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Believe it or not, the simple act of a deep breath – when done properly – provides an instant tension release within your body and allows you to achieve the fluid and effortless golf swing of the top tour players. Most golfers know there’s a calming benefit to breathing deeply, and many attempt to do so during stressful situations on the course. The problem is that almost nobody knows how to take a deep breath!

Most people have learned to breathe in a shallow and ineffective way, and can gain significant benefits from practicing what is called “diaphragmatic breathing”. Or just “breathing from your diaphragm”.

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In the mid 1990’s Stanford-trained engineer Gary Craig turned the psychology world on its head with the introduction of Emotional Freedom Techniques, or EFT.

EFT is a meridian-based therapy, similar to accupuncture or accupressure. You simply “tap” on a few “clearing points” on the face and body, while focusing on the negative emotion, in order to “clear” it. Sure, it sounds a bit unusual, but so are the results!

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No doubt countless golfers have tried traditional approaches to golf psychology (positive thinking and affirmations) to lower their golf scores. Some people have had some success with these, some of the time. But for many players, these attempts at happy, positive thoughts have led to frustration and a sense that they were wasting time.

There’s a reason for this – these traditional mental approaches to improving your game often are a complete waste of time! It isn’t that you weren’t using them often enough or doing anything wrong, or that positive thinking exercises and affirmations have no value; it’s just that you’ve been missing a big piece of the puzzle…

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The Zone. Finding and entering it is an often elusive goal of athletes in all sports, not to mention musicians, artists, actors and others. It’s the ideal state in which everything comes together. Your mind and body are in sync, your awareness of the environment you’re in is heightened, you flow through and with your surroundings effortlessly. Everything works perfectly without requiring you to “work” at all.

All golfers have had this zone state experience, whether for a moment or two, for a round or throughout an entire golf game. They’ll swing smoother, drive the ball further, sink seemingly impossible putts on instinct and play better than they ’should’ have – effortlessly. But what is The Zone, anyway? How do you get into it and STAY in it?

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