An emotionally balanced horse is neither bored nor tense. It has a sense of well being, is calm and without tension and able to concentrate on what is going on around it. It watches, listens and notices what is happening and the learning process goes well because of the horse s interest. A horse in this state has no fear of man, its trainer. It tries to understand what is being asked of it and can execute the commands because it understands what is being asked.
All horses are somewhere between brave and timid and somewhere between calm and sensitive.
Neither is dependent on the other, therefore a brave horse could be either calm or sensitive and the same could be said of a timid horse. Horses in the middle of the map are more easily trained and handled than horses placed further from the center. The further from the middle of the map a horse is, the more specialised its training needs to be and the longer it takes to complete. At which location a horse is placed on the Map of the Mind depends on many factors, i.e. genes, age, upbringing, and the method by which it was trained. Training should consist of ways to bring the horse closer to the middle of the map and not farther away from it.