Does your horses head going up when you touch the reins? Have you ruled out pain? This is a great way use reverse psychology to cause a horses head to go down without force. As the head goes up my hands go up. In my head I say you want to go up. Cool. How high you wanna?? As soon as
he wants to put his head I allow him and
Praise him. It’s making the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy.