Goals and Mindfulness... cont’d
Dr. Thomas Ritter www.artisticdressage.com
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horses. If we put our long term goals on the back burner, without ever completely losing sight of them, we can rid ourselves of the stress and pressure. The longer I ride, the more I find out that the secret to good classical dressage is to ride completely in and for the moment, not for the distant future. If I take care to be mindful, to pay the closest attention to what my horse and I are doing right now, we progress much faster and much more smoothly than if I allow myself to be pressured by the future. Every day we have to master our impatience and try to do the best we can with the simplest basics every minute of every ride, and before we know it, the future is here, and our horses are performing at a much higher level.
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the present. We constantly wish we could be somewhere other than where we are. We wish we could be better riders already. We wish our horses were more advanced, etc. We can’t wait for these better times to happen and, as a result we miss out on the present. We don’t enjoy where we are and what we are doing enough. This goes for all aspects of life, not just riding. This human weakness, if you want to call it that, was recognized by Zen masters a long time ago, and the concept of mindfulness and living in the present consequently became one of the most important principles of Zen, as far as I understand it. This impatience and dissatisfaction with the present, this desire for the future to hurry up and arrive, causes stress and pressure we put on ourselves and our
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