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| Bringing
together your conscious and subconscious resources
to help you realise your potential.
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Mind to Ride combines the ‘Equinimity’
self-hypnosis audio CD with the interactive
LifeMapper™
Motivator CD-Rom to help you utilize
a comprehensive range of both subconscious
and conscious resources. This powerful psychological
approach works to generate a focused positive
mental attitude - increasing motivation,
self-belief and confidence, enhancing performance,
freeing you from unhelpful anxieties and
limiting beliefs, enabling you to realise
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is suitable for anyone who understands ‘horsey
talk’ as well as riders of all standards
and disciplines. You
can work independently at flexible times
so that you can still meet all your other
commitments and a full support programme
is available if you need any extra help. |
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The
‘Equinimity’ Self-hypnosis Audio CD
offers the rider much more than simple suggestions for positive
change; it also contains therapeutic metaphors, embedded commands,
double binds, truisms and other hypnotic language patterns
within a powerful intervention to persuade the subconscious
mind to make those changes at a very deep and profound level.
In equestrian terms this equates to the difference between
simply telling your horse what to do and creating the most
favourable environment in which to ask - skilfully, sensitively
and successfully.
In
an ideology that shares similarities with natural horsemanship,
the secret is to encourage the very best of what comes naturally
and to respect your ability to work in the right way for you.
The objective is to resolve rather than generate conflicts,
to enable you to realise your potential as a rider without
compromising your integrity as a human being.
‘Equinimity’
will help you to access your subconscious resources so that
you can work positively towards your goals and resolve difficulties
such as:
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| Fear
– when you have developed unhelpful aspects
of the ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response. |
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You
may ‘fight’ your horse (and yourself) resulting
in a cycle of tension and anxiety. You exert even more
willpower and determination but a bit like getting to
sleep, the harder you try the harder it is! Both you and
your horse get frustrated and annoyed. The horse is resistant,
‘shies’, ‘spooks’ or ‘refuses’.
You each lose confidence in the other; you both lose the
ability to respond rather than react to challenges.
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Parts
of your body may ‘freeze’ so that you just
can’t ‘give’ the rein or release your
back or your shoulders for example; perhaps your mind
‘freezes’ so that you forget to breathe, you
forget which jump comes next or what’s supposed
to happen after you’ve entered the arena at ‘A’.
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‘Flight’
– well you just want to give up and run away! You
make excuses to avoid riding (its too windy or wet) and
pretend that competitions and fun rides just aren’t
your thing anymore. Your rides get slower and shorter
and your routes get more and more restricted.
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| Negative
projections – the ‘what ifs’ |
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The subconscious mind has no way of differentiating between
what’s real and what’s imagined, so that every
time you start thinking about “what if s/he bucks,
bolts, runs out” or whatever, your body responds
as if your worst fears have just been realised –
your stomach churns, your heart pounds, your legs turn
to jelly, perhaps your mouth goes dry and it’s hard
to swallow, you begin to sweat and feel panicky………..
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You lose your ability to ride ‘in the here and now’
because you spend your whole time worrying about what
might happen.
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Conflicts
– part of you wants to do one thing and another
part seems to want to do something else entirely! This wastes
a lot of energy and results in a loss of focus, motivation
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- You’re
not really sure if you want to keep on riding but you
can’t quite bring yourself to hang up your hat either.
- You
think it’s a great idea to enter the 3’ jumping
class when its several weeks away, then on the morning
of the event you wonder what on earth possessed you…..
Even on the approach, part of you wants to jump and part
of you wishes you were somewhere (anywhere!) else.
- You’d
love to be in the ribbons but deep down you’re afraid
that it might affect your relationships with your friends
or your family (or even with yourself and your riding).
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Loss
of confidence and self-esteem – never a stable
commodity at the best of times, it seems as if they are easy
to lose and hard to win. |
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You value yourself for what you can do, rather
than for who you are (so you become a human ‘doing’
rather than a human ‘being’!)
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There is a miss-match between what you (or others) think
you ought to be able to do and what you find you actually
can do.
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You get caught up in negative thinking, negative self-talk
and anxieties
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| You
can buy the Equinimity Self-hypnosis audio CD NOW by going
to the FLEXIBLE OPTIONS page.
The LifeMapper™ Motivator
CD-Rom programme encourages you to work mainly
(but not exclusively!) with your cognitive, logical and rational
resources. It shows you how to apply the concept
“Take
everything you’ve done and everything you are, and use
it to get everything you want”
for
your personal development and success. First the software
performs an amazingly accurate personality assessment that
will highlight your strengths and weaknesses and identify
your natural resources – some of which you may never
have used before! Once a profile has been created, you can
choose and prioritise the attributes you need to realise your
goals. Working through this process reveals and provides an
opportunity to consciously re-evaluate any negative belief
patterns or conflicts that might previously have undermined
your capacity for success. Finally, the software gives detailed
instructions, with worked examples, for drawing up your Personal
Success Map. The map illustrates a clear and logical progression,
showing you exactly where to start and how to get from where
you are to where you want to be.
Try
the FREE Personality Profiler on this site for yourself! This
is not the full programme but it will show you how understanding
and working with your natural personality can help you begin
to realise your greatest resource – YOU! In much the
same way that you work with your horse to bring out the very
best of his or her potential, A Mind to Ride will develop
yours.
You can buy the LifeMapper™ Motivator CD-Rom
NOW by going to the FLEXIBLE OPTIONS
page.
There are several FLEXIBLE OPTIONS
if you need extra help or support. Bearing in mind that I
work with you and not your horse, even if you live some distance
away, travelling for a private consultation could still be
a realistic solution.
Articles:A
Mind to Ride - for Stress-free Competitions
A Mind to Ride - In Search of
Magic
A Mind to Ride - Resourceful
Riding (published
in ‘The Hypnotherapy Journal’)
A Mind to Ride - Mind
over Matter (published in ‘West Country Riders’)
World Cup Show Jumping
- Bordeaux February 2005
……because it makes sense
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