Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

Changing Health Behaviours is a book and CD to help you improve your health and wellbeing.

The book contains sound basic advice on what a healthy lifestyle consists of and, more importantly, personal change techniques that actually work to enable you to adopt a more healthy lifestyle. It includes a simple but practical introduction to using self-hypnosis and material on habit change, emotional management and change planning and execution, so that you have both a destination and a map for how to get there.

The CD which accompanies the book holds 20 hypnotherapy tracks in MP3 format, which provide the third key element: a set of walking shoes to actually get you where you want to go. 

A section at the end of each chapter of the book indicates which tracks to listen to in order to help you make the shifts of thinking, feeling and behaviour that are discussed in that chapter.

These six tracks address some of the most significant lifestyle changes you can make to improve your health, and help you to enjoy making them. (All tracks on this audio CD are also on the MP3 CD accompanying my book Changing Health Behaviours and can be bought and downloaded individually from the shop.)

Tracks included:

• Postive Eating: Enjoy eating what will do you good! More than just weight management/reduction/control, Positive Eating is about eating healthily to support your body's needs for nutrition and energy - instead of eating unhealthily for other reasons.
• Eager to Exercise: Enjoy exercising and the way it makes you feel.
• Therapeutic Relaxation: Enjoy refreshing deep relaxation which de-stresses your mind and body - good for you in any number of ways. (Free sample!)
• Alcohol in Moderation: Enjoy drinking a moderate amount of alcohol. Alcohol in moderation can be healthy - this track assists with keeping your consumption moderate.
• Smokefree for Life: Enjoy a smokefree life. Support for stopping smoking and for remaining stopped.
• Good Sleep: Enjoy good sleep which supports your physical, emotional and mental health.

Mel C. in Ngatea says: I have found my cd a valuable relaxation technique and recommend to anyone needing help. The positive statements and soothing voice (more soothing by a local accent) definitely help in those times you must battle with internal negative thoughts. Thank you very much.

Kyle in Auckland says: Was very happy with product, Mike was easy to deal with and very quick to reply with questions and contact details, cd was great and have continued to use since date of purchase.

How do you manage pain without drugs, or increase the effectiveness of pain medication in a natural way?

The 10 tracks in this compilation include seven simple methods of pain control using mental techniques, plus a profound relaxation track, a healing track and an introduction.

Tracks included (can also be bought and downloaded individually from the shop):

• Pain Series Introduction: Introduces the rest of the tracks in the series.
• Therapeutic Relaxation: Enjoy refreshing deep relaxation which de-stresses your mind and body - good for you in any number of ways. (Free sample!)
• Dissociation: Master mild pain by removing your focus from it to something else.
• Association: Master more severe pain by detaching from the experience.
• Imagery: Control your pain with mental imagery.
• Control Panel: Control your pain with an imaginary control panel.
• Glove Anaesthesia: Numb parts of your body, in preparation for dental work or surgery, for example.
• Displacement of Pain: Change long-term pain into something more bearable.
• Displacement of Self: Go to your "happy place".
• Healing with Imagery: Use mental imagery to advance your body's healing.

Find out more in my blog posts on pain management.