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Article #353: How can Horseback Riders benefit from Self-Hypnosis?

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Firstly, what is Self-hypnosis? particular person. If someone is willing
Self-hypnosis is a process of to take the time and mental discipline
communicating with oneself, directing necessary to improve their riding ability
one's own attention in specific ways in and awareness of themselves and their
order to produce states that are commonly horses, with self hypnosis, the results
recognised as trance states. Neither will be extraordinary, positive and
sleep nor unconsciousness, hypnosis is a lasting.
state in which a person has shut out Hypnosis is simply a state of mind, in
distractions and is free to focus much the same way that happiness is a
intently on a particular subject, state of mind.
emotion, or memory or goal. The hypnotic Contrary to what most people believe, the
state is an optimum state for making mind under hypnosis is still alert and
changes in your attitude and approach to very much in control. If you cannot hear
horse riding. anything, then you cannot benefit from
Why would a horse rider want to change self-hypnosis. Hypnosis is a state of
their attitude or approach? heightened awareness. You remain fully
Because her competition nerves are alert, in fact more alert than usual.
hindering her performance during contests Any one can be hypnotised. In fact, it is
Because she wants to get rid of the often a learned trait. You can teach your
debilitating residual fear after a horse body and mind to go into trance, and get
riding accident better and better at it as you practice
Because she wants to get rid of ingrained self-hypnosis. We are constantly
riding habits that limit her progress hypnotising ourselves. Sometimes we are
Because she wants to master new riding our own worst enemy, when we call
skills faster ourselves names, or put ourselves down
Because she wants to stay motivated to and reinforce fears and limitations. It
reach her riding goals can become a habit and if you do it long
Self-hypnosis can be a very powerful tool enough you will develop a belief that
in the mental skills toolbox of the will get the results you fear. Ex:
rider. However, if you think hypnosis is * Boy, my jumping is getting bad
no more than a stage trick or is * I am so bad at setting the horse up for
performed only by charlatans, your doubts a jump
will impede any positive results that you * I will never jump higher than 90 cm,
may get from a hypnotic session. never
Therefore, you must be open-minded to These are auto-suggestions or negative
some degree to the possibility that you affirmations. More appropriate
can improve your riding ability through auto-suggestions to give yourself under
the power of auto-suggestion. self-hypnosis would be:
In reality, trance states are nothing * My jumping is getting better and better
special; we go in and out of these states every day
several times during the day. Day * I am very good at show-jumping, it is
dreaming, a well-known trance state, is a easy for me to set up my horse for a jump
form of self-hypnosis. You have * I will easily jump higher than 90cm
hypnotised yourself when you drive to ...and because the trance state gives you
work on auto-pilot. Afterwards you direct access to your unconscious mind,
remember little of the journey, but if you will embrace these suggestions
you suddenly had to react fast to avoid without reserve and accept them as the
an accident, you would have. You are not pure, unadulterated truth.
asleep during hypnosis. You are aware of Imagine what might happen if you changed
every thing that is being said. You can the suggestions that you give yourself on
remember everything afterwards. a daily basis? If you used the hypnotic
True, effective self hypnosis should be trance state to give yourself empowering
designed and created by the very person suggestions to improve your riding,
who will ultimately use and benefit from reduce your anxiety about and
it, incorporating the precise words and exponentially increase your self-esteem?
phrases that mean the most to that






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