Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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