Access
The Sleeping Giant Within
Right
now deep within you,
you possess the ability
to play a near-perfect
round of golf. This ability
lies within your mind.
If
you have ever hit
a great shot before (yes,
even the ones you regarded
as lucky!), the
blueprint for that exact shot
is right now deep within
the archives of your mind's
memory bank, waiting
to be used again!
You
see, all golfers rely on
the memory of their past
golfing experience to
hit shots (and then improve
upon them), and then those
new shots are stored within
your memory bank - this
is how we improve from
experience (your mind's
subconscious remembers
every event in your life
from the time of birth
through to the present).
However,
your
mind requires specific
commands in order to produce
a great shot, and the fact
is that most
people don't know what
these commands are.
Your
powerful subconscious controls
all movement (yes, all movement), stores
all your past golfing 'experience' (in
your vast memory bank)
and also contains
all your beliefs -
which basically determine
the limits to what you
can personally achieve
on the golf course.
Basically
it is the key to improvement
on the golf course (yes,
even to overcome the yips)
- yet so
many golfers persist in
training only
their body to
hit a golf ball, which never
creates lasting change.
As the mind controls the
body (not the other way
around), the mind is the crucial
factor to
getting your body to obey
your instructions on a
consistent basis.
Your
subconscious mind works
very much like a computer,
in fact, the first prototype
for a computer was modeled directly on
the subconscious - which
means that if
you feed the correct 'data'
into it for your golf shot,
it will give you the result
you want. Unfortunately
(for most people) it also
means the opposite as well
- if you give it the wrong
data, it will also give
you a bad result from your
shot most often.
As
your mind thinks in the
form of images,
feelings, words and thoughts, it
allows for several different
ways to program it, far
too numerous to list here.
However, I will go into
more of these techniques
in future golf tips.
The
main thing to know is that mental
training and golf psychology
is a secret weapon which
can transform your results
very quickly, and overcome
problems which you may
have been experiencing
for years.
As
the mind is unlimited,
so is your capacity for
improvement, regardless
of age or standard - never,
ever forget this. As long
as you practice your golf
with your mind and your
body, the sky's the limit.
