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Blog: Listener's Challenge
So I set a challenge to listeners from The Rock to come up with a challenge for me. I had said on the Morning Rubble that I had a fear of horses then my friend Sarah who has a horse called and said she could arrange something scary at short notice. Her suggestion, have me walk in between her horse's legs, have the horse walk over top of me, and finally have the horse jump me as I lay there.
So we headed out to where her horse is and I faced my irrational fear of horses! So I was lying there and her horse was just walking over me for the first time and stood on me! Not in a place most guys want to be stood on by a horse either! OK so this totally elevated my fear to extreme heights. But I'm never one to back out of a challenge though and especially not during 30 Fears, so I lay there again and let the horse walk over top of me. It was so scary the second time round thinking I was going to get stood on again, lucky all went well for the next few times.
Then finally it was for the jumping! If you can imagine lying on the grass looking up at a rather large horse coming running towards you it was terrifying. A plane went over head and her horse started getting agitated so after two jumps that was enough.
I finished the experience by getting on the horse and becoming comfortable with that. So I'm feeling a little more comfortable with horses however I don't think I will every do that again!
I think the lesson from today was sometimes we have a fear of something and then that fear gets reinforced somehow. If we leave it there and don't battle through the scared feelings then that thing will always control us. Sometimes even though you get thrown off you just have to get back on the horse.
Grant
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