Like all life's endeavours, horse riding performance can be seriously inhibited by fear in the rider's mind. Over my years of effort to boost my horse riding skills, I have learned the hard way that unless you manage to work out your mind with the same energy you work out your body, you are not going to achieve everything you would like to.
The rider has a serious mental exercise menu to choose from: anchoring, induction of inventive state, mental rehearsal, using affirmations to eradicate limiting sentiments, eternal positioning and reframing, just to name a few. There is an exercise regimen available to almost every single rider. Most riders, though, follow their own mixture of techniques. Here are 10 confidence builders for riders.
1. Accept yourself
Realize that you are good enough just the way you are, talking raw material wise, because there is definitely scope for improvement in the very best of riders. But the essential you have everything needed to make a great horse rider. And incidentally, that goes for your horse, too. He's fine just as he is.
2. Rehearse in the mind
All over the world, sportsmen use this system to condition themselves. They imagine themselves in action, and finely tune each step as they're going through the competitive process. They are able to achieve marked improvements in performance this way.
3.Use anchors
Anchors are triggers that force a desired mental condition. While riding, for instance, the simple act of touching your thumb to your index finger while the reins are in your hand might be the anchor that boosts your confidence in the saddle.
4. Maintain a journal
You can gain a lot by maintaining a very regularly updated personal journal. When you feel low, you can refer back to your previous glory days to remind yourself that you still have it in you. Quite often, great achievements follow spells of depression.
5. Hypnosis
Never undervalue the potential of suggestion. It can work miracles with the sub-conscious. Suggestion is an absolutely essential tool for any person in any field of enterprise.
6. Be grateful
Show some thanks for all that you have in life, for your past accomplishments and for all the great things that your life has in it. Be thankful for the positives, however big or little they are.
7. Set goals
When you set goals, you are giving yourself something to aim at. You have something real to work for, something that will tell you at any point whether or not you are going the correct way or the incorrect one. Don't be afraid to shoot for the stars. You may land on the moon, and that is something not everybody can boast of.
8. Reframing
By reframing, you settle on what significance an event has for you and how you will react to it on the emotional front. After every competitive event, you can instantly focus on everything that went well, while leaving the errors for later analysis. This is an about turn from our normal disposition to focus on our screw ups, while ignoring the inspiring fact that we probably did far more things right than we did wrong. It is an attitude that blinds us up on our own capacities.
9. Throw off limiting beliefs
Every human being has some extremely rigid ideas of herself or himself. We prefer to think we all know ourselves, our capabilities, our limitations. As riders, we have set ideas about riding, horses, trainers, farriers, vets, diets, events, in short , everything linked with riding. We are so set in our ways of thinking we often ignore contrary fact by hiding our heads in the sand. When things go screwy, we look for scapegoats: our horses, our gear, the arenas, the weather. We fail to direct the finger at the biggest culprit: we ourselves.
10. Identify your own unique style
Your ability to learn and retain, to gain mastery over new talents is directly proportional to your mind's fitness. The efficiency with which you pursue your ambitions on both the physical and mental fronts is very much reliant on the quality of your minds condition.
Get going with your mental conditioning regimen today. Getting mentally fit is approached the same as getting physically fit. You work on your mind muscles each day, methodically and with energy. Know yourself, and develop your strengths.
The rider has a serious mental exercise menu to choose from: anchoring, induction of inventive state, mental rehearsal, using affirmations to eradicate limiting sentiments, eternal positioning and reframing, just to name a few. There is an exercise regimen available to almost every single rider. Most riders, though, follow their own mixture of techniques. Here are 10 confidence builders for riders.
1. Accept yourself
Realize that you are good enough just the way you are, talking raw material wise, because there is definitely scope for improvement in the very best of riders. But the essential you have everything needed to make a great horse rider. And incidentally, that goes for your horse, too. He's fine just as he is.
2. Rehearse in the mind
All over the world, sportsmen use this system to condition themselves. They imagine themselves in action, and finely tune each step as they're going through the competitive process. They are able to achieve marked improvements in performance this way.
3.Use anchors
Anchors are triggers that force a desired mental condition. While riding, for instance, the simple act of touching your thumb to your index finger while the reins are in your hand might be the anchor that boosts your confidence in the saddle.
4. Maintain a journal
You can gain a lot by maintaining a very regularly updated personal journal. When you feel low, you can refer back to your previous glory days to remind yourself that you still have it in you. Quite often, great achievements follow spells of depression.
5. Hypnosis
Never undervalue the potential of suggestion. It can work miracles with the sub-conscious. Suggestion is an absolutely essential tool for any person in any field of enterprise.
6. Be grateful
Show some thanks for all that you have in life, for your past accomplishments and for all the great things that your life has in it. Be thankful for the positives, however big or little they are.
7. Set goals
When you set goals, you are giving yourself something to aim at. You have something real to work for, something that will tell you at any point whether or not you are going the correct way or the incorrect one. Don't be afraid to shoot for the stars. You may land on the moon, and that is something not everybody can boast of.
8. Reframing
By reframing, you settle on what significance an event has for you and how you will react to it on the emotional front. After every competitive event, you can instantly focus on everything that went well, while leaving the errors for later analysis. This is an about turn from our normal disposition to focus on our screw ups, while ignoring the inspiring fact that we probably did far more things right than we did wrong. It is an attitude that blinds us up on our own capacities.
9. Throw off limiting beliefs
Every human being has some extremely rigid ideas of herself or himself. We prefer to think we all know ourselves, our capabilities, our limitations. As riders, we have set ideas about riding, horses, trainers, farriers, vets, diets, events, in short , everything linked with riding. We are so set in our ways of thinking we often ignore contrary fact by hiding our heads in the sand. When things go screwy, we look for scapegoats: our horses, our gear, the arenas, the weather. We fail to direct the finger at the biggest culprit: we ourselves.
10. Identify your own unique style
Your ability to learn and retain, to gain mastery over new talents is directly proportional to your mind's fitness. The efficiency with which you pursue your ambitions on both the physical and mental fronts is very much reliant on the quality of your minds condition.
Get going with your mental conditioning regimen today. Getting mentally fit is approached the same as getting physically fit. You work on your mind muscles each day, methodically and with energy. Know yourself, and develop your strengths.
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