The Right Way To Change Your Swing

Here’s the scenario; You’re taking the club back too far on the outside or too far on the inside (or doing some other ghastly thing you wish you weren’t) and realize that if you don’t make a change your game isn’t going to get any better.

So you make the commitment—Time for a swing change! You head off to the range fully committed, buy an extra large bucket of balls and dive in head first. After pounding away for an hour, you realize you’re not making the progress you hoped for. You can make the change on some shots, but the old pattern emerges again and again dampening your enthusiasm and sparking frustration.

So how can you accelerate the process and make the changes stick?

Making a swing change is a like a potter molding a piece of clay. First the clay has to be moistened. After that it’s malleable and can be easily shaped. Changing a golf swing is very similar. You’re asking your body to do something new and unfamiliar. To be successful you have to make your mind flexible like the potter does with his clay. If you don’t, then mind will resist change.

The mind (conscious and unconscious) controls the body and if you want to change a motion you have to change where motion originates—you have to make the mind very ‘fluid’. You can’t be like a bull in a china shop, announce your intentions and force the issue. The body will just not respond—or it will not respond the way you want it to. To be successful requires an understanding of how the parts of our mind interact. Recent discoveries in neuroscience have now made this possible. Quiet Mind Golf  teaches how to use this knowledge to create the ‘fluid’ mind necessary for successful learning of new motor skills.

With a fluid mind, mechanical flaws will start to correct on their own. Why? Because when the mind is fluid, you are allowing the body to find a simpler way to execute a golf swing. You allow the body to do what it knows how to do (you’ve hit plenty of good shots in your career) and not be restricted by conscious thought.

So how do you make the mind fluid? QuietMindGolf.com will give you further insights on this, but here is a simple way to begin the process.

Understanding that the mind has to become quiet in order for the body to gain flexibility is the first step. When you’re over the ball, quiet the mind. That is not difficult to do if you make it a priority and use some simple QuietMindGolf drills to aid the process. Then without thinking of any swing changes, hit some balls. After hitting 10 or 15 balls, very gently introduce the swing change you want to make on the next 10 or 15. The key phrase is ‘very gently’. Feel like you’re sneaking up on the change rather than forcing the issue. If the mind loses that quiet feeling, then stop thinking about the swing change and re-establish a quiet mind before returning softly to the swing change.

If you follow this process, the body will respond more effectively to the intentions the mind is giving it and the swing change you hoped for will become reality!

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