How to Tee-Off without getting Teed-Off
Swinging subconsciously means you just swing automatically to the best of your ability, and generally when you're doing this you hit good shots and you play your best golf. So obviously swinging subconsciously is the best way to swing a golf club. To do this consistently you need to learn how to do the following two things..
1. Switch off your conscious mind just before you start your swing, leaving your subconscious mind free to swing the golf club to the best of your ability.
2. Program your subconscious mind with the perfect golf swing for you.
To help you start doing this consistently, I give two audio tracks to my students to listen to.
But listening to those audios is only the start, because you've undoubtedly wasted many, many shots because of your conscious mind interfering in your shots (i.e. telling you how to swing the club or what to avoid etc.). You can only stop this from happening by learning to swing with your subconscious mind consistently.
How are you going to do this?
Well, when playing any golf shot you need to have a technique to distract your conscious mind and allow your subconscious mind free reign to perform the swing that you have programmed yourself with. Because without a technique to distract your conscious mind it is always in a constant state of flux. And to demonstrate how hard it is "try" to quieten your mind, do this.
Right now see how long you can hold the one thought of a pink elephant in your mind before another thought comes along.
Not long is it?
And it will never be long even if you practice this forever, because of the fact that your conscious mind's purpose is to analyze, question and doubt. So unless you learn how to consistently swing with your subconscious mind your golf game will never be consistent and you'll always play well below your potential, because the times when you've hit your best ever shots and played your best ever rounds is the result of you automatically swinging with your subconscious mind. No doubt you've heard about top golfers saying they've been in the "zone" and you've been there as well. The "zone" is simply when a person switches off their conscious mind and executes whatever skill they're performing using their subconscious mind.
But as you've already proven to yourself, if you "try" to consciously quieten your conscious mind, you'll end up fighting with your mind and you'll get worse instead of better.
Now golfers that play nowhere near their potential almost always play with their conscious mind, which means the subconscious is not free to swing the golf club. And this means most golfers consistently play well below the potential they're capable of. You can quite easily tell after every shot you hit whether you've used your subconscious or conscious mind to hit the ball.
How?
Simply by being aware of any tension in your body after the shot. If you have any major tension like you've been consciously controlling the shot then you've used your conscious mind to play the shot. And here's another great way for you to see for yourself the difference between the subconscious and the conscious mind.
Get a pen and paper, then I want you to sign your name, and as you do notice the way the pen flows over the paper.
Then I want you to try to consciously copy the signature exactly as you've just done it.
Did you notice the big difference between the two movements?
See, trying to consciously copy your subconscious signature you would've noticed how slow, forced, and unnatural your hand moved as opposed to the free flowing actions of the first signature. This is because your conscious mind produces tension when trying to copy anything. So your perfect golf shots are clearly produced by your subconscious mind.
But when you consciously try to copy what you did to hit that perfect shot you naturally get the same forced, unnatural result that you received when you tried to consciously copy your signature. Clearly the only way to copy what you did to hit your perfect golf shots is to reproduce that mindset.
The only way to consistently do that is through using your subconscious mind to automatically swing the golf club.