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Fire Your Evil Caddie
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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Do you talk to yourself on the golf course? Out loud, silently, or a bit of both? Most of us engage in some form of self-talk. We don’t usually pay much attention to the quality of what we’re saying, but perhaps we should. The way people talk about something to themselves is a reflection of how they feel about it. If we say, “I don’t have much of a chance on this shot,” we’re not likely to do well. On the other hand, if we say, “I can see what I need to do and how to do it,” we are more likely to succeed.
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Fire Your Evil Caddie
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Cultivating and Strengthening Awareness: Part II
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 4 mins
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After taking your seat with good posture, direct your attention to your breathing. Notice the feeling of your torso expanding and contracting, the sensation of the breath flowing through your nostrils. It is important that you don’t manipulate your breathing. However your breath flows, whether deep or shallow, short or long, just notice it with bare attention.
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Cultivating and Strengthening Awareness: Part II
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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During Your Swing Is Not the Time To Give Yourself a Lesson
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
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Players often rely on swing thoughts, but as we discussed earlier, thinking while swinging isn’t such a good idea. It’s preferable to have a swing image, one that includes at least the path and finishing point of the ball, but can also include the feel of the swing. For players who need a swing thought, it is better to have one that describes what you intend to do rather than how you intend to do it.
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During Your Swing Is Not the Time To Give Yourself a Lesson
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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A Perfect Swing
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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I’d like to congratulate you. You have a perfect swing. Now, you’re probably thinking, “What’s that about? He’s never seen my swing.” Well, I don’t need to, because I didn’t say the perfect swing (which, by the way, doesn’t exist, since we are all as different as snowflakes). I said a perfect swing, and everyone has one. Your perfect swing is the best one you can make today.
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A Perfect Swing
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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How to Make Every Putt
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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I’d like to suggest a new definition for “making a putt.” To most golfers, whether or not they make a putt is defined by whether or not it goes in the hole. This emphasizes the result of the putt more than it does the process of putting, and that interferes with the stroke. When we can be totally involved in the process and not preoccupied with the result, body and mind are synchronized. Therefore, we should have a definition of making a putt that reflects the process of putting more than the result of the putt.
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How to Make Every Putt
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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You Are Not Your Thoughts
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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While playing well in a tournament, we might think to ourselves, “Well, you’ve gotten away with it so far, but you’ll screw up before too long.” Believing in this thought gives it power. It creates feelings of doubt and anxiety, which interfere with our swing and produce errant shots. Eventually, the fear of failure becomes so powerful that our game is badly disrupted. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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You Are Not Your Thoughts
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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Never Keep More Than a Hundred Thoughts in Your Mind
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 4 mins
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Everyone agrees that when we have a lot of thoughts while swinging, poor results follow. Why wouldn’t we want to be thinking during our swing? Why wouldn’t thinking help our body to do what our mind wants it to do? To understand this dynamic, we need to understand different aspects of mind and how they relate to the action of our body swinging a golf club. The many expressions of mind can be described in various ways.
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Never Keep More Than a Hundred Thoughts in Your Mind
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 4 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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Avoid the Anyways
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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Every golfer has had the experience of setting up to a shot and not feeling completely comfortable with some aspect of it. We might have a vague feeling that something is not quite right, or we might know what’s wrong but not bother to do anything about it. In either case, when we “go ahead and hit it anyway,” the result is usually terrible. I call that kind of shot an “anyway.” Anytime we can reflect on a shot and say, “You know, I knew better,” that was an anyway.
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Avoid the Anyways
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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Give Up Control to Get Control
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
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This is one of the many paradoxes of golf. The control we want to get refers to consistent accuracy, control over where the ball will go. The control we have to give up is the kind we exercise when we “steer” a shot. Steering is an expression of the thinking mind trying to control the swing to make sure we get the results we want. Paradoxically, the results we get usually range from not very good to terrible.
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Give Up Control to Get Control
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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Cool, Calm, and Collected
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
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A vital part of our preparation for a golf shot has to do with alleviating tension from our body. Excessive muscle tension is an obstacle to making a fluid, powerful golf swing. There needs to be just enough tension to maintain our posture and hold onto the club as we swing, but any more than necessary interferes with the flow of the swing.
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Cool, Calm, and Collected
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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Gentle, Inquisitive, Fearless
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 1 min
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Playing the game of golf can inspire us to embody gentleness, inquisitiveness, and fearlessness. Gentleness means being kind to ourselves and considerate of others. We can take delight in conducting ourselves as gentle men and gentle women in golf and in life. Fearlessness means being more curious than afraid, trusting in our basic goodness and manifesting unconditional confidence in every situation we encounter.
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Gentle, Inquisitive, Fearless
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Synchronizing Body and Mind
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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When body and mind are synchronized for a golf swing, they are unified in purpose, presence, and focus. They are functioning in the same place at the same time. Can you send your body into the past or the future? Of course not. Our body is in the present and only in the present. Can you send your mind into the past or the future? Of course you can.
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Synchronizing Body and Mind
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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What Is Your Target?
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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Our actions are shaped by our intentions. When I ask golfers the purpose of making a golf swing, most of them answer, “To hit the ball.” Yet focusing on the ball as the target is a problematic perspective. Thinking of their job as “hitting the ball” instead of “sending the ball to a target” is probably why you see some high handicappers make quite acceptable practice swings and then get up to the ball and swing like they’re chopping wood.
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What Is Your Target?
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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How To Get from the Practice Tee to the First Tee
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
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One of the challenges faced by all levels of golfers is expressed in this lament: “Why can’t I hit it on the course the way I was hitting it on the range? It feels so frustrating!” There are many reasons, one of which is purpose. When you are on the range before a round you are usually trying to get comfortable with the swing, seeing how it feels that day, looking for some swing key, and so on. Once we’re on the tee, it is about performance.
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How To Get from the Practice Tee to the First Tee
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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The Vividness of the Moment
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
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Sense perceptions are necessary for creative imaging of the shots we intend to play. Our senses collect information that we use to direct our mind and body in executing a golf shot and everything else we do. Therefore, it is very helpful to practice awareness of our sense perceptions and how they are experienced.
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The Vividness of the Moment
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-08-16
- Language: English
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Take Your Medicine
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
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Impatience compounds mistakes. Making a poor shot, we should accept the situation and play the smartest shot from there. Instead, we try to make it all up with the next shot. If we miss a few putts, we begin pressing to get our approach shots closer to the pin, often taking unwarranted risks and suffering the consequences. Stephen had been playing golf for just three years, but had taken lessons regularly. Still, he had never broken 100.
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Take Your Medicine
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Listen To Your Intuition
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
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Facing a difficult recovery shot is a particular situation that’s likely to give rise to an anyway. There’s a method to avoid compounding one mistake with another. When you set up as though to play the shot, tune in to your body. Using the body scan, feel how comfortable or uncomfortable you are. You’ll intuitively sense the difficulty of the shot you’re planning.
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Listen To Your Intuition
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-09-16
- Language: English
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You Can't Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn to Surf
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
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My teacher, Ösel Tendzin, had a favorite response when his meditation students would ask how to control their thoughts and emotions. He’d say, “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. One person will struggle with the waves and be battered about. Another person will learn to ride them. Same waves, very different experiences.” We experience waves of emotions through the course of a tournament, a round of golf, or even a single golf hole.
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You Can't Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn to Surf
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 1 min
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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Isn't Where You Have to Play It from Punishment Enough?
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
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- Length: 2 mins
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We’re so hard on ourselves. We tie our self-worth to the results of our actions, to how well we hit a golf shot or what score we make on a hole. When things go badly, we start to doubt our basic goodness as human beings. We start to say things like “What’s wrong with me?” We usually can’t accept making a mistake, despite the fact that we know everybody makes them.
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Isn't Where You Have to Play It from Punishment Enough?
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 2 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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The Angry Guy
- By: Dr. Joseph Parent
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- Length: 3 mins
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Once a Zen master was listening to a student complain about his uncontrollable temper. The student said, “I’m a very angry person. Please help me to change.”
“Sounds like a big problem. Let’s see this terrible anger of yours,” the master demanded of the student.
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The Angry Guy
- Narrated by: Dr. Joseph Parent
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 11-10-16
- Language: English
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