When I Open My Eyes: From Noticing to Creating
Eyes Closed, I Listen. Eyes Open, I Create.
For the last few days, I’ve been exploring something subtle, something powerful—how the internal dynamics of the golf swing might be felt and even shaped from within.
It began after a long discussion with ChatGPT on how long drive competitors generate explosive power. Many seem to rely heavily on external stimuli—looking at the target, rocking the feet rhythmically, syncing breath and movement in a way that builds a burst of energy. There’s rhythm, anticipation, and fire. It made me wonder: Is there another way? Could that same explosive power be generated from within—without the need for outward stimulation?
That question stayed with me as I went to take a shower. While showering, I closed my eyes and tried to internally simulate Step 1 of my 3-step setup process—focusing on the movement of the dantian. That’s when I noticed something surprising.
When I physically do the move, it feels one way. But when I closed my eyes and really looked inward, something entirely different revealed itself. I saw a vertical, clockwise rotation—a movement I had never consciously planned, but one that felt right.
Later, still sitting on a small stool, I was thinking about what ChatGPT said earlier—What about Step 2 and Step 3?—and then I saw something else. The solar plexus center has its own rotation: a horizontal, clockwise spiral, moving outward, contrasting with the dantian's inward coil.
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I started to play with this visualization. First, I imagined the solar plexus rotating… then the dantian. Suddenly, my whole body felt charged, like a spring wound tight. The sequence mattered. If I began with the dantian first, the feeling of coil was weaker. But starting with the solar plexus, then layering in the dantian—it was powerful, grounded, and alive.
At this point, I wasn’t physically doing the move. I was sitting still, just visualizing. Yet something was forming inside.
Then I opened my eyes.
Still seated, I mimicked the movement ever so slightly—subtle motions of the setup process, nothing dramatic. But now, my intention shifted. Eyes open, my body wanted to generate, to initiate, to explode. It was as if the visualization was now fueling real momentum, not just internal sensing. The transition from eyes closed to eyes open changed everything.
Eyes closed, I’m listening.
Eyes open, I’m creating.
This wasn’t about golf anymore. It became a discovery of my own inner capacity. For the first time, I understood what Sadhguru has often said: We are human beings, not just humans. This ability to look inward, to shape experience without movement, without tools, may be what sets us apart. Other life forms react. We can choose to become.
This post isn’t about swing discovery or technique.
It’s about realizing that I—like any human being—carry the potential to look inward and create from within.
Not from force. Not from external imitation. But from awareness.
If any part of this resonates with you, I hope it sparks a curiosity toward inner exploration.
For me, everything I’m beginning to experience now—this clarity, this sensitivity, this inner access—has come through practicing the tools I received from Sadhguru, after attending the Inner Engineering course.
Not with fireworks.
Just quietly practicing.
Over time, something subtle but profound began to shift.
