Volker Bernhardt
Golf - Mental Keys for Golf Success
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Successful Behavior for Energy flow
Preface
How much pain and agony could have spared, knowing what I know today!
Before I had the following knowledge golf was always a game of life or death; happiness or sadness; all or nothing. Although I would not place myself among the manic- depressive, characters the game was more often torture than fun, because I was very seldom satisfied with my performance. Hence the frustration level was mostly high, and yet I still felt the eagerness to conquer this game.
I have written the following information for myself, to find the reason why playing lately has been so much better and much more fun.
Believing that my recent change of mind might help your golf as well, led to the idea sharing my thoughts.
The aim of the contents is to help you think like successful playing professionals.
The ability to use the given guidelines are within every person. We only need to change our way of thinking to discover a path of success with unbelievable power and energy flow.
Ask good players and golf teachers how important they consider the mental side of golf and they will all agree that the game is first of all played between your ears. Therefore it is astonishing that most golfers only practice the golf technique which falls to pieces when severe stress creeps into the game.
This phenomenon becomes obvious when the shots worked pretty well on the driving range or during the practice game, and yet during the competition very little seems to work. Most astonishing is the walk to the driving range after a bad game and there we go, the game seems in perfect order. This technique was always within you but your wrong thinking blocked the flow to your muscles and therefore fine coordination was prohibited.
I have played this game of golf for nearly fifty years, studied physical education and completed scientific research on the game. Golf became my profession with the goal of not only improving my game but also my pupil’s game. Since the early seventies I have seen, heard and experienced many different analytical methods of golf tuition. Each of them claimed to be the best and blamed the other ones for not working well enough. Meanwhile I gave myself and my pupil’s much more room for individuality. By working with good players and touring pros I learned that each player needs their own style which reflects his physical ability, body rhythm like walking and talking, experiences with the game and the ability to anticipate and visualizing golf-shots.
The following information will offer the philosophy of how to think while playing. With the help of the many tips you shall find the mental relaxation which is so vital for feeling the required movement and therefore get your whole technical potential onto the golf course. I am sure that through this you will find the path for Intuition and Flow to make your game shine.
Even Einstein tells us how Intuition and Flow work: "The world consists of energy fields, which are in constant exchange of each other including time and atmosphere. Consciousness fills the whole cosmos and everything beyond. It is part of a universal intelligence. Our body is part of this universal body and therefore subject to the overall change and exchange of the universe."
In golf, the flowing exchange and interaction is called the flow and if we are in it and experience the ease of movements we enjoy the trans of Zen, a feeling where everything seems to go by itself. This sensation feels so good that we never want to leave it again. Unfortunately it never lasts for long but with the right frame of mind and the intuition approach you will find your way back to it.
Simple ideas are the recipe for the path and it all starts by believing in the universal flow of energy and by trusting that looseness is better than tightness. Most things are easy and simple once we start believing that. Therefore, from now on tell yourself: “Playing golf is simple and is pure fun”.
Have fun on the trip to a new golf dimension!
Introduction
Flow is the secret of thoughts and movements in harmony
You might have experienced it already, this intense feeling of flow, when everything seems to work without much effort. You make the right decisions without a lot of thought, just through your inner feeling. You are able to concentrate very well on the task in hand. All actions happen without very much effort.
You are in harmony with yourself. You are so involved that you became one with whatever you are doing. You are right in it like you belong there. It is a feeling of not being present but still totally involved and melted into one with it.
A high feeling where energy flows and all senses are part of it. Everything seems to be possible, no fear, no anxiety, like gliding over reality with the deepest absorption.
These rare great moments we call being in the flow or the zone.
Many people who break their own records experience that kind of flow, the moment of the personal best. Sometimes this flow appears as a total surprise, and one did not even think about being able to perform well after a long period of rest. How often do athletes make or break their own barriers when their level of expectation is very low?
By using the given information you will also experience the flow more often for your golf game by simply changing your way of thinking and as a result your behavior patterns.
I also belong to the group of people who always like to question and analyze everything and prefer to work in a very systematic way. With this behavior I expect to minimize mistakes and avoid slipping in one way roads; the typical behavior of a person who likes to be meticulous about the task in hand.
Yes, we need the research on what is possible in golf in as many directions as possible, but when you play this game, you need a balance of analytical and intuitive behavior.
Too much analysis leads too often to paralysis!
There is a time for learning the basics of the game as well as understanding the cause and effect relationship. However it is amazing how many good movements are already within ourselves if we only let them flow out and don’t try to control each part of them.
How often have I been to the driving range and started hitting balls without even thinking of the movement and each ball took off in a very sound way. The minute I tried to analyze why it is working so well I lost the easy flow and that wonderful feeling of great coordination was gone. That