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The Inner Game of Golf

I just got Tim Gallwey's book - inner game. Looks like we agree on lot of things, but the book also make me thing of lot of new things. Very big on is, that I am not how I perform. If I score under 80 it does not make me good nor does a round of 120 make me unworthy.

So why do I want to drop my handicap 40 strokes? It does not make me a better person even I achieve that goal? Well, the dropping of 40 points from my cap, does not make me any better, but the journey to do so - does. I can learn about my self during the process and gain awareness of my self physically and mentally. It might not make me better, but it is an opportunity to grow - learn more about my self. (And it is for me to judge, if this makes me better - or just more conscious about my real life handicaps:-)

My reading of Tims message was to gain more awareness - be curious and experiment, and get feedback - most of all from your own senses - the more you use your senses the better. "Calibrate your body", give it enough experience to judge different situations and let it do its' best.

I will try some awareness exercises on accuracy next Tuesday.

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