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THE
MIND FACTOR NEWSLETTER - 5 December 2007
by Dr Karl Morris
- Features in this newsletter.............
- Congratulations to all MIND FACTOR Coaches!!!
- End of Term Report
- Heart and Brain
- Do you want consistency?
NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH!!!!!!! It’s
HERE!!! THE PLAYERS PROGRAMME - GOLF, PLUS AMAZING FREE
Bonuses!!
THE MIND FACTOR COURSE
2007
The course was a complete sell out and 70 enthusiastic
delegates from the world of sport, psychology and business
came together from as far a field as Columbia and Australia
over 4 days of learning and sharing of information.
All attendees are now MIND FACTOR Coaches. Details of
MIND FACTOR Coaches in your area will be promoted on
www.golf-brain.com shortly. It was an honour for us
to have the pleasure of great speakers like Dr John
Pates, Phil Richards, Gary May and Chris Walton all
who contributed innovative and engaging presentations.
Details of the 2008 MIND FACTOR Course will be announced
shortly.
END OF TERM REPORT
Another season draws to a close for us
and thoughts move towards the Christmas break.
What do you consider the highlights of your season?
When did you play your best golf?
Where did you enjoy yourself the most?
Who’s company gave you the most pleasure?
What was your highlight watching golf this year?
One of the unique aspects of the human brain is its
ability to REFLECT, to be able to look back on past
experience and RECALL moments we have been through and
enjoyed.
Our ability to RE-PRESENT sights, sounds, images and
sensations is in many ways one of our greatest gifts.
I can’t imagine your dog is now lying by the fire
with a smile on his face over a bone he successfully
chased down in a field a couple of weeks ago! Yet, how
do you use this ability? Do you tend to reflect well
on the things you have done, seen or experienced or
are you constantly looking back with a mixture of regret
or remorse?
It is a good time of year to look back but make sure
you send your brain in the direction of pleasure, guide
it to the good times, re experience your moments of
excellence. This is not the flowery world of ‘positive
thinking’ rather a specific tool to find your
own personal moments of success and examine the trail
of clues these moments leave behind.
Clues as to how you can repeat these
moments more often in the future. It is your own brain
and will respond to your own requests but, as we have
said before, you have to ask the RIGHT QUESTIONS!
TAKE THIS
TO HEART!!!!
Have you ever given any consideration to the fact your
heart could actually have a BIG impact on the way you
play golf and the scores that you produce?
Well, it could just be an area that you have NEVER
really looked at but could produce some pretty amazing
results.
Some of the language we use in everyday life does perhaps
point to some intriguing links with the heart and peak
performance.
“He played with all his HEART”, “He
has a HEART like a lion”, “He put his HEART
and soul into it”
A number of players now on the European Tour are now
taking this information very seriously and looking at
how the heart can impact their scoring ability, not
as you would expect in the conventional sense of fitness,
but in the way that the heart influences our psychology
and state.
The Institute of HeartMath Research Centre in the USA
conducts clinical studies and research on emotional
physiology and heart brain interactions as well as research
on the physiology of learning and performance.
Time and time again the research has shown that emotions
are actually reflected in our heart rhythm patterns.
These patterns are transmitted from the heart to the
higher brain centers and have a profound effect on the
way that the brain processes information. Feelings of
frustration and anxiety cause the heart rhythms to become
more distorted and irregular which inhibits the higher
brain centers.
In effect, when we lose control of our emotions our
heart reacts sending messages of distress to the brain
which then interrupt the ability of the brain to think
clearly.
Consider the number of shots you have dropped over the
years and the mistakes have cost you a winning score
or a handicap reduction as a result of emotion running
high and the inability to think clearly.
In my own personal
experience with HearthMath, I have found it to be a
profoundly useful tool in the area of putting. Ordinarily
a player can hit it in close, get over excited, the
heart rate starts to jump and then, by the time they
arrive at the green, the ability to think clearly, precisely
and calmly are lost, robbing them of the effective state
required to hole putts.
Also, very often as they leave the green having just
missed a crucial putt which is instantly reflected in
the score, they are again producing heart rhythms that
are wildly out of control and then result in a poor
tee shot and more dropped shots on the way.
Yet, if you work with this system and create a trigger
of looking down and then up at the fringe of the green
as you walk onto the putting surface and then get into
a HeartMath focus and again just the same as you walk
off the green you become so much more balanced and able
to deal with whatever the game throws at them.
This process has proven to be effective in the sense
that it is a ritual that ALLOWS the ‘Ideal Performance
State’ for putting.
The research is solid behind HeartMath, positive results
have been gained in sports, education and business.
The simplicity of the tools is in my opinion its greatest
strength and the cornerstone of its effectiveness. It
is a system you NEED to have in your toolkit as a golfer.
It could also be the case that if you find your ability
to control your state through this process on a golf
course, then you just might find yourself able to transfer
the skill into some other more important areas of your
life. Look at www.heartmath.com for more details.
DO YOU WANT CONSISTENCY?
All I need to say is that for most of
us lining up correctly is a complete farce!
How can you ever be consistent if you don’t take
care of the basics?
Alignment, Width of Stance, Distance from the Ball,
Clubface Alignment.
Over 50 European Tour Pros have now solved this issue
with a product which I personally believe is one very
well worth looking at.
The ‘Power Lines’ has been developed by
Jeremy Bennett recognised for his success with Nick
Faldo. www.powerlinesgolf.com
NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH!!!!!
THE PLAYERS PROGRAMME
- GOLF
After 7 years of research and development, The
PLAYERS PROGRAMME is here for you and
your game. The COMPLETE
system of mental game training. A total A – Z
of mental game tools and techniques which you can work
systematically into your game. The PLAYERS
PROGRAMME is a 7 (seven) cd series plus
a manual on disc which takes in the best tools that
modern day neuro-science can offer but presented in
a PRACTICAL,
APPLICABLE and EFFECTIVE
format.
This series is NOT
for the casual or recreational golfer, however,
if you are serious about your future as a PLAYER
or COACH
ask yourself do you want to be left behind whilst others
are working with these tools?
A one hour session with Karl Morris will cost you £250,
however, The PLAYERS PROGRAMME
with over 3 hours of listening provides
you with incredible value as you are taken on your own
PERSONAL journey
to improvement.
The normal retail price for the players programme will
be £297,
however, for the first limited number of 50 sets, the
price to you as a subscriber to the MIND
FACTOR will be £197
PLUS you will receive the bonus of a signed copy of
the book Golf – The Mind Factor and a copy of
‘Live in Dublin’ seminar.
FREE!!!!
 
Book worth £18.99!!!!!
Live in Dublin dvd worth £19.99!!!!
Visit www.golf-brain.com
for further information on products and services by
Dr Karl Morris.
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