In a tense situation the best way to regain your composure is to work in the opposite direction, to get your body to calm down, this in turn will allow your mind to calm down by taking several deep breathes, and by pushing away any negative thoughts.
There’s a good method called “Treeing” which seems appropriate since you’re on the golf course with plenty of trees. What you do is take your emotions in this case negative thoughts and put them onto something else.
Some older cultures throughout the world have used this technique for centuries. They learned to pass their bad feelings or negative emotions to a tree, hence the name.
So next time when you’re on the golf course and you’re losing your cool find a tree and push or touch it physically releasing your pressure that you’re feeling into the object and leave it there.
After you have dealt with the past it’s time to move on to the future which in this case is a new hole, or shot at hand. Remember you can’t change the past, but you can profoundly affect your future with the proper mind set. There’s no longer a reason to carry all this emotional baggage to the next hole so let it go.
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