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from KeyGolf...... October, 2008
Among the conditions that
form a persistent distraction for us, the foremost of those is easy to
identify. Clear and simple, it is the preponderance of mental game coaches
and commentators who ignore fundamental issues and principles found to be
critical to any quest for excellence in the game. Most simply lose track of
the goal as they become more engrossed in shaping clever answers to questions
not understood. That has led to many books and articles essentially saying
the same incomplete things, just in many different ways, hoping for some kind
of "original" presentation that will appear unique enough to
attract players. "Because I do
strongly believe when you understand how your internal machinery works, you
will have the opportunity to create some of the changes you truly desire in
your life. Most of the programmes you have heard before, are full of
things you have to do, like setting goals, or saying affirmations or any
other number of secrets. The one way as to why this programme is very
different, is we are not going to set a strict agenda of what you have to do,
but give you an understanding of what is STOPPING you getting in the way
of your hopes and dreams. Think of your brain as being like a satellite
navigation system in your car. You can punch in your destination (your
goals), you can have a great piece of machinery to take you there (your body)
but one thing that you absolutely have to avoid and work your way around
on your journey are ROADBLOCKS, you need to know in advance where
the trouble is and how to get around it, because if you don’t, the fantastic
car and the magical sat nav system will only leave you feeling the frustration
of being STUCK." We also just received the
following, last evening, from Andrew Neil, who was introduced to the
automatic process and clear keys back in 2005. He sent us
an extract from the book, "Frogs into Princes," by Richard Bandler
and John Grinder, who have formidable rank among authoritative NLP
researchers and developers. "One
woman had a phobia of heights. Our office was on the third story, which
was kind of convenient. So I asked her to go over and look out the window and
describe to me what happened. The first time she went over, she just
choked. I told her that wasn't an adequate description. I had to know how she
got to the point of choking and being very upset. By asking a lot of
questions, I discovered that what happened is that she would make a
constructed picture of herself falling out, have the feeling of falling, and
then feel nauseous. She did that very quickly, and the picture was outside of
consciousness. So I asked her to walk over to the window while she sang the
National Anthem inside her head. Now that sounds kind of silly, except that
she walked over to the window and she didn't have the phobic response! None
whatsoever. She'd had the phobia for years and years and years. A man who
was a Cree Indian medicine man, a shaman, came to a workshop and we were
discussing different mechanisms that worked cross-culturally as far as
inducing change in a rapid and effective way. If a person has a headache, an
old semi-gestalt thing to do is to sit them in a chair, have them look at an
empty chair, have them intensify the feeling of the pain, and have the
intensified pain they are feeling develop into a cloud of smoke in the other
chair. Slowly the smoke forms itself into an image of someone they have
unfinished business with, and then you do whatever you do. And it works; the
headache goes away, The
counterpart for this-shaman was that he always carries a blank piece of
paper. Whenever anybody comes to him and says "I have a headache, will
you assist me?" he says "Yes, of course, but before I begin I want
you to spend five minutes studying this piece of paper in absolute detail,
because it contains something of great interest for you." The thing in
common about those two interventions is that they both involve switching
representational systems. You break up the process by which the person is
having the experience they don't want to have, by having their attention
riveted in some other representational system than the one in which they are
presently receiving messages of pain. The result is absolutely identical in
both cases. By studying the blank piece of paper intently, or by intensifying
the feeling and making it change into a picture in the chair, you are doing
the same thing. You are switching representational systems, and that is a
really profound intervention for any presenting problem. Anything that
changes the pattern or sequence of events a person goes through internally—in
responding to either internal or external stimuli—will make the response that
they are stuck in no longer possible." The encouraging
message for us in these two quotes is the hint of forward motion, making one
more step in the right direction. They may still not quite settle on how the
condition of "switching representational systems" and avoiding
being "stuck" are realized in action (executed), but they have
reached out in that direction. What Karl Morris points
to deserves notice. However, even when he offers a challenge to "do
something," what is missing is the most essential part of how to get it
done. He writes in his introduction: "It looks different because some of the information you are going
to encounter, you will have experienced before, but a good portion I am
certain you will not have seen Yes, indeed, though we do
need to know "how" it is done, and the "anywhere" in his
message says either that he has not seen or heard what we have said for the
past 25 years, or that, if he has been exposed to our program, he did not
understand its basis and essential, critical nature without which an
automatic process cannot actually exist…. And more: If we go
back to the analogy of the sat nav and consider how the machinery actually
works; the whole sat nav system is dependent on one piece of information.
Not the location, not the route, not the motorway, but the one
thing we need to start the whole process, is a real clear and accurate
PRESENT LOCATION. We
cannot even start the engine and move unless we know EXACTLY where we are
now. The sat nav just
will not work unless it knows its CURRENT POSITION, then and only then, can
it begin to calculate how to create a route to the required destination.
In just the same way for you to begin your journey, to where you
want to go, you know you have to have an honest and clear look at where you
are right now." There is no
doubt, though more folks would miss that point than would get it without a firm
affirmation that, in golf, knowing your location begins with having
your own personal profile and the confirmation of genetic style that
accompanies it. That, of course, begs the question: "Why doesn't
everyone have one or get one? And that would be a very good question, needing
a couple of insightful responses. Number one is that most people don't know
the resource is available, and number two, even if they find someone to do
profiling, it is 95-99% apt to be cast in terms of "personality,"
(which is a legitimate form, but not for golf), rather than uncovering the
more effective frame of reference that goes with behavior style with genetic
roots. In fact, for all the time we have been profiling players, we have
regularly researched profiling, thanks to the Internet, and have not been
able to find anyone else even mentioning style, let alone profiling for
it. Until and
unless players have and use that resource, they will not be able to " begin to calculate how to create a route to
the required destination." At best, under
those circumstances that destination will not be available in its most
complete and effective manner. As long as that body of knowledge remains
cloaked and cloistered, the architecture of the game will go on with a stump
for one of its legs. In the
vernacular of many, "That's not a threat, just a promise." This is
not about "keeping the faith," but finding a more substantial
context for that faith, so that keeping it will not be the handmaiden of
disappointment. =============================== |