#golf-wisdom

We're so hard on ourselves, we tie our self-worth to our actions [...] When things go badly we start to doubt our basic goodness as human beings. We start to say things like; What's wrong with me? - Zen

There are two types of habit we want to change, the first is a bad habit that we no longer want to practice. The second is a good habit that we would like to cultivate to a point that it is natural to

I want to give you a very powerful tool for when it comes to regulating your thoughts and therefore performing at your very best. I'm talking about using the power of the body scan. No matter who you are

Within the book Zen Golf the three types of mind and their roles are broken down for us to examine in relation to making a golf shot. However as we have seen in this series we can learn a lot about life

If you try to put a cat into an open box in a corner of a room, it will hiss and scratch and fight you all the way. When you get it into the box, it will do its best to jump right out. It will fight and

Our relationship with the word perfection can be described at best as; complicated. A person who is a perfectionist is usually either too scared to try in the first place, or has some kind of neurosis

When things go badly we start to doubt our basic goodness as human beings. We start to say things like; "What's wrong with me?" - Zen Golf The above statement was written about the game of golf,

Our body posture subconsciously reflects our mindstate, if someone gives you a compliment on your looks, your chest puffs out, your shoulders fall back and your chin is held high. Conversely if somebody

Avoiding the 'anyways' is one of the singularly most important pieces of advice I have ever received, both on the golf course and off it. Most golfers, and when I say most I mean all amateur and possibly

A Zen Master asked a student; "Where is your mind?". The student answered; "When I perceive my thoughts it is as if someone is speaking inside my head, so my mind must exist there. The master

In golf as in life we often produce what we fear, that is to say if a golfer who has been playing well all day, approaches a fairway with a lake to one side of it, and then thinks to himself; 'Don't hit

One of the greatest golf books ever written is Zen Golf by Dr Joseph Parent. It is strange for a golf book in that it hardly gives any physical tips at all, choosing instead to focus on the mental side