Whatever their age or riding experience, or shortage of it, all homo sapiens find horses entrancing. Horses are some examples of the most beautiful, aesthetically appealing creations. Their physique is imposing and their spirit is one of a kind. You may find this difficult to believe, but constant exposure to horses can help build your character.

Horses teach us to grow our psychological horizons. We develop some beneficial character and personality characteristics thru our interaction with them.

Confidence: Horses help to build up self esteem. To begin with, the size differential can be intimidating: they’re in the 1,000 pound plus category and the average human rider is in the 100 pound plus category. It takes a lot of initial guts to mount, ride and control a horse. Most humans, at least in the initial stages, feel fear at the size of the horse. As they develop confidence with horses, they also find themselves more confident in life’s other situations. Regular exposure to horses is certainly excellent for self esteem.

Responsibility: Horse care thrusts lots of responsibilities on the carer. Pony care is an enormous task that demands patience, endurance and tolerance. It is man’s work attending to a horse’s daily wants, for example grooming, feeding, cleaning of stalls and maintenance of riding gear. As you go thru these jobs, you have frequent occasion to reflect on the horse’s dependence on you. You do it as you love your horse, and you wish to ensure you provide him with the very best living set up. It is no different from looking after your kids. Both jobs need the shouldering of tons of responsibility.

Patience: Horses can frequently act like little kids. It needs a lot of coaching to make a horse behave just the way that you need him to. You cannot teach your youngsters the ways of life in a day, a week or a month. It takes years, and actually, the method of teaching and learning never comes to a close. Educating horses is no different. It cannot be done in a day, and it never truly ends.

Sensitivity: Horses are very attuned to the moods of their riders, handlers and trainers. They can tell if you’re contented or miserable, angry or placid. You aren’t going to be a good pony rider and handler unless you demonstrate the same sensitivity toward them. You have to be able to guess correctly whether a specific bout of misbehaviour from your horse is due to some streak of defiance or obstinacy, or essentially to some discomfort or fear or anger that has to be attended to.

Trust: The perfectly behaved horse that’s responsive to every command is a pony that trusts you perfectly. The perfectly behaved rider or handler who knows the way to extract the maximum from his horse is a human being who trusts his or her pony perfectly. Dependance is mutual, and neither can adequately meet the other’s expectations without a whole lot of trust.

Tolerance: The woman or man who has handled horses regularly knows that each of them has a completely unique, awfully individual character. Each horse should be handled differently. Each reacts to our cues in its own particular way. Time spend with horses is time expended learning toleration. The lessons in open mindedness we learn from horses will serve us in all other side of our lives.

Horses share a common animal tendency: they rarely repeat mistakes. But as their riders and handlers, we want to point out their mistakes occasionally without flying into harmful rages.

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