Build Unshakeable Confidence Using EFT – How To Eliminate Self Doubts and Strengthen Your Self Belief
"There is no way you can focus your mind and efforts to succeed if you’re brimming over with self-doubts. Your level of performance has a way of living up to prior expectations and, if you start off believing you’re going to have a bad day, you will. Errors tend to multiply and, if you have a bundle of self-doubts, you won’t be able to cope with the problems and the failure that will follow." Arnold Palmer http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/2005/051605p.html
What is Self-Belief?
It is a belief in your own ability and potential. It is the belief that you are going to be successful in a task or endeavor. It is a “CAN DO” attitude and mindset. Self beief equals self confidence.
To assess your self-belief ask yourself these questions..
Do I consistently think or say positive, encouraging things about my golf?
Do I consistently believe that I have the ability and potential to play good golf?
Do I consistently feel confident when I step up to address the ball?
Do I consistently picture a good outcome when I drive, chip, or putt?
If you answered "no" to one or more of these questions, then you may be lacking belief in yourself! Believing in yourself is crucial to playing golf well and achieving your goals. This EFT golf lesson is about identifying and suspending all doubts and disbelief in yourself and your game. This will allow your innate confidence to shine through.
How To Build Unshakeable Confidence
Confidence occurs and increases as a direct result and natural consequence of releasing the self-doubts that plague your thinking and consequently sabotage your success. Your negative expectations and beliefs about yourself will, as Arnold Palmer suggests in the above quote, manifest on the golf course as poor performance.
When you’re playing well it’s easy to feel confident but it’s another story when things start going wrong. It’s much easier for your confidence to take a downward turn and your self-doubts to emerge and take hold. Most people lose confidence from time to time; it’s only natural. The important thing is to minimize the amount of time you spend entertaining these self-doubts. This is where EFT can really help. EFT is a wonderful tool to help your restore confidence by releasing the hold your negative self-beliefs have over you. EFT can quickly put those doubts out of your mind allowing you to focus on the task at hand and to play with unshakeable confidence.
How you perceive yourself is crucial and one way to empower yourself to be your best and play with confidence is to remember the “good shots”, and forget the “bad ones”. The following exercise is designed to help you change your negative self perceptions.
Exercise 1: Clearing Past “Failures”
Your mind and body is a storehouse of both past “success memories” and past “failure memories”. When you approach a hole where you have failed before you are more likely to start thinking about past failures on that hole and in that instant you’re already defeated. To change this response it is important to release the “failure memories” and reprogram the subconscious mind to access “success memories” as an automatic response. To do this, complete the following exercise.
Step 1: Make a list of past failures that seem to stick out in your mind or that you tend to automatically recall when you play golf.
Step 2: Take each memory and replay it in your mind while at the same time tapping continuously on the EFT points. While doing this, make sure to really feel the disappointment/anger/frustration etc; repeat the words you said to yourself at the time and recall where you felt it in your body. This will “erase” the negative emotion associated with the memory causing the “failure memories” to release their hold over you. This exercise alone if completed thoroughly will skyrocket your confidence now that you have essentially emptied your subconscious storehouse and cellular memory of past failures, clearing the way for a more confident golfer.
Exercise 2: Clearing Self Doubts
Step 1: Make a list of all your self-doubts. You may like to record these in a journal and add to them as you notice any new or additional self doubts pop into you’re your mind and awareness.
Finish this sentence.
I doubt my ability to…….
Eg. Win the tournament
Beat so and so
Overcome my anxiety
Get over the yips
Pull off that shot etc
Step 2: For each doubt create an EFT set up statement and tap on it.
Eg. Even though I doubt my ability to (win the tournament) I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
Click here for tapping points. Tap the reminder phrase at each point for 2-3 rounds
EB: I doubt I can win the tournament
SE: I doubt I can win the tournament
UE: I doubt I can win the tournament
UN: I doubt I can win the tournament
CH: I doubt I can win the tournament
CB: I doubt I can win the tournament
UA: I doubt I can win the tournament
UB: I doubt I can win the tournament
Tap 2-3 or more rounds of the positive statement
EB: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
SE: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
UE: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
UN: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
CH: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
CB: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
UA: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
UB: I choose to remember my successes and believe in myself completely
Exercise 3: Strengthening Your Self-Beliefs
This exercise allows you to reprogram your subconscious mind with the beliefs that empower you to succeed.
Step 1: Make a list of positive self-beliefs and expectations such as these and tap on them regularly:
Today I will be calm and confident.
I expect a good session on the practice range.
I can succeed at improving my swing (or my drives, my chips, or my putting).
I can swing with the perfect tempo
I have the ability to draw the ball.
I enjoy seeing the ball land exactly where I want it to land.
By tapping on these affirmations any subconscious resistence to believing these statements will be released with each round of EFT, thereby allowing the subconscious to accept them more readily, enhancing your self perception, self belief and confidence.
Cheers!
Your Tap n Putt Specialist
Angie
Any questions contact me sublime@pacific.net.au
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