Here are some questions you should ask before judging a golf swing. Keep in mind, your golf swing doesn’t begin your expression of intention. It ends it. My research led me to understand the incidental nature of movement. Now, I am sharing some questions I asked of our results.

My first question was, who is swinging the club? Each swing and individual golfer is unique. Therefore, what makes them unique? Physiology is certainly a factor. But, what about individual psychology? How do we each link thoughts together and form unique solutions to the same problem?

We are in the mind now.

What makes the timing of synapses firing in one mind different than another? We have to get the answer by making the right assumption. My assumption is – we are all made of the same stuff. Therefore, I’ll trace the answer back one step based on similarities rather than anomalies. What, therefore, makes us take action?

Our brains tell us to act when safety and risk are balanced. Safety means forethought, at a minimum. So, what makes change risky for one golfer and not another? The answer is, the ABILITY to change. What determines ability? If we have no outward signs on which to base our answer, we have to look inside the mind. But, if each mind is different, what answer applies to all minds?

Ok. Then, what is our mental similarity? We each have an unconscious, subconscious, and conscious connection to life. Hence, under an assumption of psychological competence, where does change begin? Right away, we know it doesn’t begin in the conscious mind. That’s where our actions happen. What about our subconscious mind?

Certainly, we consider action passively in our subconscious. However, the subconscious is more likely responsible for the risk-reward mechanism. Why? Because we form intention here. Change is either worth our time or it isn’t. The subconscious, therefore, is our filter. Why do we have a subconscious mind? My answer was because we have needs to express in action.

Need emerges from our Unconscious mind, and is the engine of change. Conscious Action is when rubber-meets-road. Our Subconscious Intention is the transmission between our engine and our road. Whether a four-cylinder or a twelve-cylinder Need is powering our change, we express the strength of our Need with actions.

A four-cylinder Need never makes it through our subconscious. It is not strong enough to power our change machine, so we throw it out with the risks that down-sized it. Twelve-cylinder Needs torque up our intention quickly, and launch us into tenacious, persistent change with no regard for risks.

Change is about leaving our four-cylinder Needs behind and sticking to our passions of the twelve-cylinder variety. Unfortunately, some golfers never experience a twelve-cylinder Need,  so they don’t realize what they are missing. Their subconscious piles on the risks, causes fear, and shrinks the size of their Need.

However, to some, slower is better. Slower is familiar or predictable, which may be comfortable. Comfort is happiness… to some. Adventure is happiness to others. What makes the difference?

We have no scientific explanation why one mind is arranged differently within the same parameters of sanity, intelligence, and wonder, while experiencing completely different realities within the same dynamic. We have empirical data, but even that is subjectively-derived. So, where do we turn for answers? Everything we now understand leads back to unconscious Need.

Whether we want the answer to a problem, a reaction, a desire, a fear, a goal, or any other question, our pre-existing condition, preceding all discovery, is Need. Furthermore, the only discipline that I believe takes all others into account is Astrology. Believe me or not, knowing our astrology explains our mental differences, capacities, and self-imposed limitations.

My advice to you is, go find your chart. Learn why you are the way you are. Learn why you relate to others the way you do. Who are your avatars? Who else had your basic zodiac and animal signs in their chart? Once you start digging, you’ll discover why your engine for change is strong or weak, and why your mind is unique. Then, you can judge a golf swing based on better self-knowledge.

Open your stance, and play golf.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy