Toxicity of Cigarettes
May’s Theme is Breaking Bad Habits
Gone are the days of most things pure. America’s food industries pre-package everything. Few of us are savvy enough to figure out that box food is bad, and detrimental to our health. Well, the tobacco industry is no different. Gone are the days of dried tobacco leaves rolled up in some paper. Did you know that there are over 600 ingredients that go into a cigarette? It’s true. And while I am shocked at that number, I am even more surprised that burning a cigarette causes chemical reactions so that over 7,000 chemicals are released into the atmosphere. For us. To breath. Did you just consciously hold your breath?
It is Easier and Easier to Play With Each Shot
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
Do you feel like golf gets easier and easier for you to play, with each shot you take? Do you see the opportunity to play golf as a chance to learn more about your abilities, improve your skills and enjoy the sport? How about other areas of your life? Do you look at meeting new people as growth opportunities to learn something new or make new friends? What thoughts come to your mind as you think about answers to these questions? Do you realize that mental skills come into play whether you step out to golf for the 100th time, or meet new people for the first time?
Perfect Putt – Trust Yourself: Mental Golf Moment
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
How would you like to make perfect putts each time you play golf? If you answered yes to that question, then you need to know if you trust yourself to make them. How do you know whether or not you truly trust yourself? Take a look at your mindsets and the way you perceive situations, yourself, others and your golf game. How well do you putt? Your perceptions or mindsets affect your performance in your golf game (or whatever sport you’re involved in), and also in regular activities of your daily life.
Improve Golf Performance: Believe, Recognize, Apply
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
Although I often focus on helping golfers improve their performance, I also help sporting clay shooters, athletes and non-athletes as they implement my suggestions and mental training in their lives. You may notice your performance level in your sport, but you also have a performance level in everything else you do: work projects, relationships, time with yourself, work around the house, and things you do for others. In all aspects of your life, your performance can either be on par or off. You either live what you are capable of, or you experience lack or limitations due to ability; which incorporates your mental state at the time. You can’t ever separate your mental attitude, mental acuity, alertness, skills, pros versus cons, from anything you do. It is there and a part of every single moment of your life.
Hold Out Under Pressure: Golf Performance
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
Golf is a serious mental game. I work with many of my clients to alleviate the many thoughts they have going through their minds as they ready themselves. I use suggestions during hypnosis to help them clear their minds and ultimately perform better. A suggestion I would like to expand upon here is one I pulled from my products. It is a hypnosis suggestion and also a self suggestion: “I hold out under pressure – mentally, emotionally and with each swing and stroke.” I chose this because the main times I see golfers under pressure are during tournaments or events, and they typically come to me for help with improving their performances for such events. Very little pressure exists when practicing or playing for the fun of it, but a lot of pressure exists when playing in competitions.
Bradford Sportsmen’s Farm: Florida Challenge 2014
April’s Theme is Peak Sport Performance
Florida Challenge Sporting Clays Event at Bradford Sportsmen’s Farm Graham, Florida: March 1-2 2014
There were 293 shooters that attended the challenge at the Bradford Sportsmen’s Farm. Heavy rains on Wednesday made it very soggy. By the time we were leaving, I actually saw an RV stuck in the mud being pulled out by a tractor. Fortunately the sun was shining and although it started off chilly every morning, it warmed up quickly and ended up being a beautiful 75 degrees by Sunday. There was definitely something for everybody: FITASC 100 Targets, 200 Target Main Event, 5-Stand, and even two practice 5-stands.
Book I Recommend: The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles
One of the best books I have read to understand the mind, body connection. Dr. Lipton takes his knowledge as a biologist and helps us to understand how thought energy effects our bodies. He takes what could be very complicated information, and makes it easy to comprehend. I recommend this book to all my clients when we get to a point in our training when they are starting to see how powerful their mind and thoughts are.
Book I Recommend: Sacred Contracts: The Journey
Carolyn Myss’ work on Sacred Contracts and archetypes has helped me tremendously to, not only understand my unique tendencies, but to understand the uniqueness in each of my clients. The more I have learned about archetypes, the more I have been able to empower myself, and, therefore, be able to help others be empowered also. This little book is a quick reference guide to some of the most common archetypes. I recommend it along with
Book I Recommend: Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
Myself and several of my friends have studied Caroline Myss’ work to get a better understanding of our archetypes and divine potential. I use this information in my own life to help me with empowerment, as well as to help my clients. The information is spot on and always leads to deep and meaningful clarity.
Understand & Trust Yourself: A Key to Being In The Zone
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
How often do you find yourself in the zone, in golf or in life? This is something most athletes are familiar with, but not on a regular basis. Of all the hundreds of athletes I have worked with, many of which are elite in their sport, they frequently say the zone experience eludes them. They can name moments when they have felt it, but only a handful of times. So they come to me anxious to learn how to be more in the zone, although I would say most of them don’t think it’s really possible to learn how to get there on purpose. They have tried so many times on their own in the only ways they know how, with little or no success. That all changed as they applied my teachings.
Recover Quickly & Shake Off Negative Thoughts: Mental Game Moment
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
How can you recover quickly and shake off negative thoughts, in order to perform well in your golf game? When you consider that you have about 60,000 thoughts each day, most of which you had yesterday (and most of them negative), it may sound like an impossible task. That is because people don’t really know any different, even if they have the best intentions. Why is that? Why can’t you hit one bad shot and just shake it off, instead of berating yourself with negative thoughts about the kind of golfer you are, or wondering what you should have done differently? When you begin to understand more about the mind, you will see that most of your thoughts are limiting you and hampering your ability to just ‘shake it off’.
Take Action, Be The Best You Can Be: Improve Sport and Life Performance
April’s Theme is Peak Sports Performance
How do you prepare to be the best you can be, in whatever you do? Do you take action in life, or do you let things go that you later believe you should have done something about? Are you kind to yourself in your thoughts and words? Do you wish you could be more positive about your game, but wonder how you can make it happen? In this article, I will help you answer these questions and more, with a self suggestion formulated from one of my hypnosis products.
Over the last 11 years or so, I have come to realize the power of the mind, our programming, our belief systems, our expectations, doubts and fears, and how extremely powerful they are. They can be shifted in hypnosis through suggestion, but we can also shift them through our own self suggestions, or conversations we have with ourselves all day long, every day. This is true not only of the thoughts in our own minds, but in conversations we engage in with others and what we choose to see in the world around us; on what we choose to focus our attention.