Relax Before BedTime

Do not engage in activities that will over stimulate the mind just before bedtime.
Avoid any discussion or chat that will result in argument or conflict just before you go to bed. Some people are more sensitive to the increase in stress hormone due to agitation or anxieties arising out from unpleasant talk and this greatly affect their sleep. It is important for you to achieve a state of calmness and relax mood just before you go to bed.

Relationship Between Stress And Sleeping Disorder

Most people remain awake longer and sleep less and less deeply as they aged. Prolong sleeping disorder and insomnia can lead to stress. Lack of sleep and rests may in turn cause the stress hormone to increase and this further affects sleep. Some people are more sensitive to arousal producing stress hormones.

Thus the vicious cycle of stress follow by insomnia and further stress aggravates and rapidly deteriorates your health. Breaking this vicious cycle would help you to recover from the cyclical stress that you experienced. Poor sleep is one of the leading cause of stress.

You may need to make lifestyle change that will allow you to have adequate rest and quality sleep to address high stress. Invidual has different threshold or tolerance in coping with stress. Avoid focusing on your emotions and anxieties when you intend to sleep. Ignoring emotions and any focus on tasks during bedtime may help you to extend your quality sleep time.

Stress And Obesity

Some people lose appetite when they are stressed out while others will munch away whatever they could find when confronted with stress. Stress is one of the leading indirect cause of obesity. A survey conducted indicates that a majority of the American eat meals while they are under stress.

Stress slows down metabolism and cause the heart rate and blood pressure to rise. Blood is diverted away from the stomach to the arms, legs and brain in preparation for survival mode. Such physiological stress affects the gut, digestion, assimilation of food and slow down the burning of calories. Thus it is never a good idea to eat while your body is under stress as it may cause heartburn, obesity and other problems such as gastroesophageal reflux or heartburn.

Stress may cause hormone inbalance and triggers the onset of a variety of health problems. Increased stress hormone such as cortisol may cause weight gain around midsection of the body. The visceral fat that gathers around the midsection and internal organs increase the risk of contracting diabetes and other diseases.

There are many ways to de-stress. Endorphins, better knowns as tranquilizing chemical are released into the brain during exercise and this help to calm , relax and rejuvenate the mind and body. Get adequate proper quality sleep to enable the body cells to repair and rejuvenate. Keeping yourself mentally and physically occupied throughout the day could help you to cope with stress gradually.

It is not possible for you to to eliminate all stress from your daily life. After all, some stress are good for health as it helps the mind and body to stay sharp and focus. Nevertheless, it is important that you take necessary precautions to prevent stress from causing disruptions to your physical and mental health.

Reframing And EFR treatment For Burnout

Do you perceived a half filled glass of water as half full or half empty? Similarly how we feel and respond to surrounding environment impacts our ability to cope with stress and burn out. There are couples of ways to deal with burn out. What works for someone may not work for you so it is important for you to try out the various techniques and adopt the appropriate method that works best for you.

Unless you are sitting in the cockpit of plane breaking apart in midair,cruising at 30, 000 feet ofwhich there's practically nothing you could do, there are definitely ways for you to redeem and extract yourself from the agony of burnout and over stress.

There is the saying ‘Do what you like and you will never have to work another day’. True to that wise old saying, if we dislike or we hate what we do, chances are that eventually we will be stress out doing it, more so if we are told to beat the deadline. One way to overcome this problem is by reframing or changes our perception regarding the job or task that we dislike and imagine or visualize it into something more interesting.

For instance, if you dislike clearing weeds in your home garden backyard, you could imagine and visualize it as doing warm up for the football match that you are looking forward to or you could imagine the amount of weeds cleared as money that you will earned down the road. It sounds funny but it helps at times.

Another interesting method involves psychological and mental acupuncture technique. Emotional Freedom Technique, better known as EFR has been proven to help alleviate stress and burn out. EFTR is a powerful and easy to use technique to calm your body and mind. Emotional Freedom Technique is an interesting time tested and proven method to solve various life challenges.

There is no expensive nor painful medication treatment for stress and burnout with EFR, all that is required is just bodily tapping with your fingers, mental rehearsal and positive mindset to get you moving along alleviating chronic stress and burn out. There is very low risk, if not almost zero associated with EFR.

Coping with burnout

There are times we are overwhelmed with too much work so much so it seems to get hold of our life and suck out all the energy within us. Ongoing chronic stress may cause burnout, a term that normally refers to emotional, mental and physical exhaustion due to chronic stress.

Some of the symptoms of burn out are 1) you hate going to work, 2) every day seems like a bad day, 3) you feel lousy all the time and at times feels that life is not worth living for, 4) you are exhausted and suffer from lack of quality sleep 5) you feel all your hard work is unappreciated by others, 6) you feel completely helpless and hopeless 6) you prefer to be on your own and isolate yourself from others and 7) you have no social life and lack of close supportive relationships to cope with the stress.

It is important for you to take steps to address burnout before it leads to more serious health issues such mental breakdown. There are various ways for you to deal with burn out.

1) Take things in stride. Don't over exert and overextend yourself. Learn to say no if the workload is too heavy. Set boundaries on how much you are able to cope without having to struggle painfully throughout the night.
2) Lead a healthy lifestyle with plenty of exercising, adequate rest and eating a well-balanced nutritious diet.
3) Learn how to manage stress. There are various ways to manage stress for instance through meditation, self hypnosis, practice various relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, massage, spa, listening to smoothing music, go to some quite retreat place for relaxation and etc. You may wish to adopt combination of different methods to manage the stress in your daily life.

Natural skin cancer treatment

One of the main side effects associated with chemotherapy cancer treatment is that surrounding normal healthy cells are affected along with the cancer cells. Chemotherapy patient suffers from reduction in red and white blood cells as well as low platelet count during treatment and this has profound impact on the patient ability to recover.

Patient immune system and ability to recover from bleeding is weaken during treatment and to certain extent some patients may succumbed and dies due to none cancer infections.
Research indicates the presence of cancer removing compounds in egg plant. The compound 'solasodine gylcosides' extracted from egg plant were found to be effective in destroying cancer cells without causing harm to normal cells.

Here's an interesting tips on treatment of skin cancer using all natural substance involving mixture of vinegar and eggplant.
Skin cancer treatment with eggplant

Anti cancer drug for dogs

One out of four dogs die of cancer. Finally there is an anti cancer drug for dogs. It remains to be seen how effective the drug will be and side effects if any associated with this drug. Regardless, this is good news for veterinarians who have more options to deal with dog cancers. As usual, prevention is better than cure thus it is important for your pet dog to have nutritious healthy food, adequate rest and exercise.

Anti Cancer Drug For Dogs

Coping with aging anxiety

Research indicates that over 11% of people over the age of 55 suffer from some form of anxiety disorder. Just because you are getting older does not necessary imply you will be smarter and better in control of life compare to younger adults or teens. Conversely living beyond age 55 does not mean you will lead a less quality life compare to the younger generations. Aging does not equate to increase ability to handle stress and anxiety or vice versa. On the other hand, it can be quite challenging and difficult to treat aging people that suffer from anxiety disorder.

Anxiety disorder can be classified into different types; general anxiety disorder better known as GAD is one of the most common forms of anxiety that affect the aging population. Some of the symptoms of GAD include insomnia, unwarranted and unnecessary worry and anxiety over real or imaginary situations and circumstances as well as muscle tension and fatigue.

Psychological and social problems may build up across time and if these problems are not dealt with, it could lead to severe depression and in more serious cases leads to mental illness. Doctors may prescribe anti anxiety drugs such as antidepressants or benzodiazepines to deal with serious anxiety problems. Older adults are known to experience side effects from anti-anxiety drugs at lower dosages than younger adults.

Seniors are usually more prone to fall sick and thus may have to increase intake of medication dosage and frequency to treat aging related illnesses. Our body's ability to breakdown, filter and expel harmful toxins from the body is impacted as one grows older. Accumulated toxins in the body, due to prolong intake of oral medications may affect hormones which are responsible for controlling stress and anxiety.

It takes longer time for elderly folks to metabolize and absorb drugs taken, thus making the drugs to be more risky and harmful even at doses deemed safe for younger people due to the fact that the medicine stays longer in the body. Sedatives such as Valium or Xanax could impair thinking ability and cause seniors to fall. A holistic treatment approach involving both cognitive behavioral therapies along side anxiety drug medications can boost and increase recovery of seniors.

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Coping With Anxiety Via Relaxation

Many anxiety sufferers are learning the proper cognitive tools to overcome their anxiety. It isn’t easy. It takes commitment. Learning to relax with anxiety takes daily practice and commitment. Here are some relaxation tips to get you started:

1.Acceptance - Whatever we resist will persist. Try not to see yourself as fighting your anxiety. Instead, see yourself as moving toward your goal of relaxation.

2.Talk to someone - Many anxiety sufferers feel better almost immediately when they have a supportive person to talk with.

3.Knowledge - The more you know about your condition, the better equipped you’ll be. Things work better when we understand why we are doing them.

4.Breathing Techniques - Practice belly breathing. Breathe in to the count of 3 and out to the count of 4.

5.Meditation - Listen to guided meditation tapes or CDs.

6.Journal - Keep a notebook handy during the day, and when you recognize a “what if this happens?” thought forming, write it down. Review it later, when you are more relaxed. Ask the trigger question again, as if it were true. What would you do? Keeping a journal helps you discover possible hidden issues.

7.Take a nightly news vacation - Before bed, listen to relaxing music or read a book. If your habit is to watch the nightly news, try watching it first thing in the morning instead.