Hypnosis for Golf - The Tool of Discovery

In the golf world anything can be accomplished with hypnosis, whether you’re a beginner or a pro on tour. Because your body does not know the difference between visualizing performance and actually doing it, hypnosis is a fabulous tool to practice new techniques in your golf swing. Hypnosis can also be used to remove unwanted performance anxieties or emotional blocks that inhibit your performance.

In addition just by being hypnotized you can experience and wonderful state called the zone and learn to stay there when you are in it. Using ‘anchors’ in hypnosis for golf is another way to accomplish your goals in golf. Just the other day I was working with someone who wanted his hands and his body in a certain position in his set-up but at the same time he needed to be in a balanced mind state. Instead of having a huge checklist to go through we decided to anchor the hand position, his body position into ‘one’ anchor, which also included feeling very grounded. By being grounded he was able to remain in the present, feel balanced, have a clear mind. So to put this all together the anchor served as a trigger for his body and mind to be exactly where he wanted physically and mentally. As a result he was able to hit more consistent, solid and accurate shots.

People’s golf swings are as unique as they are. That is what I love about helping golfers discover their potential. Each person thinks, feel, behaves and is physically different. What works for one might not work for another. I have been a teacher of the game for 12 years and have learned that less is more. Often times the more changes you make the harder it is to incorporate those changes. I have found that a lot of problems people experience in their golf game is related to how they think and more importantly how they feel about their game. Of course you must have a sound technique, but once you have that it is crucial to tame your brain. My feeling is that golf is not mostly mental it’s all mental. What’s often controlling your body, your mind! The mind is our most valuable instrument when finely tuned but when it’s out of control it’s disastrous. Not only does hypnosis teach you what to think or what to pay attention to it can teach you how to use your mind for your greatest benefit, but even greater it can help you touch those extraordinary states of spirit.

A common mistake that I see all or most people commit at one time or another is playing golf from their ego. Playing golf from the ego can be detected when a student is trying to impress the teacher, or when a tour pro is coming down the stretch and then starts to think about all the money he will make when he wins, or even when you are busy condemning yourself for the last bad shot you hit. These instances are not spiritual in nature and should be detected as red flags. Playing from your spiritual nature can be detected as spontaneously announcing that you are going to can a putt because you have an inner knowing and feeling that the ball is going in. Playing from your spiritual nature can be detected as feeling joy for your playing partner when he makes a excellent shot. Playing from your spiritual nature can be felt as being so immersed in what you are doing that you forget all sense of time and you feel at one with nature and that shot you are about to do with no judgment one way or another about it’s result. Because hypnosis is that type of mind, more right-brained than left just by being in a hypnotic state helps you to be more aware of what it feels like so that you can become more equipped to have that state on the golf course.

Don’t get me wrong the left-brain is a very valuable piece of the process. You need to use it to calculate the distance and to pick the right club, but if you only use your left brain things will feel horrible. You feel too mechanical and out of rhythm. I think the two worst enemies are your ego and your left brain. You need them but they always seem to want more attention than what is appropriate to give them. That is why you need to satisfy the concerns of the ego and the left-brain, in order for you to ‘let go’ into the process of the right-brain, and or the ‘feeling part’. By doing this it is much easier to get to the heart of the matter or your true essence or spirit. When you play and strive for every experience to be truly spiritual in nature you will be emotionally stronger, make better decisions, have more joy and simply play better. This is why all my cd’s and work come from a spiritual background. I have found that self-discovery and spiritual insight is the most exciting way to play golf and I hope you can start perceiving it this way and start your journey back your ‘true self’.

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