The other thing a saddle must do is to keep any pressure off of the horseâs spine. The first western saddles were inspired by the Spanish and Mexican Vaqueros or Charros. In the 1400âs the Spanish had brought two basic saddle styles with them, La Estradiota, and La Jineta.
Fear is often the flip side of anger. I like to think of it as a quarter, with heads and tails. If heads is anger, tails is fear. If heads is fear, the tail is anger. They flip a lot. With clients I often explain that the fear is anger being trapped inside with no way out.
However, healthy fear -- or fear which has a protective function -- can evolve into unhealthy or pathological fear, which can lead to exaggerated and violent behavior. Dr. Ivan Kos lays out several different stages of fear. The first is real fear, or fear based on a real situation. If someone or something hurts you, you have a reason to fear it in the future. Second is realistic, or possible fear. This is fear based in reality that causes a person to avoid a threat in the first place (i.e. waiting to cross a busy road for safety reasons).