Archive for the ‘Swim for Health and Happiness’ Category

Balance, Closed Eyes, and the “Monkey Mind”
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 20th, 2010

Closing your eyes can help you learn fine skills faster. It also helps transform swimming into a moving meditation.

Want to Swim 200 Fly at any age? Balance & Streamline.
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 19th, 2010

How “Balance-Streamline-Propel” helped cure a 40-year “Butterfly Problem” in a few weeks.

Swim for Pleasure rather than Fitness
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 18th, 2010

Swim for peak experiences, rather than for fitness or strength.

TI History on Radio
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 17th, 2010

Listen to a 10-minute interview covering the history of TI from the Passion People radio program from Singapore.

Do you swim for Exercise . . . or Flow?
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 6th, 2010

When you make swimming with grace an explicit and high-value goal, you transform swimming from Exercise into a Flow State and create happiness as well as health and fitness.

Practice for Love: Practice more. Improve more. Love it more.
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 4th, 2010

The more you practice, the more you improve, the more you enjoy swimming . . . the more you practice.

Thoughts to Swim By: Freestyle
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on November 2nd, 2010

Nine affirmations to create a Freestyle Flow State

What does Living Well have to do with Swimming Faster?
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on October 30th, 2010

I don’t practice to swim faster only for the momentary satisfaction of seeing the time displayed as I touch the wall. I do it because it requires ‘deep’ practice which is satisfying, develops better habits and behaviors and grows new brain cells. But just as much because every moment of deep practice has the potential for putting me in a Flow State.

Love the Plateau.
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on October 29th, 2010

Progress toward Mastery is made up of many “routine” practice days, interspersed with relatively rare thrilling leaps forward. It’s the quality of your progress on the routine days that produce the thrilling leaps.

How would Einstein teach swimming? Balance, Streamline, Propel.
by Terry Laughlin

Posted on October 26th, 2010

Balance, Streamline, Propel is TI’s “Elegant Solution.” Whatever stroke, skill, or goal you’re pursuing, you’ll improve faster, easier if you master them in that order.