Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Deepak Chopra, Jesper Parnevik
Publisher: Harmony
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 69890
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN: 0609603906
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352019
EAN: 9780609603901
ASIN: 0609603906
Publication Date: March 4, 2003
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Product Description
Deepak Chopra has discovered the delights—and frustrations—of golf, and he is passionate about the game. Confronted by the wild ups and downs of his own play, he consulted with golf professionals and developed a new approach to the game that any golfer can follow—from the novice to the expert. The results can be measured not only in increased enjoyment and skill, but also in greater wisdom about life beyond the 18th hole.
Chopra’s own game has improved dramatically since incorporating the elements of his program. Instead of focusing on the mechanics of a “perfect” swing, Chopra reveals how golf can be mastered through mindfulness, a form of awareness that combines sharp focus and relaxation at the same time. Expanded awareness, he tells us, can accomplish much more than external mechanics to improve one’s game.
But Golf for Enlightenment is also an engrossing story about Adam, an Everyman who is playing a terrible round of golf when he meets a mysterious young teaching pro named Leela. In seven short but profound lessons detailing spiritual strategies, she teaches Adam the essence of a game that has much to explain about life itself.
Chopra has spent the last year taking the unique message in Golf for Enlightenment nationwide, teaching the essential tenets of his program at lectures and seminars to golfers everywhere. His message continues to help players turn an obsession into a positive life path.
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 He's done it again! February 17, 2008
What a fabulous book Deepak Chopra has written.
I purchased this book to open my father up to the possibility that there is more to life than what are senses can inform us. He is a world famous chemist, and appropriately, a pretty fine golfer, yet he has little faith in the Unseen forces that many of the saints declare to actually exist.
Currently, he is reading this book as he vacations in Mexico, and I trust that it will candidly open his heart up to a new perspective on life and the exciting possibility of higher yet experiencial states of consciousness which are our birthright to acknowledge and experience in our daily lives.
Every page of this book strikes a cord in the heart, resonating somewhere deep within and reminds us that, even though we play competitive daily games to often survive or simply to entertain us, there is an Infinite Game that, when acknowledged, leads us to our hearts, helps us to excel, and bonds us with the rest of humanity's desire to understand and express what it means to be truly human.
I seriously recommend this book to anyone and I know that my father will be better off after having read it. I can't wait to talk to him when he get's back and play golf together when the spring comes..I love him.
Thank you Deepak Chopra
 Strained Format September 26, 2007
Dr. Chopra offers good advice for the "feel" aspect of golf -- getting out of the head and into the moment, turning down the interior noise, breathing deeply, swinging with a conviction based on interior knowledge rather than exterior sight. All that is timeless, supremely useful, and clear when Chopra writes from the first-person, in his introduction and chapter summaries. But I wish he hadn't felt it necessary to wrap his counsel in the gauze of the ridiculous fairy tale of Adam and Leela, which fluffs his brief teaching up to book-length. Perhaps some people learn better this way, but such contrived dream sequences as these bring only confusion to my mind, as well as evoking the scorn that hard-headed realists feel for all things "New Age."
Well-Played! December 11, 2006
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I do not play golf. However, I recently moved into a home that sits at the 16th hole of a golf course, so a friend of mine gave me this book as a house-warming gift. Even though Deepak Chopra is primarily a spiritual author, I discovered that this book is, indeed, very much about the game of golf, and how to enjoy it more. But more than that, it is also a book about the game of life, and how to enjoy that more, as well. I am tempted here to summarize some of the key points Chopra makes--points that he conveniently revisits at the very end of the book. But where's the fun in that? I suggest that you read the entire book, and enjoy the journey . . . just as you would would enjoy a nice round of golf. You will benefit greatly from just having played.
Steven Lane Taylor, author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide For Living Life In The Divine Flow
Who's guess that Deepak could hit a hole-n-one on Golf... A+ March 6, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Who's guess that Deepak could hit a hole-n-one on Golf... A+ listen as an Audion CD or download. This is excellent book to kill time on a long drive or to listen to in the background as you work on the computer.
Amazing how Deepak can tie improving your golf game to the challenge of improving your life. I highly recommend but then I haven't found anything from Deepak Chopra that I don't find of excellent value.
Try it, you'll not be disappointed... especially the audio version.
Approaches mental aspect of golf uniquely. November 29, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I think this is a good book on golf on the mental side. However, I don't agree with that a golf swing just disappears. With the proper technique, the effective golf swing will not disappear. I also like the book he had written many years ago called Creative Visualization--great mental imagery. In addition, I found Patrick Leonardi's book titled:
"The Ultimate Golf Instruction Guide: Key Techniques for Becoming a Zero Handicap Golfer or Better" one of the greatest books I've read on golf instruction. At first I was skeptical about this book after hearing from my friends how much this book helped them lower their scores. I'm convinced now because after utilizing "The Ultimate Golf Instruction Guide" now I not only score below 90( which I never have done before in my golfing career) but now I actually broke 80. Well worth the time to learn these techniques and it's way better than taking golf lessons.
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