Mind-Set: The Second Of 6 Keys To Building A Life Long Partnership With Your Horse
Your mind-set, approach and way of thinking (beliefs)
are critical to building trust and a lasting
relationship with your horse. Your mind-set is the
first thing you must scrutinize and work to understand
in developing skills in horsemanship. People generally have one of two mind-sets when it
comes to getting a horse to do something. They either
have the mind-set that they are going to use force or
intimidate the horse to get him to do it or they use
the buddy up method of trying to sweet-talk their horse
into doing it. Both of these methods are hopeless,
you will not gain the trust nor respect your looking
for from your horse. There is a third mind-set, one that will get the
results you're looking for in your horse. People that
fit into this mind set are not aggressive or
willy-nilly, but evenhanded, they lie somewhere
between the two extremes. When working with your horse your mind-set is to be as
gentle and calm as you can, but as firm as needed.
It's important to keep in mind that while you're being
gentle, be gentle without being wimpy and when being
firm do so without being mean or mad. The mind-set of a horseman should be to, *not* do
things to your horse, but rather to do things for and
with your horse. Be creative and think outside the box
when it comes to doing things with your horse. The mind-set of a horseman should be that *principals*
are more important than purpose and that *adjusting*
to fit the situation is more important than rules. Let's recap today's discussion on Mind-Set 1. Your mind-set is critical in developing trust and a
lasting relationship with your horse. 2. People generally fall into one of two mind-sets.
The first, they use force or intimidation to get what
they want out of the horse. The second uses the buddy
or sweet-talk method to try to get what they want from
the horse. Neither work. 3. There is a third mind-set, being evenhanded not
aggressive or will-nilly. 4. Horseman should do things for and with their horses
and not do things to them. 5. Be creative and think outside the box when doing
things with your horse. 6. Be gentle and calm with out being wimpy and
be as firm as necessary without getting mad or
mean. 7. Principals are more important than purpose and
adjusting to fit the situation is more important than
rules. In the next article, we will discuss Approach,
Helping your horse to understand what it is you want
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be taken as anything more. About The Author: Mike Gorzalka has spent the better part of his life
around horses. His dad, Mike Sr., taught him the
importance of understanding the horse and how to use a
firm, but kinder and gentler approach to helping horses
understand what it is we humans are trying to
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