Acceptance and Commitment – A new paradigm for your game – Trevor Jones #266

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It is great to welcome onto the show mental skills and golf coach Trevor Jones to explore a different way of dealing with the thoughts and sensations that can hold such sway over us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">He has a fascinating story to tell as both a player and a coach at a very high level.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We discussed how many of the existing models of trying to ‘control’ thoughts and just use visualisation techniques proved so ineffective.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">How many time have you hit bad shots when you feel GOOD and conversely we have all hit good shots when we are feeling BAD</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">The psychological flexibility model</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">Acceptance and Commitment Training</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Instead of trying to control thoughts and feelings understand how YOU are NOT your thoughts</span></p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Why it is a myth to think you have to ‘feel good’ to play good</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The way our brain just ‘pumps’ out thought</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">Why we should give our brain a name!!</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">How you can ‘diffuse’ from your thinking</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style= "font-size: 14.0pt;">The way out of the matrix</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 14