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Your EYES direct your shoulders (which guide the horse's head & neck), which direct your hips (which guide the horse's body) in the direction in which you want your horse to go.
All of this only prepares your horse, and develops his reliance on you for direction.
Eventually this helps build an inseparable team between you, when the horse knows that he can depend on you for advance preparation of his direction!