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