How to Recover from a Formal Slump
Everybody has experienced times when their performance is disastrous, and nothing seems to go right: You can’t putt for the life of you, well-hit irons appear to strike the plug and the bunker, and even a 7-iron can’t get you onto the fairway, never mind your driver. With a tractor, you probably couldn’t open a barn door!
These rounds could materialize at any time. You’re performing great, and suddenly, something throws you off and makes you lose confidence. It’s bad enough when this occurs during a round, but you know you are in a rut when it keeps happening. Sometimes only one aspect of your game has failed, while everything seems to have been forgotten other times. You experience utter helplessness and vulnerability. You are completely unaware of what is taking place.
A Familiar Sound?
Well, next time you are in one of these “slumps,” pay special heed to your internal conversation – your “self-talk.” It certainly can’t be good! I’ll bet it’s the complete opposite. And how does your physiology fare? Are you boldly patrolling the fairways and greens while striding tall and with purpose? …… NOT!
“Yeh! Brian, hold on a second; I’m down because I’m in a rut. My negative self-talk is caused by how I play, not because that’s how I play.
I know you genuinely think that, but allow me to provide another perspective.
Somewhere along the road, a few missed opportunities or poor performances affected your self-confidence. You concentrated on things and allowed your mind to get “lazy.” You lost concentration on the Process* of playing golf as your thoughts drifted back to outcome-focused golf, and you kept registering what each poor shot you hit indicated. You must be fully accountable for your funk. You are to blame. You are not the subject of it. You are practically ensuring that you won’t play well by acting in a detrimental way to your mind, emotions, and body. This also holds for all your unfortunate events; have you ever noticed how they occur more frequently while you’re going through a “slump”?
Compare your successful rounds to your unsuccessful ones.
Bad breaks occur in both kinds of rounds. When you play poorly, the bad holidays come to you. You weren’t getting bad breaks because you were playing poorly. Because you were playing poorly in your head, you kept getting bad breaks! Even when performing well, you might still have poor luck because it didn’t derail your momentum or make you lose focus. Because, at the moment, you were tuned in and in good mental shape.
Football analysts frequently talk about how relegation-threatened teams don’t get the breaks; it’s the same thing. The players on these teams exhibit a negative, outcome-focused focus that draws the poor holidays.
You have to take accountability for your funk. You are to blame. You are not the victim of it.
It’s important to recognize this idea. You won’t let your Inner Golf Coach work properly unless you are ready to accept that everything that happens on the course originates with you.
You will play golf at the level you wish once you completely accept your inner game and the genuine power of your mind to create the environment around you. Indeed, you might occasionally experience a mental slip, but you’ll be able to explain how it happened and what you did to invite it. By recognizing the indications sooner, you can prevent them from taking hold.
The following Reframe* may be helpful to you: Every downturn is something you bring on yourself to learn about who you are. You can always learn something useful if you pay attention. Consider what you can learn from it, then continue.
Also, you have the assistance of Anchors*.
The following exercises will eliminate any feelings of “poor me” you may have when you’re down and assist you in regaining control by employing visualization* and mental imagery*. It could be simpler to follow the directions by listening to them rather than reading them, memorizing them, and then repeating them yourself if you can access the audio recordings on this subject.
You get to decide, though:
Getting rid of the bad feelings related to a slump:
Part I
Use your peripheral vision and breathing techniques to unwind.
Consider a time when you believed you were going through a slump. Perhaps a specific aspect of your game was consistently weak for a while, or maybe you had a run of poor performances overall.
Now identify a particular moment that defined your slump. Not a generalized sense of the recession or a remembrance of poor play. You must specify a specific memory that best describes the dip. If you were experiencing a driving slump, think back to when you were topping the ball off the tee or doing something like that. Think of a memory that you can easily connect to feeling down.
Got it? Now close your eyes and look at a black-and-white image of that break on a screen before you. Similar to how you might see a movie from someone else’s perspective (you are in a dissociated point of view). Start the movie.
Well, start watching the movie backward from the current moment. Beginning at the moment that you are feeling down. Run the memory exceptionally quickly in the reverse direction. Rewind it to a time when you didn’t feel like you were in a slump.
Here, speed is the key. You’ll soon rewind the movie of yourself that is playing on the screen. While you do that, listen to the sound of the tape rewinding! Shake things up. Act right away!
Fast-forward through it! Faster! Do it once more. Once more!
Faster! Add sound effects now. Play the Benny Hill theme song while you watch yourself on the screen, moving ridiculously quickly and backward while listening to the absurd theme music.
OK, Activate your eyes. Now think of the memory. Take note of the changes. What is the first difference you notice about it now?
Do you recognize the sounds? Your memory moves quite quickly, and so does the image. Your jumbled up the memory and added details that permanently altered how you internally represented it!
Repeat this process numerous times with different recollections and images you may have of your slump. The key to this workout is speed. You’re not looking to take your time.
Whether your putting or extended iron play was off, or whatever it was. Choose a specific memory, and replay it quickly to Benny Hill music while seeing it in black and white on the screen.
Phase II
Reopen your eyes; the pace of this exercise has now returned to normal.
Return to a period when you excelled at that particular aspect of your game. Return to a time when you drove with assurance, smashing it straight and long using the example from above.
Become Connected” with this memory. Reliving as many sensations as possible. When those drives went straight and long, you could see what you saw, hear what you heard, and feel what you felt. Got it? Good
Now, while feeling confident, look at the black-and-white movie of yourself engaging in the old behavior you once called a slump. Watch it for a few seconds before the memory of the dip starts. Hence, if it was a case of poor driving, go back to before you began to drive.
Now, this time, I ask that you Enter the movie and relive it with all of these emotions of assurance, efficiency, command, certainty, ability, and whatever else is at your disposal. Run the rest of the movie using these emotions and the force of this mental state. While this condition is present, let the movie play at its regular speed.
Play the film in magnificent full-color Technicolor. Play it repeatedly at a regular speed. Feel your self-assurance rise. Take attention to the evolution. Run the movie while you are in a relevant setting, reliving it with these fresh, assured emotions.
OK, Open your eyes and take time to unwind.
Now consider the previous slump once again. Isn’t it challenging to get it back?
You erased the unpleasant memories. Now you have a fresh memory. To relive that precious memory, in the same way is practically impossible. Like with any new ability, it will take some practice to get the feel of it. But if you comprehend the procedure and feel at ease using it, you can complete it in seconds. You want it done this way. Fast.
Next, attach those self-assured feelings to relive the memory in your preferred condition.
If you start to “wane” during the course, you’ll want to draw on those self-assured sensations.
You should put this into practice and use it frequently. Considering that speed is crucial in Part I, you want to move in “regular time” in Part II of the workout.
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Have a great Round!
Brian
* The Inner Golf Coach Audio Program thoroughly explains these terms and ideas.
Brian is a member of the International Institute of Sports Psychology, a certified Master Hypnotist, NLP Practitioner, and holder of a Diploma in Sports Psychology. dispozitie clientilorsectiune urmari superioara superioara superioara superioara Tabellen%)MulteZiua ProiectDatorita Aplica Aplica Aplica urmari dispozitie societati societati spatiu împărat pastra împărat simptome sunet sunet pastra
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