“An Exercise to Practice Sitting Quietly in the Turn”

A big challenge when you learn to ride a cutting horse is sitting quietly in the turn.

We have a natural tendency to want to go with the cow immediately and move our bodies in different gyrations!

At the very time when we need to be the most quiet, intuitively we want to DO SOMETHING to contribute to the action.

But of course, what we need to do is exactly the opposite.

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“Help Your Horse Regain His Focus by Doing Something Familiar”

Has your horse ever been anxious, or distracted and you weren’t sure how to handle the situation?

There is an action you can fall back on when your horse needs to regain focus … for whatever reason.

It’s an exercise designed to help you regain communication with your horse by engaging him in something he already knows how to do.

It’s utilizing a sequence of actions he knows to bring him back to a feeling of steadiness, calmness and focus.

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“It’s Only How You Look at It”

Our horseback riding life is destined to go through peaks and valleys.

We can have success, plenty of funds, and a sound horse one week … and just the opposite the next.

How we deal with what happens is the key … not what happens to us and around us.

How we think about things is a choice.

That choice of perspective became VERY evident to me this summer.

Now maybe it’s just me, but it seems like there have been a lot of potentially disheartening events happening in a lot of places.

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