Mike Reeves-McMillan
MA, Dip Adv Hyp, Cert Hlth Sci
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Smoking Cessation, Personal Change Expert
Mike Reeves-McMillan Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Smoking cessation, motivation, personal change, evidence-based nutrition
- Career Focus
- Health Coach
- Affiliation
- NZAPH, NZHRB
I believe that taking control of your own health-related behaviours through motivational techniques is a personal development issue.
I follow evidence-based principles in my practice and writing, and aim to provide practical, effective techniques that ordinary people can understand and use in everyday life.
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How to Stop Cigarette Smoking: 3 Things You Need to Know
Each year, millions of people try to stop smoking and don't succeed. For a successful quit attempt, it's important to consider three things: your behaviour, your thoughts and feelings, and the chemical aspects of the cigarette smoking habit. Behaviour Your behaviour, especially the things you do automatically and without thinking, is part of what keeps you in the habit of smoking. To break the habit, you need to break the pattern of behaviour that has become associated with smoking in your mind.
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Learn Instant Self-Hypnosis for Rapid Focus
“Instant” self-hypnosis? It sounds like one of those exaggerated claims that are too good to be true. But when you realise that self-hypnosis is simply the skill of focussing your attention narrowly for a particular purpose, learning to do that instantly becomes a very reasonable goal. Narrowly focussed attention is like a narrow beam from a flashlight or a narrow stream of water from a hose – it’s intense and powerful. By shutting out distractions and focussing down, you’re able to exert more mental force over a smaller area.r
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Focus on Goals with Self Hypnosis: How to Increase Your Chances of Success
Self-hypnosis is a simple mental technique which narrows down your focus to just one thing. It's been used for many years to focus on goals, whether personal change or personal development goals or achievement goals in business, sport and the arts. Here's a thought experiment (don't try it in real life). Imagine taking a large nail, say a six-inch nail, and a small, sharp tack. Now imagine that you're pushing first the nail, and then the tack, into the flesh of your arm (this is why I said not to actually try it). Which one is going to penetrate?
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Web page: http://hypno.co.nz/mikerm/
Twitter: @MRMHypno
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Online courses on stopping smoking, stopping procrastination, focussing on goals, overcoming stress and making a personal change plan, all available at http://hypno.co.nz/courses/