Meditation and Self development
for horse riders
Women and men alike will reap the amazing benefits from performing this therapy on a regular, frequent basis
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The purpose of Meditation and Self Development
Horse riding and equestrian sports are some of the toughest sports around. Horse riders are unique in that you have a animal (who has thoughts and emotions) to manage along with your own physical, mental and emotional performance. Meditation and Self Development supports the effective use of mental and emotional skills to enhance your over all health, wellbeing, mind set, riding, and performance. Mental and emotional skills refer to your beliefs (conscious and subconscious), as well as anything that you feel (emotions) or think (thoughts). The beliefs you have in general, (and about yourself), in combination with your thoughts and feelings have a profound effect on your entire life, including your riding. It is important to remember, that just like your position when riding, your thoughts, emotions and beliefs (in any given moment), have a direct effect on your horse. Having strong mental and emotional abilities will get you through challenges of all kinds, but there is no point attempting to learn them in the middle of a crisis because you won't produce great results. Meditation and Self Development is for any rider who wants to be able to ride and perform at their best. It does not matter what kind of riding you do, whether it is pleasure, fun, trail riding, breaking and training, work in the horse industry, competition (any discipline) at any level, you need strong mental and emotional skills.
It is important to note that your mindset, beliefs, mental and emotional state has an effect on every aspect of your life. This includes riding and horses, relationships, financial standing, health and well being, sleep, stress levels, ability to manage stress, work, family, friendships, ability to handle and over come challenges of all kinds and more. Key elements of developing positive behavior are habit and imagination. These have a far greater impact than logic and will power ever will be. Imagination and developing positive and productive habits are a large component of meditation and self development. The way you see yourself, combined with your feelings about yourself are crucial in the way you live your life. By repeatedly seeing (and feeling) yourself as what you would ideally like to be, you become happier, more productive, achieve greater success and are able to live your life to the fullest potential. This is in line with the notion that the better you feel on the inside, the better your life is.
Meditation and Self Development should be a part of your daily routine in order to achieve optimum mental and emotional wellbeing, create a good mindset, have a positive and productive belief system, prevent pit falls, over come challenges and get maximum performance, and achieve your goals.
Guided meditation explained
Mediations for horse riders are specifically designed and written for riders and their unique needs. Each individual meditation has a specific theme and purpose. If you can sit or lie down, relax, and listen, then you can meditate.
Guided meditation involves listening to a highly relaxing, imaginative, creative story (where you are the main character) which takes you on a healing journey that engages all your senses.
Meditating with a guide provides specific direction, you simply follow the voice and instructions of the guide, which provides a distraction from other intruding thoughts, and creates a specific healing journey.
Changes in your posture, breathing, muscle tension, internal images, and facial expressions all have a profound affect on your mental state, feelings and behavior. Everyone has the ability to follow instructions and visualize. You can prove this to yourself by answering these questions:
Guided meditation takes you into a state of relaxed concentration invoked and led by a guide. The guide will instruct through a series of relaxation ques. This will induce a state where you feel safe, secure, comfortable and very receptive to healing. You will then be lead through an engaging story utilizing mental images and visualizations, that will facilitate the healing benefits of what the specific purpose of that particular meditation is. Resulting in the achievement of mental, emotional and physical healing. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years. Meditation originally was meant to help deepen understanding of the sacred and mystical forces of life. Now, it is an interictal part of modern society, business and sports performance, including horse riding.
During meditation, your attention is focused, while you follow the instructional guide. You eliminate the stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind and causing stress. Your senses are guided to engage in the healing journey you are the main character in.
Self Development explained
Self Development is a process where you grow, change and become more advanced through activities that are a transition into a place where you can reach your full potential. Practical exercises that empower Self Development are easy simple mental and physical tasks that are designed to empower you to over come specific issues. Self development encourages you to find your authentic self, the true you, bringing meaning, positivity and productivity to your life. It offers techniques and strategies that assist you in optimum performance, which has a flow on effect on your horse. The better you perform, the better your horse does.
Strong self esteem, self confidence, self worth, compassion, empathy, growth and change stem from thinking patterns and belief systems. If you believe in something (consciously or unconsciously) it shows through in your actions. By regular practicing skills to train your mind and your belief systems will encourage a centered, and confident internal state, promoting self development. This will help you implant new beliefs systems into your subconscious mind, and assist you to think and behave in a positive, productive way. By focusing, and calming the mind, and physically relaxing the body you can enter into a state where maximum positive changes take place. These techniques are effortless to practice because all you need to do is sit or lie down in a quite, peaceful place, relax and follow instructions.
It is important to understand that "failure" is an attitude, not an actual outcome. It is has significant positive outcomes when you create a positive mindset, and have mental and emotional skills in order to deal with all of life's up's and down's. It is interesting to note, that people who have great skills in these areas are also the most flexible and are able to see the most perspectives. People who have the most ways of looking at things, with developed mental and emotional skills, have the most choices, and therefore, the greatest possibility of controlling the outcomes of any situation that they come across in life.
Healing platforms
One of more of these are used in combination with one another
Benefits of Meditation and Self Development
Chakra balancing
“Chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels or disks of spinning energy each correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs.
To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open, or balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra.
There are seven main chakras , they start at the root, or base, of your spine and extend to the crown of your head. Chakra balancing and healing can produce significant improvements to your health and well being. Chakra balancing with Remedial Equestrian Therapies is accomplished through guided meditation and chanting.
A note from Tonia Bontjer, owner and creator of Remedial Equestrian Therapies
I personally research, design, write and record individual guided meditations and self development exercises for you. These are specifically created and designed for horse riders, to help you achieve a positive state of mind, and the results you desire. The topics are derived from issues horse riders face, and the exercises are specifically designed to assist in overcoming those issues.
=> Please note that mediation and self development therapies are not designed to cure mental health conditions. If your have a diagnosed mental health condition please see your doctor or registered Mental Health Practitioner. That being said, the therapies and modalities provided by Remedial Equestrian Therapies will enhance the effectiveness of Therapy with your Mental Health Practitioner, therefore you will produce quicker and better results.
For online therapy see "online therapy" on "shop" page of this website.
Page content headings
- The purpose of Meditation and Self Development
- Guided Meditation explained
- Self Development explained
- Healing platforms
- Benefits of meditation and Self Development
- Chakra balancing
- Videos - Meditation and chakra benefits explained
The purpose of Meditation and Self Development
Horse riding and equestrian sports are some of the toughest sports around. Horse riders are unique in that you have a animal (who has thoughts and emotions) to manage along with your own physical, mental and emotional performance. Meditation and Self Development supports the effective use of mental and emotional skills to enhance your over all health, wellbeing, mind set, riding, and performance. Mental and emotional skills refer to your beliefs (conscious and subconscious), as well as anything that you feel (emotions) or think (thoughts). The beliefs you have in general, (and about yourself), in combination with your thoughts and feelings have a profound effect on your entire life, including your riding. It is important to remember, that just like your position when riding, your thoughts, emotions and beliefs (in any given moment), have a direct effect on your horse. Having strong mental and emotional abilities will get you through challenges of all kinds, but there is no point attempting to learn them in the middle of a crisis because you won't produce great results. Meditation and Self Development is for any rider who wants to be able to ride and perform at their best. It does not matter what kind of riding you do, whether it is pleasure, fun, trail riding, breaking and training, work in the horse industry, competition (any discipline) at any level, you need strong mental and emotional skills.
It is important to note that your mindset, beliefs, mental and emotional state has an effect on every aspect of your life. This includes riding and horses, relationships, financial standing, health and well being, sleep, stress levels, ability to manage stress, work, family, friendships, ability to handle and over come challenges of all kinds and more. Key elements of developing positive behavior are habit and imagination. These have a far greater impact than logic and will power ever will be. Imagination and developing positive and productive habits are a large component of meditation and self development. The way you see yourself, combined with your feelings about yourself are crucial in the way you live your life. By repeatedly seeing (and feeling) yourself as what you would ideally like to be, you become happier, more productive, achieve greater success and are able to live your life to the fullest potential. This is in line with the notion that the better you feel on the inside, the better your life is.
Meditation and Self Development should be a part of your daily routine in order to achieve optimum mental and emotional wellbeing, create a good mindset, have a positive and productive belief system, prevent pit falls, over come challenges and get maximum performance, and achieve your goals.
Guided meditation explained
Mediations for horse riders are specifically designed and written for riders and their unique needs. Each individual meditation has a specific theme and purpose. If you can sit or lie down, relax, and listen, then you can meditate.
Guided meditation involves listening to a highly relaxing, imaginative, creative story (where you are the main character) which takes you on a healing journey that engages all your senses.
Meditating with a guide provides specific direction, you simply follow the voice and instructions of the guide, which provides a distraction from other intruding thoughts, and creates a specific healing journey.
Changes in your posture, breathing, muscle tension, internal images, and facial expressions all have a profound affect on your mental state, feelings and behavior. Everyone has the ability to follow instructions and visualize. You can prove this to yourself by answering these questions:
- Imagine your horse
- What colour is your horse?
- How tall is your horse?
- What markings does your horse have?
- Imagine your horse eating their favorite snack
Guided meditation takes you into a state of relaxed concentration invoked and led by a guide. The guide will instruct through a series of relaxation ques. This will induce a state where you feel safe, secure, comfortable and very receptive to healing. You will then be lead through an engaging story utilizing mental images and visualizations, that will facilitate the healing benefits of what the specific purpose of that particular meditation is. Resulting in the achievement of mental, emotional and physical healing. Meditation has been practiced for thousands of years. Meditation originally was meant to help deepen understanding of the sacred and mystical forces of life. Now, it is an interictal part of modern society, business and sports performance, including horse riding.
During meditation, your attention is focused, while you follow the instructional guide. You eliminate the stream of jumbled thoughts that may be crowding your mind and causing stress. Your senses are guided to engage in the healing journey you are the main character in.
Self Development explained
Self Development is a process where you grow, change and become more advanced through activities that are a transition into a place where you can reach your full potential. Practical exercises that empower Self Development are easy simple mental and physical tasks that are designed to empower you to over come specific issues. Self development encourages you to find your authentic self, the true you, bringing meaning, positivity and productivity to your life. It offers techniques and strategies that assist you in optimum performance, which has a flow on effect on your horse. The better you perform, the better your horse does.
Strong self esteem, self confidence, self worth, compassion, empathy, growth and change stem from thinking patterns and belief systems. If you believe in something (consciously or unconsciously) it shows through in your actions. By regular practicing skills to train your mind and your belief systems will encourage a centered, and confident internal state, promoting self development. This will help you implant new beliefs systems into your subconscious mind, and assist you to think and behave in a positive, productive way. By focusing, and calming the mind, and physically relaxing the body you can enter into a state where maximum positive changes take place. These techniques are effortless to practice because all you need to do is sit or lie down in a quite, peaceful place, relax and follow instructions.
It is important to understand that "failure" is an attitude, not an actual outcome. It is has significant positive outcomes when you create a positive mindset, and have mental and emotional skills in order to deal with all of life's up's and down's. It is interesting to note, that people who have great skills in these areas are also the most flexible and are able to see the most perspectives. People who have the most ways of looking at things, with developed mental and emotional skills, have the most choices, and therefore, the greatest possibility of controlling the outcomes of any situation that they come across in life.
Healing platforms
One of more of these are used in combination with one another
- Guided meditations
- Exercises and activities that re organize thinking, feelings, internal language and behavior
- Anchoring and imbedding positive and productive states into your body
- Visualization exercises
- Engaging senses exercises
- Inducing comforting state of relaxation
- Affirmations and mantras
- Chakra balancing
- Chanting and sound healing
- Mindfulness
- Varied, highly effective breathing techniques
Benefits of Meditation and Self Development
- Promotes over all health and wellbeing
- Builds solid stress management skills in order for you to be able to effectively deal with difficult personal issues, as well as challenges and adversities - fears, anxieties, sadness, frustration, disappointment, apprehension, self confidence, self worth and more
- Helps retrain and calm the nervous system
- Gain a new perspective on stressful situations, and change limiting beliefs that have negative impacts on your life, and performance
- Build strong relationship with yourself, others and your horse
- Goal setting and achieving
- Allows you to take control of your inner critic
- Preparation for competitions, competition nerves, competition state of mind
- Generates positive and productive self talk and belief system
- Assist in you knowing, and becoming, who and what you really are, your true self
- Increase focus, concentration, attention span, mental capacity
- Reduce negative emotions, increase emotional ability to create success
- Increasing imagination and creativity
- Increasing patience and tolerance
- Lowering resting heart rate and blood pressure
- Improving sleep quality
- Promoted emotional Health
- Fosters Self awareness
- Lengthens attention span
- Reduces Memory loss
- Assists with pain management
- Teaches you to create and answer quality questions and answers that produce quality results
- Effectively supports subjects detailed in the article - Ingredients for Equestrians, a recipe for success
Chakra balancing
“Chakra” means “disk” or “wheel” and refers to the energy centers in your body. These wheels or disks of spinning energy each correspond to certain nerve bundles and major organs.
To function at their best, your chakras need to stay open, or balanced. If they get blocked, you may experience physical or emotional symptoms related to a particular chakra.
There are seven main chakras , they start at the root, or base, of your spine and extend to the crown of your head. Chakra balancing and healing can produce significant improvements to your health and well being. Chakra balancing with Remedial Equestrian Therapies is accomplished through guided meditation and chanting.
A note from Tonia Bontjer, owner and creator of Remedial Equestrian Therapies
I personally research, design, write and record individual guided meditations and self development exercises for you. These are specifically created and designed for horse riders, to help you achieve a positive state of mind, and the results you desire. The topics are derived from issues horse riders face, and the exercises are specifically designed to assist in overcoming those issues.
=> Please note that mediation and self development therapies are not designed to cure mental health conditions. If your have a diagnosed mental health condition please see your doctor or registered Mental Health Practitioner. That being said, the therapies and modalities provided by Remedial Equestrian Therapies will enhance the effectiveness of Therapy with your Mental Health Practitioner, therefore you will produce quicker and better results.
For online therapy see "online therapy" on "shop" page of this website.
Videos
Detailed Meditation benefits, and chakra's explained -
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