Beside my BBQ, I read about Golf Champions, Pistol-shooters & Air-rifle shooting, here are the hypnosis techniques they use (I think)...
Golf Champions do get bogey’s, but not all the time.
Golf, pistol-shooters and air-rifle shooting is very much a mental game - yet fewer than 1% of amateurs approach the game from a mental perspective. It turns out, just a few minutes a day spent in a peaceful state of relaxation, can make a phenomenal difference in the way you play the game - you love.
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What I can say as a hypnotists we call those techniques self-hypnosis & anchoring. The golfer was given homework - asked to regularly listen to hypnosis recordings to cement in ‘anchoring’. Every time the golfer touched his golf club - his entire mental state changed - he was ‘anchored’. He would calm down, re-focus, and mentally do whatever it is that golfers do.
For some people, Golf is a serious game of ‘craft’ (spy-craft) - penpals, invisible ink, Soviet spy’s, double agents, encrypted messages hidden inside secret-compartments of the handles of golf clubs, ping-pong rackets, badminton bats & tennis rackets. Maybe that was just in a John Le Carre novel - A deep fascination with calm targets.
For others Golf, is the spiritual-game-of-Manhood. On a quest to conquer the course to Master their mind, keep their eye on the prize, afterall, in the movie Star Wars, the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi said ‘Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them’
If you watch the world's greatest all-time-goal-scoring football player, The man who has ‘got an eye for goals’ - Alan Shearer's last ever penalty goal for Newcastle United..
Notice his technique - He looks & looks-away from the goal two or three times (very quickly) before he scores. For any goalkeeper that has been up against Alan Shearer, even if, ‘their eyes see past the illusion’ of where they think Shearer is going to strike the ball into the goal, the experiment of the “vanishing ball” illusion suggests still a third (⅓) will still get it wrong. For example, a magician - tosses a ball up and down - he looks up - and the students believe the ball has vanished, but the truth is the ball is still in the magician's hand - 68% get it wrong. To get sciency, it was monitored with ‘eye tracking cameras’ and it turns out everyone looks at the same place. In a different test the magician again, tosses a ball up and down - this time he doesn't look up - 30% still get it wrong.
We all know most tennis players look great - and they literally ‘look-great’ these, Grand-slam masters slow-the-ball-down in their mind, so it's a lot easier for them to hit the ball. Let’s be honest, How else can you hit a ball traveling at 190-200 km/h? (120 mph). Hypnotists distort time by manipulating the same wizard words you use like the ‘Presupposition of the Subordinate Clauses of Time’: before, after, during, as, since, prior, when, while, and verbs like: begin, end, stop, start, continue, proceed, already, yet, still, anymore… to create a sense of timelessness, spacelessness and comfortable feelings, we call them temporal predicates (Temporal as in time).
Hypnosis also allows subjects to explore time in ways that clock time would make it impossible - for example, imagine looking back at your entire life without any sense that you ever rushed or were in a hurry.
Time distortion, was used in the study titled the ‘Feasibility of Hypnosis on Performance in Air Rifle Shooting’ with promising results. When you think of ‘age-regression’ - hippies, rainbows & tarot might be front of mind. Here's the nice part about hypnosis, it is goal focused, you can throw away your age-regression and swap it for age-progression. In this study the Swiss shooting team, mentally time traveled to the end of the competition, saw how many ‘bulls-eyes’ they scored - and traveled backwards in time ( in hypnosis).
The rifle guys and & pistol guys, do something different. Richard Bandler, the inventor of NLP was invited to study the ‘USA pistol training’ to find out what they all had in common and he has worked with the-Greats-of-Golf. While you might think, they all do the same thing, it's all a little different.
Haven't we all, experienced attempting to give ourselves ‘Zoom’ eyes, trying to read the numbers on the front of a bus, reading what time the train leaves? Trying to find a friend on the beach on a warm summer's day. That's what the golf guys do. When they are ready to Tee-off, they look down the fairway several times before they take a swing - That's why they don't swing at the ball the first time - they look back and forth a few times - and give themselves eagle-eyes.
Whereas when you think of rifle guys that shoot like 3000 yards - Mucho, Massive Hunks of men might spring to mind - If you do, you've got it all wrong. These highly receptive zen rifle guys go into a profound altered state, and they even meditate.
The olympic guys go into a mediation (they give themselves eagle-eyes) so when they pick up a rifle or a golf club they literally wake up and make things appear much closer.
"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
Here is the, One Elite Golf Hypnosis tip for 2022
Right now, feel completely at ease within yourself
At ease with your game
Assertive but not over anxious
steady and strong
Proud
You behave like a winner because you are a winner
You learn from your mistakes
You are reasonable with yourself and your opponent
You see clearly the slight correction that will allow improvements in your technique
You make these improvements
These improvements are made and you meet the challenge
You meet the challenge before you
You are ready for that challenge and you meet it
Time after time, you just keep coming back with complete confidence in your skill
Feel that confidence
Feel how that confidence feels
Feel it move through your whole body
Take note of how it makes you feel
You are a winner and you feel like a winner through and through
Now imagine yourself begin your game
You ready yourself and take a few deep breaths
You focus your attention easily on what you are about to do
You focus your attention on your practice swing and concentrate on the shot you are about to take
You are able to maintain your concentration for as long as you want
You take note of your body position and make the required adjustments to your stance noting the correct position of your feet and body in relation to the hole and the ball
In your minds eye you now prepare to take your shot
You move easily and surely
You feel the ball contact sweetly with the club face and watch as the ball goes just where you want it to now
You let each movement and strategy of the shot be imprinted on your subconscious
Like a blueprint that can be recalled
You now step up and take your shot allowing your subconscious to use the blueprint
You take your shot and it is exactly as it was in your imagined practice swing
You are happy because you have played a fine shot
An excellent shot
You continue with your round of golf
Feeling your pleasure with your game increasing with each hole
You are playing easily and skilfully
You will not second guess yourself but instead use all of your vast knowledge from your previous games of golf
Your game is just getting better and better with each hole that you play
When you putt you will keep your head perfectly still and keep your eye upon the ball
All the time your energy levels are remaining strong and constant
You feel this energy moving through your body
Making you feel wonderfully alive
Better than you have felt for a long time
You find that you are becoming less troubled by intrusive or distracting thoughts
Able to focus, without distraction, on the task at hand
You will be able to remember everything that you have experienced and be perfectly relaxed and at ease
When you sleep you will sleep deeply and restfully
When you wake in the morning you will feel full of energy and vitality
Really looking forward to the day ahead
Feeling confident, at ease and strong
Better than you have felt for a long time
Confident in your ability to perform at the level required
Allowing your natural talent and ability to shine through, together with the experience that you have gained over time
Notice how relaxed you feel
The steady, deep, gentle rhythm of your breathing
Breathing in energy and vitality and breathing out all tensions and anxiety
Savoring the moment….