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CD mental training for golfers, to lower scores, and better enjoyment of the game.

Mind Driven Golf

Learn the mental golf techniques of professional golfer. Part 2: Hypnosis & Self-Hypnosis. Get your FREE Guide to Mental Golf at guide.masteryourinnergolfer.com Follow Kevin at http or on Twitter @mentalgolfpro

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.”

You only have to look back to this year’s Masters to see what they’re talking about. I used to agree with them, before realising that this may be a part of his anger management technique for releasing a bad shot. It may upset the golfing public and his playing partners, but it doesn’t seem to have any long-term affect on him. Although he’s clearly in hypnosis while he’s hitting the ball, he appears to come out the moment he completes the swing. If it’s a good shot, he calmly moves on to the next shot. If it’s a bad shot he cusses and again moves on. He’s certainly calmed down before he hypnotically plays his next shot, so his bad shot and his temper don’t have any lasting effect.

I’m sure I’m repeating myself here, but here’s a very telling quote from Tiger that supports my analysis, “The person who can control his state can control his world”. There’s seems to be no doubt in my mind that he’s the master of State Management

Now, if only dear old Colin Montgomerie had some of Tiger’s anger management skills and the ability to control his state. He could still be just about as unbeatable as Tiger. I’ll be talking more about Colin in a future post about enjoying your golf – no surprise there then. Colin tells us that he does enjoy his golf, but who’s he kidding?

Here’s a suggestion: Try hypnosis
John Weir isn’t a golf professional, and he doesn’t sell any of those gimmicky golf training aids you may see advertised on the Golf Channel, but he insists he can help shave several strokes off your game.

Read more on Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Golf: Here and #8217;s a suggestion: Try hypnosis
John Weir isnand#8217;t a golf professional, and he doesnand#8217;t sell any of those gimmicky golf training aids you may see advertised on the Golf Channel, but he insists he can help shave several strokes off your game.

Read more on Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Hypnotic mind training DVD to help improve your Golf. This dvd contains hypnotic language, subliminal images and subliminal phrasing throughout the track.

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 set of unique issues and expectations, and develops a unique approach for that client.

Nowhere is this more true than with putting, the game within the game of golf. Putting is the great equalizer in golf and we all have the opportunity for success, regardless of age, sex, build, health and level of fitness. Putting also accounts for approximately a third to a half of our total score. The lower your handicap, the larger the proportion of your score will be putts.

Golfers typically take as many as thirteen other clubs with them when playing golf, and yet it’s rare to see anyone take more than one putter. In addition, most of those other clubs are pretty similar to everyone else’s. My 3-Wood is unlikely to be substantially different from your one in terms of length, loft, size, shape or weight and the same is true for every other club in the bag – apart from the putter. How many times have you played in a fourball and every player has had a similar style of putter, let alone the same model. Do you often come across mallet-headed drivers, centre-shafted woods, broomstick sand wedges or long-irons with two-thumb grips?

You’re also likely to see much greater diversity in how people stand, grip and swing their putters than you ever see with the rest of the clubs. That’s probably why Dave Pelz, one of the leading short game experts, can take 387 pages in his Putting Bible to explain the complexities of the “flat stick.”

So it should be no surprise that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to putting psychology – any good work here needs to be interactive and iterative. To demonstrate what I mean, here’s an approach for a single-figure handicap golfer whose putting Yips are driving him away from golf after more than 20 years of enjoyment.

I know what he means about having the Yips. I remember having putting problems like that back in my younger days when I was playing off a handicap of 2. I still can’t believe that for over 25 years as a category 1 player, I averaged around 35 putts per round. I can even remember going round in 1 over par with 38 putts! Thankfully, that was before I got into golf psychology and things have improved quite a lot for me in that area.

So what could help him overcome the yips? Well, it would help to know a bit more about how they started for him and what he’s tried in his quest to get rid of them. Working face to face or even on the phone with a hypnotherapist, he could soon develop a helpful approach. Now, in the absence of that information, here are a few ideas he could consider:

Putt while looking at the hole or your target spot, rather than looking at the ball. The separation of the conscious task of looking for the result and the unconscious task of swinging the putter certainly helped me when I used the technique. Relax yourself in a comfortable location and recall some good putts from your past or imagine what they would have been like. Just imagine you were hitting those putts again. It may help to do this after listening to my golf hypnosis recording. You don’t have to listen to the full 25 minutes, just listen for about 10 minutes and then do some putting visualisation in your mind. When you are physically practicing your putting or out playing, imagine the putt you are about to hit and “see” the ball rolling along your chosen line and falling into the hole. Then just step into the shot and let it roll. When you hole a putt, replay it in your mind both at the time and later when you review your practice session or round. If you miss a putt, just imagine that you holed it and replay the imagined successful putt in your mind.

Another, possibly even weirder, approach is to use a technique called EFT. Some people say it’s like a version of acupuncture, except you tap the meridian points with your finger rather than using needles! For me it works like hypnosis, in that you consciously have to focus on the tapping sequence while you unconsciously think about the problem you want to correct – the Yips.

I’ve already documented the EFT for Better Golf process in a series of four articles posted here. The process requires you to use a “Setup Statement” that’s explained in Part 3. I would suggest him starting out using a simple setup statement such as “Even though I have this putting problem, I completely and utterly accept myself.” Now I know this sounds a bit daft, even though it works wonders!

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 when I say “quick”, I should explain that Twenty20 games take a few hours to play and that’s a lot quicker than the 5 days that constitute a Test Match such as the one starting on 8 July between England and Australia.

Back on 28 May, my friend and mentor Adam Eason wrote on his blog about how the Pakistani cricket team’s new team psychologist Maqbool “Max” Babri was hypnotising the team to win the Twenty20 World Cup. This was big news in Pakistan as cricket is their national sport and a source of great national pride. Now I’ll leave Adam’s post to explain the intricacies of Max’s approach while I focus on a key quote from Max.

“As a hypnotist I helped them let go of any negative past experiences and utterances of parents, and other powerful people which were in a negative light. Forgive others and self and not carry any burdens from the past or fears about the future. To remain in here and now play each ball, over, inning and match as if this was the only match that there is. Doing whatever can be done in here and now.”

Now those of you who follow cricket will already know that after a shaky start, Pakistan went on to win the Twenty20 World Cup and I was delighted to read a report over the weekend about former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik attributing the team’s success to the power of hypnotism helping the players overcome their negative frame of mind and focus only on their target. He also praised Younis Khan for his skills and leadership as captain.

Looking more closely at the specific messages, I wasn’t surprised to see how closely they align with aspects of good golf psychology advice:

Confidence and Relaxation – they apply equally to all sports Letting go of the past – releasing the bad shots Playing each ball. innings and match as if it was the only one – focussing on the current shot Doing things in the now – I relate this to unconscious golf Overcoming fear – a subject I’ll be talking more about this week.

So if hypnosis is good enough for the Pakistan Cricket team, just think what you can achieve with it in your golf.

perfect-putting-hypnosis.com – About a hypnosis session for Perfect Putting in golf.

second half of the video about using hypnosis for golf program developed by hypnotist and scratch golfer Jeff Cartwright.

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 difficult positions. Wouldn’t that be bad golf psychology?

When you play golf for real, you’ll probably hit the odd bad shot now and then. Hopefully, you’re already using a good post-shot routine, so you’ll be able to learn from the bad shot and release it to the past. It can’t hurt you there. Maybe you could use the “Reset Button” technique Nick Faldo spoke of when commentating on Tiger Woods the other week.

You may remember my earlier article about mental golf practice and recall the story about an American Major, James Nesmeth. He practiced golf in his mind for much of the seven year’s he spent as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Every day, he played 18 holes of golf in his mind. He imagined everything in vivid detail from the country club he was playing at to the smell of freshly cut grass in the summertime. He would imagine the grip of the clubs and practice his swing mentally many times until he perfected it. In reality, he had no place to go, so he spent four hours a day on the course in his mind never leaving any detail out. When he was released from prison and returned home, he played his first real game of golf after 7 years, he scored 74!

Having said all that, you wouldn’t want to see yourself hitting bad shots in your imaginary round, now would you? That would be counterproductive and defeat much of the purpose of practicing with the secrets of hypnotic golf.

So how do you get the opportunity to hit some shots from bad lies and difficult positions around the course without playing the imaginary bad shots that get them there? Well, one way would be to just imagine walking round the course dropping the ball in all those difficult positions. Unfortunately that wouldn’t be an actual round of golf and you’d have to unconsciously take responsibility for deciding where might have hit bad shots to. There has to be a better way.

Well, there is a better way. How about playing some of those imaginary rounds in golf hypnosis as foursomes, playing alternate shots with an imaginary partner? You could choose a partner who is a less than consistent player. It could be someone you know that hits a lot of bad shot or just an imaginary partner. That way you’ll get to play all sorts of difficult shots, without taking any conscious or unconscious responsibility for the bad shots. After all, you didn’t play them that partner of yours did. What’s better is that you don’t need to worry about his golf, as you’ll never play with him in real life!

Now, when you’re doing this mental practice, remember to visualise the whole process of playing golf, including your pre-shot routine. And remember to imagine all the usual shot planning, lots of visualisation and comfortable practice swings, before stepping into the shot and hitting it quickly after just one last look at the target. Finally, remember to watch the shot fly and/or roll to a finish, appreciate the good shot and consign it to your memory – just like you would a good shot on the course.

I’m assuming that you don’t hit bad shots in your head, so there’s no need to learn from them and release them to the past before you hit Nick’s “Reset Button.”