Muscle Memory Emotional and Otherwise!
I found the web address of the article on Emotional Muscle memory.
http://www.grief.net/Media/Emotional_Muscle_Memory.htm. While 'grief' as dealt by this web site is of a very serious kind, it should not surprise us to see that grief and golf are interrelated.
(Quote: At the Grief Recovery Institute we coined a phrase that relates to the emotional muscle memories we all acquire in childhood: "In a crisis we return to old beliefs and the behaviors that accompany them.")
This statement is so true! While we want Golf to be fun, we do manage to turn it into an obsession and a game of golf becomes a perpetual crisis sooner or later! Once in this frame of mind, we go back in time and all those hidden and forgotten fears take hold! Some of us Indians, I am sure, would not fix our Tee time during Rahukalam (Time slot fixed in an almanac for each day, when it is inauspicious to start anything important!).
While we may not touch the ground on the first tee to propitiate as some of the soccer players and our own musicians do as they step in, it is possible we would say silent prayers to our own 'personal' deity! I plan to check with our golfing friends whether it is necessary to perform ‘ayudapooja’ during the Navarathri festival! It is common practice on that day to perform a pooja of our vehicles and the machines in our factories, so why not our golf clubs! We know our epic heroes performed a pooja of their weapons every time they went into war.
We all know how some phobias we had managed to submerge in our consciousness resurface again. My fear of water is a good example! I think my inability to chip from the fairway goes back to days when as kids we were forbidden to play on the lawns. I still remember the first time I played on a good course with a well-manicured fairway. Regretfully, I topped every chip I made from this fairway!
(Quote: The simple explanation is that our brains memorize passageways from stimulus to response at nearly imperceivable speeds. What is also obvious is that once the electro-chemical coding takes place and becomes entrenched, it is very hard to dislodge.)
This ‘simple’ explanation I believe needs a deeper study and analysis. I think it will also throw light on how we fail to improve in spite of all the hours we put in the driving range. More of this later!
http://www.grief.net/Media/Emotional_Muscle_Memory.htm. While 'grief' as dealt by this web site is of a very serious kind, it should not surprise us to see that grief and golf are interrelated.
(Quote: At the Grief Recovery Institute we coined a phrase that relates to the emotional muscle memories we all acquire in childhood: "In a crisis we return to old beliefs and the behaviors that accompany them.")
This statement is so true! While we want Golf to be fun, we do manage to turn it into an obsession and a game of golf becomes a perpetual crisis sooner or later! Once in this frame of mind, we go back in time and all those hidden and forgotten fears take hold! Some of us Indians, I am sure, would not fix our Tee time during Rahukalam (Time slot fixed in an almanac for each day, when it is inauspicious to start anything important!).
While we may not touch the ground on the first tee to propitiate as some of the soccer players and our own musicians do as they step in, it is possible we would say silent prayers to our own 'personal' deity! I plan to check with our golfing friends whether it is necessary to perform ‘ayudapooja’ during the Navarathri festival! It is common practice on that day to perform a pooja of our vehicles and the machines in our factories, so why not our golf clubs! We know our epic heroes performed a pooja of their weapons every time they went into war.
We all know how some phobias we had managed to submerge in our consciousness resurface again. My fear of water is a good example! I think my inability to chip from the fairway goes back to days when as kids we were forbidden to play on the lawns. I still remember the first time I played on a good course with a well-manicured fairway. Regretfully, I topped every chip I made from this fairway!
(Quote: The simple explanation is that our brains memorize passageways from stimulus to response at nearly imperceivable speeds. What is also obvious is that once the electro-chemical coding takes place and becomes entrenched, it is very hard to dislodge.)
This ‘simple’ explanation I believe needs a deeper study and analysis. I think it will also throw light on how we fail to improve in spite of all the hours we put in the driving range. More of this later!
Labels: Golf 'Oriental'
posted by Doreswamy Srinidhi at
7:15 AM
1 Comments:
The memory part actually still occurs in the brain. Synapses fire and everything that goes on in our bodies is working through our brains. Physical addicitons (smoking, for example) are actually all in your head. The chemicals may be addictive, but it is your brain where the memory is stored of the sensations you crave. Habitual routines are the same, which is evident in that the Obsessive Compulsive mental disorder amplifies the effect. Grief, happiness - indeed all emotions as well as actions - can be addictive and you can choose your addiction. You just have to feel it enough to get your brain expecting and demanding it. We really can control our worlds by simply making choices.
Unfortunately, the golf swings of most amateurs are not repetitive enough to make this happen. You're better off controlling your mind, where golf really takes place.
Glad to see you're back to blogging!
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