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Thank you to all those who visited me at the Grey Lynn Festival
'I took this photo' of one of the wonderful people who came and talked to me at Grey Lynn yesterday. Here they are lying down at home with their knees bent and their hands feeling the gentle rhythm of their diaphragmatic movement. Their body will be loving the...
Some sinus rinse tips and recipe for saline, for the people I talked to at the Grey Lynn Festival.
I do enjoy hearing that people are going to use the Sinus Rinse as it can facilitate nose breathing. The Sinus Rinse can clear allergens or dust from your nasal lining, loosen and release mucous from your nose, and clear the openings to the sinus so they will drain...
Art pushes ‘Pause’
I walked into the Dowse Gallery in Upper Hutt, and was unprepared for the impact of an installation work by Liu Jianhua. She is a Chinese artist showing a new work (never before shown outside of China) of glistening pools of gold-coated porcelain. The room was about...
You CAN Run Pain Free! –
I came across this book, The 5 Step Method for enjoying injury free and faster running as shared by Author Brad Beer in You CAN Run Pain Free! (c) 2015 My Back’s Physio Australia Pty Ltd. I haven't read it right through, but I think the 5 Steps to running pain free...
The Power behind The Calm
Strip away the philosophies of Eastern religions, meditations or mindfulness, and there it is - THE EXTRAORDINARY PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM. if you don't know what I mean - it is the opposite set of nerves to the fabulous Adrenaline and Sympathetic Nervous system...
So Many Slouchers!
I sometimes think the science of body language can be used as choreography to subliminally influence others, but when we are not consiously using it, it is certainly an unspoken way we communicate our attitudes to others. Slouching communicates that you have less...
Jesus’ Stress Seminar
Jesus used 2 different greek words for rest in the 2 promises he gave his disciples in his stress management seminar. One is a rest that Jesus gives us - Mathew 11 : 28 "Come to me all you who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest" - so all we have to...
Intentional Rest
I fear that if we do not balance the fast lane with recovery time We will get to the end of the road with Regrets that it happened too quickly and the quality of the Life we aspired to has slipped through our experience. We haven’t taken Rest seriously enough, or...
Overtraining : Overbusy
Athletes who push too hard can end up with the same symptoms as people who have pushed busy in their lives too hard for too long. They can feel fatigue, mood changes, irritability, lack of motivation, frequent infections, skin rashes, panic attacks, allergies, chest...
The Power of Breathing.
You can increase or decrease your anxiety and stress levels by changing how you breathe. I have spent the last few decades being amazed at how something so simple as normal breathing can be so lifechanging. It all comes back to letting those neck and shoulder muscles...
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