Archive for May, 2009
May 25th, 2009 at 06:32pm
Under Divine Cowgirl+ Horse+ Relationship+ With others
Have you even been stopped cold by fear? Have you ever made a decision to not do something for fear of what might happen? Fear is insidious. It can weave around our rational thoughts and reduces us to a mass of quivering anxiety that holds us in the grip of indecision and even paralysis. One [...]
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Continue Reading F.E.A.R.
Tags: confidence, horses, put fear in its rightful place, stopped cold by fear
By The Divine Cowgirl
May 18th, 2009 at 01:18pm
Under Horse+ Relationship+ Transitions+ With ourselves
“All change begins with endings” – Bridges from the book Transitions Riding horses is one transition after another. As students move from walk to trot; trot to halt; halt to canter and all the possible combinations within each gait, they learn both to handle their bodies and support their horse partners in the process of [...]
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Continue Reading Transitions
Tags: change, communicating, horse riding terms, Transitions
By The Divine Cowgirl
May 11th, 2009 at 01:18pm
Under Divine Cowgirl+ Horse+ Relationship+ With ourselves
Horses like humans have emotions. Some days they simply get up on the wrong side of the stall or pasture. Just like humans they can have attitude. They can also experience depression, stress, exuberance and joy. The difference between horse and human is how long those emotions last or are revisited. Horses have a moment [...]
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Continue Reading Riding the energy of e-motion
Tags: energy of e-motion, horse emotions, human emotion
By The Divine Cowgirl
May 4th, 2009 at 01:16pm
Under Divine Cowgirl+ Relationship+ With ourselves
I loved my Border Collie. His name was Joker. And he lived up to his name. Active as a puppy, as an adult he had a one tracked mind and that was WORK. He definitely needed a job and if he didn’t have an appropriate job, he made one up. He’d herd the chickens or [...]
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Continue Reading The Thing About Border Collies
Tags: appropriate job, Getting out of my head, mind in training
By The Divine Cowgirl
