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Searching For The Secret Of Playing Golf
Clint Hitchcock
Character is the result of two things, mental attitude, and
the way we spend our time. It is what we think and what we
do that make us what we are.
So many players are in search of the secret to playing the
game of golf. Ready to try anything, they search for the next
great tip or swing thought. If it works for a while, and it
sometimes does, you feel as if you have it. The secret. You
hit some good golf shots and the magic tip is the greatest
thing in the world. How long will it last? Usually, not long
at all. You seem to fade back to your old self. You find yourself
searching for the next latest fad or advice from a swing guru.
In reality, nothing has changed at all. You still have the
same golf game.
In this day and age, we are so overloaded with information:
work, home, friends, family, trying to succeed, it is hard
to find a way to establish any kind of peace within your mind.
When playing golf, do you ever carry on conversations with
yourself? I know I have! "Way to go stupid, why did you hit
it in the lake" or, "Is this enough club?" How about trying
to keep your left arm straight or keeping your head still?
Your mind is so full of noise that the body can't respond
like it should.
Why do we suffer in life? Because in the scheme of nature
we are being forced forward in evolution and we lack the spiritual
illumination that alone can light the way and enable us to
move safely among the obstacles that lie before us. Usually
we do not even see or suspect the presence of trouble until
it suddenly leaps upon us like a concealed tiger. One day
our family circle is complete and happy. A week later death
has come and gone and joy is replaced with agony. Today we
have a friend. Tomorrow he will be an enemy and we do not
know why. A little while ago we had wealth and all material
luxuries. There was a sudden change and now we have only poverty
and misery and yet we seek in vain for a reason why this should
be. There was a time when we had health and strength: but
they have both departed and no trace of a reason appears.
Aside from these greater tragedies of life, innumerable things
of less consequence continually bring to us little miseries
and minor heartaches. We most earnestly desire to avoid them
but we never see them until they strike us, until in the darkness
of our ignorance we blunder upon them. The thing we lack is
the spiritual illumination that will enable us to look far
and wide, finding the hidden causes of human suffering and
revealing the method by which they may be avoided: and if
we can but reach illumination the evolutionary journey can
be made both comfortably and swiftly. It is as though we must
pass through a long, dark room filled with furniture promiscuously
scattered about. In the darkness our progress would be slow
and painful and our bruises many. But if we could press a
button that would turn on the electric light, we could then
make the same journey quickly and with perfect safety and
comfort.
Clint Hitchcock - http://simplegolfogy.blogspot.com
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