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Schooling Problems Solved with NLP
Illustrating her theories with case histories and backed up by international trainer Charles de Kunffy, Dr. Jago shows how Neuro-linguistic Programming can assist the rider to communicate with the horse more easily and help solve common problems associated with riding and training.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2001
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January 9, 2017
I can't resist any book that gives an insight on how other people ride or manage horses ... and this one is unique in that it focuses on Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which is a fancy way of saying that you should think about the things you are doing and why you do them that way.
There are loads of exercises to work through, which help you pinpoint how you personally experience the world and how you then replay the memories - whether you feel the movements again or see yourself doing them, for example. It also helps to focus on problem areas and on how to get to the root cause - i.e.. whether a bad childhood experience of cantering effects your aids to do the same now.
Some of it may seem a bit obvious, but there are some great ideas on how to actually get there and how to explore them.
Some nice things I did pick up. Confidence and nerves while doing dressage can be managed by thinking of it as a chance to show what your horse can do rather than on being judged. That 'aids' actually do mean 'helps' and that they should be seen as guides to what you want your horse to do.
The author does have a bit of a fixation on one dressage trainer/rider (hers!), which may have been more interesting if I'd heard of him - but occasionally her continual referrals to him made me wonder why I was reading her book and not his!
But overall I enjoyed the read and took some things away to work on with my own horse.
There are loads of exercises to work through, which help you pinpoint how you personally experience the world and how you then replay the memories - whether you feel the movements again or see yourself doing them, for example. It also helps to focus on problem areas and on how to get to the root cause - i.e.. whether a bad childhood experience of cantering effects your aids to do the same now.
Some of it may seem a bit obvious, but there are some great ideas on how to actually get there and how to explore them.
Some nice things I did pick up. Confidence and nerves while doing dressage can be managed by thinking of it as a chance to show what your horse can do rather than on being judged. That 'aids' actually do mean 'helps' and that they should be seen as guides to what you want your horse to do.
The author does have a bit of a fixation on one dressage trainer/rider (hers!), which may have been more interesting if I'd heard of him - but occasionally her continual referrals to him made me wonder why I was reading her book and not his!
But overall I enjoyed the read and took some things away to work on with my own horse.
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