How To Enter The Golf Zone – Training

How do you get into the zone for your golf game? This has been the holy grail of golfers throughout the history of the game. And it’s not only golf that we’re talking about here. Sports psychologists, coaches and athletes worldwide have studied this phenomenon to the ends of the earth.  Can you get into the zone at will?  Well, yes and no.

Does anybody have the secret shortcut that when used can drastically increase your odds of getting there? Maybe. If you’ve ever been in The Zone for even a short time, then yes, you have an avenue. This training is about helping you find that.

If you’ve never been in The Zone before, you are about to add a dimension to your performing ability that will blow you away (and your opponents).

This Member’s Only Training (below) is in 3 parts. The first 2 parts are to help you with the major concepts to begin to adopt.

Part 3 gives you some very easy, yet powerful exercises to get you to feel The Zone.

I welcome your comments…

Craig Sigl

Member’s Training for how to get into The Zone for golfers below:

How To Enter The Golf Zone – Part 1
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Eliminating Fear – Session

When I first read about having “Fear” on the golf course, I was incredulous. I thought: “What, I never have any fear.” That word, Fear, it didn’t register with me.
But I certainly had experienced it out there many times. In fact, every round. I called it “tension” or “nerves” or “pressure.” Guess what, those all come from Fear. And that Fear comes from focusing on outcomes that may or may not go well.

Fear of choking, missing a putt, hitting it out of bounds, missing the fairway, disappointing my partners, etc.

In other words, if you focus on whether or not this shot will go off well or whether or not you will have a good score…then you are going to be experiencing a lot of fear throughout your round and that can actually contribute to hurting your shots and your score! It’s a vicious cycle, and you already know this don’t you?

What to do about it? Turn your focus over to outcomes that you can be sure of and allow for your best performance to emerge. This session does that and strengthens your self-image at the same time. It also gives you specific thinking techniques to utilize at the moment on the course that you experience that fear.

Ready? Here we go…

Eliminate Fear - Gold Membership Hypnosis Audio Below

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Playing Behind Slower (or with irritating) Players – Session

Every golf instructor worth his salt will tell you that rhythm and tempo are ultra important in creating a good scoring round…and I’m no exception. Sometimes, this is a challenge due to other players in your group, or from slow players ahead of you or just a slow day on the course where you have to wait for each shot. You know what happens then…you get antsy, anxious and you think too much.

I’ve got news for you…this is PART OF THE GAME and part of the challenge which is one of the main reasons why you play golf isn’t it? The challenge right? You want to get some learnings into your body that this is a good thing and that you can have an advantage over your competition in such circumstances. Fast players on tour get ruined when they have to slow down for others. After listening to this session a few times, you won’t have that problem any more…

Have at it, it’s a fun one!

Ok club members. This is for you. I put some special efforts into this session to help you create a “theatre of the mind” effect so that it can be more REAL to you. Allow your visions or thoughts to run with it. This is an interactive session where you will want to do some thought work when I call for it. Do the work! It’s very important. You cannot do it wrong and whatever you do is correct for you.

This session is classic “Parts Therapy” work that I do in my office. If you were in my office, we would do this type of work where you would actually talk to and answer me in hypnosis. You can do the same thing here as I have offered my guidance in the same way that I do in the office. We all have parts…when you can get to the point where you accept all of your parts and you don’t allow one part to totally control you, then, you can feel and perform any way you want. Most folks problems come from some sort of internal conflict. You can use this technique on your own in self hypnosis for anything. This is excellent for many other things in your life besides golf.

Playing Behind Slower Players – Gold Membership Hypnosis Session Below

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Overcoming Golf Fear – Training

Overactive fear is probably golfer’s biggest enemy. When I first read this, I thought to myself: “I don’t have any fears out there on the golf course. I get tense and nervous at times but not fearful.”  Well guess where that tension and nerves comes from? Generally speaking, it’s fear of failing or missing the putt or shot. Fear of choking and that CAUSES the tension or nervousness.  In this training, I’m going to give you SOLUTIONS to the CAUSES of the fear. In my office, I have had great success in working with golfers and other athletes using these tools you are now getting.  USE THEM!

The video is 42 min. long. You might want to take notes. At the bottom of the video is a little TV icon. If you click that, you will get this video full screen.
Greens and fairways,

Craig

****update*****
At the end of the video training, I mentioned a concept about starting at the end and working your way backwards. I found a person, Pam Bowen, who can really give you some perspective on this to eliminate fear. After watching the video, listen to this interview below the video. It could be life-changing for you.
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How To Get In The Zone – Mary Lee LaBay – Training

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Mary Lee Labay Phd. Hypnotherapist Interview On How To Get Into Hypnosis and Techniques to Enter the Zone

A One-Hour Interview by Craig Sigl

In this training, Mary Lee, who is an avid golfer herself, will take you through specific techniques to get that Zone feeling. This may be all you need to trigger yourself past the blocked gate and step into a state that allows for this type of peak performance.  I would advise continuing to do the other clearing work I’ve been talking about throughout the site.

How to Get in the Zone is different for everyone. Mary Lee has some ideas that will be up to you to decide if it works for you and I highly recommend you give them a fair shot and really commit. Everything in this interview will have it’s maximum results for you when you commit to utilizing it.

The one-hour interview is below and is only available to members.

How To Do Self Hypnosis – Training

Training #1 – Introduction to self hypnosis

There is so much misinformation about how to do self hypnosis and especially for golfers. The biggest problem with making this effective for you is in eliminating all of the beliefs about what you think self hypnosis is supposed to be like or how it should “feel.” The series of videos below are about the major points I cover in my office every day with my clients to first, set them up for how to hypnosis in general. And 2) How to do have a structure for doing it on your own that has been proven effective and very time efficient.

I call it my 1-minute light switch protocol. I have had a number of clients tell me that they are able to drop their blood pressure within a minute up to 20 points with this technique. As with most things we do, the more you do it, the better you get. Hypnosis is no different. Eventually, you can get to a point where you can drop into state very easily and without any formalities. I like to brag that I’m “in hypnosis” all of the time.

It’s a matter of taking the trance you already do and getting control of it. Remember this: the trance state isn’t even necessary for change. It is certainly helpful and can speed up the process but everybody is different and responds to programming of the unconscious (subconscious) mind in their own way.

I have provided the fundamentals here in the series of videos below. I recommend you watch them in order.

Greens and fairways,
Craig
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Emotion Mastery for Golf – Training

The path to mental toughness goes through the forest of your emotions

Mental toughness…what is it? Tiger Woods has been called the most mentally tough athlete on the planet. I don’t think there’s anyone who can dispute that since he has demonstrated it time and time again in one of the most mind-bending sports our species has created!

It’s the ability to bounce back from adversity. It’s being able to block out distractions and negativity that is all around you. It’s the ability to stay focused no matter the weather, what your playing partners are doing, or what’s going on in your life.

Cutting to the chase here, it all comes down to emotions. I’ve known for a long time that solving the human puzzle of emotions and feelings was the holy grail of golf performance. You may not be convinced of it yet but you will be once you understand the principles I’m teaching you here, practice them off the course and then bring them to the course in your entire body… and not just your head.[Content protected for Gold, Gold Yearly, Gold 7 members only] Gold|Gold Yearly|Gold 7]

Long Game – Your Perfect Swing! – Session

I’ve written much about the futile attempt to achieve a perfect swing. Golfers and announcers dissect top pros swings down to the smallest detail in hopes of finding the magic bullet that they can apply to their swing.  Here’s the deal folks, it’s not about a perfect swing, it’s about achieving a repeatable swing…one that works for you.

There are so many different ways to swing and win. Yes, you should follow an instructor or swing coach’s advice if you believe in his/her system. Once you have it…once you’ve shown that you can use it effectively, as you do on the practice range, then you know you own it. All that’s left is bringing back what you know you already can do.

This session below will help you do that.

Your Perfect Swing – Gold/Silver Membership Audio Session Below:

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Mental Toughness – Focus – Session

I often hear from golfers, after a round,  that they just didn’t focus and if they had, they wouldn’t have missed that putt or shot…And when I press them, they admit that they had no plan or intention at the beginning or during the round to foster this.

We are all pretty good at giving ourselves a cue or reminder for a swing thought for instance. Why not one to trigger “Focus?”

There are a number of things that cause us to lose our focus and concentration…

Lack of motivation. The answer to this is in deciding and reminding yourself of your reason for wanting to improve your focus and and as a result, your scores.

Expectations cause you to lose focus. These cause difficult emotions, tensions, and anxiety that destroys the coordination you have in your fine motor skills.

Significant Distractions. You will be given a tool to deal with this in the first session below.

Before you go out for your next round, here’s some suggestions to dampen your expectations and put things in perspective for you. Review these before every round.

 

1. It’s not your life, it’s not your wife, it’s just a game

2. We are fragile beings and can die tomorrow. How does this putt compare to that?

3. What if you were able to float your body out in space and watch the spot on the earth where you are golfing…while connecting to your higher belief systems…up there, at that moment

4. Will the legacy you want to leave your loved ones be affected by this shot?

5. Does this round have any relevance to your overall purpose/mission for being alive on the planet right now?

6. Wow, this tension, stress, tightness feels a lot like being excited and energized doesn’t it?

The fact is, YOU ARE ALREADY GREAT AT FOCUSING, when you want to or need to.  You do it in your work, vocation or studies and you do it in your play. You do it well when watching a movie or book that you enjoy…or even a tasty meal.

Focus is more a matter of emotionally framing your round for how you want it to go before you go out on the course.

Add a tool to “practice” your focusing…and you should be set. The tool, is how to be in the present. You will want to use the Focus induction here to practice using this tool in hypnosis.

Golf is supposed to be fun!! Decide that that is your main objective and then you will just naturally play to your potential and keep your focus…Just like when you watch a movie you really like.

And then when you get up to that pressure putt or back 9, then you can easily focus and be calm as a monk. That’s how it works….for you now…doesn’t it?

Focus -  Gold Membership Hypnosis Audio Below

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Mental Toughness – Confidence: Part 2 – Session

The next part of this exercise in building Confidence is an important stage in the Mental toughness game. In week one you had a chance to listen to the audio and practice through a game of golf. Now you can drive this home.

What did you notice during the game? What distractions crept in. Were there real fears, or things which just seemed like it? Either answer is ok. However, this will help. You made it this far- now you’re ready for part 2 in this important lesson…

Confidence: Part 2 – Gold Membership Hypnosis Audio Below

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