Discover Your Mental Golfing 'Zone'

Apart from helping you overcome problems, mental training can help you reach the absolute peak of your capabilities. The mental state known as 'the zone' produces these all-time best performances - where your swing feels flowing, easy and effortless, and you feel you simply cannot do a thing wrong. This is the mental state which produces super-human performances in all sports, including on the golf course. Any golfer who is in this state is virtually unbeatable at their respective level of competition - and at the elite level, you often witness course records being well and truly smashed.

A golfer who is in the zone experiences an unusual feeling of effortless power, guile and control in their shots - and the strange part about this is that the performance does not feel as if it is being controlled by the actual golfer! In fact, they often report feeling as if they weren't responsible for the shots at all - almost as if their body was being guided and directed by a more powerful force (and this is exactly what is happening). Almost every golfer at some stage in their career has experienced this feeling to some extent, and then wondered afterwards "how did I do that?" This is the mystery that surrounds the zone - why does it appear so fleetingly, and then disappear just as quickly as it came? And most of all - why can't we access it all the time? What is the powerful force which is guiding the body during this period?

The answer is the sleeping giant that resides inside all human beings - the subconscious mind, the source of all bodily movement which also stores all past golfing memories and experience. When a golfer is 'zoning', their conscious mind becomes quiet (the normally busy, chattering mind we use all the time), and this allows their more powerful subconscious to run their performance on 'automatic pilot', in the way a computer runs software. This allows their strokes to flow much easier, effortlessly accessing power and control in a way that could never be matched by conscious thought.

This means that when you are in the zone, you have virtually no thought going through your mind whatsoever, your body is just playing on automatic-pilot, powered directly by your subconscious mind. This is not to say that your body is playing without instruction, on the contrary, it is simply getting its instructions from a more powerful and reliable source. The Zone is brought about by learning to allow your powerful subconscious to do your hitting for you, rather than allowing the busy, chattering mind to take charge, which it so often it does. The good news is that most players have no idea how to get into this mental state, which creates a secret weapon for you over your competitors! So how do we get into the zone?

The fact is, apart from a few particular elements which are common for everyone, it seems that all golfers have their own individual way of getting into the Zone. The golfer who understands and knows themselves best is the one who discovers how to access the Zone more often, and put in a strong performance almost every time they play. The zone is a very powerful state, and can help you reach beyond your limitations to achievements you may have never realized were possible. So where is your mind currently directing you? Your recent results in competition will give you the answer every time. Regardless, mental toughness can improve your results and get you into the winners circle more often - even without changing a single stroke in your game.