The Golf Psychology Of Swing Thoughts And Swing Keys By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I am often asked about the merits of taking swing thoughts or keys out onto the golf course when they play. I'm thinking here about some of the classic ones like "keep your head down", "keep your eye on the ball", "swing back in one piece", "left shoulder under the chin", etc.
Now, my major concern about swing thoughts and keys is not so much about their content, but rather about when you think of them. Some would argue that there's no place for them at all during a round of golf a ... Tags:golf psychology, golf hypnosis, golf in the playing zone
Memory Lapses In Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - If you learned the basics of playing golf at a young age you probably find that you easily revert to your natural swing throughout later years. Other golfers who did not have the distinct advantage of learning whilst young do not have such a firm "memory" of their natural swing or ball striking ability.
Memory lapses are a common occurrence in golf. You can go out onto the range and hit balls well but find that this doesnt happen on the course. You can start a round of g ... Tags:Mental focus in golf, commit to your swing, golf confidence,
The Emotional Impact Of The Secrets Of Hypnotic Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I'm reading a recent New Scientist article talking about the Five emotions you never knew you had and I'm starting to think about how our emotions influence our golf. And they're influencing us every time we play.
Now I'm sure that like the rest of us, you're experiencing all sorts of emotions every minute of every day of your life. It's a key element of living whether we are playing golf or doing something less important.
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
The Power Of Your Unconscious Golf Mind To Unscramble Your Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - We naturally expect the words we read to be the words that are written on the paper or screen we are looking at. We expect the same when we try to read a green when we're playing golf. However, we are much more likely to be deceived by the green than by the written word, however difficult either is to read.
So let's have a look at an example. Quickly read the next sentence and see what you think it says.
Beware The Sick Golfer Playing Better Golf In His Unconscious Golf Mind By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Have you ever had one of those days when you played better golf than normal, despite having your mind clearly focussed somewhere other than golf. Maybe it's when there's something exciting or absorbing going on in your life that has nothing to do with golf. At the other extreme, it could be a time when you're feeling ill or worried about yourself. I'm sure you've heard the expression, "beware the sick golfer" and that's what was said about Y E Yang when he shot a 7-under par 65 on the Friday of ... Tags:Unconscious Golf Mind, Better Golf, Tiger Woods, Bob Rotella
Talk Yourself Into Better Golf With Golf Hypnosis For Positive Self Talk By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Do you talk to yourself when you're playing golf? Well, if you don't, you may have a serious problem. It's called brain death! Self-talk, otherwise known as internal dialogue or intrapersonal communication, is one of the main functions of our conscious mind. It allows us to make sense of our conflicting thoughts and to express our ideas and feelings to ourselves. Most of the time we talk to ourselves internally and sometimes, particularly after a bad shot, we share our self-talk with everyone in ... Tags:Self Talk, Better Golf, Pre Shot Routine, Golf Psychology
The Bad Golf Psychology Of Listening To Negative Tv Golf Commentators By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How much do you listen to the commentators on televised golf? Do you think they're good for your golf? Well I used to think that watching golf on TV was good golf psychology. Now I'm not so sure.
So what happened? Well after writing my recent article about talking yourself into better golf, I sat down to watch a replay of the television coverage of the World Cup from Mission Hills in China. Now I 'm always thinking very positively after completing an article, so I was amazed at how ... Tags:Self Talk, Better Golf, Tiger Woods, Golf Psychology, World Cup
The Golf Psychology Of Thinking Less And Playing Better Unconscious Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I've been thinking about the application of golf psychology to the issue of the swing thought. In other words, what do you and should you be thinking about when you actually swing the club. It seems that every time I watch someone play they seem to be taking an inordinate amount of time fidgeting with their grip, their stance or their play. The more time they take to get round to swinging the club, the more likely they are to hit a bad shot. One golfer I met recently admitted to almost running b ... Tags:Golf Visualisation, Better Golf, Golf Psychology, Karl Morris
Trust Your Unconscious Golf Mind To Align Your Club For A Better Pre-shot Routine By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How much is the accuracy of your golf shot influenced by club alignment at address and how much is down to your instinctive or unconscious golf ability? Now I'm not talking here about the complexity of aligning the various parts of your body when you address the ball. That's a subject for your golf pro, not your golf psychologist. All I'm interested in here is the alignment of your club face at address.
Speed Up Your Pre-shot Routine Transition For Better Golf Psychology By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Golf instructors often talk about the transition in the golf swing as that pause between completing the backswing and starting the downswing. They often suggest that slowing down the transition is one of the most important keys to hitting a good shot.
Well, I'm not qualified to comment on the technicalities of the golf swing. However, I am qualified to comment on what for me is an even more important transition in golf psychology. It's the transition from the conscious analytical p ... Tags:Pre Shot Routine, Better Golf, Inner Game, Golf Psychology
The Golf Psychology Of Going On A Pre-shot Routine Journey With Your Right And Left Brain By: The Golf Hypnotist | - As a golf psychologist, I am especially interested in the importance of separating the conscious and unconscious elements of the pre-shot routine and the actual striking of the ball. In an ideal world, we should use our conscious rational mind, sometimes referred to as our Left Brain, for planning our shots and our unconscious instinctive mind, or Right Brain to manage the execution of each shot. Yes, I know that there's lots of controversy in psychology circles about where these functions actua ... Tags:Better Golf, Pre Shot Routine, Golf Psychology, Right Brain
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
See Yourself Putting Better And Enjoying Golf More With Golf Psychology By: The Golf Hypnotist | - There were some amazing golf and putting psychology lessons on show with Phil Mickelson's stunning win at the Tour Championship at East Lake this weekend. Yes I know Tiger won the FedEx Cup and the $10 million with an amazingly consistent series of results. But given Phil's year, both on and especially off the course, his victory on Sunday was a simply joyous and breathtaking turnaround. Phil had looked out of sorts in recent weeks and after his quadruple bogey 8 on the 14th hole in the first ro ... Tags:Phil Mickelson, Unconscious Golf, Golf Mind, Putting Psychology
Visualise Your Target For Better Unconscious Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - As a golf psychologist, I'm regularly asked by clients about what they should be thinking about in their golf mind when they're actually swinging the club or stroking a putt. Many of them will have some sort of pre-shot routine that prepares them to some degree for the shot they're about to make. A smaller number will also include some sort of visualisation of the shot they want to hit. However, very few will be thinking about that visualisation when they actually hit the ball.
The Golf Psychology Of Letting Everyone Else Complain While You Win By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How often do you hear your playing partners and other people at the golf course complaining about things beyond their control? Maybe you do it a bit yourself. I know I have from time to time, especially in the past. You know the sort of thing I mean. More importantly, have you ever thought about the golf psychology impact that this has on their game?
The Golf Psychology Of Self Hypnosis And Imagination For Winning Happiness By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I felt so sad watching Sergio Garcia looking so miserable and failing to close out a much needed win in the Wyndham Championship at Greensboro on Sunday. It reminds me of how important our internal state is to good golf psychology and how we can use self-hypnosis to manage and control our state of mind.
One of the fundamentals of modern psychology is the idea that whatever we consciously think about our unconscious mind does its best to deliver. This manifests itself in many ways an ... Tags:Self Hypnosis, Sergio Garcia, Golf Psychology, Golf Hypnosis
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.
Utilise The Fear In Your Golf Mind To Hit More Greens And Fairways By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How can golf psychology help you in overcoming the fear you have about hitting a bad shot on the golf course? Many people interpret this as classic fear of someone suffering from the putting yips who's about to putt or the person suffering form the shanks and about to hit a short iron. But you can get the same type of fear when faced with a shot that you "always" hit badly or a hole that you always play badly. Perhaps your ball seems inexorably drawn to those trees on the right or that ... Tags:Golf Mind, Unconscious Golf, Paul McKenna, Yips, Shank
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
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.
Focus Your Golf Mind On Your Target Not The Hazard For Better Golf Scores By: The Golf Hypnotist | - One thing I've learned from golf psychology is how my unconscious mind automatically follows where my conscious mind leads. Have you ever noticed that if one of your playing partners warns you about a particularly difficult bunker or some hidden golf hazard on a hole, your ball seems to be mysteriously drawn to that hazard? And it doesn't matter whether they were trying to help you or to put you off. So if youre standing over the ball thinking or saying to yourself, "Don't hit it in ... Tags:Golf Mind, Unconscious Golf, Better Golf, Golf Score
Better Putting In Your Golf Mind By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I hear that Darren Clarke's looking for putting improvement through golf psychology and working again with Bob Rotella. I know that Darren has worked in the past with Golf Psychologist Dr Karl Morris - after all, I've read Golf - The Mind Factor, the book they published together back in 2005. However, for some reason I didn't know that he'd worked with Bob Rotella.
Play Your Best With Golf Psychology Before Changing Your Unconscious Golf Swing By: The Golf Hypnotist | - If you have hit good golf shots at some time in your golfing life, you already have the unconscious golfing ability to repeat those shots and score well. So, how well could you score if you played to the best of your existing golfing ability? Well, you can if you get the very most out of that ability before you decide to change your golf swing again.
Concentrating on how you swing will often prevent you from playing your best and most natural game of golf. You probably recall similar messages from me that tie into the concept that there's a place for thinking consciously on the golf course. That's thinking about where you want the ball to go and how you want it to get there. There's also a place for t ... Tags:Analysis Paralysis, Unconscious Golf, Golf Mind, Ralph Gulhahl
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
The Fast Track To Better Golf In Your Unconscious - Slow Play Kills Your Golf Mind By: The Golf Hypnotist | - How long did your game of golf take this weekend? Maybe 3 hours or less if you played on a traditional Scottish championship course, 5 hours if you played a fourball around a more modern country club or even more if you played in a serious open amateur event. I remember playing in a two-ball at Royal Troon, as the guest of a 70 year old friend, and getting round in 2 hours and 20 minutes and we were chased around by the Club Captain playing in a foursome. I can also remember playing in top amate ... Tags:Better Golf, Unconscious Golf, Golf Mind, Golf Psychologist
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.
The Top 10 Mental Golf Mistakes That Golfers Make By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Heres a list of the top 10 mental mistakes that golfers make. At least, these are the ones they talk about in the bar after a round of golf or in the office the next day. Although Id normally want to know a lot more about the individual before offering advice, Ive included my initial suggestions as to how to address each problem with golf psychology.
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 Psychology Homework To Improve Golf Hypnosis By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Giving my clients homework tasks to improve their golf and get the most effective results from golf hypnosis sessions is one of the keys to my success. Its also something that I use to good effect with my clinical hypnotherapy clients as well. Homework can also be used very effectively with golf hypnosis recordings and with self-assigned tasks for self-hypnosis as well.
Play Unconscious Golf In The Zone Or In A Trance-like Cocoon Of Concentration By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So what is this golf mind and unconscious golf stuff that I'm always writing and talking about? And how does it actually work? These are questions I occasionally get asked by more sceptical golfers. Thankfully the vast majority of people I talk to either accept my explanations or trust me based on the results they've seen other people achieve.
Hypnosis tends to be experienced in many different ways with different [people and what works in one session with a client may not work as we ... Tags:Unconscious Golf, Golf Mind, Nick Faldo, Tony Jacklin, In th
The Mind Golf Secrets The Golf Equipment Industry Does Not Want You To Hear By: The Golf Hypnotist | - When people write about the top professionals, they tend to talk about the externally visible aspect of their game their swing technique. Those same writers rarely tell you about the golf mind secrets of those professionals.
So what about Jack Nicklaus and 90% of golf in the mind?
When I started out in golf in the late 60s I recall hearing Jack Nicklaus talk on TV about golf being 90% in the mind. However, when I eagerly read his first book, The Greatest Game o ... Tags:Mind Golf, Golf Secrets, Golf Psychology, Explanar, Tiger Woods
Golf Psychology Lessons From The Open Championship At Turnberry - Part 2 By: The Golf Hypnotist | - In part one, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from Tom Watson's amazing performance both on and off the course at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. So what other golf psychology lessons can we learn from some of the other contenders?
Now I know the valiant and expectant Ross Fisher's challenge effectively died in the thick rough at the 5th hole on Sunday. But he went on to succeed magnificently in a way that world number one, Tiger Woods, miserably failed to do t ... Tags:Ross Fisher, Golf Mind, Tom Watson, Golf Psychology, Turnberry
Practice In Your Mind With Hypnosis For Better Golf By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Now I'm confused about golf practice and just how much leads to better golf. More importantly, just how much is good for golf improvement? I'm confused because I keep getting contradictory advice from the books I'm reading, TV programs I'm viewing and the stuff I'm browsing on the web.
As a low handicap golfer for over 40 years, I've done a fair bit of work on the practice ground and had lots of golf lessons from lots of good coaches - some of the best in the world in their day. H ... Tags:Better Golf, Without Practice, Secrets of Hypnotic Golf
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 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
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:-
How To Improve Your Golf Game With Subliminal Affirmations By: Mick Euan Tait | - It is said that the game of golf is 90% mental, so learning to control the inner game of golf is essential. Many golfers struggle for years until they realize the importance of the mental game of golf. So until you know how to implement the mental game of golf, don't spend any more money on the latest golf driver, golf training aid, or lessons.
What do subliminal messages have to do with golf, you may think? Well, Tiger Woods has used subliminal affirmations since the age of 13. Most ... Tags:sports, , golf tips, , mental game of golf, , golf training, , subliminal affirmations, , subliminal messages, , amazing golf mind, , recreation and sports, , hobbies
Improving Your Golf Happens With Confidence By: Craig Sigl | - If improving your golf was all about the swing, then why do we have balloon-score rounds right after taking our lessons and spending hours on the practice range? Because golf is a mental game right?
The meaning of the word "confidence" and how it applies to golf is everything for improving your golf and what happens to us on the course when we're playing. . The greatest shot killer is not bad mechanics, it's DOUBT!
One Bad Golf Hole By: Craig Sigl | - Do you have one golf hole that always gets you?
Jim is a 12 handicap golfer. He absolutely loves the game and can't seem to get enough. He buys a new set of equipment about every 2 years or so and watches golf on TV whenever he can. He really enjoys following the pro tours and trying to guess who will win on any given Sunday.
Jim's club tournament is coming up soon. He can't wait. His game has been steadily improving over the season and he feels he's ready for this. ... Tags:golf course hole
This Golf Putting Game Is So Easy By: Craig Sigl | - Do you remember when you were much younger and putted like youth possessed? You were fearless and confident. You just felt that every putt was going in.
What's happened since then? Why do we now stand next to our ball on the putting green and have all these negative thoughts rushing through our heads? And it just keeps getting worse the older we get.
Sam Snead holds the record for most tournament wins at 82 official and 70 others over his career. At the end of h ... Tags:mental game of golf
Better Golf Swing, Learn How To Do It! By: Nguek-Fluek Nguang | - As a seasoned veteran golfer should already know, the key to a good game of low scoring golf is the swing. As a beginner, the first thing you need to learn is that a better golf swing will eventually make you a better golfer.
As a beginner, the mechanics of the golf swing should be the first thing you should learn but it should be the last thing you're thinking about while on the golf course. What is meant by that is that a golfer needs to know that the golf swing or golf swing th ... Tags:Better Golf Swing
Today, let's get down and dirty about the word "feel" and how I apply it to golf the "Without Practice" way so you can shave some strokes effortlessly this weekend. You know deep down if not at the top of your head, that when you feel good, you will perform or act your best in anything right? Most of us struggle with our feelings because we just let them occur based on whatever is happening in our lives at the time. For instance, if you just get news that ... Tags:golf score, score golf, lowest golf score, average golf score, golf scoring system, golf score tracking
What Is The Key To A Better Golf Swing? By: Eddy Kong WW | - Many golfers, both professionals and amateurs are always trying to figure out how to achieve a better swing. The swing is the ultimate factor that will contribute to a good game of low scoring golf.
Being amateurs in golfing, it is well known that the first thing they should learn is to have a better golf swing that will lead them to be better golfers.
