| Your conscious mind is designed to analyse, | | | | to your designated target. |
| question and initiate learning (amongst some other | | | | So in a nutshell your conscious mind selects a |
| things) but for our purposes here let's just say | | | | target and your unconscious moves the body to |
| that it's working whenever you are trying to | | | | send the ball there. This is a naturally occurring |
| figure out a new skill or analyse a situation. | | | | process if you think about it. If you are going out |
| Your unconscious is designed to run on auto-pilot. | | | | and you need to put your shoes on, you |
| Like tying your shoe laces without thinking (after | | | | consciously think about it but then you put them |
| the conscious mind struggled trying to learn it) or | | | | on without having to think how to do it. You |
| driving a car, riding a bike, getting dressed. Any | | | | decide to go for a drive but you drive without |
| thing you do without having to "Consciously" think | | | | having to think about it. |
| about how to perform. | | | | The unfortunate thing is that probably the vast |
| In golf it is very important for you to accept that | | | | majority (could I even say 99% of amateurs?)do |
| it is a target driven game. You want to send your | | | | not use their mind, the conscious - unconscious |
| ball from where it is to a specific target | | | | connection, in proper harmony. |
| somewhere up front, either in the fairway or | | | | If you can play a shot like it really doesn't matter, |
| onto a green. The targets you pick must be | | | | when it matters the most, by switching off the |
| precise, not "more or less" in the fairway, but to | | | | conscious thinking and handing over in complete |
| a precise point - ALWAYS - every shot from | | | | trust to your unconscious to make the shot |
| Driver to Putter. Target driven golf, everything | | | | happen while you remain completely in the |
| moves toward the target, your thinking, your | | | | present moment, with no thought of what could |
| body, your swing, your ball, is the only way to | | | | happen, good or bad, no concern about the |
| play to your potential. | | | | outcome, then you will start playing your best |
| So what part of your thinking should be assigned | | | | golf. |
| to what part of the Target - Swing process? | | | | If you play in this mode you will play with |
| Your conscious mind analyses the shot facing you, | | | | confidence and magically find that your mind is |
| balancing up requirements against your skill level, | | | | able to calm your golf nerves. You see, think |
| weather conditions, course etc. In other words | | | | about this, run it past yourself and how do you |
| course and self management balanced against the | | | | feel about the following statement? |
| shot facing you. | | | | If you are playing in the present (handed over to |
| Your unconscious mind has the responsibility of | | | | the unconscious) then you have no thought of the |
| using the information gathered balanced against | | | | outcome and no thought about past shots, so |
| the task required in order to move your body in | | | | you really will swing with confidence and you |
| an intricate and balanced way to make a "Golf | | | | cannot be nervous about something you are not |
| Swing" (body move) that causes your golf club to | | | | worried about can you? |
| impact with the ball in such a way as to propel it | | | | |