Float Tank Trance
Feeling flat, stressed or just sore from training? Drift away to a place of peace and healing. [embeddoc url=”http://annabellewarwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FI1212_Relax-fit-Float-tank.pdf” height=”550px”]
Mindset
The Muse’s Garden
Through a living work of art in Sydney’s Lavender Bay, “the Goddess Muse” of Brett Whiteley, Wendy Whiteley has integrated and transcended the many stories of her life. [embeddoc url=”http://annabellewarwick.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Cover-story-Wendy-Whiteley-1.pdf” height=”900px”]
Think Positive: I Can, I Will, I Am!
Doctor Scott Zarcinas from Unlocking Your Life is living proof that thinking positive is key to health and wellbeing. Here, Dr Scott gives us his secrets. Revolutionary industrialist Henry Ford once said, “if you believe you can, or you believe you can’t, you’re right!” In my youth, my mottos were: “Nothing good ever happens to
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Inner Smile Meditation for Children
This powerfully simple meditation technique originates from Taoism, which is the ancient foundation of Chinese philosophy, medicine and acupuncture. A few years ago I met a hospitalised child who was suffering night terrors in isolation after chemotherapy treatments. Having had good experiences with a Taoist practice called inner-smile meditation, I gave her parents a basic
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Going Vego?
Thinking of becoming a vegetarian? It’s a personal choice, but in a nutshell, here’s why I did, with quotes from some famous historical vegos to back me up. Save yourself, save the world The largest epidemiological study ever conducted (the China-Oxford-Cornell study) found that vegetarians and vegans have superior immune function and are far less
Train for an Ocean Swim
“There are more benefits to ocean swimming than I could possibly name,” says ocean swim instructor Andre Slade, “but my favourites are that you’re not following the black line at the pool, you’re swimming at the beach under the sun, and that you can get such a great workout by swimming in and out through the waves.”
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Find Inner Peace Through Meditation
Meditation is a simple technique which facilitates the return to a child-like state of presence, inner peace and stability. In the Western world, where walking around stressed and anxious is completely normal and the resulting health problems are rampant, Meditation, the ancient and timeless practice of deep conscious relaxation, is gaining popularity like never before.
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Make a Splash and Get Swim Fit
For a summer training session, nothing beats hitting the water. Whether you jump in the pool, the lake, river, dam, creek, billabong… or hit the beach for an ocean swim, every part of you will benefit from this low impact workout. 12WBT trainer Susie has all the tips. Susie began her swimming career on her
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Practise the Art of Flow
Feeling overwhelmed? Easily distracted? Too busy to stop? Performance expert Dr Adam Fraser shows us how to get into the flow and focus on the task at hand. “Multitasking is impossible,” Dr Adam Fraser says. “What we’re actually doing is switch-tasking. We can only give our conscious attention to one task at a time. In
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Seven Reasons to Smile
Whether you feel like smiling or not, forcing a grin can change your day, and even your life. Here are seven proven reasons to turn that frown upside down. Reason Number 1: Smiling is natural Charles Darwin proposed in his 1872 book, The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals, that facial expressions are biologically
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