Speaker 1: Hi, This is Joan Bornstein from PVD, Massachusetts and I
play at Thompson Golf.
Speaker 2: Club in North Riding, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1: This is Golf Smarter number nine hundred and eighty seven.
Speaker 2: All hypnosis is the form of self hypnosis. Think of
me as your tour guide. If you're driving up in
the mountains and you're looking for this lake and I
help you get there. Then once you get to the lake,
you're there, you're enjoying it, you're loving life, and I'm
no longer important. I'm just the one to help you
get there. So that's what a hypnotist does. So all
forms of hypnosis are self hypnosis because it takes place
in your own subconscious mind. In fact, I made a
video a hypnosis one on one for golfers. It's on YouTube.
The biggest myth about hypnosis is that you have to
be easily swayed, gullible, weak witted, dim witted, not the
sharpest crayon in the box. And people are proud to say, yeah,
I can't be hypnotized. Once you understand hypnosis is you'll
understand it's something that anyone could do. It's just a
matter of choice. Now. The other myth is that once
you're in the hypnotized statement, let's just call it trance.
Once you're in trance, that you're under the power of
the hypnotist.
Speaker 1: Here's one you've never considered. How self hypnosis can transform
golf performance With Ken Hollawa. This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories,
tips and insights from great golf minds to help you
lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host,
Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast. Ken.
Speaker 2: Hey, Thanks Fred, I'm delighted to be here.
Speaker 1: It's good to have you on the show. This is
going to be a fascinating topic because talking about flow
state the mental game something that we do on a
very regular basis. We just had a long conversation last
episode on the flow state and getting there staying there.
But this is an approach that has not been made well.
I've not been aware of taking an approach like this
to get to the flow state, to get your mental
game really tuned in. And that's with self hypnosis. Now,
we have had someone on before about hypnosis self hypnosis,
but the person wasn't a golfer.
Speaker 2: Right now, this is a.
Speaker 1: Real different Oh okay, thank you, But this is a
real different approach because you are a golfer and you're
trying to get golfers to learn how to use self
hypnosis to get themselves into a much better mental state
for their game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Well, that was really great. Thanks so much, Ken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great show. Yeah, see you next time. Hey, please,
before we get started, I want to let you know
we have a mutual friend.
Speaker 1: Oh is that right.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm referring to Martin Chuck. I met Martin over
ten years ago and I've been following his work ever since,
and he's my favorite golf coach in the whole world.
And he's part of the reason why I moved to
Phoenix so I could be closer. Yeah, out to his
golf academy. It's a tour stiker golf academy and it's
like being a kid at Disneyland out there. It's so cool.
He is amazing.
Speaker 1: So let's get back to the Thank you very much
for that. Go back to the self hypnosis to improve
the life.
Speaker 2: Of a govement. Okay, okay, go Well, you know I
wanted to ask you how you got the focus to
do the mental game of golf and my understanding and
this is from my own personal experience is people know,
they sensed the idea that the mental game of golf
is important, but they don't necessarily know why it's important.
And even if they did, they don't know how to
improve at it, how to get better at it, or
how much it affects your golf performance. So, and I
was one of them, I don't know. They say, oh,
the most important, you know, Bobby Jones, right the six
inches between your ears. So I didn't realize how important
the mental game was to golf. But what I discovered,
quite by accident, is that you could use hypnosis to
incorporate all the principles of the mental game and plant
them directly into the subconscious mind where most of us
live and when we're playing golf. And to me, that
was a revelation. I knew it was powerful, and I
knew it was it was profound, and I knew that
was going to create a program just for golfers that
just focuses on golf, and that that's why we're here today.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about that. How How do where
do we get started if we want to use so well, no,
let's not get started. Let's talk about the advantages of
why we want to use self hypnosis.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, why don't you give me a couple because
I know my material. But just just to make this interactive,
what do you think are like the top two or
three reasons that people struggle with their mental game?
Speaker 1: Uh frustration? Okay, yeah, because things not going away you
want them to? Sure, which is golf? Do you want
to keep going there? I mean, like, I think that's
really that I personally, that's what happens with me when
I start losing my game is because it's like, you know,
a couple bad shots, you know, sometimes you know, a
three putt will will get me there, but short game
stuff will not getting the results that I'm anticipating.
Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha. I wait for like being two feet off
the grain and waste a whole shot. Oh yeah, okay,
So I know what that frustration feels like. And that's
part of the reason why I created the program. So
everything that everything about golf that we struggle with and
we get frustrated about and everything. I'm the poster boy
for all of that. I am because I went through
it myself. For the longest time. It was ridiculous. Now
now that I'm a hypnosis program. I took all the
things about the mental game of golf. For example, getting
emotionally upset and losing your cool that would be one
of them. Choking under pressure would be one. Losing your focus,
giving up on your preshot routine that helps you stay
grounded and consistent, all the various kinds of things, all
the aspects of the mental game that help you achieve
peak performance. The hypnosis program goes right directly into the
subconscious mind and it gives you cues like saying a
keyword or having a key technique or taking a cleansing
breath and so forth that helps you recenter yourself and
get your game back on track. And it starts with
getting your head straight. Okay. So I hope that answers
your question, because you know, like James Siegmund says, if
you hit a bad shot, then you don't own it,
you objectify it and go you turn into a teaching
moment and you say, if I could do that shot
over again, how would I do it differently? And that
turns it into a learning opportunity, And that's how champions
how their mind works. So I like to help golfers
make the most of every moment and every opportunity that
they have on the golf course to play golf up
to their best of their ability and to reach their
full potential and enjoy being in the moment and playing
excellent golf, because that's why we're all there, you know,
we want to hit the shot that keeps us coming back. Right.
And when when I discovered the hypnosis was was so
powerful to help people on every single one of these points.
That's what helped me create my program and make a
career out of this. Not to mention, I've hypnotized thousands
of people all over.
Speaker 1: The country on stage, right, I mean, this is entertainment.
You do that as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, And I have to admit, unlike doctor Siegel,
I never made anyone click like a chicken. He had
mentioned that, you know, that's what a stage hypnotist do,
and I never did. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But did you get people to growl like Tiger? No?
Speaker 2: I never.
Speaker 1: That would be more of the goal for a golfer,
is like, no, make me swing like Tiger? Think that way?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's that's not a bad idea. But uh,
I want to be a chicken. I want to be
My comedy was situational comedy. So I had people acting
off of each other, like I might have a woman
think that the person next to her is pinching around
the butt whenever I rub my forehead. That would be
an example of creating a situational comedy. And then they
respond with a queue and although nothing actually happened, then
the woman's having a reaction like, you know, you keep
your hands for yourself, mister, and then the audience laughs.
See so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, how do you get people to agree to
come up on stage for that?
Speaker 2: They volunteer and it's an art form as a hypnotist
to look out into a sea of faces and they're
all jumping up and down and they got their hands
going and everything because it's fun. It's incredibly exciting. And
then you pick about twenty people bring them up on stage.
And I always had an assistant where she's still my
partner and we've been partners thirty one years. And we
bring up about twenty people and we do an induction
on the stage where everyone can watch, and then it
takes about, you know, six minutes or so, and then
and then we keep about the best eight people out
of twenty and make a show out of that. So
each of these eight people, that's our recipe for success
is to do a show with about eight to ten people.
Speaker 1: Well, you say the best, how do you get to that?
What is it that you're looking for?
Speaker 2: Great question? So one of the things we're looking for
as a hypnotist is how well do people pay attention
to what I'm saying and how well do they follow
my directions? Okay, this is built into the hypnosis program,
by the way, it's called play like the pros. So
one of the cues that are one of the suggestions
we give is that your arms feel heavy, your arms
feel loose, limp and relax, and your arms feel heavy
in your lap. Then we come along and lift up
someone's arm and let go, and if the arm stays up,
then paying attention, and if they aren't plops down, then
we know that they're following.
Speaker 1: They can move on to the next round, right exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one good way of looking at it. And actually,
one of the reasons this is an insider secret that
almost nobody would know. One of the reasons why I
work with assistant and a lot of hypnotists don't is
because when I'm facing the audience and I have my
back to my volunteers. Some of them could be faking
because they've seen the show. They know how to act,
they know how to look hypnotized, but they're actually not.
And so if I if I we eject them off
the stage and I have an assistant say oh this guy, Yeah,
he's faking, he's out of here, and then that way
because we would be like an affair. So we'd be
like doing two shows a day for a week or
something like a county fair, a county fair, state fair.
I thought you said an affair, Like wait right, what now?
There we did. We got we got to do three
seasons of Six Flags Magic Mountain and that was alast
the Golden Beear Theater. The show it was so loud,
so you know, just the best energy in the world,
and it was a good place to hone my craft.
So uh, that's to answer your question. That that's how
we had various techniques. And of course On and I
trained together, so she knew she knew what to look
for as well, and she could just tell.
Speaker 1: So I got a chance to listen to most of you.
You sent me the audio of one of your hypnosis sessions,
and I was listening to it, and one of the
lines that you had in there I absolutely loved, which
is every shot has the potential to be great, yep, right,
And it is such a great way to look at it,
gnosis or not, that you know, when our frustration gets
in the way and we're like, ah, today sucks, I'm
not going to be very good and I just screwed
up that shot, and then you just your attitude is
all wrong. But if you go in with an attitude
of this could be the shot of the day, this
could be my best shot, that's really gonna help you. Now.
My problem with the hypnosis part and listening to the audio.
I was in a room by myself. It was dark, right,
there was one small light on in there, and I
was very comfortable. But you know, we've talked many times,
people say, don't think about a pink elephant, and what
else are you gonna do is think about a pink elephant.
So when you tell me to sit still and relax
and feel the heaviness of your legs and your arms,
I start itching and twitching and it's like I can't
I can't sit unless I'm going to sleep. I can't
sit still like that so I struggled with it a bit.
Can you hypnotize me? Now? You can't do this? Over it?
Speaker 2: No? No, not over it? Then?
Speaker 1: Okay, I was hoping that would have been a lot
of fun. But anyway, but I'm sure that there are
things about hypnosis that some people it works, some people
it doesn't. And there's probably a tremendous amount of myths
about not only hypnosis in general, but self hypnosis that
I'd love to break through and let people understand. Let
me understand what are the things that we should be
aware of?
Speaker 2: Okay, great, well, you know it surprises me. I think
doctor Spiegel brought this up as well, that all hypnosis
is a form of self hypnosis. Okay, So the short
answer to that one is, think of me as your
tour guide. If you're driving up in the mountains and
you're looking for this lake and I help you get there.
Then you get to the lake, you're there, you're enjoying it,
you're loving life, and I'm no longer important. I'm just
the one to help you get there. Okay. So that's
what a hypnotist does. It's a hypnotist acts in that role.
So all forms of hypnosis are self hypnosis because it
takes place in your own subconscious mind whoever's using the hypnosis.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so what are the myths that we have
to be concerned about. Is that the main one is.
Speaker 2: That it no no, no, no no. And in fact,
I made a video about about hypnosis one on one
for golfers. It's on YouTube. Anyone can watch it. My
channel is golf Coach Buddy. And so the biggest myth
about hypnosis is that you have to be easily swayed,
a gullible, weak witted, dim witted, you know, not the
sharpest crayon in the box. And and people are proud
to say, yeah, I can't be hypnotized or you know,
yeah I'm not susceptible to hypnosis. Right, you've probably heard that, right,
maybe you said it yourself.
Speaker 1: Those people.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, if you, if you once you
understand what hypnosis is, you'll understand it's something that anyone
could do and it's just a matter of choice. And
this applies to you too. So we're going to come
back full circle to that. Okay. Now, the other myth
is that once once you're in a hypnotized state, and
let's just call it trance to facilitate conversation. Once you're
in trance, that you're under the power of the hypnotist.
And see, that's that's an incredible myth, and that's it's prevalent,
and that's what most people believe because hypnosis has been stigmatized,
and so believe me. Well, let me let's start with
a question. Have you ever been to a movie at
a theater and you were so moved it brought you
to tears? Of course, could you tell me what movie
it was?
Speaker 1: Most of the time when I cry at movies is
on airplanes. But I've been to a movie theater a
long time.
Speaker 2: Shindler's List, Okay, okay, there, Yeah, So when when all
the atrocities were going on and you're you're emotionally involved,
and you were getting into it and it was making
you upset and causing you to have these emotional reactions, right, okay,
did you ever feel like you weren't yourself?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're in a theater, you're sitting there, it's dark, right,
You're not sitting there scrimming around, You're just sitting there
in the chair watching the movie. It's dark, you're ignoring distractions,
you're paying attention to the movie, and you know they're
all actors, right. You know that if the lights came on,
or you smelled smoke, or the fire alarm went off
or something, you just get up and leave like everybody else. Right.
So you felt normal and natural in every way, didn't you? Yes, Okay,
without even thinking about it. Okay, So you weren't aware
of your conscious awareness because you relax that and just
enjoyed the movie at a subconscious level. And that's where
our emotions run. Okay, So being in a theater watching
a movie and relaxed and just enjoying it, you're still you.
You still feel normal in every way, and if you
need to be interrupted for something important, it happens instantly,
no big deal, right, And that's what hypnosis feels like.
So people think that they're going to feel weird. I
didn't myself when the first time I got hypnotized. I'm like, oh,
this is going to feel weird. I'm going to feel
like I'm buzzing or something something weird. Right, I'm going
to feel like I'm not myself or something. But that
never happens. Okay, Being in a state of hypno Being
in trance is similar to just being in a state
of daydream. Now, I got another question for you, Fred.
Have you ever been driving home from work and all
of a sudden you pull up in your driveway and
you're like, holy smokes, I don't remember driving for the
last ten minutes. Right, Has that happened to you?
Speaker 1: Of course? Okay, it really used to happen to me
a lot. When I had a manual transmission. I was
a stick shift, and I'm like, how did I get
to third gear?
Speaker 2: Wait? Yeah, exactly. So it's very similar to being at
the movie. Your body is doing something boring and repetitive.
You're driving your same old car down the same old
road at the same time of the day, dealing with
the same cop you know, drivers and everything, and you
just kind of go on autopilot. You're consciously driving the
car safely, but your mind is often la la land.
You're daydreaming, You're thinking about your wife or whatever, it
could be anything, right, Yeah, exactly. So that is precisely
what it's like to be in a hypnotic state. Okay,
so you're still you, you still have conscious that flows,
I mean exactly, Yeah, and we'll come back around to that.
So so you're still you, You still feel normal in
every way, you still have full cognitive function and awareness.
But but your brain is in a in a in
a you know, it's vibrating in a theta theta zone.
So that's what it's like to be. So if everyone's
had these experiences. Anytime you do something boring and repetitive,
like taking a shower, driving home from work, going to
a movie theater where you relax, the body, the body's
doing something rope and your subconscious mind is just going
all over the place having a great time. Right, That's
exactly what hypnosis feels like. So anyone can do it
anytime they want, and in fact, everyone gets into that
state often whether they're aware of it or not. And
the job of a hypnotist, as I mentioned earlier, is
like being the guide. And I said, all hypnosis is
a form of self hypnosis. So if you came to
me and said, hey, my golf game's pretty good, but
I just suck on these short puts under pressure, I
get the yips and I just can't control my putting.
I get the yips and it just frustrates the heck
out of me, right, so we could do a session together.
I can help you relax. It'd be like you know,
walking into a theater, turn off the lights, sit down
in a comfy chair, right, just like get a theater.
And then so I hope you get your body relaxed,
and then I will give you suggestions. And the suggestions
will be Fred. Every time you step onto the green,
the color green, you feel the grass beneath your feet,
and you feel relaxed, You feel in control, and you
see the putt and you know you can make the
putt and you feel relaxed and full of confidence. And
when you set up to the ball, you feel the
weight of the club in your hands and you feel
the ground under your feet and you know that you're
going to make a nice smooth stroke and the ball's
going to go in. Bubba buah blah blah. Right, So
these are suggestions I would give you, But again I'm
the guide. Everything that's important, is happening, is in your mind. Okay,
So does that kind of make the picture for you?
And if I said, if I said, hey, Fred, as
long as you're hypnotized tomorrow, I want you to go
rob a bank and bring me all the cash. Okay,
you would reject thatuggestion because that's not something you would
want to do right so anytime, and it's called a
suggestion for a reason. It's not a command. So this
ties in with a myth I said earlier about people
think that they're under the control of the hypnotist. And see,
that's a myth because I can only give suggestions. I
can't give commands. No one's under my command. Now people
are free to choose to follow the suggestion or not.
But you always have your conscious awareness, just like being
in a theater driving a car, So you're always able
to reject any suggestion that you want to and that's important.
And once people understand that, then they know then they
have understanding and they no longer feel threatened by it.
Then then it becomes a matter of going, well, hey,
what are those suggestions. If they can help me with
my golf game, I'd love to hear them, right, And
I want to make this happen because here's the thing.
I don't want to run out of time here. But
when you start out in life, you are a sponge.
You are recording everything, everything, all five senses, full blast,
being filmed and recorded in your subconscious mind, and almost
everything important in life that we learn how to do
and how to process things, we're done with that by
the time we're six or seven years old. And most
people as adults, those are the programs they run their
whole life. For most of us. I think there was
a book. I haven't read it. I think everything important
I learned in kindergarten something like that. It's probably a
good book anyway. By using hypnosis as an adult, you know,
if you're in your forties, fifty sixties or whatever, and
like you think, gosh, am I ever going to get
better at golf? I'm so frustrated. You know, by using hypnosis,
you can rewrite the subconscious program that isn't serving you,
like getting the yips on a short put under pressure, right, okay,
and you can replace it with another program that works better.
And then then the only thing left is repetition. Okay.
So you have to listen to the program, you know,
every day for you know, maybe two or three weeks whatever,
and the longer you listen to it, you reinforce the
new program. It occurs over time, but all you have
to do is listen, okay, And you could do as
you're drifting off to sleep at night, so it doesn't
even take time out of your day. You just play
the tape. I call it a tape. Play the program,
listen to it as you're drifting off to sleep at night,
and then all of a sudden you're out on the
golf course and you start getting amazing results, and you'll
know it's because of the hypnosis program. And the kicker
is that once that new program is in your subconscious mind,
it'll be there as if you've had it your whole life.
It's it's who you are now.
Speaker 1: Okay. A couple of things in listening to the program.
As I was lying there last night and you said,
I'm going to if you use the word green, right,
it's the trigger word for you. It's not a good
word for me. That's my last name, so that that
word gets thrown around a lot in my life. So
I'm like, I got to come up with another name.
But I'm someone who and I've been open about this.
I'm medicated for a d D right ADHD. And it's
for me life is now and not now.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: You look confused. I mean that's that I.
Speaker 2: Want to understand what you're saying. But I don't want to.
I'm if I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, it's I've got a hyper focus,
which really was a lot of a d D is
hyper focus. Otherwise it's you know, I can hear the
three conversations that are going at the tables around me
as well as the one going on and and it's
just and then like when my wife says I want
to make a plan for next it's like, just make
the plan and I'll be there. But don't ask me
to think about I gotta you know, all I can
really do is schedule my rounds of golf and get
my work done. But it's now and not now does
that make sense at all? So it's hard for me
to get into that state, at least my first time around.
I mean, I'm definitely willing to try it again.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know the induction that I use in
the program, that's after many years of diligent study and
experience to be to be the most effective to the
largest group of people. And I wouldn't make the claim
necessarily that that particular induction, word for word, is going
to work one hundred percent for every single human being
on the planet that speaks English. What I would say is,
if you buy the program and for some reason it
doesn't work for you and you're not happy, you can
get your money back.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: But in your case, I'm happy to discuss your particular
issue with the ADHD. But as far as the keyword goes,
you could just mentally change it. Just think of a
word that works for you better. In fact, let's just
come up with one right now. Now, this is a
word that as you're going through a round of golf. Okay,
there's certain things that you have Okay, use your eyesight
to focus on your target, right, use your hands to
hold the club, and use your feet to feel the
ground beneath you. Right. So we want you to be
in the present moment of golf. We want you to
be focused on exactly what you're doing, and so we
want to make we want to keep you centered and grounded. Okay.
So a lot of the suggestions are worded in that
direction that, Hey, you're walking around the golf course, you
see the target, you see a golf ball, you feel
the way to the club in your hands, you feel
the ground beneath your feet. Take one of these cues
and make a word out of it. That helps you
think of all the good, powerful and positive suggestions that
you want to use in your subconscious mind.
Speaker 1: Balance.
Speaker 2: Balance, great, balance. So you say your keyword is green,
I want you to think your keyword is balance. So
every time you step up to a ball, or better yet,
let's say if you have a good pre shot routine. Okay,
you got the club in your hand, you're standing back
behind the ball, you're siding down your target line right,
and you're envisioning the shot you want to hit, and
you take a practice swing. Right. When you come out
of that practice swing, you feel the weight of the
club in your hands as you're imagining the shot you're
about to hit. This is a mental rehearsal, right, and
a physical rehearsal. And then when you finish that backswing
and you hold that finish, that's where your balance is, right,
and you're thinking, my keyword is balance. Now I'm going
to go step up and and perform this shot beautifully.
I like it. So think of your keyword balance every
time you do your pre shot routine. Yeah, that's going
to help work great. Well, they it's going to help
you stay balanced, or excuse me, it's going to help
you stay in the present and stay centered and focus
on your objective, which is to hit the shot you
rehearse onto your target.
Speaker 1: And do you teach golf? Are you also a golf instructor?
Speaker 2: I do. I joined the Professional Golf Teachers Association of America,
and uh, they're they're a it's like a home study
course basically, But I worked with several top ranked professionals
and and my focus is on putting on the short game.
But I'm also schooled, and you know the full body swing,
you know the full the full gamut. So and the
reason why I'm trained that way is because I think
of myself as a golf performance coach. So I take
a holistic approach to every facet of a golfer's game.
And so when I contemplate bring on a new golf
coaching client, uh, that person, I will talk about their
golf journey and we'll figure out if it's a good
fit for me to work with that person. And part
of that is to assess their full game and see
where they can make the most improvement and the least
amount of time and effort. So I focus on an
immediate improvement and then a long term improvement.
Speaker 1: Awesome so many golf instructors, you know, they're they're they're
working on swing mechanics right, and and not a lot
not enough work on playing golf right, which is all
the different aspects. It's not just about hitting the ball right.
It's about playing the golf course. It's about you know,
playing the game and making the best out of your
bad shots, which are going to happen no matter what.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: And so what's interesting is so many books and God
all the way back to Hogan is talking about the
swing and the swing and you know, to become a
better golfer and stuff, but it's really not you know, well,
that's the focus of this podcast. It's all about the
mental part of it. It's all about the internal struggle
that's going on and getting through a round of golf,
not on your mechanics, but on playing a round of
golf right.
Speaker 2: Sure. You know you mentioned earlier you mentioned the zone. Yeah,
and that's the opposite of struggle. Being in the zone
is when it's easy, it's effortless, right, you let the
club heead do the work. You're seeing the shots you
want to hit, your balls are tracking on target, you're
enjoying the day. You just feel great. You're like walking
above the ground. Life is beautiful, right, And so when
you work on the mental game, you're kind of like
tipping the scales in your favor, so you can set
yourself up for success to enjoy peak performance during your
round of golf. And I happen to believe that, you know,
hypnosis can make a big difference in that regard. And yeah,
so I've got lots of materials that people can well,
you know a lot of people have been following your podcast,
which focuses on the middle game, and that's what attracted
us to each other. But I've created a variety of
free resources on YouTube and on my website, golf coachbuddy
dot com where people can come and learn more about
how the mental game works, why it's important, and how
you could use hypnosis to improve your mental game, because
if you want to be honest, you know, your mental
game can make or break your performance on the golf course.
And the body follows the mind, and every shot exists
first in your mind's eye, So the better you are
at what's the one thing everyone says they want in golf?
Speaker 1: More distance, more consistency, More consistency and more distance. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So doesn't it make sense that if your mental
approach to this golf game is more consistent, then so
is your physical performance going to be more consistent.
Speaker 1: Nice?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where it's at.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about you've now become accustomed to the self
hypnosis part of getting yourself into that place where you
can recall the trigger word. What about your pre round preparation?
Is this something that you need to do with the
self hypnosis at the golf course before you leave the house?
Where where do you put that? And what is the
the what's the word I'm looking for there? You're practice,
you're warm up?
Speaker 2: I got you. Yeah. It's funny to bring that up
because I'm actually producing a pre round pep talk right now.
It will be out, you know, this week, So it's
about two minutes.
Speaker 1: So by the time that this podcast is, it'll.
Speaker 2: Be out long before the podcast airs is available.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it is available noway, And it's at golf
coach Buddy dot com.
Speaker 2: Golf coachbuddy dot com, and it's the pre round pep Talk,
and it's a little over two minutes, and it's very
personalized because I'm I'm really particular about my brand and
making connection with with people that like my brand, just
just like your brand. So the pre round pep Talk
is coming out and you can listen to it in
your car on the way to the golf course. You
can listen to it when you get there. Whatever works
for you.
Speaker 1: Tell me a little more about.
Speaker 2: It, the pep Talk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, what what are we trying to
accomplish and how are you getting us there?
Speaker 2: Well? Uh, the idea of it is that people that
are used to my work, they'll they'll make a connection
with my voice so to help ground them. And then
all the content that's particularly in the pep Talk is
designed to have your head in the game. Put your
game face on, get out there and be in the
moment of golf and enjoy playing. You know, the beauty
of the game. That's what it's all about. And get
out there and crush it. And you know, if you
get knocked down, you get back up right, So that's all.
Speaker 1: We stop beating? How do we start stop beating ourselves? There?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Fred, you got to be your own
best friend on the golf course. You know, you talk
about the mental game. Imagine for a moment if you
hired a caddy, right, and you have a caddy, there's
a stranger and and you hit a shot and it's
it's god awful, right, and the caddie goes. Boy, you
really suck. You know, you should take up basket weaving
or something, right, and then you like wow, I can't
believe you said that. And then after the next shot
is like you miss the easy pott or like wow,
way to go there, Alice, you know whatever? Yeah right,
it gives you a bunch of grief and talks you know,
surly right, you would never hire that caddy again if
you went back this the same guys. No, no, no, no, no,
I want somebody else. This guy's a jerk, right right,
So why would you talk to yourself that way?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Abste And that's what we do anybody, if anybody,
I mean, from what I've witnessed, if anyone's gonna yell
at anyone, they're gonna yell at themselves like it just
like everyone uses, you know, they slam themselves and use
their own name. A great shot, Fred, you suck, Fred? Oh?
You know it's like I try to avoid that at
all costs. I try, you know, But when someone screams
at himself on the course, I'll regularly say, don't talk
to my friend that way.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. Well so so when you use the hypnosisis
I was mentioned earlier, and you reprogram your subconscious mind,
then you're writing new programs that run, and those programs
no longer run. You know. It's like for someone who's
smokes cigarettes, right, they have all these cues that make
them want to light a cigarette, you know, open a beer,
get in the car, or whatever it is, right, Yeah,
And when a person makes decides that they're not going
to smoke anymore, all those cues are still there, right,
the program's still running. There's a neural pathway blaze emblazoned
in the brain that says, hey, every time you walk
into a bar and order a beer, you light a cigarette. Right. Well,
so unless you don't go into bars and order a
beer anymore, you're still going to put yourself in a
situation where you used to want to light a cigarette. Right,
So now you have to new you have to have
a new neural pathway in your brain for your brain
to follow that serves you better, that's more healthy, that
you extinguish the old one. By attrition, you come up
with a new one that takes its place, see, and
then you follow that new one there. And hypnosis makes
it possible because how else are are we supposed to
directly communicate with our subconscious mind. You would not believe
how powerful the subconscious mind is. For example, someone who's
afraid to fly, You put them on a big, giant
sound forty seven, right, and and all of a sudden
they have a panic attack, right, and like, oh, just
calm down, it's all safe. You know this plane is
you know, twenty years old, it's not going to crash, right,
there's redundant systems, they got four engines, you know, the pilots.
You give all the reasons in the world why it's safe. Right,
But they're having an emotional response. I no, I'm panic attack.
It's fight or flight. Their heart rates pumping, you know,
their blood, there's fight or fight. The hormones are pumping,
and they're having an attack and it's real in their mind,
and chemically it's real, right, the neurochemically so. But it
started in their mind. That's where its genesis is, that's
where it lives. So when they think of getting on airplane,
they're gonna have a panic attack, right, now to a
lesser degree. That happens when you walk onto a putting green.
You walk onto the green and you set up for
let's say a lag put and you think, oh, I
got this, and you're not get passed, and it rolls,
you know, eleven feet by right, You're like, oh no,
now now I'm gonna I'm not going to be able
to make this pot. Now I'm in a three pot.
Then you start feeling awful. Then your heart starts pumping,
and then and then you know, you start feeling jacked up,
and now you're a bundle of nerves, right, and if
that happens, you probably are going to miss the putt,
but now you know why. So with hypnosis, you can
extinguish that behavior, just like quitting smoking, and put a
new behavior in its place that that works better for you.
And this is something you can make a conscious choice
to do.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Let's talk about your
your program play like the pros okay, and how people
can get involved with it okay and get in touch.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'll tell you I waited a long
time to bring out the program because I want to
get the love, time and attention that it deserves, and
I wanted to make it maximally effective. And I knew
I'd only get one chance to impress people with getting
results and offering one hundred percent money back satisfaction guarantee,
So that doesn't deliver the goods, you know, it's not
going to be a successful program. So I had all
that in mind as I created it, and I spent
about a year putting it together, and then I spent
another year rewriting it, reworking it and optimizing it with
the latest statistics about good strategy on the golf course.
And so here's what I did. I created the Hypnosis Program,
which is an MP three track. It's about twenty four
minutes long. And then I created a companion program that's
a PDF and it's about sixty pages long. And what
the PDF does if you just sit and read it,
and it talks about how hypnosis works, and it talks
about the importance of the short game, and it talks
about using good strategy around the golf course. So I'm
setting you up. It's like an alley oop. Okay, I'm
setting you up to have the thoughts in your conscious
awareness to go, Yeah, you know now that I think
about that is a good idea. I would like to
be able to feel more relaxed when I step onto
the putting green. So I accept the idea of that. Right.
Then the hypnosis gives it to you. It puts it
right into your subconscious mind when you're doing your self hypnosis. Okay.
And so those come together with a welcome video that
tells you how to use the program, how to do
the hypnosis. And then there's also some bonus programs. Because
I don't know about you, I love golf tips, right,
so it's like, hey, what are they.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this show for twenty years. Yeah, I
love golf tips.
Speaker 2: So if you think, what are the biggest scoring mistakes?
For example, right, what are the best scoring tips? What's
the best way to practice? These are things that could
be really beneficial. But who's got the time to sit
and read a mountain of books and everything? So I
read the mountain of books and I created what I
call Kent's Top Tens, kn's Top tens Scoring Mistakes, kn's
Top tens Scoring Tips, and kn's Top ten practice Tips
and kn's Top ten pre shot Routine. So these are
all programs that come as a bonus and they come
with the program. You get them for free. You can't
buy them separately. They only bundle with the program. And
the reason why they're there is to help you turbo
charge your results that you get from the hypnosis. So
altogether it's a great package. And normally I sell it
on my website for ninety seven dollars, okay, but for
being on your show today and I know you have
a dedicated listeners and if they'd like to buy the program,
I'm offering a twenty dollars discount with a discount code
for golf Smarter. So if you go to my website
golf Coachbuddy dot com, backslash pros it's easy to find
on the website, but the page pros.
Speaker 1: Yeah, golf coachbuddy dot com.
Speaker 2: And put that in your cart, put in the coupon
code golf Smarter, and you get twenty dollars off. So
you get as an instant download and it would the
total cost of seventy seven dollars. And here's the best part.
You don't have to take my word for it. If
it's going to work for you, you try it out to
your heart's content. You go out play your heart out
use the program, follow the program, and up to sixty
days if you're not happy with it for any reason whatsoever,
no questions asked, you just let me know and we'll
give you all your money back, so there's really no risk.
Speaker 1: Very generous.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's really kind of you to offer the Golf Smarter
community a very generous it's my way that probably should
cost a lot more than that, but that's great.
Speaker 2: Well, it's my way of showing my appreciation for being
on the show today and reaching your audience. Thank you,
You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Well, Ken, thank you so much for the education and
the fascinating insights on another way to improve our game.
I really appreciate your
Speaker 2: Time Fred to spend my pleasure, and I hope to
see you again soon