Golf is Played in Those 3 Inches Between Your Ears!

Herman Johnson, President of CeberalSports and Corcodia University Track Coach, guarantees a three to five stroke improvement in your game if you read all of his articles in this season's editions of The Home Course Chronicle. 

What you think is what you get. That is the basic principle behind Visualization, Guided Imagery and Imagineering. The thoughts you generate inside your head have a powerful effect on your outer life, business and sport.  Particularly having a profound effect on how you play the game of golf.

In the seven articles to come, I will divulge the secrets of the golfing community that even they keep to themselves. Athletes from all over the world are learning these techniques to improve how they play their sport.

The idea that your mental world has impact on your physical world isn't new. Over two thousand years ago, in 19 B.C., the poet Virgil wrote in the Aeneid, "Mind moves matter."

Today people from all walks of life are successfully using mind-over-matter visualization techniques for a variety of purposes. They create pictures in their mind of what they want, and get it!

Just recently a reporter did a piece on one of the Olympic Athletes who he observed wearing a hood over her head covering her face, with both of her arms stretched out and elbows bent at a 90 degree angle. He watched as she slowly swung her arms and body in unison, back and forth. The reporter asked the female athlete what she trying to accomplish with this odd looking hood and arm posture.

She replied "I only have fifty seconds to make this run and the only way I can do it well is to visualize the run. Every turn, every marker, every cue, I can have a smooth and precise run without the physical wear and tear, that works out perfectly for me because,  I only have, fifty seconds."

Let's apply this to GOLF: Just imagine you are on a golf course... any course will do. In front of you, you can notice the fairway, some trees and shrubs, perhaps a water hazard or a bunker and yes even the pin off in the distance. Even if the pin is out of visual range on this particular hole, you can and do imagine where it might be....

Using guided imagery, visualization and imagineering is just like using electricity; you don't have to know exactly how it works to use it effectively. With electricity you only need to know that electrical energy is available, have a use for it and take appropriate action to switch it on. You can flip a switch and have light without knowing about electrons and Ohm's law.

Feel This!

Reflect for a moment on how anger makes you feel...feel the anger in your body...where do you feel it? Is it in your heart...your chest...your mind...feel the heat of the anger in your chest...constricting, tightening your chest and body... (can you wrap your mind around that)

In the NEXT article I will provide clues to getting that "Tee Shot" mental game in focus, or you can enjoy my sessions if waiting seven months is beyond your scope of patience.  Just call me: Herman Johnson, CerebralSports LLC. Cell: 503-880-7846 or visit me: www.CerebralSports.Pro