Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

How to use your mind to improve your life and general health, by West Auckland hypnotherapist and health coach Mike Reeves-McMillan

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Three Things I’ve Learned from Engineering

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments

I’m not an engineer. I did once take a single postgraduate software engineering class (though most engineers would argue that that isn’t real engineering). But I’ve worked with a lot of engineers in my role as a computer support person for maintenance tracking software, and I respect and enjoy their approach to life’s challenges. It’s [...]

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Three Things I’ve Learned from Gardening

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series 3 Things I’ve LearnedHi. This is the start of a new series with the theme “Three Things I’ve Learned”. I’m going to take everyday aspects of my life and look for three life lessons that can apply to anyone who wants to develop as a [...]

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Building Up the Bodymind: Food for Mood?

August 11th, 2009 · No Comments

This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingAs I mentioned in my last post, I’m reading Candace Pert’s fascinating book Molecules of Emotion at the moment, and her theory of the “bodymind” as one integrated, dynamic network is seizing my imagination. She’s a prominent scientist who has worked mostly on peptides, [...]

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Paying attention

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Building Self-EfficacySharpBrains have an interesting interview with neuroscientist Michael Posner, in which he talks about attention and how a new neuroimaging technique called diffusion tensor is helping to reveal the brain’s networks.
Posner’s research suggests that what we call “attention” has three elements:

Alerting – you might [...]

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Changing behaviour through self-efficacy

November 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Building Self-EfficacyNew Zealand has a new government in place, one with, I hope, quite a different philosophy of social change to the previous one. I don’t think my health blog is necessarily the place to talk politics, but I do want to talk about different [...]

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Ethical Hypnotherapy Practice

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

This weekend just gone I spent at the NZ Hypnotherapy Federation conference, which was very good. The NZHF is an umbrella organization which covers several hypnotherapy schools, the NZ Hypnotherapists Registration Board, and four professional societies, including the one I belong to, the NZ Association of Professional Hypnotherapists (NZAPH).
During the weekend I volunteered to be [...]

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Article on hypnosis and its uses from 1945

October 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s an interesting thing, on a blog which reproduces articles from old magazines: Do Our Soldiers Fear Hypnosis?
Hypnosis was used to good effect after both world wars and the Korean War for what is now known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but was then referred to by terms such as “shell shock” or “battle fatigue”. The [...]

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Psychosomatic illness: Your mind extends throughout your body

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

This entry is part 3 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingYears ago now, I was struck down by a mysterious illness. I was tired all the time but couldn’t sleep, eating more but losing weight, couldn’t concentrate, and found loud noises and bright lights painful.
I was living in Australia at the time, which [...]

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How Mind-Body Healing Works

September 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingI mentioned in my post on gaining control by integrating your mind that I’m reading Ernest Rossi’s The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing at the moment. What it does is provide for mind-body healing the two things that are needed for any idea to be [...]

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Alcohol: the possible benefits

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

This entry is part 10 of 15 in the series Health BehaviorsIf health was the sole consideration being used to make alcohol policy, the drinking age would be set at 35.
Startling, but true. Most of the harm done by alcohol is done to young people, while no health benefits have ever been identified to people [...]

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