Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I’m very happy to announce that my book and CD Changing Health Behaviours (formerly entitled Life Leverage) is now available for preorder from the Hypno NZ shop at the special preorder price of $17.50 (NZD) plus postage and packing. (Note: originally I said $15, but I have had to raise it since discovering an error in the page count of the book, caused by the layout software.)

As at when I’m posting this, that’s about $9.50 USD, 7.5 Euro or 6.3 pounds, but currency conversions can change quickly.

The files go out today for printing (of the book) and duplication (of the CD). The preorder period lasts until 31 December 2008 31 January 2009, after which I will begin shipping, and the price will rise to $25.00 NZD plus P&P.

Preorder books will also be personally signed by me – please provide a note with your PayPal order if you want me to write anything in particular in them.

Changing Health Behaviours is based on several sources of material. One is this very blog, Living Skillfully, and you can check out a sample of what will be in the book by reading my series on Health Behaviours and Change Techniques. Naturally, I’ve reworked the material, expanded it, integrated it, and incorporated more from the courses I run, Befriend Your Stress and Change Your Mind, but reading the blog will give you an idea of the topics I cover, what kind of things I say about them and the quality of my writing.

The book contains sound basic advice on what a healthy lifestyle consists of and, more importantly, personal change techniques that actually work to enable you to adopt a more healthy lifestyle. It includes a simple but practical introduction to using self-hypnosis and material on habit change, emotional management and change planning and execution, so that you have both a destination and a map for how to get you there.

The other main source is my hypnotherapy recordings, which provide the third key element: a set of walking shoes to actually get you where you want to go. Again, you can listen to free samples of these in my podcast.

The CD which accompanies the book holds 20 MP3 tracks, all of my Healthy Lifestyle and Transformation Skills recordings, plus several extras. The total comes to over three hours (though I wouldn’t expect any one person to sit down and listen to them all). These are tracks that I give as bonuses to my clients, and the feedback I’ve had has been excellent.

At the end of each chapter of the book, I indicate which tracks to listen to in order to help you make the shifts of thinking, feeling and behaviour that I’ve been discussing in that chapter.

I normally sell these recordings on three audio CDs (Transformation Skills is a double CD set) for a total of $25, so $25 for all them (and a few extras) plus a 126-page book is a great deal, and $17.50, the preorder price, is an excellent deal.

So order now, and I’ll ship you a personally signed book and CD to help you actually carry out those New Year’s resolutions this time.

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