If we realized what we are.
If we would realize what we are, we might then have a chance to change.
Several years ago I bought a series of tapes on weight loss. Actually it was part of a series of self help understandings called cybervision which included golf. The weight loss tapes have haunted me to this day. The teachings on the tapes were different than I had ever heard before. They talked about us having a set point and that our brain gets worried anytime that the set point is tampered with. Simply put, if you have weighed 200 pounds for 10 years, your brain will fight like hell to keep you there. It doesn’t mind so much that you get above it but anytime you get below it, it the brain thinks you’re starving and will send unbelievably abstract thoughts to your conscious thinking of reasons why you need to go to the fridge to eat. All you out there that have tried to lose weight know what I am talking about.
I get a kick out of all these nutritionists telling us what to eat, like we don’t know in general what we should and shouldn’t shove into our mouths. The more important riddle to be solved is why we do it.
In the game of golf we all want to believe that if we are scoring higher than we want to it must be because our swings are not good enough yet. It would be wise to start to look into the possibility that what really needs to happen is how to lower our set point.
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Mark Evershed's Blog 
December 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Sonja Lyubromirslky has done research on the general subject of happiness and state there is a happiness set point for each person that is genetic and cannot be changed. Weight may be genetically set because persons who do lose weight will gain it back. In golf the set point is not genetically determined-it’s a function of our attitude and self-image.
December 20, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Sonja Lyubomirsky states that there is a happiness set point for each person that is genetically determined and cannot be change. Weight may
be an attribute like this-persons losing weight tend to gain it back. In golf we have a chance to adjust the set point determined by our own self image that is a result of our negative experiences in our efforts to learn golf. Micheal Hebron in his book Play Golf to Learn Golf blames our high set points on our failure to follow efficient learning models.