Body memories.

Our bodies store information about experiences. our muscles, bones and nerves make shapes with our bodies that allow us to feel certian things.

For example; When we stand straight, square our shoulders and smile, we feel vastly different from when we hunch over, drop our heads and frown.

Why is this?

A number of things happen. But to keep it simple, when our bodies make shapes...like when we score a goal in a hockey game, or get suprised by a tap on the shoulder, nerve impulses go to our brains to do the next thing. this next thing comes in the form of a feeling generated by chemicals called neurotransmitters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter. we then feel good, scared, focused or any one of a thousand other things these feelings set our bodies up for the next action.

This process of signalling and reaction happens tens of thousands of times a day, resulting in thousands of operational adjustments in how we act. The good news about this is that when we control the mechanism of signalling, we can better take control of our lives...and in this specific instance, the game of golf.

It may seem simple and virtually insignificant...how we do simple things like standing in a certain way...but try standing in a way that you know is powerful. Act as if you have just drained a thirty-five yard putt on the eighteenth in front of fans holding thier collective breath and you turn to watch the replay on the screen behind the gallery. See yourself do this over a few times in your mind in more detail, and finish with you standing tall with your chin up, smiling.

Do you hear the fans clapping and cheering?

does that make you stand taller and smile more?

Now, in a few moments return to the practice and just stand the way you remembered finding yourself standing when you heard the cheering and clapping. Be careful to find the exact way your feet were placed and how your head turned and which way your arms were pointed. Each deatail you manage to copy from the original shape your body made when you scored that putt will help you more accurately reproduce the feeling again for your future use.

So, in conclusion, it`s not necessary to be able to understand biochemistry to make our bodies work the way we want them to, just be able to find the right postures to access the correct feelings for the job at hand.