This week I want to share with you a very simple self-hypnosis exercise that can be used on the golf course to relax your mind and body for peak performance. One of my clients used to be a local pro in my area and he once told me that the key to fixing any golf swing is relaxation. He said that if you start struggling with your shots most likely it’s not mechanical, but tension being held somewhere in the body. So the key to fixing your swing on the course is to make sure your body and all your muscles are completely loose and relaxed.
It is equally important to keep your mind as relaxed as possible too. The reason is mental stress or negative thoughts will psychosomatically create tension in the body which in turn effects your performance.
Since it is so important to keep you mind and body loose, relaxed, and comfortable in order to play your best golf, let me teach you a simple mental exercise that will guide you into deep levels of relaxation. I will first teach you the full technique, which you should practice a minimum of once a day at home or work, and then I will show you how to adapt it to the golf course. Before going any further, I do want to inform you that practicing this technique is crucial for it to be effective on the course. I do want to point out that it will provide you many benefits besides playing better golf. This exercise will reduce daily stress in a healthy way, give you more energy, and increase your level of mental focus.
The Blackboard Technique
Start by finding a comfortable and quiet place to relax for 2-3 minutes. Once you found that place, begin by taking a few deep breaths in and slowly exhaling. Then simply close your eyes and imagine or visualize a blackboard in front of you. If you have a hard time visualizing than just pretend or think about being in front of a blackboard, it will accomplish the same thing. Next, as vividly as you can, imagine drawing a large circle on the blackboard and then proceed to write the number 25 inside the circle. Then, imagine taking an eraser and erasing the number 25. Every time you write and erase a number, let your body relax deeper or simply become more comfortable. Next, slowly write the number 24 inside of the circle, erase it, and relax even more. Continue with this process of writing the number, erasing it, and relaxing deeper until you reach 0. When you reach 0, you will find yourself in a deep state of relaxation and bliss. Your mind will also be very open and receptive to positive affirmations. This is a good time to declare all the things you wish to be and achieve if you use affirmations in your life.
When you are finished and ready to get back to your day, simply open your eyes or count forward from one to three. As your eyes open, you will feel refreshed and rejuvenated.
This exercise should take 2-3 minutes to complete so take your time with it. It sounds very simple, yet it can be more difficult when put into practice. Many people when they first begin mental exercises like this find their mind wandering around and having a hard time focusing on the task. If you find your mind wandering it’s ok. Simply acknowledge that you wandered from your task and pick up where you left off until you reach 0.
Here are a few more quick points about this exercise. First, this is an exercise that helps to increase your mental focus. The more you practice it the better able you will be to focus your mind on tasks and on the course. It will help you develop mental discipline so that you can focus on the thoughts you want rather than your mind running on autopilot. Next, as you practice this exercise always strive to make your experience more real. Concentrate your energy on incorporating every one of your senses into your experience. Can you see the board? Can you hear the chalk? Can you feel the chalk in your hands? What does the room smell like? Is there a taste? Again, do you best to bring all of your senses into the experience anyway you can. Like all things you will get better with practice. By learning an exercise like this it can greatly enhance your performance on the course.
So how do I adapt this technique to the golf course? Well, once you have practiced and are competent with the exercise, you can achieve the same benefit in a much shorter amount of time. So if I am struggling on the course, have tension in my mind or body, or really need to focus on a big shot, I will sit in the golf cart, close my eyes, and do the blackboard exercise from 7-0. I give my mind the intention that when I reach 0, I will be mentally and physically relaxed and all of my stress will be released. After the exercise I open my eyes and proceed to hit my next shot relaxed and confident.
This simple technique WORKS! After teaching it to my class at the NGH convention, a gentleman came up to me and said he had to thank me. He told me his wife attended my class the day before and taught him the blackboard technique after the class. The next day, he said it helped him to take 8 strokes off his normal handicap! Practice this technique at home and then put it to the test. I know that you will love the results!
Friday, April 30, 2010
How Does Tiger Dominate the Game of Golf???
Why does Tiger Woods dominate on the golf course? To find out watch this clip…
Here is a video of my favorite golf commercial. It too keys you in on why Tiger is the best…
If you are ready to start enhancing your game in similar ways to Tiger then go to www.hypnosisaudiomall.com and download the Mental Caddie. The Mental Caddie is complete mental enhancement system that will help you increase focus and confidence, swing and putt better, and lower your score. Download the Mental Caddie and develop your game relaxing at your home! www.hypnosisaudiomall.com
Here is a video of my favorite golf commercial. It too keys you in on why Tiger is the best…
If you are ready to start enhancing your game in similar ways to Tiger then go to www.hypnosisaudiomall.com and download the Mental Caddie. The Mental Caddie is complete mental enhancement system that will help you increase focus and confidence, swing and putt better, and lower your score. Download the Mental Caddie and develop your game relaxing at your home! www.hypnosisaudiomall.com
Pavlov and Golf???
In 1901, Ivan Pavlov stumbled across a major breakthrough in human behavior called classical conditioning. Ironically, this discovery occurred not by studying humans, but by studying dogs. This breakthrough paved the way for new fields of study and research into human behavior. Don’t worry I am not going to break into a dissertation on conditioning, but if you are interested I included two youtube clips at the bottom of the page on the subjects.
This week’s blog is just going to be a brief introduction into conditioning and how it affects your golf game. This is going to be a topic which is going to be expanded upon in the weeks to come because of its importance to peak performance. You can literally condition yourself to feel confident in any situation, to replicate the best swings and shots of your past, to stand over the ball with absolute focus, and this is just the beginning. The conditioning techniques I will share with you over the next few weeks will dramatically improve your performance if you take the time to apply them. After implementing these techniques into my game I went from shooting in the high 90’s/low 100’s to consistently scoring in the mid 80's, and I even broke 80 several times. This is how powerful conditioning is and I am excited to share with you how to do it for your game too.
Without even knowing it, you have already conditioned yourself to feel, think, and behave certain ways on the golf course. These conditioned responses are either positive or negative, and can unconsciously dictate the way you perform on the golf course.
Since this is just an introduction this week, let me give you a quick illustration on how conditioning occurs and how it can negatively affect your game. In future blog posts I will show you how to positively condition yourself, but for now let me provide you this personal example.
When I first started golfing I struggled putting the ball. Unless it was a tap in or a gimmie, every time I stepped over a putt I lacked confidence in my ability to make it. Here is what would happen. I would get my ball on the green and when I reached for my putter I immediately started having thoughts of self-doubt. By the time I walked on the green, I had already convinced myself that I wasn’t going to make the putt and I should just try to get it close to avoid a 3 putt. When I would read the green I would second guess myself and doubt my line. Then I would stand over the ball and hope for the best. More often than not I would proceed to hit a bad putt, either too short or way too long, and then I would criticize myself and reaffirm my inability to make a putt. With all this negative energy and doubt, I would step up hit another bad putt and the start the negativity all over again. When I finally got the ball close enough to tap it in, I would walk off cursing the greens and my putting ability which only increased my frustration and detest for my putter. I repeated this cycle of behavior again and again when I had to putt until it became second nature.
It didn’t take long for my mind to link up negativity to putting. It got to the point that even if I was striking the ball sweet and feeling good that just taking my putter out of the bag would make me feel awful and change my state. What had occurred was I had unconsciously conditioned myself to feel that way and my putter became a trigger for negative thoughts and feelings in me.
Once I became aware of this conditioned pattern of behavior I knew I could change it. I started doing pattern interruptions (refer to last week’s blog) every time I grabbed my putter and forced myself to think a new thought, “Put it in the cup!” After consistently interrupting my pattern, feeding my mind this new thought, and making several nice putts things really started to improve on the greens. Now I am putting the ball better than ever and full of confidence.
If you notice that you have negatively conditioned yourself to have doubts with a particular club be sure to use pattern interruptions immediately when pulling the club out of the bag. If you do this consistently I guarantee you will break that old flow of negativity and start making nicer shots. This works. It worked for me, many of my clients, and it will work for you as well.
There will be much more on conditioning in the future but if you want to jump right into a mental development program check out the Mental Caddie available for immediate download at www.hypnosisaudiomall.com . Happy Golfing!
Classic Experiments in Two Types of Conditioning:
This week’s blog is just going to be a brief introduction into conditioning and how it affects your golf game. This is going to be a topic which is going to be expanded upon in the weeks to come because of its importance to peak performance. You can literally condition yourself to feel confident in any situation, to replicate the best swings and shots of your past, to stand over the ball with absolute focus, and this is just the beginning. The conditioning techniques I will share with you over the next few weeks will dramatically improve your performance if you take the time to apply them. After implementing these techniques into my game I went from shooting in the high 90’s/low 100’s to consistently scoring in the mid 80's, and I even broke 80 several times. This is how powerful conditioning is and I am excited to share with you how to do it for your game too.
Without even knowing it, you have already conditioned yourself to feel, think, and behave certain ways on the golf course. These conditioned responses are either positive or negative, and can unconsciously dictate the way you perform on the golf course.
Since this is just an introduction this week, let me give you a quick illustration on how conditioning occurs and how it can negatively affect your game. In future blog posts I will show you how to positively condition yourself, but for now let me provide you this personal example.
When I first started golfing I struggled putting the ball. Unless it was a tap in or a gimmie, every time I stepped over a putt I lacked confidence in my ability to make it. Here is what would happen. I would get my ball on the green and when I reached for my putter I immediately started having thoughts of self-doubt. By the time I walked on the green, I had already convinced myself that I wasn’t going to make the putt and I should just try to get it close to avoid a 3 putt. When I would read the green I would second guess myself and doubt my line. Then I would stand over the ball and hope for the best. More often than not I would proceed to hit a bad putt, either too short or way too long, and then I would criticize myself and reaffirm my inability to make a putt. With all this negative energy and doubt, I would step up hit another bad putt and the start the negativity all over again. When I finally got the ball close enough to tap it in, I would walk off cursing the greens and my putting ability which only increased my frustration and detest for my putter. I repeated this cycle of behavior again and again when I had to putt until it became second nature.
It didn’t take long for my mind to link up negativity to putting. It got to the point that even if I was striking the ball sweet and feeling good that just taking my putter out of the bag would make me feel awful and change my state. What had occurred was I had unconsciously conditioned myself to feel that way and my putter became a trigger for negative thoughts and feelings in me.
Once I became aware of this conditioned pattern of behavior I knew I could change it. I started doing pattern interruptions (refer to last week’s blog) every time I grabbed my putter and forced myself to think a new thought, “Put it in the cup!” After consistently interrupting my pattern, feeding my mind this new thought, and making several nice putts things really started to improve on the greens. Now I am putting the ball better than ever and full of confidence.
If you notice that you have negatively conditioned yourself to have doubts with a particular club be sure to use pattern interruptions immediately when pulling the club out of the bag. If you do this consistently I guarantee you will break that old flow of negativity and start making nicer shots. This works. It worked for me, many of my clients, and it will work for you as well.
There will be much more on conditioning in the future but if you want to jump right into a mental development program check out the Mental Caddie available for immediate download at www.hypnosisaudiomall.com . Happy Golfing!
Classic Experiments in Two Types of Conditioning:
A Way to Rebound After a Bad Shot
Today marks the beginning of Mental Mondays which is a weekly blog that is devoted entirely to mental techniques to improve sports performance. This blog will have a heavy emphasis on developing mental skills for the game of golf but the techniques can easily be applied to other sports as well. The mental techniques I will describe are very straight forward, simple, and often times common sense. These methods are not rocket science or a magical secret formula they simply need to be applied. When you do you will find the simple things creating profound differences.
With 3 top ten finishes including a win at the 2010 Honda Classic, Camilo Villegas has certainly hit the ground running so far in 2010. Villegas is a very exciting player to watch. He plays with a fearless attitude and certainly goes after the ball on every swing. I especially liked watching him yesterday as he caught fire and birdied holes 8,9,and 10. With a commanding lead at this point and playing incredible, Villegas hit a bad tee shot on 11 which started a chain reaction of back to back boogies on holes 11 and 12 as well as a third boogie on 15.
While this was unfolding, Jack Nicklaus was in the commentator’s booth giving his insight. Johnny Miller asked Nicklaus about his experience dealing with situations similar to what Villegas was going through; trying to rebound and get back to hitting good shots. Nicklaus responded back by saying, “The difference between winning and losing is being able to regroup.” His answer was so simple yet so profound that I had to write it down to share with you. Even though the idea of regrouping or recollecting yourself after a bad shot or a bad hole is such common sense and something that you have probably heard many times, it isn’t the easiest thing to do, especially after ripping a drive into the trees or blowing an easy putt. So if having the ability to regroup is so important to shooting a low round or winning a tournament how exactly do you achieve such an elusive feat?
One way to get you thinking and feeling positive again after a poor shot is to follow the Golden Bear’s advice combined with a simple yet effective Neuro-Linguistic Programming (or NLP) technique called Pattern Interruption.
In NLP, a pattern interruption is any action that is outside your normal behavior during that moment that will temporarily disrupt the flow of negative thoughts or patterns of behavior. Pattern interruptions include; clapping your hands, pumping your fists, putting a big ridiculous smile on your face, laughing out loud, changing your breathing to deep diaphragmatic breathing, pulling on your ears while making a goofy sound, putting your club into your bag three times, or any other behavior that is outside your normal mode of doing things when things take a turn for the worst. Asking yourself positive questions to change your focus is also a powerful way to interrupt patterns. Questions like, “what do I love about golfing?” “What do I love about this day?” “What was funny about that last shot?” These types of questions force your mind to think about something else, thus interrupting the old pattern.
NLP teaches us that human beings run off patterns of behavior based on a cause versus effect relationship with the outside world. Tony Robbins uses a jukebox metaphor to explain this point. He says that the world gives us an experience, such as a negative event, and our minds search the jukebox and play the record that is most congruent with your past experiences. So if the situation makes you angry than your mind plays an angry record, or if it is a pleasant situation your mind plays one of your happy records. Robbins expands this metaphor to explain how pattern interrupts work. He said what would happen if while an angry record was playing you took a knife and scratched the record? What would happen if you kept scratching the record again and again? The answer is the record would get so scratched up that it would be impossible to play. Pattern interruptions work in the same way with our habitual thoughts and behaviors.
To further explain pattern interruptions let’s use a real life example. Have you ever been in the situation where you are completely absorbed in a conversation and then someone butts into the conversation and asks a random, off the topic question such as “where is the bathroom?” After the person leaves and you try to resume your conversation, you find it very hard to do so or remember what you were talking about even though you were deeply absorbed a moment ago. If, not have you ever found yourself saying, “I just lost my train of thought,” “where were we?”, or “what were we talking about?”, then you have experienced a pattern interruption. I think everyone has had similar experiences at one time or another and can relate to this example. What I am getting at here is pattern interruptions have the ability to help you quickly refocus your mind, and like the previous example sometimes break the pattern so much that you can’t even remember what you were thinking or talking about.
So how does all of this apply to golf? Let’s imagine that a golfer is teeing it up and has to hit over water. They step up, hit a poor shot, and the ball sinks to the bottom of the lake. What is likely to occur? Typically, this poor result would cause most golfers to search through their jukebox, find a congruent record, and release the patterns of behavior and thought that correspond with this negative experience. If this golfer doesn’t actively take control of the situation then what is most likely to occur is an expansion of negative thoughts, self-doubt, low confidence all of which will result in more poor shots and missed opportunities. When a bad shot happens it is important to know that it’s not the end of the world but it your attitude and mindset gets out of control it definitely is the end of a good round.
In this situation rather than dwelling on negative thoughts or the bad shot, take active control of your mind and emotions by using any pattern interruption that works for you. The ones that work best for me are pumping my fist (which is a power gesture of mine), deliberate deep breathing (calms the nerves and body, as well as changes mental focus), or asking myself positive questions (What do I love about golfing is my favorite question). Take the time to find out what things truly can disrupt your patterns. Sometimes a simple behavior like changing your breathing will work while other times it might have to be more a dramatic behavior like clapping your hands three times while saying YES, YES, YES! Once you successfully interrupt your pattern it is important to know that you have a short window of time to begin filling your mind with positive new ideas. If the old patterns return, do another pattern interruption, and again saturate your mind with things that make you think and feel like a winner.
At this point you might be wondering what you should do after interrupting your pattern. So I will close this blog by returning to the advice given by Jack Nicklaus at yesterdays Honda Classic. After making the statement that winning and losing is determined by a person’s ability to regroup after a poor hole, he went on to say exactly what he did to achieve this goal and win so many tournaments. He said the first thing he would do is focus on his breathing and start taking deep breaths. What he did was actually interrupt his pattern, which should always be the first step (Deep breathing interrupts a pattern because when a person is stressed, anxious, angry, etc their breathing is typically short, fast, and shallow. By deliberately taking in a long deep breath or by deep breathing for several minutes you effectively break patterns that effect your performance). Next, he said he would reassess the situation. He is indirectly doing another NLP technique which will be discussed at a future time called reframing. Nicklaus said he would say to himself and I’m paraphrasing here, “It was only one hole, I am still in the lead focus on what needs to be done to win this tournament.” Reframing or reassessing as Nicklaus called it is a great way to get your mind moving in a new and positive direction. Nicklaus said after he reassessed the situation, he would give himself positive affirmations in order to get back to simply playing golf and having fun again. In my opinion, this is again a pattern interruption indirectly used by Nicklaus on the golf course. By using affirmations and by reminding himself to have fun, it breaks the flow of negative thoughts and gets the mind finding positives things to focus on. The final thing Nicklaus said he would do is go back to basics on the next shot, release the idea of killing the ball, and just hit a solid shot to get the confidence started again.
So to quickly recap:
Step 1: Interrupt the Pattern
Step 2: Reframe or Reassess the Situation
Step 3: Positive Affirmations or Ask Positive Questions
Step 4: Go Back to Basics and Hit a Solid Shot
As for Villegas, I’m not sure what he was doing to regroup yesterday but it certainly was effective for he finished the tournament with a birdie on 18 and most importantly a 5 stroke victory. I want to congratulate Camillo Villegas on his 3rd PGA Tour victory at the Honda Classic. I was certainly impressed with his ability to regroup, his mental toughness, and his ability to seal the deal after adversity. If you start to utilize pattern interruptions during your round then you too will be on the road to developing the mental toughness like the pros. Until next week, happy golfing!
With 3 top ten finishes including a win at the 2010 Honda Classic, Camilo Villegas has certainly hit the ground running so far in 2010. Villegas is a very exciting player to watch. He plays with a fearless attitude and certainly goes after the ball on every swing. I especially liked watching him yesterday as he caught fire and birdied holes 8,9,and 10. With a commanding lead at this point and playing incredible, Villegas hit a bad tee shot on 11 which started a chain reaction of back to back boogies on holes 11 and 12 as well as a third boogie on 15.
While this was unfolding, Jack Nicklaus was in the commentator’s booth giving his insight. Johnny Miller asked Nicklaus about his experience dealing with situations similar to what Villegas was going through; trying to rebound and get back to hitting good shots. Nicklaus responded back by saying, “The difference between winning and losing is being able to regroup.” His answer was so simple yet so profound that I had to write it down to share with you. Even though the idea of regrouping or recollecting yourself after a bad shot or a bad hole is such common sense and something that you have probably heard many times, it isn’t the easiest thing to do, especially after ripping a drive into the trees or blowing an easy putt. So if having the ability to regroup is so important to shooting a low round or winning a tournament how exactly do you achieve such an elusive feat?
One way to get you thinking and feeling positive again after a poor shot is to follow the Golden Bear’s advice combined with a simple yet effective Neuro-Linguistic Programming (or NLP) technique called Pattern Interruption.
In NLP, a pattern interruption is any action that is outside your normal behavior during that moment that will temporarily disrupt the flow of negative thoughts or patterns of behavior. Pattern interruptions include; clapping your hands, pumping your fists, putting a big ridiculous smile on your face, laughing out loud, changing your breathing to deep diaphragmatic breathing, pulling on your ears while making a goofy sound, putting your club into your bag three times, or any other behavior that is outside your normal mode of doing things when things take a turn for the worst. Asking yourself positive questions to change your focus is also a powerful way to interrupt patterns. Questions like, “what do I love about golfing?” “What do I love about this day?” “What was funny about that last shot?” These types of questions force your mind to think about something else, thus interrupting the old pattern.
NLP teaches us that human beings run off patterns of behavior based on a cause versus effect relationship with the outside world. Tony Robbins uses a jukebox metaphor to explain this point. He says that the world gives us an experience, such as a negative event, and our minds search the jukebox and play the record that is most congruent with your past experiences. So if the situation makes you angry than your mind plays an angry record, or if it is a pleasant situation your mind plays one of your happy records. Robbins expands this metaphor to explain how pattern interrupts work. He said what would happen if while an angry record was playing you took a knife and scratched the record? What would happen if you kept scratching the record again and again? The answer is the record would get so scratched up that it would be impossible to play. Pattern interruptions work in the same way with our habitual thoughts and behaviors.
To further explain pattern interruptions let’s use a real life example. Have you ever been in the situation where you are completely absorbed in a conversation and then someone butts into the conversation and asks a random, off the topic question such as “where is the bathroom?” After the person leaves and you try to resume your conversation, you find it very hard to do so or remember what you were talking about even though you were deeply absorbed a moment ago. If, not have you ever found yourself saying, “I just lost my train of thought,” “where were we?”, or “what were we talking about?”, then you have experienced a pattern interruption. I think everyone has had similar experiences at one time or another and can relate to this example. What I am getting at here is pattern interruptions have the ability to help you quickly refocus your mind, and like the previous example sometimes break the pattern so much that you can’t even remember what you were thinking or talking about.
So how does all of this apply to golf? Let’s imagine that a golfer is teeing it up and has to hit over water. They step up, hit a poor shot, and the ball sinks to the bottom of the lake. What is likely to occur? Typically, this poor result would cause most golfers to search through their jukebox, find a congruent record, and release the patterns of behavior and thought that correspond with this negative experience. If this golfer doesn’t actively take control of the situation then what is most likely to occur is an expansion of negative thoughts, self-doubt, low confidence all of which will result in more poor shots and missed opportunities. When a bad shot happens it is important to know that it’s not the end of the world but it your attitude and mindset gets out of control it definitely is the end of a good round.
In this situation rather than dwelling on negative thoughts or the bad shot, take active control of your mind and emotions by using any pattern interruption that works for you. The ones that work best for me are pumping my fist (which is a power gesture of mine), deliberate deep breathing (calms the nerves and body, as well as changes mental focus), or asking myself positive questions (What do I love about golfing is my favorite question). Take the time to find out what things truly can disrupt your patterns. Sometimes a simple behavior like changing your breathing will work while other times it might have to be more a dramatic behavior like clapping your hands three times while saying YES, YES, YES! Once you successfully interrupt your pattern it is important to know that you have a short window of time to begin filling your mind with positive new ideas. If the old patterns return, do another pattern interruption, and again saturate your mind with things that make you think and feel like a winner.
At this point you might be wondering what you should do after interrupting your pattern. So I will close this blog by returning to the advice given by Jack Nicklaus at yesterdays Honda Classic. After making the statement that winning and losing is determined by a person’s ability to regroup after a poor hole, he went on to say exactly what he did to achieve this goal and win so many tournaments. He said the first thing he would do is focus on his breathing and start taking deep breaths. What he did was actually interrupt his pattern, which should always be the first step (Deep breathing interrupts a pattern because when a person is stressed, anxious, angry, etc their breathing is typically short, fast, and shallow. By deliberately taking in a long deep breath or by deep breathing for several minutes you effectively break patterns that effect your performance). Next, he said he would reassess the situation. He is indirectly doing another NLP technique which will be discussed at a future time called reframing. Nicklaus said he would say to himself and I’m paraphrasing here, “It was only one hole, I am still in the lead focus on what needs to be done to win this tournament.” Reframing or reassessing as Nicklaus called it is a great way to get your mind moving in a new and positive direction. Nicklaus said after he reassessed the situation, he would give himself positive affirmations in order to get back to simply playing golf and having fun again. In my opinion, this is again a pattern interruption indirectly used by Nicklaus on the golf course. By using affirmations and by reminding himself to have fun, it breaks the flow of negative thoughts and gets the mind finding positives things to focus on. The final thing Nicklaus said he would do is go back to basics on the next shot, release the idea of killing the ball, and just hit a solid shot to get the confidence started again.
So to quickly recap:
Step 1: Interrupt the Pattern
Step 2: Reframe or Reassess the Situation
Step 3: Positive Affirmations or Ask Positive Questions
Step 4: Go Back to Basics and Hit a Solid Shot
As for Villegas, I’m not sure what he was doing to regroup yesterday but it certainly was effective for he finished the tournament with a birdie on 18 and most importantly a 5 stroke victory. I want to congratulate Camillo Villegas on his 3rd PGA Tour victory at the Honda Classic. I was certainly impressed with his ability to regroup, his mental toughness, and his ability to seal the deal after adversity. If you start to utilize pattern interruptions during your round then you too will be on the road to developing the mental toughness like the pros. Until next week, happy golfing!
Welcome to the Mental Caddie Blog
Hello and welcome to the official Mental Caddie Blog. My name is John Weir and I am the creator of the Mental Caddie, a cutting edge golf enhancement program. I am a Board Certified Hypnotist and Certified Instructor through the National Guild of Hypnotists as well as a Master Practitioner of NLP. Besides being deeply interested in the mind and human potential, I have a tremendous passion for the game of golf. I took the game up seriously 4 years ago, and since then I have been absolutely addicted to the game. Once I learned how to swing a club well enough to get out on the course, I quickly discovered that golf is definitely a game that challenges one's mind much more then a person's body. Out of my desire to improve as quickly as possible I started to incorporate self-hypnosis, NLP techniques, and visualization into my game. To my amazement, I noticed very rapid improvements in my score, ball striking, confidence, and especially my enjoyment of the game. One rainy day, I made a recording in my home studio that was designed to guide me into self-hypnosis and deliver suggestions to improve my performance. I only made one other copy of that initial recording and gave it to my father to put to the test as well. We both started noticing improvements after the first listening, but after listening to the audio several times we both started noticing great leaps in our performance on the course. In one season, we both went from scoring in the high 90's to consistently shoting in the mid and low 80's! I even broke 80 on several different occasions. The results in my game were so impressive I decided to create a full mental golf enhancement system. One year later, I finished the Mental Caddie. This golf enhancement system contains 6 audios and dramatically improves focus, concentration, confidence, putting performance, execution of all shots, and so much more. I incorporated the latest technology to make this program so effective belief in the system is not required. All that is needed is to sit back, relax, and listen to an audio for a few minutes everyday or before a round. The audios will help to develop the mind to improve performance so golfers can shot lower scores. The Mental Caddie is available for download at my website www.hypnosisaudiomall.com if you are ready to play better golf and enjoy the game more.
I decided to create this blog to share mental tips, techniques, and strategies that can improve performance on the course when applied. Sign-up as a follower today so that you can stay informed of new postings and new ways to go low on the course this year.
I am also available for private consultation. Please visit my website www.johnweironline.com for more information. Happy Golfing
I decided to create this blog to share mental tips, techniques, and strategies that can improve performance on the course when applied. Sign-up as a follower today so that you can stay informed of new postings and new ways to go low on the course this year.
I am also available for private consultation. Please visit my website www.johnweironline.com for more information. Happy Golfing
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