Do you have to be a Bi^tch to be a Goddess

I'm sending out this question to all females not just golfers,
Oh, and I guess guys can give their opinion just for fun if they wish.

I'm doing a bit of a survey here and would love it if you
could take time out of your busy schedule to send a quick
reply to the question.

Do you have to be a Bi^tch to be a Goddess?
What do you think?

If you have extra time you could continue to answer
If you answered Yes, Why?

I am doing a prerecorded teleseminar on the Goddess Tradition
from all my research for my new book and will be sharing
your results with some interesting Myths next week.

Thank you,
Margarit Brigham

New book can be ordered at
www.golfinggoddesses.com

Golf Goddess book supports a Charity

Partial Proceeds from New book "How to Become A Golf Goddess" are going to start a non-profit Organization-
" Reuniting Grandparents with Grandchildren thru travel & Technology"-
on and off the golf course

In this photo I am with my Son, Daughter and Granddaughter and I have not held or hugged any of them since Nov. 2008

As with any cause it begins with personal experience, I have Three stories in One for beginning a new Charity. My life path has brought me to help families bridge the gap of separation and to mend hurting hearts.

I am a distant Nana, a step-Grandmother and a Surrogate Grandmother to a local toddler.

The first story unfolds as I became a Nana Nov. 18th 2008 when my daughter gave birth to a daughter. My family is in Ontario Canada, while my partner and I have been living in B.C. while I have been writing a book. The heartsaver for us is to communicate on Skype through the web using video calls. My daughter wrote a letter to Oprah which I will add to the discussion board from my daughters perspective. It is very hard to be so far away even though I watch her growing and changing I long to hold her, and kiss her, and babysit her. I know that we will be together soon, but many days are filled with heartache and I can't stop the tears from flowing.

The next story is of my Surrogate Grandson, who is such a healing balm. He loves to snuggle into me whenever I hold him. He, as all babies, is just a ball of pure love energy. It was his 1 year old birthday in June and I was so glad my partner and I could be there for his party. It is such Joy watching a child experience his first encounter with cake, hmmm, so good, it was all over him...photos to come. This family was placed in our life as a gift because little Nathan does not have his Grandparents in B.C. we are all fulfilling a love connection and healing is taking place for us all.

The last story is of my partners estranged son,who now has a son. They also live in Ontario and it is a desire of ours when we do get to go back home we will be blessed with meeting a new life (the baby) and heal parts of an old one at the same time.

Both my partner and I have surrendered to the fact that we are in service to something greater than ourselves and if our heartache is the reason to help other families to bridge the gap of separation than this is well worth our own pain.

Thank you for allowing me to share my story.

To learn more about this Charity I have begun a Facebook Cause
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/287857/56425194?m=1a240be5

Book can be ordered from website - www.golfinggoddesses.com

Blessings,

Margarit and Paulo

The Goddess Likes Golf!

Come, Be Golfing Goddesses

As you may have guessed this is not your average golf book that explains the game from the technical side. Instead it guides women on a holistic lifestyle approach and it can reveal the Game of Golf as a path of the Heart.

Women of all ages will be lovingly guided forth towards a Spiritual Blossoming as we all move closer to the year 2012. This book was a Co-Creative experience with the Divine Feminine Energy revealing this Feminine Energy Model can be applied throughout the game.

Mother Earth communicates through symbols and by Understanding the Game of Golf my sisters will immediately see the sacred connections. Nature then becomes a mirror of women's own essence and reflects back the Magnificent, Magikal Beings they already are.

The Book outlines becoming a Golf Goddess can be a two-fold Journey. Each Chapter is dedicated to a Goddess and will help to Align females to the Divine; Awakening a life of walking, working and playing in a Sacred Way. After going on the inward journey of Becoming Golfing Goddesses my sisters and I will begin the outer journey of Sacred Golf Quests to the Lands of each Goddess. This is when the Joy and Awe of living in this evolutionary time really sticks, since Pleasure and Play is the Goddess Way!

I look Forward to sharing this Journey of Becoming

Blessings of Bliss,

Margarit Brigham

Take Golf Seriously ...yourself Lightly

We live in a fast-paced, impatient society where instant gratification is often the norm. When we want something we want it now. Taking this sense of urgency into our golf game can be disastrous. Developing a patient attitude full of acceptance is our key to improved golf and greater consistency. What does that look like? We can begin by asking ourselves a few questions.

* Is this just an affair or do I really care about the game?
* Am I involved only for what I can get out of it instantly or am I willing to put in time and effort to make it work?

* Do I love the feel of the club in my hand, the grass under my feet?
* Do I love the sights and smell of a golf course?
* Am I really in love with the game? All of it?

These questions can help you realize that the game is worth developing patience and you are worth it as well. If you think about being impatient, it's just a form of beating yourself up. No amount of resisting the moment is going to change it. It only produces tension and anxiety in your mind and that transfers over to your body, hence bad swing shots.

A helpful insight is to look at the game of golf as a powerful mirror to the game of life. As children we learn by playing, and we can apply this to ourselves as adults. Golf is a perfect game to learn about ourselves. It is the ultimate reflection of your inward thoughts, beliefs, and conditioning's. It so honestly reflects either the battleground within or the playground. Do you play golf or work at it?

Awareness is the key to changing our game and our lives. A very simple but not easy way to shift yourself and to play your best is to use affirmations. The phrase 'fake it till you make it' is very appropriate. Start by saying "I am a great golfer" over and over. Another one could be "I am a natural at this game". If you can add memories of instances on the golf course of great plays, this speeds up your improvement.

It is estimated that we have one positive thought out of 10 negative ones. Please believe me when I say changing your thoughts is self-direction, not self-deception. An affirmation is a firm statement that is true or has the potential to be true.

Once you start playing better the challenge is to keep up your affirmations. This is a life long habit to develop.

The exciting news is that learning the game of golf is a life long discovery. When we drop the need to conquer it in one or two seasons the patience and acceptance comes more naturally.

Create Great Golf!

Goddess Margarit

US Open, Father's Day, and Summer Solstice Gift for you

Today I would like to gift you with an MP3 on becoming a calm and composed golfer for summer/09. If you don't know anything about me, I briefly would like share that I have been in the personal development field for golf since 1997 when I began Yoga for Golf. I had worked at Golf Courese for three years prior, as a bartender and while going to school to become a certified Yoga Instructor. I immediatley saw an improvement in my game from the inside out. One of the biggest insights I had was to see the truth in these words from George Knudson -
“You don’t play golf to relax.
You have to be relaxed to play golf!”-

I also discovered -A Relaxed Golfer is a Healthy Golfer
I created a MP3 on relaxation for golfers that I hope you enjoy and share with your friends and family. Go to http://tinyurl.com/d9px8m

Benefits from relaxation techniques:
• Fewer physical symptoms, such as headaches/ back pain
• Fewer emotional responses, such as anger/ frustration
• More energy, Improved concentration
• Greater ability to handle adversity
• Relaxation is the initial stage for training the mind, which leads a golfer to the
‘flow (zone) states’ associated with the zone.

In this progressive relaxation Mp3 you will also discover ancient yoga tools of a mantra and a mudra, or in more modern terms an affirmation and an anchor technique to use on the golf course to bring you back to relaxed feelings.
In time and with practice, you will be rewarded with the ability to drop with ease into a place of deep contentment instantly. This is what yoga is all about, after all: stilling our fidgety bodies and calming our rambling minds so that we may rest quietly in the present moment and see clearly the peace that resides within.
This is when the fun of playing really begins!

Need more proof- It was hard for golfers in the early days of my business to see the value of taking time away from physical practice to reap the benefits of praticing the inner game of golf. If this mind set still holds true for you I am adding a A well-documented Soviet experiment using 4 matched groups of world class athletes.

The experiment was to put these groups prior to the 1980 Olympics. The experiment was for their training regimes. This is how it was devised:

Group 1 trained only physically,
Group 2 trained physically 75% of the time and mentally 25%
Group 3 divided physical and mental training equally
Group 4 put 25% into physical and 75% into mental.

The athletes were evaluated and Group 1 doing only physical training showed the least improvement in performance. The group that showed the most improvement was the group that did the most mental training.

To reiterate : Relaxation is the essential ingredient in training the mind. And as your body relaxes, so will your mind.
When practiced regularly, this MP3 will lead to a reduction in your everyday stress levels and a boost in your feelings of joy and serenity, it heightens problem-solving abilities, and boosts motivation and productivity. What’s more, it will also serve as a protective quality by teaching you how to stay calm and collected in the face of life’s curveballs. Best of all – with a little practice – anyone can reap these benefits.


Look for me at http://twitter.com/GolfGoddess

Helping Golfers become Golf Gods and Goddesses from the inside, out.
Margarit

Spring Training For Golf Goddesses

Do you imagine physical exercise when you think of Spring Training?

Discovering How to 'Become A Golf Goddess challenges this belief system by focusing on a more holistic approach, a training (or preparedness) of not just the physical but the mental, emotional and spiritual aspect of a human being.

The Golf Course is a great way to learn about Human Behavior and it reveals an unbalanced system in the way golfers prepare (if at all) for the upcoming season.
For the past 12 years I have been the President of the Original Yoga for Golf. At the get-go I was a pioneer in combining the body/mind conditioning for golfers. In the early days golfers would think of Yoga only as a fitness component and were surprised at the connection that yoga had on training the mind.

That is how I came up with this quote many years ago that is on my YFG website:
“Golf is more than a Game,
It’s a State of Mind.
Yoga is more than Stretching,
It is Mastering a State of Mind.”

Most people these days are educated in the fact that yoga means union, it is a joining together of the body, mind, and spirit. More information on YFG www.yogaforgolf.ca
Now,To understand how I have incorporated all parts of a person so they can live and play Happier, more fulfilled and heart-centered games there has been FOUR Discussion Board topics added;

Preparing the Body
- Understand the Power of 'The Dailies"-The 60 second Stretch-
- Doing a small amount of fitness over time yields large results. This is the way the Olympic Athletes train.

Preparing the Mind
- Writing Down Golf Goals
- Starting Vision Boards

Preparing the Heart
- Gratitude Golf Games

Preparing the Spirit
- Playing in the Rhythm of Nature
- Discover a feminine way to play which leads you to the Great Mystery and more synchronicity!

To read all these in full please go to the Facebook Group, (the first Link at top of this Blog), while visiting you will learn more about the upcoming book! 'How to Become a Golf Goddess'

Any questions on Becoming a Golf Goddess, Let me know how I can help?


Margarit Brigham

April Fools Day

A lovely piece on April Fools Day

"The bitter cold winds of winter are a recent memory as the shining Sun brightly beams our way into April (this is a bit of a stretch given yesterdays winds and cold!) This is the astrological New Year and for centuries April 1st marked the New year for most of the world. When the current solar based Gregorian calendar was introduced, the New Year lost its affinity with the Zodiac. It took almost 200 yrs for the calendar to be accepted and instituted.
A few centuries later, echoes remain from earlier celebrations of joyful newness during April.The grass is a tender, fresh green, trees are budding and singing birds return to court and mate. We are giddy with delight, foolish in our desire to celebrate the sunshine and blossoming growth. We celebrate the April Fool.
April Fools Day, April 1, is a lighthearted holiday of practical jokes and laughter. Even though the origins are murky, some evidence indicates that this holiday of mockery and joking began while the calendar was changing. The fool mocked those who were laggard, resistant to change.
The idea of foolery and jesting is a time honoured and sacred tradition. In several Native American traditions, there are tricksters and sacred clowns whose path is to teach through humour and disruption. Joking, mockery, and the antics of the madman shake people out of their habitual thinking and actions moving them into new relationships with the sacred and with spirit.
In Europe, the tradition of the jester and fool is widespread, stemming from a time when there was no free speech. The fool was considered a twin soul to the royal leader, though one touched with childlike madness. The insanity was considered a sacred condition, a touch of the divine, and it exempted the fool from the normal rules, laws and codes of conduct. The fool was able to say things, point out incongruities and contradictions, and reveal hypocrisy. He did it with laughter, wild antics, bawdy jokes and rude language. In many cases, jesters and fools were the only ones who could tell the ruling classes some hard facts.
In our lives, the class clown performed these tricks for us. Modern comedians also look at life in a slightly askew fashion in order to point out ways to change. This is not always a comfortable or safe role - jesters and clowns often came to a bad end. A lot of times, our beloved class clown wound up in detention.
Folk and magical traditions tell us of the magical times and places called "betwixt and between." Neither this nor that , betwixt and between are times and places where normal rules do not apply- the place between, the normally unseen worlds give us tantalizing glimpses of what is, what was and what is to be.
April, from its first foolish day onward is just such a magical time. Each new day - with its tender green shoots, fresh blossoms, and birds on the wing is the the time between childhood and adult. We can tap into our own inner fool, allowing the laughter, jesting and disruption to jar us out of our winter pathways and depressions. We can move our awareness inward to that tiny bright spot of madness to find where desire and delight touch. In that gossamer place, we find our way into remembered innocence, laughter, mirth, and joy. Refreshed and enlivened, zany fools, we walk out into the sunshine ready for the next grand adventure and bright new season.
This is a time to see things with fresh eyes and to hear songs as if for the first time. We are rediscovering magic, reawakening to the world of light and beauty. We are between the past and the future. We are the fool."

-from the Llwewellyn's Witches calendar
The piece is written by Gail Wood
Have fun today being the Fool!