1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:05,280 And then you imagine that feeling where you've just hit a good shot. You've 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,480 got that contact off the ball, the noise of the ball flying through the 3 00:00:08,519 --> 00:00:13,640 air, and in that moment you feel completely calm, composed and present. 4 00:00:14,039 --> 00:00:18,679 So what we do then is we anchor that feeling to your index finger and 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,519 thumb. As an example, so I'd get you to press your indexinger and 6 00:00:21,559 --> 00:00:26,000 thumb together during hypnotherapy. Once we've done that a few times on the golf 7 00:00:26,039 --> 00:00:31,079 course, you can press your thumb and index finger together and subconsciously we're then 8 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:35,119 creating that presence for you. So before the shot, your routine is you 9 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:39,159 can press your index finger and thumb together, cultivate that feeling of presence we've 10 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:43,840 anchored drawn a hypnotherapy session and you can physically change your state there on the 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,799 golf course. Hi, this is still why Rick from Jacksonville, Florida and 12 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,119 I play at the Castle Inda golf Course on the Naval Air Station Jacksonville. 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:59,759 This is Golf Smarter number nine hundred and twenty three. Peak performance is no 14 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:06,560 sustainable, but high performance is. With Leohausen, this is Golf Smarter, 15 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:11,280 sharing stories, tips and insights from great Golf minds to help you lower your 16 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:18,400 score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green. Welcome 17 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,120 to the Golf Smurterer Podcast. Leo, Hi, Fred, how you doing. 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,480 I'm doing well, and it's great to talk to you today. I'm 19 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:30,400 really fascinated because I love talking about the mental game of golf. Yep, 20 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:36,439 me too. There's a so many interesting areas that have have been really interesting 21 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,040 for me to dive into over the years. So it's some Yeah, there's 22 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:45,799 so many little tweaks and fascinating and areas that I think make a huge difference. 23 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,719 To be honest, Well, let's see if we can flesh that out 24 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:53,560 and make a huge difference in golfers' lives. You know, ninety golf is 25 00:01:53,640 --> 00:02:00,680 ninety percent mental and ten percent mental. But you know, it's if you 26 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:07,439 have your mechanics. Even if you're not perfectly there with your mechanics, you 27 00:02:07,479 --> 00:02:13,599 can still play pretty good golf if you have your head under control, right, 28 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:16,560 Yeah, you definitely can. And that and that was my aim with 29 00:02:16,599 --> 00:02:20,639 a lot of what I've a lot of where I've come and a lot of 30 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,439 the research I've done is well, one, how can I take my swing 31 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:30,520 out from the range onto the course because I must be capable of having a 32 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,080 if I go around and I you know, I played top tracer in the 33 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:35,759 UK and all I get a low score and I go out and I'm like, 34 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:40,080 where's that gone? So it's then working out what am I doing and 35 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:49,159 how can I prevent that happening? And then, especially as a relatively newcomer, 36 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:51,479 to go if I've sort of dropped in and out of it whilst playing 37 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:55,599 football and rugby, and then I've been like really really deep into golf probably 38 00:02:55,599 --> 00:03:00,960 the last eighteen months to two years. So I was, you know, 39 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:06,000 like thirty four handicapper, I'm dropping that down to well, I sprayed my 40 00:03:06,039 --> 00:03:10,199 ankle so while was getting down to near fourteen, so I'm say hovering around 41 00:03:10,199 --> 00:03:15,919 the sixteen. So most of that drop has just been mental game and why 42 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,879 was I doing the things I was doing on the course. And as as 43 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,280 a hypnotherapist and mindset coach, surely I can work out myself what I need 44 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:29,800 to do to some myself doing these things. You're worst, the worst possible 45 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,800 patient you can have is yourself, right, Yeah, And it's sometimes it's 46 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:40,240 almost knowing too much that you overthink it and you're just creating more problems for 47 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:46,919 yourself. So it's been really interesting, like self diagnosing and then using that 48 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,639 for the people I work with as well al most to say well, this 49 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,159 is what worked for me, this is what I was doing wrong and this 50 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,000 helped. Let's see if it works for you and does it I mean does 51 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:04,599 it? Can you transfer it from person person So there's always the bespoke area 52 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:11,479 of each person. So hypnotherapy is an example something I heavily rely on. 53 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,839 But it's then working out what works for you personally to be hypnotized in a 54 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:23,439 certain way and almost align with the golf swing. If I get told to 55 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:28,920 feel wider on my takeaway, what does that actually translate to me and my 56 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:30,959 body and how does that feel. It's the same with the coaching of working 57 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,759 out the language and the way I need to talk to you and your subconscious 58 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:43,000 with hypnotherapy to then find the fit of what works and the language that works 59 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,879 for you because it's such a feelings game. In my opinion, I'm not 60 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:56,360 familiar with hypnotherapy. Walk me through this. Yeah, that's a good place 61 00:04:56,399 --> 00:05:01,879 to start. So good. Yeah, So I've been a hypnotherapist so for 62 00:05:01,959 --> 00:05:08,360 four years longer than I have been doing it specifically for golf and performance, 63 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:13,879 so I specialize now as a performance coach and performance hypnotherapist, so I work 64 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:21,800 with athletes, golfers, combat sports. Hypnotherapy specifically is actually working with the 65 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:30,519 subconscious part of your mind. So it's anticipated that consciously that's only around five 66 00:05:30,519 --> 00:05:34,920 percent of our mind, and the subconscious is around ninety five percent of our 67 00:05:34,959 --> 00:05:42,240 mind. So hypnotherapy specifically concentrates on the subconscious, which will be your habits. 68 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,040 And you know that when you do something and you think why did I 69 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:47,360 do that? I didn't want to do that, I just did it, 70 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:54,920 That's that's the subconscious at play. So it's working specifically by putting you into 71 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:59,560 a trance state and it allows me to access your subconscious and work with you 72 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,759 at just a much much deeper level than you can consciously, which is why 73 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:09,000 I love it for golf, because you know, it's like, well, 74 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,360 you need to get into flow state to get in to peak performance, which 75 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,800 is which is great, But how do you do that? Right? You 76 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,959 know, it's not just as simple of right, Yeah, I know I 77 00:06:17,959 --> 00:06:23,399 want to get into flow state, but consciously, how do I do that? 78 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,480 You need to be more present to play the best golf. Yeah, 79 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,879 we know that, but how do you become more president? It's all these 80 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,439 all these best practices of you must do this, you must do this and 81 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,800 that, And I've almost come up with probably like six or seven key areas 82 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:44,920 that I think are fundamental to work on, and we do those consciously and 83 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:51,519 subconsciously, because then we're reinforcing the habits you're building. And then ideally you 84 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:55,160 get to point we don't have to think about being present. You are just 85 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,800 present in the moment for a golf shot, which is a completely different way 86 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,839 of looking at it. Of rather than saying, right, getting out of 87 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,720 the buggy, I'm putting my tea down. I need to be present, 88 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:12,120 okay, But just saying it and wanting to be it is not often enough. 89 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:23,279 Wow, so many conversations about how do I get that my game from 90 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:35,240 the driving range right? Golfers battle with doubt and can hypnotherapy work against doubt? 91 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:44,360 Can it conquer it? Yep? Anxiety, yips? Stress? And 92 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:49,319 actually, what I've actually worked out by doing this as well is you could 93 00:07:49,319 --> 00:07:56,680 actually just concentrate on becoming more of a high performer or more performance based just 94 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,759 in your life in general, and that directly and transfers to golf, and 95 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:07,879 the link is huge because you think you've had that great day, you feel 96 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,720 good, you feel calm, you've turned up to the golf course an hour 97 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:15,399 before, you've had a good session on the range, and you go out. 98 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:18,920 That's probably when you play your best golf when you turn up and you've 99 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,480 got ten minutes your tea time and you're driving, and you're hopping out getting 100 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:26,600 you grabbing your bag, running up and your friends are there and you're then 101 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:28,199 fifty to fifty. What are you going to hit off your first t shot 102 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,679 for that day? Is that terriff slice? Is it straight? What's going 103 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,200 to happen? Yeah, you have no idea what your swing's going to be 104 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:43,240 that time. Yeah, I mean it's it's I don't like coming to the 105 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,759 golf course lane. I like to get there, you know, at least 106 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:48,919 an hour ahead of time, do some chipping for a while, a little 107 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:54,279 bit of putting, then go to the driving range and it needs I've found 108 00:08:54,279 --> 00:09:00,200 that when I get there even thirty minutes ahead of time, my mind is 109 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:05,879 and I can't calm down to get even then I'll walk up to the first 110 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:09,679 tea and my hand will be shaking trying to put the ball under the tee. 111 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:15,600 Stab it. Yeah, and you've almost allowed again. This is where 112 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,440 your subconscious comes in because you'll be thinking, I'm fine, I've had half 113 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,759 an hour, but subconsciously you wanted longer, so you feel you needed longer. 114 00:09:22,879 --> 00:09:28,320 And I've got many of friends I'll play with that. Will they stress 115 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:33,000 me out turning up fifteen minutes before our tea time because I'm thinking, we 116 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,919 hurry up, we need to go so right. It's to that part of 117 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:41,440 it too, when someone's showing up late. I mean I've recently I won't 118 00:09:41,519 --> 00:09:43,679 name my friend, but I've had to start the first hole. Do it, 119 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,639 do it. He's not lessening, he might do or might give him 120 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,879 a nut, but I was. He was so late. I was I 121 00:09:52,919 --> 00:09:56,159 had to get start the first hole and I was on the green putting the 122 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,159 time he teed off. Luckily, the group of heads said yeah, go 123 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:03,559 on, catch up, and he had to. So you know, it's 124 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,919 I mean, there's a certain maybe about amount of golf etiquette and that as 125 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,720 well, but yeah, we're just not helping ourselves by doing that full stop. 126 00:10:13,279 --> 00:10:18,480 So there's there's there what i'd call the conscious coaching hacks or or common 127 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:24,759 sense maybe, and and he's like so apologetic hopefully by the time he gets 128 00:10:24,799 --> 00:10:28,399 there and like yeah, yeah, yeah, you've messed my game up already 129 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:33,960 to hand up every shot and like waving, like really sorry. And so 130 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,480 luckily we play quick golf. And that's something I've really had to address myself 131 00:10:39,519 --> 00:10:43,759 because I used to get really frustrated with slow golfers to the point that it 132 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:50,720 would destroy my round. So that's something with like the key areas we can 133 00:10:50,799 --> 00:10:52,960 run over in a second of you know, the the key points of what 134 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,200 I think works and what I would work on with a client, specifically for 135 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:05,039 golf as a as an amateur golfer. So yeah, this little things. 136 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:11,519 You have to have the skills to take yourself outside of the situation for a 137 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:16,759 second to then prepare for that next shot and ultimately enjoy it, because I 138 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:20,559 see so many people getting stressed, like you're supposed to be just enjoying it 139 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,720 out there and the scores, the score, But you're out in the fresh 140 00:11:24,759 --> 00:11:30,159 air, you get an excise, you're walking, you're with socially connecting with 141 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,000 people. Just think about that, and everything else is easy, right right, 142 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:39,519 Wow, all right, this is going in a lot of different places 143 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:41,840 that I'm fascinated to continue. We're going to take a time out. We'll 144 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:52,799 be back right after this. It's interesting how you talk about your frustration playing 145 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:56,960 slow and playing with people who are slow. My friends have accused me of 146 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,200 not being fast, not being slow, but not being fast. And I'm 147 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,360 very deliberate in everything that i do because my preshot routine, you know, 148 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,759 lighting up my putts, all these things. And when when I play with 149 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:22,720 people that make me rush, what I feel is rushing, I get very 150 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:28,519 uncomfortable and my everything just completely falls apart. So feeling rushed, feeling slow. 151 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:35,799 Either way, if you can't play within your rhythm, how do you 152 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:43,960 change your rhythm effectively without messing your head up. I think it's not changing 153 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,639 your rhythm, but being comfortable with not changing your rhythm because you know how 154 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:56,840 you play best. But it's just being completely comfortable present in that moment of 155 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:01,240 This is how I play golf. Wh it's quicker or slower, so you 156 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:07,759 can still have your So for me, it's the waiting around. Then I'm 157 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:09,759 like, yeah, I need to take my shot. When I to take 158 00:13:09,759 --> 00:13:13,039 my shot because I like to. So then it's okay, Well, I 159 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:18,720 have triggers to keep me present and in the moment to remove that middle ground. 160 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:24,639 So say for someone where you're there trying to speed you up, they 161 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:28,840 might be rushing to the shot and making you feel rush. But then it's 162 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:33,480 okay, I'm now bringing myself to the present and this is how I take 163 00:13:33,799 --> 00:13:37,960 my shot. So it's the trigger is to become comfortable with how you play 164 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,799 and just not worrying. So that's the key. I just love to worry 165 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,000 about as there is exactly. So if you're worried about, oh I need, 166 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,440 I need to hit quicker, but that's not how you play, then 167 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,600 you're gonna be thinking I'm gonna hit a bad shot here, and I bet 168 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:58,519 you hit a bad shot. Yeah, So I mean that's where presence comes 169 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,240 in. So that's that's one of the main elements that I would work on 170 00:14:01,279 --> 00:14:09,480 with people of how do you cultivate presents drawing and before around Funny, I 171 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,799 was going to ask you the same question, how do you cultivate presence? 172 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,399 You're around so we get the this is where we get the conscious and subconscious. 173 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:26,399 So and where there's such a big link with outside of golf and inside 174 00:14:26,399 --> 00:14:31,279 golf. So you've got mindfulness as a really easy one like at a base. 175 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:35,799 So just taken ten minutes to meditate, that's good for you, full 176 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,399 stop. So if you if you're starting to meditate ten minutes cleaning your mind, 177 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:46,120 you're going to be much more present on the golf course because you've removed 178 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,679 all of the did I do this, and I forget to do this? 179 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,480 If I call this person, I've ha done that, or and then into 180 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:56,679 the swing, how's my takeaway, how's my turn? And I turn my 181 00:14:56,759 --> 00:15:03,559 chest and just get rid of all that. Start by medical, then I 182 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:11,639 specifically work with people on what is called anchors. So an anchor within hypnotherapy, 183 00:15:11,799 --> 00:15:16,240 as an example, is I would ask you within hypnotherapy to go to 184 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,519 a calm, happy place. So funny enough for a lot of golfers that 185 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:24,799 will be in a moment where they might have just hit a good shot, 186 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,279 and then you imagine that feeling where you've just hit a good shot. You've 187 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,480 got that contact off the ball, the noise of the ball flying through the 188 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:39,120 air, and in that moment you feel completely calm, composed and present. 189 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:46,759 So what we do then is we anchor that feeling to your index finger and 190 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,000 thumb as an example, so I'd get you to press your index finger and 191 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:58,120 thumb together during hypnotherapy. So once we've done that a few times on the 192 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:03,080 golf course, you can press your thumb and indexinger together and subconsciously we're then 193 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,519 creating that presence for you. So before the shot, your routine is you 194 00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:12,840 could press your index finger and thumb together, cultivate that feeling of presence with 195 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:18,320 anger drawing a hypnotherapy session and you can physically change your state there on the 196 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:26,399 golf course to cultivate presence, which is it's huge and it works for so 197 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,799 many people I've worked with. So we can literally change your state for you 198 00:16:30,879 --> 00:16:41,399 during around Wow. Is there a way to do that without going through hypnotherapy? 199 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:48,159 Is there a way of training yourself? So within NLP as well, 200 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:56,320 which is neurolinguistic program programming that I use within hypnotherapy as well, so you 201 00:16:56,399 --> 00:17:03,720 can consciously an anchor. So I would say for me, that would be 202 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,759 the reinforcement. So next time you play golf and you hit that good shot, 203 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,960 you just think, Okay, I'm going to press my thumb and indexing 204 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,200 together and you think, Okay, this is my anchor. It's my anchor 205 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:18,119 for this feeling right now, that presence feeling, and you say to yourself, 206 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:23,079 presence, presence, and so you're consciously programming your subconscious to get that 207 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:30,440 feeling of presence. And whilst that does work and is powerful, it's not 208 00:17:30,759 --> 00:17:37,920 as impactful and powerful as doing it during hypnosis as well. So let's say 209 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,759 you get a ten times effect by doing it consciously, you might get a 210 00:17:41,839 --> 00:17:47,039 hundred times effect with doing it with hypnotherapy and consciously. Those numbers of me 211 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:53,480 just give an example of the potential difference with working really in the subconscious and 212 00:17:55,119 --> 00:18:00,359 presence is just one anchor we work on. Can you explain to me the 213 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,519 difference between flow state, because we're hearing that term a lot lately. It 214 00:18:03,599 --> 00:18:07,039 seems to be a new term, but we're hearing it a lot, and 215 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:17,960 how how that differs from mindfulness. Yes, so mindfulness would be more say 216 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:23,559 meditation, So whether that's so, I I'll get onto Hackler, which is 217 00:18:23,599 --> 00:18:26,559 something you'll find interesting with regards to what that is. But it's a form 218 00:18:26,599 --> 00:18:33,720 of Hawaiian meditation. So so meditation is more of the focus in the moment 219 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:41,039 of being present, so making sure you are in the moment, Whereas flow 220 00:18:41,039 --> 00:18:48,400 state is an optimal state of consciousness. So meditation would be Okay, we're 221 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,319 going to stop now, we're going to breathe, we're going to calm ourselves 222 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:56,920 down, and we're going to work on removing the thoughts in that particular moment. 223 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:02,960 But you couldn't meditate and play golf at the same time, Whereas a 224 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,480 flow state is a state that you get into actively and then that would be 225 00:19:08,519 --> 00:19:15,359 your optimal state of consciousness, which would link to peak performance. And I 226 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:25,400 think sometimes the word flow states thrown around too often when the meaning isn't necessarily 227 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:30,160 there. I will you need to get into flow to play your best golf, 228 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,440 Well, you couldn't be in a flow state for hopefully three and a 229 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:41,079 half to four hour round unless you playing longer, so you couldn't You couldn't 230 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:45,440 be in a flow state for four hours. So then what we're talking about 231 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:53,480 is state presence and deliberate visualization, but they're separate from flow state. Flow 232 00:19:53,480 --> 00:20:02,039 state would be the accumulation of being present and in the moment and having challenge 233 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:07,799 and skill balanced perfectly. That would then put you into flow state and not 234 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:15,440 to be too sciencey, but flow state is something called transient hypo frontality, 235 00:20:15,039 --> 00:20:22,720 which is actually the quieting down of your prefrontal cortex and your frontal lobes. 236 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,079 So is actually your mind, your brain quieting down, and that's what allows 237 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:33,480 you to become at your optimal state of consciousness, Whereas I think there's a 238 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,279 lot of people think it's the opposite, where you've almost got access to more 239 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:45,720 brain power. But it's the opposite. Okay, we're going to take another 240 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:52,680 time out right now, and when we come back. I just realized that 241 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:57,559 my microphone is not working right now. I've been talking through my AirPods the 242 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:02,359 entire time. And when we come back, hopefully we'll have a better sounding 243 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:11,960 microphone and I won't be back right after this, Okay, Leo, I 244 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:18,240 hope you can actually hear an honest to goodness microphone now. And I apologize 245 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,079 to the audience, said like, why does he sound so weird? I 246 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,720 couldn't hear the difference. I can't hear me, so I don't know if 247 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:29,759 there's a difference on your end or not. I hope there is, all 248 00:21:29,799 --> 00:21:32,119 right. I spent a lot of money on microphones. I didn't need to 249 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:37,720 spend. All right, let's get let's get back to this. Let's talk 250 00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:42,279 about the importance of the mindset in high performance. I mean, we're trying 251 00:21:42,319 --> 00:21:51,440 to play our best golf we possibly can every time out. Yeah, so 252 00:21:52,319 --> 00:22:00,839 mindset's huge. There's no way around it. And again, like I've said 253 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:04,640 a few times, it always feeds back in from your mindset, not just 254 00:22:04,799 --> 00:22:08,200 on the course and during a shot, but I think your mindset comes into 255 00:22:08,279 --> 00:22:11,400 it through from when you wake up in the morning until when you get into 256 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:18,839 the golf course. It's actually having that mindset that's instilled in you so you 257 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:26,960 make good decisions and have the tools to make good shots and avoid Ultimately, 258 00:22:26,599 --> 00:22:32,960 it's making our bad shots less bad. In my opinion as an amateur is 259 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:36,079 the key. It's not oh, I've hit a good shot. It's when 260 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:42,599 I've hit a bad shot. Minimizing the extent of that bad shot is one 261 00:22:42,599 --> 00:22:48,279 of the biggest impacts to lower and your score of well. Rather than slicing 262 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:52,599 it out into the trees and into the water, I've just hit it into 263 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,799 the right rough and it's findable. I've hit it into the left rough and 264 00:22:55,799 --> 00:23:00,279 it's findable. Not to say you won't get the bad shot. So it's 265 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:11,160 having that overall encompassing mindset. And there's so many elements of mindset. I 266 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:17,279 mean, I've I try and pick out like, I've got six areas that 267 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:23,640 I like to work on that leads to flow in my opinion. Okay, 268 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,319 let's talk about those six areas. So the first thing I always check is 269 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:37,799 the mindset around nutrition and hydration. Now you might not think why as a 270 00:23:37,839 --> 00:23:45,400 hypnotherapist and performance coach are you asking about that, because it's so simple to 271 00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:52,160 change. But if you're going around the course and an hour in you're drinking 272 00:23:52,759 --> 00:24:00,200 a fizzy drink and you've had a chocolate bar and your blood sugar spike and 273 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:07,039 crashes, that's one hundred percent going to affect your game, no question. 274 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:15,640 So always check that. So water hydrates them well, and little things like 275 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:21,799 just taking a sip of water before taking your next T shot. Now we 276 00:24:21,839 --> 00:24:23,519 could make that an anchor as well to keep you into presents. There's little 277 00:24:23,519 --> 00:24:26,880 things we can link to link you having a little sip of water to make 278 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,799 a you present ready for your T shot. So that would always always be 279 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,240 number one for me because it's such an easy win. Wow, Yeah, 280 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:40,359 it's something that we've talked about for years here on the podcast of Saying Hydrated. 281 00:24:40,559 --> 00:24:45,160 And a thing that I learned early on in the podcast that I've always 282 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:49,000 brought with me to the golf course is called sip and nibble, which is 283 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,599 little water, you know, after every shot, just a sip you don't 284 00:24:53,640 --> 00:25:02,359 have to gulp, right, and and just grazing with you know, like 285 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,759 peanut butter, pretzels, peanuts, you know, maybe a cliff bar or 286 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:12,400 something like that, but just little bits at a time to last the whole 287 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:18,119 round makes a huge difference. And I found ever since I've started doing that, 288 00:25:18,559 --> 00:25:21,720 I've never said to anybody, oh boy, the wheels are really falling 289 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:23,319 off here at the end of the round. Oh I'm getting tired. It 290 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:30,400 just doesn't happen when you stay when you stay hydrated, definitely, just grace. 291 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,759 You can't implement all the other mindfulness and the hypnotherapy and the flow state, 292 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,920 you can't do any of that unless your body's got what it needs in 293 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,359 the first place. It's like huge, getting you back from minus one. 294 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,200 Just that's just getting you back to zero. That's allowing us to do the 295 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,400 work right. Yeah, that's always, always number one, and yeah, 296 00:25:52,519 --> 00:25:57,799 cliff Bars, I like a Cliff bar as well. That's good, okay, 297 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,720 all right, area number two. So two I would classify as as 298 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:12,000 state, so being able to acknowledge and change your state. So let's say 299 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:17,920 you're stepping up to the first T. You're in your sympathetic nervous system, 300 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,880 so you're feeling people are watching me, how's my shot going to be? 301 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:23,400 What am I going to do? Am I going to hit it left? 302 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,680 Am I going to hit it right? Well, we don't want any of 303 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,400 that. We want you to get up and hit your shot. So that 304 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:36,599 would be under state change. So within that we would have the anchors we've 305 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,960 already discussed, and I'd always put in breath work in there as well, 306 00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:45,079 so just you know, you could do box breathing of four seconds out, 307 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:52,119 hold four seconds, four seconds in hold four seconds just to calm your nervous 308 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:57,440 system down, just to get you back into that parasympathetic nervous system and allow 309 00:26:57,559 --> 00:27:03,359 you to acknowledge your state isn't where it should be and change it back to 310 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,000 give you the best chance of hitting that shot. And you could do that 311 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:11,079 on every T mid round. You know, if you're on a buggy walk, 312 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,359 you know, or good example of that is you've just walked up Especially 313 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:22,200 in the UK, we've got some very hilly, downhill uphill courses. If 314 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,799 you've got trolley in the winter because there's no buggies allowed, you've just pushed, 315 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:27,400 pushed up a big hill and you can feel you're out of breath. 316 00:27:29,519 --> 00:27:32,160 It would probably be a good idea just to pause for a second to catch 317 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,319 a breath. Yep. Yeah, we have those kind of hills here in 318 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:42,279 northern California as well flat golf courses. Yeah. So yeah, just acknowledging 319 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,720 I have just walked up hill and it's okay that I'm out of breath. 320 00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:52,319 That's just pause a second, right, right to move on under the third 321 00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:59,599 area of mindset. So third we've touched on, But Hunsen would be cultivating 322 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:07,359 present, so present, so with mindfulness anchors and hypnotherapy within that. So 323 00:28:07,559 --> 00:28:12,400 cultivating presence for you might be I've been I've had a bit of anxiety and 324 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,039 I've been playing golf recently, so we need to do something on anxiety or 325 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,160 it might be specifically off the tea, I get the yips and I've got 326 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,160 no idea why we could work on that within hypnotherapy, so we would find 327 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:30,319 out what it is it's causing you not to be present and then work on 328 00:28:30,839 --> 00:28:36,480 that to allow you to be present. And yeah, and then the anchor 329 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:37,839 again is a huge part of that. So we could say, okay, 330 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,720 well, you're feeling stressed, I've acknowledged that, I can start doing my 331 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,799 breath work, I can put my anchor, and then within hypnotherapy we've worked 332 00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:52,400 on you being present. So we're just always slowly moving you back to that 333 00:28:52,519 --> 00:29:00,640 place of not worrying, not overthinking, because it doesn't matter. At the 334 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,039 point you're having your T shirt, your practices have been done on the range, 335 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:10,079 so just hit the ball right right. Are you familiar with the clear 336 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,880 key system? Uh? No, I don't forget. I'm actually I might 337 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,160 be Okay, then we'll go on and talk about other things. But there's 338 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,240 a lot of that anchoring, just saying something that's going to anchor you and 339 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:26,799 keep you away from being distracted. All right. Four your fourth one. 340 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:36,759 So four is to visualize because you're actively giving your brain your subconscious direction. 341 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,839 And it's as simple as that, just stepping up, Okay, I'm picking 342 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,119 that tree, I'm going to hit the ball. With a cut at that 343 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,240 tree, it's going to bounce around here and it's going to go with a 344 00:29:48,319 --> 00:29:49,759 chip. I want to land it here, and I can see the ball 345 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:53,319 landing here and it's going to skid on. It's because you're just giving your 346 00:29:53,319 --> 00:30:00,599 brain so it's concentrate on again cultivating presence. I love when I'm watching professional 347 00:30:00,599 --> 00:30:04,400 golf on TV and you see a guy stepping up to the tee and just 348 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,119 before he walks up to the ball, he'll close his eyes and you could 349 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:14,279 just see like he's visualizing his swing, is visualizing his his setup, his 350 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,519 swing, the ballflight. You could just get the sense of where he's going 351 00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:23,519 with that, she's going with that? Yeah. I like with potting as 352 00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:26,839 well, when you can only see drawing the lines back and forth, drawing 353 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,839 the line of well, that was gonna that's a good one. It's amazing 354 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:37,000 how many times, like if I've made a decent length putt and it's like 355 00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:41,240 I saw that before I even took the stroke, I saw exactly where it 356 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:45,799 was supposed to go, and it's so hard to recreate that. It's like, 357 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,000 I know I can do what I've done it, how do I recreate 358 00:30:48,039 --> 00:30:57,519 that? The question is practice swing or no practice swing when you put And 359 00:30:57,599 --> 00:31:03,880 the answer is I don't know. I personally I don't. I've started not 360 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,640 to have a practice swing because I've read a lot of reports of that you're 361 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,400 less intentional, that you're almost your body just needs to get up and swing 362 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:18,279 because you know what you're doing that first swing, and I'm very rarely three 363 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:21,759 parts. That's one of the stronger part of my gainment. So I'm sticking 364 00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:27,839 to no practice swing at the moment. I in my effort to try to 365 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,880 pick up my pace, I don't take practice swings anymore either, And as 366 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,799 long as I try to focus on getting a hitting in the center of the 367 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:44,799 face of the putter, I do much better and keeping my rhythm the same. 368 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:51,200 It's just the one to one rhythm of the back swing to swing on 369 00:31:51,319 --> 00:31:56,160 the putter, but just making sure that I do that at the same pace 370 00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,880 each time, just different distance depending on how far the part's going to be. 371 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,519 But yeah, I don't. I don't take a practice swing very often 372 00:32:05,559 --> 00:32:07,480 either. And if I do take a practice swing, I'm usually looking at 373 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:15,519 the hole. Yeah, yeah, visualizing almost telling your body and brain where 374 00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:19,359 am I going to put this ball? Where does it need to go Yeah, 375 00:32:19,559 --> 00:32:22,599 yeah, looking at the targets. Interesting. I do the same with 376 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,680 irons sometimes as well. Sometimes I will sometimes I'll take a practicing in my 377 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,359 iron and it will be like for me, like feel like the perfect swing, 378 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,880 and it almost feels like I've wasted a swing. So sometimes sometimes I'll 379 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,680 say, I'll just get the feeling like the rocking take away in the turn 380 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:43,240 and then just just hit the ball. And sometimes if depends on how well 381 00:32:43,279 --> 00:32:45,880 I'm playing, that works really well for me as well. Interesting. Right, 382 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,720 let's take one more time out find out what's going on in the archives 383 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,400 of Golf Smarter, and then we'll pick up number five and six on your 384 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:59,160 six areas of mindset with Leohausen. We'll be right back. This week on 385 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:05,400 Golf Smarterulligans is part two of our conversation with doctor Joe Parent as we celebrate 386 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,759 ten years of his incredibly popular book Zen Golf, Mastering the Mental Game, 387 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:15,000 as we talk about hypnotherapy with Leo on this episode of Golf Smarter, Our 388 00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:22,400 Mulligan's episode this week is the perfect compliment, as this time we focus on 389 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:28,359 how to utilize zen golf in your short game and how to control your anger 390 00:33:28,519 --> 00:33:30,240 on the golf course. Well, you know, I had an interesting experience 391 00:33:30,279 --> 00:33:36,480 about an angry golfer. We got him calm down and he actually played better, 392 00:33:36,519 --> 00:33:39,519 and he said, you know what, I miss being angry. Some 393 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:45,839 people use anger on the golf course as their way of venting because they can't 394 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,440 get mad at their boss, and they can't get mad and take it out 395 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,720 on their wives, and they can't take it out on their kids and their 396 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:58,359 dogs. And the only place that they feel like it's okay to get mad 397 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,400 is the golf course problem because it isn't fun for other people. But there 398 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:07,320 are some people who that's their place to get mad. And you try to 399 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,840 say, I'm sorry, you're not having a good time, and they sort 400 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:14,559 of say they're not having a good time, but underneath they are having a 401 00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:19,079 good time in that they're getting their anger out and they're cursing and moaning and 402 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,800 angry, it seems like all through the round, and they finish and they 403 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:29,360 go, I hate this game. What time do we play tomorrow? Originally 404 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,400 published in twenty twelve as a member's only episode of Golf Smarter, this is 405 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,400 the first time that this conversation has ever been shared publicly for free. It's 406 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:45,119 episode two hundred and thirty nine of Golf Smarter Mulligans with doctor Joe Parrott, 407 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:49,760 author of Zen Golf, Zen Putting Golf, The Art of the Mental Game, 408 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:53,280 How to Make Every Putt, and his latest is Zen Tennis. So 409 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:59,719 if Golf Smarter is one of your favorite golf podcasts, thank you, and 410 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:04,880 don't miss the chance to have the experts give you free lessons on how to 411 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,760 improve your game twice each week with Golf Smarter and golf Smarter Mulligans. They're 412 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:19,280 both available for free from wherever you're listening right now. All right, Leo, 413 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,280 let's pick it up at number five. Here we've the first four areas 414 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:29,280 of mindset that you have. One nutrition, hydration, two your state breathing, 415 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:37,159 three presents using anchors mindfulness, four visualize. I love that one. 416 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:42,920 What's number five? Say five? Not to be negative, but it's bad 417 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:50,440 shots. They happen, They happen, Just let them go. It's learning 418 00:35:50,519 --> 00:35:57,639 to so okay, I bat shot, have that ten seconds of I came 419 00:35:57,639 --> 00:35:59,360 out of at the top. I needs if the next shot, I needs 420 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,239 to concentrate on feeling like I'm hitting a draw swing and not a fade, 421 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:06,079 that's fine, but then just let it go. Don't let it determine your 422 00:36:06,159 --> 00:36:09,840 round. Just that one bad shot, so just just learning, just just 423 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:15,039 let it go, just say yourself is gone, right. And I don't 424 00:36:15,079 --> 00:36:19,840 know if you're old enough to remember the toy, the etch a sketch, 425 00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:24,800 but doctor Joe Parent says, pull out down a bad shot, Just pull 426 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:30,199 out the edge of sketch, shake it off, move on. I've always 427 00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:34,719 loved that that visually, that visual of doing that, and it's helped me 428 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,480 too. The other thing that I find, and I hope this isn't number 429 00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:42,599 six and I'm getting ahead of myself, is the way you talk to yourself 430 00:36:43,119 --> 00:36:46,480 on a bad shot. I mean you yell at yourself, you use your 431 00:36:46,559 --> 00:36:50,960 name right, Ah, Fred? What are you doing? You know those 432 00:36:51,039 --> 00:36:55,000 kind of things. It's like, you know, I wouldn't. I wouldn't 433 00:36:55,039 --> 00:37:00,800 talk to other people that way, let alone friends or family. Why am 434 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,119 I talking to myself like that? Is that become an issue as well? 435 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:08,639 I mean when people just start yelling at themselves, that that becomes on the 436 00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:14,360 issue that I would work on within hypnotherapy, because what you're actually doing is 437 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:22,119 talking to your subconscious. So you're affecting and you're subconscious by saying you're rubbish 438 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:28,079 what you're doing, So you're subconscious then looks out for signs to agree with 439 00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:30,840 you, so it will look for something to say, yeah, you are 440 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,239 rubbish, Yeah you are bad, Yeah you're you're not very good, So 441 00:37:37,039 --> 00:37:43,079 that you're actively programming your subconscious by using that sort of language with yourself, 442 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:47,920 where you could just say I've hit a bad shot. I saw Tommy Fleet 443 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,159 would hit a bad shot when I was watching on TV last week. He's 444 00:37:51,159 --> 00:37:55,159 a professional. I'm going to hit a bad shot. It's God's hard. 445 00:37:55,199 --> 00:38:00,639 It happens, you know, And sometimes you have a good swing. You 446 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:06,159 like what happens and the result is bad. Let it go. What are 447 00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:09,519 you doing song? As you hit a bad, bad shot and it ends 448 00:38:09,599 --> 00:38:14,920 up with the green? Yeah right, oh man, I hated that swing. 449 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,119 That was a bad swing with a great result. So yes, the 450 00:38:19,199 --> 00:38:24,039 self talk is is massive to to all of it, but often that's something 451 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,960 root course subconsciously that we have to We have to say, well, why 452 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,079 are you doing that? Why are you saying that? Why why aren't you 453 00:38:34,119 --> 00:38:37,480 respecting yourself and the way you should respect yourself. You're playing amount of golf. 454 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:42,960 Hmmm. So yeah, the bad shot, the self talk within the 455 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,440 bad shot. But ye, just we're all gonnahit a bad shot. Yeah, 456 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:52,079 put it into perspective. Yeah, exactly. It's it's not how many 457 00:38:52,079 --> 00:38:54,760 great shots you had on any given day, it's how many bad shots you 458 00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:00,599 limited yourself to. Right, that's the difference between a good golf in a 459 00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:07,840 average, mediocre, poor golfer. Yeah, what's number six? Six sounds 460 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:13,880 funny, but it's just practice. So when I first started, I started 461 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,000 off on the range and playing nine holes, and I wondered why when I 462 00:39:17,039 --> 00:39:21,760 went and played eighteen, I wasn't sustaining eighteen and I couldn't get score eighteen. 463 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,000 And I've know lots of people that play a nine hole and nine hole 464 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,840 and nine hell, they're going to play eighteen once a month with their friends, 465 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:35,280 and they won't perform on the eighteen eighteen holes because they're not practicing eighteen 466 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,840 holes. They're not geared up for the eighteen holes. So someone's like, 467 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,039 you need to play twenty holes. Go and play twenty holes, Go and 468 00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:44,880 play twenty two holes, go right, you know, and go eighteen and 469 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,360 then go do some practice and on the range, after you've hit the eighteen, 470 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:57,719 So prepare your body your energy levels to play eighteen holes, because it 471 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,400 sounds really simple. But the amount of people I know can't perform around eighteen 472 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,480 that can't sustain eighteen holes just because they never play eighteen or they didn't play 473 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,639 eighteen holes enough. Oh, it's because they're not hydrating and eating. Yeah, 474 00:40:09,039 --> 00:40:15,920 yeah, how do you How do you suggest we practice eighteen holes? 475 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:20,960 I mean you actually go out on the chorus and play eighteen or so you 476 00:40:21,079 --> 00:40:23,440 just use that as practice. I never consider when I'm out on the golf 477 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:28,079 course that this is a practice round. It's always because I don't play competitively, 478 00:40:28,119 --> 00:40:31,800 So every round I'm competing against myself, all right, and and my 479 00:40:32,559 --> 00:40:37,159 how I do knowing that there's going to be a range of scores at the 480 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:43,239 end of the day. But it's always to me it's I'm playing, not 481 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,800 practicing. Practicing is hitting into the net going to the driving range, and 482 00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:54,679 I think that's good practice. But sometimes so we play scramble a lot where 483 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,119 with four of us playing, we take the best the best ball. So 484 00:40:59,159 --> 00:41:01,480 we may play that one every couple of weeks where there's four of us that 485 00:41:01,519 --> 00:41:07,039 go out and if you say you're the last person driving, someone's already got 486 00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:10,079 a good ball in the fair way. You've got a free card to hit 487 00:41:10,119 --> 00:41:15,880 whatever shot you choose, the amount that's improved my golf by hitting shots I 488 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:20,320 didn't think I was capable of in a practice situation on the course. Then 489 00:41:20,519 --> 00:41:23,000 I've hit that and said, oh, actually I am capable. I've hitting 490 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:27,119 that shot, shape hitting that, and I can do that. And then 491 00:41:27,159 --> 00:41:30,360 I take that out when I play an eighteen, I'm scoring because I've done 492 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:39,280 it in a stress free situation out on the course. Yes, so this 493 00:41:39,519 --> 00:41:45,920 the sustainable high performance. This is something that we talk about trying to get 494 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,280 to, whether it's flow, a state, mindfulness, all these other things. 495 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,280 Is it do you from where you're sitting your perspective. Is this happening 496 00:41:55,400 --> 00:42:00,880 more often or is it kind of falling falling away? Are we seeing more 497 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:10,440 and more people who are achieving and sustaining their high performance. I think it's 498 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:20,360 a mixed bag because flow state isn't high performance. Flow state is peak performance 499 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:25,760 and is not sustainable. So if you were always looking to get into flow 500 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,400 state, you're going to be disappointed because you will not always be in flow 501 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,880 state. So then the level under that is, could can you continuously be 502 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,679 in a high performance a high performance state? Well, yes you can, 503 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:46,119 and that goes back into nutrition and hydration, sleeping properly, that goes back 504 00:42:46,159 --> 00:42:52,800 into mindfulness, meditation, it goes into all the little things that just do 505 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:58,159 the basics all of the time correctly, you're going to outperform ninety percent of 506 00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:07,320 people. Okay, how so with eating properly, the drinker probably sleeping seven 507 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,719 to eight hours, just those three things. Huge gratitude in the morning is 508 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,840 another huge one. Change your thoughts. Just sit down in the morning and 509 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,880 write three to five positive things. Change where we're talking about that self talk. 510 00:43:21,079 --> 00:43:24,559 You're changing that self talk because you're saying, these are the positive things 511 00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:29,880 I noticed yesterday, and let's do it in the morning. So you start 512 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:37,280 noticing the positive things of the day. So those things make dramatic changes, 513 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:42,639 and I would classify those as the basic things we should be doing. Flow 514 00:43:42,679 --> 00:43:49,880 state is amazing, but it's a higher level hack that we can work towards 515 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,960 flow state all the time. And yes, once you're in flow state, 516 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:57,280 you can have the round of your life, but you're going to drop in, 517 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,440 You're going to drop out are you then going to get this pointed that 518 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,159 you're currently not in flow state drawing around and are you going to blow your 519 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:09,119 round up huge? So it's acknowledge, and yes, flow state's amazing. 520 00:44:09,159 --> 00:44:15,360 But all these little high performance things of hydration, sleep, gratitude, our 521 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:21,840 cold shower is a huge one for me in terms of rebalancing the dopamine. 522 00:44:22,639 --> 00:44:27,760 So, and TV goes off at TV goes off at night at a certain 523 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,920 time, and I read blue light at night to make sure your circadian rhythms 524 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:37,599 balance properly, and you're getting sunlight in your eyes. Just all those basic 525 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:44,159 human needs that we fall out of habit of because of technology, because of 526 00:44:44,199 --> 00:44:50,519 our phones, because of Netflix, the ease of all these things we create 527 00:44:50,679 --> 00:44:55,000 such an out of balance human that let's take for golf, you're completely out 528 00:44:55,039 --> 00:44:59,480 of balance. You've been up late night, you've been up late watching TV. 529 00:45:00,039 --> 00:45:02,239 You go on the golf course and you're thinking, but I've been hitting 530 00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:06,719 it really well on the range, but the rest of your life says otherwise. 531 00:45:07,639 --> 00:45:13,880 So you're you're implying that there's a cultural or a societal shift going on 532 00:45:14,079 --> 00:45:22,519 here that's impacting our flow state, our mindfulness. Yes, yeah, there's 533 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:29,239 more and more people now acknowledging that there has been a real problem with all 534 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:37,000 of these areas, and people are vying for our attention. Our attention should 535 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:43,760 be the most guarded thing we have. Our attention should be we only give 536 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,000 our attention to the things that matter, to the things that move us forwards. 537 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:52,679 But currently a lot of us give our attention away very cheaply, and 538 00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:57,760 it really affects our day to day and it affects our family, it affects 539 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,519 our work, it affects our sleep, it affects ours eating, and it 540 00:46:00,559 --> 00:46:07,480 affects our golf. So wow, the link between the two is is undeniable, 541 00:46:07,559 --> 00:46:15,079 really fascinating. Now, are you able to work with people remotely, 542 00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:19,320 especially with the hypnotherapy, or do you have to be in person with him? 543 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,199 No? I work with people in person and remotely. So I've actually 544 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:29,639 yeah, and I put I've put a dedicated specific golf program together running over 545 00:46:30,599 --> 00:46:35,280 what we've just discussed. And I'm just about to finish up doing my TPI 546 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:42,440 qualifications for screening and fitness and strength as well, so I'm probably going to 547 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:46,079 double down on the golfer side of it quite quickly. Wow, very cool, 548 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:52,679 How do people follow you, get in touch with you, read more 549 00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:58,239 about you. Yeah. So my website's great place start, which is Leohausen 550 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:06,440 dot com. My Instagram's the same Leo Housen and that's howso n that's correct. 551 00:47:06,519 --> 00:47:12,719 Yeah, yeah, so the website and Instagram on Instagram in the morning 552 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,119 is usually because I banned myself from it in the in the evenings in line 553 00:47:15,119 --> 00:47:22,159 with my recommended device. Good idea, but yeah, I work work on 554 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:29,519 Zoom work in person. Yeah. You can do hypnotherapy remotely, yeah, 555 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:34,360 yeah, it works really well. So there's a couple of requirements in terms 556 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,960 of making sure someone sat in a comfortable place so they're head supported because you 557 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:45,079 do sort of fall back onto your chair. And I always like good quality 558 00:47:45,159 --> 00:47:50,440 headphones for remote because that just really then brings you into that present moment as 559 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:55,320 we discussed and absorbed in the moment. Wow, fascinating, Leo. This 560 00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,159 has really been fascinating. I wish you all the luck in the world and 561 00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:04,159 news success and I've learned a lot today. Thank you so much for coming 562 00:48:04,199 --> 00:48:06,920 on the show. Yeah, thanks, Rev, it's being pretty good. 563 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:14,199 I loved hearing from our newest Golf Smarter ambassador, Phil wirek of Jacksonville, 564 00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,360 Florida. Not sure what it is about playing near an airfield, but I 565 00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:22,719 love watching the planes take off and land during my round. It's never been 566 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:28,679 a negative distraction, but something that can pull my attention away from my game 567 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:32,239 just for a few seconds, especially if I'm frustrated. Now, whether it's 568 00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,559 my favorite course, Rooster Run that has a lot of private planes, ultra 569 00:48:37,679 --> 00:48:43,719 lights and the occasional private jet with the four pm Russia FedEx planes, I 570 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,480 guess it's consistent with me having my head in the clouds. The other two 571 00:48:46,519 --> 00:48:52,119 courses that I've played with airports are Metropolitan next to the smaller section of the 572 00:48:52,119 --> 00:48:57,719 Oakland International Airport. I once played at Teeth of the Dog at Cosa de 573 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,119 Campo and Dominican Republican. Have you ever played there? It's amazing to be 574 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:06,559 well it was at the time, be on the eighteenth tea box and see 575 00:49:06,559 --> 00:49:10,039 a plane coming right at you and you have to drive the ball over the 576 00:49:10,119 --> 00:49:15,639 runway. Since I played there, the airport's been updated and all that remains 577 00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:19,239 is a white picket fence that is between you and the runway. But the 578 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,440 runway is so much larger now and allows planes as big as seven to twenty 579 00:49:22,519 --> 00:49:27,880 sevens to land there. But Phil says he plays at Kasa Linda golf course 580 00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:32,519 at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville. I can only imagine the jets that he 581 00:49:32,599 --> 00:49:38,320 gets to see are pretty spectacular. What about you? Have you played next 582 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:43,280 to a runway before? Do you like it? Or is it an unwanted 583 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,280 distraction? What features that run next to a golf course do you prefer, 584 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:51,440 hopefully not just tracked homes? Anyway, right to me, let me know. 585 00:49:51,599 --> 00:49:53,039 I'm curious to hear what you say. And Phil, if you're listening, 586 00:49:53,679 --> 00:49:58,840 right back to me and tell me what you see and feel about that 587 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:04,480 Naval air station when you're playing Kasselinda. Wow. Anyway, Phil chose to 588 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:08,119 receive Tony Manzoni's video of the Lost Fundamental, which, as you can tell 589 00:50:08,159 --> 00:50:12,360 each week, there are other two great gifts you can get for free, 590 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,320 but Tony Manzoni's video seems to be the hands down winner. 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