Losing Your Fears
Have you ever experienced a significant change in how you perceive a situation? One where you totally accept what will happen without having to control it? This is a bit like waking up. Everyone has this newfound wakefulness, yet it often goes ignored because we're so into controlling the situations at hand.
This is more of what I consider "letting go" because, quite simply, I have to be beaten into that state before I relinquish the wheel. But I'm learning to wake up quicker. The condition reminds me of a circus performer spinning plates on spindles; the music gets faster as he runs back and forth trying to keep the plates from falling off. You can see fear on his face, a facial gesture that no doubt darkens the faces of golfers when a good round starts to go bad. I know this fear of failure, and it's not fun.
The solution lies in letting go and not caring whether the plates hit the floor. It's much better to let a greater power handle the vagaries of luck so you can golf with the true intention of why you came to the course in the first place. That is to rip the ball around and have fun, regardless of the result.
If the ball goes into the trees or if it lands in a bunker, so be it. Don't let this misfortune steal your joy. The sun is still going to come up no matter how hard you want to change the adverse situations coming your way. Give in to the bad breaks and enjoy the good ones when they show up.
Once you've finally awakened from this sleep-like state of control you'll realize who's really doing the driving anyway. It's not you.
