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.