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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Breaking the Emotional Cycle

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Do you find yourself doing the same things again and again, and feel like there’s nothing you can do about it? Are you just driven to repeat patterns that don’t make any sense? It’s a common human problem, and over the next few weeks I want to explore one model of why it happens and [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 7: Weighing Up Your Costs and Benefits

March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

If you’ve been following through all the videos in this series, you’ll realise that I think a realistic assessment of your planned change is an important step. It helps prevent unnecessary failure. (Yes, I used the “F” word. I’d be ejected from the Relentless Positive Thinking Club, if I’d ever belonged to it.)
Let’s not [...]

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Getting Things Undone

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments

It’s currently the season of Lent, leading up to Easter. In Christian tradition, this is a period of fasting and personal reflection. Regardless of your faith tradition or lack thereof, this is a good time (because any time is a good time) to consider whether there may be some things in your life that you [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 6: Overcoming Your Barriers

February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Part 6 of the free online course 7 Steps to Effective Personal Change looks at why you haven’t changed already – the barriers that, if you don’t address them, might keep you from changing this time too.

The full course includes planning sheets, an ebook filled with useful change techniques, and step-by-step emails to take you [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 5: Locating Your Tools

February 16th, 2010 · No Comments

The last video I shared with you was about finding the resources for change that you already have in yourself. This video builds on that and asks, what resources do you have around you?

These videos come from my 7-part free online course on personal change. Signing up gets you step-by-step email instruction, an ebook of [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 4: Using Your Leverage

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments

What do you have in your life at the moment, and in your past, that helps you to make changes in the future?
That’s the question in this fourth of seven videos, from my free online personal change course.

Don’t forget, when you sign up for the course you also get an ebook full of techniques to [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 3: Pursuing Your Prize

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series 7 Steps to a Change PlanThis is the continuation of the series in which I post the videos which are part (but only part) of my free online course on planning personal change. When you sign up for the course, you also get planning sheets, [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 2: Finding Your Compass

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series 7 Steps to a Change PlanHaving a target is an essential start for a change plan. The thing is, though, that if you don’t know where you are now, it’s going to be difficult to head in the direction of that target.
Here’s the second video [...]

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Seven Steps to a Change Plan 1: Setting Your Target

January 19th, 2010 · No Comments

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series 7 Steps to a Change PlanThis is the start of a series where I post the YouTube videos that make up part (but only part!) of my free online course on planning personal change. The first one looks at how to set and track your [...]

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Regular practice: the path to change

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Euclid is said to have told a king looking for a quicker way to learn mathematics, “There is no royal road to geometry.”

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Part of the challenge of practicing hypnotherapy is to balance two truths: Hypnotherapy can bring about rapid and significant change, but only regular practice brings about the deepest change.
And regular [...]

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