Quit Talking To Yourself When You Play Golf

A person who can control his own mental processes stands an excellent chance of improving their golf game, for the human mind works along definite lines of thought, and can be studied. One can only control one's, mental processes after carefully studying them.

The human mind is a strange thing. One thing golfers need to understand is: Your conscious mind is easily overloaded with more information than it can handle. This is where stress and anxiety come from. Your conscious mind is the little voice saying, "You can't do it!" because you know that you have screwed up before. So you try harder and get poorer results. Your golf game is suffering from the fact that you are trying to improve.

When starting something new, your conscious mind is focused and in control. This is why a golf tip you have learned about seems to bring a renewal to your game. Suddenly, you are hitting it straighter or longer. You hit more greens in regulation or your putting improves. What happens next? Your subconscious takes notice. Your accomplishments are not normal. For years, you have struggled and this is what the subconscious mind expects. You are not a good golfer and the picture of yourself through the subconscious is inconsistent with the results that you experience in the newness of the golf tip. Defensively, your golf game reverts back to its old self. This is a terrible cycle that you get caught in. Your long term memory is stopping you from getting better.