Giving up control

[@TheOldandslow]

Warwicks principles have brought my horse back from being shut down, then dangerous, now awesome and accepting happily going out and working with us. Thanks Warwick! Susie Lytal from Palos Verdes

[@bestinsta360horseandfamily7]

Through this principle I use horses for Therapy. I am an autistic 28 year old mother who has struggled with ptsd and mental health for years. I grew up with horses. They taught me how to communicate in the world, empathy and responsibility. Now they help me relax into my anxieties and let go of control ❤ I am a disabled show jumper, I have a visual processing disorder so I have no ability to see distance. I teach my horses to see the distance for both of us, and ive taught myself to read them. We have had some incredible success, even in classes with big name Olympions like Morris Beatson. I was a subscriber before you fleshed your methods out with the more psychological aspects, and have begun following again after studying psychology myself. I am deeply appreciative of this new content as it helps me reconnect to those principles when my old injuries or mental health keeps me out of the paddocks. I will be deeply flattered if you've read this far, you are a real inspiration and bit or a hero to me 💛

[@lauraalbertson7821]

You just keep confirming to me i am doing the right thing. I am being told not to let my horse be mouthy as Bear licks my Hand . Not to let Him decide ! And it ends with “ Well it’s your Horse “ I am grateful I found you . This young horse is all new to me . And I wanted more than anything to raise Him healthy and Happy and not scared . So far what you are saying is absolutely working! Bear 🐴Huggggs Laura 💜 Bear 💜

[@yvonnejinks7042]

So very true. I think that the biggest challenge for many is that we are told from a young age to "Be the boss, be in control, don' let them get away with this". I am not saying it is easy to give up control because you will have moments of panic and what ifs run through your brain but it is does work. Thanks Warwick

[@mdee860]

Just brilliant. Honestly, my 🙏 is that your name, principals & training methods are adopted worldwide - for the horses' sakes. I can NOT figure out why you aren't well over 750,000+ Subscribers!?? For everyone here, who sees the value of what Warwick Schiller is teaching - please spread his name/KZbin site (in comments) on other horse videos! The abusive trainers need to be shunned & called out for their abusive behavior. ❤🐴💔🐎

[@pamrogers5979]

Recently a young woman shared that the riding school she went to they learned with a halter and rope reins, taking the different exams and everything. All the young kids start like that, and she said she was laughed at on holidays by other kids that she was so advanced and had never worked in a bit. She was 14 before she rode a horse with a bridle. Very very quiet seat, loves to ride fast. So impressive

[@dreamgaits]

Love your style, straight forward approach, no showboating and no ego messaging. I can apply your message to not only my rescue horses, but also my dogs and the people in my life. Thanks for another unique and great video.

[@lalisabee1351]

I love horses but will never own one - i watch every video because it teaches something even for everyday life. I can't describe it, but i feel wholesome after watching everytime :)

[@guillaumevalat8061]

Good to hear and see you again!

[@ratherbely]

Perfect timing! I was just reading about giving up control in order to live a anxiety free life.

[@nancyallen641]

Thanks, Warwick. An important massage.

[@donna_NC]

Excellent! Thank you for making it better for the horse. Have a Great Day!🙏🏼

[@homeedconnect]

Just wow. Needed to hear that. -Holly

[@randomvielleuse527]

These videos have made my whole life with horses so much better for me and the horses. Thank you!

[@jimmoore3705]

Good to see you Bach Warrick.

[@evelynbagnasco7293]

I hear you. Yes it is very difficult to keep a still mind without expectations. A still mind is not a problem for me, but the without expectations, I need to work more on.

[@joeyisnice]

I have that game! Found it at a thrift store. It was really difficult at first but kids seem to get it more easily than adults.

[@gnarlyspur2130]

I love love this video!! Thank you soo much for breaking it down. At times I can struggle with just putting my complete trust in some of the horses I ride, and even my horse, but this really helped thank you!!

[@ChipSpencer123]

I really enjoy your videos. I love the direction you’re going.

[@thinkinoutloud.1]

Very cool Warwick!

[@deannastoppler1091]

I like how you included the links to the videos on the membership site. Makes it easier to go look for those videos.

[@Originaljelly77]

Great video 🙏🏽 The back ground looks like a horses eye! 😊

[@MsKalamity]

Well done. Thank you.

[@lyndahutton7068]

Awesome words Warwick!

[@mitzibud6908]

Another awesome video!! Thank you!!

[@KingsMom831]

Thanks for the new video!🙏

[@roosalwaysthesun8759]

Loved this one, cool information, thank you for sharing. Roos 🙋🏻‍♀️🌹🤗👊🏻👍🏻🙏

[@AmyVanCourt]

This is so useful, Warwick. Thank you!

[@julierussell8876]

So cool. Catching up on your podcasts at the moment too

[@christianelariviere515]

Votre methode a sauvé ma jument . Plusieurs personnes voulaient l'euthanasie pour elle . Disant qu'elle etait trop dangereuse . Finalement c'etait de l'anxiété mal géré. Votre merhode l'a rendu brave et sûre d'elle même. C'est un amour 💖

[@mikewithrow2271]

Excellent advise.

[@hallyandhidalgo]

Very thankful this was shared here. 🙏 Sage advice for all of us.

[@Cotswoldblonde]

Great video and such important message to share :) Horses are so sensitive they can pick up on riders subconscious issues.. they are great teachers but they have long memories :)

[@bethb7455]

Great video!

[@itrash3459]

Hi Warwick

[@jessj7735]

I needed to hear this today :) Thank you

[@sidilicious11]

I’m inspired.

[@tiberiuscassiusmaximus7844]

I think another ways of thinking about giving up control would also be with Time. Not trying to rush things but just let the horse decide when they’re ready

[@xSpiderswebx]

What's the "Apple Devices 4k" mean in the title?

[@truthwillwin3]

Hi, could you elaborate this topic a bit more? How to let go of control. Is itvonly the last phrase you said?

[@WarwickSchiller]

have you watched the videos I referred to in this video?

[@KingsMom831]

Sounds like the Heartmath stuff! Cool!

[@lisawhite9885]

Hey KM! We definitely follow the same ppl and they are the best! Have a great day💕

[@KingsMom831]

@@lisawhite9885 haha lol, here we are meeting on another of our favorite channels LOL😁

[@lisawhite9885]

@@KingsMom831 We have good taste😂👍

[@KingsMom831]

@@lisawhite9885 I can’t disagree 😁

[@irischkanoname3273]

👍🙏

[@traceymiller2038]

I dont understand ? Giving up control Who decides what ? I chose To saddle up Place to ride How when where Speed Distance Gait Direction Time Everything Yes I listen to my horse Is he sound is ge fit is he in a good place mentally physically.... But I choose So what control do I give up

[@vortec6209]

She's swinging the rope wrong. She'll never have balance when things speed up.

[@michaelschulze6545]

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[@peopleddiagram2920]

Giving up control, 3 words that mean slavery. Great opener.

[@horsymandias-ur]

Respectable instinct… Often those who lack the vitality and courage to try and take command of their destiny are the first to preach the virtue of surrendering agency; one ought find some contempt and pity for those who justify their weaknesses in the lifting up of harmlessness as the foremost Good. One of the foremost propagators of the Stoic philosophy was Epictetus, a Greek born into slavery under the Roman Empire. The Stoics taught that the objects of the sensory world need not abide by any logically necessary causality-rather, the qualities and affective states of the human subject are those “things” most properly given unto us to dictate command and actually have knowledge of. A convenient philosophy for a slave like Epictetus who taught right after the milieu of the Roman Civil War and was supposedly physically disabled in his youth by his master. Yet Stoicism was also practiced and espoused by the likes of Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest emperors of Rome. Aurelius once wrote, “if you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” What I think both Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius alike realized about “giving up control” is that people often make slaves of themselves to ideals or goals, even unto the paradoxical point of misery and self-destruction. One might most easily see this in the tragedies of the Greeks (and in some Shakespeare as well, King Lear perhaps being the best example); Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that that which makes tragedies most powerful is that the audience is privy to a character flaw, which will invariably lead to calamity, but the characters who possess such flaws within not only lack this knowledge but often refuse to learn it out of pride as well.. Cue in the self-inoculation of King Oedipus and the gruesome dismemberment of King Pentheus. It is an illusion and likewise character flaw to assume the human being always has the raw strength necessary to control the sheer force of a horse’s physiology (or the force of the horse’s own desires and fears)-let’s not be silly here, the average horse is well endowed enough to kill the strongest and most physically brutal human beings! It is in overcoming an inability to adapt or evolve that I see what Mister Schiller means in saying “giving up control,” which, admittedly, is an idea which will invariably be hijacked by the sickly and the toxically feminine-but we who desire to see life affirmed and courageously undertake friendship with the equine race should not allow ourselves to be deprived of what kind of meaning it really entails. Plato describes that the psyche of the tyrant of the state is likewise a tyrant unto his own subjective agency, and thereby secures a spiritual slavery by subjecting himself to a domineering anxiety and mistrust of nature.

[@horsymandias-ur]

The oddly placed “Ode to Man” in the tragedy Antigone by the Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles paints what I believe is an honest and empowering picture of what it looks like for man to take charge of his fate: “Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man; the stormgray sea Yields to his prows. the huge crests bear him high; Earth, holy and inexhaustible, is graven With shining furrows where his plows have gone Year and year, the timeless labor of stallions. The lightboned birds and beasts that cling to cover, The lithe fish lighting their reaches of dim water, All are taken, tamed in the net of his mind; The lion on the hill, the wild horse windy-maned, Resign to him; and his blunt yoke has broken The sultry shoulders of the mountain bull…” The boat sails not by means of *negating* the sheer force of the wind, but rather by directing the already existing power to align with the will of the sailor. The human body is overall quite powerless and incapacitated when it comes to directly controlling causality: but like the winds harnessed in the sailing of a boat, we must reject the idea that we can control the brunt presence of force and desire in a horse. But we perhaps can, God willing, guide the trajectory of such powers and wills to occasionally align with ours. In the words of the 1600’s scientist and occultist Francis Bacon, “we only command Nature in obeying Her.” The Beauty of horsemanship lies in the fact that it is *not* a machinic piece of equipment wholly dependent on man for creation and operation, but rather preserves and propagates its form through its own vitality and force; there is no logically necessary reason which should dictate that a horse never buck us off or double barrel our chests when we brush their tails or whatever. In the end, any interaction with another ensouled being is a matter of trust, faith, and danger, and it is therein that the courage needed to surrender “control” is demanded of us all, whether in horsemanship or with a lover or in politics etc.