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Can you share any techniques or exercises that your teacher used to heighten your "sense of awareness"?
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It's nothing really. He just said, "I want you to tell me what your hands are doing thoughout the swing". Once you see how focused you can be with one bodypart it's not hard to transfer it to another. It's just zeroing in on a mental connection with the feel of that bodypart. It's like a narrowing of focus. Within hours of his instruction, it got to the point where I was aborting my swing when I felt something going wrong. I still do that today. Usually when my lower body fires too soon before my hands.
Gallwey advocates the same technique. He just explains the different ways of getting there in a lot more detail and he covers it in all parts of the game. Like most academics, he's a little wordy, but he gives you a lot of different ways to focus on the same thing. Until I read his book, the closest I had read to explaining the feel was a little novel called Quantum Golf, which is a Legend of Bagger Vance-type story with "feel" instruction as its goal.
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