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The Psychology Of A Confident Golf Swing
By Adam Eason, Thu Dec 8th
The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing Part one. Before focusing on the subject of developing confidence withones golf swing I want you all to think about this notion; youcannot just "Think" yourself a wonderful golf swing. Otherwise,we would all just think about pots of gold arriving in our frontrooms and we'd all be rich. However, the pots of gold do notarrive just by thinking about them, likewise, our golf swingdoes not transform into that of Tiger Woods just by thoughtalone. Something needs to be done to get confident about thatgolf swing. So, this is the first notion that I want you tothink about before I talk about building a powerful level ofconfidence in your golf swing. When anyone is developing a new confident golf swing, thereneeds to be an element of action that is taken to alter andupdate the golf swing properly and effectively. Something newneeds to be done enough times for the unconscious mind to learnit.
The early success philosophers and gurus like Stephen Covey andNapoleon Hill recognised that in order for a new behaviour tohappen unconsciously and automatically, it needs to be done for21 consecutive days. So then the new behaviour is learnedthoroughly by the unconscious mind and your confidence in yourgolf swing can begin to happen on auto-pilot. So, any confidencewith your golf swing needs some conscious effort and repeatedapplication for your new confident golf swing to happenunconsciously. Now, when you have a new way of doing things, the other, old,unwanted way of doing things doesn't just wither away instantly.It remains in the bank. If you were confined to a wheelchair,the muscles in your legs would begin to experience atrophy, thesame way that when certain parts of your brain are not used,they experience atrophy; this is why it is difficult for uslearn languages when we are much older and school kids find it abit easier; that part of our brain has not been used for a longtime. The old golf swing needs significant time to experience atrophy.Imagine that here and now as you read this, your unconsciousmind has carved out a distinct way of you swinging your golfclub and this way is well defined by repitition from the past.Every time you step up to perform your golf swing, yourunconscious mind carries on down that well trodden pathway thatyou have always gone down; your golf swing is the same. It isthe only way that it knows and is the easiest route to take. When you create an alternative, confident new golf swing, youare carving out a new pathway that needs to be trodden down andpaved well several times, so that your unconscious knows it isthere and knows that it can take this route in certaincircumstances, events and situations. Ok. So then with repeatedly taking the new pathway, the oldpathway can begin to overgrow and have its own atrophy. However,we all know how easy it is to unearth an old pathway and driftback to our old golf swing; if we allow ourselves to go backalong that way,
it can begin to get carved out again. These notions can form the foundation of any programme ofchange. However we are focussing on your golf swing here todayand how to develop enhanced confidence with your golf swing. When I first became involved with the world of hypnosis, NLP andpersonal development, I read a wonderful book by a man called DrMaxwell Maltz entitled "Psycho-cybernetics" that formed thebasis of many modern ideas as to how we understandpersonalities. Dr Maltz was a plastic surgeon and he found thatif he changed the way people looked, often it changed theirpersonality too. When people looked different, they also feltdifferent. Often people that had lacked confidence, weretransformed into more confident, outgoing people who lived lifewith more zest. What perplexed Dr Maltz is that some of clients did not seem toget happier. Some, whose appearance had changed a lot, didn'tseem to change their feelings. They still felt lacking inconfidence. So what Dr Maltz concluded was that cosmetic surgery would notbenefit the client if they had a poor image of themselves. Hissolution was to create a visualisation technique that helpedthem to change their inner self-image. He had some wonderfulresults. So when the clients changed the way they felt aboutthemselves, they became happier and more fulfilled and theirconfidence grew. You know that when you feel great about yourgolf swing, your golf swing is better and you are more competentwith your golf swing. The technique is simple, here it is; Firstly, imagine your golf swing as you would ideally like yourgolf swing to be. Think about how you would look if you were ashappy and confident as you wanted to be with your golf swing.How do you walk? What do you wear? What expressions are on yourface? How do you move? Take all the time necessary for this, toreally get an idea of how you are when you are confident withyour golf swing. Secondly, when you know what you will look like, make a filmclip inside your mind, in your imagination of yourself beinghappy, confident and deeply self-assured with your golf swing. Thirdly, imagine yourself stepping into that film, imagineseeing through those eyes, hearing through those ears, and feelthose confident feelings, think to yourself; how do I know theconfident feelings? Where in my body are they? Enjoy feeling andbeing exactly how you want to be. Lastly for this exercise, imagine that when you get up tomorrowyou awaken as that ideal you, feeling this good and imagine yourgolf swing going as you want it to and be confident about yourgolf swing. Remember what I said at the beginning, you must use thistechnique over and over in order to get the most from it andreally make yourself a confident golf swing. Look out for parttwo of this article of getting confident with your golf swing. About the author:To receive Adam's amazing bi-monthly newsletter, packed withmodern, innovative, psychological tips, techniques andinformation visit http://www.adam-eason.com You'll also receivea free instantly downloadable hypnosis session to enjoy at home.
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