arise when a person uses too much pressure or not enough to accomplish the assignment. The idea is to teach people how to apply pressure in a sensitive way and also how to handle pressure without resorting to the tyrant mindset. These are skills that Anderson believes could help everyone in all aspects of their lives, from the stresses of dealing with mounting economic concerns to the constant tension of police work, to the challenge of becoming a better schoolteacher or simply a stronger rider. It isn?t as easy as it sounds, according to Anderson, and it doesn?t usually take long before emotions are welling up. Responses differ according to each individual?s background, but they may range from rage to depression to fear. Another facet of Anderson?s work is helping people increase awareness of their intuitive emotional responses to a situation. He refers to ?negative and positive poles,? which function like the two terminals of a car battery; they aren?t good or bad, you just need them both to stay in balance. The positive pole is the pleasant feeling that lets you know that you are on the right track; while the negative pole is the feeling that indicates that you are in danger and on the wrong track. Horses and people instinctively avoid negative feelings, although people, according to Anderson, have been programmed to override their feelings and focus more exclusively on external signposts of success. When working with a horse that has gone into tyrant mindset ? for instance a horse has decided to stop listening and move away at his own pace ? a person has the opportunity to try to make the horse feel uncomfortable by applying pressure through the use of voice or movement, which would raise the horse?s negative pole. When the horse ceases to move away, the person immediately rewards the change by releasing the pressure, which in turn raises the horse?s positive pole. Communicating freely, being in the moment and learning a healthy response to pressure?these concepts are fundamental in riding and in life. With Nature?s View, Bruce Anderson teaches that connecting with horses helps people to connect to themselves. Like nature itself, Anderson?s work is an intricate system, but it is also elegantly simple and profound