Category: Instinctive Golf Blog

Do you try with your mind to control your bodily movements and mechanics and try to think your way into a proper golf swing? Or do you allow yourself to feel how your body wants to move in order to make an effective golf swing?  Do you try to instruct your body with information about … Continue reading Information vs. Experience

Play facilitates fun……and connects us with the present moment. The present moment is the only time that we learn. Have you ever felt a relaxing physical and mental release after some good clean fun or a good laugh or chuckle? That ‘release’ is something that allows your body/mind and your kinesthetic instincts to flow. Trying … Continue reading Play, Fun and Learning

As anyone who has read my Blogs or the Awaken Your Inner Golfer book knows, my approach to golf improvement and enjoyment is not about technical or mechanical instruction for a perfect golf swing. My approach is about cultivating the internal and external environment that allows our instinctive kinesthetic intelligence to flow for an effortless … Continue reading The Driving Range

Let’s be clear on one thing – you don’t enter “The Zone” by following instructions. The zone cannot be taught. The zone is our true nature, our ‘naturalness.’  Our naturalness is akin to our “effortlessness.” (See the June 2018 Instinctive Golf Blog, Wu Wei, on this site). The zone is a place of effortlessness and … Continue reading The Zone

No mechanical golf swing tips here, but you can learn how to improve your golf game just through awareness. Thought patterns influence physical patterns. Thought patterns are acquired, therefore, they can be changed. Attention and awareness are tools that enable change. We have to know where we are before we know where we want to … Continue reading Learning to Golf by Awakening Instinct

Far-fetched? Maybe not so much! As a little child crawling close to the ground on hands and knees, we noticed all these other big “peoples” standing and moving on just those two things (we eventually learned were called “feet”). These “peoples” seemed so tall with that thing (we eventually learned was called “head”) reaching up … Continue reading Learning to Golf is Like Learning to Walk

“When you lose your swing, just come back.” This is my golf koan.  From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, a koanis “A puzzling, often paradoxical statement, anecdote, question, or verbal exchange used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening.”   The actual Eastern koanis … Continue reading When You ‘Lose’ Your Swing

These are just some of my opinions and questions stimulated by my experiences. You can agree or disagree with these opinions and questions. It might be a good exercise to reflect on your own opinions and experiences. The golf swing is under-learned despite being over-taught. The golf swing is over-taught and made unnecessarily complicated by … Continue reading Some Opinions… Some Questions… and Some Quotes

The ‘keep it simple golf’ approach to improvement is rather simple, but it may not seem “easy” at first. The process may seem “difficult” because of our tendency to rely on our conscious thinking mind in so many of our activities, and to make the shift to trusting in our subconscious kinesthetic instincts to perform … Continue reading Trust

For your meditative experience You can walk out in nature…… You can sit on a cushion and try to empty your mind OR You can use the tool of a golf club as inquiry To see what you might find! Meditation is simply a method or modality that encourages a consciousness beyond our thinking analytical … Continue reading The Meditative Nature of the Golf Exercises