Women in Particular Need this -Today’s Motivational Quote

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ” Eleanor Roosevelt

Women seem to have a hard time with allowing men to take advantage of them. No this is not man bashing, its just a statement of fact. I’ve seen it way too many times.

But it happens with men and women so beware.

It for sure happens in many relationships with horse trainers. Horse lovers trust yourself first and the trainer next.

Men and women trust yourself, your gut feelings first before you take on what someone else has to say.

Your Horse Can Read Your Thoughts

Well that’s not exactly right. Your horse can’t read your thoughts but he can and does read the energy in your thoughts.

It goes like this. Each and every thought you have carries emotional energy with it. This energy begins at your subconscious level. As your sub conscious mind has a feeling, thought or sense  emotional energy is already attaching itself to it.

It it this energy that communicates with your horse. Before you ever even think of giving a physical or verbal command your horse is already responding to this sub conscious energy.

Think of it like water that is beginning to boil for your cup of coffee. The water is hot long before you actually hear or see it begin to boil. So if you try to touch the water, you can still get burned.  ( I know, not such a great example, but it was the only thing I could think of at the moment.)

Your training for the show pen begins in your sub conscious mind first!

If you want your western pleasure horse to move slowly and correctly then your subconscious mind needs to do the work before your body gets in the picture.

Horses Helps Us Heal and Live Better Lives

Often we get so focused on competition with our horses that we forget all the other great things that horses give us and teach us rather than us teaching them. Be sure to watch this video for a reminder of the horses power and ability. Read more

Sit Deep in The Saddle

Have you been told to sit deep in the saddle and try as you might you can’t figure out what they mean? <--more--> I have! So this week when my trainer told me to sit deep in the saddle and I felt like I was dropping my butt down as deep as I could…I asked the question.

Now just what do you mean when you say sit deep in the saddle? How do I do that?

His answer; when you bring your shoulders back it automatically puts your butt deeper in your saddle. Well you know I had never thought of it like that. So I tried it! And it worked.

Sometimes we just need to hear things in a new way for them to sink in.

Jerry Pelikan of Performance Matters

Jerry Pelikan of Performance Matters is located in Ravensdale, WA.

My program focuses on educating and developing horses and riders both physically and mentally to reach their potential.

My unique perspective on training is shaped by my background as a trainer, Licensed Massage Practitioner and Equine Sports Massage Therapist.  I’ve been fortunate to have had opportunities to study and/or ride with such highly regarded trainers as Dick Boettcher (Saddlebreds, Morgans), Steve Heckaman, Mark Shaffer and Buck Brannaman.

I tell everyone, goodnaturedly, “I want to know everything”, and this attitude fuels my passion for acquiring and exchanging information with my clients.

Contact info: # 425-466-1739  email address: jeronimo1216@comcast.net

The Power in the Horse Human Relationship

A Horse Has Powerful Physical Force but Even More Emotional Force on the people whose lives they touch.

I’ve been involved with horses for many years but it was a long rainy winter some 6 years ago when I really learned the power in the horse human relationship.

When my 4th sister, Ruth, died I retreated from life. While I didn’t make a conscious choice to retreat I retreated just the same. Life was dull and gray and I  no longer thought about the future and meeting goals or building a career or even building and maintaining relationships. I simply existed moving through my day to day chores only because I had to or my horses would starve or at the very least be left in dirty stalls.

For several months following Ruth’s death I went through the motions of working my horses while hardly paying them any real attention. But gradually I began to sense and feel them on a deeper level than I had before.

I knew about body language and that we communicate with horses and humans with 80% body language and only 20% verbal language, so that was no surprise. What was a surprise was finding out they responded to my body and mind energy.

I learned that even my thoughts carry energy and as I think it my horses respond to it. I began to learn a whole new way to communicate with my horses and with people.

Day by day my horses began to teach me about a higher level of communication than I had known. They began to soothe my very soul and taught me that life here on earth in the physical form is after all only one form of life, but not the only form of life.

They began to lead me instead of me them and they began the process of taking me down an entirely different path than the one I had previously been on.

Did they help me to heal? Yes but more than that they taught me life is more than what we see and even feel. We can’t see a horse’s instinct but instinct exists. We can’t see this whole other realm of being, communicating and living but there is a higher level of life.

While I’m not sure how to explain it and what words to use, I do know that it exists and my horses helped me to get in touch with it that long winter.

If they can do this then how much more can they teach each of us. It’s a good thing to slow down and find out.