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Thank you for recommending this! I had a similar flow state practice Sunday that was very rewarding and satisfying.
Going to deep dive on this coach!
Wow Shawn, this is literally the Holy Grail in so many ways, and is a wonderful meeting point of two great disciplines. Just as wearing a polo t-shirt has nothing to do with hitting a good golf shot and what it takes to get there, so too, being a monk has nothing to do with the “feedback loops” one has to perform to achieve true mental well being. Either social constructs may have contextually helped you to do the process, but neither are “fundamental”.
I hope you’ve been able to go down the rabbit hole with the box breathing, I believe your prior work in golf will really prime you for great success there. Box breathing before meditation works really well, as it really primes the body to switch from residual fight/flight modes to the parasympathetic. If I may, coming from long years of study in the Philosophy/Meditation area, one tip…make sure to give at least 5 to 10 mins at the end of your box breathing to soak up the inner state you’ve created with it and really just do nothing but enjoy it. Shine the light of your awareness on it and just observe it. Its fundamentally training the brain to see what it is capable of experiencing within itself and over time you’ll be like Seve Ballestero’s attitude of 4 putting, but with the vicissitudes of everyday life.
Your mind will remember that “home base”/”zone” and really resist ever leaving it and creating unnecessary “bee hives” around everything, which seems to be our default mode that everyone gets by adulthood. You will still make efforts to better any situation, like Seve’s putting efforts to get the ball in the hole, but your mind won’t “suffer” situations any more, as was its past habit, and consequently you will not only be more blissful, but actually more beneficial with actually handling them, which is quite an accomplishment!
Anyhow, thanks so much for your work in golf, it has really helped me enjoy that side of life and literally your way of teaching makes it 100% compatible with some of the highest philosophical teachings (e.g. Stoicism/Yoga/Buddhism/Christian Contemplation) of how to “actually” live the “good” life that I have ever found in my academic and practical studies. If, Socrates ever played golf, and you were alive, he would have most definitely inquired with you first on how to properly do it! Thanks again and all the best!
Wow, nice post Ryan; I am very honoured to be a part of your golfing life and humbled by the way you so eloquently framed how our way of “being” in golf is so compatible with the more efficient ways of meditating. Really appreciate what you confirm and bring to the table with box breathing as I continually come back to it to manage the extra little stresses that inevitably come to everyone’s daily life. Let’s bring golf next level together! 👍👊
Thanks Shawn, the feelings are mutual! Keep following that bliss! Cheers!
This video really resonated with me and the golf I play. I am part of the 2nd group throwing darts. I do think of the past and I do worry about the future. I realized I have never given the present a chance.
Putting was my weakest part of the game and missing pressure 3 footers have taken its toll.
For a year I stopped looking at the ball and just saw the spot I wanted the ball to drop in. It had its merits.
I get the yips very often, specially with the classical grips left hand on top or left hand below. By yips a spasm just before impact. I mean when trying to make a putt from 3-15 feet, my muscles have a mind of their own, I end up jabbing or jerking it way left or right.
Have finally settled on a claw grip. Working on my putting using the claw has for one stopped my yips which always was a thought back of my mind also made me aware yips would happen when I am too upright and not over the ball.
Greatest improvement in my game has been the long putts from wishing I am short so that I get to chip instead of putt , to now accepting that I will get close. Had tried short backswing to long follow through, hitting the ball like a hammer like a slap, trying a long backswing and a long follow through, till I realized the best putts I hit which have great speed and hold the line is when I straighten my right arm after impact. Its all in one motion and is subtle but that’s the feeling. Have started to do so for 6-15 feet putts also. Its subtle the straightening of the right arms but its there and is my swing thought. Dropping many more putts now.
Real short putts 2-5 feet specially the sliders I have weakened the hold of my grip, letting the putter head do its work.
Do you feel the weight of the putter better with one hand more dominate on the grip. I noticed with one handed putting strokes the weight of the putter head is more apparent. I am puting that left hand over the dominant right hand very lightly. It seems like I can feel the weight better especially in the takeaway. Feels like the left is just along for ride. Is this garbage or does it have merit? dunno 🙂
Well, if it feels like one solid block from both shoulder sockets down and you are able to let the arms and putter roll the ball into the picture without interference, then why not?
Shawn.