| Does that headline create some curiosity in you? | | | | has its attention only on the surface level, and |
| Are you wondering what the heck this is going to | | | | then what you're failing to take into consideration |
| be about. As I came up for the idea to write | | | | as your priority is the unchanging, reliable inner |
| about this, I wasn't quite sure myself. But then I | | | | being of the individual who is swinging the club." |
| thought, let's just go first to a book called | | | | Starting to sound a little far out now? Ok, that's |
| "Quantum Golf" by Kjell Enhager. | | | | what I thought too the first time I read this book. |
| I first read this book a couple years ago, before I | | | | But now, it all makes perfect sense to me. You |
| was trained in Neuro-linguistic Programming (I'm | | | | see, classical physics teaches us about how |
| now a Master Practitioner). And to be honest, I | | | | everything is mechanical. About how you can |
| didn't understand it at all. I even discussed it with | | | | trace back every cause to it's effect in a way |
| my local pro and between the two of us, decided | | | | that can be described or codified by mathematics |
| that it was a book that was better left to the | | | | and known laws of our planet such as gravity. |
| psychology wizards. | | | | This is so much like folks who think that the |
| Lately, I've been extremely fascinated with | | | | gateway to playing great golf is to consciously |
| learning about what is called "Quantum Physics" | | | | work on their golf swing until they somehow |
| (What does this have to do with golf? Don't | | | | come to the idea in their own mind that it is now |
| worry, I'll get there). It seems that scientists have | | | | perfect...and THAT never happens! |
| been studying about things that are smaller than | | | | Quantum golf and Quantum physics itself allows |
| atoms since the turn of the 20th century and | | | | for the dynamic of the human mind to actually |
| that's what they call this science. Remember in | | | | change reality. Yes, that's what I wrote...CHANGE |
| high school or maybe before that, we were all | | | | REALITY. Now, I'm not going to get into a |
| taught that the building blocks of all matter are | | | | discussion about what is reality because I |
| atoms? Well, it turns out it's not true. | | | | sometimes get dizzy thinking about that myself. |
| The big "Aha" about Quantum Physics is that we | | | | However, too many great philosophers have said |
| create our reality through our observations and | | | | things like: "If you think you can do a thing or |
| thoughts. And it's now been proven by physicists. | | | | think you can't do a thing, you're right." Henry |
| These scientists were so baffled by this idea that | | | | Ford.or: |
| some of them ended up turning to mystic | | | | "Nothing is good or bad, except what thinking |
| religions and others went bonkers over it. | | | | makes it so." William Shakespeare |
| Fast forward to Quantum Golf. It's a fictional | | | | In the past, I would have read this kind of great |
| story about a man named Smith. He's from New | | | | quote and thought to myself something like: "Oh |
| York and a typical golfer who has taken | | | | that's nice" and went on my merry way of doing |
| numerous lessons and done everything under the | | | | what I've always done and not getting what I |
| sun in an attempt to improve his game (sound like | | | | wanted to get. |
| anyone you know?). In desperation, he is told of | | | | Today, when I hear or read such quotes I not |
| this golf pro, St. Claire, who lives in the middle of | | | | only believe it in the deepest part of my golfing |
| nowhere in the farmlands of middle America. | | | | body and mind, but I can teach it with the backing |
| Smith flies out to take lessons from him and at | | | | of science behind me. |
| the end of the story, of course, he "gets it" and | | | | Once you really believe in the Quantum nature of |
| starts to play beyond what he thought was | | | | your own mind, all sorts of good things happen to |
| possible. He is taught about creating a "superfluid" | | | | your golf game. Can you think of a time when |
| swing. He learns to have "Q vision." St. Claire tells | | | | you played with pure joy and exhilaration? Have |
| him about the difference between "classical golf" | | | | you ever had a time when you stood over a |
| and "Quantum golf." Classical golf is about the | | | | putt...AND YOU KNEW you were going to make it |
| conscious swing and has gotten him nowhere so | | | | !? Have you ever played with another golfer and |
| far. He tells him that those who have mastered | | | | just felt his or her attitude rub off on you? And |
| Quantum golf hit the ball perfectly straight! | | | | then you played better because of it? I want you |
| St. Claire teaches him such ideas as: "The mind | | | | to have more of these experiences. |