Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back a wonderful guest in Dicken Bettinger.

Dicken completely changed his approach to psychology after meeting Syd Banks and understanding the 'Three Principles'

He then spent over twenty years studying with Syd and is now acknowledged as one of the world's leading teachers of the principles.

During a very wide ranging conversation we discussed the ideas of Mind, Consciousness and Thought

• How we spend so much time trying to 'control' things with the intellect
• Trying harder
• Thinking more
• Being so involved with our thoughts
• Trying to 'change' our experience
• Why the intellect alone cannot solve our problems and issues
• Understanding what WISDOM is and how we can learn to trust it more
• A deeper intelligence when we are fully PRESENT
• A quiet mind that is FULLY PRESENT
• A KNOWING that cannot be explained
• How to access true WISDOM
• How the intellect creates tension and upset
• The limitations of trying to 'think' positive
• No human being can 'think' their way to contentment
• The 'NO THOUGHT' state
• What is it?
• How is it accessed

A really wonderful conversation with Dicken to get you to consider just how much our intellect is trying to run the show.

There is another way and Dicken explains beautifully what it is.

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Revised repeat from February 2024

It is wonderful to welcome back on the podcast my good friend and colleague Marcus Bell from GRF Golf discussing our collaboration on the golf school we did this year at West Hearts

We had a wonderful few days combining Motion and Mind

We are also set to do another school in 2026 on the 22nd to 24th April

On today's show we discuss

• How movement and motion emerge
• Asking effective questions to stimulate movement
• Are you in pursuit or avoidance
• What is the environment offering you
• How are beliefs in our capabilities are shaped
• Exploring your own movement capabilities
• Letting the true movement emerge
• How our natural movement gets camouflaged
• Giving yourself permission to fail
• Changing from stationary to dynamic

MOTION BODY MIND

A great session with a top coach who has a very different approach to creating effective movement

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Today on the show I welcome back my great friend and colleague Andrew Murray who I have known for over 30 years.

It is also a poignant podcast as we pay tribute to the passing of one of both our friends Denis Durnian who was a terrific player on the European Tour and still holds jointly the incredible record of the lowest 9 hole score in ANY major when he shot an incredible 28 on the front 9 at Royal Birkdale in the 1983 Open

He was one of the last of a unique golfer who managed to combine being a club pro with a successful career on the European Tour.

With our conversation we hark back to a different time of golf but a wonderful time nevertheless.

Andrew played many times with the great Severiano Ballesteros and he shares with us some wonderful stories about the charisma and genius of the late great and sadly missed Spanish player.

The great Sandy Lyle and why he should have been Ryder Cup captain

The evolution of golf coaching on the European Tour, the early days of star coaches such as David Leadbetter and Bob Torrance

How coaching worked very successfully for some players but a disaster for others

In our discussion we reinforced the need for Gratitude and Appreciation as a cornerstone of a golfing philosophy

The very sad loss of Denis Durnian only reinforces how precious each round of golf actually is.

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https://andrewmurraygolf.com/

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Today on the show we wish a warm welcome back to one of golf's most influential coaches of the last 30 years.

Fred Shoemaker.

Fred authored the brilliant 'Extraordinary Golf and Extraordinary Putting'

He taught the Extraordinary Golf Schools to thousands of golfers over many years and lives in a place that is close to heaven on earth Carmel Valley Ranch in Monterey California

His impact on the game has been profound as he has asked golfers and coaches to think about what REALLY matters to them when they play the game.

• The search for SELF MASTERY
• The best way to learn instead of just being taught
• The value of awareness
• Exploring what is as opposed to what we think is happening
• Not trying to 'fix' anything
• Seeing and experiencing the genius of your body
• Why we are held back by the culture of golf
• Seeing through the illusion of 'I will be happy when'
• Embracing the possibility of genuine transformation

A great conversation with a wonderful coach and man Fred Shoemaker who has had such a big influence on me in my coaching

Make sure you get a copy of 'Extraordinary Golf'

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It is wonderful to welcome back again onto the show my very good friend Jim Waldron to discuss what I believe to be THE single most important mental skill of all ACCEPTANCE

We have had Jim on the show many times before but each time I get him back people say just how much they enjoy our conversations

Jim is such a generous man with his time and he brings with him an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge about the game.

His own experiences and the people he has worked with and studied under.

He is as busy as ever coaching in some wonderful locations in Oregon and Hawaii

In today's conversation we discuss:

• Why acceptance is THE foundational mental game skill
• Acceptance of what our mind is actually doing
• Having some form of meditation practice
• Not resisting your experience
• Being willing to deal with all possible outcomes
• What acceptance certainly isn't
• As ever a really engaging and thought provoking session with a truly remarkable coac

To find out more about Jim Waldron go to

www.balancepointgolf.com

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On today's show we have a unique combination of two of the game's foremost thinkers and coaches Jon Sherman and Adam Young.

They host the fabulous podcast 'The Sweet Spot' which I have been fortunate to be a guest on a few times.

Adam Young is the author of the 'Practice Manual' and Jon Sherman is the author of 'Four Foundations of Golf'

We had a fabulous conversation about how to REALLY make a difference to your game

• We discussed the Big Three of Impact
• The non negotiables
• Face Orientation
• Strike Location
• Ground Contact
• The difference between focusing on Micro and Macro in coaching
• How the genius lies with the student not the coach
• Why it is easier to sell a 'swing system' than giving the power to the student
• Know what you are signing up for if you are working on MACRO changes
• Getting to the 'scene of the crime' with impact
• Understanding the power of INTENTION
• Can you do the process as a student
• What is ACTUALLY happening at impact
• Keeping track of your impact patterns
• Being open to what you HAVE today as opposed to what you WISH you had
• Understanding how you need to change your questions to change your game.
• A ground breaking conversation with two wonderful coaches
• Are YOU going to be brave enough to keep it simple?

To find out more about Adam Young go to

https://www.adamyounggolf.com/

To find out about Jon Sherman go to

https://practical-golf.com/

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Today on the Mind Caddie we welcome back one of our most popular guests and coaches Dr Raymond Prior.

Raymond is carving a reputation at the very highest levels of the game as one of the world's best Performance Psychologists

His book 'Golf Beneath The Surface' has gained critical acclaim from both players and coaches alike

It is an absolute necessity in any players library

On today's show we had a wonderful conversation about the role of our brain in performance and what it is actually doing to us when we feel anxiety

The importance of understanding this cannot be overstated

We discussed:

• Why our brain is really concerned primarily with PROTECTING us from OUTCOMES
• What is REALLY holding you back
• Priority NO 1 is to help you SURVIVE
• The PERCEPTION of threat and how it manifests in golf
• The OVERESTIMATING negative outcomes is a brain working perfectly
• Why our prehistoric brain is essentially out of date
• The 3 stages of ANXIETY and what to do about it
• Why ACCEPTANCE is the ultimate mental game skill to develop

To find out more about Dr Raymond Prior go to

https://www.btsmindset.com/

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Today on the Mind Caddie we welcome back my good friend and colleague Nick Bradley

Nick is one of the top coaches in the game and author of great books such as 'The 7 laws of the Golf Swing' and 'Kinetic Golf'

He has coached at the very highest levels of the game with players such as Justin Rose

He coaches at the wonderful Knickerbocker Country Club

https://www.knickerbocker.cc/golf-instruction/

We had a great conversation as usual about all things golf but in particular how to get the very best from your winter training

• Stop searching and start building
• Take stock of what ACTUALLY happened in your season
• How did you move this year?
• How efficient is your physiology?
• The power of 10 and how you can compound improvement
• Start from where you are with incremental steps
• Where are the GAPS in your statistics?
• Are you putting too much curve on the ball?
• How is your LOW POINT control
• Pace yourself with your improvement
• The trap of ambition and the myth of the END GOAL
• Every day do GOOD WORK
• Take action and DO what you need to do
• Energy management over time management

A great conversation with a TOP CLASS COACH

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Today on the show we have a personal story of my own attempt to get back to health and fitness.

After pretty much living in a gym for the past 30 or so years I had major surgery and then complications which stopped me training or playing for over 3 years

With the help of Josh Leyes at Par4Success I have managed slowly to coax my body back into training.

Even to be back in the gym at all feels like a major victory

I couldn't have done any of it without the help of the guys at Par4Success

They are without doubt the best I have come across in terms of fitness and conditioning in the past 30 years

It was great to get Josh on the show

We discussed:

• The importance of taking the 4 Rotary Tests
• Why data gives you an inspiring goal to aim at
• Why functional rotation is so important
• How speed training alone can be dangerous for your body
• Are you an injury waiting to happen?
• The joy of being able to move better
• The role of the mind in effective training

A really great session with a top trainer who has helped me so much

I cannot overemphasise how important it is to take the ROTATIONAL TEST

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Take action on what Josh suggests in todays show

Realise just how precious your body is

Don't waste the opportunity

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The problem with thinking so much and more importantly BELIEVING those thoughts

Today on the Mind Caddie we have a really special guest in the shape of Dr Chris Niebauer author of the incredible books 'No Self No Problem' and 'The No Self No Problem Workbook'

Chris's work has been a really big influence on my thinking over recent times.

He paints a wonderful picture of what Golf and Life could be if we began to have a different relationship to our thinking mind.

If we could understand what our thinking mind is actually up to.

We wouldn't take it so seriously.

We wouldn't try to control our experience as much

We discuss Left Brain – Right Brain theories and how important it is to understand the differences and how it can potentially help your life

• The importance of the book 'The Master and his Emissary'
• The 'voice in the head' and why we don't have to take it so seriously
• The constant creation of stories created by the Left Brain
• Ways to GROUND yourself in the present
• Why when the mind puts effort in one direction there is a pushback in another direction
• We cannot use thinking to stop us thinking !!
• Could thought itself be the problem?

Some really fascinating insights about our mind and how it actually works. I cannot recommend Chris and his work highly enough

To find out more about Chris Niebauer go to

https://chrisniebauerphd.com/

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