Archive for Richard Bandler
The emotional impact of the Secrets of Hypnotic Golf
Posted by: | CommentsI’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, you’re experiencing all sorts of emotions every minute of every day of your life. It’s a key element of living whether we are playing golf or doing something less important.
So what are these emotions I’m talking about? Well, as the article says, we all see different ones, but the consensus seems to include what psychologists apparently call the Big Six – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Surprise and Disgust. Well they all crop up on a regular basis in golf, now don’t they? And they all appear either as desires or problems with many of the people who seek help from golf psychologists. My new book, The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf …
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Anchor your good golf shots with a post shot routine using NLP and golf hypnosis
Posted by: | CommentsI’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 actual do this "fear" thing in our golf minds. Using a post-shot routine was the answer – to the problem, not the question.
Now in NLP and golf hypnosis, we have many ways of managing a person’s fears. If it’s a full blown phobia, we can deal with that easily. If it’s a habit or belief that’s blown out of all proportion, we can help there too using techniques like the NLP Swish Pattern. If we need a skill that someone else has we can use modelling and Richard Bandler’s "Stealing a Skill" technique. If the fear is doubt related and, as we might say colloquially, there’s a part of me that wants to play a risky shot and another part that’s saying it’s too dangerous, then we’ve got the NLP Visual Squash parts integration technique. And there are many more NLP tools we can use before we even start looking at golf hypnosis.
So why not use one of these techniques to manage or eliminate fear? Well, you can use these techniques and if they are really deep-seated fears, you may need them. But what about nipping the fears in the bud …
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10 Questions with Andrew Fogg – The Golf Hypnotist
Posted by: | CommentsThere’s a lovely lady hypnotherapist called Ellie Blunt who has a really interesting blog called The Transparent Hypnotist. She posts 7 days a week on a broad range of topics – "All about hypnosis, NLP, positive thinking, suggestion work and the reality of it all."
Every week, Ellie posts a standard questionnaire based interview with a hypnotist somewhere in the world and last week, it was my turn to provide the answers for "…
10 Questions with Andrew Fogg." As her questions are quite direct, my answers go well beyond the information on the About the Golf Hypnotist page on my website and I felt it appropriate to share it with you here Click here to read the full post »
EFT for Better Golf: Part 1 – So what is EFT
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been reading a lot on the web recently about people getting success using Emotional Freedom Techniques – EFT to improve their golf and overcome and overcome their golf psychology problems. So, I decided that this week I’ll write a few posts about what EFT actually is, how you use it and how to use it for better golf.
So, why am I telling you about EFT when I’m a golf hypnotist? Well there are four main reasons: …
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NLP Representational Systems and Eye Accessing Cues
Posted by: | CommentsPeople experience themselves and the world they live in through the five senses or modalities – seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting. These senses or representational Systems are also the way that people encode, organise, store and derive the meaning of things that come into their brain from the outside world.
The brain translates these sensory inputs into the corresponding sensory representations or maps that create a likeness or a synthesis of our original perceptions. As such, they create our own personal map of reality that we store in our brain in the same way that a mapmaker creates a simplified representation of the physical territory described. As Richard Bandler says, “the map is not the territory” – one of the precepts of NLP.
In encoding this information in our brains we don’t just use the five sensory modalities or representational systems …
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