Why Good Health Advice Alone Won't Motivate You to Live a Healthy Lifestyle, and What You Can Do About It Today

Rachael sat in my office, embarassed with herself. "I just don't understand myself," she said. "I know the things I should be doing to be more healthy. But I just don't do them."

Is this a familiar story?

Good advice by itself won't change your life. It's only when you change the way you think and feel that your behaviour changes. In other words, what will help you most is not just good advice, but knowing a simple way to create a shift in your mindset.

I'm Mike Reeves-McMillan. I'm a Registered Hypnotherapist and a health coach, and I want to help you achieve your dreams of a healthier, happier life.

That's why, when I ship you my book Changing Health Behaviours, I also include a free CD with 20 pleasant, relaxing motivational tracks to help you actually make the healthy lifestyle changes I talk about in the book.

Use the book and CD side-by-side to become more relaxed, sleep better, stop smoking, eat better and exercise. Learn practical techniques to break habits, manage emotions and make important lifestyle changes, so that you can feel healthy, confident and more in control of your life.

What satisfied customers are saying

Bill from Wainuiomata says:

The book is nicely presented, easy to read and contains well research[ed] and helpful advice.... the relevant audio tracks definitely help...

And Graham of the Think Happy blog says:

...a book that possesses a rare quality nowadays: it is actually worth reading! At the very least, the book presents tested, simple techniques of personal change as well as easy-to-follow information about how to become healthier and happier people... there is so much good information here, collected together in one place, accessibly written, that this is a book I will be recommending far and wide.

What's in the book

The book's an easy read, and I get straight to the point. I tell you all about:

The seven health behaviours that give you maximum "life leverage"
How practicing just four of these behaviours could give you the health status of a person 14 years younger
The top six causes of death, and how the right health behaviours reduce them dramatically
What smoking does to your brain, and how you can stop it
Why diets don't work
How to avoid the scams that will only slim your wallet
Practical advice on what and how to eat to live a healthy life - and how to get the motivation to do so
How to make the shift away from "emotional eating"
Seven benefits of exercise - most of which you may not have thought of
Eight simple, practical tips to increase your activity in daily life
What kind of exercise to do to gain strength, increase your heart and lung function, or improve flexibility and balance
My three-part definition of stress - and three approaches you can use to deal with it
Seven tips for a better night's sleep
What alcohol does to your body, and how to gain control over your drinking
A simple practice that can dramatically improve your relationship with others
Why it's hard to change habits - and how you can change them anyway
Why knowledge is not enough to make significant personal changes - and what you need in addition
How we don't use only 10% of our brains (just one of the many myths I debunk!)
The number one technique you need to change your life
One simple step towards managing emotions
A simple mood control technique and how it works
When is a good time to make personal life changes
Seven simple steps to a workable personal change plan
How to learn perseverance as a skill
My simple, effective AIR method of self-hypnosis, so you can take charge of your own change process (and 10 myths about hypnosis that you shouldn't believe).

What's in the package

As I said at the start, I believe that a book by itself, knowledge by itself, is not enough. Hey, I know that. I've read hundreds of books that didn't change my life. That's why I included my CD in the back of Changing Health Behaviours: so that you can change your mindset, not just add to the contents of your mind.

How much is this CD worth? Well, I sell most of the 20 individual tracks on the CD for $3 each as MP3 downloads.

I also sell two CD compilations: Healthy Lifestyle (6 tracks for $10), and Transformation Skills (11 tracks for $15).

In addition, on this CD you're getting three bonus tracks: my Self-Hypnosis Starter Script, a Progressive Relaxation track, and a guide for the highly effective and recommended Relaxation Response Practice. I've packed over 3 hours of audio onto that little CD.

So you'd expect the CD by itself to be at least $20, wouldn't you? At least. Instead, because I believe that it's so important to your success, I'm including it for free. That's right, no extra charge for the CD!

As I was writing the list above of all the valuable stuff the book contains, I thought to myself, "Wow, I'm really giving a lot here." And I am. But I want this book in your hands, so your price, for the whole thing - the book and the CD - is only $29.

That's the whole price. No added tax, and - up until Christmas 2009 - as my gift to you, within New Zealand I won't even charge you for postage and packing. I pack these books and send them out in big, robust, completely recyclable bags, because I believe it's worth paying a bit more sometimes for better quality and lower environmental impact. If you order before Christmas, that packaging cost is mine, not yours - and so is the postage. (Sorry, I can't afford to offer completely free postage overseas, but I will discount overseas postage by the same dollar amount as local postage, and the packing is free overseas as well.)

Of course, if your book or CD is damaged in transit, just return it to me and I will immediately replace it. (One thing to realize, though - the CD won't play in older CD players. It's an MP3 CD, which means your computer should read it fine, but older audio-only CD players won't know what to do with it. Just so you know.)

But I'll go further than that. If you read the book, listen to the CD tracks that are relevant to your situation, and compare what you've got with what I've promised above, and if you then feel that you have not received far more than $29 worth of value - send it back for a full refund, no questions asked.

So here's something you can do right now, today, to start yourself on a positive path of health and confidence for the new year. Just click the PayPal button below (you don't need a PayPal account, any major credit card will work), fill in your details, and I'll send you your copy of the Changing Health Behaviours book and CD - with my very best wishes for your success, health and happiness.

Enjoy!