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First-person and third-person therapy - hot vs cool 2008-09-18 14:18:04 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 [...] Read more:First
, third
How Mind-Body Healing Works 2008-09-17 17:10:47 This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Mind-Body Healing
I mentioned in my post on gaining control by integrating your mind that I’m reading Ernest Rossi’s The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing at the moment. What it does is provide for mind-body healing the two things that are needed for any idea to be [...] Read more:Works
Progress on Life Leverage book and CD 2008-09-15 22:38:16 Just an interim progress report and some more information about my Life Leverage
book and CD project.
As I mentioned before, although it’s based on this blog it’s far from being just recycled blog posts in printed form. I’d say at least 40% of it, if not more, will be material that hasn’t appeared on the [...]
Gaining control by integrating your mind 2008-09-09 16:12:13 This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Mind-Body HealingI’m reading Ernest L. Rossi’s classic book The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing: New concepts of therapeutic hypnosis at the moment. I’ll probably do several posts on it. This one is on an insight he gives which relates to the “switchboard” technique I wrote about [...] Read more:Gaining
Revised self-hypnosis starter script: blue sky, blue sea 2008-09-04 23:34:38 I’ve bought a new and better microphone, a Rode Podcaster, and I’m going through re-recording my hypnotherapy script
s - they should now sound a lot crisper and less muddy. I’m also making small changes to some of them, adding in things that I’ve learned or come up with since I first recorded them.
The first is [...]
Life Leverage: New book and recordings 2008-09-02 18:15:49 I’ve started editing together some of my most popular blog posts with other material I’ve written to form the basis of a book. The working title is Life Leverage
: Simple techniques to improve your health and wellbeing. It definitely won’t just be recycled material, I’ll be rewriting and expanding as I go, so it will [...]
Why I still use hypnosis for smoking cessation 2008-08-31 19:33:29 A long and slightly technical post this time. Bear with me.
For the National Heart Foundation smoking cessation practitioner training course I went to last week, they sent me some pre-reading, namely the NZ Ministry of Health’s Smoking Cessation Guidelines. Of course, I was interested in what they have to say about hypnotherapy.
Here it is, the [...]
I change my mind on nicotine replacement therapy 2008-08-31 17:31:04 Part of my persona, if you like, in this blog so far has been to be anti-drug. Not just anti-recreational-drug or anti-illegal-drug, but at least somewhat anti-medical-drug as well.
In practice, I’m not really like that. I’ll take headache remedies if I think I need to, and antibiotics if my doctor prescribes them. My wife, [...] Read more:nicotine
, replacement
Smoking Cessation Practitioner training 2008-08-27 20:08:39 I’ve just had two days of training from the National Heart Foundation to be a smoking cessation practitioner.
It’s an excellent course and I now feel much better equipped to help clients who come to me to stop smoking.
As a result of what I learned on the course I’ve re-thought some of what I’ve [...] Read more:Smoking
Hypnosis in the management of fibromyalgia pain 2008-08-18 23:22:16 Thanks to Bronwyn Thompson at Health Skills, not only for linking to my site but also for drawing to my attention a study published in the European Journal of Pain: Fibromyalgia pain and its modulation by hypnotic and non-hypnotic suggestion: An fMRI analysis by Stuart W.G. Derbyshire, Matthew G. Whalley and David A. Oakley. Functional [...] Read more:Hypnosis
World Heart Day: Assess your Heart Risk 2008-09-28 16:54:29 photo credit: naama
It’s WorldHeart
Day (actually it was yesterday where I am, but with time zones, most of the English-speaking world is still on the 28th of September as I type).
Do you know your heart risk? Risk factors for heart disease include:
Being significantly overweight
Smoking
Eating a diet high in fat and saturated fat, and [...] Read more:Assess
Free mindfulness-based stress reduction classes at eMindful 2008-09-28 15:46:15 In the light of the current financial crisis, eMindful are offering free Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction classes to people who are affected.
This is for a limited time, so if you’re interested, sign up now.
Thanks to Improved Lives for the tipoff. Read more:stress
, reduction
Psychosomatic illness: Your mind extends throughout your body 2008-09-24 18:23:27 This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Mind-Body HealingYears ago now, I was struck down by a mysterious illness
. I was tired all the time but couldn’t sleep, eating more but losing weight, couldn’t concentrate, and found loud noises and bright lights painful.
I was living in Australia at the time, which [...] Read more:extends
Healthy Lifestyle CD and free Therapeutic Relaxation track updated 2008-09-24 18:21:24 Just a quick note: I’ve finished re-recording my Healthy Lifestyle
series and updated the free download for Therapeutic Relaxation
, the sample track.
Therapeutic Relaxation
You can get either the audio CD or individual MP3 downloads of the tracks from the shop. On my list of things to do is redesigning the shop slightly; at the moment it [...]
The Language of Emotional Intelligence 2008-10-15 21:08:20 Conflict Resolution Day seems like a good day to post a review of The Language of Emotional
Intelligence: The Five Essential Tools for Building Powerful and Effective Relationships, by Jeanne Segal with Jaelline Jaffe. Not that conflict resolution is all it covers, but it’s certainly a key element.
To get the disclosure over with early, the [...]
The Internet: Good for the brain? 2008-10-14 14:26:50 From the BBC:
For middle aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning.
So: not just a weapon of mass distraction. What you’re doing right now could actually be [...] Read more:Internet
Ethical Hypnotherapy Practice 2008-10-13 16:30:27 This weekend just gone I spent at the NZ Hypnotherapy Federation conference, which was very good. The NZHF is an umbrella organization which covers several hypnotherapy schools, the NZ Hypnotherapists Registration Board, and four professional societies, including the one I belong to, the NZ Association of Professional Hypnotherapists (NZAPH).
During the weekend I volunteered to be [...] Read more:Practice
Article on hypnosis and its uses from 1945 2008-10-10 15:01:01 Here’s an interesting thing, on a blog which reproduces articles from old magazines: Do Our Soldiers Fear Hypnosis?
Hypnosis was used to good effect after both world wars and the Korean War for what is now known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but was then referred to by terms such as “shell shock” or “battle fatigue”. The [...] Read more:Article
Can hypnosis help me forget a bad relationship? 2008-10-09 16:33:18 I’ve been asked this a couple of times, and I’ve noticed at least one person searching on my site for the answer, so I thought I’d blog about it.
You may have heard of the phenomenon by which a hypnotized person can be instructed to forget something. It’s called “posthypnotic amnesia” and has been demonstrated in [...]
New case study: hypnotherapy for side effects of medication 2008-10-08 15:35:59 I like to do case studies from time to time of people who have benefited from hypnotherapy
in my practice, and I’ve just put up a new one: Hypnotherapy for side effects of medication. This was a case where a person’s internal regulation (of appetite, in this instance) was out of balance because of a [...]
Simple hypnotic visualization induction: Blue Sky, Blue Sea 2008-10-07 16:57:30 I’ve just posted the text of my Blue Sky
, Blue Sea hypnosis induction script in the free resources section (which has its own RSS feed, incidentally).
As I remark on that page, I put this together out of other people’s ideas, so why not make it available?
I hope it’s useful to my fellow hypnotherapists and [...] Read more:Simple
Mental Health Awareness Week 2008-10-06 17:54:24 The New Zealand Mental Health
Foundation is running Mental HealthAwareness
Week this week. Although my practice doesn’t deal with the more severe mental health issues, let’s not forget that mental health, just like physical health, exists along a spectrum.
photo credit: Dawn Ashley
A major New Zealand Ministry of Health survey found that “46.6% [...]
World Diabetes Day 2008-11-13 15:28:35 World Diabetes
Day (14 November) reminds us of the the growing problem of this largely preventable and very serious disease.
There are two types of diabetes, which differ in their cause but not their effects. Both are caused by an excess of blood glucose caused by a shortage of insulin, the chemical which controls levels [...] Read more:World
Hypnosis the epitome of mind-body medicine - New York Times 2008-11-05 14:16:44 The New YorkTimes
has a very positive and well-informed article on hypnosis, in part based on Dr Brian Alman’s writeup on medical hypnosis in the Permanente Journal in 2001. It usefully points out that many people think that hypnosis “didn’t work” or that they “weren’t hypnotized” because they remember what went on in the [...] Read more:Hypnosis
, New York Times
Hypnotherapy recordings to download: Calm and Confident 2008-10-30 14:42:12 I’ve now finished re-recording all my Transformation Skills hypnotherapy tracks with my new gear, and have set them up to be downloadable as MP3 files. They’re $3 (NZD) each in the shop.
The tracks are:
Transformation Skills 1: Calm
Calming Thoughts: Calm racing thoughts and learn to relax and deal calmly with life.
Moods and Emotions: Learn to deal effectively [...] Read more:Confident
Compassion meditation and the stress response 2008-10-29 16:14:49 Medical News Today reports a study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology called Effect of compassion meditation on neuroendocrine, innate immune and behavioral responses to psychosocial stress
.
Compassion
meditation, as you may recall, involves cultivating an attitude of compassion and love towards others while in a meditative frame of mind. I wrote about it previously in my [...]
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