WooHoo – I’m on fire!
Using your imagination, visualizing your shot, being present, trusting and committing to your swing are all essential aspects to playing your best golf. But if I told you to relax more, not take the game so serious, and be okay with whatever happens – that this too leads to more fun, more outrageous joy, more WooHoo ‘I’m on fire’ kind of demeanor – and you’ll play better golf, would you believe me? When you let go and find relief and learn to go with the flow downstream versus struggling ever so mightily paddling against the current upstream – you will find The Zone and the freedom to more fully express yourself without getting in your own way. Learn to trust life and let life trust you.
Remember: “If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re both right,” Henry Ford. Likewise, if you think what I am inviting you to experience works, or doesn’t work, you’re right. You can accept or reject anything. The mind is a very powerful tool that has been running your life like a computer on automatic pilot for many years now. This is your subconscious brain, which runs 95% of everything in your life, including your golf game. Want to change the way you play golf for the better? You’ve got to change your thoughts and deposit more and more beneficial beliefs into the treasury of your subconscious mind that will automatically allow you to play golf with your natural freedom of expression.
The answer and wisdom lies within you. Now, it is up to you and your own Divine Mind to let it happen. If you (your ego) “thinks” that you can figure it all out – good luck. I tried that approach for over 30 years learning to hate the game I love. Thinking and doing the same things over and over again from an ego’s perspective is not only insane (Albert Einstein), it keeps you in the same stuck pattern of mediocrity, self-pity, fear, limited beliefs, and negative juju. Acting as if it is so from a Divine Mind perspective allows you to have more fun, smile often, enjoy, and develop an attitude of gratitude for this marvelous game of golf.
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Good article Rand. Hope all in Harbor Springs.
I agree that positive thinking controls a lot in this game of game especially when somebody is a low handicap but there is a fine line of being positive and expecting too much of yourself. If someone is mechancially wrong they can’t expect certain things from themselves. Everybody needs to know their limits. I think when when people start to see positive signs from their golf games the confidence grows. But it can go both ways. When things are good confidence is up but when someone isn’t swinging good it can do spiral out of control just as fast. People need to not get to high or too low when it comes what to they should expect. I’ve noticed when people don’t have expectations but they stay in a positive mindset good things can happen.
Nice to hear from you Nate!
Life and golf can be a funny game. Most believe it’s important to think positive (as do I), yet no matter how hard we “try” to be positive we can’t force it. First we must acknowledge our negativity. We must become brutally honest with ourselves before a light will shine upon our attitude and demeanor. Acknowledging our negativity is actually a loving act. By being with, acknowledging, and then letting go a new path emerges. Most will fight and scream and hit balls until their hands are bloody. Whereas, if we can just be brutally honest with ourselves, we can then allow the positive well-being to flow ~, which by the way has existed within us all along.