Scenting your horse’s attention!
June 20th 2007 09:49
Link: www.happyhorses.com.au
Horse riding can be the most fulfilling or the most frustrating of past times. It is not like turning a key to a vehicle and pointing it in the direct you want it to go in and just have it work. The ‘vehicle’ has a mind of its own, often thinking in a different direction to you, and getting 500 kilos of a thinking mass to connect with you can sometimes be a challenge.
The scent of basil essential oil can often help the frustrated rider in this situation. It is so simple, you uncap the bottle and waft it under your horse’s nostril, and let him inhale. The scent molecules trigger a dance in the limbic system of the brain and one that brings your horse’s attention back to where you want it to be, on the task at hand. If basil is not favoured by your horse one day, you can also use lemon essential oil from the rind of the fruit, to help you with this same objective.
It is an easy technique to help with preparing for this weekend’s dressage test of cross country gallop, just don’t use basil on the day of the event if you could be swabbed, it contains camphor which can be absorbed by the fine mucosal layer in the nose and camphor is a prohibited substance.
The scent of basil essential oil can often help the frustrated rider in this situation. It is so simple, you uncap the bottle and waft it under your horse’s nostril, and let him inhale. The scent molecules trigger a dance in the limbic system of the brain and one that brings your horse’s attention back to where you want it to be, on the task at hand. If basil is not favoured by your horse one day, you can also use lemon essential oil from the rind of the fruit, to help you with this same objective.
It is an easy technique to help with preparing for this weekend’s dressage test of cross country gallop, just don’t use basil on the day of the event if you could be swabbed, it contains camphor which can be absorbed by the fine mucosal layer in the nose and camphor is a prohibited substance.
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