Category: Lifestyle

Sports Psychology Applied in Daily Life – Part 2: Imagination Is Your Reality

I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

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The Evolution of a Mother’s Body

My body has grown and birthed a human. My body will never be the same again. Even if I lose some of this weight, I will always have saggy skin, stretch marks and saggier boobs. Knowing this, I do sometimes miss my younger face and body. 

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Helena James on the Tikanga of Raranga

Preserving Tradition and Learning from the Masters

Helena James is one of the Coromandel’s treasured local weavers and has been weaving for nearly 30 years. After learning a few different methods of weaving in her life, she truly believes that traditional methods are the way to go when it comes to raranga. 

Although she began learning, as many weavers do, with mop-cloth, since learning more traditional methods of Māori weaving, she said she could never go back to contemporary methods.

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

A case for winter swimming.

Yeah, Dean Martin … you’re right. It may not be snowing but El Niño has kicked in and the sou’westers are ripping down the beach. The choppy waves are sliding sideways to the shore and grey clouds are scudding busily across the sky.

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Ross’ Ramblings: Ocean Creature Encounters – Part 1

My oldest memory of a significant shark encounter was at the Bay of Islands 60 odd years ago. My mum and I were swimming 50 metres off the beach. I was getting cold so I went in. Suddenly I saw a large fin and tail tip skimming the surface 20 metres from me and between my mum and the beach. As calmly as I could I called out, “Mum, you had better come in. There’s a shark

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Sports Psychology Applied in Daily Life – Part 2: Imagination Is Your Reality

I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

Read More »

The Evolution of a Mother’s Body

My body has grown and birthed a human. My body will never be the same again. Even if I lose some of this weight, I will always have saggy skin, stretch marks and saggier boobs. Knowing this, I do sometimes miss my younger face and body. 

Read More »

Helena James on the Tikanga of Raranga

Preserving Tradition and Learning from the Masters

Helena James is one of the Coromandel’s treasured local weavers and has been weaving for nearly 30 years. After learning a few different methods of weaving in her life, she truly believes that traditional methods are the way to go when it comes to raranga. 

Although she began learning, as many weavers do, with mop-cloth, since learning more traditional methods of Māori weaving, she said she could never go back to contemporary methods.

Read More »

Baby, It’s Cold Outside!

A case for winter swimming.

Yeah, Dean Martin … you’re right. It may not be snowing but El Niño has kicked in and the sou’westers are ripping down the beach. The choppy waves are sliding sideways to the shore and grey clouds are scudding busily across the sky.

Read More »

Ross’ Ramblings: Ocean Creature Encounters – Part 1

My oldest memory of a significant shark encounter was at the Bay of Islands 60 odd years ago. My mum and I were swimming 50 metres off the beach. I was getting cold so I went in. Suddenly I saw a large fin and tail tip skimming the surface 20 metres from me and between my mum and the beach. As calmly as I could I called out, “Mum, you had better come in. There’s a shark

Read More »

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