How To Prepare For Golf

How To Prepare For Golf

Improving your game isn’t all about time on the driving range. Find out why defeating your inner critic could help defeat your opponents. Please see more quirky videos at www.thebowmoreway.com!

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Step 1:

Negative Self-Talk

We are trying to fight what we call "the inner critic." Everyone's really good at criticizing themselves. Everyone's really good at paying attention to the inner critic and negative self-talk.

If someone said to you particularly negative things, it's very rare that you would actually decide to agree with them. You'd usually want to challenge it.

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Step 2:

Inner Critic

So practice doing that with your own inner critic. Human nature and your brain is wired to actually pay attention to errors, things that don't look right, patterns that are not patterns.

So we're actually attuned to look at errors, so we naturally want to look at what went wrong, so one of the important things is to take control of that negative self talk, the faulty cognitions, we call them.

So for example someone might cancel an inner critic thought about 'that was a poor shot,' by saying, 'well, two weeks ago I actually played a very good execution shot," so they cancel the defense of talk by something much more positive.

Relax, breathe, and you'll actually take control of those negative thoughts and try and win the battle of the mind, in a sense.