Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I haven’t got very personal up to this point on this blog; it’s a professional blog, but it’s a professional blog, so I think it’s appropriate to talk about relevant personal stuff. Not politics or religion; I certainly have views on those, but for my hypnotherapy blog, not appropriate.
In case you had the idea [...]

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Here’s my personal strategy for gaining weight (as per my last post, Gaining weight: the start of my own change journey, in case you missed it).
I’m already taking a break every hour and a half and doing a set of exercises with the dumbbells. What I plan to do is also eat at the same [...]

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(This relates to my weight gain goal, but it’s all equally applicable if you’re losing weight.)
I said to my wife over the weekend, “I’ll be glad when I reach my goal weight and I can ease back a bit on eating all the time.”
That got me thinking.
Physiology – or physics, for that matter – tells [...]

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This is quite a personal post. Most of my posts aren’t, but this one is. You get to choose how you deal with that.
When I started out on my particular journey of personal change – to gain weight and attain a BMI of 20 – I knew that there were likely to be bumps in [...]

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I’ve divided my weight gain goal into three phases.
In Phase 1, I put on 5kg.
In Phase 2, I put on another 5kg.
And in Phase 3, you’ll never believe, I put on yet another 5kg.
Why three phases? Well, the first one gets me back to the weight that (as far as I know) is the most [...]

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