you know blue sky with big fluffy clouds
whether or not there's other people or horses around you
i want to bring all of those things and see it through your own eyes
as if you are doing it and then step number three is to do that over and
over replay that really positive movie over and over at least once a day
and if you can do it at a time maybe like when you've just woken up in the
morning if you have a morning routine you could
be sitting quietly with you know your morning cuppa um
and uh or and or doing it just before bedtime so while you're
lying in bed just before you're going to sleep because that's when you're very
relaxed and when you're very relaxed your
unconscious mind can take in that information your
unconscious mind actually takes in information
two ways one when you're very relaxed so when you're daydreaming and
in sort of a little trance state or
when you have a very strong emotion so whether that's a really strong positive
or negative emotion that's when your
unconscious mind takes in the information so that's one of the reasons
you really want to bring up the positive emotions that you will
feel imagine how you will feel when you have done this thing just after you have
finished whatever it is um that that you're
you're wanting to focus on so whether that is jumping a certain
height of jumps um whether it's riding out
hacking out on a trail somewhere going for a gallop on the beach
whatever your thing is um that's what you getting the perfect
cantor transition you just want to really get that and
feel it the feeling part both physically and
emotionally feeling it okay I will mention again
that my the paperback version of my book is
you can get a 10% discount off that book
I'm going to type it in to the comments
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confidenthorsemanship.com and I'm getting lots of good feedback on on the
book and I do talk about visualization is one of
the techniques I talk about in in this book so I hope you found this
information useful if you're watching the replay
type your pop your comments or questions in and I'll come back and answer them
and thanks for watching and I will see you on the next video
bye for now