Mind
Training For Golf - Golf
Tip No.8
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Controlling
Negative Thoughts On The
Course
In
golf, once you submit to
negative thoughts, they become
very difficult to overcome
- as they can then often
control the remainder
of your round. The
key is to control them and
prevent them gaining control
of your thinking, and your
game.
There
are many ways to do this, but
one of the more effective ways
is to use an affirmation.
An affirmation is a few words or a short sentence which you repeat to yourself
over and over again, at times when your mind is battling to remain positive
(which on the course is usually after a bad shot).
It's
vital to mentally isolate bad
shots rather than allow them
to strengthen and destroy
your round, and
so rather than allowing your
conscious mind to go off
on a tirade of self-abuse,
it's far more useful to force it
to constantly repeat a particular
positive thought for 2-3
minutes instead.
This
ensures that the negative thought
does not create an entire negative
thought pattern,
which can be almost impossible
to overcome during that particular
round. Needless to say, affirmations
are repeated internally within
your mind,
not aloud on the course - or
else you might get some strange
looks from your playing partners!
That's the great thing about
this technique, it
is so easy to use, and no-one
even knows you are using it.
For
instance, lets say your chip
onto the green wasn't at all
what you had hoped for, and
instead you have a very difficult
long putt to make for par instead.
Rather than rueing the bad
chip shot which most people
do, you instead project forward
to the next shot, and mentally
repeat an affirmation such
as "perfect
putt, perfect putt, perfect
putt...",
over, and over, and over again
in your mind while your partner
is hitting his shot.
This
sends a powerful and repeated
message directly to your computer-like
subconscious (the controller
of all your movement) which
can program it to perform the
shot you desire, whilst simultaneously
(and more importantly) shutting
out any opportunity for your
mind to dwell on the negative from
the previous shot.
This
is an ancient and proven technique
which works very well on the
golf course, and for many other
purposes, for that matter.
There's far too much to know
about using them for me to
mention in this tip, however
the main thing you must observe
is that they are positive
and worded in the present-tense at
all times (as affirmations
work equally well in the negative!).
So
whenever you hit a bad shot
or feel a negative pattern
developing, interrupt
it with
a string of positive affirmations,
repeated over and over again
until the negative thought
has been vanquished forever.
Ensure that you never allow
negative thoughts to take a
hold of your thinking on the
course again.
"The
Mind controls the body, and the mind is unlimited".
The best of success, Craig Townsend
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