Golf Smarter Premium, number 504, published on September 1, 2015.

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The Mindful Golfer, How to Lower Your Handicap while raising your consciousness with author Stephen

Alchuller.

This is Golf Smarter Premium.

Here's your host, Fred Green.

Welcome to the Golf Smarter podcast, Steven. Yeah, thank you, Fred.

Good to be here.

It's good to have you on the show.

So the mindful golfer, you've written various books with mindfulness in mind.

Mindfulness right now is a very hot topic, but it seems to have always been lingering

in the golf world. Yes, I would say so. I'm not sure why, that is. I think people are

mostly concerned with lowering their handicaps and improving their, you know, their golf form.

And without thinking too much of the mental side of golf,

but it's a game that involves the mental side.

And so, you know, I think mindfulness or consciousness is something that has to be attended to and acknowledged.

I don't want to make this sound religious because, you know, sometimes it can border on, well, the conversation frequently will get back to Buddhism, and the practice

of Buddhism, which is a practice, not a religion, correct? Yes, that is correct, yeah. It's basically,

it's a very practical practice in terms of paying attention, in terms of concentration. We can all, we can all improve in that area because there's so many distractions that come upon us during daily life, no matter what we're doing.

And so, you know, whether we're playing golf or whether we're driving to work or being at work,

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