Friday, December 14, 2007 

Best Golf Swing Tips Revealed

You need great hand-eye coordination, balance, athletic ability and creativity to play golf. The biggest concerns of golfers today are inconsistency first of all, followed by slicing and distance. Finding ways to improve your golf game, then applying what you've learned and practicing, is the number one way to get ahead of the game.

Approach the game with a positive attitude and repeat affirmations if you can, such as "I play great golf all the time." Visualize where you would like the ball to land, as you swing. A common mental error golfers make when driving the ball is to hit it as hard as possible.

Try not to grip the club too tightly. Make sure to use the proper technique. At the end of a backswing the hands are above the right shoulder, with the golf club pointing more or less in the intended direction of ball flight.

Swing slowly and steadily using a nice rhythm. Standing over the ball for too long a time and wondering whether you're going to swing the club correctly can easily result in a skewed shot, or completely missing the ball. Accomplished golfers purposely use sidespin to steer their ball around obstacles or towards the safe side of fairways and greens.

Ask your golf pro to evaluate your posture while swinging. At the end of a swing, the weight has shifted almost entirely to the left foot, the body is fully turned to the left and the hands are above the left shoulder with the club hanging down over the players' back.

As the body matures, the ability to rotate the upper torso is affected by age, and the hand action can also slow down requiring a slightly stronger grip. After the ball is hit, the follow-through stage consists of a continued rotation to the left. Putting can become a nightmare and a condition called the 'yips' has affected not only amateurs but professionals as well; get expert advice and consider a golf swing aid.

many golfers have improved their golf game by concentrating on golf fitness. The golf swing is mostly rotational so it makes sense to concentrate on your turning ability as it relates to range of motion and speed. Conditioning your golf muscles will reward you with straighter swings.

There are golf swing aids that act as driving range simulators. Golf swing aids come in all shapes and sizes including apparel type accessories to correct alignment or a golf club add-on accessory to monitor your swing. If you're looking for an aid to improve your stance they're not hard to find.

There are a number of good golf swing aids on the market today. Look for golf swing aids at your local golf course. Make sure to look for reviews and ratings online for any golf swing aid you're considering.

Overall, investing in golf swing aids will greatly improve your golf swing and your golf game. Ask an expert, who is not associated with the shop you would buy your golf swing aid from, for advice on the right aid for you. Whether you're a seasoned golfer or just starting out, pick just one golf swing aid and go to work on your swing.

There are golf swing aids that will help you with swing alignment. Keep in mind that with some golf swing aids, you may still need advice or help from an expert.

There are hundreds of useful golf tips to seek out in golf magazines, consumer magazines, sports magazines, in books, ebooks, DVDs, online and offline. If you can, sit in on a friend's golf lesson to see if you connect with the pro. If you apply both physical and mental workouts, golf swing improvement will be your reward.

For more information on golf swing improvement golf swing aids and golf swing fitness go to http://www.Best-Golf-Guide.com specializing in golf tips, help, advice, resources, and instruction including information on golf swing tips.

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Premiership Betting Review - 26 February 2006

manchester United are the 2005/06 Carling cup winners following a 4-0 demolition of Wigan Athletic at the Millennium stadium. United, as short as 8/13 on the day, took the lead after 32 minutes through wayne Rooney but it was a three goals in six minutes salvo in the second half that devastated outsiders Wigan. louis Saha netted after 54 minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo on 58 and Rooney again on the hour to win the cup in emphatic fashion.

With United not playing in the premiership this weekend, Chelsea extended their lead at the top to 15 points with an expected victory over Portsmouth. The Blues were overwhelming favourites at 1/6 and did not disappoint short-odds backers with second half goals from Frank Lampard and Arjen Robben to win the match 2-0.

liverpool drew level on points with manchester United but remain third after a 1-0 win against manchester City on sunday. Harry Kewells goal five minutes before the break was enough to secure all three points for the 8/15 Reds.

Arsenals dire away form in the premiership continued as they lost 1-0 at Blackburn Rovers. The 5/4 Gunners will have attracted a lot of punting interest, however, it was 21/10 Rovers that took the points after Morten Gamst Pedersens decisive goal. The result saw Blackburn leapfrog arsenal into fifth place while condemning them to their eighth away defeat of the season.

Birmingham City are within touching distance of safety after a vital win against Sunderland. Even though prior to the match the Blues had won just three games all season at St. Andrews, plenty will have ploughed into the 7/10 odds and Emile Heskey headed in the winner after 39 minutes.

In another crunch relegation battle, Middlesbrough edged themselves closer to safety but piled on more pressure on West Bromwich Albion after winning 2-0 at the Hawthorns. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbainks goals on 17 and 44 was enough to seal victory at tasty 9/5 odds.

Caretaker manager Glenn Roeder made it three wins in four matches for 11/10 newcastle with a 2-0 victory against Everton. Two goals from Nolberto Solano after 64 and 76 minutes saw Everton lose their first match since December 28.

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Holding The Space - The Power of Positive Mantra to Change

I went to this acting workshop once and the guys running it were real guys of faith. All of them working actors. They spoke of having a positive attitude among many other concepts for being successful in such an erratic profession as acting. I noticed one guy, whenever you asked him how he was, he'd say: "I'm blessed, brother." However, the look in his eyes was fear, like he didn't believe it, but rather he was hoping somehow it would be true as soon as possible. Even with his apparent success, he was there with his partners giving this workshop to remind himself of all the things that were working in his life. You could tell he believed them all, but the look in his eyes was fear-- as though he didn't actually feel it. What he was doing was holding the space with his mantra: "I'm blessed, brother."

"In the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god." [John, 1:1]

The word starts with you. Everything is a vibration. Go back to elementary science: all matter is energy and energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes into and out of form by virtue of its vibrational frequency. You don't have to be a mad philosopher or astrophysicist to get this stuff either, you just have to look around you, closely. It's everywhere in nature. So it is, so it shall be. When you speak The word you vibrate that word's symbolic meaning within your being, in the present moment. So staying positive and saying ""I'm blessed" is certainly better than saying, "I'm screwed, I'm gonna die a fiery death."

Unfortunately if you're in the habit of being negative, the latter might seem more true and easier to resonate with in the moment and that's what people generally do. Being negative then becomes a habit. Talking about failure, especially joking about failure is a way of hedging one's bets and avoiding the pain of defeat. If you expect hard knocks and you joke about it, when it comes you're not as hurt by having had faith and hoped for better. It's a real half-assed way to go and it invites the failure in because you're giving power to failure by being self-deprecating. It's that law of attraction that's become so popular with the movie, The Secret that's all the rage now. What you put your attention on grows: what you focus your thoughts on is what you will magnetically attract into your life.

The thing is, the creative energy is neutral. You and the creative potential of the universe are one. You can call it God or whatever you need to call it to grab on to it. It's there for you to do what you will with it. You've got this mind, given as a gift to you, to direct the light of your soul. You've got free will to create the habits that will attract to you success and prosperity and more importantly a sense of inner peace and it is all begins created with The word. When the thousands of thoughts that flick through your mind at the blink of an eye flutter by your inner lens you can choose to grab on to any one, or several of those passing thoughts. As soon as you grab on to a thought and you react to it with emotion you start a chain reaction of creation. Backed by emotion thought moves one to speak The word and hence your reality is created.

Let's say you have to give a speech and you're terrified of public speaking. Your mind is racing, your negative mind is feeding you worst case scenarios and what you grab onto the worst of them and become emotional about it. Then you likely express that fear. You speak some words in relation to it-- expressing your fears to those close to you. All the while your giving more and more power to what you don't want-- to get up and bomb in front of an audience. Thus you keep your reality in place by the habit of your thoughts. Hopefully, you have the balance of the positive mind, telling you that it's going to be okay, telling you how prepared you are or that you're doing it for a higher purpose, driving you to then create a more positive stream of thoughts to act on. Want to see this type of "space holding" in action? Watch professional sports. The athletes pump themselves up for game day and seal their minds as best they can against defeat. What they're doing is holding the space for the win.

So let's go back a moment. Millions of thoughts, you grab one or a chain of them and project these thoughts backed by emotion. Then you speak The word. These are the elements of how you project your reality. Remember, the mind projects the light of your soul. Human broken down into it's roots, "Hue" and "Man" are as follows: Hue meaning light, Man meaning mind-- light-mind. A human is the light (of the soul) projected with the help of the mind in the present moment. So "holding the space" simply means maintaining the present moment by virtue of your thoughts and words and deeds. Very simply it is how you are projecting in each moment. We all do it , constantly. Mothers and Fathers hold the space for their families. Friends hold the space for each other. It's whatever you're doing to keep your present reality in place. Think of a mother watching silently over her children as they play. She might go about the house, working unnoticed, making the home peaceful and perfect. All the while, her thoughts and intentions are on her children's safety and well-being. With her sixth sense, she's listening for sounds that might indicate the children are in need of something or facing danger. This is holding the space.

I first heard this term "holding the space" in the kundalini yoga community. It's a natural progression when you understand how yogi's work. They discipline themselves through yoga and meditation until their power over the mind gives them the control of their reality. Not bad for the price of admission, I'd say. So everywhere I went these yogis were talking about holding the space and quite honestly it annoyed me. It seemed like hippy buzzwords to me and very often, like my aforementioned acting friend, we can sometimes use buzzwords in a knee-jerk fashion. After hearing the term "holding the space" enough times, I realized it really meant something more than its apparent buzz. It means controlling your present reality by first holding the mental space and then choosing which thoughts you will project, and then back with emotion and ultimately by speaking the word, sparking the process of manifestation.

You can't control time but you can affect the space which you occupy within that time continuum. That is how we are on this earth in a nutshell. We're occupying space within time. When I was growing up, if someone was a real mope, we'd call them "a waste of space." It comes down to how you occupy or "hold the space" in each moment. Since everything comes down to a vibration, a frequency, you have a choice with that vibration: whether to go higher or lower.

What my acting friend knew was that by using a mantra he was seeding his mind with the vibration he wished to create: living a blessed life. The more you repeat a mantra the more it vibrates within you and changes your mind's vibration--The word in action within the mind. yogi Bhajan has often been quoted as saying, "fake it until you make it." Essentially that means hold the space in your mind by first by believing it even if the outer picture is in conflict with what you yet desire to create. Mantra helps with this tremendously. In the practice of Kundalini yoga we use many sacred mantras whose mere vibrations are like a telephone numbers to many different sacred elements of the universe. These high powered vibrations serve to clear all the subconscious crap that gets in the way of what you wish to project and thus create. Any mantra spoken from the gut, backed with belief and emotion will do the trick. The idea is to seed the mind for change.

"We must become the change we wish to see." --Mahatma Ghandi

When your mind changes, you change. When you change, what you project changes. When what you project changes, what you experience changes-- and this becomes what you see in front of you.

Holding the space means keeping your focus on your intention until the picture outside created, maintained and then held to your satisfaction. many people feel out of control because they don't have the strength of mind to hold the space that they want to experience. Everything is everything. Keeping the physical body strong and the mind clear, strengthening the mind with disciplined meditation and using mantras to reinforce positive affirmations are all tools one can use to hold the space they desire in their lives.

What kind of space are you holding in your life?

Patrick Lacho is an IKYTA certified Yoga instructor and writer based in Los Angeles. He teaches a yoga bootcamp http://www.ybc40.com, which takes students through a forty day transformation using yoga, meditation and sound. More articles and discussion about yoga, philosophy, spirituality and more can be found on the website.

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