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The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing
Part 1
Adam Eason
Before focusing on the subject of developing confidence with
one's golf swing I want you all to think about this notion;
you cannot just "Think" yourself a wonderful golf swing. Otherwise,
we would all just think about pots of gold arriving in our
front rooms and we'd all be rich. However, the pots of gold
do not arrive just by thinking about them, likewise, our golf
swing does not transform into that of Tiger Woods just by
thought alone. Something needs to be done to get confident
about that golf swing. So, this is the first notion that I
want you to think about before I talk about building a powerful
level of confidence in your golf swing.
When anyone is developing a new confident golf swing, there
needs to be an element of action that is taken to alter and
update the golf swing properly and effectively. Something
new needs to be done enough times for the unconscious mind
to learn it.
The early success philosophers and gurus like Stephen Covey
and Napoleon Hill recognised that in order for a new behaviour
to happen unconsciously and automatically, it needs to be
done for 21 consecutive days. So then the new behaviour is
learned thoroughly by the unconscious mind and your confidence
in your golf swing can begin to happen on auto-pilot. So,
any confidence with your golf swing needs some conscious effort
and repeated application for your new confident golf swing
to happen unconsciously.
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,
the same way that when certain parts of your brain are not
used, they experience atrophy; this is why it is difficult
for us learn languages when we are much older and school kids
find it a bit easier; that part of our brain has not been
used for a long time.
The old golf swing needs significant time to experience atrophy.
Imagine that here and now as you read this, your unconscious
mind has carved out a distinct way of you swinging your golf
club and this way is well defined by repetition from the past.
Every time you step up to perform your golf swing, your unconscious
mind carries on down that well trodden pathway that you have
always gone down; your golf swing is the same. It is the only
way that it knows and is the easiest route to take.
When you create an alternative, confident new golf swing,
you are carving out a new pathway that needs to be trodden
down and paved well several times, so that your unconscious
knows it is there and knows that it can take this route in
certain circumstances, events and situations.
Ok. So then with repeatedly taking the new pathway, the old
pathway can begin to overgrow and have its own atrophy. However,
we all know how easy it is to unearth an old pathway and drift
back to our old golf swing; if we allow ourselves to go back
along that way, it can begin to get carved out again.
These notions can form the foundation of any programme of
change. However we are focusing on your golf swing here today
and how to develop enhanced confidence with your golf swing.
When I first became involved with the world of hypnosis, NLP
and personal development, I read a wonderful book by a man
called Dr Maxwell Maltz entitled "Psycho-cybernetics" that
formed the basis of many modern ideas as to how we understand
personalities. Dr Maltz was a plastic surgeon and he found
that if he changed the way people looked, often it changed
their personality too. When people looked different, they
also felt different. Often people that had lacked confidence,
were transformed into more confident, outgoing people who
lived life with more zest.
What perplexed Dr Maltz is that some of clients did not seem
to get happier. Some, whose appearance had changed a lot,
didn't seem to change their feelings. They still felt lacking
in confidence.
So what Dr Maltz concluded was that cosmetic surgery would
not benefit the client if they had a poor image of themselves.
His solution was to create a visualisation technique that
helped them to change their inner self-image. He had some
wonderful results. So when the clients changed the way they
felt about themselves, they became happier and more fulfilled
and their confidence grew. You know that when you feel great
about your golf swing, your golf swing is better and you are
more competent with your golf swing. The technique is simple,
here it is;
Firstly, imagine your golf swing as you would ideally like
your golf swing to be. Think about how you would look if you
were as happy and confident as you wanted to be with your
golf swing. How do you walk? What do you wear? What expressions
are on your face? How do you move? Take all the time necessary
for this, to really get an idea of how you are when you are
confident with your golf swing.
Secondly, when you know what you will look like, make a film
clip inside your mind, in your imagination of yourself being
happy, confident and deeply self-assured with your golf swing.
Thirdly, imagine yourself stepping into that film, imagine
seeing through those eyes, hearing through those ears, and
feel those confident feelings, think to yourself; how do I
know the confident feelings? Where in my body are they? Enjoy
feeling and being exactly how you want to be.
Lastly for this exercise, imagine that when you get up tomorrow
you awaken as that ideal you, feeling this good and imagine
your golf swing going as you want it to and be confident about
your golf swing.
Remember what I said at the beginning, you must use this technique
over and over in order to get the most from it and really
make yourself a confident golf swing. Look out for Part
Two of this article of getting confident with your golf
swing.
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