When everything changes.

Doing what I do is a nice thing, however as I do them I also find new things, get a new understanding and need to revised old ideas.

The format I described here is now old.
I found a better way to implement peak performance and optimize performance and even if these ideas now needs revision, this have to wait for another time.

/Robert Johansson

Problemsolving performance the how to

Each and every thing we do regarding performance does not always happen as we want it to be like.

Going trough a checklist is then a good thing.

Since we can at least to some degree check some basically overall structures,
we can check the state, is it the one we wanted to have?
Did we change the state to much during performance?
Did we let things creep into affecting our thinking and state?

We check the state to find out if that is affected.
We then turn to beliefs,
did a old belief affect what did go on in our performance?
We also check, context.

When we set up an outcome in how we want to do things, we must measure as good as we can what is going on.
No excuses are allowed.

We define first context, what is going on there is based on what we want it to be, we then support that context with beliefs that adds a generalized connection to context and binds that to the state we add.

The trinity of performance, context, beliefs and state are the corner stones in our performance.

If one of them are off, they will make things unbalanced.
If we start to think to much without keeping the context and performance in view, then we will slide into a different state, we then will start to alter our beliefs.
If we get affected by things that happens in the performance due to factors out of our control, we can make sure the beliefs are in jeopardy.

The context, if we keep track of that we keep track of our attention.
This will make the beliefs and state coming along for the ride.
The context is in our mind a particular bit of space.
It exists as a time space continium.

As we dont perform, as we want to, its due to not having the proper context in our attention,
and this often happens due to our state is changed, our beliefs shifted along the way.

This is why its so important to keep track of what you do know and are knowing about your outcome, the context, the beliefs and the state.

If you cant have the performance, then all that is needed to do, is to know what the context is, the beliefs with that and the state that follows that. (I play at a golf course, (context) and I am a professional elite golfer playing at a particular level of performance)
Then we created a loop of feedback, the more we get our attention to the context, the more we get into the performance level we seek.
This we can measure along the way if we are on the right track or not, if we dont do that its easy to get sidetracked.

In essence, we dont need to do problemsolving since nothing can change the context, the beliefs or our state we set up.

Many might have a problem with that thinking, but we are creating a space, a zone an area of performance that nothing else can be part of, NOTHING!

We sort that out.

What typically happens when people dont have their performance off is to find something that did go wrong, they try to analyze what went wrong.
Nothing can go wrong with this.

This is a way we can make sure that our performance always are at our utmost best level at all times. Obviously different things affect our day to day as age, physical fitness etc...
but we can always be at our best if we choose to be.

If you open a door, then its open. Until its closed.
Many dont have a problem with that.

If you set a standard for your performance, then that can always be open.
Never to be closed until we change something and dont sort that out.

I played with some friends, and my performance was decent.
My state was fine, I played many good shots and never had any really bad ones.
But I wasnt as acurate.
This was due to a technical aspect of my performance, an old habit I am sorting out, to much body movement.
When I find that out, my performance still was the same but the result now became much better.

I didnt change my state, my context was still the same and my beliefs in place, but my body couldnt do the technical move properly due to my awareness to my body in how its moved was of.
As soon I found that out, massive improvement did happen.

Now, of course, I then take this as a learning and updating check, I need to practice differently, I need to update my check for how my body moves in the swing, and how to make sure I be still and how I do know that and then when that is done integrating it into my outcome ie: performance.

If you understand this, I can check if my set up was flawed in my outcome of performance, and since I done that and nothing was off, I knew I didnt need to change any of that, its working.
Obviously, my performance was off, but since I didnt know by what, I waited.
And since I then understood why, I could take some measure to improve that a lot.

I started to hit great shots, dead straight, had some good short shots, good putting on bad greens but I felt great knowing I started to do technically right.

I then now after this have to find a good session of practice when I add this as routine to ingrain this until it become habitual.
I will be able to measure this and how I improve by more stable play.

I today shoot around 80-85 or so.
My performance is much better, I can hit all greens in regaulation due to my distance is enough, and if I have found the biggest flaw I will notice directly if this is on track by making better scores.
If it is the technical aspect, the body moves to much then I can work on other things, tweak things if this improves my scores.

So, doing problemsolving makes this easy,

Is my set up properly done in my outcome with context, beliefs and state? (a yes)
Do I need to change that? (most likely NOT)
Is it a factor outside my awareness? (if it is, wait until the cause present itself)
This you can measure when things works again. (it isnt always easy)
When the cause is found, sort it out, work on it and integreate this into the performance context.

I hit some great shots even when my performance was not on properly, this was strange, since I suddenly could hit a bad shot not knowing why it happen.
I didnt question this, I kept on following my context, my beliefs and state.
I trust that since I know I play at my best doing that.

So, when I find this flaw, the technical aspect, that I simply cannot feel, when I move to much, I then know what to do.
I must practise how to feel this, and make this obvious for me, in my awareness, so I know what is going on.
Then when its properly done, I simply will forget about it and play again, knowing it will work for me in my set up performance.

The idea is simple, play, have the performance, and just enjoy the ride.
When I am walking out there, I keep track of what I need to do, then I check my state and context since those directs my attention and my beliefs will be there when I perform.

When my performance went up, I made 5 birdie chances in 7 holes that was around 4meters.
Due to greens, they didnt go in even when properly been read and hit.
What I liked was that I hit some shots I was simply question what club I needed to make the distance, and what shot was required, made sure my body was still and just performed.
I made 2 poor shots due to to much movement but then I knew what the performance was affected by and didnt bother about it.

Tomorow, I will play again, I be working on making sure the body is more still, how to work on feeling that, and then go out and see how this new knowledge affects my score.

If you do problemsolving, its important to understand this;

Dont change the trinity of performance, context, beliefs, and state.
Find the cause, anchor from outside, old anchor from inside, bad mood, emotions, bad food, tired, technical depending on your level of performance.
Check comparisions you make, the reason people sometimes talks themselves out of things is that they compare, and then debate what they compare, ruining the state and then alter the beliefs and obviously, the context has changed along the way.

The level of performance, if this is set up properly, can never change, ever.
If it does, it do so by factors either unknown or known which we let influence our state, our beliefs and creep into our space of performance context, if this is sorted out before it enters our context, then the performance will balance itself out and be at the level we expect it to be.

This is why I am when doing this are making sure I practice when I practice, and then when I play I play. (sorting out contexts and beliefs, criteria etc..)
I dont think out there why I dont play as my performance I set up, due to me knowing I got the right state, I have the beliefs, and the context is there.(No need to change that)
I obviously notice when I dont make the shots I need to make and that I set up to do.
And again obviously something affects my performance.
Until I know what, I wait.

Now, knowing this about my body, I will set up a routine the following sessions at home and at practice and when I play.
When I find the proper treatment, identify what to do, I work on that until its habit and then forget about it.

Then I just play.

How I sort this out is to overdo what I need, I make sure my body are more still than needed in my practice sessions, then map how that feels and how it affects my technical performance.
I do that Until I get a sensation that more or less makes it obvious what to do.
Making sure, I get two ways to feel this, one is when my body is still and one when my body moves to much.
I then sort those sensations/feels out and reinforce the one I want and ingrain that with my full swing.

This system is perfect, when set up you never need to change anything.
What can be changed, adjusted, tweaked or balanced are what new information that comes along tha way to your outcome/context of performance.
You might adjust the state, adjust the beliefs, add or delete something, altering the criteria of measurement, tweak what is done in practice and in play etc...

What I have done since early may is this,
I changed my practice state, to more match the one I use when I play.
I sorted out unwanted behaviours on the course, I deleted and replaced emotions in regard to my performance, I added a new belief to the context that I play on a golf course with my level of performance, I measure the improvement and add practice to what level of my game I need to improve based on facts out on the course.
I am looking for a stable and consistent golf where my scores dosnt differ much from day to day.
I am checking and re-checking that my technical aspects are improving into habits.

As far, everything is getting better and better. I also added improvement based on when things go right, I then added how it would be if this would be even better.
A natural improvement feeling.

I am measure that I am becoming the player level of statistics that I have aimed for this fall.
My greens in reg is around 50-60% was around 35% last 2 years.
I putt better and have better short game than ever. (Up and down is much improved)
I hit longer and straighter than ever.

I am not where I want to be yet, this is largely due to flaws in my technical aspects and some in the lack of experience in how the ball behave on the greens when I do my approach shots.

When I meet my requirements, my criteria, I will own my game.
I will be able to play consistent golf everytime due to me knowing that nothing can affect my performance due to how well I set it up.
If anything would affect the game, I will easily know what it is, be able to sort it out and continue playing at my set up performance level.

I am pretty sure that my score tomorow will improve.

I get back to you in how it did go.

/Robert Johansson

Does this work?

When doing such a model as I do, the question from people is, does it really work and how do you know it does?

Earlier in my life, I had no good satisfied answer to such a question, this was due to the unconsious and often out of awareness focus of NLP.

Yes, it works and yes I do know how.

What if you can measure your improvement in your performance each practice and each time you engage into your sport?
How fast would you improve?

I have since early may when I recived the dvd´s for my golf swing, and I have been spending ton of time on the range and watching those dvd´s and doing air drills to memorize positions.
I have made sure that each practice was made with some specific goal, that I also would take any sensation felt and make it internalized when doing it correct and properly.
I also have made sure each time I did do it right I also improved on that, feeling it.

The last 5 rounds I have played, each round I checked what I needed to improve, went back and practice that the next day.
I memorized the sensation when doing it right.
Out and played again.
Noted again what I needed to improve and practiced that.
I also improved what I already did well out there.

So, each round have been better than the one before.
The game starts to get more consistent, no errors in any bigger numbers and many really good shots.

As I do the improvement, I measure what I do, with factual numbers, do the shots get closer to the pin, do the % numbers of fairways and greens go up, do the up and down from the rough get higher? etc...
This makes me sure what I do works or not.
I can see the numbers, I know what to work on, I can feel the swing much better in my positions, I still need to work out some things but the important thing is,
I can now play golf really easy.

For me, it feels like really simple.

Like playstation golf.

Just aim and hit.

So, I measure how it feels internally in my swing, do I get the right position, does the ball go straight, does the distance improve etc..?
Today the ball went further, with less power.
I had to adjust, big time to get the right club for the shots.
Much more fun.

As I measure my improvement in performance, I also check the basics from time to time.
The swing system works, I get more power as the technique I have is getting better, my acuracy goes up as I can do it more correct and so on.

Today I equal my best ever score at 78.
Without effort.
I made no birdies and plan on making some tomorow.

Accelerating learning is all about making sure you measure the right feeling/sensation, improve that, then add factual statistics if possible to see if the feelings match the outside performance.

I did change some approaches before the game today.
I tweaked my state a little, and I set a new target when approaching greens on my iron shots.
This tweak made the game for me a little easier.
I hit a lot of greens (13) and was really close on several others.
I had chances to do birdies but the small chips was a little off to make easy birdies.

As I look at my game, watching my stats improve, the feeling I have when playing and checking my state and taking note of what I need to improve each day and each session, I improve.
I evaluate each session, each round I play, finding the proper and correct approach to meet my criteria of stats I am aiming for and the distances I need to compete at the level this fall.

If you dont improve each session, each round your not doing it right.
Your either not measure the right things, or adding improvement additions to the stuff you do well.
When I meet my outcomes, the goals I set up in my skill level of playing golf, I be shooting under par consistently at my home course.
Then I can at least to some degree say that I am in some way meeting my criteria.
I also need to compete when that happens.
However the summer havent even started and already the progress made is astounding.

Does it work?

For me most definitly.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Sorting programs what are those?

As it states, its sorting out what is to be sorted out.

In performance this means we want to do things that makes us better, improves us, and allows a higher performance to be in place.
To be able to get that we need to be able to sort out unwanted information.

As I set my outcome, I also set up a measurement and sorting program to meet specific criteria.
As long the criteria is not met, the program keeps sorting out what I do to improve, keeps measuring what I do that makes my results, skills and everything else better.
I can practice, play and improve faster due to my brain knows where I am going.
And as I am not there, it keeps finding ways to get me there.

Adding sometimes and sometimes removing until the criteria is met.
As I work on this and become better I feel great.
I use positiv emotions to re-inforce the improvements.

I keep mapping and tracking, do I need to do something new, do I need to ingrain and find a new sensation, what is my practice today for the skills I need to improve?

Doing the above,
I have improved my game by noticing that when playing this did happen,
as it did, I didnt change it.
Then at the practice range, I find what I needed to do, found that and re-inforced that.
I changed my chipping, lighter grip, tested and went out and played, improved a lot.
Lost my putting, found it out on the course after a few holes.
Noted what I did when it worked.

So, I then know what to practice, measure the practice and map and sort out anything else unwanted.
Then I go play again after I Improved the skills.

This is a fast process, the idea is to identify and improve to meet my criteria. As I do that, I can make a habit of the skills faster since, when I can do what I need to do, meeting my criteria, then I just make sure its got down into long term memory so I just can do it.
Then no more practice of that is needed, sorted that out, then I just check, whats next?

So, my game is improving so fast, my mind goes woooowaaazzzaaa.
It a lot of fun also.

In the last few days, my skills have improved a lot.
The key here is measure the improvement, map them into the criteria I want, if met, I simply check if the skill keeps getting more habitual and soon I simply forgets it.
If not met, I analyze what I need to do, make a practice plan, and re-inforce when I find the right move.

So, the puting now works, I then keep checking if it works until it just dont need any attention, I just putt the way I want.
The same goes with chipping and pitching.
I still need to improve those skills a little more.

Its getting there.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP:

Mental?

Its not about the mental aspects of the performance, its all about emotions.
Or how you handle them. (Not Mental training)

Mentally, its about beliefs, but the performance are all about emotions.
Make sure you use positive emotions, loaded into the direction you want to go.
Sort out all other emotions, make sure they never going to be present in your performance when it counts.

I changed my practice on the range after some thought, I decided I have reached long enough on my practice I needed to change my state as I practiced to the one I use on the course.
My aim has been that practice and play must sooner or later meet, so slowly I am sliding all the stuff I want to play into my practice sessions.

My goal there is to shorten the practice into high quality shots, practice so I get a edge in making every shot with the state and context and the level of skill I want to have.

A very common mistake is that emotions are not that important, however, emotions tie us into responses, often unconsious ones, we just react out of habit to something, often we got a belief, we can perform a shot a move and when we fail to do so, we respond by becoming emotional into absurdness.

Handling emotions, anger, sadness, feeling stupid, frustrated, iritated ec..is all about seting the aim of context first, then tie into that with beliefs and states and skills and then add the positive emotions into that supporting this plan of action.

Then so called "bad emotions" will not be part of your performance.
Neat, right?

Emotions are often tied into our beliefs about expectations.
We expect a particular result, when that fails to be met, we react with emotions.
This happens since we have taught our selves to do so out of habit.

I discovered doing this new outcome I had to alter a few of my responses, I did so since I could sort them out really well to get the level of skill I wanted.
I didnt know this did happen due to not knowing how the movement was to be perform.
When I got the DVD´s it become much easier to practice the right motions, to train my body to do it right.
In essence, I needed to re-train my body and train my body to do a motion of swinging a gofclub which I wasnt able to do before.

The result is, I am reaching my distances I wanted, not all there but much closer and that feels great (positive emotions) and also I can practice to ingrain the sensations I need to have to perform such motion so the result stays the same.
The system I use does have some advantages that makes me hit the shots straight, that is a boost also in positive emotions, I know if I do things properly, I hit it really straight.

So, performance is about the state, the emotions we attach to what we do.
Sorting out so called bad emotions and attach positive ones to what we do and want to do are important.

Winning must be the best feeling you get, why else compete?

When you practice, re-inforce the things you do Perfect/Right/Technical correct with positive emotions tied into context.
When I do so, I thank the audience with a tip of my hat or my player who says, nice shot.
Why?

I am introducing the context I want to play and use and do those performances and teaching my brain what I want to happen, will allow for a sorting program to be in place.

Which my next blog post will be about.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Distinctions

In everything we do we have distinctions.
That is those small differences we can make when doing things.

For example, suddenly I notice what keping the body still meant and how it was like.
I was working on keeping the body still and back, but suddenly doing that I notice something called waiting time.
I was more or less waiting for my hands to come to where they should be.
As I waited, I was struck by, oh, this means I am keeping my lower body still and that I am on plane and are actually knowing what I do.

The home course opened today, so with this new found knowledge, I went and played.

I played well, first two holes, I hit greens in regulation.

For me this round was most likely the best ever I ever played in my life.
I played more dramatic rounds, more on the edge, but no round ever felt as easy.
I had shots I just knew, strick it well and its on green.
I shot 84, 6 off my personal best, I hit 11 greens, now the culprit was 3 shots I hit fat.
Some old habit I have with shoulder moving.
They cost me a few shots.

But I putted badly.
Greens was dry and not cut that much, and I havent practiced the putting at all as far.
Guess that is possible now when the greens opens up even in the condition they are atm.

It felt like I could shot par, I also hit my best ever sand shot from the bunker on 15, driver into the bunker, 65degree wedge to 2m from the hole and made the putt.
Felt good.

I also used my set up context this round, I played really well, my performance was really good with some dips now and then when I was tired.

My system works, its getting there, now its time for some short game practice, ingraining the body still and start to really rip trough the ball.

I am pumped for tomorow.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Traning stuff or not?

I am a fan of feedback, faster and better feedback allows a faster learning curve.

I got a training tool today, it shows if I get a wristbreak or not.
I am not a fan of training with tools unless there is some fast feedback involved.

The body must know the motion, a training aid will allow that if its properly designed.
The thing is that our brain and body works to learn a motion, that is a whole sequence, then we break it down into positions, as we do so many add swing thoughts if we talk Golf here into such positions.

This will make many forget the whole range sequence of the swing, and create a lot of swing thinking.
Not right, not left hand, not etc...

When learning such motions we must learn to create a context for our mind and body to sort out what to do and what is not to do.
This will allow a faster learning curve.

But we must go further,
into designing the learning context to allow a sorting out the good things into the context we want to perform.
I use ideas I had for a long time, using them to practice the golf system I choosed to do.

The Symple Swing system is a tuned down and iliminating overactive motions and minimizing what we do to swing the club.

So, starting with a good system, learning the positions, the whole sequence of the swing, I keep working on all positions until I can do them, and incorperate them into the full swing sequence.
Then I just work on the whole full swing sequence.
I am not there yet, but its getting there.

Soon, I just can practice on the basics and just work on details on the short game and speed/distance for the long game.

I look forward to that, since then I can play, practice details, allowing me to measure progress on score, statistics and so on.
The new program I created and following the model which I developed have as far made me learning more about the model, about me and how the body learns.

And I look forward to shoot low scores this summer.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

The 8 day is rest

As important practice is, resting and gain back endurance and strength is as important.
And maybe more, motivation and being fresh next time.

I rested 3 days, did some other things, no golf, no training, just hanging out, eating, and did some class working with dyslectics.

Back at the range today, hit the distance I wanted at the range. All clubs was longer, hitting it into the distance I have looked for.
I will go back tomorow and work on some more fundamentals after watching the new DVD.

Performance comes from practice the basics.

I am so working to get this done in a most effecient and down to earth way.
Get the technical things, learn how to feel the positions, work it and then rework it and check on video if needed.

However, I am still making good progress each session.

I am improving, finding new details, as on the new DVD, gonna work on grip tension, right hand loose, and head behind ball.
That seems to be the most important to feel atm.

But I make sure I rest, I work shorter durations now, more quality and less endurance.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Make it perfect and then

When I am learning something I do so until I can do it perfectly.
Then its all about forgetting that and just do whatever you do.

Let me give an example,
when I practice golf I practice on the range.
On the course I just play.

If something fails on the course, I just take a note, later I identify why the failure did happen and correct it and make it perfect.

BUT I do this from a standpoint of having a golf swing working for me for the first time in my life, I never had one called swing before.
I am working trough how to do it and how to feel it and how to make it a habit.

Today, I went to the range to really rip the ball.
As hard as I could.

I found several flaws,
one was a chicken wing,
the next was a lack of turn,
the next I got it to a good point but not far enough.
(improved distance however to much strain was involved)

Went home, poped the DVD into the machine, looked at the instructions, started to memorize the position in the backswing, and started to feel the proper turn.
(Felt much better and allow I guess for a better impact)

Then tomorow I go back to the range and try it out.
Practice this for a while and then go out and play again to see if it holds up or not.

I do this over and over until my game holds up, when I can hit the ball where I want, as far as I want, with the acuracy and precision I want.

Then I just play.

Obviously, this allows me to;
Practice and improve fast using feedback.
Sorting out when I play and where I practice.

I test my game on the course, playing like I want, if I cant make it I check what the failure is based on.
Obviously, when the technique (swing) is working then its all about working on details and improving smaller things since then I could play the game.

Its all about making a plan and meeting the criteria I want.
I have some criteria in my golf swing, how long, how I need precise yardage with each club and so on.
So, my practice is all about getting there, to those criteria, until they are met, I continue test, practice, test, test and so on until, I meet my criteria.

When I do?
Then its ingrain time, make a habit, and then play.
I then can trust it fully on course.
Then its all about precision/state/endurance/feeling good.

Make 18 greens in regulation, close to the hole, make the putts. etc...
Shoot under 80, under 70 and then under 60.

But to get there, I must meet my criteria, my outcome, what I need to make the game on the level I want to play it.

Its going in the right direction, and with 2 weeks to go to play regulary on summer greens cant come fast enough..

Continious Improvement is important due to being able to measure ones skills are going up that actually affects the results.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

In the ZONE

If Performance has a trademark its the Zone.
The bubble, the space of being in the moment.

Most athletes are searching for those moments when it all come togheter.
Obviously such peak state must be a great advantage when performing in sports and it is.

What most never do and never learn is to enter the zone by choice.

What typically happens is that, one day it all works, its all comes silent and everything just goes slooow.
Such moments are states of consiousness that can be elicited, trained and practiced as any other skill.

Most never do.
Think about it, many practice the technical levels, the skill to perform but rarely practice the mental game, the states that produce the highten perceptual performance?

As I work on my technical skills, as I must do since I never really learned to hit a golfshot with a proper swing, I also from time to time practice my state of consiousness, as a way to turn it on and off.
I dont practice it much when I am learning a skill, I use it when I can produce the technical level and then add the state to the performance I want to have and test.

So, being in the Zone is a choice, its learnable and also can be set on or off flickin on a switch.
So how come so few knows how to do stuff like that?

Often they learn it by chance, they just happen to produce it when competing.
Some learn to produce it with external pressure, as the pressure increase, their performance goes up and as it does, their state shifts into a Zone like one.

So, instead of writing stuff that been written before, any state can be learned, accessed and put into practice as any other skill in sports.

Enjoy being in the Zone

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Practice the basics

Everyone might know how important practice is the question is, how many do their practice and how do they do it?

Every practice needs to be measured for improvment, this is a must do.
If you practice to just keep a current standard that is fine.
I still would recomend you to find improvement, this is simply to train your brain to move on, to keep up to the next step.

Why to do so are beacuse of the idea of having more variation and more room for mistakes.
We are training our destinctions in how we percive our motions with the body and how we cordinate, the movement/motion.

The brain knows no difference between a percived fantasy what we just make up in our head and the real thing.
Unless we make sure the brain knows the difference.

When I practice, I find something that I need improvement on.
I check the basics, posture, ballflight, sound of quality of hit.
If they are the same, and not what I want, I go trough everything to check for flaws in the basics, posture, alignment etc...
Then I practice the new distinction, make sure it goes to the top of my priority list and then enhance that and sort out previous flaws and strengthen the new one.
Doing that allows for faster improvement and this can be measured and tested.

I test by two methods, one is on the practice tee, making sure I improve and meet my goals.
Then I measure it on the course.
One shot, so any flaws will be coming out sooner or later.

I also when I played my second round found I had improved my distance control, with the current distance even if short, I hit a lot of approach shots spot on.
That was a new feeling, a new sensation and makes me feel like I could truly play my game of golf this year and in the coming season.

I still need to work on, distance with long game, control of the short game, learning to judge ball roll on green when the greens are up for it, putting to make sure I can make 20 foot putts the same way I make 2 foot ones.

Overall, I am improving my game.
That is currently the aim, not the score.
I need to find the flaws, I need to stabilize the basics, hit the distance I want and needs to have to compete.
So, the score isnt that important currently, since I am not trying to score first and foremost but to play the game my way in how I set it up. (this makes the aim for practice)
As long I havent meet my aim and goal, I need to practice, identify the variables that I need to practice more, until I meet my criteria in how I make the shots, the distance and acuracy and when I got that, I then will focus on my score big time.
Then the state and endurance will be more important factors, how I eat, strength, and such practices.

So when practice, keep track of what you practice, why its important, what is the order of practice you need, when to shift attention of details and so on.

• Practice the basics until you can do whatever you want.
• Know the details of importance that actually produce the results in your sport.
• (In golf, short game, distance to pin and putts made)
• Measure and have evidence when you meet your practice goals.
• When you have met your criteria and have evidence of that, ie the motion/move your make produce the results you want, then you ingrain that until its fully automatic ie unconsiously produced. (Make it a habit)
• Connect motion/move to beliefs and state of performance.

What typically happens is that people never practice properly and correct.
They dont have long term goals, they dont measure and have evidence of improvement connected to the long term goals which often cause frustration, irritation, anger, and dissapointment.

If you measure the wrong things that do NOT produce result in your sport, how could you improve then?

You need the facts, the hard boiled evidence.

I never knew this myself and I been playing golf for several years.
I had to change my approach to the game this year, and I used everything I taught a pro golfer and what we found over the years to set the goals/outcome, the evidence with proper measurement, states of consiousness, eating, working out, a plan of practice based on the long term goal, full trottle to actually make my goals come true this season.

And this blogg is all about that and performance.

Using my background knowledge of NLP and doing modeling for several years and coaching athletes made my coming from a different background than most have. I also question everything taught in golf. I have found no one knows really what produce results in golf.

I sought the evidence, the information that I needed to make my goal this season.
This made me find Dave Pelz books about the short game and how he could measure success of result and scoring of golf.
I found symple golf swing last year but this year I ordered the DVD´s since they promised an easier golfswing and acurate and with distance and also faster to learn.
I changed my eating habits, my working out with crossfit system.
All this came of just setting a new goal for the season of golf.

Pretty interesting isnt it?

I can practice now with a different aim, I can measure my practice, if I improve or not, I cant do the same thing over and over again due to the goal I measure with evidence, I cant stop practice until its improving.
I know now what I need to do, how to do it and having a better quality improvement and faster one and an ability to sort out and ingrain better than most ever know exist, I can do it.

This leads to a change in my perception.
I see things, I feel things differently, I measure what I do differently since I know what my outcome is about and how to get there.

This is for me a fully different approach to golf and sports.

I can also use this experience and knowledge to improve my NLP skills and the how I teach the things I teach.

So, by doing this outcome for golf, I actually improve other things I do in my life.
Isnt that great?

Practice basics and know why and how and what and most importantly, measure with evidence.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

The mind of Performance

Direction of mind is important for performance.

Its like a steering wheel, unless you steer it where you want it will either not go anywhere or go elsewhere, anywhere.

The mind is controlled by two main attributs, beliefs and states.
Beliefs give directions and states give the fuel.

I sat down the goal, and it is measureable with evidence, with the chosen state I have direction and a supporting state for the activity the performance I want to do.
Then its all about making abilites, skills and everything else fall down into this formed context of performance.

You might notice, beliefs exists with context, it becomes a sorting factor, we must know what the context that forms from beliefs are and then in some way isolate it or make it stand out so its no question where it is and how its formed and how to be present and used when you need it in your performance.

In many ways, beliefs creates contexts.

Be mindful what you create then.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Owning the Move

In every generation there is a hero or an athlete who surpass the old ones.

The development of new material, new workouts and better technical understanding makes the sport easier to get good at than previously, however, still you need to have an athlet who surpasses the old ones.

This is seldom with physical attributs.
In Golf for example Tiger Woods dosnt have an advantage with length, or more power.
In Tennis the endurance and strength are seldom a deciding factor who wins even as Roger Federer been nr1 for a long time.

The factors that play a role are how well the athlete can stay in the same state, keep the good form (technique) and think strategically and use a good gameplan.

Owning the move is such an approach to sports.

The idea is to find the optimal way to perform the moves in the particular sports according to ones physiology and anatomy and then when the moves is down, incoding it until you own it.

If you can do so, then you always have a move that you can perform under pressure, under stress, and you can do it.

This happens due to how I approached the game of Golf.

Setting my outcome in the way I did this year, I had to find a learning process that would allow me to play the level I wanted, to do so I needed a few key variables to be there. I cant train more and I needed to train smarter.

Using the compound effect of experience over the years, I came up with owning the move as an approach to learning motions in sports, fast, effectivly and permanent.

To do so I needed a way to not be dependent on emotions, beliefs and states of consiousness.
As many athlets say, I didnt played well and was sloppy due out of form, tired, nervous, out of shape, etc...

I needed an approach that would allow me to truly own the move.
I used my knowledge in NLP and modeling and the experience gained over the years.
Seting the futurebased outcome with evidence, I had a way to measure my progress, I also would know if I got it and that I could only train from the right and correct approach from the ground up, I had to know if I am going to play that what I do are working or not.

This set up for me an approach that I slowly uncovered over the weeks I started practice golf.

Owning the move means that you are doing it technically right and that you have a whole form level of knowing you can do it.
Its like a handshake, or cykling, when its down, its down.
You can just do it.

What typically happens when people learn is to add complexity to what they are learning.
Doing trail and error is what we do, until we can do it, however for our neurology we have several ways we have practised this trail and error.
We seldom en-code the final move into a sorted out context.
Its like phonenumbers, we get the right call if we use the right phonenumber, but press one number wrong and we end up elsewhere even if the same area code has been used.

This is also the reason I have struggled for years with golf, I never knew the move, then when I started to learn it, my body could not do it.
Frustration hit me, I know what the move was like, I had enough information from text and video but my body since it havent done it could not do it.
So I spend a few hours to find the move, it took me around 5 hours to find it.

Then as soon as I got it, know how to do it, it was obvious.
The important here is to not pay attention to what does not work as your learning, just measure, is it the move I want?

In athletics Susanna Kallur is said to be on of the best technical running 100 meter hurdles.
There is nothing to stop the others to get the same technical advantage.
They cant get it due to a lack of knowing how to get it and doing it.
So they keep doing the old patterns and old technique over and over.

When the move is found, its obvious and can then be created over and over again.
Its sorted out automatically, my body now knows, how its to be done.
What is left for me to do is to Optimize this move so it becomes the power base I need to compete.

Owning the move is beyound beliefs, its actually a know how for the body.
Its also a whole form experience.
Which means,
if you enter a field of grass, sea or something where you just say, its beautyful.
Now, can you describe it?
The description your trying to do is not the beauty, agreed?
But as soon you see it, you know, right?
Its beautyful.

For you this means the sensation is a whole form one. Its not possible to describe it, its not possible to use NLP to model how people know this due to its not a HOW TO........
Since modeling are based on analyzing behaviour, beliefs and states we cant model the lack of a HOW TO in beauty.

So, I used the knowledge and experience from NLP and modeling a system of whole form knowledge and experience.
What I found was a lot of missconceptions along with a truly great way to understand the world.

I am most likely one of the few in the world who knows this difference, maybe the only one.

So, what do I do with this then?
I apply it on Golf, learning the motions and finding out how far can I go with it.

Owning the move is to find the basic unit that allows the movement and motion to be made with the intended result which are evidenced based and measureable.

Of course there is more to it.
But that is for another time and place.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Progress Update

As I sat down the outcome for my golfing this summer a lot has going on for me.

What I do currently is the following,

• Adding the skills/experiences/aha to the context of the outcome (I am a professionell elitegolfer).
• Practice into owning the move.
• Testing different states.
• Finding the proper moves in the golfswing.
• Get feedback on the practice of the short game and long game.

What all the above means is this,
In my practice, I need to find out "How to do the move" when I have it right I keep re-inforcing until a shift in my learning happens where "I know" I can do it happens.

When I practised today I found out I didnt know how to do a golfswing!
Suprise is the least thing that happen, frustration kicked in when I couldnt do the move properly.
So, I been playing golf down to 11 handicap, and finding out I cant do a golfswing properly?
Gee, darn, and as I worked on the range for 3 hours I kept working at the outcome, the goal, being able to do the movement, correct and properly.
The progress is all about knowing what to measure and look for, as the question, how do I know that I got it down?

I found this, I video the swing, noticing that I was not on plane, and I did not have a release which means that I didnt do a core turn properly.
I started to get it a bit better in the end.
So, at home I worked on proper plane in the backswing, and also on the release.
Now, this with some good video showing Jimmy Ballard talking about "connected left shoulder" added for me some knowledge and distinctions in what to look for to owning the move and knowing to know when I got it.

As I practice, even when I am frustrated, I dont mind that due to I am continue looking to get it right. The frustration was due to me finding out I didnt know how to do the movement at all.
My brain did know what the move is and what its like but my body could not do it due to a lack of specific movements.
So I adjust and test until I notice I am on the right track which I measure with accuracy and distance.
I am measuring the average distance, the quality of the hit.

When I get it, I will wait for the indication that I got it, then I will own the move.
This is a whole form sensation, much similiar to riding a cykle or doing a handshake, you just know you can do it.
So, when I bring out the driver, I need to have that, 300 yard down the fairway, ok, then I do this and hit it down there.
And as long I dont have that move down, I wait until I get there.
This mean a fast and much better feedback improvement happens in my learning.
I adjust and improve so fast since I know, this isnt working, that is not working, then adjusting, looking for information that helps me get there - when its working.
So even if I got stuck and frustrated and didnt know what to do I kept finding ways to get where I need and want to be.

This is the attention phase, noticing, does this work, does this improve my skill, does it meet my outcomes?
Mapping this golfswing suddenly showed me the things I needed to improve.
On plane in the backswing, and working on the athletic move of a proper core turn with a correct release.
I didnt have a release at all.(suprise)
Which made me loose power and the lack of distance showed that.

When I ingrain and integrate owning the move I am using the new findings I done over the years doing modeling of Joseph Riggio.
For me its a variation of the learning process where the new moves must be done until a shift happens where the body as a system knows how to do it. When that happens, its a deep seated knowledge, not affected by thinking.
The process builds momentum to confidence, security, faith, due to the nature of having the knowledge that you can do this move, whenever you need to.

Note that I say, this owning the move are a pre-requsite of the feelings people have in regard to an ability.
Most go by the feelings not the knowledge of owning an ability.

This is important for making fast progress:

• Knowing the outcome. (Future based)
• Practise never gets stuck due to I am looking for the right/correct/proper moves.
• Improvements in skills/abilites goes faster due to knowing what to do based on measured test against criteria. (finding the right/proper/correct move with its distinctions)
• Owning the move. The coding phase of the athletic move to produce a consistent result. (knowledge/state)
  
• Testing the move when its owned.

I test from time to time when I own the move the state I want to play from, then ingrained the state and the move with the context and future based outcome I am aiming for.
I dont use the state of how I want to play as I practice since then I am in an analytical phase and using a different state.

As I progress, finding the answers, I test them, and then make a new test session to workout the new changes.

I dont have time or the stamina to work long days so I need to work smarter, not harder.
Progress must be done fast, in the same session is optimal but if the knowledge and information is lacking this can be needed to do research to get the right information to improve. (as it was with release and being on plane)

So, tomorow I will work on release and being on plane, this be done at my sister since her house allows for at least full wedge shots on her backyard.

I am planning a small trip next week to train my short game and Maybe do some actual playing on a course.
The winter has just started to loose its grip here and the summer is still a month away.

One thing to note, if I didnt put up my new outcome then I wouldnt have found that I couldnt swing properly, I most likely would have continued doing what I had done due to no improvement most likely would have been made. (Ever get stuck in your life?)

This is crucial as a concept to understand in performance, new goals/outcomes/beliefs/practice to get it right will if the movement isnt properly done be a counterexample to the movement you currently have. ( a contrast)
For me obviously I notice, that my body didnt have a memory for the movement.
I could only notice that since I wanted to be able to do the criteria of swinging and hitting the ball the proper distance and with acuracy.
When I tried to do so, according to instruction and feedback from practice then that showed up due to setting the new outcome with measureable evidence.

I dont view this as negative or even flawed or a fault.
I just attend to what will give me the proper movement, the proper distance and the proper accuracy to meet my evidence that the shots I make are according to my criteria.
And as long my criteria is not met, I continue to find how to do it.

A lot of people when things dont work focus on why it does not work.
They are learning to troubleshooting the movements.
Often what happens as a result of that approach is the proper and correct movement never get ingrained and owned by the performer.
They learn an extra analytic stage and add that to the skill set they got, however, the pathways to perform then include two different ways the ball could be hit, the right and proper way, and then when it is not hit the proper and correct way, the person who learned to troubleshoot will then use analytic thinking in why this happen, often shift their state so much they get stuck in the thinking.
(this is why I wrote this blogg)
To understand that performance when ingrained properly, is all that is needed to attend to. When something does not work, you already know its not your technique that is to blame...its either your thinking, emotion, beliefs, physical status since if you own the move then that stays the same.

Now think about it, this is why I mention owning the move, why I work on being smarter, finding out how to do it right and properly, even when it takes time and require constant refinement, I am working on how to do it properly now, so that I dont need to do it later.

I just wished I found this swing technique earlier and also set this new outcome when I started out and also knew how to do the learning process with practice.
However, expereince and know how comes with experience.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Eating - the breakfurst of champions

There is a lot of missconceptions of food, eating and nutrition out there.

I follow what is called a nehandertal or 40.000 year old eating idea.
Meaning you eat, fruit, vegetables, fat, protein but avoid sugar as pasta, ris, bread and potato and ofc also candy as much I can ;)

The idea is several, a more plane smooth curve of bloodsugar is a result, meaning better Performance over time. Need bananas out there?
Might try, fruit of a different kind and maybe some nuts.

You also eat less, much less.

Eating like this have for me allowed a better bloodsugar curve, I am less tired and have less dips in the day.
I eat and are seldom hungry even if I dont eat a lot.

Much of how I eat is this,
in the morning, 2 eggs boiled, yoghurt and grains and coffe with some cream into.
Dinner often bacon, ham and egg and vegetables and some keso, yoghurt or such to spice it up and add some flavour.
I eat maybe half of what I used to eat and I can even go by eating less from time to time depending on my schedule.

This have with crossfit brought my strength up, endurance up, lost some weight, added some muscles and lost some fat.
I still have a long way to go, but I consider this summer playing golf the test of continue my eating schedule, continue doing crossfit and working on my game as I build endurance and strength.

How you eat affect your performance in several ways, if you get insulin rushes, you get tired faster, loose focus and concentration can be affected.
You get a better overall health and can stay fit easier, regain your stamina faster after competition, and that is useful if your doing several days of competition in a row.

Look at http://www.arthurdevany.com/ for more info on this type of eating habits.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Competition the day the practice pays off

• To compete well we need to manage our state.
• To compete well we need to manage our state.
• To compete well we need to manage our state.
• To compete well we need to manage our state.

Why I do repeat this is due to people change their state so fast unless we keep track of the state as we compete.
You got the state, you know how your performance state is, well keep track of it, make sure you have it, keep it and go for it.

First thing we check, state, second thing we check, state, third thing we check, state and do you get the idea?

Then after we have the state, we check for other things.

Competition is all about performing at your best, and making sure your practise as similiar to competition and have all the skills and knowledge then its all about having your state witin your designed context (beliefs) and with that the information of skills, experience with the sport, etc...

Having a peak performance state allows for maximum Optimal performance to take place.
This is also outside of the beliefs people have about competition.
meaning, we set a new belief in regard to the competition, in Golf we play the game on a golf course, that is my context, if it is practice round with myself, friends does not matter, or if it is British Open or qualification, I am playing at a Golf course, that is it.
Same game, same performance on a golf course.
Some golf courses gives you money and even people who watch you play.
Nice of them dont you think?

I talked to a Olympic Champion in Swimming, his routine to perform his best is the same idea as I am following with the additions of a lot other small ideas.

To perform, practice as your going to compete, make sure the context stays the same, ie for me a golf course.
At some golf courses they have some ill planned pin placements trying to make it difficult for players.
Not sure who runs the Golf course but you get my idea.

Check your state.

Have fun.

Enjoy life and the game.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Practice the basics of a winner

Any master of sports knows one thing, its the basics that are tested over time, thats why they practice the basics over and over again.

When you got a move down, you can do it, your technique is properly done, you then starts to practice the move until its done and then you start over again.

The key is to get several aspects down,

• Setting a baseline, something you can rely on when the heat is on.
• A fallback if for some reason your to emotinal, thinking to much or any other error.
• Having something that simply works.

Practice must be fun and you also need to work with the whole routine.

When I practice Golfshots I do this,

• Wedge shots, hearing the crowd applauds, making a wave with my hand.
• Full shots, smiling for the heat I put on the shot. Looking out the fairway. Hearing my playing partners saying "Nice shot".
  
• Hitting it down into the hole hearing screaming audience and high fives.
  

Seriously, the practice needs to be done as much as your in competition, and yes, you will look silly waving, and thanking the audience from time to time.
However, your training yourself to do this in competitions where there is a different context than at your range.

People always say, its hard to take the swing from the range to the 1 tee.
Yes, unless your range is the 1 tee.

Making this a part of your practice, how the competition will be is a great way to practice the basics, when entering a course, playing there, you already have the shots made, you already knows how it feels like since your already been here, scoring low.

When you practice, make sure your doing the things you do well, better.
If you have a good performance with a particular movement, do that and improve on that using audiences, roar from the people, laughter, camera flashes, the screams for get in the hole, or even people screaming for your opponents shots. If needed tape a competition from TV, on a recorder, play it up at the range.

When you practice the new things, you work on particular things, mainly feel, how the sensation of the movement, in motor-cortex are cordinating with your eye, balance and senses, and how it will go into a feeling of knowing how this is like when doing it properly.
When this is reached, then a fluid movement takes place, it starts to go automatic, by itself.
This is the point of coding the move into long term memory, and the more aware you are of this the better quality and refinement you can do.
As long you dont interfer with the feeling and coding.

Any movement follows the rules of learning,

1. Whole movement first.
2. Continious movement, rythm, tempo and timing, feel.
3. Coding appears to be set with motor-cortex and sensorychannels and internalize feel.
4. When stable a long term memory charge is waiting for coding and repetition until a whole move sensation appears.
5. When this happens, you own the move.
6. Modifications can now be made without any fear of fucking the move up with Consious details and such small detailed fix.

In Golf, people fuck the idea of swinging the club up so much you would be suprised how much garbage I have heard and been reading.

People judge a golfer how their swing looks?
Oh my god, of course, that is why Jack Nicklaus won 19 majors, he was a good swinger?
Or maybe a great sportsman?
Ben Hogan people admire for his swing, but he was able, to go to Europe, play in 1 british open and win it.
One time only, one win.
Now, that means he was a good player and it isnt about the swing, ever.

Its about how well you can perform over time and under pressure.
How well you can cope with emotions, your thinking, your physical body, your fitness, your focus of attention, following your gameplan, performing at your best, keeping the state and so on.

Making good practice is to practice that, NOT the swing.
The swing is just a tool to get your shots where you want them to be.

So, start practice after you own the move with competition like context, with this you be used to fairways that are small, bad lies, fast greens, rough that isnt cut etc...

Martial artists knows that the basics is what is going to save their life, not the fancy high wheel spinning kick.
When someone is coming after you, they want to see blood, not a black eye or some punch, they want to tear your eyes out, kick your balls into oblivion and then you need good basics.

You need attitude, which is trained by good practice by adding compeition like context into your sport.
Obviously, martial arts are more life concerned context than making a 300 yard drive down the fairway.
However, having the tour card on the line can be as life concerned situation for anyone.

Make good practice, incorperate life like situations and you be a better player and are able to Opimize your Performance while your practising.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Technique the never ending quest

The idea is to Optimize Performance, that means working on your techniques.

Now, the question is, when and how much?

Technique is such a elusive function, when we learn things we rarely start doing it properly first, we just do trail and error.
Now, in golf for example there are literally several different ways people can swing, however, everyone when they are at impact hitting the ball, they all look the same.
The measureable evidence in your technique must be what the Optimal Performance are for your sport when the Performance is Optimal in result. (In Golf obviously pre-impact and impact positions must be in a specific way)

Then what is needed is to have the proper state linked to the chain of events that makes up the responses to the movement we need to have.
When that is done properly, we can do the movement, we have the proper state, then there is no extra movement, no extra musclecontractions, no antagonists active and the performance is flawless.

When we do this we make internalizesations, we take information in the learning process, how it feels like doing it it properly and we translate that into feelings, how it feels like when the movements are done right.

Then when we done it enough its habitual.
Automatical.

We can then improve it further, refine and improve the quality, and therefore its important to do it right from the start.

In my backyard, I can do short swings, I then practice various elements of my technique, I can focus my attention on various muscles, various positions and improve how it feels like doing it right.
I then measure how the result is, I use a counterexample, how it is not to be.
Then I can train with proper feedback, allowing a refinement to take place in a very short time.
I discovered in my last range session that I was finding the core in the swing, a compact hit, so in my backyard I then focus on getting that in my chip and pitch shots, and then I can test and find out of various elements in my technique.

Our brain learns by knowing a difference between two points.
If there is no difference, there is no learning, only reinforcing what is.
If that is bad habits, you continue improving bad habits.

To improve and refine, we need to know the difference between a movement, we need to feel it, see it, and hear it, we need to make the sensations of positions in our body relative to gravity and the movement into a measureable difference.

So, learning the golfswing this year is a much different experience than I ever had learning anything in my life.
I am discovering things, sensations, experiences, understandings and a lot more doing it this way that are a exploding wavelike effect.
I am improving so fast, so efficient that it almost seems to easy.

Its like that for me due to having had a hard time learning to swing a club before.
Now, I know what to do, how to do it, do a make over if needed of old habits, what I need to do becomes obvious and easy and the learning goes much faster.

As I progress I shift my attention of focus to various elements in my learning process.

Your ability to enhance your technique over time is important, refined the current level is needed to further enhance the thickness of your neurons that fire of the signals.
Each time we do it, the neurons grow thicker, stronger, and the signal value keeps increase.
Doing it correct is then important from the start, to get a good startpoint, then as we move along increase the density of the neurons until they are dense and thick and has strong quality in the signal.

Having a good technique is all about to teach the brain to know what neurons is needed to fire of.

Good habits are important to train properly from the start.

I am going over every point in my swing to make sure its done with the right sensations and correct performance.
This is then measured to the distance and sensations I have when swinging.

A work in progress.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Your state of consiousness

A state is the level of your consiousness is at any given moment.

States are contain into contextual parameters and beliefs which can either be totally outside or fully inside or a mix betwen those two extremes.

Performance steams from the proper state and other factors previously mentioned.
If your having limiting beliefs, your state will be affected, if your thinking about things in a specific way your state will change with your thinking.

State is a lucid phenomena and will be affected by various phenomena, now who cares about that right?

We want to know when a state is stable and works under pressure, right?

Look at golfers, when they enter the last few holes in a tournement, they tense up, their swing gets faster, they get all red in their face, (Darren Clarke in his last win) almost destroyed his win due to his change of state, red face, strain faster swing with 3 bogies, he laughed and got relaxed at the last hole and that was enough for him to regain his state to make a birdie and win.

States of consiousness are seldom stable, however, they will be stable if they are done properly, they are always stable if the following variables are done,
its a confined context, meaning, as long this context is as it is, then no change in state happens.
With this follows belief, if your beliefs within this context are set up with your state as a chain reaction a cause-effect, the state affect the belief that are proven true by your performance then the state chainlincked with the evidence of your belief and performance are evenly matched this will continue to be stable and allow our Optimized Performance.

Please note: Context are defined in how we view the world ie: see, hear, feel, smell and taste.
The five senses and how they interact.

So, if we choose a belief in advance, as in my first blog post, then add the proper state to this belief, adding along that the evidence to support the belief and then what will the state be like when all of this is done?

A stable state with the proper evidence to support the belief will allow such a performance...
Due to been given a contextual defined format.

Now, this took me about 15 years to figure out, in how to set it up and do it with all variables and the how to knowledge.

What has happen is that my practice is moving along nicely, I am having different goals each practice, each practice shows me where I need to go, to move to find the skill and sensations I need to have due that this is already set up for me by myself in my outcome belief.
My perceptions have changed slowly, alterations in how I percive the shots and what to do, changed, the level of play I be able to play starts to alter into this level of performance I have set up.

I do this blogg as a doctor would do a patient who would come in and have a unique virus, that would kill the patient, but knowing this patient allow a tracking of the disease and how the virus grows and affect the body and mind of the patient, might save peoples lifes by providing knowledge in what the virus is doing.

Obviously I am not a virus or a patient.

I am however able to map and track changes in my perception, how I think and view due to my long term experience with NLP, Hypnosis and other methods and applications.

The range session I had today, showed me something extraordinary, after an hour and a half, I suddenly got calm, slowed down, a peak performance state surfaced, this happen along the way of finding out how to swing the club to make the same swing for each club, a core connection, I suddenly found that I could sense where the ball hit on the clubface.
With that followed an aha moment of sensing the positions I need to have to swing properly and I payed attention to how that felt for me.

I chipped in my backyard yesterday, 20 yard shots, I suddenly sensed a feeling of absolute certainty that I could hit this ball exactly 20 yard with that club.

This is finer distinctions in vibrations from the ball, to the clubhead to the shaft to the fingers to the arms to the head to trancelate this to, what kind of hit am I doing.

The golfer I coach have said such things, feelings when the ball is hit, that the dimples on the balls are felt.
Now, most would say that is impossible unless we understand that our state when performing such tasks are allowing a finer distinction to be made due to practice and knowledge, the experience we have gained from thousands of golfhits.

Peak states show us finer distinctions, we can be more sensitive, slower in our motion, have more time to sense what is going on as we do the performance.
This helps us by allowing a better quality to the experience we are having as we perform but also to improve the performance due to being able to have this state as we play.
To have that, more time, is what people say when they are in the bubble, in the zone, it goes slow, its just that people seldom never are there, they dont know how to get that state, and when they have it, they dont know how to get the state going on forever.

Obviously this will slow down a golf round to the absurd, a 4 hour round will feel like days, weeks or even longer, but still it is just 4 hours in real time.
Knowing this and knowing about positive emotions can send us into a really enjoyable time while we perform even when its slow since we are enjoying how slow it is.

We can then keep track of the state, setting controls, slow up and down, make the shots takes longer, the down time in between faster, we can play at our very best and enjoy the time doing so.

This type of peak states in performance are important to elicit, and notice when they enter and alter perception, not just thinking, if I am going to do this and have some sensations that is a proof I am in a peak state, thinking "ABOUT" then obviously its easy to be deluding onself to not be in the state but beliving that we are when we are not.

One way to check this state are to check for the space between things, listen to music, does the sound, sound different?
Does it take longer to get dressed, does the ball move slower, the clock, people movements and so on.
There is a number of things we can test if they are different to what we normally percive them to be.

The states of such performance are crucial to have, and to be ready to use when needed.
Most who teach stuff like this use hypnosis, or other means, however, this can all be done in consious awake and tracked and set up by understanding how peak states emerges in performance.

When I was visiting Canada and did a workshop there, I did a time slow demo, I slowed down time after the lunch, the afternoon was a never ending one, people was ready to go home, and I asked, why?, well its late they said, late? I said, its only 2 o´ clock?
They looked at the watch and was amazed.

In performance, slowing time down allow a finer distinction and adjustments to be made in your movements.
When doing a movement, you can almost like superman move so fast for the outside people to see, but for you its slow, allowing adjustment to be made that was previous impossible.

Useful?

Oh yes.

However, the current state of the art in sports psychology dont know how to do this, they know all about it though, they dont know how to design it, set it up, make it stable, permanent in the performance.
I worked with a pro golfer over a few years, a lot of the findings we done due to testing and adjusting have brought this blogg but also the knowledge in how this all works in relation with the variables.

The experts wants to know how to do it, but no know how have ever came forth until now.
I am running this model for myself this spring and summer playing golf.
I am setting high goals, measureable beliefs, measurable feedback loops, measureable states of consiousness, measureable skills, and so on just beacuse, if I can do this, teaching it, then anyone must be able to do it right?

And the answer is yes of course you can.

Tests, measureable evidence is crucial however, mapping that you do improve are feedback you want to have and measure as you practice.
I have already found my crossfit practice for 2 months allow me to crush balls 2 hours at the range without my back goes down, the muscles and workouts I have done are allowing for a core stability and improved stamina in my golf practice.
I feel better this year doing so than I did last year even under the season.

I am still tired, and my get back stamina is slow but overall my system works better even if its slow.
This makes my crossfit traning even more inspired to continue and improve upon.

Since it all works togheter, if my stamina goes down, I get tired faster, my focus can shift easier due to my body cant hold the fitness level I need to make my performance optimal.
So,
keeping the state of a peak performance is easier if we design it the way this blogg suggest.

States are like water, they will flow in any direction unless they are supported by walls made into rivers, or even stopped in direction to build up over time in Dams.
Allowing a huge increase of water to be going down or smaller trickles.
Obviously as a metaphour its limited but true.

States need a guide, something to show, the way, how to be held in form and how to be used within a confined space we call context.

Developing that are important for our performance.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Physical Performance

Not done the endurance and pre set season fitness?

In all sports, being on top physical affect our performance in different ways.

IF we are fit, we can endure longer harsh conditions, we can stay at peak states longer and we can endure such diversity and we can maximize performance due to keep the small detailed focused attention when many loose theirs.

Then we need to work with how our muscles are, loose, flexible, stiff or dynamic.

The Crossfit program at www.crossfit.com are a program that develops an "adaptiv response to ordinary acivites" which means, the way they train there, allow a workout to be more effective under a shorter time.
Its however a long term goal to be able to do everything they do. Crossfit is working on a lot, not being specialized allows for the program to be used everywhere.

For me being ill for a long time, I done the crossfit program at home, I had to scale back a lot, I also need more rests between the workouts, but the timetable, doing 8 or 15min workouts does fit me.

That is a good all around endurance program, allowing for more work if you need it, if your weak on aerob you can run shorter distances more than strength training, its the diversity and not doing the same program after another its the idea.
Doing that allows the body to adapt to the workload, creating hormonic fire off responses and greater developement of muscles,aerob and anarob, strength etc..to be built.

For golf this is great news, building strength of fast movement creating power which is more important since we want speed not big muscles.
I done the program for almost 2 months, and as far, I gain strength, adaptive anarob and some aerob endurance. I just spent 2 hour on the range, hitting balls, and for me this was the easiest and best rangesession I done and was basically easy for me to do where last year I almost couldnt hit the ball after a while since I would run out of steam much faster.

Now, when I got home, I am tired, however, resting today and if all feels ok I do some workout crossfit style tomorow.

If your not fit and work on your physical body, you get tired faster, loosing focus, you need to have endurance, adapt to circumstances not of your control, and the crossfit program can be used by anyone and has great merits.

I highly recomend it.
Best I ever used.

When you got a basic adaptiv response on some of the things you work on, then you can work a little more on areas you previously havent got to that level.
I am doing a little more aerob and also working my back muscle groups.

That be the focus more this coming month than as far I done.

Crossfit can be addictive ;)

There is also new research that shows that this type of training is effective and better than what people used to belive and recomend.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

The mental Game thinking about thinking

There are a lot of people out there who thinks about thinking.
There are advisors that suggest how to think.

Thinking is just a small portion of performance, most will even say remove the thinking and anyone would perform really well, and yes that is true.

The quest to enhance performance is to understand what affects performance.

Thinking consists of several variables,
using the words, connected with sensory channels of sounds, images and feelings allow someone to compare different information based data that affect the decisionmaking your engage when making a decision.

In any decision there is a comparsion made, even when its fully automatic, then the 1:1 relationship is what is to be done and then do it.

When someone enters flow, a perfect moment of zen or such examples of being in a bubble able to just perform the way its described is the same.
I demonstrated this in classes, that when someone enters flow, and such states their thinking do NOT stop.
They still thinking, however, now it does not affect their performance.

Their state of focused attention are in a higher charged state which if someone spends some time there will affect weight a lot due to the burning required to be in such a high peak performance state.

We can then conclude that thinking and the thinking is done in a not peak performance state will affect the performance BUT when its a flow state it will not, it might but that requires a lot of strain to do.

So, then the state are more important than the thinking to do it right.

Reacting to stimuli are faster than thinking what it is and then react.
The thinking is made from a confused state, trying to make sense what is going on, the reaction is faster when just reacting.

Training oneself you must be able to step into a high performance state, allow for a full elicitation to be made and then keep the state stable connected to the beliefs that allow a full performance to be made that is futurebased.

The reason is that the futurebased one allows improvement over time where the past referenced would create stagnation.
Your performance would drop ever so slightly and the competition would sooner or later catch up.

Thinking is made with images, sounds and feelings and then the words that are used. When people get angry they make often colors and red is one often used within, and the words people use often are used in an intensed state.
Ever been there?
Never been able to map what is going on as your into such a state?

Ever tried to talk sense to someone in a angered state?

No question asked there, to map and handle such states are to do it when someone is not in that state.
States and their thinking that with the proper beliefs and expectations of beliefs are a cause-effect soup where the result triggers a belief about expected behaviour and the feelings starts to rise and this often are where people have high expectations of themselves and when not perform according to their beliefs creates intense anger or similiar feelings.
Handling emotions are about handling how you think when things happen and create a awareness of how its all beliefs and expectations that creates this using a comparsion.

Setting a belief about your performance, futurebased, sets a new context, a new bubble if you like where you can put in anything that is needed to perform like the belief expects.
It also allows a sorting out to take place, anything that limits your performance is sorted out and all you need to keep track of is the feedback your having when being in your own bubble.

This creates a new context to form inside your mind, your now highly charged peak performance state with the emotions that supports this with the beliefs, with the skills and the practice made is done from this supported context.

Your in essence told your brain this,
I want to perform as this belief suggests using this state with the appropriate skills and emotions with the thinking that follows along.
Your brain not able to make any decisions about if its real or not just respond to the instructions.

Our brain is that simple.

The brain just do what it is told or showed, hypnosis have been used to show this over and over again.
That under hypnosis people can see, smell and hallucinate freely to things that is not in the room.
However, if we add a belief that it is not possible to be hypnotised and do such things then that belief will make sure that does not happen.

So if we do this, using our thinking to plan how to perform we are setting the appropriate context of whats crucial to have when performing.
Limitations of any kind must be sorted out, must be set aside and establish a pure clean context of your enhanced performance state.

Thinking then is best done before and after performance, while your performing all the thinking can do is to keep track of your actions so it works as it was set up.
Its possible to shift this depending on what your performing is about,
if playing golf there are a number of moments when adjustments can be made between shots. If its 100meter race, its not do good to think when running.
The state shift must be clean, adjusted and then sorted into the context of performance, and then tested.

Keeping the context of performance free of thinking allows an even better performance to be made over time.
The brain works simply and the habitual forming of pathways in the brain grows bigger and fire of stronger and stronger impulses.

This means, do the set up properly.
Its all about doing it right and correct from the start, if that is done which will take a little more time, all that is needed later is to enter the state which happens automatically due to the entering of the context now are connected fully.

Bad thinking is belief based.
It shift your state and you perform worse. The bad thinking creates emotions of confusion, doubt, anger, nervousness, uncertianity and so on
Beliefs are the power behind your performance, make sure your using the proper ones.

Its impossible to perform at the optimized level if your thinking is not sorted out properly before your going to perform and under.

I meet people who say, I played really well that day, but it was a fluke, I am not that good normally.
I hear golfers say, I played better than I am.
Now, if someone plays that well, isnt they as good in that moment?
Sure they are but they believe they aint so good, and then they start to loose that ability to play that well.
Their belief starts to remove them from that fluke.

I didnt know how this all worked many years ago, but using NLP and a lot of research I made over the years I believe I found out how this works togheter.

As you have been reading this blogg you notice beleifs are important to get right, and I set them first, for my golf this summer I set the belief about my level of play that is futurebased.
This allows my brain to know the difference between my game as it has been and how it is.
And how it should be.

No, I did not set my state first, I set the belief, then I set the state in how I wanted to play golf my way.
Then I looked at the skills I needed to have to perform like that.
This is information seeking.
Then what is needed is a plan.

Then what happens is practice, feedback in testing if the improvements continue along the path set.

Since I did the above I found,
books that helps me define the practice, ordering DVD´s that covers the whole game, swingtechnique of the one that promise a 20 times faster learning to play well.
Due to winter here still I havent been able to practice that much but the small things I been able to practice have allowed an improvement.

So, thinking is knowing how to plan for optimizing the performance you want to have.

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP.

Emotions the power of destruction or action

Its all well known that we think thinking thoughts. Its also well known we feel things, respond to events in different emotinal bursts.

Emotions are tied to our thinking in different ways, in regard to performance emotions can be a powerful ally in the stream of adversity. When we perform, often what happens is that people evaluate what is going on, the result achived is measured and compared to a expected result.
Now, our thinking can be perfect, but our performance even if wanted seldom is perfect.

We strive for perfection.
Its in our genes.
Or brain if you like.

This is why people feel anxiety, worry or are nervous before a competition, they make mental images based on expected results that are matched against beliefs we have about the performance we are about to do and what that performance will lead to, the result.

This is very emotinal based, they link to our beliefs and subsequently our states in performance are tied into a context.
This context are twofold, one is the one we engage into and the other is what we have inside our mind. We have created small links that in some ways tell us how to respond to in a particular situation based again on our beliefs and criteria of expected result, when this are met we can react positivly or negativly or not at all.

We react with emotions.

This is tied into our learning brain based system, our brain needs emotions to learn, its also simple but highly effective directed charges of information for our brain to respond to.
If the emotion is strong enough it creates a unique learning experience, in NLP this is called an anchor.
The anchor never subside but shows up its ugly face or happy face depending on what we have attached to this anchor and learning experience, we might have formed beliefs about this event.

Micheal Jordan learned to play at his best when he got the ball at the end and nailed it and his team won. Then he wasnt afraid when it got seconds left due to him now, wanted the ball, he had a positive learning experience, he then re-inforced that with beliefs about him performing at the best at the end and he wanted the ball.

He connected his experience under enormus pressure to define a belief connected to this last minute performance.
He now had the ability to in this context just hook it up, feeling he wanted the ball, that he could get it in, waiting for the moment, and had all positive lined up for him.

Now, many think that feelings of peak performance are random, just something that happens from time to time.

What I am suggesting is that you can by design set this up, connect and hook all up in such a way you be performing at your level as you want in the context you set it up with, at any time and under any circumstances.

Moe Norman had the "Feeling of Greatness" when he woke up, he knew he would hit the ball better than anybody on the planet.
As a golfer he shot 59, 3 times under competition, he set numerous course records.

This is what emotions do to us, they become such positive forces if done properly. However emotions can destory a life in seconds due to improper care.
A guard was stabbed to death beacuse he did a intervention between two people, the guy cutting him down said, he laughed at me. He had just smiled to calm the guy but the guy in his state saw him laughing at him and stabbed him.
The guy who stabbed obviously coulndt make a judgement call due to seeing someone laugh at him, most likely due to a bad experience in his early ages and sad enough couldnt handle his emotions and killed someone.
This was after his team had lost their match in the world cup 1998.

Emotions with proper beliefs, tied into the state we want to have when performing allow a positive peak performance to take place.
We know what state we want to have how we want to feel and experience the performance and has this set up in the way we want.

This also means, we dont need to wait for peak performances to happen, we can get them whenever we want.
We can choose to design and set this up and I use the future based performance in how to do it.

I choosed a belief in how to play golf, I adressed the way I want to play the golf I want, the state, then adding basically important findings into this, as skills I need to have to meet the requirements needed to play the level I set up.
Then practice takes place, reinforcing this emotinally, feeling this, measuring that it works, refine it, until it works automatically.

Basically it follows the steps of,

1. Set a belief about future performance matched with evidence of factual events.
This means, the level I want to have can be measured agaisnt the best who perform in that area and the statistical data can be used to measure my performance and improvement.
Since I got the belief set up, with performance under factual evidence the next step is to choose the way I want to play.

2. Set the state you want to have when you perform.
This means we need to access in our experience what this feels like, inside out. We need to have it, holding it inside our body looking out, seeing our percepetions shift, feeling it and even hearing things differently due to this state of experience first hand.

If your perception do not shift when entering a peak performance state, your not in the state.
Your still thinking about it.

3. Add whatever needed into this belief and state and define the contextual parameters where you be performing from this state.
Stuff as knowledge, skills, refined movement, adjusting emotions make them stronger, sorting out unwanted stuff that might crept into old performances etc...

• When the beliefs are set future based on factual level of performance, the states have been elicited and linked with the beliefs and the additions of skills and emotions and other stuff set in a contextual parameters are made we can consiously be aware of entering the state, have our evidence of being in the state, exploring how it affects our perception and adjust on this new experience how it affect our performance.

• Performing under practice and competition should be the same. This means, for you there should be no difference between going out and practice or entering a competition, there is no difference unless we set a difference.

• You might perform slightly better under competition however due to increased positive emotions added to enjoy the level of performance you now have so it re-inforces itself when entering competitions.

You then practice this until you automatically just enter the wanted performance level when you need to. Just checking that you got this and then just perform. If loosing this due to unforseen circumstances does not matter since you also know how to get back into the performance state.

All adjustments should be done after practice and competition, at bedtime or when time permits, adjusting based on new evidence and experience.

This will allow a continious improvement over time for your performance.

Emotions are an ally when used positivly, reinforcing this level of performance, you know before your going out there in whatever you do that you be doing your absolut best this day, that you be able to perform at the highest level with expected results time after time again and again.

This creates feelings of joy, happiness, confidence, selfworth and other positive ones due to you are building on a positive formula and feedback.

For me, I discovered when entering the above process that I felt excited and also found that Golf would be a much easier and simpler game this time due to properly knowing what to do and how to get it done.
I still need to make the time for practice and summer cant come soon enough.
I am motivated, not just to play but to practice the skills I need to have to be able to compete at the level I want to do.

Easier and faster than ever before.

Enjoy

/Robert Johansson
Re-New NLP