Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

Today I’m going to give you 7 simple steps to increase your sense of being able to do things, and dissipate what’s holding you back. For subscribers to my list, this month’s free resource is an audio version of the steps, and I’ll send you a separate email about how to download it. (You can [...]

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Recently I was interviewed by my colleague Meredith McCarthy, another New Zealand hypnotherapist who’s also working with stressed people. We had a great chat about stress, what you can do about it and how it lies at the root of so many other issues. You can subscribe to Meredith’s podcast through iTunes, get the individual [...]

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After talking about it for weeks, I have finally launched my Simple Stress Management Techniques course.
This is the free course that helps you to get your stress under control with some effective quick techniques. It also has some background material so that you can start to:

understand stress better,
figure out why you keep stressing, and
get [...]

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If you’ve seen the movie Back to the Future II (which I referenced in last week’s post), you’ll probably remember how Marty McFly had a glimpse of an alternate future where the bully Biff had grown rich through betting on sports, using an almanac that his future self had brought him. If I recall correctly, [...]

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You won’t find the word “prodivalent” in a dictionary. It’s my friend Malcolm’s word.
Malcolm found he needed a word for how you feel when you have several equally good options and you’d be genuinely happy with any one of them. (That tells you quite a bit about Malcolm right there.) He came up with “prodivalent”, [...]

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