Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

Over the weekend I came across a remarkable post on writer’s block, resistance and inner dialogue by the talented LaVonne Ellis. I suggest you go and read it and then come back here, because the story I’m going to tell will make a lot more sense if you do.
Read it? Good.
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In the first part of this series, we went back in time and fixed the past. Kind of like Marty McFly in Back to the Future, where he had to make sure that his parents got together and, in the process, actually improved their future (and his present).
Now we’re going to travel into the future [...]

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Have you ever thought about what you’d change if you could go back in time?
It’s often a theme of time travel fiction that the really big events can’t be changed. In Connie Willis’s hilarious novel To Say Nothing of the Dog, for instance, no time traveller can get within 200km or 5 years of the [...]

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It’s Southern Hemisphere winter now, and the nights are longer and colder and the days are shorter and darker. There are a lot of stressed people around, trying to squeeze too much day out of too little energy. And one of the strategies they’re using, of course, is to drink a lot of coffee.
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I have a rule. I don’t do smoking cessation work with people whose families want them to stop smoking.
I only do it with people who, themselves, personally, want to stop smoking.
I learned this after two unsuccessful experiences with clients in their 20s who were booked in, and brought along, by their mothers. The young [...]

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