| BREAKING THE TRANCE ON GOLF: | | | | the driving range making beautiful shots. And all with |
| Have you ever choked on a short putt that meant | | | | my pitching wedge of all clubs!" My hypnotist would |
| so much to you? You wonder how that can happen. | | | | be the first to tell you that my body clearly heard |
| So many long putts roll right into the cup when | | | | the part of my thought that said, "…this one |
| you've been playing so badly that you no longer care | | | | will be perfect now because…" Yes, I was so |
| about the score. And then when you're having a | | | | certain I even had a reason. |
| really good game, in the lead perhaps, you miss the | | | | I remember once reading that Marlene Floyd said that |
| shortest easiest ones. The reason is quite simple. You | | | | one of the differences with an average player and an |
| knew the important putt wouldn't go in before you | | | | excellent player was that the average player looks at |
| even took the putter out of your bag. This is where | | | | the green and thinks "I'll be happy to see this one |
| using hypnosis to improve your golf comes in. | | | | land anywhere on that green." And then it |
| Hypnosis will not help you learn the proper mechanics | | | | does…. land anywhere on that green. The |
| of the swing. What it will do is help you to transfer | | | | excellent player thinks "This one is going to land right |
| that knowledge from your head into your body. | | | | next to the pin." And it also does, land right next to |
| Hypnosis will help improve your golf game in the area | | | | the pin. Most great players are aware of how |
| most golfers struggle with, the mind. Using hypnosis | | | | important thought processes are when playing such a |
| to improve your game can turn out to be the most | | | | psychological game as golf. But people are only just |
| crucial way to lower your score. Your customized | | | | now becoming aware of the extent to which they |
| hypnotherapy treatment plan can deal with your | | | | can learn to manipulate their own thoughts using |
| individual struggles and limitations. | | | | hypnosis thereby lowering their golf score. |
| I went through a period where I just couldn't pitch | | | | The reason that hypnosis actually works to improve |
| near the green if my life depended on it. I would try | | | | your golf game is because it deals with the |
| to hit down on the ball, accelerating through the | | | | psychological aspects of the game. A qualified |
| swing visualizing the ball making a beautiful arch and | | | | hypnotist can teach you how to control your |
| landing right near the pin the way I had been taught. | | | | thoughts, stay focused and not sabotage your own |
| Yet I would decelerate with fear instead of | | | | game. A regular golf teacher can only teach your |
| accelerating with confidence and then I'd watch my | | | | mind what your body must do. But it is the hypnotist |
| ball soar way past the green. At the end of one such | | | | who works with you to improve your game who can |
| frustrating game, while walking back to the | | | | teach you how to transfer that knowledge right into |
| clubhouse, I came across stray balls from the driving | | | | your body. Your mind needs to be in tune with what |
| range. I casually hit one back to the range using my | | | | you are trying to do. While some people will blame |
| wedge. I was probably thinking to myself, "This one | | | | the clubs and invest in new expensive clubs, it is |
| will be perfect now because it doesn't count." Sure | | | | those investing in hypnosis to improve their game |
| enough I hit a beautiful pitch. It made a perfect arch | | | | that are finding the key, that vital and fundamental |
| and landed right where I aimed. I walked from stray | | | | way to lowering their score. |
| ball to stray ball placing them all perfectly back onto | | | | |