Don’t look down.
Look where you want to go.
Gosh I wish I didn’t have to try so hard to remember that. Don’t look down. Don’t look at the ground when I’m walking, don’t look at my horse’s shoulder when I’m riding.
I was reminded by my husband (who is becoming a very adept beginner rider) that people do it when they’re driving too. Someone driving behind us, anxious to get around on our winding country roads. Too bad they didn’t pay any attention to the fact that there were at least 10 cars ahead of us and getting around us didn’t help them in the tiniest way.
As I wondered at the idea of squirming in between 2 other cars for no particular reason and the energy that it must take to live that way, hubby said “it’s because they’re looking down”. I didin’t know what he meant by that, so he expanded. “It’s like when you’re riding and you are looking where you want to go. If you’re looking down, that’s all you can think about. Your whole world becomes right there in front of you and you lose sight of the big picture. If you’re looking where you are supposed to, some things that might have seemed like a big deal just aren’t as important anymore because your perspective is different.”
Wow.
I am going to purpose to go through my ENTIRE day looking up- where I want to go. That means a lot of things for me. It means keeping a more heavenly perspective on my day in general. It means keeping my focus of each homeschooling lesson on the big picture of the entire lesson and not getting “stuck” in one tiny part of it. It means NOT looking down when I’m riding, lol. I still have to remind myself that constantly, no matter how many times I’ve had instructors holler it at me. But it also means that my focus needs to be on the bigger picture of not only the day’s work, but the vision that I have for that horse and where I’d eventually like to go with them.
Hmmm. A lot of pondering to do still. How often have I been stuck and anxious because I was looking down? Way to often to count. But today, in this moment, I’m going to look up and where I’m going.