Ever notice what happens when you are more confident with your
Golf Swing? Want to have more confidence with your Golf Swing?
Then read on and discover some amazing techniques to develop confidence
in your golf swing today.
Here in England we are on the verge of the new football season
and there is a large amount of transfer speculation and the like
occurring. With football, we often find that the players who are
doing well are confident. When they are having a great spell of
the season, scored a lot of goals or something like that, their
competence escalates as they feel more confidence. When their
confidence is knocked, they might go through a bad spell and often
their skills seem to be less available. My point here is that
of self image and how we perceive ourselves. This is true with
our golf swing also.
Our self-image often works like a self-fulfilling prophecy. I
have got a great friend who won't mind me saying that he is not
classically good looking (whatever that might be) however, he
thinks of himself as attractive and as a result he carries a certain
way about him that people are attracted to. Anyone who truly believes
themselves to be acertain way; unnattractive or lacking in self-confidence
for example, sabotage their chances of being anything else. This
is the same with our own internal image of our golf swing.
Our self-image is very important to mention here; remember, you
can never be better on the outside than you believe yourself to
be on the inside. So you need to believe in your golf swing.
If someone feels negative, sad, angry or frustrated with their
golf swing when they enter certain circumstances, events or situations,
especially when taking to the golf course, it is very likely that
they are going to feel lacking in confidence and this leads to
lacking in competence with the golf swing. You need to change
your self-image and paint a better picture of yourself in your
mind as to how you believe your golf swing to be and what you
feel capable of doing and being. No other person can reach inside
us and change our feelings for us. If you really want to feel
more confident about your golf swing, your self-image needs to
be changed in relation to your golf swing. If you see yourself
as successful, skilled and confident, you can enter any golf course
with your head held high and standing tall and feeling safe and
protected by it. You are feeling good about yourself and your
golf swing.
We all react automatically to life according to our inner sense
of ourselves. Our self-image is our inner sense of ourselves and
we refer to that part of ourselves all the time to see how to
behave or perform in certain circumstances. In other words, your
reactions are founded in your self-image. Building and developing
and creating a progressive, positive self-image with regards to
your golf swing ensures that your automatic reactions come from
a sense of freedom, confidence and are powerful.
I once attended a course whereby the facilitator had devised
a wonderful technique that I use a lot with many of the individual
clients that consult with me to better their golf swing. The reason
I like it so much is because it makes you instantly feel good
about your golf swing. This simple technique can be done absolutley
any time that you are in a room with a mirror.
So many people I meet condition themselves to feel uncomfortable
or bad when they look into a mirror by looking into it and thinking
about fat, wrinkles or a blemish or how poor their golf swing
is! I have noticed several of my friends look into a mirror and
"tut" at themsleves while reminding themselves of all
the bad things that attack our confidence. So this technique interupts
that process and allows you to recondition yourself to feel better
and more confident about your golf swing.
Ok, so first up, take a seat or position yourself comfortably
in view of a mirror so that you will be able to see your entire
self, however, do not look into it straight away. Just wait and
look away for a moment.
Then, think about an occasion when someone you know was being
sincere when they paid you a compliment following a shot you played.
It can be any compliment what so ever of any kind related to your
golf game.
Thirdly, remember what it was that they said and hear it again
in your mind and remember how it made you feel. Locate where abouts
in your body those feelings were. Really tune into them.
Now, imagine that feeling of being complimented, feeling good
about your golf swing and feeling talented spreading through your
system, working its way into your cells and into your mind, really
imagine it spreading and travelling through you. Imagine that
the more it spreads, the more intense the feelings become, this
is going to make your golf swing awesome.
Now, turn or look up and into the mirror. Really look at yourself
while feeling that feeling.
Spend some time enjoying this feeling.
Lastly, imagine taking a picture of yourself just like that image
in the mirror. Imagine taking that picture right into your heart.
Keep it there, right there, so that you can look at it whenever
you want to remind yourself of how good you can feel about your
golf swing.
Please remember; self-confidence is innate. It is built into
us from the day we were born. We can often lose touch with it
and learn to worry or lessen it, however, confidence is simply
hard-wired into you. It is there all the time underneath your
worries. Worries and lack with regards to your golf swing are
things that can go up and down, can be learned and unlearned.
Your confidence is always there beneath all that. Let it permeate
in to your golf swing.
It is like when a baby keeps on wanting to walk and keeps on
falling down and keeps on at it. However may times they stumble,
they get up and they learn and they benefit from it. The persistence
is rewarded. Your confidence is hard-wired into you. We all have
it. Every technique in both parts of this confident golf swing
article are just ways of reminding you all of what you already
have.
Good luck with getting that confident golf swing.
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