Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I’ve now finished re-recording all my Transformation Skills hypnotherapy tracks with my new gear, and have set them up to be downloadable as MP3 files. They’re $3 (NZD) each in the shop.
The tracks are:
Transformation Skills 1: Calm

Calming Thoughts: Calm racing thoughts and learn to relax and deal calmly with life.
Moods and Emotions: Learn to deal effectively [...]

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Just a quick note: I’ve finished re-recording my Healthy Lifestyle series and updated the free download for Therapeutic Relaxation, the sample track.
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can listen to it here: Therapeutic Relaxation, or right-click that link to download. (Choose Save Link As in Firefox or Save Target As in Internet Explorer.) [...]

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[podcast]http://hypno.co.nz/audio/bluesky_bluesea.mp3[/podcast]
I’ve bought a new and better microphone, a Rode Podcaster, and I’m going through re-recording my hypnotherapy scripts – they should now sound a lot crisper and less muddy. I’m also making small changes to some of them, adding in things that I’ve learned or come up with since I first recorded them.
The first is [...]

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This entry is part 3 of 15 in the series Health BehaviorsBefore I leave the topic of nutrition (for now) and move on to exercise, I’d like to expand on something I said in Nutrition and Health: Why knowledge is not enough. I talked there about how we sometimes manage our moods with food. Why [...]

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The relaxation response practice recording is for people who like to have verbal guidance at the beginning of this simple little relaxation exercise (since you have your eyes closed, this is actually quite useful). I got the idea from a recent client. I give all my clients a bookmark with the practice steps written out [...]

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Therapeutic Relaxation
Enjoy therapeutic relaxation and benefit your mental, emotional and physical health with this free sample track from my hypnotherapy CD Healthy Lifestyle. Deep relaxation assists in reversing the negative effects of stress and is one of the most significant lifestyle changes you can make to improve your health.
Other tracks on the CD:

Positive Eating – [...]

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Attain your goals and focus on what’s important to you with this free sample track from my hypnotherapy CD Transformation Skills 2: Confident. As you create an “imaginary memory” of having succeeded in your goals, you form the mental mindset to help you actually do so.
Other tracks on the CD:

Setting Goals – Clarify what [...]

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Bring about simple changes in your daily routine which will help you to make the changes you desire with Lifestyle Transformation, one of the tracks from my CD Transformation Skills 1: Calm. I give it to some of my hypnotherapy clients as a bonus track on the CD that I burn for them at the [...]

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This is my “signature” hypnotic induction: the Blue Sky induction (3 minutes 42 seconds). I got the idea originally from Dr David Fontana in The Meditator’s Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Eastern and Western Meditation Techniques, p. 117. During my hypnotherapy training each class member had to lead the morning relaxation session in turn, and [...]

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