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Simple Steps to Riding Success

$22.95

By Liz Morrison
Published in 2002 by David & Charles, UK
Hardcover, 144 Pages
Size - 27.5cm * 20cm

Simple Steps to Riding Success is a self-help manual for developing the mental attitude necessary to become a positive and confident rider. It is a comprehensive guide to using Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP - and sports psychology. NLP is a powerful psychological tool for building confidence and determination, clearing negative experiences and goal setting. It provides a practical understanding of how the brain and neurology work together to create our behaviour. This includes understanding the effect of language and beliefs on our performance.

You can pick techniques to suit your needs, from quick visualisation exercises to do before an event or exam, to progressive programmes, such as planning a year of training and competition. Throughout the book, the step-by-step approach is supported and interspersed with real life case histories of other riders. The unconscious strategies and beliefs of the experts are revealed, including natural horsemen and disabled riders. Simple Steps to Riding Success will appeal to any rider who wants to improve their confidence and clear the negative memories or beliefs that prevent them from enjoying their horses more.

LIZ MORRISON LLB, BHSr(sM) is a licensed NLP Master Practitioner who applies the powerful techniques of NLP to her work as a sports coach and international level 2 riding instructor as well as in business. She first became aware of the importance of mental attitude in sport when she was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship to Australia in 1993. Upon her return to the UK she researched the area and started studying NLP. She has trained with all of the original developers of the subject and now assists on their training sessions in the UK.

She specialises in language patterns and modelling the unconscious strategies of excellence. Over the past four years her courses about applying NLP to riding have been attended by hundreds of riders, instructors and examiners around the country. When she is not training or working with teams and individuals around the world she lives in West Sussex and competes in affiliated dressage and show jumping with her two horses.

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