Imagery is a way of refining and organizing a natural process, just as one can refine one’s thoughts and emotions to serve you better. The most common form of imagery is “worry.” In Mental Imagery, we turn this natural, innate process to your advantage, putting you in more control of your mind . . . and your life. Imagery is the language that allows your mind to directly affect your body.
Most people think of Mental Imagery as “seeing the ball going where you want it to.” Imagery is so much more than that. However, learning to imagine (see, hear, sense, touch, smell) the ball going exactly where you want it to is essential. Some people can easily “see” the ball going where they want it to. Others “sense” the flight of the ball as a trail or track of energy. If you are saying to yourself, “Don’t hit the ball into the lake,” you are going to hit the ball into the lake, because you have set up imagery about the lake, rather than where you want the ball to go. Your body will always cooperate with the imagery your mind has set in motion. When you're thinking about “not hitting into the late,” the lake is all that your mind is imaging or visualizing. And so, the lake is where the ball will end up.
Visualizing success, one swing at a time, or one tournament at a time, is elementary school Mental Imagery. You will want to have vast knowledge and skill in Mental Imagery, if you really want to win the mental game of golf.The most powerful Imagery techniques are symbolic. For example, in order to summon up the Champion Instinct, you may draw on the image of a tiger...or the power of a lightning storm. For that reason, this website has some photo-graphics that are highly symbolic. They might strike you as being strange at first...but then, that's why I'm introducing you to symbolic imagery early on. You want to make friends with one of the most potent tools in your Golf Bag.
