Pause, Rewind: Natural Anti-Ageing Techniques

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Nawaz Modi Singhania trained, taught and was certified in the US as a fitness professional by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and International Dance Exercise Association (IDEA) in the early 1990s.

Upon her return to India, she founded a fitness centre under the brand name Body Art, which provides its members with holistic mind, body, spiritual, emotional and psychological fitness programmes.

Nawaz has participated in fitness conferences, workshops and conventions in the US, Australia, the UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. She is a columnist and has written for various online and offline publications, including Mid-Day, Femina, Times of India, Bombay Times, Mumbai Mirror, Hello, India Today, Hindustan Times, DNA, Deccan Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, Health & Fitness, Business World, G2 and others. She is interviewed regularly on various radio channels on fitness, health and lifestyle-related matters. She has appeared on various fitness shows as a judge and trainer, and on India's biggest fitness channel on Tata Sky-Active Fitness-as a fitness expert and show host. Pause, Rewind is her first book.

My wellness guide, Nawaz Modi Singhania, is an important name in the fitness sector. She has been working in this field for the last several years and is passionate about promoting health and wellness among the youth. Many years before the culture of fitness centres had become a part art of urban lifestyle, as a step forward in this direction, Nawaz started fitness centres in Mumbai under the brand name of Body Art Fitness Centre. With the help of print and electronic media, she has put in painstaking efforts to make people aware about holistic fitness, healthy lifestyles and wellness. During the Covid-19 lockdown, she helped people stay healthy via live group Zoom classes and online personal training. With her heavyweight years of experience in this field, she has penned this book titled Time Arrest: Natural Anti-Ageing Techniques, which is very appropriate and talks about all aspects of anti-ageing, health and well-being. I trust that this book will guide readers of all ages and create awareness about the right nutritional practices, types and ways to exercise. In the Indian culture, a balanced and adequate diet has always been considered to be of paramount importance in order to attain healthful, spiritual living. According to Vedic beliefs, the human body is a divine gift and it is our duty to protect and secure our body by practising healthy living and appropriate eating practices. Accordingly, the food we eat has been given the divine place as Purnabramha.

First off, I'd like to set the tone for this book by narrating a story. Anyone who knows my husband Gautam or knows of him, is aware of his passion for cars and racing. When he was in his teens, he was out one day in London, looking to buy a safety racing helmet. He walked into a store that sold racing gear. While looking around at the wide array of helmets on display, he got thoroughly confused. The pricing ranged hugely, from really low-cost ones to insanely expensive helmets, with their prices in the stratosphere. It was difficult for him to decipher which was the right one for him to buy. Every helmet's job would be to protect the head anyway, right? So why such a large spectrum to select from? The salesman saw the confusion on Gautam's face, walked up to him and asked if he could be of any help. Gautam stated that he was not sure which helmet to buy due to the wide cost variant and asked what the right amount would be to spend. The salesman smiled and simply replied, ‘Sir that depends on the value you place on your own head!'

That one sharp school-of-hard-knocks reply that the salesman gave to Gautam holds the key to several answers in our life. No matter what you do for a living, the value you place on yourself, on your own head, will always determine the quality of the life you live. And I say 'quality', not 'quantity', because living longer does not necessarily mean living better.

Having said that, all of us want to be young forever and a day. That's why it is important not to wait till the first wrinkle or the first sign of hair thinning, to start halting the process of ageing. Instead, aim for a healthy, youthful, active life-such that running a marathon at sixty-five or doing yoga in your eighties isn't intimidating or a laughable dream. That is what this book is all about-living an active life that isn't limited to performing physical endeavours but also makes you enjoy your days to the fullest.