Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

Do you find yourself doing the same things again and again, and feel like there’s nothing you can do about it? Are you just driven to repeat patterns that don’t make any sense? It’s a common human problem, and over the next few weeks I want to explore one model of why it happens and [...]

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I was talking with a client last night who ran a shop during the last economic downturn, and he mentioned how his business had picked up when he started responding to his customers’ question, “How’s business?”, with a positive rather than a negative report. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy, just as news reports of potential [...]

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My first degree was in English language, and besides the various other things I do, I write fiction. I’ve completed a novel, City of Masks, which is told in the first person as a series of journal entries and letters, and am working on another, Gu, which is told rather unusually in the second person [...]

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This entry is part 1 of 15 in the series Health BehaviorsThis is the first in a series of posts about maximising your health with lifestyle changes. Over and over in study after study, these seven health behaviors are associated with improved health and longer life. First, I’ll summarize the seven, in no particular order, [...]

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This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Change TechniquesOne 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. [...]

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