Yep — paraphrased from this simple Aikido principle:
Lead your body with your mind. If you cut something with your mind first, it makes it tremendously easier for your hand or a sword to cut through that space right afterward.
Think about it for a moment. If horses truly DO “feel” their environment and all the frequencies of the energies surrounding them then this ONLY MAKES SENSE! Our thoughts create our brain cells to MOVE – the moving of those cells causes – ENERGY – the energy causes -FREQUENCIES that go “out into the world” (aka. The Butterfly Effect … worth the search)
If our MIND leads our BODY then the horse will “get” what we want even BEFORE we move our bodies in response to our thinking!
Ah ha … try it out and see what ya get!
Wow , this is Heavenly !!! <3
When we visualize and live in the now, we are in charge of our body as well as our mind. When we think of the exact cadence and movement we are asking, we also give our body chance to respond by sitting in correct posture, breathing properly and the horse also tunes in as though we were being a television transmitting station and putting the scene in clear view for them to share with us. Less static, less snow, less fuzzy picture when we are clear in our thought and aware in our body. Horses do seem to want to please us and do our bidding, and clear understanding helps them, it saves them offering, guessing and saying ‘ is this what you want, or is it this?’ as they do a canter or a back up that we praised them for yesterday.
I think it makes sense and i think i had even testimoned such a think. I have a daughter that was used to ride a mini horse. Well, i had trained this min to jump, and win a lot of natural and artificial obstacles, in a way we could ride together, me with my stallion and she with her mini mare, cause a smal crossing over for the bigs may mean a jump for the smalls..
and i can tell you that, every time my daughter was afraid of something, the mare would not win it, not even try. and the one who told me that was my daughter.. from the wise of her 7 years old, she simply told me that: “mom, me and Pomy are one, if i am afraid, she wont go. ”
And at the other hand, i know that i can direct my stalion just looking to the place i want us to go.