| Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to drive a golf ball | | | | soars over the green like a bird in flight.” With |
| as easily as you drive a car? To know exactly which | | | | time and repetition, your subconscious will manifest |
| direction to go and know that you absolutely have the | | | | those statements as reality for you. |
| power to do so? Well, you actually CAN do that. And | | | | Note that the subconscious does not process |
| it is really quite simple. | | | | negatives; it only responds to action words and |
| What’s the catch, you say? Well, no catch, but | | | | commands. So focus only on the desirable, not the |
| there are three requirements: You must have an open | | | | undesirableT want, because your subconscious will |
| mind, understand the power of your subconscious, and | | | | deliver whatever it’s told. Do you want a clean |
| trust the fact that your golf game is all in your head. | | | | shot into the 9th hole…or into the sand? It is |
| The subconscious mind, which is 88% of our mental | | | | immaterial to your subconscious mind (and your car |
| capacity, drives all our behavior. The conscious mind, | | | | and your golf clubs!) if you are a handicap golfer or a |
| which is only 12%, houses all our logic, reasoning, | | | | scratch. |
| decision-making skills, and willpower. As you can easily | | | | Top athletes Tiger Woods, Michael Weiss, and Venus |
| see, the bulk of our power comes from our | | | | Williams, to name just a few, use hypnosis to enhance |
| subconscious. The good news is that this massive | | | | their focus and their performance, and for very good |
| storehouse of power is easily manipulated by our | | | | reasons. It’s painless, it’s non-invasive, |
| conscious mind. The even better news is that we can | | | | anyone can do it, and it works. A far cry from the |
| align both these storehouses so that we have 100% | | | | “squawk like a chicken or sing like Elvis” |
| of our power supporting us in attaining our goals. Think | | | | stereotypes, hypnosis has been used for centuries, |
| of it like this: the subconscious is a machine…just | | | | and is fast becoming mainstream as a beneficial |
| like your car or your computer. Both are powerful | | | | therapeutic modality for a variety of issues, including |
| machines, but they are really just useless heaps of | | | | sports improvement. We all experience hypnotic |
| metal without an effective driver or operator. The | | | | trance every day. It’s just about as |
| conscious mind is the driver, or the | | | | “scary” as having a massage; in fact, |
| “brain” and the subconscious is the | | | | hypnosis does for the mind what massage does for |
| “brawn,” which is extremely obedient. It | | | | the body. So if you can have a massage or you can |
| indiscriminately follows any order it is given, like a willing | | | | go to sleep, you can be hypnotized. |
| slave. Does your car care whether you drive to | | | | Understanding this theory of the mind empowers us to |
| Savannah or Hilton Head? Of course not. So, you | | | | access and utilize the enormous power we were born |
| have a choice: you can drive or be driven. You can | | | | with so that we can be the golfer we want to be, live |
| allow your subconscious to keep driving you the way it | | | | rich, full lives and attract the ideal mate, create a fulfilling |
| has always driven you, or you can take the wheel and | | | | career, earn a dream salary, and free the inner winner. |
| command it to drive in a new direction. The | | | | There is simply no need to live as a hopeless victim of |
| subconscious is a collection of all the experiences, | | | | our subconscious. We were born to win, and winning |
| information, and perceptions we have filed away in | | | | can be our default setting. Hypnosis is a powerful |
| there for future reference. Left to its own devices, it | | | | modality in which we can harness the vast personal |
| will continue to drive your behavior with all your | | | | power that we ALL innately have. It has nothing to do |
| deep-seated beliefs like “I’m a handicap | | | | with intelligence. Do you know a naturally brilliant person |
| golfer” or “I could never be | | | | who can never seem to get out of his/her own way |
| scratch.” The subconscious figures that if you | | | | and constantly operates beneath his/her potential? |
| haven’t given it another command, | | | | Conversely, do you know someone of average |
| you’re happy with these. Remember, this is not | | | | intelligence who is wildly successful and always wins? |
| your intelligence! So, it is up to you to use your | | | | It's an unequal world in many ways, yet when it comes |
| intelligence and reprogram your subconscious with | | | | to personal choice and living up to our own potential, |
| new, powerful, positive beliefs, such as | | | | we are all equal. Just like we all have the same 24 |
| “I’m becoming the golfer I’ve | | | | hours in a day and seven days a week, we all have |
| always wanted to be” or “My long drive | | | | the ability to plug into our own power source. |