For golfers the swing, the shot and the outcome all start first with the mind. Your mind is the creative 15th club in your bag. Conditions, environment, and all experiences around your life in golf are the result of our habitual, or pre-dominant mental attitudes.
The persona of the mind necessarily depends upon what we as golfers think. Therefore, the secret of achievement in golf depends on each golfers method of thinking, This is true because golfers must learn to "be" before they can "do', and golfers can only "do" only to the extent of which they "are", and what we as golfers "are" depends of course upon what we "think". There is a world within each golfer, a world of thought, feeling and belief. All these forces are invisible, unlike a strong towering tee shot of 300 yards. Unlike a 5 iron stuck to within 5 feet of the flag on your approach shot to the hole. The world within is governed by your mind. When you discover how much the mind can and does control your shots and outcomes, then you can begin to find the Alchemy Keys to solving problems in your golf game, the cause for every effect. The world without (on the course or practice range) is a reflection of the world within (the mind). What appears without on the course with a wayward shot or high score on a hole has been what has been found within. Infinite supply of what is desired to be created on the course is the result of the unfoldment of what your mental attitude and belief have set forward before you are making a shot. If you recognize these simple concepts, your golf arsenal increases and it is like you have a 15th club in your bag. For the golfer who is really mentally savvy they will realize that this extra club, if used wisely, seems to be an advantage they never really used to know of, let alone use to their advantage. Harmony on the golf course is shown by agreeable conditions you see when you play. Pleasurable outcomes from tee shots, putts and scores posted can be observed as "the best of everything you could imagine" when you played with your friends or co-workers in a scramble. Harmony in the world within means the ability to control your thoughts and to determine for ourselves how any experience we see as we play will affect us. Harmony in the world within results in optimism. The world without that you see when you play is the reflected results of the conditions of your consciousness within each player. As any golfer becomes conscious of the wisdom of the world within and they mentally take possession of this wisdom, then a golfer can build on that power within and begin to use these powers to bring into manifestation the essentials necessary for the complete development of a better golf game. Golf is an unfoldmemt of mental creations, not some random set of events that just "happen" in front of you when you play. All true gain that can be sustained and not just a flash in the pan of one days good play, is the result of your conscious mind intentionally setting a golfer on the path to success. Learning how this "conscious intention" works is a challenge, but when you do learn it and you can use it and implement it every day of your play and practice, then you will finally be using the 15th club to the true extent it is available for you. As you find the Keys of Alchemy for you with your 15th club, consistency will be the norm and greater achievement and lower scores will be next on your list to create in 2018.
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