From his days as a child golf prodigy, Tiger Woods has thrived in the spotlight. But can any athlete be mentally prepared for the circus that will unfold at this year’s Masters? After taking a four-month leave of absence from golf to deal with the fallout from his shocking infidelity scandal, Woods will make his highly anticipated return to the sport this week, at the Masters tournament in Augusta, Ga. In an interview with SI.com last month, Sean McManus, president of both CBS Sports and CBS News, called Woods’ return to golf “the biggest media event other than the Obama Inauguration in the past 10 or 15 years.” A hyperbolic reach from the leader of the network set to broadcast the final two rounds of the Masters this weekend? Sure. Still, the cameras will be glaring, the tabloids screaming, and one of Woods’ alleged mistresses has indicated she plans to dance at a strip club in nearby Atlanta. This will be a Masters unlike any other.(See Tiger Woods in the 2010 TIME 100 poll.)

In the midst of such madness, what can Woods do to stay focused on his golf game? Before we give out psychological advice to the embattled golf superstar, let us be the first to admit that he probably doesn’t need it. Until he proves otherwise, Woods is still the mentally toughest athlete on the planet. “He wrote the book that we’re all using,” says Gio Valiante, author of Fearless Golf: Conquering the Mental Game, who is currently acting as golf shrink for Camilo Villegas, one of the best young players on the PGA Tour. “He’s got this belief system that is perfectly constructed for adversity.”

Valiante has played golf with Woods on about a half-dozen occasions. “More so than any other person I’ve ever studied, he’s the best straight learner I’ve ever seen,” Valiante gushes. “He makes mistakes, but then you watch him go about his business and he doesn’t make that mistake twice.” (Of course, you could argue that the sheer number of Woods’ alleged mistresses, over 15 by some counts, proves that he’s quite capable of repeat offending.)

The key, says Valiante, is Woods’ constant quest to be better. As TIME wrote in a 2000 cover story about Woods: “What is most remarkable about Woods is his restless drive for what the Japanese call kaizen, or continuous improvement. Toyota engineers will push a perfectly good assembly line until it breaks down. Then they’ll find and fix the flaw and push the system again. That’s kaizen. That’s Tiger.” These words were written after Woods’ first reconstruction of his golf swing, a revamping he undertook after winning the 1997 Masters by a record 12 strokes. Despite his continued dominance, he has made major changes to his swing at least two more times in the past decade. “He has taken the greatest game in history, broken it and put together something better,” says Valiante.(See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal.)

Valiante believes Woods, who has undergone therapy, will reconstruct his life along similar lines. His game will surely follow suit. Valiante points to a relatively overlooked quote from Woods’ March 21 interview with ESPN. “The strength that I feel now, I’ve never felt this type of strength,” Woods told the network. To a psychologist like Valiante, those words are particularly telling. “Think about that,” he says. “Woods is finding strength through redemption and humility. It’s like when A-Rod admitted he used steroids. A massive burden was lifted off his shoulders, and he could go out and play.”(Comment on this story.)

Despite Woods’ obvious resolve, a little advice from the golf shrinks couldn’t hurt, especially since he’s entering a pressure cooker with the potential to break even the best athletes. For example, if Woods were on his couch, Bob Rotella, a noted golf psychologist and author of Your 15th Club: The Inner Secret to Great Golf, would encourage the golfer to truly relish this uncomfortable comeback. “Love the challenge,” Rotella says. “This is a totally different challenge than you’re used to. Go out and test yourself. Go love it.” Rotella also recommends that Woods pal around with his fellow players in the clubhouse. “After you’ve had a problem, you want to see if your buddies still like you,” Rotella says.

Patrick Cohn, a sports psychologist based in Orlando, Fla., and author of Peak Performance Golf: How Good Golfers Become Great Ones, says that Woods can block out distractions by not trying to block out distractions. Instead of telling himself to tune out the occasional heckler, he should just visualize placing the ball in the fairway. “Once you focus on the right stuff,” Cohn says, “distractions fall by the wayside.”(See the top 10 scandals of 2009.)

When Woods was a teenager, he worked with a hypnotist to help place his mind in the proverbial zone. And given his recent revelations that he’s reconnected with Buddhism, it’s fair to assume that Woods is doing a fair amount of quiet introspection. Do more of it, say the psychologists. With practice, you can enter an altered, hypnotic state on the golf course, though not to the point where you’re barking like a dog on command. “You are aware of what’s going on,” says Ken Grossman, a Sacramento, Calif.–based hypnotherapist who has worked with many athletes. “You’re not out in left field.”

For example, Jennifer Scott, a golf hypnotherapist from Phoenix, suggests staring at some object on the course — perhaps a leaf on a fairway tree — and taking a deep breath while waiting to take a shot. “Your eyes are very powerful,” she says. “If you’re darting your eyes back and forth, you lose focus.” Summon the subconscious and give yourself a mantra. “Think peace, harmony, relax, relax,” Scott says. “The golfers I teach love those words.” Denise Silbert, a hypnosis expert from La Jolla, Calif., recommends selecting a physical trigger, like holding a golf ball while walking down the fairway, which will signal your brain to slow down. “As I hold the golf ball, I feel a calm energy,” Silbert says. “I let go of the conscious riffraff, I’m reprogramming the unconscious mind. The verbiage in my mind is affirming: ‘Fairways of power, greens of solace.’” Are you in a trance yet? For Woods, Scott suggests a less hippie-sounding mental chant, perhaps, “I’m the greatest player in the world, see each shot as it lands.”

While affirming his greatness, Woods should also visualize his most triumphant moments. “I’d have him channel a mental movie,” says Grossman. “While he’s in that relaxed state, he should recall his 2008 U.S. Open championship win against Rocco Mediate. He would want to remind himself he won that with a broken leg, and here at the Masters, he’s not even feeling any pain.”(See the top 10 awkward moments of 2009.)

And despite the pain he may be enduring in his personal life, the shrinks don’t recommend betting against him. “His head will be in a good place on the golf course,” says Rotella, the golf psychologist. “He’s going to put all his energy into playing great, and that crazy mother probably will.”

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JF Belmonte
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Rishabh Sharma
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MekhongKurt
I’ve never been much of a sports fan, getting excited, usually, pretty much only for championship games (and sometimes the playoffs leading up to the finale). But Tiger Woods got me far more excited than I ever dreamed I would become over any sport, including football — and I grew up in football-crazed Texas. (If you think high-school football is a waste or a joke, here’s a hint: don’t say that to a Texan!!! )

Now that Tiger has been dragged through the mud, I hope he is indeed able to stay focused on his game and returns to his former glory and to his providing enormous inspiration to untold numbers of people, and not just golfers. I remember seeing a television show about a guy, a professional chef, who had long dreamed of opening his own restaurant, something he finally did — inspired by Tiger. He said he had followed Tiger’s professional career closely, and tried to figure out how to apply Tiger’s approach to golf to his own approach to establishing his restaurant, which was inordinately successful in an inordinately short time — for which he credits what he called “Tiger tactics.” (Incidentally, the chef’s other source of great inspiration was one that on the face of it seems entirely disconnected from Tiger: Sun Tze’s The Art of War — but think about that a few minutes. Interesting, huh?)

Regarding Tiger’s problems in his personal life, you know what? — They’re absolutely, 100%, completely, and totally none of my business. He’s a golfer, not a guru. Both the media at large and the general public remind me of vampires sitting around drooling, rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation of the next revelation. So the hell what??? That’s between him and his family, plus anyone else whom he may wish to let in. I find the morbid fascination  with the “Woods’ Woes” on the part of so many repulsive. Sure, I hope he gets his personal life straightened out, especially now that it has been laid as bare as a devout Catholic bares his or her soul in the confessional. Were Tiger not already famous, his marital cheating wouldn’t raise many, if any, eyebrows. What competent editor would run a story about anyone completely unknown who couldn’t keep his pants on? Lots of guys have been guilty of marital infidelity — but they don’t become rich and famous for it.

Just as the sports psychotherapists quoted in this story all essentially say Tiger needs to stay focused on his golf in his public persona, we need to stay focused on it too.

After all, that’s why we began paying any attention to him in the first place.

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MekhongKurt
I’ve never been much of a sports fan, getting excited, usually, pretty much only for championship games (and sometimes the playoffs leading up to the finale). But Tiger Woods got me far more excited than I ever dreamed I would become over any sport, including football — and I grew up in football-crazed Texas. (If you think high-school football is a waste or a joke, here’s a hint: don’t say that to a Texan!!! )

Now that Tiger has been dragged through the mud, I hope he is indeed able to stay focused on his game and returns to his former glory and to his providing enormous inspiration to untold numbers of people, and not just golfers. I remember seeing a television show about a guy, a professional chef, who had long dreamed of opening his own restaurant, something he finally did — inspired by Tiger. He said he had followed Tiger’s professional career closely, and tried to figure out how to apply Tiger’s approach to golf to his own approach to establishing his restaurant, which was inordinately successful in an inordinately short time — for which he credits what he called “Tiger tactics.” (Incidentally, the chef’s other source of great inspiration was one that on the face of it seems entirely disconnected from Tiger: Sun Tze’s The Art of War — but think about that a few minutes. Interesting, huh?)

Regarding Tiger’s problems in his personal life, you know what? — They’re absolutely, 100%, completely, and totally none of my business. He’s a golfer, not a guru. Both the media at large and the general public remind me of vampires sitting around drooling, rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation of the next revelation. So the hell what??? That’s between him and his family, plus anyone else whom he may wish to let in. I find the morbid fascination  with the “Woods’ Woes” on the part of so many repulsive. Sure, I hope he gets his personal life straightened out, especially now that it has been laid as bare as a devout Catholic bares his or her soul in the confessional. Were Tiger not already famous, his marital cheating wouldn’t raise many, if any, eyebrows. What competent editor would run a story about anyone completely unknown who couldn’t keep his pants on? Lots of guys have been guilty of marital infidelity — but they don’t become rich and famous for it.

Just as the sports psychotherapists quoted in this story all essentially say Tiger needs to stay focused on his golf in his public persona, we need to stay focused on it too.

After all, that’s why we began paying any attention to him in the first place.

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Great article on Tiger Woods and the Masters

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Richard Granberry
“An ultimate test of toughness?” My goodness what a farce. To play a game when strangers might say mean things to you? I dug ditches today to feed my family. I will do that tomorrow in Boulder, in 45 degree temps. You are an absurd man.

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Steve Diamond
I was going to write something prolific, and then I read Jane Iddings’ response. Kudos and “wow.” I cannot do better.

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Tiger at the Masters: An Ultimate Test of Toughness

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i weating U …Tiger at the Masters: An Ultimate Test of Toughness…more ..

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Jane Iddings
There is no question that Tiger has control of his mind and by controlling it, he will control his behavior — he will play a magnificent game of golf.

He uses all his inner resources to tap into his right brain, to program his subconscious to play that perfect or near-perfect game of golf. We can learn much from Tiger’s full use of his left and right brain.

We can also learn from the experts quoted in this article who tell us to relax (get in an alpha state); visualize past successes; keep the brain focused; program the right brain for success; have a physical trigger to prompt the right brain’s programming; repeat affirmations; and encourage his resurrection as the world’s greatest golfer and possibly the world’s greatest athlete.

Most certainly (aside from his shameful infidelities) he is a role model for programming success and practising kaizen: continuous improvement. His personal life is a learning experience. It does not negate everything else that Tiger is.

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Paramendra Kumar Bhagat
Tiger will continue to do wonderful things.

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Steve Ozer
Stop the bull — he won’t even make the cut.

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Past Life Regression Therapy can help people resolve a few things that primarily are rooted much deeper than the body.

February 14, 9:13 AMCharlotte Health and Happiness ExaminerKathleen Blanchard RN

Hypnosis could help children with emotional respiratory symptoms.

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Children with breathing problems such as asthma and cystic fibrosis could benefit from hypnosis that can alleviate discomfort during procedures, and calm symptoms that have emotional components associated with respiratory disease. Hypnosis, combined with regular medical treatment could help children with habitual cough that may experience feelings of shortness of breath or other uncomfortable sensations that could be emotional in origin.

In a paper published in Pediatric Asthma, Allergy & Immunology, Ran D. Anbar, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, NY suggests that hypnosis should be considered for children whose respiratory symptoms are brought about as the result of a mind-body component. Children with asthma who hyperventilate, breathe noisily, cough disruptively, or otherwise have emotionally triggered respiratory symptoms could be calmed with hypnosis.

Coughing out of habit or vocal cord dysfunction that produces a high pitched noise with breathing but can have psychological roots, found to be absent during sleep might be indicative that hypnosis can relieve symptoms of asthma of breathing difficulty triggered by emotions.

“Dr. Anbar has added hypnosis to our therapeutic toolbox. When breathing problems have a large mind-body component, resolution with hypnosis can dramatically reduce the need for expensive testing and medications,” says Harold Farber, MD, MSPH, Editor of Pediatric Asthma, Allergy Immunology, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Pulmonology, at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

Hypnosis for children with asthma or other breathing disorders should always be performed by a medical professional warns Anbar. Only individuals with special training in hypnosis therapy should be considered to help alleviate respiratory symptoms of asthma in children triggered by emotions.

Hypnosis could produce physiologic that alleviate symptoms related to asthma and respiratory problems that include chest pain, or feelings that something is “stuck” in the throat, and hperventilation. The author suggests that hypnosis could be used before expensive testing for otherwise unexplained feelings of difficulty breathing in children by helping teach breathing techniques that could alleviate symptoms and produce physiologic changes related to emotional distress associated with asthma or cystic fibrosis.

Pediatric Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology
DOI: 10.1089/pai.2009.0025

February 17, 6:14 PMGlendale Alternative Medicine ExaminerDoreen Cohanim

Children tend to be better candidates for hypnosis than adults. The reasons are children tend to respond to suggestions better then adults because children are in touch with their imaginations. Think back to a time when you were a child and how easy it was to imagine or daydream. For a child everything is possible, all he has to do is to pretend that he is a millionaire, a truck driver, a police officer or a doctor. He can even imagine himself flying like Peter Pan.

* Children tend to be better candidates for hypnosis than adults. The reasons are children tend to respond to suggestions better then adults because children are in touch with their imaginations. Think back to a time when you were a child and how easy it was to imagine or daydream. For a child everything is possible, all he has to do is to pretend that he is a millionaire, a truck driver, a police officer or a doctor. He can even imagine himself flying like Peter Pan.

Children can be hypnotized as early age of three, In my practice I have learned that children have no worries like adults do. For example: An adult may feel or think that a hypnotherapist will control them or make them tell their deepest secrets while in hypnosis.

Children do like the idea that they can “Stop the Bad Things Happening to them” such as seeing monsters, wetting their bed, hearing voices, sounds, or being controlled by bullies and the list goes on.

A hypnotherapist can help the child with the process of resolving problems such as pain, anxiety, bed wetting, asthma, cancer, fear, phobia, rape, anger, and much more.

This is how a child can be hypnotized! By having the child focus on one point or a spot until their eyes start blinking and begin to feel heavy to a point when the child eyes become sleepy! This is when the child enters into a trance state, this is when the hypnotherapist begins to tell the child some beautiful story relating to the issues a child is facing.

Hypnotherapy is different from one child to another, and it must be followed with a doctor referral in most cases, with doctor referral at least six sessions will be recommended unless the child is not facing the same issues any longer.

A Child can attend four to eight sessions with a qualified hypnotherapist, and during the session he could learn all about seif hypnosis and how to apply the tools to hypnotize himself. In some cases only one or two sessions are needed to solve the issue the child is facing, but no hypnotherapist can predict or tell the parents how many sessions their child will need.

Part of the therapy is to have the parent work with the hypnotherapist as a team. I also ask the child’s parent to be in the same room during the sessions depending on the situation and the child’s age. Before any therapy begins, written consent is needed, especially if the parent is facing custody issues or the child is under the age of 18.

This is how hypnosis can help a child with issues such as: Enuresis - Bed-wetting, Attention deficit disorder (ADD), and Nightmares.

Many doctors prescribe medicine for children who have a bed-wetting problem or ADD. But now more physicians are turning to hypnosis, because it has some very effective results without the negative side effects. The reason hypnosis work with children is because they are playful and active during the role playing of feeling better.

Asthma & Allergies: When children feel their throats constricting, they begin feeling anxious by starting to breathe heavily with their biggest fear of “I Cannot Breath” when fighting for Oxygen as a fresh air, In this case with hypnosis I teach the child to relax when the attacks occur and I calm him/her down by taking him/her to a safe place using the children’s imagination.

* Each child is different, so it is very important to build a report before the therapist takes the child to a safe place, since what can be a safe place for one child cannot be safe place for another child.

Pain: Hypnosis is bypassing the critical Mind of the conscious mind in order to achieve a selective thinking within the subconscious mind, which it is effective by alleviating the pain for children. Children who are undergoing cancer treatments can use hypnosis to take their mind to a safer place, far a way from the pain and that can be done when the child can only access his subconscious mind. This is where the child creates an image that forces him to concentrate and focus on something else instead of his pain, such as using the children’s favorite game to destroy the disease. When a child’s is using his imagination for optimal recovery making their white blood cell stronger then the cancer cell, it’s all about programming the subconscious mind so it can work together with the conscious mind in order to create the positive changes by planting more and more positive suggestions to achieve hopes, dreams, wishes, goals and desire.

The good news is that hypnosis is getting more and more recognized by doctors and many insurance’s that will soon start covering it, because hypnosis is a drug free, risk free and no side effects.

Note: for some children it is harder to let go, so the therapy may take longer, parents aren’t involved in the actual hypnotherapy session.

February 26, 3:09 AMGlendale Alternative Medicine ExaminerDoreen Cohanim

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Andrew Koenig’s Body was found in Vancouver Park on Thursday February 25Th, 2010… Why? What happened? before I even talk about this painful subject, I want to share my condolence to the family’s who their love ones are trapped in this sad feelings, Andrew Koeings was A Growing Pain Star, and he was fighting depression, and he took his life because coping with depression was a hard work.

Depression is not a joke and not everyone understands depression, not if you haven’t been there. It is a very scary place to be at and it is very important not to ignore it, for some people it start with fighting anxiety and before you you know it the symptoms worsen and the person becomes clinically depressed.

Depression is a trigger from bad eventsthat occur to the person, they are usually very painful, it is an emotional pain and for some people even both, emotional and physical pain.

Depression Is an Illness and must be taken care of or it will be too late, and then the pain is even more to the families, especially if the depressed person commits suicide.

Please read this few times, and remember you are not alone and you don’t have to think that it is the end of the world, it’s really not, help is around, and all you have to do is ask for help! If you or anyone you know is suffering from depression, there is help. Please call The National Suicide Hotlinehttp://suicidehotlines.comat 1-800-SUICIDE.

Trust me suicide is not the solution and not everyone who’s depressed wants to die, they may say it, but they don’t mean it, so when you think of taking your life as a solution, pinch yourself, scream, cry out laud and call someone, there are so many help lines to help you, just google it, or call your family, you don’t get along with your family, that’s fine, talk to strangers, take a walk and tell yourself, I am not depressed, I am having a hard time, don’t own your depression, with your psychologist you do what they advice you to do, but until then tell yourself, their is a higher power and angels and good people who are here in this universe to rescue me, believe it, and still ask for help.

Don’t take your depression inward, taking it silently is not going to brighten your life, talking about it will.

Take your issues in hand, “Depression is not a joke” please take it seriously and talk to someone, and the good news is, with hypnosis and your psychologist you can fight depression in a very short time, why hypnosis and Psychologist? Because psychologist helps you to understand the problem, and if needed, your doctor will prescribe you antidepressant until your brain chemicals are in balance. And Hypnosis does the other part of the subconscious work; a good trained hypnotherapist will give you the right suggestions to heal from pain, anger, guilt, resentment and much more.

I can say that my clients all were able to survive depression in a short time combining their healing with their psychologist or psychologist.

Please remember not every hypnotherapist is trained or understands depression, therefore you must make sure that your well being comes first, and when you work with a professional hypnotherapist, a doctor referral is a must for all medical and mental conditions.

I Care, since depression needs much more then just self Hypnosis, It needs close attention from a trained hypnotherapist and a psychologist.

Many Chinese under the spell of hypnotism

Source: Global Times Feb 26 2010

• By Yin Hang

Soothing music creates a dreamy atmosphere in the room, while the hypnotist murmurs to his patient, “Calm down, relax and then wake up” in a slow but authoritative tone. The patient has been suffering insomnia. Now, he opens his eyes, seemly relieved of a heavy load in the wake of a hypnotic trance.

This use of hypnosis as a medical cure is being advertised by a growing number of clinics in China, claiming that a deep trance can help people get better sleep, ease stress, relieve pain, induce people to stop smoking or even lose weight.

On the online forum tieba. baidu.com, over 50 Web users posted their contacts saying they can provide hypnosis therapy.

The purported benefits of hypnotism have given birth to a large number of believers who want to become professional hypnotists or simply try their hand at putting people into a deep sleep.

Recently, experts have warned that possible psychological damage could be inflicted by unlicensed clinics, illegal training classes and amateur hypnotists in China’s booming market for hypnotic therapy.

“As far as I know, there are only two qualified hypnotists in China,” said Wu Rengang, a psychology professor at Peking University and a psychiatrist at the No. 2 Hospital of Beijing.

Wu told the Global Times that it is impossible to master the skills of hypnotism needed to treat patients simply by attending a weeklong training course.

“Maybe you can learn how to hypnotize someone within a week, but to become a professional hypnotist requires the skills needed to provide proper psychological guidance after hypnosis,” Wu said.

She warned that those who want to try the effects of hypnosis at a training class should never attempt to hypnotize someone else because it might worsen their mental problems.

In Jilin Province, a 28-year-old cook, Wang Zhilong, saw hypnotic treatment for the first time on a TV talk show program. Since then, he has been deeply attracted to hypnotism, but also worries about professionalism in the market.

“I feel so absorbed by hypnosis. It’s amazing,” Wang told the Global Times. “I want to master it, but I’m afraid there are too many fraudulent training institutions right now.”

A Shanghai-based hypnosis training center that boasts of being a pioneer in the field told a Global Times reporter that even a junior high-school graduate could master the skills of a professional hypnotist by attending the center’s eight-day training program.

“The nation’s famous hypnotists will lecture at the courses, using hands-on teaching methods. We guarantee that you will master all skills needed to conduct hypnosis, exactly like what our teacher mastered,” said an anonymous female assistant at the training center.

She repeatedly suggested that a reporter watch teaching videos on the center’s website. One video shows a man under hypnosis, fast asleep but performing acrobatic moves on verbal commands of the hypnotist, who is surrounded by a group of students.

The tuition fee for the weeklong program is 12,800 yuan ($1,875) according to the assistant, a fee equal to the average tuition cost of four semesters at an accredited university offering psychology courses.

Similar training centers and seminars can be found in cities like Beijing, Xi’an, Zhengzhou and Guangzhou, all claiming that their teachers are hypnotists with reputations.

Thus far, there are no existing laws or regulations to guide the establishment of hypnosis training programs.