Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingI’m reading Ernest L. Rossi’s classic book The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing: New concepts of therapeutic hypnosis at the moment. I’ll probably do several posts on it. This one is on an insight he gives which relates to the “switchboard” technique I wrote about [...]

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This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingI mentioned in my post on gaining control by integrating your mind that I’m reading Ernest Rossi’s The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing at the moment. What it does is provide for mind-body healing the two things that are needed for any idea to be [...]

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This entry is part 3 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingYears ago now, I was struck down by a mysterious illness. I was tired all the time but couldn’t sleep, eating more but losing weight, couldn’t concentrate, and found loud noises and bright lights painful.
I was living in Australia at the time, which [...]

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This entry is part 4 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingWouldn’t it be great to have a second brain to take care of some routine tasks?
photo credit: *madalena-pestana*
Well, actually, we already do. I’m studying anatomy and physiology as part of my Health Science course, and I’ve just been learning about the “enteric nervous [...]

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This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingAs I mentioned in my last post, I’m reading Candace Pert’s fascinating book Molecules of Emotion at the moment, and her theory of the “bodymind” as one integrated, dynamic network is seizing my imagination. She’s a prominent scientist who has worked mostly on peptides, [...]

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This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingFor 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 [...]

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This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingFrom the British Journal of Sports Medicine, an editorial: “Exercise is medicine and physicians need to prescribe it!”
Dr Robert Sallis, who practices in the USA, goes so far as to advocate a merger between the fitness and healthcare industries in this literal call to [...]

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This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingBecause I’m currently doing a series on positive psychology, when I was in the library the other day this book caught my eye: Happy At Last: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Finding Joy, by Richard O’Connor. He comes well credentialled, since not only is [...]

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This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingThe ABC (that’s the American, not the Australian, Broadcasting Corporation) were kind enough to draw my attention to an article on their website: College Insomniacs Resort to Sleeping Pills. Usually when people email me and say, “You might be interested in this,” they’re wrong [...]

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This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Mind-Body HealingEarlier this week, a few things weren’t going too well for me – nothing too tragic, in the scheme of things, but enough that I felt mildly depressed.
I decided to try a technique that I’d stumbled upon with the help of a colleague. I [...]

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