Teatime with Elsa - Episode 77

Chatting about: Stress as a good thing…

In this episode I talk about the way stress impacts our learning and our ability to remember. Stress is the way we learn the fastest. The lower the stress, the lower the intensity of learning and the harder it is to remember. The higher the stress, the higher the intensity of learning and the easier it is to remember, but also the higher the potential that it is a bad feeling being remembered. In Freedom Based Training™, we aim for a functional level of stress that is low intensity enough to allow the horse to think and process and stay under the threshold of concern, while being just high enough to increase awareness, create a good feeling and a memory. This favorable level of stress is curiosity.

Originally aired on: January 26th, 2021