Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

One of the simplest and most powerful techniques in the hypnotherapist’s repertoire is anchoring, in which you associate a touch with a mental state or mood. Anyone can use this; it doesn’t even require hypnosis, though it will certainly be more powerful with hypnosis. (My free Therapeutic Relaxation hypnosis recording includes anchoring, if you want [...]

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Managing moods and emotions is something that many of us struggle with. Sometimes it seems like every day something happens that instantly triggers off fear, anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, despair, guilt or shame. But with a simple technique, you can start managing those emotional hijacks and bringing them under your control.

Emotion figures by Fuyoh!

Anyone who’s [...]

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(This post, revised and extended, forms one small part of an ebook on change, which you’ll get if you sign up for my free course on how to make a change plan.)
You may have heard that we only use 10% of our brains. (You may even have seen the saying incorrectly attributed to Albert Einstein.) [...]

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Losing weight. Stopping smoking. Getting out of a cycle of bad relationships. Exercising. Eating better. Getting out of your rut and doing what you really want to do. It’s hard, am I right? And you don’t know where to start.
I see people through my hypnotherapy practice all the time who are in this situation. They [...]

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A study by Dr Ian Lang and colleagues, reported on in Eurekalert, suggests that times of transition may be good times to make other life changes. Specifically, the study looked at smoking cessation at the time of retirement and found that significantly more people gave up smoking around the time of their retirement than either [...]

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