With these “Comfort Zone Breaking” EFT Routines, you can burst through the limits of your current comfort zone and consistently play at your peak with composure and confidence!
Simply use the tapping script and visualization exercise at the end of this article and enjoy the benefits of breaking free of your comfort zone.
 
For some golfers a major impediment to improving their golf score–is their golf “comfort zone.”

Addressing your comfort zone in golf will help you improve your score with surprising ease. Remove the mental blocks to scoring higher and watch your game transform before your eyes. 
 
What is a Comfort Zone?
 
A Comfort Zone is a “mental barrier” that limits what you think you are capable of. A mental barrier can be a thought, pre-conceived idea or expectation you have about what you believe is and is not possible to for you to achieve.
 
Your Comfort Zone is how you “see yourself,” or what you have consistently come to expect of yourself. Your comfort zone is the place where you subconsciously think you “belong”. It is your personal mindset.
 
Recognizing Your Comfort Zone
 
If someone asks you, “What do you usually shoot?” You might reply with, “I usually shoot in the (80’s, 90’s, 70’s or whatever).” You have just defined your Comfort Zone.
 
If you are an experienced golfer you may be aware that you actually know how to hit every shot perfectly. You have probably, for example, hit the perfect drive on countless occasions. You have hit the perfect 9 iron, made the perfect 15 foot putt and so on.
 
So why don’t you shoot perfect rounds all the time? Despite all you know and all your experience, you can repeatedly fall below your optimum scores.
 
You might have the experience and ability to shoot 10 strokes better (mid-70’s) than what you are doing. But you don’t. You tend to stay in the mid-80’s. You play a round of golf and hit a blend of both “perfect shots” and “not-so-perfect” shots and almost invariably end up scoring within your Comfort Zone.

Why? Because that’s your vision of yourself.That’s who you envision yourself as a golfer to be and that image is very powerful.Sometimes you will have a fabulous front 9–let’s say a 38–which, if duplicated on the back 9, brings you to 76 instead of an 85. That is waaaay out of your comfort zone and the overwhelmingly likelihood is that you will completely blow the back 9 to bring you right back to the mid-80’s where you “belong.” But even if you should score in the 70’s your self talk is likely to be something like, “Boy, what a lucky day. I’ll never do that again.” And, of course, you will be right.

Comfort zones are very powerful things. We all have them.
 
Below are the top 3 signs of a comfort zone in action:
 
1) You get nervous, anxious, or afraid when playing better than expected. Or you pass it off as a “fluke”
2) You ’sit on your lead’ and play defensively or afraid to risk.
3) You are in ‘protect mode’ and do not want to blow your lead.

“Comfort Zone Breaking” EFT Routines

According to Larry Phillips, in his book EFT for Golfers, there are two parts to overcoming your present Comfort Zone:
 
1. You must learn how to change your mental Comfort Zone
2. You must address the specific impediments to your performance
 
Here is a useful EFT Tapping Routine to help you change your mental comfort zone and address the specific impediments to your performance.
 
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Tapping the karate chop or rubbing the sore spot, repeat the following statements:

Even though breaking _______ seems out of reach, I choose to let it be comfortable and easy.

Even though I’m uncomfortable shooting in the high 70’s, I choose to let it be comfortable and easy.

Even though I don’t think I belong in the (high 70’s), I choose to let it be comfortable and easy.

Even I though I fear having a lower handicap, because then I will have to maintain it, I choose to let it be comfortable and easy

Even though someone my age is not likely to shoot below ______, I choose to let it be comfortable and easy

Tap the following points, repeating out aloud or in your mind the following release statements.

EB: breaking _______ is out of reach
SE: I’m uncomfortable shooting in the (high 70’s)
UE: fear a lower handicap
UN: I won’t be able to maintain a lower handicap
CH: someone my age is not like to shoot below ________
CB: I choose to let it be comfortable and easy
UA: I choose to let it be comfortable and easy
UB: I choose to let it be comfortable and easyRepeat 3 –4 rounds ending with a full round of “I choose to let it be comfortable and easy”
 
Use this routines regularly and simply substitute the statements with issues of your own that arise. Write down, list and tap on any pre-concieved ideas and expectations you have of yourself that keep you in your comfort zone.
 
Next, try out this visualisation exercise. 
 
Comfort Zone Visualisation Exercise
 
Step 1: Close your eyes and vividly imagine yourself stepping outside your comfort zone. See yourself with a lower handicap or shooting at a new level. Pay attention to and focus on any feeling of tension, anxiety or negative self-talk that arise as you imaginge yourself playing at a higher level. On a scale of 0-10, rate the intensity of the feeling. 0=no discomfort, 10=the highest level of discomfort.
 
Step 2: Tap the EFT release points continuously as you vividly imagine yourself outside your comfort zone, with all the associated feelings this brings up for you.
 
Step 3:   Rate your discomfort again after a few rounds of tapping.  Continue tapping until the intensity reaches zero.
 
 
Do this visualization regularly with any aspect affecting your comfort zone.
 
Good luck!
 
Tap n Putt your way to success!!