http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com I'm reading a recent New Scientist article talking about the Five emotions you never knew you had and I'm starting to think about how our emotions influence our golf. And they're influencing us every time we play. Now I'm sure that like the rest of us,... http://www.a1articles.com/the-emotional-impact-of-the-secrets-of-hypnotic-golf-1368012.html 29th January 2010 Have you made your New Years resolutions for your golf improvement - using golf psychology, perhaps? Well, even if you haven't, I'm sure that many of you are excited about starting fresh, turning your life around and in some cases doing something about pl... http://www.a1articles.com/the-golf-psychology-of-new-year-resolutions-1330667.html 07th January 2010 We naturally expect the words we read to be the words that are written on the paper or screen we are looking at. We expect the same when we try to read a green when we're playing golf. However, we are much more likely to be deceived by the green than by t... http://www.a1articles.com/the-power-of-your-unconscious-golf-mind-to-unscramble-your-golf-1307223.html 21st December 2009 Have you ever had one of those days when you played better golf than normal, despite having your mind clearly focussed somewhere other than golf. Maybe it's when there's something exciting or absorbing going on in your life that has nothing to do with gol... http://www.a1articles.com/beware-the-sick-golfer-playing-better-golf-in-his-unconscious-golf-mind-1307216.html 21st December 2009 Do you talk to yourself when you're playing golf? Well, if you don't, you may have a serious problem. It's called brain death! Self-talk, otherwise known as internal dialogue or intrapersonal communication, is one of the main functions of our conscious mi... http://www.a1articles.com/talk-yourself-into-better-golf-with-golf-hypnosis-for-positive-self-talk-1293175.html 14th December 2009 How much do you listen to the commentators on televised golf? Do you think they're good for your golf? Well I used to think that watching golf on TV was good golf psychology. Now I'm not so sure. So what happened? Well after writing my recent article a... http://www.a1articles.com/the-bad-golf-psychology-of-listening-to-negative-tv-golf-commentators-1293174.html 14th December 2009 I've been thinking about the application of golf psychology to the issue of the swing thought. In other words, what do you and should you be thinking about when you actually swing the club. It seems that every time I watch someone play they seem to be tak... http://www.a1articles.com/the-golf-psychology-of-thinking-less-and-playing-better-unconscious-golf-1282883.html 09th December 2009 Firstly there was Lee Westwood's much talked about "Secret Plan." When the dust settled he admitted, "Okay, if you really want to know, the secret was making everyone else think I had a secret, when I didn't really have one." He had the rest of the field ... http://www.a1articles.com/covert-golf-hypnosis-and-secret-plans-at-the-dubai-world-championships-1268019.html 01st December 2009 Effective visualisation is one of the key golf psychology tools for improving your golf score and your enjoyment of the game. It's also one of the secrets of hypnotic golf. However, for most people, including me until recently, that visualisation tends to... http://www.a1articles.com/visualise-your-golf-shots-and-mental-golf-practice-in-3d-for-better-golf-hypnosis-1231877.html 13th November 2009 How much is the accuracy of your golf shot influenced by club alignment at address and how much is down to your instinctive or unconscious golf ability? Now I'm not talking here about the complexity of aligning the various parts of your body when you addr... http://www.a1articles.com/trust-your-unconscious-golf-mind-to-align-your-club-for-a-better-preshot-routine-1219756.html 05th November 2009 Golf instructors often talk about the transition in the golf swing as that pause between completing the backswing and starting the downswing. They often suggest that slowing down the transition is one of the most important keys to hitting a good shot. ... http://www.a1articles.com/speed-up-your-preshot-routine-transition-for-better-golf-psychology-1219751.html 05th November 2009 As a golf psychologist, I am especially interested in the importance of separating the conscious and unconscious elements of the pre-shot routine and the actual striking of the ball. In an ideal world, we should use our conscious rational mind, sometimes ... http://www.a1articles.com/the-golf-psychology-of-going-on-a-preshot-routine-journey-with-your-right-and-left-brain-1200067.html 27th October 2009 Practicing golf in your mind, mental golf if you like, is just as effective as playing golf and physical practice on the range, if you want to play better golf. As I've written many times before, it also works a lot better when accompanied by golf hypnosi... http://www.a1articles.com/mental-foursomes-practice-with-golf-hypnosis-for-better-golf-in-your-minds-eye-1200063.html 27th October 2009 The ability to learn from your bad shots and release them from your mind is one of the keys to winning golf. You only have to look at the world's greatest ever golfers to see this. I don't ever recall seeing the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Nic... http://www.a1articles.com/hit-the-reset-button-for-a-winning-golf-hypnosis-metaphor-1165946.html 12th October 2009 There were some amazing golf and putting psychology lessons on show with Phil Mickelson's stunning win at the Tour Championship at East Lake this weekend. Yes I know Tiger won the FedEx Cup and the $10 million with an amazingly consistent series of result... http://www.a1articles.com/see-yourself-putting-better-and-enjoying-golf-more-with-golf-psychology-1143711.html 02nd October 2009 One of the key success factors of better golf psychology is learning to unconsciously play one shot at a time - in the moment, in the zone or "in the now." And this applies equally to every shot you play on the practice ground, in a friendly game and in t... http://www.a1articles.com/play-better-golf-psychology-in-the-now-and-one-shot-at-a-time-1130843.html 29th September 2009 How often do you hear your playing partners and other people at the golf course complaining about things beyond their control? Maybe you do it a bit yourself. I know I have from time to time, especially in the past. You know the sort of thing I mean. More... http://www.a1articles.com/the-golf-psychology-of-letting-everyone-else-complain-while-you-win-1104874.html 22nd September 2009 As a golf psychologist, I'm regularly asked by clients about what they should be thinking about in their golf mind when they're actually swinging the club or stroking a putt. Many of them will have some sort of pre-shot routine that prepares them to some ... http://www.a1articles.com/visualise-your-target-for-better-unconscious-golf-1104868.html 22nd September 2009 What impact does luck have on your game of golf? By that I mean do you treat good luck and bad luck as two sides of the same coin? Statistically, our golfing luck is going to even out over the long term. If you keep tossing a coin, you may get long runs o... http://www.a1articles.com/use-golf-psychology-to-overcome-bad-luck-and-play-well-despite-it-1079186.html 11th September 2009 I wouldn't be at all surprised if by now you've noticed that self-hypnosis is a key part of my overall approach to golf mind improvement. In fact, many of the golf psychology techniques that I talk about in my articles start off with the words "If you're ... http://www.a1articles.com/finger-breathing-for-self-hypnosis-and-better-golf-psychology-1060246.html 02nd September 2009 I felt so sad watching Sergio Garcia looking so miserable and failing to close out a much needed win in the Wyndham Championship at Greensboro on Sunday. It reminds me of how important our internal state is to good golf psychology and how we can use self-... http://www.a1articles.com/the-golf-psychology-of-self-hypnosis-and-imagination-for-winning-happiness-1060241.html 02nd September 2009 Putting was clearly very difficult for all the players at Hazeltine in the 2009 PGA Championship, especially in terms of putting psychology. Now we all saw Tiger Woods missing a lot of mid-range putts that we'd normally expect him to see and I've already ... http://www.a1articles.com/putting-psychology-and-golf-hypnosis-into-perspective-at-pga-championship-1049401.html 25th August 2009 So, were you blown away by the golf at the 91st PGA Championship at Hazeltine this weekend? With 8 hours of TV coverage on Saturday and again on Sunday, I was just riveted to the screen and amazed by both the spectacle and the windy golf conditions. The T... http://www.a1articles.com/windy-golfers-and-windy-golf-psychology-blown-away-at-the-pga-championship-1049400.html 25th August 2009 I know I'm on holiday this week, so that tells you how incensed I am about the goings on at the sixteenth hole at Firestone on Sunday with John Paramor's untimely and perhaps ill-considered intervention at a critical time in a thrilling title decider. ... http://www.a1articles.com/lets-fine-the-rules-official-not-the-player-at-the-world-golf-championships-1049395.html 25th August 2009 So what is this golf mind and unconscious golf stuff that I'm always writing and talking about? And how does it actually work? These are questions I occasionally get asked by more sceptical golfers. Thankfully the vast majority of people I talk to either ... http://www.a1articles.com/play-unconscious-golf-in-the-zone-or-in-a-trancelike-cocoon-of-concentration-1012253.html 01st August 2009 So who made it to Sunningdale to watch the Senior Open Championship last weekend? I know that one of the latest subscribers to my newsletter did and he tells me that he and his wife really enjoyed it? For me it was well worth the visit, especially as it's... http://www.a1articles.com/shark-bitten-at-sunningdale-without-golf-psychology-and-self-hypnosis-1012250.html 01st August 2009 In parts one and two, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from the performance of veteran Tom Watson and young Ross Fisher at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. As a 59 year old myself, I was overwhelmed by Tom's amazing performance and me... http://www.a1articles.com/golf-psychology-lessons-from-the-open-championship-at-turnberry--part-3-996502.html 23rd July 2009 In part one, I talked about the golf psychology lessons from Tom Watson's amazing performance both on and off the course at this year's Open Championship at Turnberry. So what other golf psychology lessons can we learn from some of the other contenders? ... http://www.a1articles.com/golf-psychology-lessons-from-the-open-championship-at-turnberry--part-2-996496.html 23rd July 2009 So what golf psychology lessons can we learn from this year's Open Championship at Turnberry? I'm sure that many of you watching the last day unfold on the course shared my excitement at the ever changing scoreboard, the phenomenal shot making from all th... http://www.a1articles.com/golf-psychology-lessons-from-the-open-championship-at-turnberry--part-1-996490.html 23rd July 2009 I've been writing a lot lately about the negative and positive golf psychology of fear on the golf course. While I've been thinking all about golf fear consciously, it seems that my unconscious mind has been quietly working away on the question of how we ... http://www.a1articles.com/anchor-your-good-golf-shots-with-a-post-shot-routine-using-nlp-and-golf-hypnosis-965375.html 05th July 2009 There's a danger we treat fear completely as a bad thing in golf psychology. Now I know this goes against a lot of what I've been saying, but I'm talking here about the thin end of fear - nervousness. For many people, nervousness is the buzz of competitio... http://www.a1articles.com/channel-your-first-tee-nerves-into-unconscious-golf-resources-for-better-golf-965368.html 05th July 2009 How can golf psychology help you in overcoming the fear you have about hitting a bad shot on the golf course? Many people interpret this as classic fear of someone suffering from the putting yips who's about to putt or the person suffering form the shanks... http://www.a1articles.com/utilise-the-fear-in-your-golf-mind-to-hit-more-greens-and-fairways-965365.html 05th July 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, eith... http://www.a1articles.com/handle-fear-on-the-golf-course-with-golf-psychology-self-hypnosis-and-nlp-965356.html 05th July 2009 I know it's not cricket golf to talk about golf cricket in a golf hypnosis article, even if cricket and golf hypnosis are in essence the same thing. I'm also aware that many of my readers will have no idea what cricket is all about anyway. However, this s... http://www.a1articles.com/winning-with-golf-hypnosis-like-the-pakistan-cricket-team-965351.html 04th July 2009 If I were to ask you what you do between shots during a round of golf, you'd probably think I was missing the point. After all, golf psychology and teaching should be all about helping you to hit better shots and putts during a round of golf or in practic... http://www.a1articles.com/how-to-improve-your-mental-golf-approach-between-shots-with-golf-psychology-956918.html 29th June 2009 Have you noticed how good some of the leading professionals are at grinding out a good score, even if they are swinging the club below their best or downright badly. It's interesting to note that the real greats like Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus always s... http://www.a1articles.com/grind-out-a-winning-score-using-golf-psychology-and-golf-hypnosis-956913.html 29th June 2009 One thing I've learned from golf psychology is how my unconscious mind automatically follows where my conscious mind leads. Have you ever noticed that if one of your playing partners warns you about a particularly difficult bunker or some hidden golf haza... http://www.a1articles.com/focus-your-golf-mind-on-your-target-not-the-hazard-for-better-golf-scores-956912.html 29th June 2009 I hear that Darren Clarke's looking for putting improvement through golf psychology and working again with Bob Rotella. I know that Darren has worked in the past with Golf Psychologist Dr Karl Morris - after all, I've read Golf - The Mind Factor, the book... http://www.a1articles.com/better-putting-in-your-golf-mind-956911.html 29th June 2009 If you have hit good golf shots at some time in your golfing life, you already have the unconscious golfing ability to repeat those shots and score well. So, how well could you score if you played to the best of your existing golfing ability? Well, you c... http://www.a1articles.com/play-your-best-with-golf-psychology-before-changing-your-unconscious-golf-swing-956910.html 29th June 2009 It's good to be back in the writing saddle and staring into my computer screen once more after a week's break. Seriously though, I'm glad to be back talking about analysis paralysis and unconscious golf - two of my favourite golf psychology topics. Co... http://www.a1articles.com/use-your-unconscious-golf-mind-to-protect-your-golf-swing-from-analysis-paralysis-956909.html 29th June 2009 I was delighted to see Luke Donald doing so well in the first round of the Jack Nicklaus' Memorial tournament yesterday, with an opening 8-under par 64 to finish the day 3 shots clear of a very strong field. As a fellow member at Beaconsfield and someone ... http://www.a1articles.com/golf-psychology-plays-a-part-in-luke-donald-scoring-64-at-memorial-926895.html 11th June 2009 Improving your golf enjoyment has more to do with the golf psychology of addressing the reasons why you play golf at all than with addressing all the things you're trying to fix in your golf swing.One theme that comes up a lot in my thoughts and in my wri... http://www.a1articles.com/golf-psychology-focus-on-why-you-play-not-how-you-swing-for-golf-enjoyment-926894.html 11th June 2009 Regular readers of my articles will be familiar with my rants about golfers changing their swings in response to what I see as their golf psychology problems. Sometimes they change their swings in the mistaken belief that they somehow need to play better.... http://www.a1articles.com/trust-your-unconscious-golf-mind-to-remember-to-play-good-golf-ian-bakerfinch-916898.html 05th June 2009 Moving from the balance of my life to the balance of the golf swing, I was intrigued to read recently about how many people view this as a key element of a successful golf swing. Now you know that I never comment on the mechanics of the swing as I'm neith... http://www.a1articles.com/balance-your-golf-mind-and-body-for-better-golf--focus-on-your-hara-916896.html 05th June 2009 Using Golf Hypnosis, NLP and EFT, with different clients on almost every aspect of the game of golf, from the putting psychology and the Yips through to concentration and lack of confidence, clients often go on to seeking help with their lives in general.... http://www.a1articles.com/overcome-the-yips--putting-psychology-with-golf-hypnosis-and-eft-909190.html 01st June 2009