This is a joint workshop with myself and author, hypnotherapist, and trainer, Andy Workman (author of Cavemen and Polar Bears), where we each teach half a day. For my part, I'll be teaching all about the mind-body connection - how it works and how you can harness it to optimise your health and wellbeing. I'll share about the physical impact of belief and the placebo effect, how mindfulness can shape brain circuits, how positive feelings can impact the heart and immune system, how visualisations can create beneficially physical changes in the brain, plus how to actively use visualisation.

Learn all the ways that your mind affects your body, from how placebos work, how mindfulness shapes brain circuits, to how positive emotions can impact the heart, arteries, and the immune system. Even learn how to use visualisation techniques to help the body to heal from injury and illness. At this talk, you'll learn practical tools and strategies for using the mind to help facilitate healing.

I'll talk about all the ways that the mind can affect the body and teach some practical strategies for making the best use of your mind. Learning how the placebo effect works and the impact of belief on the brain and body, how attitudes and emotions impact the heart, arteries and immune system. You will learn the difference between the effects of stress and the effects of compassion and kindness as well as how people have used visualisation to help facilitate their recovery from illness.

Learn all the ways that your mind can impact your body, from how the placebo effect works and belief impacts the brain and body, to how positive feelings like love, elevation, and compassion, can impact the heart, arteries, and immune system, even to how visualisation techniques can physically shape brain circuits and impact the body. Also learn some practical strategies for harnessing your mind and emotions to help your body. David will also share visualisation strategies that have been shown to enhance the immune system.