Virginia
Beach, Va.
After
you’ve bogeyed your last hole, you are about to hit your next
drive. As you take your practice swings, you find your mind still
on the last putt that you blew. You take your swing and it’s
a slice. In your mind you say to yourself “Oh
no, I’m going to bogey again”! You'd
give anything to master the "no bogey putt".
Or,
you’re in a tournament and you keep missing putts in the 10
to 15 foot range. If you make this next 12 foot putt, you will place
well in the tournament. The pressure is on. You take your time to
set up the putt. You stroke the ball, and once again you’re
six inches short! You say to yourself, “It’s
the same thing I’ve been doing all day long”.
Sound
familiar? You want to play better golf - not just improving
golf swings or mastering the no bogey putt - but really play better
golf overall. You know the techniques and mechanics required to
play better golf, but you just can’t get either your mind
or your body aligned with each other so that they do what you want
them to do...just play better golf. For some golfers the difficulty
may be concentration; for others it can be the
negative thoughts that reinforce themselves; for
others it can be a psychological tightening up.
In a word, you are stuck? your body and your brain are “switched
off”, and your golf game is not going well at all.
If
I haven’t specifically mentioned what your difficulties are
with your golf game, then just fill in the blank with your own issue
or issues:_____________________________________________. Whatever
your situation is, it's actually your brain and your body that have
switched off and you’re experiencing struggle playing the
game.
To
play better golf, you are required to think clearly, to be analytical,
and to be attentive to details, which are all functions of your
brain’s left hemisphere. Golf also requires you to be creative,
intuitive and able to see the broader picture, which are all functions
of your brain’s right hemisphere. To
be a truly successful golfer you need to use both sides of your
brain together at the same time. If you are using
only one side of your brain while you are on the course, you will
experience stress and stress switches you off. You need an integrated
whole brain approach.
Educational
Kinesiology
There
is a way to switch on your brain for golf and to insure that both
sides of your brain are active and empowering you. This integration
process uses a concept called Brain Gym®*.
Brain
Gym was developed by Paul Dennison, Ph. D., a specialist in learning
disabilities and a pioneer in brain dominance patterns. Dr. Dennison
discovered that by using very simple body movements called Brain
Gyms, you can use specific muscles groups in certain ways that will
facilitate the integration of both sides of the brain. Dennison’s
work was originally developed for children and adults with learning
disabilities. It is now used in school systems around the
world.
He originally synthesized these simple body movements and exercises
from work done in the fields of developmental optometry, neurolinguistics,
left and right brain research, acupressure, and kinesiology (muscle
testing).
These
brain integration concepts are now being applied to golf.
When your brain is integrated, your golf game immediately
becomes easier and less stressful. This brain integration
method is now available to you in a video called Par and Beyond:
Secrets to Better Golf. The PGA and the LPGA recognize the validity
of these Brain Gym movement exercises in course work for golf pros
who are being re-certified as golf instructors.
Other
applications for the Brain Gym concept are being applied to the
sales process in a course called Switched-On Selling. One client,
the South Carolina Farm Bureau, did a research study and discovered
that those agents who took this one-day seminar had production increases
of 71% higher than those who did not attend the seminar.
Check
Your Muscles
One of the most unique components of Par and Beyond: Secrets to Better
Golf is the use of “muscle checking”.
As a professional speaker and trainer, I have been demonstrating this
muscle checking concept in my seminars for over 20 years and have
taught it to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Audiences
have found it both amazing and exciting. To understand this technique
you will need a partner to practice on.
Read
through these instructions for muscle checking first, and then follow
them with your partner.
1.
Face a partner. Have your partner raise one arm straight out from
the side of his or her body with thumb pointing down. Imagine
a bird with a wing outstretched and you’ll have the correct
arm position.
2. Place one of your hands on your partner's
extended arm, above the wrist. Place the other hand on your partner's
opposite shoulder.
3. Instruct your partner to resist as you push
down, firmly and steadily, on his extended arm for several seconds.
You are not attempting to force or jerk the arm all the way down,
you are simply checking your partner's normal ability to resist.
Your partner’s arm should not move down more than a couple
of inches. If it does, it means you have pressed to hard. Simply
repeat with a lighter pressure.
4. While your partner keeps the arm extended,
have him close his eyes and think of a negative golf experience.
When he has it in focus, ask him to resist while you press down
on the arm. The arm will usually go down with very little pressure.
5. Now ask your partner to close his eyes and
think of a very positive golf experience. Once your partner is
visualizing the experience, ask him on to resist again while you
press down on the extended arm. The arm will usually stay level
and strong, even if you apply more pressure.
6. Switch roles and have your partner check you.
The
muscle checking is not a trick; the results are real and repeatable.
The muscle checking is indicating the response of your partner’s
unconscious mind to the negative and positive experiences. This
allows you to easily see and experience how everything around you
and within you affects your ability to perform on the golf
course.
The
results have nothing to do with muscular strength, rather, you are
accessing a neurological phenomenon. The muscle stays strong with
the positive thought. This is indicating that the body's life energy
and brain functions are switched-on. When the arm goes down easily
with the negative thought, it is demonstrating how these thoughts
are weakening the body's energy and brain function.
As you observed and experienced for yourself, the contrast is very
easy to see.
Change
Your Brain
With
Par and Beyond you will learn to take the negative golf situation
to the next level of change. At that level you will learn how to
dissipate this negative energy so that it doesn’t affect you
on the next hole. For example, you’ve double bogeyed a hole.
Your mind is triggered and you keep putting yourself down as you’re
going to the next tee.
To
stop these negative thoughts there are two simple
Brain Gym movement exercises you will need to do that will only
take about 90 seconds. The movements actually change how the brain
and body are reacting to the situation. The physical movement may
seem unusual at first, but you will quickly become comfortable with
the movements and find them to be effective, relaxing and energy
changing. Here’s how to do them:
1.
Have a partner muscle check you while you are thinking of a negative
golf situation. Your muscle will check weak.
2.
Next you will do a movement called "Hook-Ups." While
you are holding the Hook-Ups position, keep the negative thought
you would like to dissipate in your mind. Put as many details,
as much color and intensity into the thought as you can. While
most people would tell you not to think negative thoughts, in
this situation it is necessary to do so to take the negativity
out of the brain. After a short time, you may find yourself having
difficulty focusing on the negative. If that happens, change your
thoughts and start viewing the situation positively.
3.
To do the Cook's Hook-Up, sit comfortably in a chair. Place your
feet flat on the floor. Put your left foot onto the top of your
right knee. Place your right hand on your left ankle, and place
your left hand on the ball of your left foot near your toes. Close
your eyes, place your tongue on the roof of your mouth one quarter
of an inch behind your teeth. Breathe normally, and hold the negative
thought. Hold this position for thirty seconds to a minute.
4.
Keeping the eyes closed, the tongue up, and the negative thought
focused, place both feet flat on the floor and bring just your
fingertips together like a teepee in front of you. Hold this position
for thirty seconds to a minute, breathing naturally.
5.
When you are finished, open your eyes.
6.
The second movement you will do is called Positive Points. On
your forehead, in the middle of your eyebrow and half way up to
the hairline, there is a small bony protrusion known as a frontal
eminence. Place the middle three fingers of the left hand over
the left frontal eminence and the three fingers of the right hand
over the right frontal eminence. Apply a very light pressure.
7.
Close your eyes and remain in this position for thirty seconds
to a minute. If you feel the negativity dissipating, begin to
focus on a positive side of the event.
When you are finished, open your eyes.
8.
Have a partner muscle check you again while you keep the same
situation in your mind. You will experience that your arm will
stay strong. After you have completed these positions, you will
find that you are able to recall the situation but that the negativity
is gone from your memory.
Using
these positions will demonstrate to you the power of movement
over your brain and your body. You can use these two positions
whenever you experience a negative golf situation.
The
Par and Beyond video does not teach golfing techniques and mechanics.
You will still need your golf Instructor to do that; rather, Par
and Beyond: Secrets to Better Golf teaches techniques which
allow you to re-energize and refocus in seconds so you can excel
beyond your present level of success.
Par
and Beyond Success Stories
What
are the benefits of this concept? Here is what some satisfied
users had to say about their experience:
"A
dozen trips to the driving range couldn't do for my golf game what
this session did. I have found a way to take stress out of my game.
I now know there is a future for my game."
David Van Sickle
Beamsville, Ontario, CN
"I
went to Par and Beyond to write about Dr. Teplitz¹s technique
with a certain skepticism but soon realized everything he taught
made sense. When I got home, my next round of golf was my life's
best and now the techniques are part of every round I play!"
Tom J. Fox
T&L Golf Magazine
“Within
a week of watching the video my scores started dropping two to four
strokes each round. I was finding that my drives were going longer
and more in play than usual. I was a 16 handicap just a month ago.
I’ve been hovering around 15-16 for the last several years.
Since watching the video program, I’ve dropped to a 14 and
according to the computer I’m trending to a 12. Your video
program allows me to concentrate and focus like I’ve never
done before. It works!”
Shep Hyken
St. Louis, MO
"As we discussed I have had a real problem with my putting
from the three to eight foot range. The afternoon after your session
I made five of the six putts I had in that range. Later that week
I had a match play competition, which I won, on the fifteenth hole.
To say the least I have been pleased with the session and the experience."
Dennis Barnes, Sr.
St. Louis, MO
This
was an example of just one aspect of the Par and Beyond video. The
rest of the video focuses on putting you in charge of every aspect
of your golf game. Through this work, you will experience
immediate and positive change to your golf game
today.
*Brain
Gym is a registered trademark of the Educational Kinesiology Foundation.