Is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energised narrow focus, full involvement, and success orientated in the process of the activity.

Other indications  of being in the zone

1.    Clear & precise goals

2.    Concentration

3.    Loss of the feeling of self consciousness

4.    Distorted sense of time

5.    Direct & immediate feedback

6.    Balance between ability level and challenge

7.    A sense of personal control over the activity

8.    The activity is intrinsically rewarding

9.    Become totally absorbed in the activity, so action & awareness merges

Conscious mind – is in charge, makes decisions, questions, analyses situations and interfacing with the outside world as needed

Subconscious mind – is the worker, running of the body functions, storing all memory and providing info to the conscious mind as required

The conscious mind cannot control more than one function at a time, while the subconscious many functions all the time.

When it comes to a golf swing, the conscious mind tells the subconscious mind that it wants to make a golf swing, and what type of swing to make, but it is up to the subconscious mind to translate the intentions of the conscious mind and create the body movements for that swing

Golf Swing takes 1.5 seconds and we need to keep the conscious mind quite for this time. If the conscious mind is distracted, it will divert its attention to the distraction which will also distract the subconscious mind.

So how do we make the Conscious Mind ignore outside distractions ?

By narrowing our Focus we can keep the Conscious Mind occupied while the Subconscious Mind is controlling the swing