Golfers are players who have many habits, those habits are subconscious thoughts or mindsets. Subconscious mindsets are basically reactions. 95% of what you do each day is correlated and directed by your subconscious mind. That means 95% of what you do each day is subconsciously directed by a past habit that you have used and continue to use. Imagine how often that happens to you on the golf course each time you play.
In golf this means that your subconscious mind is basically driving the bus as to where you’re going and your round of golf or the practice time you have on the range. You are a creature of a habit and your subconscious is that habit. So when you practice a new technique or swing principle, or simple acts of chipping and putting you may be trying to change and improve your technique. Thus you are consciously trying to change the habit that you have in your swing that you don’t like. That habit is formed and completed and directed by your subconscious mind. Now that we have that established, we need to further examine how the subconscious is correlating and directing your mind when you play golf. Specifically, let’s look at how your subconscious mind has been trained by you, the golfer, to react certain ways in certain circumstances. Let us suppose you were on the third hole of a golf course. It is a par 3, 165 yards uphill where you cannot see where the ball will land. You can see the top of the flag, but you cannot see the surface of the putting green. There is a wind swirling around you and you are not sure what direction it’s going. The green is uphill 30 feet from where you sit on the tee box. You believe the pin is sitting on the front of the green which is in your estimation, then 154 yards; not taking into account, the hill and the wind. Now, you must summarize or guess as to the overall distance to the shot that you face in front of you. After close assessment, you determine the overall distance you believe the distance of the shot to be taking into account hill and wind will be 161 yards. Thus you take out the appropriate club that would travel that distance, you have made a conscious choice for the shot that is needed at this moment. You then go through your pre-shot routine, you have selected the club, that you know, or believe, will reach the destination at the desired distance. As you step into the shot, you have a good visualization of what you believe the shot will create how it will look and we will land. You make the swing and the shot is off and up in the air. You have created a reality of the shot by your actions and now you must face and see the outcome. The question now is, how will you react to what you have just created? The reaction golfers have when they play has a lot to do with their energy, Mo, Jo, direction of the round that they are in the middle of. Basically, when you make a shot you are then going to see the outcome that you’ve created . Will it be a positive reaction, or negative reaction? Here is when the golfer who has a very strong-willed, mind will step in and balance the situation, no matter what the outcome. What does that mean? To answer this, we need to look at two different situations as to how the shot you just created or manifested in front of your eyes. We will look at scenario A and then scenario B. Scenario A is the shot landed approximately 157 yards near the pin and released to the middle of the green, leaving you a uphill putt of 25 feet. Scenario B is the ball went longer than you expected, because you hit it low on the face, it had very little backspin, and the ball released to the back of the green. Now you are faced with a 70 foot putt up a small incline green to a pin that sits on the ledge at the edge of the green. If the ball goes too far or slightly past the pin, it will slip down the slope, down the hill and end up 50 yards from where the pin is. Certainly, this is a conundrum. In scenario B, many golfers will react to this situation, in a very negative manner. They will play the various cards such as and not limited to; I am the victim, the ball rolled out too far. I am the victim. I hit the ball thin and now I pay the price because I’m on the back of the green. I am the victim because I don’t make good shots and I don’t normally see good outcomes. I am the victim because I couldn’t see the pin, and that I didn’t know where the ball would go. As you can see, golfers, have a tendency to become the victim in many situations, literally this is how they label the situation. I am the victim. As you can, guess, if you label the situation that you are the victim, that would be a very low energy and low vibratory feeling. Basically, the victim would be upset, unhappy, and not very thrilled about the golf you were playing. However, what golfers don’t realize is that many times when these things happen it is their subconscious habit that is creating this reality over and over again. Basically what I’m stating here is that when a player hits a poor shot, that they have may have seen before, they re-iterate to themselves or repeat to themselves, woe me the victim . This victim mentality is a subconscious habit that many players have. It is easy to find yourself in the situation at any time of the round, no matter what your handicap or how long you’ve been playing golf. Amateurs and tour, players alike, both find themselves placing their minds in these positions. The reason they do this is because they are subconscious habits that they were used to. Players who played extremely well at a very high level consciously choose to do something else! In these situations, superior players and competitors will use the will of their mind to consciously decide that the situation they face on the back of the green is in their favor, or at minimum is not in their dis-favor. Basically what I’m saying is the situation they face they see as opportunity. They look at it as a challenge. They don’t look at it as if it was a bad situation, a bad break, another "always me" victim reaction. This is happened to me again. I am always the victim. You see great players, know that any situation they face they could label one of two ways. Opportunity to perform and show off my skills, or I am the victim, and I am at the mercy of the situation; the chips will fall where they may. As you can imagine, any top player on any tour, men or woman, you would not expect them to be stating that they would see their situation as the victim, and they are the mercy of the situation However, as you know, and many times, and in many ways, when you play golf, you have exactly labeled yourself in the situation, the certain ways. Your back is against the wall, you label the situation as hopeless, I am the victim, the course is against me. I’ll settle for bogey or double bogey. Par is almost out of the question. I can’t wait until I get to the next hole because again this golf course screwed me. All golfers have many opportunities to react in many different ways to each situation the face on the course. The point of this blog is to let you know that many times you play the role of the victim. The ball has bounced a certain way, and you have no control over the situation. You have consciously determined that you have no will in your mind to overcome the situation. This is because your subconscious is used to reacting to Golf in the certain way. Now I am sure in your every day life or in your profession that you work in; you do not look at life that way. You see a challenge and overcome it. When you overcome the challenges, you are consciously deciding that this challenge has no bearing on your situation, and you will prevail and win in the long run. However, as you know when you play with your friends, many if not most of the players you play with will yo succumb to the situation they see. In their subconscious mind they have a full storage of files like you would see in a computer on your desktop that regurgitate the same response over and over and over. This is subconscious programming. That is the habit that golfers have. Exceptional golfers, who win and lower the handicap and overcome obstacles and adversities they see on the golf course. They have learned over time that their conscious mind can overcome the situation they face Basically, the better player has determined that no matter what the situation they face, where the ball sits i.e back of the green, or in the rough; they will not succumb to the situation The better player instills their will upon the situation to consciously override what their subconscious has been in the habit of doing over and over. They have determined that no matter what the situation is, they WILL overcome the situation they see These decisions, better golfers make are ones that reflect what I call, polarity and rhythm of a golf round(explaining that will take another day). For now it is important to understand that golfers are a creature of habit, that habit has been installed or instilled within the golfer for months and years. It will take time to override these habits, but, as we know any habit can be overridden, or overcome with clear, intention, purpose, and fortitude. It is your choice to play The Victim Card......or not.
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