A horse is a brain with four legs. It is not a machine with moving parts controlled by levers and buttons. It’s a brain with which we should be in constant conversation.
My point is that it is the way you ask a question the first time that is important. You must always present your first ask in a way you want it to be in the future
There is very little about riding and training that comes naturally to a horse, but fortunately, they have a strong and natural propensity to recognize and give meaning to patterns. We exploit that part of their nature every day with very little recognition of its importance.
If I ask my horse to walk and it becomes his idea, he walks. I don’t have to treat as if he is a dumb blonde and tell him, “left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot” for the entire trip. His thought to walk arranges everything in place to make it happen.
