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.