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Handle Fear on the Golf Course with Golf Psychology, Self Hypnosis and NLP

December 18th, 2009

Fear on the golf course can come in many shapes and sizes and it can result in a multitude of problems ranging from lack of enjoyment, through poor scoring and frustration to outright anger. Most golfers will have experienced fear on the golf course, either personally or from watching a playing partner.

As an amateur golfer, although my golf is very important to me, my livelihood does not depend directly on my ability to score well. However, I can think of many times, especially in my younger days, when I was uncomfortable, nervous, scared and downright terrified on the golf course.

You may have read on another of my articles. entitled Channel Your First Tee Nerves into Unconscious Golf Resources for Better Golf, about my nerves on the first tee in the Golf Illustrated Junior Vase at Hexham in the early 70s. When the starter announced on the loudspeaker system that they were expecting great things from me after my hole in one there the previous day, I could hardly stand up, let alone hit a good drive down the middle.

I’ve experienced similar feelings when I’ve arrived on the first tee and found I was playing with some or other golfing celebrity. I’ll never forget Bill Shankland, my then golf coach, asking me to stand in for him in a game in late-June of 1970. Bill explained that he was injured and could I take his place in a friendly fourball the following day. He went on to explain that there’d be no pressure as I was playing at my home club and partnering the club pro, Colin Christison, a man I’d played with many times before. Bill also mentioned that one of our opponents would be Ian Connelly from Welwyn Garden City, later to become Nick Faldo’s first coach and someone I also knew. I was a bit nervous plying with two pros I’d watched playing in the Agfa tournament at Stoke Poges, but I knew them both and felt I could handle it. The next day, I got to the club and as I joined my playing partner Colin walking to the first tee, I noticed that there was quite a crowd of my fellow club members behind the tee. I nearly collapsed when I walked through the crowd and Colin introduced me to our other opponent. It was Tony Jacklin, back in the UK to prepare for the British Open after winning the US Open a few weeks earlier. I was terrified and it took a lot of quiet calming words from Colin to get me through the first nine holes. I started to enjoy the experience as I loosened up on the second nine. Like most people back in the early 70s, I had no knowledge of golf psychology and the best advice available was to pull yourself together and get on with it. That was difficult and the effect didn’t last!

I’m sure that I would still be very nervous if I found myself unexpectedly playing with a US Open Champion. The difference is now that I have the means to relax myself using a variety of golf psychology techniques and really get the most from the experience. I’d probably play my normal game.

So what techniques would I use? Well the quickest technique would be to use my finger-thumb NLP Resource Anchor that would both relax me and get me into a confident and resourceful state. If I was still nervous, I could use self-hypnosis, some simple deep breathing exercises or, even better, the Balance Your Golf Mind and Body for Better Golf – Focus on your Hara technique from another of my articles.

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Self Hypnosis Yesterday, Brainwave Entrainment Today

December 18th, 2009

Self hypnosis is actually the power to enter into the subconscious mind and try as best as we can to speak to the powerful subconscious mind. Hypnotism has been around for a long time, and it even has been used in ancient times to measure some sort of mind control. Many hypnotists have been on TV and what you see is really perhaps a glamorised version of the real thing. There are no beautiful assistants and there are no advertisement breaks, what you need to understand is that you should think about more advanced techniques like brainwave entrainment. Now I am sure that you have heard about it and now, we will tell you how to effectively use brainwave entrainment.
For one thing, you need a really quiet space, and if you can find one in your house, then that is really great, but if you cant then, you need to be able to find one. The good thing about this is that you can actually induce silence through the use of music plugged into your ears, and make sure that it is really relaxing and soothing music. Either method is fine, as along as you are able to concentrate and reflect inwards to be able to start the self hypnotism process. So this is the first factor that you need to think about and gain.
The next thing you need to do is to actually be able to make sure that you can learn about your own breathing techniques. You need to keep them under control and gain some sort of rhythm when you are doing this. Breathing is one of the most important things when you are talking about the ability to actually control your breathing and relax your mind. This is one of the most important factors when you are talking about self hypnosis, because when you are able to control your breathing, you would be able to induce your own peace and time of zen.
The other thing you might want to do is to actually tap into the power of the brain. If you did not know, the brain has its own mechanism to actually induce its own super states and hypnotism, and these are down to the brainwaves that are being produced by the neurons in the brain as well. So when it comes to this, all you need to do is to reverse engineer this situation with the use of some available technology and there are plenty of these that can be found online for your own usage. This is where brainwave entrainment comes into the picture.
So this is the good news about how you can induce your own mental improvement episode – all from the power of brainwave entrainment technology, and as you can see, it is not as difficult as you think it is. All you need to be able to do is to get the right sort of environment, the right sort of mental control and sometimes, the right kind of technology.

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How to Choose the Right Self-Hypnosis Tapes

December 17th, 2009

Self Hypnosis is a great tool to use to achieve better qualify of life and enhance of aspects of our existence-physical, emotional and mental. Hypnosis is great way to instill pre-made suggestions into our subconscious mind where they matter the most. Messages that we receive goes through specific mental filters that were created some time during our lifetime. These mental filters or mental screening process acts as a tool to filter out negative messages from reaching our deep rinds and becoming beliefs that would affect our lives in an undesirable manner.

Lately, there has been a rising interest in self-hypnosis as a powerful way to get the most important and desirable messages straight to our subconscious mind without having to go through these mental filters. People who are under the influence of hypnotism will find it difficult to resist these suggestions as the messages are sent directly to the brain.

Self-hypnosis can be done right at home with self-hypnosis tapes or CD’s. The cost is relatively low as compared to session with a trained hypnotherapist. There are many self hypnosis tapes being offered online, so how do you choose the tight one for you?

You can opt for physical shipment of these CD’s and tapes or you can choose one that is downloadable via the Internet. CD’s that are delivered to your home would incur some shipping charges while download items can be purchased at a much lower cost than those sent to your home.

If makes sense to check the author of the book, especially a self-help book and it would make perfect sense to check on the author of the CD’s too. Note their qualification and if they possess the skills to make the session worthwhile and beneficial for you. Working with a brilliant author is crucial to ensure the time spent is worth the investment you make.

There are many latest cutting edge technologies that make listening to audio sound a sheer pleasure. One of these is the surround sound system which tends to make your audio messages come alive. If you can find tapes that can make those sounds real and pleasant, you have a better chance of being successful you are likely to stick to your sessions to end.

You can get a better quality audio of these are digitally remastered. Every tape should provide the best listening experience for you so always choose the best you can find. Hypnotic sessions can be made even more successful with the use of background music, sounds of nature such as birds and waterfall which tends to put you in a very relaxed state of mind.

Choosing a self-hypnosis CD is not a difficult task if you know what to look for and research before you find one. There are many reliable tapes being offered that can give you the results you are looking for. The right choice would save you time and money spent on worthless and ineffective tapes.

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Learn Self Hypnosis In Five Easy Steps

December 16th, 2009

Self hypnosis may seem mysterious, but it really consists of only 5 simple steps. Of course, you will need to practice these steps to become adept at self hypnosis, but the steps themselves – induction, deepening, suggestions, post-hypnotic suggestion, and awakening – are not difficult to understand.
Self hypnosis begins with induction. In this process, you bring yourself into a hypnotic state. You can begin with progressive relaxation or by focusing on a word or phrase. Most people find induction easiest if they are comfortably positioned in a quiet room with their eyes closed. After you have practiced enough that you can reach the hypnotic state with a single word or thought (a trigger), you will not be as easily distracted by noise or visual stimuli.
The next step in self hypnosis is deepening. The purpose of deepening is to develop the hypnotic state further so that you can communicate directly with the subconscious mind. An effective way to achieve this is to count down from 20 to 1, feeling yourself go deeper with each number. You can also repeat, “I am going deeper and deeper.”
The main work of self hypnosis is carried out during the third step, suggestions. In this step you will use visualizations and affirmations to suggest the desired changes to the subconscious mind. Visualization involves using the imagination to create a picture, complete with all 5 senses as well as thoughts and feelings. In this picture, you have achieved the change you want to produce. If you wish to quit smoking, you may imagine yourself at a party or another place you might smoke, but doing something else pleasurable. The better you can see, hear, feel, smell, and even taste the desired situation, the more powerful the visualization will be. Affirmations are also used during the suggestions step. Affirmations are positive statements that describe desired changes to the subconscious mind. These changes may involve behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes.
Using a post-hypnotic suggestion, the fourth step, helps to make the suggestions of the third step more powerful. A post-hypnotic suggestion states that when a particular event happens outside of self hypnosis, the changes made in the third step will become stronger. For example, returning to the example of smoking, a post-hypnotic suggestion might be “when I see a pack of cigarettes I will want to (something you have visualized yourself doing instead of smoking).” The outside stimulus is the cigarettes; the response is the behaviors suggested in the visualizations.
The fifth and final step in self hypnosis is awakening. You should allow at least 20 to 30 seconds for this step, since coming back to full consciousness too quickly may cause disorientation (confusion about time and place). An effective technique is counting from 1 to 5, telling yourself at each number that you are becoming more awake and aware. Each number should take about 5 to 6 seconds. When you reach the number 5, you will be fully conscious.
Self hypnosis does require practice, but if you practice the 5 steps described above, you can become expert at this process and use it to make the changes you desire.

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10 Stop Smoking Self-Hypnosis Affirmations to Help You to Quit Smoking

December 16th, 2009

As you recover from your smoking habit, it is important to constantly remind yourself of why you quit smoking. An excellent and effective way to do this is to use a form of self-hypnosis. Stop smoking hypnosis can be used at all stages of consciousness. You don’t have to be in a deep trance in order to reinforce your conscious and subconscious desire to quit smoking.One tool is to create and use affirmations to bolster your confidence. If you feel the urge to smoke again, repeat these affirmations. You might even notice that they send you into a light, calm trance that can be very relaxing as you deal with stressful situations where you might have turned to cigarettes.If you post these affirmations and mantras around your house, office, and car, it will help by continuously sending these positive messages to your subconscious:I Love Me Enough to Be Smoke FreeRemember that you chose to quit smoking out of respect for yourself. Take that “lack” that you might feel when you crave a cigarette and, instead of becoming tense and worrisome, fill that “hole” with positive feelings of love. Repeat the above affirmation. Breathe deeply, because you can!I Deserve to Be Healthy and Smoke Free Many people smoke because they lack confidence. Subconsciously, they might want to harm themselves in some way. Smoking is an expression of self loathing.But, once you realize that you deserve health and that you deserve to live a smoke-free lifestyle, then it becomes much easier to recognize your own self worth.I’m Falling in Love with Fresh AirA fun visualization, as you repeat this affirmation aloud, or in your head, is to imagine the air filled with bright sparkly lights. Give them a color that, for you, represents an energetic and healthy feeling. It doesn’t matter what color it is, as long as it makes sense to you! As you breathe in this fresh air, really imagine the sensation that these twinkles of light are warming your lungs and rejuvenating your body. Feel the fresh air moving the oxygen through your body, your fingers and toes, and even directly to your brain!It’s an amazing feeling, isn’t it?I Feel Refreshed, Renewed, and RelaxedThis affirmation is perfect for when you are waking up or preparing to sleep. These can both be difficult times when urges tend to resurge.Instead of feeling those needless urges of the old you, feel the energetic potential and positive awareness of the new you. Trust me, you’ll love yourself for it, sleep easier, and wake up refreshed and vibrant.You’ll feel like a new person!Other Affirmations to Keep in MindHere are some other excellent affirmations in your journey of stop smoking hypnosis. Remember to post these around you in visible locations for best self-hypnosis effect:It is safe for me to succeed and be smoke free. I am creating a new healthy smoke free life.I deserve to be healthy, happy, and smoke-free forever. I know I am worthy of a happy smoke free life. I love me enough to let go of my relationship with tobacco. I easily release any attachment I have to smoking.

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Self-Confidence,Self Hypnosis & Effortless Goal Achievement

December 14th, 2009

I am sure you understand that all success begins in the mind. In order to be successful you must first think successfully. Unfortuantely this is often easier said than done!

Even people who have been students of sel improvement for decades find it hard to step out of their past experiences, beliefs, thoughts and emotions and into a better life filled with the things that they want. This is due to subconscious programming – something that is often hard to remove or overcome.

If you have ever tried to achieve anything or have dreamed of a better life but stayed stuck then perhaps its time to give self hypnosis a try!

Creating self confidence is a lot like trying to create faith. In order to believe you can do something that you have never attempted before you must create some faith in yourself and your abilities. This can be tougher than you may expect. The majority of people who enter the personal development arena for the first time begin their life-transformation by using auto-suggestion in the form of affirmations. They try to use affirmation sto create the feeling of faith and belief in themselves. However, this approach is seriously flawed and extremely outdated. If you have tried this approach and failed then self hypnosis may well be the answer.

Self hypnosis, like all forms of auto-suggestions, is designed to infiltrate the subconscious mind where you hold all your current views of the world and beliefs about it and your place in it.

To use auto-suggestion correctly it is necessary to gain access to the subconscious mind and embed emotionalised suggestions into it. With most forms of auto-suggestions this can be extremely difficult as the conscious mind constantly interferes and refers back to previous subconscious programming.

If you want an example of how this works just make up an affirmation now that refolects something you really want. Phrase the affirmation in a way that states you already have it. A good example of this is the statement, “My bank account is over-flowing with money” – which is most likely untrue at the moment.

What happens when you speak this statement?

I bet you immediately think of all the reasons why this statement is not true! Thus reinforcing the belief that you do not have it and forcing you to focus on the lack of it!

You can liken your mind to a complex computer system. Because the conscious mind is still very much active when you speak affirmations it draws on the subconscious resources that hold your beliefs and past experience when it is presented with any kind of statement to ascertain whether it is true or false. This is why auto-suggestion techniques like affirmations very rarely work. The conscious mind uses your current subconscious programming to dispute and totally disregard the new statement thus not allowing it access to the subconscious mind! The easiest way to avoid this problem is through the use of self hypnosis.

The best way to program the subconscious mind is by bypassing the conscious mind and the best way to do this is through self hypnosis!

During self hypnosis you completely bypass the conscious mind and gain direct access to the subconscious. Once you have entered a state of self hypnosis it is very easy to remove your current beliefs and replace them with whatever beliefs you choose. Then when you think of the statement again and the conscious mind accesses the subconscious resources it is given the new programming i.e. the beliefs, thoughts and emotions that you programmed into it!

Through self hypnosis you can change yourself from the inside-out. To use self hypnosis you really do not need to do a lot. If you use a pre-recorded self hypnosis session all you have to do is listen and relax. Self hypnosis can be used for almost anything. Truthfully, through the use of self hypnosis it is possible to program your mind to achieve any goal you can imagine. A new level of self confidence and faith in yourself is just a self hypnosis trance session away.

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Self hypnosis and wight loss â?? fact or fiction

December 14th, 2009

Self hypnosis is a state in which mind is in a very relaxed and absorbing state. In this absorbing state the mind is open to new ideas. These ideas can bring change in your thought process and change your habits also.

Some people have a wrong assumption that during hypnosis they will come under the influence of hypnotist and do whatever he wants you to do. This is absolutely incorrect. These assumptions are based on things that we see in television or in the movies.

Self  hypnosis is not magic

You must not think of hypnosis as some kind of magic. Hypnosis is not directly responsible for burning your fat. Self hypnosis just changes your thinking regarding your health and you donâ??t have to go war with yourself, self hypnosis makes it easier for you. After each self hypnosis session you will feel that you are eager to do the things like workout and dieting. The lack of interest that you experience before is gone. While your mind will start thinking in a new way very quickly, you body may not react so fast because of obvious reasons. Note the fact that self hypnosis can only help you if you are willing to help yourself.

Cost is also a major advantage of self hypnosis. In the long term also cost of self hypnosis is less, when compared to other methods of weight loss which may involve medication and machines for workout. In some extreme cases it may involve surgery also.

Hypnosis works in a very smart way to make you happier and healthier than ever before and that too in a very short span of time.

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Natural Therapy

Most drugs available today in the market for weight loss have some kind of side effects like loss of appetite and high blood pressure. No medication or drug is used in hypnosis to aid the process, so there is no possibility of side effects due to drugs.

Permanence of effects of self hypnosis varies from individual to individual since it depends on the absorbing power of the individual brain. Going through more number of self hypnosis sessions can make the changes permanent.

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Assisting Self Hypnosis

December 13th, 2009

Assisting self hypnosis : review of some products commercially available
This article is directed at the noob to self-hypnosis, and aims at a general top level view of the products for sale online and somewhere else, regularly absolutely free. If you’re going to try self-hypnosis, it’s worth taking some time to checking out the different approaches and assists that are available. Everyone is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all best tack. With that under consideration, we’ve looked at everything from hypnosis software to mp3s, downloads of hypnosis scripts and videos, and more besides.
Self-hypnosis mp3s
these are professionally produced, high quality audio hypnosis sessions which lots of sites offer for free when you subscribe to another service. They can be taken anywhere your mp3 player goes, and are the perfect convenient solution- your hypnosis sessions can now happen anywhere you’ve a spare hour and some peace and quiet!
top quality sound recording technology is now generally available, so most mp3s will be of top of the range. It’s worth looking around and trying a few out, simply thanks to the sheer variety available- if there’s something at all not to your liking with the one you have, probabilities are there is a better alternative out there if you look.
Hypnosis scripts
These are easy to find too, and are a logical next step for someone happy with the practice of self-hypnosis, and looking to customise the process to their own wishes. A script will supply you with the base structure of relaxation, deepening, idea and then re-emergence to a woken state, that each self-hypnosis session desires to follow. When you have a little bit of a feel for how it works, you can then customise the script, adding your own private touches for yourself or a buddy, including categorical affirmations or instructions which you select. It’s then a simple matter to record it and voila! You have got your own personalised hypnosis mp3!
Hypnosis software
these take several forms, but the most fascinating type of hypnosis software is the series of audio programmes which are designed to layer binaural beats under pre-recorded music. These are mixed and conscientiously modulated ‘dual-tone’ notes and pulses which have a hypnotic effect. This writer finds these more fun to play with than anything, but the results can be engaging. These programs can be acquired, and are also easily available from torrent sites.
Niche Hypnosis CDs- stop smoking, weight reduction etc .
This is by a large margin the largest group of products out there- CDs with pre-recorded Self-hypnosis scripts which are tailored specifically to helping you deal with a selected issue or obstacle. Giving up smoking and weight loss are just the 2 most common- there’s a categorical CD for virtually anything, to confidence in public speaking, to greatness in dating, and on. The benefit of these over a generic self-hypnosis script is that they frequently contain some useful hints and tips about the issue you are working with, as well as particularly targetted affirmations and proposals which will help you achieve the result you would like. If you’re just hunting for help in one particular area, the CD could be for you.
There you have it- a brief overview. Don’t take it from me, though- the only affirmations you’ll find out what works best for you is to get out there and try these products. Good luck and have fun!
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Remove Stress And Improve Performance With Self Hypnosis

December 12th, 2009

Self hypnosis is basically a meditation or relaxation technique. Many people all over the globe have benefited from it. Many report they started feeling a boost in their confidence and productivity after trying it.

Natural trances are a kind of hypnosis you experience in daily life. You slip into and out of them while performing common chores like cooking, cleaning or driving. You tend to go on automatic as your brainwaves slow down into what is called the alpha state.

Self hypnosis is great for things like de-stressing, relaxation, improving performance, helping with weight loss, increasing optimism and helping you fall asleep. However, for more serious issues, you may wish to enlist the services of a certified hypnotist/psychotherapist or psychologist that uses hypnotism.

Sessions on hypnosis can be very expensive with just the fee you have to pay your therapist. However, self therapy self hypnosis has the same results as those sessions. It is just a matter of studying and researching how to carry out the procedures to hypnotize oneself.

Learning self hypnosis gives you the power to create major life benefits on your own and at your own speed. Learning self hypnosis can help you to cure a wide range of health conditions such as overweight, headaches, and a variety of skin conditions, as well as a broad variety of life issues.

Life can be hectic and a bit chaotic at times. Taking control starts with your subconscious mind.  Self hypnosis is one way to communicate with your subconscious. And it’s really not that difficult. It will help you become an overall better person — one who can think more clearly, deal with stress a whole lot better and one who is capable of helping others instead of thinking only of self.

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Using self hypnosis as a tool to attain better health

December 12th, 2009

Self hypnosis is a term which originates from hypnosis. Before self hypnosis two persons are necessary to perform hypnosis, one act as hypnotist and another one as subject undergoing hypnosis. The involvement of two persons makes hypnosis a complex process because at times the person who needs hypnosis is too shy to talk to another person regarding any mental or physical problem.

Hypnosis can be described as a mental state in which mind is completely free from any kind of distortion and is open to suggestions. The difference between normal hypnosis and self hypnosis is very minute. Self hypnosis is much easier to perform because any one undergoing this kind of hypnosis is free from any stress which may exist because of the presence of another person.

People undergoing self hypnosis may have some fears that are closer to fiction than to reality. Fear of losing individuality and becoming slave of hypnotist are totally baseless. No one in this world has the power to make you his slave through hypnosis. You have to understand that you are going in the state of hypnosis, a hypnotist or a self hypnosis CD is only acting as a medium. If you don’t want to go through hypnosis no one can hypnotize you.

Self hypnosis act in the same way as normal hypnosis. The only difference is that in place of a hypnotist some other things like self hypnosis CDs are used.

All the things that we do or all our habits are stored in our subconscious mind. Self hypnosis makes changes in our subconscious mind so you don’t have to force your self to do any thing. It becomes very natural. The transition from bad habits to good habits is very smooth. For understanding self hypnosis example of listening to music can be taken. When you listen to music, you become unaware of your surrounding and your mood becomes light. Same things happen during self hypnosis but the only difference is that during the session your subconscious mind takes suggestions and changes your thought pattern

Some people confuse hypnosis with sleeping but the two states are exactly opposite of each other, during sleep you are completely unaware of any thing but during self hypnosis your awareness increases manifold.

Self hypnosis helps you in relaxing and rejuvenating your mind and body. Self hypnosis is not medication, it is a procedure used to harness the power of you brain for your own benefit.

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