| How to Use Your Brain Right - Your Right Brain! | | | | hectic environment this part of our brain is |
| The fastest, most cost-effective and proven | | | | preoccupied with diaries, task lists, and planning all |
| way to cut your handicap is to develop the | | | | our activities. It is so busy that it often |
| mental side of your game, recognizing that in golf | | | | overwhelms the more creative and deeper |
| 'Less is More! | | | | functions of the right brain. Left brain people love |
| Can it really be that easy? It can be, but only if | | | | logic, facts, and are very detail-oriented. They are |
| you learn how to use your Right Brain. What are | | | | often strong in mathematics and science. Their |
| some of the other options available to be a | | | | lives are practical, and the present and the past |
| better golfer? | | | | are very important to them. |
| Good golf instruction CDs, DVDs, or books can all | | | | The right brain is where unconscious deeper |
| help, but the danger of studying on your own is | | | | thoughts and memory are stored. People often |
| that it is all too easy to misinterpret the | | | | describe having a gut feeling that a certain course |
| information. Booking a course of lessons with your | | | | of action was the right thing to do; they will talk |
| teaching professional can definitely help, but | | | | about following their instincts, premonitions and |
| lessons are more expensive. The results are also | | | | hunches. The 'Right Brain' is the part of the brain |
| extremely variable. All too often golfers become | | | | where golfers get 'in the zone'. 'The zone' is the |
| confused, tense, and increasingly frustrated. How | | | | magical place where everything is easy, where |
| often have you heard the universal excuse for a | | | | the outside world is for once a little muted, and |
| poor round - 'I've just had a golf lesson!' | | | | where we feel very relaxed and confident. Most |
| Going to the Driving Range several times a week | | | | of us have experienced this at some time in our |
| to hit buckets of balls to groove your swing is not | | | | lives, but have difficulty recreating this feeling at |
| the most helpful choice either. Unless you are | | | | will. Right brain people claim to be more in tune |
| going to hit each shot with the care and pre-shot | | | | with their feelings; they have vivid imaginations, |
| routine you use on the course you are wasting | | | | and love fantasy. The present and the future are |
| your time. Worse still, you are probably training | | | | more important to them than the past. On |
| yourself to live with a fundamental swing fault. | | | | occasions, they tend towards being impetuous |
| So, that leaves us with the opportunity to learn | | | | and delight in taking risks. |
| how to find our right brain, and then use it. First, a | | | | The right brain is the home of great golf, and I will |
| few words of explanation about the left brain and | | | | refer to it many times in the following tips. It will |
| right brain. | | | | take a change in the way you think about golf, |
| The left brain is described as the logical and | | | | and your life outside golf, to learn how to use |
| analytical Center of conscious thought. In today's | | | | your right brain more than you do now. |