39K views · 2K reactions | This is video of an anxious horse and one of the first lessons I gave her where I turn her anxiety into connection without chasing her or driving her away. It is always better to move a horses mind rather than to move their feet. | Mark Langley Horsemanship | Facebook

What does anxiety make you do? Everyone responds to high anxiety in different ways but the key factor that all of those actions have in common is that they work (in the short term) to bring some relief from the anxiety. For example, when you go back and triple check the door is locked you get this small moment of, “Phew! All is safe.” But the reason we have to keep going back to check more than once is because that moment of relief doesn’t last long. In contrast, the things that will help us add