Equanimity – What is it?  And why is it SO important for your game – Jon Adler #234

<p>Equanimity – What is it? </p> <p>And why is it SO important for your game – Jon Adler</p> <p>Today we are joined on the Brain Booster with Performance Coach Jon Adler who has worked at all levels of the game from club players to European Tour winners.</p> <p>Jon is also an accomplished golfer himself and he brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our show today.</p> <p>More importantly he brings a wonderful disarming honestly to our exchange in terms of what CAN and CAN”T be achieved working on the mental aspects of the game.</p> <p>His own story is extraordinary in particular how he had a game changing experience on a TEN day SILENT MEDITATION retreat</p> <p>His journey began in 2001 as a coach to business owners and professionals. When he stopped playing football and started to play more golf.</p> <p>Jon was heavily influenced by Timothy Gallwey’s book The Inner Game of Golf.</p> <p>So I wondered if I could combine what I had learned in coaching business people with this new understanding of the Inner Game of Golf.  I began to coach a friend at my local golf club. I am not a swing coach. My interest is in how we can develop the mind for better performance.</p> <p>He also spent time with the late golf psychologist  Jos Vanstiphout on the European Tour.</p> <p>As Jon says:</p> <p>“The understanding of your mind is available to anybody. You do not need to be a certain standard of golfer to understand your mind, play better golf and improve your focus and concentration. The same universal principles apply to us all.”</p> <p>In today’s show we discuss:</p> <p>The principles of equanimity</p> <p>Being able to accept golf and life as it IS not as we would want it to be</p> <p>Beginners mind – How to look through a very clear lens</p> <p>True principles of acceptance – what it is and more importantly what it isn’t</p> <p>Craving and aversion</p> <p>Wanting a result too much or being fearful of an outcome</p> <p>The experience of the YIPS – what is actually going on</p> <p>The pathway to a yips recovery</p> <p