FEEL LIKE YOU'VE TRIED EVERYTHING?

We love to ride our horses, but at this point in our lives, we often have anxiety and even fear around riding.  Especially when taking our horses to new places, going by that one spot where your horse always spooks, or feeling more and more nervous when your horse starts getting nervous.

So much of our anxiety is normal.  We’ve taken some hard crashes.  We don’t bounce as well as we used to.  Our horses are big and powerful and unpredictable.  Horse riding is one of the more dangerous sports…  All of this is true.

But, the real truth is, we’re not going to give up riding.  We love it.  We love the feeling and the amazing places that our horses take us physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually…

So we deal with the anxiety in the best way we know how – to keep doing the thing that we love and keep reassuring ourselves that it’s going to be ok.  We’re good riders.  Our horses are trained and steady.  We are mindful of dangerous situations.  We have a lot more wisdom than we did when we were younger.  All of this is true too.  But, there’s still that underlying anxiety of the “what ifs”… and it prevents us from fully feeling great when we ride.

It’s a big dilemma for a lot of us who ride horses, but:

• What if there was a way to release that anxiety on a deeper level?
• What if we could regain our confidence and feel secure and steady in the saddle?

Visualization, coping skills, or simply telling ourselves not to be anxious rarely provide long term solutions. Using various methods, we can calm our nervousness down but we know our horses can feel it. The reason it is difficult to control is simply that it is our truth and our bodies don't - they can't - lie.  It's impossible to use our intellect to convince our nervous systems there is no danger.  Our bodies remember the falls and near crashes, and all of these memories are stored in our bodies.  

Thoughts, stress, anxiety and fear are stored is in our bodies and offer us a constant reminder.  The patterns, when directly accessed through our bodies, can be released easily, effectively and permanently.