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
Play Golf Well And Keep Smiling By: Roseanna Leaton | - If you are a golfer and love the game as much as I do, just being on the course will bring a smile to your face. For me, whether I play golf well or not, I enjoy my golf. In fact, just getting ready to leave the house, and drive up to the golf club is enough to make me feel a total sense of release. I feel like an eagle soaring high in the sky where nothing can touch it; golf to me is associated with freedom and yet also a sense of "groundedness" at the same time.
Are You A Golf Addict? By: Roseanna Leaton | - Are you like me in checking the weather forecast every day, in an attempt to work out whether you are going to be able to get out onto the golf course or not? I managed to play four times last week which was just fantastic, after almost two solid weeks of rain. I just checked the forecast for this week and it looks like the rain is returning. Blast!
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 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
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,
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
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,
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
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
Lose Weight Playing Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - If you've been reading any of my earlier articles you'll already know that I love the game of golf. I am absolutely passionate about this game and firmly believe that it should be a daily habit - for me, that is. I'm open to making it a twice daily event on occasions as well, without fear of experiencing a negative overdose. For me, there is no such thing as playing too much golf.
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
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
Hit The Reset Button For A Winning Golf Hypnosis Metaphor By: The Golf Hypnotist | - The ability to learn from your bad shots and release them from your mind is one of the keys to winning golf. You only have to look at the world's greatest ever golfers to see this. I don't ever recall seeing the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo dwelling for any length of time over a bad shot or allow one to affect a subsequent shot they had to play. They certainly got over it before they played their next shot and just went back to their regular routine.
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
Play Better Golf Psychology In The Now And One Shot At A Time By: The Golf Hypnotist | - One of the key success factors of better golf psychology is learning to unconsciously play one shot at a time - in the moment, in the zone or "in the now." And this applies equally to every shot you play on the practice ground, in a friendly game and in the most important round of your golfing life. Playing in the now means that you're protected from any poor, indifferent shots and ill-judged shots that went before. It also means that you're protected from future uncertainties and expe ... Tags:Better Golf, In the Now, In the Zone, Golf 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?
Nlp Training: 6 Tips For Finding Quality Nlp Education By: Kevin Cole | - NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is a set of communication tools, techniques and methods that can help people improve their performance in nearly any field of endeavor. From improving sales performance, to golf swing, to ending phobias and much more, NLP is popular among self-help professionals such as life coaches, hypnotherapists, sports coaches and therapists.
How To Empower Your Expectations In Golf By: Roseanna Leaton | - It is important to keep fun in your golf game, because people do what they want to do. It you're having fun at the range, you'll want to go; it will no longer be a chore. It's also important to keep your enthusiasm up, and to do this you need to keep your eye on the bigger picture - your overall improvement, your overall game, your goals - thereby creating a sense of excitement and anticipation. These emotions of excitement, anticipation, and fun are what keep you going. It's your expectatio ... Tags:Hypnosis downloads, golf hypnosis, golf hypnosis mp3
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
Finger Breathing For Self Hypnosis And Better Golf Psychology By: The Golf Hypnotist | - I wouldn't be at all surprised if by now you've noticed that self-hypnosis is a key part of my overall approach to golf mind improvement. In fact, many of the golf psychology techniques that I talk about in my articles start off with the words "If you're familiar with a quick technique for taking yourself into self-hypnosis, then use it now."
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
Are You Mentally Fit For Golf? By: Roseanna Leaton | - "The game of golf begins in your mind, more than athletic ability, more than technique, more than practice or ability or anything else. The mind-set you bring to the game determines not only the enjoyment you desire from golf but also the level of proficiency you will achieve". The great golf teacher, Jim Flick, made this statement. He further stated "Golf is 90% mental...and the other 10% is mental".
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.
Windy Golfers And Windy Golf Psychology Blown Away At The Pga Championship By: The Golf Hypnotist | - So, were you blown away by the golf at the 91st PGA Championship at Hazeltine this weekend? With 8 hours of TV coverage on Saturday and again on Sunday, I was just riveted to the screen and amazed by both the spectacle and the windy golf conditions. The TV commentators also contributed to the windy feeling with all their hot air and false hopes for a certain golfer named Tiger Woods. Didn't they just love Y.E. Yang's quote about how the odds against him beating Tiger must be 70 to 1, based on Ti ... Tags:Yang, Tiger Woods, PGA Championship, Hazeltine, Golf Psychology
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
Handle Fear On The Golf Course With Golf Psychology, Self Hypnosis And Nlp By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Fear on the golf course can come in many shapes and sizes and it can result in a multitude of problems ranging from lack of enjoyment, through poor scoring and frustration to outright anger. Most golfers will have experienced fear on the golf course, either personally or from watching a playing partner.
As an amateur golfer, although my golf is very important to me, my livelihood does not depend directly on my ability to score well. However, I can think of many times, especially in ... Tags:Self Hypnosis, Tony Jacklin, Golf Hypnosis, Anchoring
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.
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
Golf Psychology Focus On Why You Play Not How You Swing For Golf Enjoyment By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Improving your golf enjoyment has more to do with the golf psychology of addressing the reasons why you play golf at all than with addressing all the things you're trying to fix in your golf swing.
One theme that comes up a lot in my thoughts and in my writing is the idea that one of the main reasons for most people playing golf is the pursuit of enjoyment, both for ourselves and the people we play with. As a golf psychologist, this is also my primary motivation in my working life a ... Tags:Golf Enjoyment, Better Golf, Inner Game, Golf Psychology
Balance Your Golf Mind And Body For Better Golf - Focus On Your Hara By: The Golf Hypnotist | - Moving from the balance of my life to the balance of the golf swing, I was intrigued to read recently about how many people view this as a key element of a successful golf swing. Now you know that I never comment on the mechanics of the swing as I'm neither a golf professional nor a swing coach. However, I do believe that balance is a key component of golf psychology and that psychological balance contributes significantly to balance in the golf mind and the golf swing. It also works wonders for ... Tags:Golf Mind, Better Golf, Golf Psychology, Hara, NLP, Paul McKenna
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.
Best Golf Gifts To Present For Father's Day By: Roseanna Leaton | - If your dad or husband is a golfer, you probably know how addicted golfers are to the collection of equipment. He spends so much time in the pro shop, fondling the latest driver head, picking a putter up and putting it down again, you could fall asleep waiting for him to come back out of there! Most golfers could spend many happy hours in there and when they get home they switch on the golf channel...more golf! His eyes light up and he becomes so absorbed in the examination of each golfers swi ... Tags:Golf hypnosis, golf, hypnosis, golf NLP, golf mind training,
