By Brandon Richardson, PGA 5/30/12
Before every golf swing, an intention created it. How we swing is merely a physical
manifestation or expression of how the world occurs to us at any given moment.
In other words the way you see the golf course is how you will act on the golf
course. If you look out and have a clear
vision of how the ball will travel to the target, your body will respond
brilliantly to this feedback.
Don’t believe it? Take a ball and toss it underhand towards
a target, but when you throw it, throw it so the ball spins from right to left
in the air….What just happened? I
provided the intention (which you could create yourself) to send a ball to a
target in a specific way so the ball was spinning from right to left. How did
your body know how to move in such a way so that it created this kind of spin? Because there was a clear intention to do it.
Even if you have never thrown a ball in your life, in a short while you would
be able to make the distinction of spinning the ball from right to left, left
to right, and relatively straight. The source of this action or any action is
the intention, the vision and creativity occurring before the action. Anyone
who attends a Golf with Freedom Learning Curve Workshop would experience this
by throwing clubs in a similar way and the foundation of learning to shape your
shots is revealed to have been within you all along, only needing a clear
intention to begin the process of developing your awareness of how to curve the
ball.
Of course if your vision of the ball flight is one that
revolves around “don’t hit it there, there or there” your body will respond to
this feedback too, and it will respond in a defensive, threatened sort of way. It
only takes an instant to have your intentions shift and in turn your actions will
shift as well. This is observed in the
transition of most golfers practice swings to their actual swings. Your
practice swing is smooth, complete, and effortless because your intention is to
make a swing that feels good and sends the ball to the target. Then like Jekyll
and Hyde your intentions shift when you address the ball and your smooth complete
and effortless practice swing becomes a monster. Your intentions turn to survival mode, the
ball becomes the target, and your defensive slash of a golf swing gives off the
body language as one of being hopeful, cautious, or threatened. You created the
context, your body is just doing what it’s told.
And every day life example is if I have letters that need
mailed, my intention is to drop them off at the post office and all my actions
leading me to the completion of this task will stem from that one clear
intention. It’s how we connect to targets, how we create possible futures that
inspire us to act, inspire us to learn, and inspire us to explore and discover
what’s possible that generates real change in our swings, our businesses, and
our relationships.
So can you be
intentional about your intentions? It
takes practice becoming more aware of what was previously operating underneath
your radar of consciousness. Can you
begin to notice when your intentions to swing with freedom are overridden by
your intentions to survive? Can you begin to notice how certain actions match
your original intentions and how other actions don’t? Can you see how the
creation of a possible future is the road map in which your body can begin to
follow?
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