Recovery is like Golf
Pros hit the ball just the way they wanted about 1 out of 10 times.
Golf is a game of misses. The name of the game is to miss the ball as close to the pin as possible. Slowly but surely we learn to respect the course and the game. We learn our limitations. and through pain we learn the importance of good fundamentals.
1) Grip
2) Posture
3) Ball Position
4) Alignment
5) Club Head Position
6) Weight Transfer
Most of us, when we play golf we want to hit the ball!
Then you get with a good teacher and they teach us.
"Do not hit the ball!"
"The ball just gets in the way of a good move."
It is a game of opposites and delusional perceptions. if you are a right handed player it is a left handed game.
Grip the club lightly and let the club do the work?
Swing right to go left?
The more I learned about golf the more I learned my perception of the game was off. Later I found it was not just the game of golf.
It was years later when I identified the correlation between my own life and addiction and the powerlessness, and attempts to control and the self-delusion and misconceptions, and the need for a set of principles to live by that were not my own.
Neither Golf or Recovery are a exact Science.
In recovery the only thing we do perfectly - is don't drink or drug, trials and low spots will come.
Half measures we avail me very little in golf or my recovery.
There are a 100 different golf gimmicks, out there to buy that promise short cuts to fundamentals a quick fix.
Why do pros have teachers?! That watch fundamentals?
I could not see my own swing, and could not see my own life.
I had a disease of perception and what I saw was not always real.
The moral of this story is - I believe that any golfer out
there that wants to be a single digit handicapper can be.
If they hit from the proper tee markers.
And they have the right teacher and
they are willing to put the time in and do the work.
I also believe that anyone can get clean and sober and stay clean and sober if they have the right teacher and they are willing to put the time in and do the work.
If your having problems staying sober and you can relate to this article. Call me and we will go to the range if need be and figure out just the right program and teacher that will be right for you.
Be prepared to give yourself time to heal and do some work.
If you are willing. I promise I can help change your life.
Sincerely - Kelly K.
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