Repeat these steps every time you address the ball, until they become second nature.
- Stopping the random activity of the mind that surfaces in a constant inner dialogue with yourself.
- Calming your emotions, which fuel the inner dialogue with fears, doubts, and remembered feelings from the past.
- Resting your attention so that it comes to reside at a point of clear focus.
- Playing the shot from stillness.
- Efforting muscles the swing. When the ball gets out of control, less power is required to regain that control. Non-doing builds power gradually, starting with a gravity-driven swing as the foundation.
- Efforting requires constantly monitoring the body, trying to correct its inevitable mistakes. Non-doing assumes that your body is wise enough to carry through with what you tell it to do.
- Efforting controls the swing. Non-doing allows the swing to happen.
"Concentration comes naturally when your desire to see is unblocked."
"Golfers will often lament that they putted much better at the age of 12 than they do now as adults. Doubt had not yet produced its corrosive effect on a player's self-confidence."
"It is said that when a player is struggling to remember all the tips he's been taught about a model swing, no more than two can be held in the mind at the same time."
"Thoughts of distraction are attempts by your ego-mind to preserve its dominance."
"Tension blocks the flow of information from the unconscious...a golf swing demands as much relaxation as you can bring to it."
"Being impeccable involves being new at every moment. Play each game as if for the first time."
"Thoughts of distraction are attempts by your ego-mind to preserve its dominance."
"Tension blocks the flow of information from the unconscious...a golf swing demands as much relaxation as you can bring to it."
"Being impeccable involves being new at every moment. Play each game as if for the first time."
"I know of corporations that won't hire a CEO until he is taken out on the golf course to be observed, unbeknownst to him, by a psychologist."
"In just one round you can find out how someone handles crisis, how they deal with others, how much value they place on finesse as opposed to brute force, whether they will bend the rules under pressure, and above all, what they really think of themselves."
"In just one round you can find out how someone handles crisis, how they deal with others, how much value they place on finesse as opposed to brute force, whether they will bend the rules under pressure, and above all, what they really think of themselves."
"A good shot and a bad shot are the same."
"Can a bad shot and a good one bring equal joy? Absolutely, if what you want out of the game is liberation."
"If you can step outside the complexity of the game, you will transcend your limitations."
"In its soul, golf is a way for one to transcend."
