5 Reasons to Train the Chi Performance Way

Learn five reasons why training your mind-body connection can help you become the golfer or athlete you aspire to be.

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Start learning five reasons to train the Chi Performance way, including:

Connection – learn our simple, trusted and proven way to train the ‘mind-body connection’ and pull your technical and mental game together.

Challenge – understand why it’s not as easy as most mental game coaches would have you believe and why we ask you to rise to a specific challenge.

Rewarding – experience the self-rewarding cycle of improvement that can only be gained by holding yourself to a higher standard.

Embodiment – grow into the athlete/golfer you aspire to be, by becoming the embodiment of inner calm and relaxed readiness as seen in champions of every sport.

Freedom – enjoy moving your body in a way that’s fluid, powerful, effortless and precise as you enable yourself to enter the flow-state, even under pressure.

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Training the Chi Performance way isn’t for everyone.

The reason for this is that most people take the path of least resistance and are content with making small adjustments rather than regularly overhauling their approach in a commitment to self-improvement.

Most people like to play safe and operate within known and accepted methods like tinkering with technique or dabbling in the mental game. These people, who form the vast majority, often stay at the same level in their sport or deteriorate over time.

Adopting the same approach season after season, year after year without seeing any radical improvements is really a fool’s game but that’s what most golfers and athletes seem to be content with.

Are you different?

If so, and you want 2024 to be the year you experience your golf or sporting potential, why not join us?

The golfers and athletes training the Chi Performance way all have three things in common.

First, they are passionate about improving, and this holds true whether they play at club, county/state or elite level.

Secondly, they are willing to make changes to their daily routines by including a 20 minute Performance Practice, even if they have to get up earlier!

Thirdly, they are open to accepting wisdom that is centuries-old and which predates biomechanics, neuroscience and psychology.

Once the mainstream approaches are put to one side and replaced with traditional, Eastern practices for developing the bodymind, movement begins to emerge naturally in the moment, giving greater enjoyment and more wins.

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Connection

At Chi Performance we’re all about connection, specifically developing the mind-body connection. Unlike many others, we understand that this is not a ‘given’ and that it cannot be trained using an app or by doing a 2 minute mindfulness exercise or by using breathing “techniques”.

Yes, you can do these things if you want to, but understand that what we’re promoting and asking of our clients is a willingness to subdue the restless mind with all its ideas and assumptions so that a deeper understanding can emerge.

And this requires three things; willingness, effort and time.

When the mind is quiet, it no longer runs riot and dominates through over-thinking; it begins to reside in the body, perhaps in a gentle awareness of breathing or in a relaxed connection to the physical centre. As this fundamental shift takes place, idea and action start to connect, such that the body can responds to the mind’s intention even under the most intense pressure. This is an utterly different experience to thinking through a checklist of instructions while trying to execute your golf swing, tennis serve or high bar dismount.

As the mind and body begin to connect, so your mental game and technical understanding become more related. Indeed, Chi Performance is the glue which binds everything else together as what we call “team mind-body” takes over, bringing the usually separated aspects of your game together.

How many times have we seen, and maybe you’ve experienced this for yourself – a knowledge of technique and thinking positive thoughts do not guarantee to put you in contention or help you perform when it matters most.

Golfers and other athletes who have been in the zone or flow-state, all describe similar experiences in the moments before they start moving; these things include feeling relaxed but switched on, being ready and in the game, a sense of inner power and knowing they can perform well. It never includes any form of analytical thinking but a quiet equanimity coupled with a clear intention, similar to a Samurai or warrior monk, free from anxiety, expectation or worry.

You cannot train your mind to be quiet using mental game techniques or mindfulness programmes which are aligned to psychology. Nor can you train fluidity of movement by segmenting or compartmentalising your technique or thinking about it as something that you need to get right.

When you train with us, any reliance you have had on these things in the past will naturally fall away. Instead of trying to get the right tempo, practising the perfect ball toss, or thinking through the mechanics of your golf swing, your joined-up bodymind will automatically begin executing the movement required without any form of limiting or self-restricting interference getting in the way.

It can all be accomplished in just 20 minutes per day, by unplugging from the mainstream noise and verifying for yourself how much better and more enjoyable sport can be when you build up inner reserves of quiet and relaxed strength.

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Read more about the upcoming Chi Performance Zoom Masterclass and contact Jayne Storey for payment and bookings. Email [email protected] or send a text to +44 7986 447 250