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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Golf Mental Game Tips – Playing Golf In The Zone

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Golf Mental Game Tips – Playing Golf In The Zone

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:35:59 +0000

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?

There are no shortage of theories contemplated and examined in sports psychology about what happens in our brain and nervous system during this experience. They’ve even hooked golfers up to brain-wave monitors in search of data to explain the changes they’re going through, in the name of helping players find this Zone state.

For the most part, these efforts have done nothing to improve our understanding of being ‘in the zone‘ because they’re based on a misguided notion, and so produce equally misguided conclusions. The idea that you have to somehow CREATE this state is a misguided one because it suggests the Zone is some sort of destination, something found outside your natural state of being.

In reality, the Zone IS your natural state of being!

The Zone is not a state that you need to “get into”, or struggle to maintain. Rather, it is the state of being that you are supposed to be in! And it is the place to which you can return when you eliminate the things that are blocking your natural, intended state of mental, physical and emotional freedom. Among many, these impediments may include:

Insecurity
Self doubt
Fear
Tension
Comfort Zones
Anger
Over-thinking
Etc., etc…

These issues, and others, are keeping you from living in the zone, on and off the course. When you learn how to clear these issues from your mind…you are back in the Zone. After a relatively short period of time, being in the Zone will start to feel normal…because it is!

Fortunately, there are techniques you can use to clear the issues that keep you from playing in the Zone, and from shooting the game of which you are capable. They work quickly, they’re simple to learn, and taught in a context that’s specific to golf. Improving your game will become easier than you can imagine right now, with no electrodes or brainwave monitors required! Are YOU ready to live and play in the Zone? Check out Renegade Mental Golf today.