Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

In the first part of this series, we went back in time and fixed the past. Kind of like Marty McFly in Back to the Future, where he had to make sure that his parents got together and, in the process, actually improved their future (and his present).
Now we’re going to travel into the future [...]

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It’s Southern Hemisphere winter now, and the nights are longer and colder and the days are shorter and darker. There are a lot of stressed people around, trying to squeeze too much day out of too little energy. And one of the strategies they’re using, of course, is to drink a lot of coffee.
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Habits can be our enemies – but they can also be our friends. Positive habits and regular practices are the path to effective, long-term change. In this post I want to look at 10 ways to build a positive practice.
These 10 ways are inspired by the last chapter of Robert Emmons’ book Thanks!: How the [...]

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Before I leave this series, I want to do proper justice to the Welcoming Prayer, which I’m using as the basis for this particular way of letting go of emotions. (There are others, which I’ll cover in my forthcoming course, the Emotional Circuit-Breaker Toolkit).
As I’ve been presenting it so far, the Welcoming Practice is simply [...]

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Euclid is said to have told a king looking for a quicker way to learn mathematics, “There is no royal road to geometry.”

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Part of the challenge of practicing hypnotherapy is to balance two truths: Hypnotherapy can bring about rapid and significant change, but only regular practice brings about the deepest change.
And regular [...]

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