Today we have a great show lined up as we welcome back Rupert Spira. This session is a recording of a live webinar I did with Rupert recently discussing the nature of the ‘Zone Experience’ As ever with Rupert it was a wonderfully engaging and thought provoking session full of insight to be applied to all areas of your life. Rupert Spira is the author of numerous books including ‘Being Myself’ and ‘Being aware of being aware’ His most recent book is ‘You are the happiness you seek’ As a spiritual teacher he explores the concepts of ‘Non Duality’ and the ‘Direct Path’ to experience. He travels worldwide hosting retreats and teachings around the nature of being and experience. What is the Zone? More importantly how can we access its qualities on a more frequent basis How do we interact with the environment? Do we see the course as a ‘friendly place’? What place does ambition have in the Non Dual approach? Being completely absorbed in something you LOVE to do Are we seeking happiness in all the wrong places? A truly great conversation that will engage your mind to ask some deeper questions. Enjoy!! To find out more about Rupert Spira go to www.rupertspira.com To become a Certified Mind Factor coach go to https://themindfactor.net/the-certification-course/ To find out more about the golfers health screen with Pall Mall Pall Mall’s health screen packages assessyour blood profile, highlight any markers for certain cancers, check your heart health, stroke risk, other major organ health and much more. You can even have an MRI scan – withno waiting list– to check on any golfing ailments or dodgy joints. Let’s face it, we all have some aches and pains and we all need to be aware of our health. Whilst we talk a lot about the mental side of the game on the Brain Booster, if you’ve something holding you back physically, that can have just as detrimental an impact on your game. Golfer health screens at Pall Mall start from £249 for the “well man” or “well woman” check-up for anyone 40+.There are additional packages with more extensive scans and tests, including one where you can have help with your mental performance from yours truly. Learn more about Pall Mall’s Golfer Health Screens by: Visiting the latest news section at https://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk scroll to the footer of their home page) Give them a call Or by clicking onthelink inourBrain Booster Podcast description :http://www.pallmallmedical.co.uk/ppc/medical/golf-health-screen/
The Myths and Misconceptions around what club fitting can ACTUALLY do for you and your golf. We go in a slightly different direction on today’s Brain Booster but still with the underlying idea of looking at all avenues to improve your game. We are joined on the show by Nick Hibbs from Tour X who is one of the best club fitting experts in the UK. I have known Nick for many years and he is one of the game’s good people with a genuine care for his clients and students. He has a warmth of personality that is infectious. Nick has worked with some of the top players in the history of the game such as Vijay Singh, Tom Watson, Bernhard Langer and Nick Faldo Players who were renowned for their depth of knowledge with their own clubs. He served his apprenticeship over many years on the European Tour and his technical know how of all aspects of club fitting is literally second to none. So what benefit can club fitting have as a Brain Booster I have often felt from a mental game perspective i...
How you can use statistics to get the VERY best from your game What REALLY makes a difference to your scoring? Today we are joined on the Brain Booster with a wonderful guest in the shape of stat wizard Lou Stagner. A self-proclaimed ‘golf nut and data nerd’, Stagner has become an influential figure in the golf data space by combining a lifelong passion for the game with his background as a business intelligence and analytics executive. He has a really strong presence on Twitter where he posts many valuable and insightful statistics to really make you think about your game. So many of us place undue pressure on our games because of the expectations we carry around with us. The perception of what is a ‘good’ shot or a ‘makeable putt’ is often completely distorted and out of touch with the actual reality of the game. The very best players in the world miss more putts than they hole from 8 feet. They miss 1 in every 3 greens. Yet we fall into so many perception traps that harm ou...
Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster my good friend Vin Harris. The previous shows with Vin and the discussions around mindfulness have been so well received and I believe this one will be no exception. We get the chance to look at chaos, uncertainty and impermanence in your game and in the game of life. We seem to be living now in such a chaotic world. Nothing seems to be solid and reliable and the old models seem inappropriate. Uncertain economics, worrying international conflict. So many changes which can be really disturbing. Our thoughts can become so unsettled. We can end up in a ‘sea of thought’ and this type of thinking can easily follow us out onto the golf course When our mind is so busy it becomes increasingly difficult to be PRESENT to the next shot in front of you. What can we do about it? How can we begin to have a different relationship to our thinking so we can NOTICE our thinking as opposed to being lost in the endless flow of images and sensations. Vin pr...
I absolutely guarantee you will find today’s Brain Booster one of the most valuable sessions you have ever heard from all the shows we have done. We are joined by top neuroscientist Dr Izzy Justice the author of GYRA Golf who works with numerous PGA Tour players on their mental game. Dr Justice explains how the most cutting edge discoveries in neuroscience can make a MASSIVE difference to your game and the execution of your shots. Our conversation moved in so many fascinating directions and many ‘missing pieces’ were put in place for me with what he had to say. Izzy is the creator of the ‘Brain Trackman’ a device that allows him to measure a golfers brain activity both before, during and after a shot. The Brain Trackman takes away the guesswork and gives us an actual concrete and factual insight into what our brain do when we perform well and perhaps more importantly when we get stuck and in our own way. During the session we looked at: The myth of ‘muscle memory’ and how it ...
Today on the Brain Booster with one of the legends of Skill Acquisition and Ecological Dynamics, Professor Keith Davids from Sheffield Hallam university We had a wonderful conversation a few years ago and we got the chance today to update the current position around skill acquisition and how this can benefit your game The problem with coaching models Over emphasis on body parts and what that does to the learning process The limitations of language The ecological perspective Adapting to and being in tune to your environment Solving the problem of the golf shot as a unique moment in time The myth of automaticity Repetition without repetition How coaches should constantly be setting players problems to solve How we should see the golf course as a series of puzzles to solve Dealing with and adapting to constant changes The extreme value of adaptability and how to perform on any given day What can rock climbing teach us about ADAPTABILITY As Keith says the very best athletes are the most...
On today’s Brain Booster we welcome the originator of ‘Automatic Golf’ Cameron Strachan. Cameron is an Australian coach who has produced numerous books and programs around the ideas of automatic golf and automatic learning. Most of what you’re being told to do isn’t working. And as Cameron likes to say, "Only around 2% of the golf population can make all the technical stuff work for them. Everyone else needs a better way". For the last 25 years Cameron has been writing and thinking deeply about the golf learning process. He has been on a mission to make golf learning easier and more fun for the other 98%. We discuss how he learned to play the game. A unique journey of self discovery Going from shooting in the high hundreds to sub par rounds without any kind of formal instruction. Then after this stellar progress he took some lessons and began to really struggle to implement the positional theories into his game. He got really bogged down with the theories and began to fall out ...
Training BOTH technical and physical – Alex Elliot and Natalie Lowe Today on the Brain Booster we are joined with the ‘Off Scratch’ team of coach Alex Elliot and fitness trainer Natalie Lowe who has been on the Brain Booster previously sharing ideas around conditioning. Are you working on your golf swing with little return for your time? Are you trying to fix a slice without looking at how your body is actually moving? How you can test your body at home to see where you are physically at The THREE home tests drill Simple DIY body test to get an idea of your physical condition What does a GOOD day look like for your body? We get the chance to discuss some really practical ways to work on your body to help you to develop better motion in your golf swing The brilliant idea of ‘kettle exercises’ How you can still do some valuable exercise even if you are seriously challenged for time No more excuses to not move your body How to become MINDFUL with your training at the gym Better wa...
In this episode we head in a slightly different direction but one that unfortunately will be really relevant to so many of you listening Pain in Sport We have with us Chana Studley the author of ‘Painless’ to discuss the mind body connection on The effects of pain on you and the playing of your sport. Chana Studley recovered from severe PTSD after 3 violent attacks in the UK and spent the next 25 years combining a very successful Academy Award Winning career in Hollywood with coaching and counseling people with trauma, addictions and relationship problems. After graduating from The One Thought Institute in 2018 she noticed that her 25 years of chronic pain had completely gone and so conducted research to discover if she could reproduce this experience in others. Following the success of 5 case studies she developed a program called Painless and is now helping clients worldwide with all kinds of health issues and working with doctors and clinicians to introduce them to the Three Pr...
It is great to be back with you again on the Brain Booster. Today we have with us a good friend and colleague from Ireland David Kearney I have known David over 20 years and in that time he has forged for himself a great career at the top of the coaching ladder. We get the chance to discuss his work for the Women’s National Team in Ireland He has recently published a wonderful book called ‘The Golfing Buddha’ It is a remarkable read detailing his journey as a coach culminating in a journey to the Olympic Games in Japan with the Irish Women’s team The book has so many qualities but perhaps most of all the honesty with which David shares with us his journey as a player and coach The highs and the lows The good times and the not so good At times the frustrations in trying to get the best out of himself and the players he has worked with We get the chance to talk about the role mentors have played in his life The good people along the way The value and impact a single sentence can h...