Before You Start The Program

Important Information - read before you start the program

Introduction to Shifting Your Mindset

Goal Setting For Achievable Outcomes

Review and Adjust Your Goal

Embed Your Goal In Your Unconscious Mind

Loosen Your Mindset

2 Techniques To Calm Quickly

Lesson 1 - What is Reality?

It takes specific skills to feel anxious or stressed. It requires the ability to create a strong internal dialogue and very vivid, compelling images in your mind to create those strong emotional responses. If you replace the negative dialogue and images with positive ones and learn how to do that habitually, then you’ll get very different responses. In this lesson, you'll gain a clearer understanding of how what we see as reality really isn't.

Lesson 2 - Perception is Projection

What we see and believe about ourselves and others is a projection based on our internal representations. We see things not as they are but as we.

Lesson 3 - Reframe Your Perception

Reframing is one of the most effective techniques for retraining your mind and therefore your behaviour.  Reframing is simply changing the meaning of an experience or event by putting a different frame around it or looking at it from a different perspective. Often, reframing happens with language. Sometimes even by changing a single word.

Lesson 4 - Take A Different Perspective

Your perception of any experience depends on the position from which you perceive it. Having a different perception is as simple as taking 3 different perceptual positions. In this lesson, you'll be looking at your issue through "someone else's eyes".

Lesson 5 - Quickly Change How You Feel

Your internal representations affect your mental state and physiology. And, that all affects your behaviour. These 3 areas – internal representations, mental state, and physiology – have a reciprocal relationship. So, changing one changes the others. In this lesson, you'll be learning how to quickly change how you feel by changing your physiology.

Lesson 1 - Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind

We talked briefly about some of the directives or duties of the Unconscious Mind in Module 1. In this lesson, we’re going to look at it a bit more deeply. Because it’s in understanding how your Unconscious Mind works and how to work with it that you’re able to make long term changes to how you feel – to your confidence for horse riding - or in any other area of your life - quickly and easily.

Lesson 2 - Feel Confident About A Future Event

Anxiety happens when you dwell on things that you don’t want to happen in your future and when you focus on terrible things. As you learned in the previous module, the unconscious mind responds to those negative thoughts and emotions with anxious feelings. How you’re feeling will correspond to your internal representations or thought processes. So, that anxiety you feel is a reminder from your UM to focus on what you want. In this lesson, we’re going to use the power of your UM to change how you feel about a specific situation or event where you currently feel anxiety.

Lesson 3 - Releasing A Specific Fear

In this lesson you're going to learn a quick confusion technique (The Swish Pattern) that weakens negative thoughts so they stop getting in your way. It reduces and even removes the emotion connected to memories of past events or worries about future events. You'll actually teach your brain a new way of responding to the negative thought or trigger. This technique is quick, but it’s not long lasting so it does need to be repeated. It’s very effective when used before an event that used to cause you anxiety or in a situation where you get a bit shaken up or things haven’t gone to plan.

Lesson 4 - Releasing Generalised Anxiety

Most fears, and anxieties are stored in our minds as movies or pictures and they are full of emotions. In this exercise, you’re going to use a mind movie to create confusion and cause dissociation from the emotions and feelings.  When you can dissociate from the mind movie, you will reduce your fear or eliminate it completely!

Lesson 1 - Changing Limiting Beliefs and Decisions

We all have beliefs that affect what we do and how we do it. We aren’t born with these beliefs. We “decide” or come to believe them – sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously. As you learned in Module 3, your Unconscious Mind is driven by these beliefs – for better or for worse. Stated simply, Your beliefs determine your thinking. And based on your thinking, you take daily actions. And surprise, surprise ... your actions determine your results. When you identify and release your limiting decisions and beliefs, your results change!

Lesson 2 - Removing Limiting Beliefs and Decisions

In this lesson, you’re going to remove a limiting decision that’s attached to a limiting belief that’s holding you back. How your life is right now is a result of what you think happened in your past and what you think is going to happen in your future. And it is possible to change how you think about both your past and your future. You have already used your Timeline to embed a strong and compelling goal into your Unconscious Mind and to remove feelings of anxiety about a future event. Using your Timeline is also very powerful for releasing negative emotions and limiting decisions from your past.

Lesson 3 - Quickly Getting Into A Positive Mental State

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to quickly get into a positive emotional state just before going into a situation that used to cause anxiety or even when you are going through negative situations.

Lesson 4 - Stacking Anchors For A Powerful Resource

In this lesson, you'll learn how to create a powerful resource anchor. You get into a positive state by controlling your state rather than being triggered. Anchoring multiple states makes the effect even stronger. So, you'll stack several positive states to create your resource anchor. You can use your resource anchor for those times you would normally feel anxious so that you feel calm, confident, and relaxed. It’s very empowering and quick.

Lesson 5 - Creating Visual Anchors

Now that you've created a powerful resource anchor on your knuckle and your earlobe, you can transfer the same feelings to a visual anchor like your horse’s ears, the top of the bridle or the view you see through your horse’s ears. You'll need the object or view you'll be using as your visual anchor with you for this lesson. So have your horse's bridle or a photo of the view through his ears when you're riding or a photo taken from the saddle where you can see his mane with a single braid or a ribbon, or a sticky dot or other marker on the top of his bridle. The visual anchor needs to be something unique and easily visible when you're riding.

Lesson 6 - Collapsing Anchors (Remove an unhelpful emotional state)

We use collapse anchors when an unhelpful or unwanted emotional state is triggered by a particular situation. You may even realise that your response to the situation is not helpful or is even inappropriate and that you don’t handle the situation well. But, you're not able to stop feeling the feeling associated with the situation. The technique gives a more compelling, positive alternative to a negative state or behaviour. You only collapse anchors after you’ve set up your resource anchors. ***Please be sure that you've completed the previous lesson and set up your resource anchor BEFORE doing this lesson. ***

Lesson 1 - Power of Hypnotic Language

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use hypnotic language to make desired and positive changes to your riding confidence. And, you can apply this technique to other areas of your life if you choose, too. You’ll understand what makes hypnotic language hypnotic and create your own personal hypnotic language sets (mantras) to calm yourself and your horse. Using your own words and experiences you’ll get a very deep opening into your unconscious mind. Now don’t worry, this is not hypnosis like you might see on a stage or TV programme. It’s simply a process which produces deep relaxation, distracts the conscious mind, heightens suggestibility to the unconscious mind, and increases awareness. It allows access to the UM through the imagination and creates the ability to experience thoughts and images as real. Because remember, your UM cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Lesson 2 - Hypnotic Voice

In this lesson, we’ll be using relaxation and some hypnotic language to communicate with your unconscious mind. We’re not going to use a deep trance hypnosis. Although, that is very effective for creating some dramatic and positive changes at a deep level. And, if you’re interested in that, it is a service I offer my 1:1 clients. In this lesson, we’re focusing on using relaxation and some hypnotic language so that you can do your own self-hypnosis or self-relaxation. We’ll be using words and suggestive sentences that plant the suggestion into your unconscious mind that you CAN ride confidently and calmly – free of fear or anxiety - easily and effortlessly.

Lesson 3 - Keys To Self-Relaxation

In this lesson, you will learn more about self-hypnosis (self-relaxation) and how to write your own personal script. Remember that any hypnosis is simply a very relaxed state of awareness that allows you to go to the deeper levels of your unconscious mind and implant empowering suggestions. It is much like a dreaming or day-dreaming state. And everyone daydreams, don’t they.

Lesson 4 - Self-Relaxation Pattern

By practicing self-relaxation, you’re opening up access to the powerful resources of your unconscious mind. Remember that your unconscious mind wants to give you what you want. And it determines what you want by what you’re focusing on. That’s why focusing on the ‘right’ things is so important. And that’s what you’ll be doing with your personal self-hypnosis script. The intention for your self-hypnosis is to eliminate any anxiety about horse riding and feel relaxed. In this lesson, you'll learn the important 4 steps you need to follow to ensure your self-hypnosis will be successful.

Lesson 5 - Self-Relaxation Empowering Suggestions

In this lesson, you'll learn how to write powerful and positive suggestions your personal self-hypnosis script.

Lesson 6 - Guided Relaxation

Get comfortable and listen to this audio recording when you can relax and be undisturbed for about 20 minutes.