Golf Is A Game Of Opposites By: Roseanna Leaton | - You may have noticed that when you try to do something different with the golf club the ball responds in a way opposite to that which you hoped or intended. For example, if you want to get the ball to go higher up in the air you might be tempted to try getting the clubface further underneath the ball. The likely effect of such "scooping" is that you contact the ball with the leading blade edge and "skull" the ball across the ground.
Getting Your Mind Around The Ups And Downs In Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - If you are a dedicated golfer and care about your game you can find yourself riding along on a rollercoaster of emotional turmoil whilst out on the course. One moment you feel like a surfer riding a huge wave as your tee shots split the middle of the fairway or you chip the ball right into the cup, but then moments later your emotions sink like a stone as you miss a putt or get a bad bounce.
How To Stop Getting Angry On The Golf Course By: Roseanna Leaton | - I was chatting with someone today who is a great golfer but admits to suffering a certain degree of anger issues when the game isnt going his way. The last time he played he was one under after 10 holes, which in must amateur golfers books is pretty damn good. But the wheel came off on the 11th.
His drive whipped off in the wrong direction, which might not have caused as bad an outcome as he allowed it to, had he kept his temper in check. The driver was flung across the ... Tags:Golf mind, stop getting angry, golf hypnosis, golf hypnosis
Cosmetic Surgery For Your Golf Mind By: Roseanna Leaton | - What does cosmetic surgery and golf have in common? This may seem to be a strange question because at first these two things are so totally different. But there are aspects of golf mentality which align with the emotional links to cosmetic surgery.
If you look at why people seek cosmetic surgery it is because they want to look better. This is the obvious reason. But underlying that, they would like to feel more accepted, attractive and confident. These are the real reasons why ... Tags:Golf confidence, golf hypnosis, golf swing, golf, mental golf
Mental Tips For Winning Golf Tournaments By: Roseanna Leaton | - Winning a golf tournament which matters to you isn't an easy task to set yourself. The very fact that it matters to you means that you become emotionally involved, and so you have to find a way in which to ensure that your emotions are controlled; you need to use your emotions to help you to win instead of allowing them to get in the way of your game.
Lucky Charms And Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - Tiger always wears a red shirt of the final day of a tournament. That is part of his preparation and his winning mind-set. It's his good luck charm. In every sport you will come across a famous person who has a similar habit of wearing a particular "something" whenever they are facing a situation which matters to them. That something may be a pair of socks, a cap, necklace or pair of panties; it can in fact be anything at all.
Golf Confidence Necessitates Bonding With Your Golf Clubs By: Roseanna Leaton | - Golf confidence is learned in many different ways. Golf is a very visual game in more ways than many of us realize. I was reminded of this fact yesterday when I played with a lady who had left her clubs at home in her rush to get to the course. Borrowed set of clubs in hand, off we set to tee number one.
She pulled out a 5 wood (all that was required on this particular hole) and proceeded to hit one of the sweetest shots possible, landing on a perfectly flat lie (not easy on th ... Tags:Golf confidence, Golf hypnosis, golf hypnosis mp3s, golf
Golf Is A Funny Game By: Roseanna Leaton | - I was chatting with Fred Greene of Golf Smarter the other day and was aware of how often we broke into laughter during the course of our conversation. There are many things which made us laugh, and I am only too aware that my jaw got a great work out!
Both of us are passionate about golf, and both of us have found our way to forming a marriage between our passion and our employment. Golf makes me smile a lot and I can tell that it does the same for Fred.
The Golf Psychology Of New Year Resolutions By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you made your New Years resolutions for your golf improvement - using golf psychology, perhaps? Well, even if you haven't, I'm sure that many of you are excited about starting fresh, turning your life around and in some cases doing something about playing better golf. That's fantastic! I know that 2010 is going to be an exciting year. I'm excited already, after completing my new book, The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf, over the holiday period. I've been talking about it for long enough and now i ... Tags:Golf Improvement, Unconscious Golf, Golf Hypnosis, Golf NLP
Why Golf Hypnosis Is Not Just For Serious Golfers By: Roseanna Leaton | - Golf is a very challenging game, but it is still a game. It is easy to get very tied up in the mechanics of the game and the desire to master its intricacies and basically forget that it is, at the bottom line, a game which is meant to be relaxing and fun.
I myself know how easy it is to become drawn into turning this game into what could almost be seen as a job. Many golfers can be seen with their bag of balls practicing their chipping and pitching for half an hour or more at a ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, golf hypnosis mp3, golf, mind training,
Why Golf Hypnosis Is Not Just A Placebo By: Roseanna Leaton | - I noticed an advertisement for a golf training DVD which referred to golf hypnosis as "just a placebo". It made me realize once again that the majority of people (who do not know what hypnosis really is) jump to this same incorrect conclusion.
Scientific research has in fact proven that hypnosis creates activity in a different part of the brain from that which is related to the placebo effect. Hypnosis is a very powerful tool in enhancing anything which involves using your mind, an ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, hypnosis, mind training,
Covert Golf Hypnosis And Secret Plans At The Dubai World Championships By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Firstly there was Lee Westwood's much talked about "Secret Plan." When the dust settled he admitted, "Okay, if you really want to know, the secret was making everyone else think I had a secret, when I didn't really have one." He had the rest of the field nervously waiting to find out what the plan was and not concentrating on their own plans. In my forthcoming book, The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf, I talk about protecting yourself against Covert Hypnosis or "Black Ops Golf& ... Tags:Golf Hypnosis, Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood, Golf Psychology
Visualise Your Golf Shots And Mental Golf Practice In 3d For Better Golf Hypnosis By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Effective visualisation is one of the key golf psychology tools for improving your golf score and your enjoyment of the game. It's also one of the secrets of hypnotic golf. However, for most people, including me until recently, that visualisation tends to be two dimensional, a bit like looking through the viewfinder of a camera or at a picture on a television screen. Yes, I know that I could imagine some depth perspective, but what if I couldn't actually see the bottom of the pin over that high ... Tags:Golf Visualisation, Golf Psychology, Golf Hypnosis, Better Golf
Mental Foursomes Practice With Golf Hypnosis For Better Golf In Your Mind's Eye By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Practicing golf in your mind, mental golf if you like, is just as effective as playing golf and physical practice on the range, if you want to play better golf. As I've written many times before, it also works a lot better when accompanied by golf hypnosis and other golf psychology techniques.
But there's a problem. How do you imagine hitting shots from difficult lies if you're playing an imaginary round? Surely you'd have to hit bad imaginary shots in order to get into the difficu ... Tags:Mental Golf, Golf Hypnosis, Tiger Woods, Golf Psychology
Use Golf Psychology To Overcome Bad Luck And Play Well Despite It By: The Golf Hypnotist | - What impact does luck have on your game of golf? By that I mean do you treat good luck and bad luck as two sides of the same coin? Statistically, our golfing luck is going to even out over the long term. If you keep tossing a coin, you may get long runs of heads or tails, but I'm sure that deep down we all know that every time there's an equal chance of one or the other. Luck's been a part of golf for a long time and the earliest golfer's defined good luck and bad luck as "Rub of the Green. ... Tags:Self Hypnosis, Golf Hypnosis, Finger Breathing, Golf Psychology
Hypnosis To Overcome First Tee Nerves By: Roseanna Leaton | - It is important to understand that anxiety is a natural response. In situations of perceived threat, your brain instinctively releases adrenalin - the fight or flight hormone - named as such because it poises the body to fight or flee. This of course was a very appropriate response to perceived threat in cave man days. It is not, however, an appropriate response when you are standing waiting to hit your golf shot off the first tee box.
Putting Psychology And Golf Hypnosis Into Perspective At Pga Championship By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Putting was clearly very difficult for all the players at Hazeltine in the 2009 PGA Championship, especially in terms of putting psychology. Now we all saw Tiger Woods missing a lot of mid-range putts that we'd normally expect him to see and I've already written about how those were the result of his uneasiness about the swirling wind. I'm more concerned here with a number of really crucial putts missed by Lee Westwood and the massive number of short putts missed by Vijay Singh.
Anchor Your Good Golf Shots With A Post Shot Routine Using Nlp And Golf Hypnosis By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I've been writing a lot lately about the negative and positive golf psychology of fear on the golf course. While I've been thinking all about golf fear consciously, it seems that my unconscious mind has been quietly working away on the question of how we actual do this "fear" thing in our golf minds. Using a post-shot routine was the answer - to the problem, not the question.
Channel Your First Tee Nerves Into Unconscious Golf Resources For Better Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - There's a danger we treat fear completely as a bad thing in golf psychology. Now I know this goes against a lot of what I've been saying, but I'm talking here about the thin end of fear - nervousness. For many people, nervousness is the buzz of competition, whether we're competing with other people, ourselves or the golf course we happen to be playing.
Winning With Golf Hypnosis Like The Pakistan Cricket Team By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I know it's not cricket golf to talk about golf cricket in a golf hypnosis article, even if cricket and golf hypnosis are in essence the same thing. I'm also aware that many of my readers will have no idea what cricket is all about anyway. However, this story has as much to say about sports psychology and golf hypnotism as it does about cricket. In addition, it shouldn't be as long-winded as some cricketing stories as I'm talking about a quick form of cricket called the Twenty20 World Cup. Now w ... Tags:Golf Hypnosis, Unconscious Golf, Adam Eason, Golf Psychology
How To Improve Your Mental Golf Approach Between Shots With Golf Psychology By: The Golf Hypnotist | - If I were to ask you what you do between shots during a round of golf, you'd probably think I was missing the point. After all, golf psychology and teaching should be all about helping you to hit better shots and putts during a round of golf or in practice, shouldn't it? This applies whether you're working with a teaching pro helping you with your golf swing or with a golf psychologist helping to improve your mental approach to golf.
Grind Out A Winning Score Using Golf Psychology And Golf Hypnosis By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you noticed how good some of the leading professionals are at grinding out a good score, even if they are swinging the club below their best or downright badly. It's interesting to note that the real greats like Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus always seem to be able to do this, however they're playing, and whatever the "rub of the green" throws at them when they get to the last nine holes of a championship.
Overcome The Yips - Putting Psychology With Golf Hypnosis And Eft By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Using Golf Hypnosis, NLP and EFT, with different clients on almost every aspect of the game of golf, from the putting psychology and the Yips through to concentration and lack of confidence, clients often go on to seeking help with their lives in general. With so many common factors, you could be forgiven for assuming that there's a standard "cure" for each problem or opportunity a client may bring. The good hypnotherapist sees each client as the unique person they are, with their own ... Tags:Yips, Putting Psychology, Golf Hypnosis, Golf Enjoyment, EFT
Find Your Lost Golf Swing Hypnotically And Improve Your Golf Confidence By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you ever heard golfers talk about losing their swing and their golf confidence during a round of golf? They were playing really quite well for a few holes and then suddenly they just seem lose it and hit a series of bad shots. Perhaps you've experienced this yourself. I certainly know that it's happened to me in the past and it just felt like I was a complete beginner again.
Tiger Woods Balances Golf Hypnosis And Temper To Hit Good Shots And Release Bad Ones By: The Golf Hypnotist | - People often ask me about how Tiger Woods balances his obvious temper tantrums with his use of hypnosis. So moving on from yesterday's post about who's using golf hypnosis apart from Tiger. Here's my answer to their second question, "Just how effective is the hypnosis that Tiger Woods uses, if he loses his temper so much."
Who Is Using Golf Hypnosis For Golf Improvement - Apart From Tiger Woods By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So whos using hypnosis to improve their golf performance apart from Tiger Woods and maybe Phil Mickelson? Well, taking first things first, its difficult to be sure whos using hypnosis because most people who do dont want to let on. Whys that? Well firstly, they want to keep the competitive edge that golf hypnosis gives them to themselves. Secondly, although its becoming acceptable for a top golfer to admit to using a mind coach, their marketing pe ... Tags:Golf Hypnosis, Golf Confidence, Golf Improvement, Self-Talk
Golf Hypnosis Leads To Success Over The Inner Game Of Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I'm just re-reading Timothy Gallwey's The Inner Game of Golf again after almost 25 years! It's fascinating and given my training in Hypnosis and NLP, I now see why it didn't work for me when I first worked with it. That insight may also help to explain that despite the plethora of tennis coaches teaching Inner Game techniques, there seem to be very few PGA Professionals claiming to teach. I know that's asking for a big bag of emails from the ones who do - I'd like to know who they are. Tags:Golf Hypnosis, Inner Game, Secrets of Hypnotic Golf
Golf Hypnosis As A Secret Weapon - Well Maybe Not By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I just seem to keep coming across different versions of what I suspect are a series of articles about hypnosis as a secret weapon for golf and I disagree most strongly with that - now that's a surprise coming from me, the Golf Hypnotist!
Well, I fully agree with the idea of golf hypnosis as a secret weapon for better golf and I support many of the author's opening arguments. If he'd put his name in the article, I'd even go so far as thanking him here.
Eft For Better Golf: Part 4 - Tapping For Golf Success By: The Golf Hypnotist | - By now you should be tapping your way to better golf and experiencing how easy it is to use EFT. I'm sure you're looking forward to get out on the golf course feeling the difference and enjoying better golf.
An EFT for Better Golf story
What sort of success are other people having with EFT? Firstly let's look at a quote from EFT Inventor, Gary Craig's - one of many examples on his website. Gary talks about a golfer called Ron Johnson who improved his golf using EFT from ... Tags:EFT Better Golf, Golf Hypnosis, EFT for Golf, Gary Craig, Yips
Golf Psychology Lessons From The Open Championship At Turnberry - Part 3 By: The Golf Hypnotist | - In parts one and two, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from the performance of veteran Tom Watson and young Ross Fisher at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. As a 59 year old myself, I was overwhelmed by Tom's amazing performance and mental strength around one of the toughest links courses. It almost seems unnecessary to mention his age and recent hip replacement operation. As a golf psychologist helping clients to play the best golf they possibly can, whatever happens, I coul ... Tags:Golf Hypnosis, Anger Management, Golf Psychology, Tiger Woods
The Effect Of Alcohol Upon Your Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - How long is a piece of string? I have a friend who plays off a handicap of five and swears by two and three quarter pints at lunchtime whenever he's in a 36 hole competition - and generally shoots a sub-par round when adhering to this regime. I'm not sure how it would affect my game, but doubt it would create such a positive result.
Keeping Your Confidence High Whilst Learning To Play Golf - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Yes, there are easier and there are more difficult ways of creating a great shot. Yes, there is an optimal technique. BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE CONFIDENCE IN IT. As Henry Ford said "If you think you can or you think you can't you are probably right". The moral of this story is that if you feel that you have over-dosed on technique to the degree that your confidence has gone, take a sabbatical from technique and concentrate on simply hitting the ball towards your target, whilst keeping the club fa ... Tags:Play golf, golf hypnosis, golf hypnosis cds, hypnosis mp3
Keeping Your Confidence High Whilst Learning To Play Golf - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Learning a new skill in life can seem very daunting no matter what that skill is. Golf can seem very complicated, and any budding golfer can suffer from information overload. It is so easy to get tied up in knots thinking about grip, stance and alignment, setup and ball position, tempo and balance, and so on. The club can begin to feel like an octopus in your hands...and it's far too easy to not be able to see the wood for the trees; so let us just examine the basics of the game.
Playing Golf In The Zone - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Just as people are scared of hypnosis, many are adept at avoiding mental issues in general. I mentioned earlier that I listen carefully to the words used by commentators. You might find it interesting to pay more attention to the particular words and phrases used as well. Nine times out of ten the commentary will focus on the mental side of the game. For example "What were you thinking there Tiger?" or "Can he keep this up?" and so on. There are far more comments made about the thought proc ... Tags:Golf in the zone, hypnosis, golf hypnosis, hypnosis download
Playing Golf In The Zone - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Everyone thinks of Tiger when playing golf "in the zone" comes up for discussion. But everyone has experienced a few holes, if not a round of golf, where they could relate to this feeling. It is as if you cannot put a foot wrong, everything just seems to come together perfectly.
If anyone wanted to know what it feels like to play golf "in the zone" on the last day of a tournament David Duval would be able to describe it. When he shot 59 in the last round of the Bob Hope ... Tags:Golf in the zone, hypnosis, golf hypnosis, hypnosis download
Is Your Golf Up To Scratch? - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Let's see how we can apply this technique throughout your game. OK, you're standing on the first tee, choosing your line and there's a persistent thought of "don't hook it into the trees". What usually happens when you're thinking this? Yes...golf balls always do what they are told; you are thinking about hooking into the trees and you do exactly that. Yes, I know, I can hear you saying "BUT I thought DON'T hook into the trees". Your inner mind does not pay any attention to the "don'ts" of ... Tags:hypnosis mp3 downloads, hypnosis, golf hypnosis cds,
Is Your Golf Up To Scratch? - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Once you get mid way through the golfing season it can be interesting to look back and see if your golf is meeting the expectations or hopes which you began your golf year with.
We all have our targets for the year, be it simply enjoying the game more, or playing more, or practicing as well as playing, or getting our handicaps as close to scratch as possible. It's a bit like making your New Year's Resolutions, only in this case it's your New Golf Season's Resolutions. An ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, golf goals, visualize golf, hypnosis download
Do You Do "basil Fawlty" Impressions On The Golf Course? - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Golf is a game and should be fun. Fun is what its all about; playing a great game with a few pals. No matter how good a golfer you are and no matter how important your golf may have become to you, its still a game and should be enjoyed in the spirit of the game. Its a recreational activity, which you should find relaxing.
Do you find it relaxing? Or do you find your emotions being affected in a rather different way as you play this great game? ... Tags:Stop getting angry, golf hypnosis, hypnosis
Visualizing Whilst On The Golf Course - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - You need to take your mental golf skills out with you onto the course and use them "on the spot", so to speak. A frequently cited problem with this is that many golfers find that they can visualize their perfect shot from the armchair, but cannot seem to "see it" when standing over the ball. If this happens to you, ask yourself the question "what's stopping you from seeing it now?" Because if you can see the shot when at home but not on the course, there is nothing wrong with your visualizati ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, hypnosis, hypnosis downloads, hypnosis mp3
Visualizing Whilst On The Golf Course - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - How can you build visualization into your playing routine? Most golfers have a pre shot routine in terms of waggling the club or practice swings, yet fewer have a mental routine to match. This is a great shame, because the mental routine is the most important. Everything in life starts with a thought. You have to think straight if you want the golf ball to go straight, so to speak. You have to plan the golf shot mentally before you can transmit this information to the clubface. Or put anot ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, hypnosis, hypnosis downloads, visualization
The Do's And Don'ts In Your Golf Mind - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - You can also use this type of visualization to become more creative in your short game, visualizing different shots, both high and low. Remember, everything in life starts with a thought, including every shot you make in golf. You have to think about it, plan it, visualize it and then it has the best chance of doing what you what it to do. If you don't tell the golf ball clearly where you want it to go, it will go wherever it pleases...and probably won't please you!
Hypnosis Not Analysis Paralysis To Improve Golf Success By: The Golf Hypnotist | - You will not improve your swing and achieve golfing success through analysis paralysis. People who teach you complex swing thoughts just clutter your conscious mind and block out the unconscious mental processes that already know how to swing the club to the best of your ability.
Now don't get me wrong about the general standard of teaching from PGA golf professionals. It's truly magnificent and in nearly all cases the swing coaching advice they give you is well thought out, simpl ... Tags:Golf Success, Golf Hypnosis, Improve Golf, Analysis Paralysis
Better Sleep For Better Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you noticed how much better golf you play after a good night's sleep? Well I hadn't, but a couple of articles I read recently made me think about it more closely. And yes I think that's right.
Now one of the beneficial side effects of almost every hypnotherapy session is that the client reports sleeping better afterwards. What's more, my clients also tell me that they wake up on time, feeling refreshed and eager for the day ahead. This seems to happen whatever we're working ... Tags:Better Golf, Better Sleep, Golf Hypnosis, self-hypnosis
Better Golf Is Unconscious Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Now I'm really looking forward to some unconscious golf at Doral over the weekend, but I'm not sure what sort of spectacle it's going to be with players like Mike Weir allegedly 'going unconscious' ' doesn't sound like a lot of action there.
To be fair, the article I've just read from Lorne Rubenstein at Globe and Mail talks about the advice that Bob Rotella is giving Mike Weir in preparation for this weekend's World Golf Championships. And any advice from Bob is usually good advi ... Tags:Golf Psychology, Self-Hypnosis, Golf Hypnosis, In the Zone
Better Golf With Hypnosis And Nlp - Your Own Virtual Caddy By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How many times have you seen a top professional golfer in deep conversation, when watching golf on television? It almost seems like there are two people out there playing as a team - one doing the thinking and one doing the playing.
I was just watching the last few holes of the 2008 Open Championship again and marveling at the battle between Padraig Harrington, Ian Poulter and the amazing Greg Norman - how does he play golf to that standard over 4 days at 53 having hardly hit a ba ... Tags:golf, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, NLP, improvement, psychology, zone
The Do's And Don'ts In Your Golf Mind - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Have you ever wondered why sometimes the more you don't want something to happen the more likely it is that it does happen? That's kind of a strange co-incidence don't you think? Let's examine what happens when you try to not do something...
Try as hard as you can right now to NOT think about a giraffe.
What are you thinking about? It's almost certain to be a giraffe! Now ask yourself did you see the word "giraffe" or did you see it's rather lon ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, golf mind, golf hypnosis cds, hypnosis cds,
Hypnosis In Golf - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - NINETY percent of golf is in the mind. If you feel confident when you swing the club, the ball is much more likely to respond as desired. If you choose an EXACT target for your shot, the ball is much more likely to travel in that direction. If you visualize the trajectory of your shot, again the ball is much more likely to fly in a similar way, and so on.
How To Get A Head Start In Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - What can golfers do when they cannot get out to play for whatever reason? Do you just put the clubs away and forget all about the game until the opportunity to play returns? Just because you are injured, or haven't got the time to play golf doesn't mean that you can't be doing something productive with your golf game.
What can you do? How can you brush up on your game of golf? The one most important, most vital thing all golfers can and should be doing is improving ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, hypnosis mp3 downloads, hypnosis downloads,
Positive Thinking In Golf - Part 1 By: Roseanna Leaton | - Your mind doesn't need to be your biggest handicap! Once you work out how to control your thoughts, and overcome sometimes unconscious negative thought patterns, your golf will reach a far higher level. As well as removing negative thoughts, you can also choose to fill your mind with positive expectations, as demonstrated by this Jack Nicklaus quote:-
Mind Your Language When Playing Golf! - Part 2 By: Roseanna Leaton | - If you were standing with a bucket of balls on the range and you were aware that they were all going off to the right of your target, would you not try to correct that by aiming further left, altering your grip or whatever else, so as to give the ball a chance of reaching the correct target? And this, in essence, is all you have to do with your thoughts, all you have to do with your suggestions to yourself - just be mindful of the language you use. This brings me to the fact that people are alwa ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, hypnosis downloads, hypnosis, golf
