Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I’m happy to say that I recently completed the two hundred situps training program that I use as my worked example in the Seven Steps to a Change Plan videos. In the videos I talk about starting the program up again after not working at it for a while.
In total, it took me eight [...]

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I’m always pleased to find good stress resources. There are many simple things that we can do to manage stress, and doing so is a significant health benefit. So here’s a website from Mental Health America: Live Your Life Well.
There’s a test to evaluate your stress, and there are ten sensible tools for handling it [...]

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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.”

photo credit: POSITiv
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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Two interesting articles on BBC Health recently.
The first talks about a University of Toronto study which claims that one death in 25 is linked to alcohol consumption – one in 10 in Europe and one in seven in the former Soviet Union. The researchers say, “Globally, the effect of alcohol on burden of disease is [...]

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I’m partway through the Two Hundred Situps challenge at the moment. It’s a nicely laid-out program to build up your core strength. I think they started out with a site called Hundred Pushups (and I’ve got my eye on that for the next challenge).
The idea is that they give you a graded series of exercises [...]

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