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The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing
By Adam Eason
The Psychology of a Confident Golf Swing Part one.
Before focusing on the subject of developing confidence with ones 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
repitition 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 focussing 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
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