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Attaining Wisdom Through Golf: You Are Not Your Mistakes

We're so hard on ourselves, we tie our self-worth to our actions [...] When things go badly we start to doubt our basic goodness as human beings. We start to say

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf: Pebbles In A Bowl

There are two types of habit we want to change, the first is a bad habit that we no longer want to practice. The second is a good habit that we would like to cultivate

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Connecting Mind And Body For Optimum Performance

I want to give you a very powerful tool for when it comes to regulating your thoughts and therefore performing at your very best. I'm talking about using the power

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Three Mind Wisdom

Within the book Zen Golf the three types of mind and their roles are broken down for us to examine in relation to making a golf shot. However as we have seen in

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Getting The Cat Into The Box

If you try to put a cat into an open box in a corner of a room, it will hiss and scratch and fight you all the way. When you get it into the box, it will do its

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Learning Perfection

Our relationship with the word perfection can be described at best as; complicated. A person who is a perfectionist is usually either too scared to try in the first

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Be Your Own Best Friend

When things go badly we start to doubt our basic goodness as human beings. We start to say things like; "What's wrong with me?" - Zen Golf The above statement

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Body Fake It Till You Mentally Make It

Our body posture subconsciously reflects our mindstate, if someone gives you a compliment on your looks, your chest puffs out, your shoulders fall back and your

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Cutting Out The Anyways

Avoiding the 'anyways' is one of the singularly most important pieces of advice I have ever received, both on the golf course and off it. Most golfers, and when

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - How Big Is Your Mind?

A Zen Master asked a student; "Where is your mind?". The student answered; "When I perceive my thoughts it is as if someone is speaking inside my

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Don't Think Of A Monkey: Overcoming Your Fears

In golf as in life we often produce what we fear, that is to say if a golfer who has been playing well all day, approaches a fairway with a lake to one side of it,

Attaining Wisdom Through Golf - Becoming The Fourth Cup

One of the greatest golf books ever written is Zen Golf by Dr Joseph Parent. It is strange for a golf book in that it hardly gives any physical tips at all, choosing