Recent Posts Tagged With 'sleep'

• Building Up the Bodymind: Food for Mood?

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 20:53 in depression, health, nutrition, drugs, Background, brain, sleep, Mind-body, non-drug alternatives

  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 promi...

• The Sleeper’s Checklist: 24 tips

  Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 18:12 in health, lifestyle, tools, techniques, sleep

  I have a client coming tonight to work on insomnia. Because I’m a hypnotherapist and health coach, I don’t just do hypnotherapy but also offer practical lifestyle advice. Here are two dozen tips which I’ve put together as a one-pag...

• Students head straight for the sleeping pills

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 16:30 in anxiety, news, health, lifestyle, drugs, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, sleep, stress, non-drug alternatives

  The ABC (that’s the American, not the Australian, Broadcasting Corporation) were kind enough to draw my attention to an article on their website: College Insomniacs Resort to Sleeping Pills. Usually when people email me and say, “You migh...

• The Blue Prescription: “Relax”

  Posted on Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 20:00 in anxiety, health, lifestyle, drugs, meditation, tools, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, sleep, stress, relaxation, practice

  For over 10 years now, New Zealand general practitioners and other primary healthcare providers have been giving “green prescriptions” - written advice to patients to be physically active, as a way of improving their health. Research publ...

• Healthy Lifestyle CD and free Therapeutic Relaxation track updated

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 18:21 in podcast, nutrition, exercise, smoking, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, sleep, stress, relaxation, weight, Announcements

  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 trac...

• 7 tips for a better night’s sleep

  Posted on Monday June 16th, 2008 at 18:08 in exercise, techniques, sleep, relaxation, habits

  This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series Health BehaviorsAs we saw in my last post in this series, losing sleep isn’t something to be taken lightly. But what can you do about it? photo credit: gmonster25 Here are seven recommendations: 1. Lear...

• The consequences of inadequate sleep

  Posted on Tuesday June 10th, 2008 at 15:35 in Background, alcohol, brain, sleep

  This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Health BehaviorsDespite many years of research, nobody is sure yet why we sleep. The smart money is on it being at least partly to do with the needs of maintaining a complex brain. Insects don’t appear to...

• The 7 Health Behaviors that Give Maximum Life Leverage

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 17:11 in exercise, smoking, confidence, alcohol, techniques, sleep, stress, relaxation, personal change

  This 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, i...