Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

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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I’m partway through the Two Hundred Situps challenge at the moment. It’s a nicely laid-out program to build up your core strength. I think they started out with a site called Hundred Pushups (and I’ve got my eye on that for the next challenge).
The idea is that they give you a graded series of exercises [...]

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I have a client coming tonight to work on insomnia.
Because I’m a hypnotherapist and health coach, I don’t just do hypnotherapy but also offer practical lifestyle advice. Here are two dozen tips which I’ve put together as a one-page good sleep checklist to give to my client:
photo credit: MoonSoleil
The Sleep Environment
1. Is your bed [...]

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Continuing my Positive Psychology series, where better to look for material than the blog Positive Psychology News Daily? And there we find Dave Shearon’s post “Four Statements to Happier“, a simple outline of what he’s learned about what makes us happy.
His statement goes like this:
“Hi. My name is ________. I want to be happier. I [...]

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For over 10 years now, New Zealand general practitioners and other primary healthcare providers have been giving “green prescriptions” – written advice to patients to be physically active, as a way of improving their health. Research published in the British Medical Journal indicates that it works.
photo credit: Celso Flores
I’m all for this. Not only [...]

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