Golf Psychology Homework to Improve Golf Hypnosis

By Andrew Fogg -

Giving my clients homework tasks to improve their golf and get the most effective results from golf hypnosis sessions is one of the keys to my success. It’s also something that I use to good effect with my clinical hypnotherapy clients as well. Homework can also be used very effectively with golf hypnosis recordings and with self-assigned tasks for self-hypnosis as well.

So what do I mean by Golf Hypnosis Homework

Well don’t worry; it’s not like going back to school. This homework is often just a task that changes your routine or increases your awareness of something you do. I often use tasks to help interrupt habitual patterns of behaviour or thinking. Sometimes I may give a task to directly intervene in a pattern of behaviour and other times the task may appear to my client as completely unrelated to their problem. Despite seeming unrelated, carrying out the task usually brings about a new understanding or allows the client to look at his or her problem in a new light.

The father of modern hypnosis, Milton Erickson, used to give people the most extraordinary tasks. My favourite was when he gave a rather depressed man the task of counting the chimneys on the buildings on his walk to work each day and to note anything unusual he saw up there. Erickson knew that when we in a positive happy state, we tend to hold our heads with our shoulders back. It’s difficult to feel down when you’re looking up.

Dr Karl Morris, one of Europe’s leading sports psychologists recommends that you keep your eyes above the flag while walking between shots for the same reason. As Karl says, “change your body and you will change your mind.”

Homework Task for Your Own Virtual Caddy

Listen regularly to the audio recording and complete the “Caddying” Homework Task. The purpose of this task is to give you the experience of thinking about and planning every shot rather than just walking up and hitting it. As a caddy, you don’t get to hit the shot yourself and have to hand over that task to someone else – like their unconscious ability.

So all you have to do is to caddy for someone else for a few holes or ideally a full round. Alternatively get somebody to caddy for you. If you’re not sure what caddying involves, then go to a tournament or watch one on TV and focus on the interaction between player and caddy.

Once you know roughly what to do then here’s a few different approaches, in descending order of effectiveness.

Caddy for a golf professional – may be difficult to arrange

Caddy for a good amateur golfer – 4 handicap or lower

Caddy for a friend - the better the player, the better the results and there may be mutual benefit from the exercise

Watch Tiger Woods in a tournament on TV and imagine being his caddy

Imagine a round of golf with you as your own caddy.

If you work at it, you may suddenly surprise and delight yourself by finding your golf improving dramatically with the unconscious help of your own virtual caddy.

Andrew Fogg, the Golf Hypnotist, is an enthusiastic golfer, hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is a practicing golf psychologist and author of a soon to be published book “The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf” and a series of golf hypnosis MP3 programmes.

Visit his website http://www.golf-hypnotist.com for information on how to get the most success, pleasure and enjoyment from the wonderful game of golf. More specifically, it’s about how to improve your golf by working on the 90 percent of the game that’s played in the 6 inches between your ears.

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