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By Your Horse

Homeopath and NLP practitioner Caroline Putus advises:

If you’re a visual person, picture-squashing is a very good way to deal with your fear of things going wrong.
Each time you get a mental image of the thing that scares you – riding on the road, a packed show ring, etc:
● Look at the picture and notice, is it black and white or in colour? How big is it? Is there movement in it?
● Put a thick, black frame around the image.
● Move the picture away from you, drain out the colour, make it smaller and make it freeze frame.
● Imagine all the content of the picture is fading, until it’s like a blank TV screen.
● Pull the edges of the frame in towards each other until the picture is a very small dot.
● Fire it over the horizon (kick it, fire it from a gun – whatever image you like).
Do this each time a picture you don’t want comes into your head. With practice, this will get easier and the pictures will lose their power to scare you.