The Yama of the Right Use of Energy

There is a moment in almost every round when you can feel it happening. The energy that arrived with you at the first tee, fresh, focused, and full of possibility, begins to leak. A three-putt that you carry into the next hole. A slow group ahead that tightens something in your jaw and your shoulders. A drive that found the rough and now replays itself, uninvited, on the walk to your ball. You are still on the course, still holding the club, still going through the motions but something essential has quietly left the building. That something is your energy, and what you do with it is the practice of Brahmacharya.