Dr Karl Morris mind coach to many successful EU players including Graeme McDowell, Lee Westwood, Darren Clark, Padraig Harrington.

Simply put, the zone is meditation in motion - motion in meditation.  Thinking, when coordinated with doing, becomes being. Having one thought and one task sounds like a simple objective.  Consider if thoughts are similar to action, equal and opposite. Do thoughts represent internal motion?  I always imagined that thoughts occupied a space removed from gravity and friction.  I am thinking now that excessive thinking creates friction and detrimental external motion.

One task - one thought - one motion.  If a golfer can do this he or she is the zone - thinking, doing, being - meditation in motion.

I had to take advantage of a mild day here in the north lands.  I was out hitting wedges this afternoon until the 5 p.m. sundown.  WI is a land of darkness in the winter.  A bad timezone for golf.

The following words are from the status of golf as I see it.

My first thought when I read this website is wow. What I mean by that is there is so much information that it is overwhelming. There are so many different thoughts on the golf swing. There are so many so called people that claim to have this secert or that secert.

First Things First

This latest video of Elk discussing his game at the SITD clinic at Pasatiempo prompted me to write my first blog entry on SITD.

I will do this from time to time from now on, rather than start a thread on the forums. I thought what Elk said in this short clip is so important that I wanted to share my perspective of what he said and just how important it is.

Who I Am

I'm a history teacher at a Alexander Hamilton High School in Milwaukee, WI.  I'm 29 years old and I've been playing golf for the past three years.  I am someone who for the longest time had no idea how the guys on tv hit the ball so high and far.  Golf to me was magical.  Three years ago my father in law gave me his old set of clubs and I started playing around, trying to figure out how to hit the ball.  I was on a path towards probably struggling with the game and never being any good at all.  The only advice I got from people was to practice and play a lot and I'd get better.  Thank goodness for the Internet.

What This Here Blog is About

Well I'll be.  Since Festus showed up I'm starting to wonder if the secret is also in the saddle.  Thanks Festus for bringing your whip and ride attitude and good humor.

Recently I have really been realizing how correct it is to know the game of golf does not know your name or anyone's. The shot requires X, and if the player doesn't deliver, the shot doesn't work out. In putting, the world requires a certain delivery speed (a range, but yours in particular), and that determines the only possible path, and that determines the only possible aim, and that requires the player roll the ball wherever the putter face aims, and then full circle the golfer must send the ball with the same (usual) pace that was used to read the putt to begin with. There is nothing personal about it.

Now, the brain has two aspects -- subjective conscious awareness of thoughts and feelings and body state and emotions and memories; and then the non-conscious processes of perception and movement in the brain as organ of tissue and in the body as wired by the nerves and muscles operated by the brain. In modern neuroscience, the past twenty years of research have added to human knowledge 300 times more than known in human history prior to 1990, and almost ALL of that new knowledge is about the NON-conscious processes. The interesting thing is that the body and the non-conscious brain are not at all interested in the MIND, and are totally connected and responsive to ONLY the world as it really is in the external reality outside the mind.