The Power of Calmness

Your heart is racing. Everything’s a blur. That frenzied feeling grows by the moment.

Maybe you don’t trust your horse or the situation. Maybe it’s your own insecurities.

Whatever the reason, anxiety can feel like a stressful, runaway wild ride.

The first step to get back to a place of being engaged and “on it” is to consciously call up a state of internal calmness.

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It is soooo easy to come out of a cutting run and feel like you’ve just been to Mars and back. Sometimes it seems like you’re a speeding bullet on fast forward.

After a chaotic run, your internal conversation might go something like this, “I have no idea which cattle I cut? Hot quit? On which cow? Oh, yeah … did I really?”

You can start to feel grounded and in control during all parts of your run.The key is to break it down into segments.

Beyond the technical aspects of how to execute each segment, a definite feel exists, that is distinctly different from any other segment.

Understanding how to shift gears mentally, emotionally and technically between the distinct parts of a run is not only effective, but it’s what the cutting game is all about.

Here’s how it works.

Prior to each segment, there is an introductory transition time.

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If you are a cutter, do you know how a silky turn feels?

If you’re a reiner, do you know how a smooth, sliding stop feels?

If you’re a barrel racer, do you know how a precisely executed, lightening-fast barrel turn feels?

You fill-in the blanks for your kind of riding.

The typical way we learn to experience these things is through hours and hours of riding. If we haven’t gotten there yet, we lament that SOMEDAY … out there in eternity somewhere … we will get that sensation before we kick the bucket!

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