Can Emotional Freedom Techniques Lower Your Handicap?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:55:59 +0000

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!

Gary and his team achieved “astonishing results” while working with war veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These men had recurring nightmares, phobias, paranoia, shame and guilt, among other socially crippling conditions and feelings. EFT was able to give them peace and hope in a matter of hours, where more traditional therapies had failed for years. So what does this have to do with reducing your golf handicap?

Well, if EFT can help a war veteran with PTSD then your first-tee jitters, yips, or anxiety about hitting over a water trap don’t really stand a chance! Try it for yourself and track your golf handicap over a period of four weeks.

Try This EFT Exercise Yourself…

The next time you are faced with a shot that is causing you any sort of negative emotion, step away from the ball. Identify the negative feeling and focus on it while calmly performing the “tapping” as described below.

1. Using the tips of your index and middle fingers, tap on the boney area about one inch directly below one eye – approximately 10 times.

2. Tap 10 times on the boney area just outside the same side eye.

3. Tap the insides of your wrists together approximately 10 times.

4. Finally, take a deep breath, step up to the ball and swing away.

Yes, it really can be that simple to eliminate the mental and emotional barriers between you and consistent peak performance!

The above demonstration is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the enormous potential inherent in these techniques to reduce your golf handicap and increase your enjoyment of the game. For more groundbreaking techniques that will improve your performance on the golf course, visit Renegade Mindset Techniques For Golf. Don’t forget to check out the free reports and email tutorials while you’re there!

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Mental Golf Game Tips – Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:59:59 +0000

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…

You were practicing DENIAL. And a part of you knew it. You were essentially denying the part of you that knew that what you were affirming, such as “I consistently hit 90% of greens in regulation”, simply was not true.

Even as you were repeating your affirmation over and over again, part of you whispered “bull****”. You could call that part of you the “inner critic“. And let’s face it; the inner critic may have a point. After all, it may be a fact that in the past year, you averaged only 30% greens in regulation so you’re setting up an internal conflict between what you tell yourself, and what you know to really be true. And this can set up a mental block that affects your game dramatically.

The inner critic is the voice of all negative emotions on the course – fear, doubt, anger, embarrassment, etc. It can even be an underlying cause of physical symptoms such as tension, sweaty palms, and a variety of aches and pains.

The “Renegade Mindset Techniques for Golf” System deals specifically with recognizing and eliminating the inner critic. RMT is a sports-specific form of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), the most popular method in the emerging world of Energy Psychology.

Instead of denying its existence, thus allowing it to subtly sabotage our best efforts at improvement, you can focus your attention on it and “clear it” with the simple yet powerful RMT protocols.

Once the negative thought or belief is acknowledged and cleared, a positive affirmation can more effectively take hold in your conscious and subconscious mind. You will have eliminated its competition, and therefore it will be easier to accept.

The RMT for Golf routines always begin with recognition of the negative issue. Then you will focus on that particular issue while “tapping” to eliminate it.

DO NOT be concerned about “being negative“! Remember, it is the acceptance and clearing of the negative that is the key. With the negative feeling/emotion cleared, THEN you can install the positive substitution with ease!