Does Learning Through Yoga Mindsets Will Lead To An Improved Golf Swing Mechanics Overall?

March 1, 2010 by · 7 Comments 


Yoga Video Tree Pose - Vrksasana

For the serious golfer the game is a dedication to improving one’s golf skills and mindset. It’s an opportunity to get away for some 4+ hours from the daily grind and stress of  everyday living. Most of the time this isn’t done and instead we bring our anger, frustrations and temperament with us out on to the golf course. Instead what you observe most of the time is frustrated golfers heaving golf clubs, making vehement self-incriminatory remarks, swearing, and throwing temper tantrums that would rival those of a 2-year-old.

Focus is the last word you would use when observing images of the frustrated golfer. Golfers who don’t learn to appreciate the mental aspect of  golf will remain frustrated or give up completely before mastering the game.  Perhaps no sport is more wrought with mental hazards than golf. The game introduces a constant struggle between the conscious mind analyzing, alert, logical, understanding and the subconscious mind that deals with the intuition and the implementation of your long-term memory with regards to the golf swing mechanics.

The constant battle of giving yourself up to time in practicing and the amount of depth  for available instructions contributes to golf’s reputation as an intensely mental game.  There are volumes of  detailed videos and books on the sciences of the game.  Golf is a multi-billion dollar industry of golf equipment and one-on-one coaching is considered incomparable to any other sports.  Yet all the instructions in the world won’t help you if you allow stress to seep into your game. Even though golf fundamentals are learned in the conscious mind, they are stored in the  regions of the subconscious mind.  Yet by incorporating elements of yoga into different positions,  you can develop the mental discipline that golf demands.  The Flow of Concentration.

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