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By: Charles W. Boatright
A Force that Can Change Your Life and How You Live your Life!
The FORCE be with you that will challenge you with an opportunity to actually change and improve your life and your potential to actually thrive.
With every challenge comes with it an opportunity to actually improve how you live your life. Isolating due to COVID-19 virus will allow us to slow down and reflect on our lives.
Sometimes the best antidote to life’s trials is in our humor, as this is proven to be the case in the movie Caddyshack, about the term FORCE:
Ty Webb- played by Chevy Chase mentioned to Danny Noonan- played by Michael O’Keefe– I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball.
The term FORCE can be broken down into five simple coaching components that can not only be used in sports, but especially to improve our lives during this period of time.
I’m an avid golfer, and I golf coach where I understand and realize the significant role that the athlete’s mind contributes to their performance. High-performing athletes have learned to perform even under high intensity and highly competitive conditions, with a high degree of confidence, calmness, and resolute.
There’s a particular part of the athlete’s mind that has a major influence over their performance. It is all based on information that we put into this part of our minds. It is how we used information to guide the athlete’s mind, body, and soul.
The subconscious mind influences 90 percent of the athlete’s performance that doesn’t get the attention that it should and deserves in training. This is a great time to tap into this huge potential since we are having to shelter in place. To understand this Force of the subconscious mind and Get in Touch with it, we need to stop thinking and instead focus on what we are able to do. In reality, what we can’t do is immaterial any way, so why focus on what we can’t do.
One other thing that will come out of this COVID-19 Pandemic is panicking is the worst thing to do, but instead follow a process that can be established. Instead of focusing on the total goal needed to be reached sometime in the future, just focus on the process and what you need to do today and work on that. Because that will indicate what you will need in the future based on what we have encounter today. Sometimes we can exaggerate the problems and underestimate our potentials that we have.
What sports emphasizes is that thinking during our performance can be detrimental, but is actually the worst thing you can actually do to perform at a high level. I have included five out of the ten parameters that I use in my coaching technique that are key to obtaining high performance and to tap into this amazing FORCE- Our FAITH:
The FIRST parameter of the subconscious Mind
The FIRST parameter of the subconscious mind is that it can’t distinguish between positive or negative input or information. This is crucial for the athlete’s performance. Whatever the predominate focus is of the athlete, the subconscious mind will act or respond, based on that input. Think about improper data-provided to models that the medical task force been given during the White House briefings.
If you’ve been following the COVID-19 Press conferences from the White House Task Force, you’ll see how the models that Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx referenced during the briefings have constantly changed, based on the data plugged into the model. The models are only as good as the reliable data that was used. If the models were wrong, it wasn’t so much the modeling issue, as the data put into the models.
We often overestimate obstacles and underestimate our potential. Even big obstacles are composed of a lot of smaller tasks.
It is critical to focus on what you feed your subconscious mind, especially during this critical period. Your subconscious mind will only respond to the data that you are feeding it. Just remember, your subconscious mind is responsible for 90 percent of your capability to respond and function and it can’t distinguish between positive or negative input. Don’t derail your subconscious mind by limiting its ability to perform on wrong and/or negative data.
Like I use to remind my transmission line crews, we aren’t paid based on how not to do a job, but how to perform and complete the project. You can waste your time figuring out how not to be productive, or focus on what we need to be doing to become productive.
Example of inputted information you feed your subconscious mind: So if I’m standing on a par-3, and the last thing I did was to focus on what I didn’t want to do, which is to hit my tee shot into the water hazard. Guess what my subconscious mind will process? You guessed it, what I didn’t want to do. Over the years, I have learned to just focus on what I want to do and can do, because my subconscious mind will support what I want to do anyway.
If your last focus point was, I don’t want to hit my tee shot into the water hazard, your subconscious mind only hears this– I want to hit my tee shot into the water.
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A big part of your FORCE is your FAITH that plays a major role in the your performance. You’ve heard coaches tell their athletes before taking the field to trust their training and just focus on each play and its objective.
Conclusion: Focus on what you can do; and not what you can’t do. What you can’t do is immaterial anyway, so why waste the time and energy.
The SECOND and THIRD parameters of the subconscious mind
The SECOND and THIRD parameters of the subconscious mind is that the subconscious mind can’t distinguish between the virtual and actual situation. These are really key components in how the athlete should train. It is essential for the athlete to replicate conditions that they will perform under during training. This type of training is the reason why football coaches and teams scrimmage. We don’t have spring training this year to get a feel for our favorite College Football team, Scrimmage games give the team a real taste of game-day experience. Remember the movie Rudy, where Rudy Ruettiger understood the importance of the role that he played on the practice squad in getting the varsity team ready mentally and physically for game-day.
THE THIRD parameter is to replicate game-day conditions- It was at a spring scrimmage game at Alabama that I saw for the first time Tua Tagovailoa, the University of Alabama Crimson Tide backup quarterback, perform under game-day conditions. I never seen a quarterback that played with such confidence, skills, and capabilities as Tua Tagovailoa until we all had the pleasure of watching LSU Quarterback Joe Burrow. We been treated in the 2019-2020 football season to one of the best football seasons in recent times. There one key to these talented athletes’ ability to perform, their vision and purpose.
If the athlete’s training doesn’t resemble their performance, the subconscious mind will actually sabotage their training and go back to what it recognizes and resembles the conditions they are playing under. This will actually discount hours spent in the backyard, range, or practice field. This is especially true for the golfer, as well. This is the main reason why the golfer finds it difficult to take their game from the range to the golf course, because the conditions they train under don’t resemble playing conditions and their subconscious mind envision two different situations.
HERE’S a SIXTH CONDITION of the TEN- If there’s a conflict between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, the subconscious mind wins out every time.
Below I have a simple golf practice that I do in my training facility, which would be very helpful especially now during COVID-19, since we are confined to our homes. My objective that has a competitive edge is to place 5-golf balls inside a 2- foot target area in a 10 series of 5- shots, for a total of 50- golf balls that I hit each day. It becomes natural and instinctive to me. If more than one golf ball misses the target area in any one of the 10- series of shots, I must start over.
To add a little more pressure to my training, I actually videotape my training sessions, like I did in the two YouTube Videos below that are FREE on my website. This establishes a really great practice session, because it makes the golf course a less pressured situation. Because this type of training is actually more difficult than the golf course. If you don’t play golf, than start an exercise routine that challenges you.
Bunt-Rap-Rip Golf Swing Video
The FOURTH parameter of the subconscious mind
The FOURTH parameter is related to the perception of time which is overlooked, the subconscious mind, responsible for 90 percent of your capability. The subconscious mind doesn’t experience actual time in the same way as the conscious mind does. This is key to the athlete’s training, especially at the start of their training session. Starting slow is a key component, because your subconscious mind views time as passing faster than your conscious mind.
Here’s a key fundamental- You conscious mind has the routine and sequence to follow. Your subconscious mind has the motor skills (or the engine to your performance) which are instinctive. Your routine is like a walking trail, the more you use it the easier it is to follow. On the other hand, if you hadn’t use the trail in a long period of time, or is new trail, it is a little more unfamiliar and difficult to follow, especially if it has turns or junction points.
The way to include your conscious mind is to maintain a routine. It is important to maintain your normal day as if you were working and to keep your routine schedule. After I retired , I started my golf and apparel business in 2015. I have an Online Store on my website that you can visit to view my online coaching sessions and my apparel. I maintain a rigid schedule that also includes a one-hour exercise routine that I did a YouTube Video on, The CASPER Fitness Program. In the photograph below, I’m 62 years old. Your fitness besides a great way to fight disease is also a great anti-aging component in your overall heath.
Case-in-point is Wade Boggs taking advantage of how his subconscious mind perceive time as faster, Wade Boggs trains constantly when he played with the Boston Red Sox and can actually detect the MLB label and stitching on a 95- mph fastball, because he constantly took batting practice looking at various fastballs.
This is a key factor, especially with golfers, The golfer should treat the first two holes are almost like warm ups holes to the rest of your game. Don’t expect to come out firing on all cylinders. So why not just treat them as startup holes for your golf game? Use the slow approach, like you’re warming up for exercises. This will take a lot of pressure and stress off of you at the first. This where Yoga and/or Pilates are a great way to start your day, exercise session, or athletic activity, like a round of golf.
When you warm up with movements it helps to engage the subconscious mind. The muscles have to be synchronized with your subconscious mind. A SEVENTH parameter of the subconscious mind is that your subconscious mind doesn’t sleep, this is why you dream while sleeping. So why should you think your muscles are ready to go when you step foot on the course, field, or court. The answer is that you CAN’T!
As part of my CASPER Fitness Program, I use a Medicine Ball and perform Pilates.
You can use my FREE CASPER Fitness Program to set up your own Home Gym and set up a great exercise program. You can use my YouTube Video to set up your own Home Gym. Below is a photograph of the equipment that I use in my workout routine. The big ticket items are the punching bag and stationary and/or bicycle that I use. Instead of these you can simply walk.
Taking a simple walk with your best friend is a great exercise for both the body and mind. Your dog is always a faithful companion that is ready as much as you are for taking a walk. I’m pictured below walking my Golden-Cocker Retriever on our two mile walks. I can walk Sebastian without a lead because he stays close by and listens to my commands. I even got him trained to seat in place if a vehicle approaches.
Great aerators do this with what we refer to as Icebreakers at the first part of their speech.
Icebreakers are actually warmups for public speakers. This takes a great deal of discipline, but this slow startup practice approach is a very effective on the golf course or at home during this COVID-19 Pandemic. We have learned to slow down our lives at the present time. Once you accept that, you are more likely to perform at a higher level than you expected. Just like Wade Boggs did with his subconscious mind’s ability to mentally slow down the 95- mph fastball.
I know many of you are homeschooling now and this is a great time to improve your communication skills. Part of my coaching sessions for my athletes deal with their confidence. Part of my training includes using public speaking, where I tell my students that if they believe they are talking slowly, then they have the correct cadence to deliver quality and effective speech.
The same in golf; if you believe your takeaway swing is too slow, you have the correct tempo. A slow takeaway is a great way to set up a great golf swing right through to follow-through.
The FIFTH parameter of the subconscious mind
The FIFTH parameter is what athletes have the most trouble with, The greater the conscious effort reduces the subconscious mind’s intuitive response. Remember, 90% of your ability to perform is the subconscious mind. There’s always a temptation for athletes to want to think, instead of relying on their routine. A great example of this is our routine in driving a vehicle or riding a bicycle. Once you develop a reliable routine, your need of having to think is reduced.
The only conscious, active thinking is really your destination. Over time, You have developed a high degree of faith in your driving routine, so if it works, why think about it or change it. Like for example, while driving, I don’t think about how I’m coordinating the clutch, accelerator, with shifting my 3-Speed in a Corvette. This is where the other teams try to get into the head’s of the other team by causing them to have to think about other issues than just following their proven routine.
A great example of thinking during a performance is a baseball pitcher, like the golfer, as thinking in both are synonymous with having a bad results at the very worst times, during their performance. This only ends up in disaster. Trust me, if you don’t have faith in your routine, you’re not going to develop a new one once you are on the mound or on the golf course, you got to use what you have. It is too late to think anyway. Just have faith in your training, and it won’t let you down. Another key is to start slow until you can come up to speed.
The reason most athletes get out of their routine is because of the time element. They think they have to alter their routine because it isn’t working for them. Your subconscious mind is ready to go, it is your conscious mind that has to warm up. Don’t get discourage persistence pays off everytime.
I have a key coaching technique called Apperception. This technique uses existing instinctive muscle memory to set the wrist action in my golf swing. The reason this is effective is that it can be established slowly with small muscle memory, exactly how the kinetic chain is supposed to perform, small muscles set up the larger muscles. If you can set up to throw a baseball, you’ve got this. Refer to my other YouTube video below:
Remember, your subconscious mind is your survival guide. Just slow down and reflect on what you can do, because what you can’t do is immaterial anyway. Keep your conscious mind busy with reading, learning a new skill, doing your homework, even hitting golf balls in the Bunt-Rap-Rip Golf Swing training and the Garage Golf Tech sessions shown above or taking a walk. I take a walk with my best buddy, my Golden-Cocker Retriever, He’s also a great ball retriever.
These techniques that I demonstrate in my YouTube Videos are the very same techniques used in the actual golf shot that you can practice even where you practice your putting, like I have done in my two YouTube Videos above. Just have a backstop in place to catch those wayward shots.
Actually, the 50 Bunt-Rap-Rip Golf Swing training takes more skills than the regular golf shots from tee-to-green, because it requires more of a finesse shot. This is key to activate your subconscious mind and to alleviate pressures on the golf course, because you develop the same feel for your golf game, instead of a thinking process. You will actually view the first tee box as just a walk-in-the-park compared to the Bunt-Rap-Rip Golf Swing training Garage Golf Tech sessions.
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I have attached the entire list of The Parameters of the Subconscious Mind below:
- The subconscious mind does not and must not differentiate between visualizations and real situations
- Your subconscious feels that time passes faster
- The Quicker and longer the subconscious mind believes and proves something, the harder will it be to alter this belief in any way
- Every thought causes a physical reaction
- What you expect tends to be realized
- Finding proofs to your beliefs strengthens them
- The subconscious mind always prevails in conflicts with the conscious mind
- An idea, once accepted, will remain firmly in place until it is replaced by another
- The greater the conscious effort reduces the subconscious intuitive response
- Suggestions and belief can be used to “program” the subconscious mind
Here are some reference verses on Fear and Anxiety:
2nd Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Joshua 1:9
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
Psalms 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Proverbs 12:25
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
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