Is Golf Stress Killing Your Game?

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Author: lwhitelaw

If ever you’ve found yourself getting frustrated and anxious while playing golf, then you are already familiar with golf stress. The game of golf has the potential to bring up negative beliefs and emotions that people carry about themselves and their ability to be successful. This only adds to the stress a person may already be feeling and cause them to sabotage their game. Thankfully, there are many things you can do to relieve your golf stress and play a better game.

If you’ve been playing golf for any length of time, it’s likely that you played more than a few rounds that have been gratifying and enjoyable. And, it’s likely that there are times where your game feels like you’re pushing a boulder uphill. It seems that you woke up on the “wrong side of the bed” and from the very first hole, you shot a terrible and frustrating game. What has occurred is that because you were affected by starting your game badly and beaten yourself up about it, you’ve sabotaged your game. Perhaps you even engaged in negative mind chatter, telling yourself that you can’t do anything right.

So, rather than golf being a stress relief for you, it has increased your stress and reduced your enjoyment of the game. What can you do about it? First and foremost, go easy on yourself. If you beat yourself up for your failures on the golf course, your confidence is affected and other areas of your life can be affected as well, such as your performance at work. If you are playing a “bad game”, take into consideration other factors that may be affecting you. For example, the weather can negatively impact your game. Wind can have a significant effect on how your ball travels.

Other ways to relieve golf stress include mindfulness based techniques. To be mindful is to become an observer of your thoughts rather than a victim of them. So, if you’re having a bad game and you notice that your thoughts are critical of yourself, recognize them for what they are – just thoughts and not statements of fact. Then shift your focus to your other senses. Notice the sights and sounds of nature around you – the sounds of the birds chirping and the warmth of the sun on your skin.

What if there was a way that you could feel confident and experience a reduced level of golf stress more often? A method known as Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT may be the answer for you. EFT is quickly becoming known as a cutting edge self help technique for anyone wanting to improve any area of their life – from overcoming an addiction to improving sales performance to releasing a spider phobia. What’s great is that this tool can be used to improve your golf game by working on the negative emotions and limiting beliefs which cause you to feel stressed in the first place. When those things are released, you will automatically feel more confident and relaxed whether playing golf or in business.

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What if you could learn how to use these cutting edge tools to ease your Golf Stress? Visit Renegade Mindset Techniques for Golf – where you can download a free 8 lesson e-course.And, to learn more about these cutting edge tools described above, visit EFT for Golf

Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 10:55 am   | ( 166 views )