You are not falling frequently enough

[Guest guest]

Thursday evening is when we have our study group for the NLP

training I am currently taking. Near the end of the evening after

we had practiced different exercises, a fellow student told the

story about taking ski lessons as a teenager. After a bit of

time, the instructor told him he was not falling down often

enough. In other words, he was being TOO cautious when learning

to ski.

 

That story is still reverberating inside my head and how can I

use this to enhance the NLP training? Since the next training is

next weekend maybe I can fall a few more times then rather than

be so cautious I retard my learning.

 

Doc has said many times that we are going to fu** up when we

practice doing the different techniques he teaches until we learn

how to do them.

 

Mary Nelson

http://www.eft4everyone.com

[Guest guest]

Mary,

 

My dad was a master horseman, and a Col in the old army. He was a

trainer and played polo, did Roman riding (where a bunch a guys on

five cantering horses, stand on each other's shoulders in a pyramid

formation), etc.

 

Anyway, he used to say that if someone SAID they were good riders,

but they never mucked a stall, and were never thrown from a horse,

that they didn't know how to ride, plain and simple.

 

So - if you muck a stall at the service of becoming a great horseman,

it is a different exercise because you are doing this at the service

of the Ideal. (vs mucking a stall, because you are not good enough to

do anything but shovel s**t)

 

And - you have to learn HOW to fall -- without injury. Which is the

benefit of falling when you're a novice. You learn how to tumble and

get back on the horse right away. (because you want to become a good

horseman)

 

Mary, if you know that you are in the stage of Learning -- and you

know screwing up is part of that process -- then, you are indeed,

Learning!

 

And, if you are learning in the service of your Ideal, then you are

screwing up at the service of the Ideal.

 

(I still like to do my Business-related screwing up in controlled,

testing environments, though!!)

 

Helen

 

 

Helen Driscoll

http://www.Invitesite.com

 

 

On Oct 5, 2007, at 7:40 PM, M J Nelson wrote:

 

 

>

> Doc has said many times that we are going to fu** up when we

> practice doing the different techniques he teaches until we learn

> how to do them.

>

> Mary Nelson

> http://www.eft4everyone.com

>

[Guest guest]

Helen:

 

>because you want to become a good

horseman)

-

" Yer not a cowboy [cowgirl] `till you can shoe yer own horse or shoot yer

own dog. "

~ Western Urban Legend.

 

Nowadays, horse training with the horse's language really works.

Monty Roberts has some excellent examples from his experience with Shy Boy

but now where the hoof hits the turf Pat Parelli is the guru.

Enter <Parelli Horse > in YouTube and watch the magic.

 

If you like horses, you'll love this one:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqi0NlPvMEQ

 

rusty

 

 

 

 

 

 

-

" Helen Driscoll " <helen

 

Saturday, October 06, 2007 12:24 PM

Re: You are not falling

frequently enough

 

 

> Mary,

>

> My dad was a master horseman, and a Col in the old army. He was a

> trainer and played polo, did Roman riding (where a bunch a guys on

> five cantering horses, stand on each other's shoulders in a pyramid

> formation), etc.

>

> Anyway, he used to say that if someone SAID they were good riders,

> but they never mucked a stall, and were never thrown from a horse,

> that they didn't know how to ride, plain and simple.

>

> So - if you muck a stall at the service of becoming a great horseman,

> it is a different exercise because you are doing this at the service

> of the Ideal. (vs mucking a stall, because you are not good enough to

> do anything but shovel s**t)

>

> And - you have to learn HOW to fall -- without injury. Which is the

> benefit of falling when you're a novice. You learn how to tumble and

> get back on the horse right away. (because you want to become a good

> horseman)

>

> Mary, if you know that you are in the stage of Learning -- and you

> know screwing up is part of that process -- then, you are indeed,

> Learning!

>

> And, if you are learning in the service of your Ideal, then you are

> screwing up at the service of the Ideal.

>

> (I still like to do my Business-related screwing up in controlled,

> testing environments, though!!)

>

> Helen

>

>

> Helen Driscoll

> http://www.Invitesite.com