Connection between your open eyes and your range of golf swing mechanical movement skills. How to use the state of your eyes to develop a fluid swing.
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The more open the eyes are, the greater the feeling of stress in the shoulders and muscle tension in the body, which creates internal muscular resistance in the swing.
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Do a physical test: Start with your eyes open, take a few breaths, and move your fingers to see how they feel in the range of motion and how hard it is to move them. There is no fast range to form a sensation. As you open your eyes, you will notice a tension in your shoulders that you can call stress.
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The example of eye placement can be seen in the dancer’s eyes. They are soft, you can tell that they are ajar and they project tranquility.
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If you want fluidity and range of motion in your swing mechanics, then you need to have calm eyes.
How this applies to golf:
Your golf swing should have a fluid tempo and a low range of muscle tension.
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In preparing for a driver swing, close your eyes to allow time to feel your readiness and let your mind adjust the feel to generate power in your swing. In the configuration, closing the eyes, the mind can choose the forces to shape your body based on the sensations reaching the brain and the mind’s choices of what to adjust based on ideas and practice of the mechanics of the swing for that club.
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Keeping your eyes closed allows you to soften your jaw muscles (pterygoid muscles), which reduces the stress of the effects of gunshots on faces and allows you to keep your shoulders low. (One of the root causes of all directional errors is shoulder roll up.) You can keep your eyes closed and hit the ball if your swing mechanics for each club are very refined.
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try to have your eyes half closed and make sure you can still see the ball. Keep your eyes in this position throughout your swing. Do this while practicing swinging with a ball. This exercise is creating a new sensation.
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Just before you make contact with the ball, your eyes will widen and your body will tense up. You can and should try this effect with your eyes barely open and wide open. (This has never been talked about).
Using your eyes to release tension:
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There are two eye positions that you can use during the meditation exercises.
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One is to have your eyes closed and the other is to have your eyes open at different levels. The hardest thing in meditation is that your eyes are open enough to see NOTHING clearly. Only the soft eyelids make the soft faces related to the softening of the jaw.
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Your eyes are open and closed, the two positions narrowing your mind’s focus between your internal and external noise.
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When your eyes are blurry open you can’t focus directly, that’s the goal so you can be in your central breath directing the moving energy in your body.
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My suggestions: -
I would start with half-open eyes and a soft jaw (pterygoid muscles). Sway with your eyes half open (so you don’t squeeze). Once again, if her eyes widen, she can feel her shoulders tense. -
When your eyes are wide open your shoulders lose their range of rotation-motion. Having your eyes open tightens your entire face and directs energy to your face rather than the mechanics of your swing. -
When your eyes are half open, you can focus on the mechanics of your swing. -
When your eyes are ¾ open, you are going between the mechanics of your swing and what your mental attitude generator is processing. -
Your goal is to cool down your abstract attitude-generating thoughts and transition into your learned swing mechanics. -
These exercises train your mind to capture all your sensations. -
You can have a negative or positive attitude. A negative attitude is always an abstract thought or idea and is based on fear from outside of oneself. A positive attitude is more focused on the physical connection to what you are doing in the ear and now you are in the Zone state with your body in a swinging motion.
Try this
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The bigger your eyes are, the more your mind is focused that affects the state of the body and emotions on purpose.
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The following exercise tests your clarity:
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He half-opens his eyes and looks at a chair. She moves her fingers, they will move easily.
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Next, open your eyes ¾ and look at the same chair. Try to move your fingers; it will be a bit more difficult and the range will be a bit lower than when you had your eyes half open.
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Finally, open your eyes wide and look at the same chair. She tries to move her fingers; it becomes impossible for her fingers to move.
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This test shows the link between the eyes and range of motion. The goal is to have calm eyes, calm jaw and calm faces.
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You cannot soften your shoulders. Calm eyes retain the energy of your body.
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To calm your eyes, inhale through your nose, then exhale while blowing your lips as if you were blowing a trumpet. Allow your eyelids to drop to create blurry vision on your exhale. The exhalation for the best effect is created from the movement of the navel. As you exhale, pull your navel in toward your spine and down to your tailbone. You have to have soft shoulders to get the longest exhale.
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This will allow your shoulders to soften and your entire body to soften. Use your exhalation through your lips to lower your eyes, then pause as you feel empty. Then open your eyes halfway. This is the state you want to be in to shape your golf.
Conclusion
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If your goal is to have better swing mechanics, I suggest conditioning your mental attitude generator to use your energy more efficiently. This is not simple to achieve, but it is simple in concept. -
You do this by using your internal forces to engage certain muscle groups and notice your sensations of energy. Here is the RULE. The more you feel, the less you think or have abstract thoughts. The more you think or the attitude generator is processing a myriad of ideas, the less you feel your body swinging, so the less you will enjoy it. -
Your goal when practicing swing mechanics is to have a feeling high and abstract thoughts low to work to create a Zone state in your golf swing. The way you shape your eyes and pterygoid muscles is key. -
When a person is calm their eyes are not fully open. This is because it will initially make your shoulders looser. As soon as you have an intention, your mental attitude generator kicks in and then your eyes widen. This action tenses the face and jaw, which in effect tenses the shoulders and entire body. -
A quiet swing is a good swing. Relaxing will allow you to have a wider range of motion and feel more while building and doing your swing mechanics. It also allows you to have stronger feet, hands and head. -
You must recondition your mind and increase the physical sensations in your mind, so that the mind forgets the old mechanics of the swing and the goal is always to have a swing zone state. This is a repeatable effect. -
Being able to project the right starting point for your eyes will change your entire physical feel to the mechanics of your swing. The starting position of your eyes affects your jaw, shoulders, body, feet, hands, face, and mind. -
Having a full understanding of how you can shape your eyes triggers positive swing mechanics.
The mechanics of the swing and the central generator with the attitude generator and the movement of energy during a Zone swing can be seen in Ben Hogan’s book, Five Lesson in the Two drawing. Understanding those two drawings in information about what he did with his Swing Mechanics is not part of the Book. One has to realize his own internal forces for his oscillation of the Oscillation Mechanics Zone state. Zone is swing without abstract thought therefore it has high sensations.
To help understand those two drawings, I created a YouTube series detailing little development points for the Zone State swing mechanics with each club. Ben Hogan gave me the right ideas and the best swing mechanics to build his own swing.