Integrating Mind and Body to Perform – Marcus Bell #388
Mind Caddie - Improve Your Mental Golf Game
Release Date: 12/19/2025
Mind Caddie - Improve Your Mental Golf Game
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info_outlineIt is wonderful to welcome back on the podcast my good friend and colleague Marcus Bell from GRF Golf discussing our collaboration on the golf school we did this year at West Hearts
We had a wonderful few days combining Motion and Mind
We are also set to do another school in 2026 on the 22nd to 24th April
On today’s show we discuss
- How movement and motion emerge
- Asking effective questions to stimulate movement
- Are you in pursuit or avoidance
- What is the environment offering you
- How are beliefs in our capabilities are shaped
- Exploring your own movement capabilities
- Letting the true movement emerge
- How our natural movement gets camouflaged
- Giving yourself permission to fail
- Changing from stationary to dynamic
MOTION BODY MIND
A great session with a top coach who has a very different approach to creating effective movement
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