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The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing
Part 2
Adam Eason
This is the second of a two-part set of articles on the
psychology of a confident golf swing. Also see Part
One.
Here in England we are on the verge of the new football season
and there is a large amount of transfer speculation and the
like occurring. With football, we often find that the players
who are doing well are confident. When they are having a great
spell of the season, scored a lot of goals or something like
that, their competence escalates as they feel more confidence.
When their confidence is knocked, they might go through a
bad spell and often their skills seem to be less available.
My point here is that of self image and how we perceive ourselves.
This is true with our golf swing also.
Our self-image often works like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I have got a great friend who won't mind me saying that he
is not classically good looking (whatever that might be) however,
he thinks of himself as attractive and as a result he carries
a certain way about him that people are attracted to. Anyone
who truly believes themselves to be a certain way; unattractive
or lacking in self-confidence for example, sabotage their
chances of being anything else. This is the same with our
own internal image of our golf swing.
Our self-image is very important to mention here; remember,
you can never be better on the outside than you believe yourself
to be on the inside. So you need to believe in your golf swing.
If someone feels negative, sad, angry or frustrated with their
golf swing when they enter certain circumstances, events or
situations, especially when taking to the golf course, it
is very likely that they are going to feel lacking in confidence
and this leads to lacking in competence with the golf swing.
You need to change your self-image and paint a better picture
of yourself in your mind as to how you believe your golf swing
to be and what you feel capable of doing and being. No other
person can reach inside us and change our feelings for us.
If you really want to feel more confident about your golf
swing, your self-image needs to be changed in relation to
your golf swing. If you see yourself as successful, skilled
and confident, you can enter any golf course with your head
held high and standing tall and feeling safe and protected
by it. You are feeling good about yourself and your golf swing.
We all react automatically to life according to our inner
sense of ourselves. Our self-image is our inner sense of ourselves
and we refer to that part of ourselves all the time to see
how to behave or perform in certain circumstances. In other
words, your reactions are founded in your self-image. Building
and developing and creating a progressive, positive self-image
with regards to your golf swing ensures that your automatic
reactions come from a sense of freedom, confidence and are
powerful.
I once attended a course whereby the facilitator had devised
a wonderful technique that I use a lot with many of the individual
clients that consult with me to better their golf swing. The
reason I like it so much is because it makes you instantly
feel good about your golf swing. This simple technique can
be done absolutely any time that you are in a room with a
mirror.
So many people I meet condition themselves to feel uncomfortable
or bad when they look into a mirror by looking into it and
thinking about fat, wrinkles or a blemish or how poor their
golf swing is! I have noticed several of my friends look into
a mirror and "tut" at themselves while reminding themselves
of all the bad things that attack our confidence. So this
technique interrupts that process and allows you to recondition
yourself to feel better and more confident about your golf
swing.
Ok, so first up, take a seat or position yourself comfortably
in view of a mirror so that you will be able to see your entire
self, however, do not look into it straight away. Just wait
and look away for a moment.
Then, think about an occasion when someone you know was being
sincere when they paid you a compliment following a shot you
played. It can be any compliment whatsoever of any kind related
to your golf game.
Thirdly, remember what it was that they said and hear it again
in your mind and remember how it made you feel. Locate whereabouts
in your body those feelings were. Really tune into them.
Now, imagine that feeling of being complimented, feeling good
about your golf swing and feeling talented spreading through
your system, working its way into your cells and into your
mind, really imagine it spreading and traveling through you.
Imagine that the more it spreads, the more intense the feelings
become, this is going to make your golf swing awesome.
Now, turn or look up and into the mirror. Really look at yourself
while feeling that feeling.
Spend some time enjoying this feeling.
Lastly, imagine taking a picture of yourself just like that
image in the mirror. Imagine taking that picture right into
your heart. Keep it there, right there, so that you can look
at it whenever you want to remind yourself of how good you
can feel about your golf swing.
Please remember, self-confidence is innate. It is built into
us from the day we were born. We can often lose touch with
it and learn to worry or lessen it, however, confidence is
simply hard-wired into you. It is there all the time underneath
your worries. Worries and lack with regards to your golf swing
are things that can go up and down, can be learned and unlearned.
Your confidence is always there beneath all that. Let it permeate
in to your golf swing.
It is like when a baby keeps on wanting to walk and keeps
on falling down and keeps on at it. However may times they
stumble, they get up and they learn and they benefit from
it. The persistence is rewarded. Your confidence is hard-wired
into you. We all have it. Every technique in both parts of
this confident golf swing article are just ways of reminding
you all of what you already have.
Good luck with getting that confident golf swing.
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