Riding
Awareness of the outside world. UCSB The American Presidency Project: Joseph R. Biden, 46th President of the United States: 2021 ‐ present, Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union, March 01, 2022. “Article II, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution requires that the President ‘. . . shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.’ ” National Archives: Historical State of the Union Messages.
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Claim: There is no such thing as Independent Aids in riding.
Oh, I understand the theory. When we first get on a horse, our hands bounce up and down with each post. Not good. To get us to stop waving our hands about, instructors tell us to move our body & hands independently.
True.
But.
The more I ride, the more I think independent action is an illusion.
Every part of the body is connected to every other part. A given.
We are balancing on a moving object. A given for riding.
Therefore, a movement here will have an effect over there.
Coach Courtney shifted my feet two inches forward and it changed my entire alignment.
I find that the way I hold my shoulders effects how I use my hands.
We don’t use body part X to do Y.
We use our weight and our eyes and our hands and our legs and so on and so on to do Y.
Thoughts?
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Definitely we are each a unified whole. The trick is to focus the whole on the expression of the wish of the whole through a single part. Think yoga.
I don’t know from yoga, but I believe that one change in your body will change the whole.
The part expressing the intention of the whole. I shall have to think on this.