What Seeds are you Sowing for Golf?
When golfers under perform in tournaments or competitions, I often see that the seeds for their poor results were sown by their actions well before the tournament begins. How you practice and what you practice, what you pay attention to, all of these things are seeds which in time, will produce a fruit (performance).
Here is a very old story from India
As the seed is so the fruit will be. As the action is so the result will be. In the same soil a farmer plants two seeds: one a seed of sugar cane the other a seed of a neem tree, a tropical tree which is very bitter. Two seeds in the same earth receiving the same sunshine, the same water, the same air.
Nature gives the same nourishment to both. Two tiny plants emerge and start growing. And what has happened to the neem tree? It has developed bitterness in every fibre, while the sugar cane has developed sweetness. Why is nature so cruel to one and so kind to the other?
No, no nature is neither kind nor cruel. It works according to fixed laws. Nature only helps the quality of the seed to manifest. As the seed is so the fruit will be. So the farmer goes to the neem tree, bows down three times, offers flowers, candles and incense, fruits and sweets and then he starts praying ” Oh neem god, please give me sweet mangoes, I want sweet mangoes!” Poor neem god he cannot give them, he has no power to do so. If someone wants sweet mangoes, he should plant the seed of a mango tree, then he need not beg for help from anyone. The fruit that he will be given will be nothing but sweet mangoes.
Our difficulty is that we remain unaware while planting seeds. We keep planting seeds of neem but when the time comes for fruit we are suddenly alert, we want sweet mangoes and we keep crying and praying for mangoes. This doesn’t work. As the seed is, so the fruit will be.
What seeds are you planting? The seeds worth sowing are Trust, Focus, Acceptance, Patience, Persisitence, Awareness & Equanimity.
Too often I see good golfers plant seeds of Doubt, Perfectionism, Frustration, Fear & Expectation.
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