Centered Riding

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Summary: Hardly a miracle book
Review: Well, I've looked at all the other reviews over and over again and can't understand why they love this book. I am a visual person and I learn through visualization and images. But you have to have good content to go with your images. Sally Swift is a really bad writer in my opinion. I've read some of the sections over and over again and they just make no sense at all. The one section on "centering" yourself especially ticks me off. It says to "point to your center" which is below your navel and in the middle of you. That's all she says about it. To point to it. From then on in the entire book she says to "go to your center", "center yourself", "breathe through your center"...what the heck is that supposed to mean??? She is just way too vague for me. But, I do think her ideas are good. I just got a new trainer who has studied Sally's ideas. In my one lesson a few weeks ago my trainer taught me one of Sally's techniques. It was simple and worked. Now a few days after that I got to that point in the book and it made NO SENSE AT ALL. Had I not been taught previously by my trainer I wouldn't have understood a word of it. I think the book is worth getting if you have the money because it may work for you. But for me it was horrible and I couldn't even finish it. I seem to be a magnet for bad books!