Playing Golf and Hypnosis

People ask me Can hypnosis really improve my golf game? The answer is yes. Ask any successful player. Many have used hypnosis and visualization to help their game. Of course, they won't tell you about it. They want to be the only one with the hypnotic advantage!  

I just read a book by Chi Chi Rodriguez. It has some great tips for playing golf and even for LIFE!

Only fools live in the past. In medal, a golfer has to learn to immediately forget the last shot, good or bad, and move on to the next one. Compliment yourself on a ball well hit or scold yourself for a poor shot, but then move on quickly. You've got to get out of the past. Put a price on each swing and you'll learn to concentrate and scramble around a golf course to save every shot. Even on a bad day, it's better to lose only a little money, and every stroke you save is change that stays in your pocket. Play every shot as if it is important, because it is.

That's a quotation from the book, Chi Chi's Golf Games You Gotta Play.

Conquer Your Craving for New Shoes

I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.

This quotation may be a Persian proverb taken from a collection of ancient poetry by Sadi, taken from a much longer passage:

I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,
“Roast fowl to him that’s sated will seem less
Upon the board than leaves of garden cress.
While, in the sight of helpless poverty,
Boiled turnip will a roasted pullet be.”
~SADI, The Gulistan, or Rose Garden

I understand that my desire may be trivial and superficial and that my problem is of small magnitude compared to the man with no feet. But I still want shoes.

Does that make me a bad person?

Do you love your job?

I have this job that I love, but I'm also like, when can I go home. In a way this is good, because otherwise I'd never go home. I would just kill myself doing this show.

--Tina Fey

I have total recall

Marie Antoinette:

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

I thought this was relevant since I am doing a workshop about Memory Techniques.

Mnemonic devices do work. I used the Memory Palace technique to memorize my last speech for Toastmasters and it was a success. The first time I did a speech with NO NOTES!

What was the name of my speech? I forgot.

That's the name. "I forgot" was the title!

Crawl or Soar

I was thinking about Helen Keller.

She said something like

A person cannot consent to crawl, when she has the urge to soar.

I like that.

Of course, the "she" in that sentence applies to all people, all genders, just like "he" has applied to women, as well as men, for hundreds of years.

Has it been hundreds of years? I have read that "they" is now used as plural or singular, because it does apply to both genders.

What I really admire about Helen Keller, is that she was a professional speaker!

This is what she actually said:

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Of course, she used the singular pronoun "one." You don't hear that very often these days. But it was a wise choice.

Hypnosis Songs

Days go by, I'm hypnotized. I'm walking on a wire...

From the song Sonny Came Home.

What does it mean? I have no idea.

But it doesn't sound very pleasant. And my clients always tell me it feels very good to be in trance. They come back feeling refreshed and wonderful in every way.

(Women's) History

“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” wrote historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a 1976 article about Puritan women.

It's Easy with Hypnosis

It was Emile Coue (1857-1926) a French pharmacist and pioneering hypnotist who said:
"Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so."

And another insightful Coue-ism:
"When the will and the imagination are in conflict, the imagination invariably wins the day."

Thanks, Mark Beck for sending me this information!