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Oct
29

Adrenaline is at the center of anxiety. Most people experience a rush of adrenaline when they encounter an uncomfortable situation, such as speaking in front of others.

However some individuals translate that adrenaline into anxiety, while others accept it and transform the adrenaline into high performance. One way that people can deal more productively with anxiety is to recognize when adrenaline has been released, and to then take steps to control their response.

Biofeedback is one of the central concepts on addressing workplace anxiety. Through biofeedback, individuals connect their internal feelings with objective feedback.

One biofeedback technique is skin temperature measurement. Stress can cause the skin temperature on one’s hand to vary by as much as 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

When individuals are aware of their hand temperature, they have better insight into their stress levels. Negative stress typically manifests itself through cold, damp hands.

On the other hand, people almost never have a panic attack when their hands are dry and warm.

To connect a person’s specific emotionally state with hand temperature, there are three behaviors:

*Cold hands are a sign of stress, but not all stress is bad. If a person’s hands are cold, take time to evaluate whether the cause is good stress or bad stress.
*Pay attention to the emotions and thoughts that are associated with warm hands.
*Make the effort to correlate hand temperature with the emotional state and the feelings being experienced.

The “Five Step Adrenaline Control Technique” outlines a process for dealing with adrenaline and reducing anxiety.

Here are the following sequence of actions:

1. Start with realistic expectations. People must accept that adrenaline is a fact of life. Instead of getting upset when adrenaline is released, people should view this body chemical as fuel for success.

2. Accept the adrenaline. Adrenaline is the key to high performance. As a result, the authors’ suggest thinking, “Adrenaline is my source of power.”

3. Surf the adrenaline. High performers are able to harness the energy associated with adrenaline. They feel in control, and take advantage of the power that comes from the adrenaline surge.

4. Breathe deeply and fully. Deep breathing helps individuals stay in control of their anxiety. It is the foundation of self-regulation.

5. Say “My hands are warm.” This instruction, in combination with conscious breathing, helps maintain the blood flow in the body, including blood flow to extremities like the hands.

Through this five step process, it is possible for people to integrate four elements: function, actions, thoughts, and emotions. The authors abbreviate these to the acronym F.A.T.E. By integrating and controlling F.A.T.E., people can begin to control their anxiety levels, and truly control their fate.


Oct
27

We’ve been hearing for years that proper diet and exercise will make us feel better with tremendous health benefits. Now, for migraine sufferers, this advice may resonate a little more as researchers are pointing to the foods we eat and the amount of exercise we get as potential triggers for the debilitating pain.

Hardly anyone can argue that it’s not beneficial to eat a well-balanced diet of fruits and vegetables, avoid fatty, processed foods and get plenty of physical exercise every day. The overall health benefits are indisputable. However, what many people may not have realized is that there is a link between healthy habits and migraine pain. While the migraine may not be eliminated altogether, certain lifestyle changes may lessen and control triggers.

Diet

For those who suffer from frequent migraines, “trigger” is a familiar word. We have been told that there are certain food triggers that may precede migraine pain. Some of the more familiar triggers include alcohol and foods that contain tyramine, sodium nitrate or phenylalanine. Some examples of these foods include chocolate, processed meats, peanut butter and certain aged cheeses. In addition to the specific items, a diet high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables can also have a negative effect. For instance, fasting or dehydration can make migraine pain worse or increase frequency.

Exercise

Exercise for migraine relief has been met with mixed reviews. For some unfortunate people, exercise is actually a trigger for migraine pain, making it extremely difficult to incorporate physical fitness into a daily health care routine. However, for others, exercise may decrease severity or frequency of migraine pain, providing major incentives to stay in shape.

While it may be difficult to determine if exercise is a trigger for your migraine pain, at the very least, finding out can reduce stress, improve mood and even loosen tense, tight muscles. Generally, there are more positive benefits to regular exercise than negative. Even thirty minutes of moderate exercise per day can potentially reduce migraine pain. Begin slowly by taking a walk or biking for short durations of time. If you are unaffected, increase your intensity and frequency.

Yoga as a Benefit

Many people have benefitted from the relaxing technique of yoga. As a spiritual form of exercise, yoga has a positive effect on emotional stress, which has been associated with migraine, even linked as a potential trigger. From a scientific perspective, yoga is calming and helps release tension that builds up over time. The chemicals released when the body is under stress may cause blood vessels in the brain to dilate and create pressure, which can trigger a migraine. Breathing and meditation techniques common with yoga can reduce stress, which can ultimately reduce migraine.

Research is inconclusive as to the effects of diet and exercise on migraine pain. However, for anyone who has ever dealt with the debilitating pain associated with this type of ailment, it’s definitely worth giving it a try. Besides, what are the side effects of watching your diet and exercising more- a smaller waistline? Few will complain about that.

Oct
25

Depression is a non-physical illness or condition that needs to be intervened and given prompt intervention before it heightens its severity. When signs and symptoms of early depression start to arise, here are some natural methods that you can do to ward off depression and feel better.

Eat nutritious foods.

Depression can greatly affect your appetite and hunger.

Sometimes, you may feel like you don’t want to eat anything even your favorite snacks. While on other times, you may find yourself overeating. Whenever these eating problems gets in your way, be extra careful of eating the right and appropriate meals. Too much or too little food is not healthy for the body.

Eat right and nourish your body well. Include foods that are high in fiber, omega-3 and other essential fatty acids that is believed to help fight depression.

Exercise

Doing brisk walking, biking or jogging for about 10-15 minutes every morning can help your mind and body to stay alert and forget all about your worries because of the norepinephrine and endorphins you’re releasing.

Tagging along a friend or a gym buddy will can definitely spice up your routine. It can also help you feel motivated to stay active and can uplift your mood. Plus, exercising in the morning can boost your immune system and keep your skin glowing because of the vitamin D you’re getting.

Self expression

Verbalizing your feelings and thoughts to someone who listens can help you feel better. If you don’t have someone at the moment, you can find other ways to release your energies through art. You can paint, draw and freely write anything!

Letting all your emotions out in a positive way exercises your creativity and imagination.

Stay positive and affirm your strengths.

Feeling depressed may mean that the world is giving up and nothing is going right to some. Others may lose hope and just feel pessimistic about everything. Being in a depressive state doesn’t imply that the world is going down or there’s no light or hope left.

Hence, being in this state is a big challenge for you to see the world in positive way as possible.

Being happy and contented even in the tiniest things will help you realize it. You may also want to consider your family, friends and blessings as strengths and start building positive thoughts on those.

Being grateful and happy of what you have is the key to acceptance. Eventually, when you learn to embrace things in a positive way, healing is just a block away.

Oct
20

Substantial volume of excess fat deposits is generally found in locations of the entire body that are naturally resistant to regular training and dieting. Most of these extra fat deposits can be found in the abdomen, waist, hips, thighs and buttocks just beneath the pores and skin. This fat named subcutaneous fat can be quickly accessed by cold laser liposuction cure excess fat deposits treated with laser therapy are easily disrupted and are liquefied in the procedure. The physique then obviously rids itself of the emulsified extra fat by way of normal suggests.

Cold laser liposuction is successful and practically painless and virtually pressure no cost. Each cure is finished in a lot less than 60 minutes with the very low amount laser used for just forty minutes optimum. The method entails the laser to be utilized on distinct goal locations of the body, which is usually a combination of the hips, waist and thighs, with each side taking 20 minutes complete for a complete session. The comprehensive course for chilly laser liposuction is a treatment method time period of 2 weeks with at the very least 3, 40 moment periods in a week. The quantity of sessions and length of time to finish people periods may well fluctuate according to a persons’ entire body type, excess weight and the sought after outcomes.

Feedback from most sufferers who have gone by way of Cold laser liposuction have described the therapies as relaxing, and is fundamentally unobtrusive with some clients carrying on with their particular routines like small business and private calls in the course of the cure. As described previously mentioned, the laser treatment final for a whole of forty minutes although you are easily lying down in a soothing environment. After the technique an individual may possibly sense lighter as the consequences of the remedy consider impact inside of your body.

To help the elimination of the emulsified extra fat deposits from your system, your beauty surgeon may possibly suggest a diet plan that is large in fiber and fluids, in particular drinking water, these can support in the effective disposal of the unwelcome excessive body fat from your system as a result of urination, sweating and bowel motion. You could also consume laxative tea to cleanse your physique more speed up the evacuation of the disrupted excess fat deposits. Mexican pharmacy. The low degree laser know-how utilized in chilly laser liposuction is quite unique from standard liposuction approaches and even some modern laser methods, because cold laser liposuction is totally exterior in software and does not require any incisions to be produced or cannulas to be inserted into a patient’s physique to extract the excess fat. The cure is so non-invasive that patients’ can go on with their in advance of, in the course of and right after the procedure is completed, it just will take many minutes of lying down and soothing while the cold laser therapy is being completed.

Oct
12

Have you considered a gluten free diet? It’s one of a seemingly unlimited number of diets available today.

Gluten is a special variety of protein that is contained in several types of whole grains, such as wheat and barley.

However, it’s important to note that some whole grains are gluten-free, including:

  • brown rice
  • buckwheat
  • corn
  • oats
  • soybeans
  • sunflower seeds

The process of clinically studying the pros and cons of a gluten-free diet is ongoing.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

However, here are some of the claims that have been made about the benefits of excluding gluten from one’s diet:

1. Faster recovery time

For weightlifters and athletes, this is definitely one of the most commonly cited benefits of a gluten free diet. A gluten-free diet may have a positive benefit on reducing one’s recovery time after exercise. It’s somewhat debatable whether or not a gluten-free diet will shorten the recovery time for everyone. However, it certainly can certainly provide benefits for those people who have a gluten-intolerance. Today, there are increasingly more “recovery” drinks and foods on the market that are gluten-free.

2. Improved gut motility and function

Clinical studies show that those people with a gluten intolerance are more prone to having various digestion problems, such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The solution is to start a gluten-free diet that doesn’t contain certain whole grains.

3. Less Immune System Overload

When your body’s intake of iron is too high, your immune system fails to operate at an optimum level. This can make your body more susceptible to infections and illnesses. Immune System Overload causes no symptoms, so it’s crucial to have certain blood tests done to determine whether or not you have it. While there are various effective ways to reduce the amount of iron that you consume, one way is to alter your diet. That includes starting and maintaining a gluten-free diet.

4. Reduced Systemic Inflammation (SI)

This is one of the commonly cited benefits of a gluten free diet. While the process of SI is quite complex and technical, it can result in several unwanted conditions that result from a weaker immune system. To counter the process of systemic inflammation, experts recommend that sufferers of SI begin consuming a diet that consists strictly of whole foods and plant-based foods. They also often recommend that people with SI also eat diets that are free of certain substances, including Casein and Gluten. Such steps can provide an effective and inexpensive way to determine the causes of one’s problems with SI.

5. Improved nutrient absorption from food

A heavily grain-based diet seems to create some negative influences on the body’s ability to absorb nutrients from food. For example, a diet high in gluten can cause celiac disease, which can damage things called villi, which are contained in a person’s intestinal lining.

What’s the bottom line? Researchers are still determining the benefits and drawbacks of consuming gluten, and its overall effects on weightlifters and athletes.

However, what they have discovered that those who have a gluten intolerance should certainly consider starting a gluten-free diet. Such a diet can provide several health benefits, including the above-mentioned ones.

 

Oct
11

Hypertension and high blood pressure are often overlooked as serious ailments. It could be because so many people are living with these illnesses on a day-to-day basis. These two conditions often lead to more serious conditions which can ultimately lead to the untimely death of anyone. There are so many factors that go into a person getting high blood pressure or hypertension. Although they are two different entities, most doctors classify these two sicknesses under the same umbrella.

If you have hypertension you are twice as likely to develop heart disease and six times as likely to develop a stroke than people with normal blood pressure. In order to seek recovery from serious ailment such as high blood pressure, you will need to be very strict in your diet and eat foods low in saturated fat. On the contrary, you will need to eat more fruits, vegetables and calcium rich foods. Dr. David Hill feels that improving your blood’s pressure through diet is most useful for those who have pre-hypertension, meaning they have moderate high blood pressure but their numbers are not yet high enough for them to be put on medication by their doctor. The pre-hypertension folks can alter their diet and avoid being on medications altogether. Eating more fresh water fish is a great way to start as fish is the best source to get your Omega 3 fatty acids.

For those that are used to eating a diet that is high in saturated fats, the changing or reduction of those fats and cholesterol intake in their diet has been known to reduce pressure. Having control of your weight will be key in keeping your pressure down so you will need to be more cognoscente of the calories you consume on a regular basis. Putting on extra weight tends to push blood pressure through the roof. This is not always the case but it does happen on a consistent basis. Anyone will tell you that eating vegetables and fruits for any disease will help you improve but there are certain fruits and vegetables that you should target for lowering the pressure levels.

You must target the produce that are high in potassium and calcium as both are minerals that have shown substantial success rates in helping to reduce hypertension. Foods such as low-fat milk, spinach (or other green leafy vegetables), chicken and turkey are ideal to eat. Another food that has been known to help reduce high blood pressure is celery. A Chinese study found that blood pressure fell in fourteen of sixteen individuals that were given celery. It could be that celery exhibits properties of diuretics and ace inhibitors which are leading medicines that lower blood pressure.