GOLF the MIND FACTOR - NEWSLETTER - 29 April 2008
by Dr Karl Morris
www.golf-brain.com

  - Featured in this Newsletter :
  - CLARKE MAGIC !
  - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!
  - MINDFULNESS
  - Seve Ballesteros is honoured by Special Olympics Great Britain at Lords
  - 2008 MIND FACTOR COURSE
  - MIND FACTOR Workshops - Has your Golf Club had its Brain Trained??
  - MIND FACTOR Workshops in your area

CLARKE MAGIC!!!

I think virtually everyone in golf would be able to say they felt it was great to see Darren Clarke finally emerge victorious in China after so many barren years in terms of form and the personal tragedies which have beset Darren.

We worked together at Queenwood the week before China. It was so obvious he was feeling the built up frustration as a result of putting so much hard work into his game with so little reward.

One of the things we talked about was the necessity to balance out the amount of work you put into anything with periods of rest.

We all at times are guilty of not recharging the batteries and fall victim to the more is better syndrome.

Darren has realized that he does need to CONSCIOUSLY take breaks from all the effort he puts into his game to ALLOW himself to recharge and be ready for tournaments.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
I am often at pains to point out to people in my seminars that there is a big difference between a GOAL and a DELUSION!!

However, I think I might need to look at my own set of filters and re assess after hearing the remarkable story of John Richardson who set out in a year to get from 28 to scratch and achieved it!!!

All this was done while he had a job and a family to look after.

He was also kind enough to say that he put a big part of his improvement down to the concepts in the MIND FACTOR book.

As the season begins we should all maybe look again at the question:
- What is POSSIBLE???

MINDFULNESS
We do hear so much these days about ‘being in the moment’ and ‘playing one shot at a time’ and as much as these statements have become something of a cliché it is so important to understand that the human mind does actually crave being in the present moment whilst just about everything we do is trying to take us away from the now.

It is often recommended we learn to meditate as a way of slowing the mind down and connecting back with the present moment.

Strong research in many differing fields does point to the benefits of meditation both physically and mentally.

However, the actual act of meditating, sitting in one place for a period of time in the hectic Western world doesn’t seem to fit for a lot of people.

Yet, when we break meditation down and look at its core element it is simply having the discipline to focus the attention in ONE PLACE for a period of time. Be that your breath, a mantra or an object.

As much as this may be a contradiction in terms, I have found that the act of ACTIVE MEDITATION to be very useful.

For instance when you are in the gym on a running machine and you focus on counting each breath that you take you are meditating!! When you walk along the street and you CONSCIOUSLY felt the ground under your feet, you are meditating.

The effects of this are many, you are placing your attention on the present, your mind becomes still and for the period of the activity you are uniting mind and body.

As you walk down the fairway and you focus on your breathing you are meditating but just begin to imagine how you could benefit from the stillness of mind that this will give you in so many different areas of your life.

SEVE BALLESTEROS IS HONOURED BY SPECIAL OLYMPICS GREAT BRITAIN AT LORD'S

I have the greatest of privileges to work with Team GB Golf from Special Olympics. I urge you to take a moment and look at www.sogb.org.uk. Last week, 2 of the 2007 World Summer Games gold winning medal golfers were at Lord's to present 5 times Major winner and Former Ryder Cup Captain Seve Ballesteros, with an award for his lifetime services to golf. At the same time, awards were presented to the European Tour and R&A for their continued support of Special Olympics. Never let it be said that the focus on Special Olympics golfers is anything other than ABILITY. It was an honour for me to spend some time with Seve who openly supports the necessity of mental coaching which he has worked on since he was 19 years old!

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