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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Imagine you are standing by the side of a busy road, watching the traffic go by.
Got that clear in all your senses? Close your eyes if you need to.
Now, imagine, just as vividly, that you are in one of the cars and it is taking you somewhere you don’t want to go.
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It’s [...]

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As 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, the “molecules of emotion” of her title, which are the means [...]

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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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Earlier 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 was going to be doing something that reminded me of a [...]

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