The Mental Game Secret to Staying in the Present

So, what is the real secret to golf’s mental game? Stay in the present. You hear it now and then, but what does it really mean?

Actually, defining the idea of staying in the present, it means to focus on the task at hand.

The real question is: How important is it to stay in the present?

Any psychologists will tell you that emotions such as fear, worry, or anxiety have the greatest affect on athletic performance. But there is a very important fact they don’t tell you…

Emotions can only happen during future or past thoughts. There is NO emotion during the present.

Think about that statement for a minute. The present is when you are acting. The past and future are places you can only think about. If you can keep your mind in the present, emotion cannot affect your performance. This is super important when you are swinging a golf club because any distraction can cause strokes if the swing gets altered by that distraction.

This is powerful because Bio-Visual Focus keeps your mind focused in the present by constantly monitoring bio-feedback from the body and comparing it to pictures created by that feedback. These are all processes that happen in the present, so focusing on them keeps your mind in the present.

What that means is that you can spend less time worrying about how to deal with fear or anxiety. If your focus is good enough, those emotions aren’t even part of the picture!

Bio-Visual Focus not only improves your focus, but it removes the need to worry about emotions that might affect your performance on the golf course, killing two birds with one stone, which allows you to play golf with less on your mind and consistently amaze yourself with lower scores.