Enlightened Golf

Playing Enlightened Golf requires an understanding of the performance-mechanisms with which golf is played. In other words, golf is a mental endeavor; and playing Enlightened Golf means playing with an understanding of what the Mind is and how to use it to create the outcomes you desire.

Thanks to modern science, and medical research, we can now observe the pathway through which human activity takes place. Interestingly, this performance pathway has been discussed for thousands of years, in practically every culture and religion, and only recently has science and medicine ‘proven’ what the ancients knew: Thoughts become things through a series of energetic exchanges through which energy becomes denser and slower. Einstein was perhaps hinting at this process when he said that Energy and mass were interchangeable, or were the same ‘stuff’ moving at different speeds (E=mc²).

The performance-pathway looks like this: Thoughts arrive in the Brain and create Electrical energy, which travels through the Nervous System, stimulating Endocrine glands to release Hormones which act on the Cells of the body causing them to change shape and function – the collective result of which is all of the activity of the human form. Thoughts become things; “As a man thinketh, so it is done unto him.” Remember, “Golf is ninety-percent mental.”

The Mind-Body-Club Connection is simply a description of the performance-mechanism used to send the golf ball toward the hole. All human action is generated in the Mind in response to a desire; the receipt of thoughts in the Brain begins the physical processes which manifest the action we wish to see take place. Thoughts emerge; our bodies respond; and a club swings.

In other words, when we decide to swing a golf club, our Mind sends a burst of information to our Brain which generates the electrical and chemical messengers which ultimately change the shape of the body so quickly that we can potentially propel a golf ball hundreds of yards with some degree of accuracy – by swinging a golf club. It is amazing to think of the billions of chemical signals required to generate the muscle activity needed to swing a golf club; but those signals also contain the guidance information which can ultimately allow a golfer to hit a hole-in-one if the right conditions exist.

All of the factors influencing the flight of the ball are transmitted from the Mind, through the Brain and Nervous system to the Endocrines, and through the bloodstream to each cell of the body – causing the musculoskeletal changes which cause the body to swing the arms, which in turn swing and position the golf club in a way ‘intended’ to deliver the precise amount of energy and spin to the ball in order to move it to its target. So now that you know, what do you do?

Pete Koerner, Sports Performance Consultant

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