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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Joan Bornstein from PVD, Massachusetts and I

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play at Thompson Golf.

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Speaker 2: Club in North Riding, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: This is Golf Smarter number nine hundred and eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: All hypnosis is the form of self hypnosis. Think of

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me as your tour guide. If you're driving up in

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the mountains and you're looking for this lake and I

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help you get there. Then once you get to the lake,

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you're there, you're enjoying it, you're loving life, and I'm

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no longer important. I'm just the one to help you

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get there. So that's what a hypnotist does. So all

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forms of hypnosis are self hypnosis because it takes place

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in your own subconscious mind. In fact, I made a

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video a hypnosis one on one for golfers. It's on YouTube.

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The biggest myth about hypnosis is that you have to

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be easily swayed, gullible, weak witted, dim witted, not the

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sharpest crayon in the box. And people are proud to say, yeah,

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I can't be hypnotized. Once you understand hypnosis is you'll

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understand it's something that anyone could do. It's just a

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matter of choice. Now. The other myth is that once

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you're in the hypnotized statement, let's just call it trance.

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Once you're in trance, that you're under the power of

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the hypnotist.

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Speaker 1: Here's one you've never considered. How self hypnosis can transform

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golf performance With Ken Hollawa. This is Golf Smarter, sharing stories,

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tips and insights from great golf minds to help you

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lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host,

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Fred Green. Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast. Ken.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Thanks Fred, I'm delighted to be here.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you on the show. This is

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going to be a fascinating topic because talking about flow

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state the mental game something that we do on a

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very regular basis. We just had a long conversation last

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episode on the flow state and getting there staying there.

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But this is an approach that has not been made well.

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I've not been aware of taking an approach like this

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to get to the flow state, to get your mental

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game really tuned in. And that's with self hypnosis. Now,

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we have had someone on before about hypnosis self hypnosis,

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but the person wasn't a golfer.

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Speaker 2: Right now, this is a.

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Speaker 1: Real different Oh okay, thank you, But this is a

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real different approach because you are a golfer and you're

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trying to get golfers to learn how to use self

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hypnosis to get themselves into a much better mental state

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for their game.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Well, that was really great. Thanks so much, Ken.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great show. Yeah, see you next time. Hey, please,

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before we get started, I want to let you know

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we have a mutual friend.

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Speaker 1: Oh is that right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm referring to Martin Chuck. I met Martin over

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ten years ago and I've been following his work ever since,

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and he's my favorite golf coach in the whole world.

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And he's part of the reason why I moved to

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Phoenix so I could be closer. Yeah, out to his

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golf academy. It's a tour stiker golf academy and it's

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like being a kid at Disneyland out there. It's so cool.

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He is amazing.

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Speaker 1: So let's get back to the Thank you very much

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for that. Go back to the self hypnosis to improve

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the life.

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Speaker 2: Of a govement. Okay, okay, go Well, you know I

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wanted to ask you how you got the focus to

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do the mental game of golf and my understanding and

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this is from my own personal experience is people know,

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they sensed the idea that the mental game of golf

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is important, but they don't necessarily know why it's important.

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improve at it, how to get better at it, or

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how much it affects your golf performance. So, and I

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was one of them, I don't know. They say, oh,

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the most important, you know, Bobby Jones, right the six

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inches between your ears. So I didn't realize how important

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the mental game was to golf. But what I discovered,

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quite by accident, is that you could use hypnosis to

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incorporate all the principles of the mental game and plant

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them directly into the subconscious mind where most of us

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live and when we're playing golf. And to me, that

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was a revelation. I knew it was powerful, and I

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knew it was it was profound, and I knew that

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was going to create a program just for golfers that

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just focuses on golf, and that that's why we're here today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about that. How How do where

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do we get started if we want to use so well, no,

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why we want to use self hypnosis.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well, why don't you give me a couple because

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I know my material. But just just to make this interactive,

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what do you think are like the top two or

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three reasons that people struggle with their mental game?

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Speaker 1: Uh frustration? Okay, yeah, because things not going away you

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want them to? Sure, which is golf? Do you want

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to keep going there? I mean, like, I think that's

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really that I personally, that's what happens with me when

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I start losing my game is because it's like, you know,

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a couple bad shots, you know, sometimes you know, a

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three putt will will get me there, but short game

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stuff will not getting the results that I'm anticipating.

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Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha. I wait for like being two feet off

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the grain and waste a whole shot. Oh yeah, okay,

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part of the reason why I created the program. So

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everything that everything about golf that we struggle with and

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we get frustrated about and everything. I'm the poster boy

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for all of that. I am because I went through

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it myself. For the longest time. It was ridiculous. Now

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now that I'm a hypnosis program. I took all the

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things about the mental game of golf. For example, getting

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emotionally upset and losing your cool that would be one

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of them. Choking under pressure would be one. Losing your focus,

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giving up on your preshot routine that helps you stay

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grounded and consistent, all the various kinds of things, all

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the aspects of the mental game that help you achieve

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peak performance. The hypnosis program goes right directly into the

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subconscious mind and it gives you cues like saying a

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keyword or having a key technique or taking a cleansing

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breath and so forth that helps you recenter yourself and

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get your game back on track. And it starts with

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getting your head straight. Okay. So I hope that answers

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your question, because you know, like James Siegmund says, if

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you hit a bad shot, then you don't own it,

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you objectify it and go you turn into a teaching

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moment and you say, if I could do that shot

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over again, how would I do it differently? And that

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turns it into a learning opportunity, And that's how champions

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how their mind works. So I like to help golfers

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make the most of every moment and every opportunity that

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they have on the golf course to play golf up

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to their best of their ability and to reach their

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full potential and enjoy being in the moment and playing

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excellent golf, because that's why we're all there, you know,

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we want to hit the shot that keeps us coming back. Right.

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powerful to help people on every single one of these points.

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career out of this. Not to mention, I've hypnotized thousands

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of people all over.

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Speaker 1: The country on stage, right, I mean, this is entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, And I have to admit, unlike doctor Siegel,

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I never made anyone click like a chicken. He had

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mentioned that, you know, that's what a stage hypnotist do,

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and I never did. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But did you get people to growl like Tiger? No?

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Speaker 1: That would be more of the goal for a golfer,

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is like, no, make me swing like Tiger? Think that way?

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My comedy was situational comedy. So I had people acting

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think that the person next to her is pinching around

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the butt whenever I rub my forehead. That would be

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an example of creating a situational comedy. And then they

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respond with a queue and although nothing actually happened, then

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the woman's having a reaction like, you know, you keep

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your hands for yourself, mister, and then the audience laughs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, how do you get people to agree to

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come up on stage for that?

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Speaker 2: They volunteer and it's an art form as a hypnotist

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to look out into a sea of faces and they're

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all jumping up and down and they got their hands

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going and everything because it's fun. It's incredibly exciting. And

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then you pick about twenty people bring them up on stage.

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partner and we've been partners thirty one years. And we

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bring up about twenty people and we do an induction

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on the stage where everyone can watch, and then it

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of twenty and make a show out of that. So

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each of these eight people, that's our recipe for success

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is to do a show with about eight to ten people.

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Speaker 1: Well, you say the best, how do you get to that?

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Speaker 2: Great question? So one of the things we're looking for

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as a hypnotist is how well do people pay attention

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to what I'm saying and how well do they follow

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my directions? Okay, this is built into the hypnosis program,

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by the way, it's called play like the pros. So

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one of the cues that are one of the suggestions

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we give is that your arms feel heavy, your arms

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feel loose, limp and relax, and your arms feel heavy

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in your lap. Then we come along and lift up

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someone's arm and let go, and if the arm stays up,

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Speaker 1: They can move on to the next round, right exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one good way of looking at it. And actually,

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one of the reasons this is an insider secret that

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almost nobody would know. One of the reasons why I

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because when I'm facing the audience and I have my

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he's faking, he's out of here, and then that way

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because we would be like an affair. So we'd be

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like doing two shows a day for a week or

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something like a county fair, a county fair, state fair.

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I thought you said an affair, Like wait right, what now?

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There we did. We got we got to do three

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seasons of Six Flags Magic Mountain and that was alast

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the Golden Beear Theater. The show it was so loud,

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so you know, just the best energy in the world,

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we had various techniques. And of course On and I

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trained together, so she knew she knew what to look

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for as well, and she could just tell.

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Speaker 1: So I got a chance to listen to most of you.

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is every shot has the potential to be great, yep, right,

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gnosis or not, that you know, when our frustration gets

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not going to be very good and I just screwed

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up that shot, and then you just your attitude is

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all wrong. But if you go in with an attitude

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of this could be the shot of the day, this

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people say, don't think about a pink elephant, and what

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else are you gonna do is think about a pink elephant.

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I start itching and twitching and it's like I can't

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sit still like that so I struggled with it a bit.

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Can you hypnotize me? Now? You can't do this? Over it?

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Speaker 2: No? No, not over it? Then?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I was hoping that would have been a lot

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of fun. But anyway, but I'm sure that there are

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things about hypnosis that some people it works, some people

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it doesn't. And there's probably a tremendous amount of myths

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about not only hypnosis in general, but self hypnosis that

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I'd love to break through and let people understand. Let

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me understand what are the things that we should be

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aware of?

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, well, you know it surprises me. I think

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doctor Spiegel brought this up as well, that all hypnosis

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is a form of self hypnosis. Okay, So the short

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answer to that one is, think of me as your

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tour guide. If you're driving up in the mountains and

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you're looking for this lake and I help you get there.

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Then you get to the lake, you're there, you're enjoying it,

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you're loving life, and I'm no longer important. I'm just

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the one to help you get there. Okay. So that's

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what a hypnotist does. It's a hypnotist acts in that role.

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So all forms of hypnosis are self hypnosis because it

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takes place in your own subconscious mind whoever's using the hypnosis.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so what are the myths that we have

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to be concerned about. Is that the main one is.

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Speaker 2: That it no no, no, no no. And in fact,

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I made a video about about hypnosis one on one

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for golfers. It's on YouTube. Anyone can watch it. My

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channel is golf Coach Buddy. And so the biggest myth

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about hypnosis is that you have to be easily swayed,

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a gullible, weak witted, dim witted, you know, not the

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sharpest crayon in the box. And and people are proud

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to say, yeah, I can't be hypnotized or you know,

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yeah I'm not susceptible to hypnosis. Right, you've probably heard that, right,

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maybe you said it yourself.

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Speaker 1: Those people.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, if you, if you once you

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understand what hypnosis is, you'll understand it's something that anyone

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could do and it's just a matter of choice. And

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this applies to you too. So we're going to come

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back full circle to that. Okay. Now, the other myth

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is that once once you're in a hypnotized state, and

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let's just call it trance to facilitate conversation. Once you're

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in trance, that you're under the power of the hypnotist.

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And see, that's that's an incredible myth, and that's it's prevalent,

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and that's what most people believe because hypnosis has been stigmatized,

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and so believe me. Well, let me let's start with

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a question. Have you ever been to a movie at

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a theater and you were so moved it brought you

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to tears? Of course, could you tell me what movie

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it was?

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Speaker 1: Most of the time when I cry at movies is

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on airplanes. But I've been to a movie theater a

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long time.

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Speaker 2: Shindler's List, Okay, okay, there, Yeah, So when when all

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the atrocities were going on and you're you're emotionally involved,

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and you were getting into it and it was making

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you upset and causing you to have these emotional reactions, right, okay,

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did you ever feel like you weren't yourself?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you're in a theater, you're sitting there, it's dark, right,

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You're not sitting there scrimming around, You're just sitting there

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in the chair watching the movie. It's dark, you're ignoring distractions,

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you're paying attention to the movie, and you know they're

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all actors, right. You know that if the lights came on,

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or you smelled smoke, or the fire alarm went off

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or something, you just get up and leave like everybody else. Right.

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So you felt normal and natural in every way, didn't you? Yes, Okay,

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without even thinking about it. Okay, So you weren't aware

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of your conscious awareness because you relax that and just

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enjoyed the movie at a subconscious level. And that's where

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our emotions run. Okay, So being in a theater watching

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a movie and relaxed and just enjoying it, you're still you.

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You still feel normal in every way, and if you

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need to be interrupted for something important, it happens instantly,

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no big deal, right, And that's what hypnosis feels like.

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So people think that they're going to feel weird. I

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didn't myself when the first time I got hypnotized. I'm like, oh,

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this is going to feel weird. I'm going to feel

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like I'm buzzing or something something weird. Right, I'm going

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to feel like I'm not myself or something. But that

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never happens. Okay, Being in a state of hypno Being

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in trance is similar to just being in a state

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of daydream. Now, I got another question for you, Fred.

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Have you ever been driving home from work and all

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of a sudden you pull up in your driveway and

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you're like, holy smokes, I don't remember driving for the

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last ten minutes. Right, Has that happened to you?

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Speaker 1: Of course? Okay, it really used to happen to me

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a lot. When I had a manual transmission. I was

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a stick shift, and I'm like, how did I get

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to third gear?

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Speaker 2: Wait? Yeah, exactly. So it's very similar to being at

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the movie. Your body is doing something boring and repetitive.

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You're driving your same old car down the same old

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road at the same time of the day, dealing with

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the same cop you know, drivers and everything, and you

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just kind of go on autopilot. You're consciously driving the

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car safely, but your mind is often la la land.

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You're daydreaming, You're thinking about your wife or whatever, it

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could be anything, right, Yeah, exactly. So that is precisely

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what it's like to be in a hypnotic state. Okay,

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so you're still you, you still have conscious that flows,

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I mean exactly, Yeah, and we'll come back around to that.

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So so you're still you, You still feel normal in

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every way, you still have full cognitive function and awareness.

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But but your brain is in a in a in

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a you know, it's vibrating in a theta theta zone.

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So that's what it's like to be. So if everyone's

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had these experiences. Anytime you do something boring and repetitive,

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like taking a shower, driving home from work, going to

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a movie theater where you relax, the body, the body's

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doing something rope and your subconscious mind is just going

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all over the place having a great time. Right, That's

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exactly what hypnosis feels like. So anyone can do it

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anytime they want, and in fact, everyone gets into that

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state often whether they're aware of it or not. And

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the job of a hypnotist, as I mentioned earlier, is

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like being the guide. And I said, all hypnosis is

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a form of self hypnosis. So if you came to

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me and said, hey, my golf game's pretty good, but

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I just suck on these short puts under pressure, I

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get the yips and I just can't control my putting.

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I get the yips and it just frustrates the heck

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out of me, right, so we could do a session together.

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I can help you relax. It'd be like you know,

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walking into a theater, turn off the lights, sit down

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in a comfy chair, right, just like get a theater.

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And then so I hope you get your body relaxed,

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and then I will give you suggestions. And the suggestions

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will be Fred. Every time you step onto the green,

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the color green, you feel the grass beneath your feet,

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and you feel relaxed, You feel in control, and you

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see the putt and you know you can make the

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putt and you feel relaxed and full of confidence. And

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when you set up to the ball, you feel the

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weight of the club in your hands and you feel

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the ground under your feet and you know that you're

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going to make a nice smooth stroke and the ball's

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going to go in. Bubba buah blah blah. Right, So

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these are suggestions I would give you, But again I'm

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the guide. Everything that's important, is happening, is in your mind. Okay,

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So does that kind of make the picture for you?

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And if I said, if I said, hey, Fred, as

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long as you're hypnotized tomorrow, I want you to go

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rob a bank and bring me all the cash. Okay,

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you would reject thatuggestion because that's not something you would

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want to do right so anytime, and it's called a

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suggestion for a reason. It's not a command. So this

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ties in with a myth I said earlier about people

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think that they're under the control of the hypnotist. And see,

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that's a myth because I can only give suggestions. I

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can't give commands. No one's under my command. Now people

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are free to choose to follow the suggestion or not.

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But you always have your conscious awareness, just like being

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in a theater driving a car, So you're always able

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to reject any suggestion that you want to and that's important.

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And once people understand that, then they know then they

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have understanding and they no longer feel threatened by it.

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Then then it becomes a matter of going, well, hey,

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what are those suggestions. If they can help me with

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my golf game, I'd love to hear them, right, And

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I want to make this happen because here's the thing.

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I don't want to run out of time here. But

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when you start out in life, you are a sponge.

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You are recording everything, everything, all five senses, full blast,

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being filmed and recorded in your subconscious mind, and almost

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everything important in life that we learn how to do

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and how to process things, we're done with that by

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the time we're six or seven years old. And most

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people as adults, those are the programs they run their

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whole life. For most of us. I think there was

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a book. I haven't read it. I think everything important

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I learned in kindergarten something like that. It's probably a

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good book anyway. By using hypnosis as an adult, you know,

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if you're in your forties, fifty sixties or whatever, and

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like you think, gosh, am I ever going to get

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better at golf? I'm so frustrated. You know, by using hypnosis,

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you can rewrite the subconscious program that isn't serving you,

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like getting the yips on a short put under pressure, right, okay,

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and you can replace it with another program that works better.

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And then then the only thing left is repetition. Okay.

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So you have to listen to the program, you know,

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every day for you know, maybe two or three weeks whatever,

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and the longer you listen to it, you reinforce the

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new program. It occurs over time, but all you have

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to do is listen, okay, And you could do as

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you're drifting off to sleep at night, so it doesn't

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even take time out of your day. You just play

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the tape. I call it a tape. Play the program,

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listen to it as you're drifting off to sleep at night,

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and then all of a sudden you're out on the

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golf course and you start getting amazing results, and you'll

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know it's because of the hypnosis program. And the kicker

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is that once that new program is in your subconscious mind,

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it'll be there as if you've had it your whole life.

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It's it's who you are now.

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Speaker 1: Okay. A couple of things in listening to the program.

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As I was lying there last night and you said,

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I'm going to if you use the word green, right,

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it's the trigger word for you. It's not a good

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word for me. That's my last name, so that that

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word gets thrown around a lot in my life. So

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I'm like, I got to come up with another name.

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But I'm someone who and I've been open about this.

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I'm medicated for a d D right ADHD. And it's

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for me life is now and not now.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: You look confused. I mean that's that I.

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Speaker 2: Want to understand what you're saying. But I don't want to.

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I'm if I don't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, it's I've got a hyper focus,

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which really was a lot of a d D is

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hyper focus. Otherwise it's you know, I can hear the

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three conversations that are going at the tables around me

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as well as the one going on and and it's

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just and then like when my wife says I want

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to make a plan for next it's like, just make

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the plan and I'll be there. But don't ask me

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to think about I gotta you know, all I can

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really do is schedule my rounds of golf and get

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my work done. But it's now and not now does

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that make sense at all? So it's hard for me

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to get into that state, at least my first time around.

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I mean, I'm definitely willing to try it again.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know the induction that I use in

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the program, that's after many years of diligent study and

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experience to be to be the most effective to the

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largest group of people. And I wouldn't make the claim

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necessarily that that particular induction, word for word, is going

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to work one hundred percent for every single human being

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on the planet that speaks English. What I would say is,

471
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if you buy the program and for some reason it

472
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,480
doesn't work for you and you're not happy, you can

473
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get your money back.

474
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Speaker 1: Okay.

475
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Speaker 2: But in your case, I'm happy to discuss your particular

476
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,119
issue with the ADHD. But as far as the keyword goes,

477
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,079
you could just mentally change it. Just think of a

478
00:28:51,119 --> 00:28:54,559
word that works for you better. In fact, let's just

479
00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,599
come up with one right now. Now, this is a

480
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word that as you're going through a round of golf. Okay,

481
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there's certain things that you have Okay, use your eyesight

482
00:29:06,079 --> 00:29:09,640
to focus on your target, right, use your hands to

483
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,720
hold the club, and use your feet to feel the

484
00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:16,240
ground beneath you. Right. So we want you to be

485
00:29:16,279 --> 00:29:18,799
in the present moment of golf. We want you to

486
00:29:18,839 --> 00:29:23,000
be focused on exactly what you're doing, and so we

487
00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:26,759
want to make we want to keep you centered and grounded. Okay.

488
00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:29,240
So a lot of the suggestions are worded in that

489
00:29:29,359 --> 00:29:33,440
direction that, Hey, you're walking around the golf course, you

490
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,200
see the target, you see a golf ball, you feel

491
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,319
the way to the club in your hands, you feel

492
00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:41,680
the ground beneath your feet. Take one of these cues

493
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and make a word out of it. That helps you

494
00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:48,440
think of all the good, powerful and positive suggestions that

495
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you want to use in your subconscious mind.

496
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Speaker 1: Balance.

497
00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:59,759
Speaker 2: Balance, great, balance. So you say your keyword is green,

498
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:03,359
I want you to think your keyword is balance. So

499
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,880
every time you step up to a ball, or better yet,

500
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,920
let's say if you have a good pre shot routine. Okay,

501
00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:12,640
you got the club in your hand, you're standing back

502
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,880
behind the ball, you're siding down your target line right,

503
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,400
and you're envisioning the shot you want to hit, and

504
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,839
you take a practice swing. Right. When you come out

505
00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:25,680
of that practice swing, you feel the weight of the

506
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,039
club in your hands as you're imagining the shot you're

507
00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:30,680
about to hit. This is a mental rehearsal, right, and

508
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,599
a physical rehearsal. And then when you finish that backswing

509
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,119
and you hold that finish, that's where your balance is, right,

510
00:30:38,519 --> 00:30:41,839
and you're thinking, my keyword is balance. Now I'm going

511
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to go step up and and perform this shot beautifully.

512
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I like it. So think of your keyword balance every

513
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,400
time you do your pre shot routine. Yeah, that's going

514
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,119
to help work great. Well, they it's going to help

515
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,759
you stay balanced, or excuse me, it's going to help

516
00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:02,519
you stay in the present and stay centered and focus

517
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,000
on your objective, which is to hit the shot you

518
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:08,200
rehearse onto your target.

519
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,839
Speaker 1: And do you teach golf? Are you also a golf instructor?

520
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 2: I do. I joined the Professional Golf Teachers Association of America,

521
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:26,720
and uh, they're they're a it's like a home study

522
00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:33,240
course basically, But I worked with several top ranked professionals

523
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,480
and and my focus is on putting on the short game.

524
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,599
But I'm also schooled, and you know the full body swing,

525
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,000
you know the full the full gamut. So and the

526
00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:50,359
reason why I'm trained that way is because I think

527
00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:54,000
of myself as a golf performance coach. So I take

528
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000
a holistic approach to every facet of a golfer's game.

529
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,079
And so when I contemplate bring on a new golf

530
00:32:03,119 --> 00:32:06,839
coaching client, uh, that person, I will talk about their

531
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,119
golf journey and we'll figure out if it's a good

532
00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:11,920
fit for me to work with that person. And part

533
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,079
of that is to assess their full game and see

534
00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:18,079
where they can make the most improvement and the least

535
00:32:18,119 --> 00:32:20,920
amount of time and effort. So I focus on an

536
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,799
immediate improvement and then a long term improvement.

537
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: Awesome so many golf instructors, you know, they're they're they're

538
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,119
working on swing mechanics right, and and not a lot

539
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:39,319
not enough work on playing golf right, which is all

540
00:32:39,359 --> 00:32:42,359
the different aspects. It's not just about hitting the ball right.

541
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,440
It's about playing the golf course. It's about you know,

542
00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:48,599
playing the game and making the best out of your

543
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,119
bad shots, which are going to happen no matter what.

544
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 2: Sure.

545
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: And so what's interesting is so many books and God

546
00:32:58,119 --> 00:33:00,440
all the way back to Hogan is talking about the

547
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,640
swing and the swing and you know, to become a

548
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:08,119
better golfer and stuff, but it's really not you know, well,

549
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,559
that's the focus of this podcast. It's all about the

550
00:33:11,599 --> 00:33:15,200
mental part of it. It's all about the internal struggle

551
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,240
that's going on and getting through a round of golf,

552
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,720
not on your mechanics, but on playing a round of

553
00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:24,960
golf right.

554
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 2: Sure. You know you mentioned earlier you mentioned the zone. Yeah,

555
00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:34,480
and that's the opposite of struggle. Being in the zone

556
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:38,759
is when it's easy, it's effortless, right, you let the

557
00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:41,160
club heead do the work. You're seeing the shots you

558
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,839
want to hit, your balls are tracking on target, you're

559
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,279
enjoying the day. You just feel great. You're like walking

560
00:33:46,319 --> 00:33:51,119
above the ground. Life is beautiful, right, And so when

561
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,519
you work on the mental game, you're kind of like

562
00:33:53,559 --> 00:33:56,079
tipping the scales in your favor, so you can set

563
00:33:56,119 --> 00:34:00,759
yourself up for success to enjoy peak performance during your

564
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:05,799
round of golf. And I happen to believe that, you know,

565
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,960
hypnosis can make a big difference in that regard. And yeah,

566
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:16,239
so I've got lots of materials that people can well,

567
00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:18,840
you know a lot of people have been following your podcast,

568
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,679
which focuses on the middle game, and that's what attracted

569
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,519
us to each other. But I've created a variety of

570
00:34:26,519 --> 00:34:30,360
free resources on YouTube and on my website, golf coachbuddy

571
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,400
dot com where people can come and learn more about

572
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,159
how the mental game works, why it's important, and how

573
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,599
you could use hypnosis to improve your mental game, because

574
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,119
if you want to be honest, you know, your mental

575
00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:47,840
game can make or break your performance on the golf course.

576
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,199
And the body follows the mind, and every shot exists

577
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,239
first in your mind's eye, So the better you are

578
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,639
at what's the one thing everyone says they want in golf?

579
00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: More distance, more consistency, More consistency and more distance. Yeah, right.

580
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, So doesn't it make sense that if your mental

581
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:16,119
approach to this golf game is more consistent, then so

582
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,599
is your physical performance going to be more consistent.

583
00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: Nice?

584
00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:23,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's where it's at.

585
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: Let's talk about you've now become accustomed to the self

586
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,800
hypnosis part of getting yourself into that place where you

587
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:43,119
can recall the trigger word. What about your pre round preparation?

588
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,960
Is this something that you need to do with the

589
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,840
self hypnosis at the golf course before you leave the house?

590
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:56,679
Where where do you put that? And what is the

591
00:35:56,079 --> 00:36:01,639
the what's the word I'm looking for there? You're practice,

592
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:02,599
you're warm up?

593
00:36:02,639 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 2: I got you. Yeah. It's funny to bring that up

594
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,920
because I'm actually producing a pre round pep talk right now.

595
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,719
It will be out, you know, this week, So it's

596
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,000
about two minutes.

597
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: So by the time that this podcast is, it'll.

598
00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 2: Be out long before the podcast airs is available.

599
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,039
Speaker 1: So yeah, it is available noway, And it's at golf

600
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:23,519
coach Buddy dot com.

601
00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:27,119
Speaker 2: Golf coachbuddy dot com, and it's the pre round pep Talk,

602
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:32,639
and it's a little over two minutes, and it's very

603
00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:37,440
personalized because I'm I'm really particular about my brand and

604
00:36:38,119 --> 00:36:41,800
making connection with with people that like my brand, just

605
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:48,239
just like your brand. So the pre round pep Talk

606
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,119
is coming out and you can listen to it in

607
00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:52,440
your car on the way to the golf course. You

608
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,199
can listen to it when you get there. Whatever works

609
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:55,840
for you.

610
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Speaker 1: Tell me a little more about.

611
00:36:57,199 --> 00:36:59,159
Speaker 2: It, the pep Talk.

612
00:36:59,679 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, what what are we trying to

613
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,719
accomplish and how are you getting us there?

614
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 2: Well? Uh, the idea of it is that people that

615
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,000
are used to my work, they'll they'll make a connection

616
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:17,679
with my voice so to help ground them. And then

617
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,039
all the content that's particularly in the pep Talk is

618
00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:26,320
designed to have your head in the game. Put your

619
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,159
game face on, get out there and be in the

620
00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:32,960
moment of golf and enjoy playing. You know, the beauty

621
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,880
of the game. That's what it's all about. And get

622
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,559
out there and crush it. And you know, if you

623
00:37:38,599 --> 00:37:42,039
get knocked down, you get back up right, So that's all.

624
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,639
Speaker 1: We stop beating? How do we start stop beating ourselves? There?

625
00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:48,159
Speaker 2: Well, you know, Fred, you got to be your own

626
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:51,360
best friend on the golf course. You know, you talk

627
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,320
about the mental game. Imagine for a moment if you

628
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,679
hired a caddy, right, and you have a caddy, there's

629
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,039
a stranger and and you hit a shot and it's

630
00:38:01,159 --> 00:38:04,199
it's god awful, right, and the caddie goes. Boy, you

631
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,320
really suck. You know, you should take up basket weaving

632
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,880
or something, right, and then you like wow, I can't

633
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,440
believe you said that. And then after the next shot

634
00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:14,960
is like you miss the easy pott or like wow,

635
00:38:15,039 --> 00:38:17,880
way to go there, Alice, you know whatever? Yeah right,

636
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,039
it gives you a bunch of grief and talks you know,

637
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:25,039
surly right, you would never hire that caddy again if

638
00:38:25,039 --> 00:38:27,199
you went back this the same guys. No, no, no, no, no,

639
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:31,119
I want somebody else. This guy's a jerk, right right,

640
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:35,039
So why would you talk to yourself that way?

641
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Abste And that's what we do anybody, if anybody,

642
00:38:40,039 --> 00:38:43,440
I mean, from what I've witnessed, if anyone's gonna yell

643
00:38:43,519 --> 00:38:48,039
at anyone, they're gonna yell at themselves like it just

644
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:52,119
like everyone uses, you know, they slam themselves and use

645
00:38:52,159 --> 00:38:55,400
their own name. A great shot, Fred, you suck, Fred? Oh?

646
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,239
You know it's like I try to avoid that at

647
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:03,000
all costs. I try, you know, But when someone screams

648
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,960
at himself on the course, I'll regularly say, don't talk

649
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,000
to my friend that way.

650
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:14,199
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. Well so so when you use the hypnosisis

651
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:17,719
I was mentioned earlier, and you reprogram your subconscious mind,

652
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,039
then you're writing new programs that run, and those programs

653
00:39:21,159 --> 00:39:25,719
no longer run. You know. It's like for someone who's

654
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,400
smokes cigarettes, right, they have all these cues that make

655
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,360
them want to light a cigarette, you know, open a beer,

656
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,960
get in the car, or whatever it is, right, Yeah,

657
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,119
And when a person makes decides that they're not going

658
00:39:37,199 --> 00:39:40,320
to smoke anymore, all those cues are still there, right,

659
00:39:41,519 --> 00:39:45,000
the program's still running. There's a neural pathway blaze emblazoned

660
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,559
in the brain that says, hey, every time you walk

661
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:51,880
into a bar and order a beer, you light a cigarette. Right. Well,

662
00:39:52,679 --> 00:39:54,920
so unless you don't go into bars and order a

663
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,320
beer anymore, you're still going to put yourself in a

664
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,519
situation where you used to want to light a cigarette. Right,

665
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,719
So now you have to new you have to have

666
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,360
a new neural pathway in your brain for your brain

667
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:09,920
to follow that serves you better, that's more healthy, that

668
00:40:10,599 --> 00:40:14,679
you extinguish the old one. By attrition, you come up

669
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,880
with a new one that takes its place, see, and

670
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,360
then you follow that new one there. And hypnosis makes

671
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:28,719
it possible because how else are are we supposed to

672
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,639
directly communicate with our subconscious mind. You would not believe

673
00:40:32,679 --> 00:40:37,440
how powerful the subconscious mind is. For example, someone who's

674
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,679
afraid to fly, You put them on a big, giant

675
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:46,639
sound forty seven, right, and and all of a sudden

676
00:40:46,639 --> 00:40:49,480
they have a panic attack, right, and like, oh, just

677
00:40:49,519 --> 00:40:52,519
calm down, it's all safe. You know this plane is

678
00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:54,920
you know, twenty years old, it's not going to crash, right,

679
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:59,599
there's redundant systems, they got four engines, you know, the pilots.

680
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:03,599
You give all the reasons in the world why it's safe. Right,

681
00:41:05,119 --> 00:41:08,159
But they're having an emotional response. I no, I'm panic attack.

682
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,679
It's fight or flight. Their heart rates pumping, you know,

683
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,239
their blood, there's fight or fight. The hormones are pumping,

684
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,719
and they're having an attack and it's real in their mind,

685
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:26,800
and chemically it's real, right, the neurochemically so. But it

686
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,519
started in their mind. That's where its genesis is, that's

687
00:41:30,559 --> 00:41:33,559
where it lives. So when they think of getting on airplane,

688
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,519
they're gonna have a panic attack, right, now to a

689
00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:40,760
lesser degree. That happens when you walk onto a putting green.

690
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,880
You walk onto the green and you set up for

691
00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:49,559
let's say a lag put and you think, oh, I

692
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:52,280
got this, and you're not get passed, and it rolls,

693
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:56,920
you know, eleven feet by right, You're like, oh no,

694
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,440
now now I'm gonna I'm not going to be able

695
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:01,480
to make this pot. Now I'm in a three pot.

696
00:42:01,599 --> 00:42:04,400
Then you start feeling awful. Then your heart starts pumping,

697
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,000
and then and then you know, you start feeling jacked up,

698
00:42:07,039 --> 00:42:10,840
and now you're a bundle of nerves, right, and if

699
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,320
that happens, you probably are going to miss the putt,

700
00:42:14,039 --> 00:42:19,199
but now you know why. So with hypnosis, you can

701
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:24,519
extinguish that behavior, just like quitting smoking, and put a

702
00:42:24,559 --> 00:42:27,440
new behavior in its place that that works better for you.

703
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,119
And this is something you can make a conscious choice

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to do.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. Let's talk about your

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your program play like the pros okay, and how people

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can get involved with it okay and get in touch.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, I'll tell you I waited a long

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time to bring out the program because I want to

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get the love, time and attention that it deserves, and

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I wanted to make it maximally effective. And I knew

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I'd only get one chance to impress people with getting

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results and offering one hundred percent money back satisfaction guarantee,

714
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So that doesn't deliver the goods, you know, it's not

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going to be a successful program. So I had all

716
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that in mind as I created it, and I spent

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about a year putting it together, and then I spent

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another year rewriting it, reworking it and optimizing it with

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the latest statistics about good strategy on the golf course.

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And so here's what I did. I created the Hypnosis Program,

721
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which is an MP three track. It's about twenty four

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minutes long. And then I created a companion program that's

723
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a PDF and it's about sixty pages long. And what

724
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the PDF does if you just sit and read it,

725
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and it talks about how hypnosis works, and it talks

726
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about the importance of the short game, and it talks

727
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about using good strategy around the golf course. So I'm

728
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setting you up. It's like an alley oop. Okay, I'm

729
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setting you up to have the thoughts in your conscious

730
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awareness to go, Yeah, you know now that I think

731
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about that is a good idea. I would like to

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be able to feel more relaxed when I step onto

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the putting green. So I accept the idea of that. Right.

734
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Then the hypnosis gives it to you. It puts it

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right into your subconscious mind when you're doing your self hypnosis. Okay.

736
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And so those come together with a welcome video that

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tells you how to use the program, how to do

738
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the hypnosis. And then there's also some bonus programs. Because

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I don't know about you, I love golf tips, right,

740
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so it's like, hey, what are they.

741
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Speaker 1: I've been doing this show for twenty years. Yeah, I

742
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love golf tips.

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Speaker 2: So if you think, what are the biggest scoring mistakes?

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For example, right, what are the best scoring tips? What's

745
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the best way to practice? These are things that could

746
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be really beneficial. But who's got the time to sit

747
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and read a mountain of books and everything? So I

748
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read the mountain of books and I created what I

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call Kent's Top Tens, kn's Top tens Scoring Mistakes, kn's

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Top tens Scoring Tips, and kn's Top ten practice Tips

751
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:41,199
and kn's Top ten pre shot Routine. So these are

752
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all programs that come as a bonus and they come

753
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with the program. You get them for free. You can't

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buy them separately. They only bundle with the program. And

755
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the reason why they're there is to help you turbo

756
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charge your results that you get from the hypnosis. So

757
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altogether it's a great package. And normally I sell it

758
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,559
on my website for ninety seven dollars, okay, but for

759
00:46:06,679 --> 00:46:09,440
being on your show today and I know you have

760
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a dedicated listeners and if they'd like to buy the program,

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I'm offering a twenty dollars discount with a discount code

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for golf Smarter. So if you go to my website

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golf Coachbuddy dot com, backslash pros it's easy to find

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on the website, but the page pros.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, golf coachbuddy dot com.

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Speaker 2: And put that in your cart, put in the coupon

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code golf Smarter, and you get twenty dollars off. So

768
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you get as an instant download and it would the

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total cost of seventy seven dollars. And here's the best part.

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You don't have to take my word for it. If

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it's going to work for you, you try it out to

772
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your heart's content. You go out play your heart out

773
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:59,639
use the program, follow the program, and up to sixty

774
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,719
days if you're not happy with it for any reason whatsoever,

775
00:47:03,159 --> 00:47:04,960
no questions asked, you just let me know and we'll

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give you all your money back, so there's really no risk.

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Speaker 1: Very generous.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's really kind of you to offer the Golf Smarter

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community a very generous it's my way that probably should

781
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cost a lot more than that, but that's great.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's my way of showing my appreciation for being

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on the show today and reaching your audience. Thank you,

784
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:26,880
You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Well, Ken, thank you so much for the education and

786
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the fascinating insights on another way to improve our game.

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I really appreciate your

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Speaker 2: Time Fred to spend my pleasure, and I hope to

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see you again soon