My wife’s favorite restaurant chain is Soup Plantation. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant serving…wait for it…soup…but also serving salad, pasta, pizza, cookies, and amazing biscuits with soft, sweet, honey butter. Did I mention it was all-you-can-eat? My favorite is the chicken noodle soup. There are these real chunks of chicken in a perfectly seasoned base…I don’t care for the noodles too much, so I pick the chicken chunks, add some cut-up green onions, and sprinkle some ground peppers, and I am ready to slurp it down. The bowls are a bit on the small side, so, I find myself heading over to the soup section for second, third, fourth…sometimes my fifth serving of this delicious obsession.

As I take my trip back and forth from our table to the buffet area… I’ve noticed something very fascinating to me. 

Since the bowl was on a smaller scale, I scooped up the soup all the way to the rim of the bowl. This required a very delicate balancing to make it all the way to my table without spilling a drop. In fact, lunch time is busy, and not only do I have to make sure that the soup won’t spill, but i have to walk fast, and maneuver around the people. Not only that…most of the time, my wife would say as I was getting up to go get more, can you get me another bowl as well? So, not only I am doing the delicate balancing act back to the table, I am doing the delicate balancing of the 2 bowls of soup – one in each hand, walking fast, manoeuvering around the people, and NOT spilling a drop. Do you even understand the complexity of this monumental task? 

Ask I look at my hand, it’s in constant motion doing the balancing. And as I am moving my feet and my body is inconsistently bobbing up and down, my hand is somehow anticipating the bumpy ride for the soup and it’s in full overdrive signaling the nerves and balancing and rebalancing the bowl. It’s absolutely fascinating. 

And you know what? I am not controlling any of it? How can I? How can I possibly be that intricately aware and even anticipate the chaos of the body movement and the environment? 

I am going to tell you this right now that what is happening and has happened to prepare for this significant task of delivering soup to my table will blow our minds. We will only understand a fraction of what’s actually going on. And it involves not only our balancing skills, but it involves our conscious mind, our subconscious mind, our muscles, our nerves, our brain, our memory and our neural pathways…so many more things we do not even know…and it all works together while you are not even thinking about it.

Not to brag, but I did it with ease. In fact, it was so easy, it was like I was just taking a nice stroll in the park..and this CAN be your golf swing from now on if you understand how it all works and not interfere with the natural instinct of how your body responds and executes. This can be your golf sw  ing from now on…not focusing or even thinking about the mechanics but trusting and letting go. 

Here’s a quote from Dr. Bob Rotella, who is a pioneering sports psychologist and best-selling author who has revolutionized the mental game of golf. He says this “Once you’ve decided on your shot, let it go. Your subconscious mind will take care of the rest.”. We are going to break thisv down, and once we break it down…this is going to give you a fresh perspective on your golf game and you are going to say…why didn’t I know this already? And not that i know this, it’s going to change everything!!