Self Hypnosis: A Step-by-step Guide to Improving Your Life

Hypnosis is the most natural self-healing gift known to humanity. It is the key to changing old or unwanted behaviour patterns and creating new, positive habits. Whatever you want to do - stop smoking, lose weight, cope with stress, overcome your fear of spiders or just improve your snooker game - self-hypnosis will help you to harness your own inner power and change your life. Valerie Austin is a practising hypnotherapist who leads workshops and courses on self-hypnosis. She shares her years of experience and explains in simple terms the quick and easy-to-learn technique for hypnotising yourself. Your subconscious is actively working on your behalf in more ways than you can possibly imagine. With the scripts you need to hypnotise yourself easily and successfully, this book guides you step by step through the process of relaxing totally and programming your subconscious to help you get what you want out of life.

The language and culture of China: over 3,000 years of history, more than a billion inhabitants, and a country that stretches from the tundra to the tropics. Surely it would take years of study to even scratch the surface of this subject. Wrong!

Collins Chinese Language and Culture is a sharp and informative introduction to the complex subject of China’s language, history, culture and customs. You’ll learn essential phrases, discover the origins of the Chinese writing system, and find out what constitutes a beautiful name in China. Alongside chapters on modern China’s historical roots or the importance of certain numbers in Chinese culture, there are lessons about Chinese etiquette, how to haggle your way down a street market, and what to do in a restaurant.

So whether as an accompaniment to studies or as a stand-alone guide, Collins Chinese Language and Culture gives you access to the life and language of this ancient empire and modern superpower in the making.

Valerie Austin describes her method of controlling and harnessing, to beneficial effect, the everyday stress that we all experience. Her aim is to teach the ordinary person how to relax the mind, sweep away the cobwebs of pent-up tensions and anxieties and emerge with a new and powerful sense of confidence and clarity of thought and action.