Battling With Tossing And Turning
Thursday, August 27, 2009
We've all had those nights that we just couldn't find the comfortable part of the bed and spent hours tossing and turning till the break of dawn. Why does this happen?
Well, your desire to “toss and turn”, really isn't the result of you not being comfortable, it's the result of you not feeling relaxed. On a deeper feeling our mind wants us to relax, but most of the times we interpret the message as “find a comfortable spot on the bed.” True relaxation comes from within you, and has to be triggered by your inner thought process.
For example: You could be in a hammock on a hot summer day in Hawaii, but if you're thinking about whether the stock market will rise or fall, and you've got a 100 million dollars on the line and it's REALLY bothering you, it won't matter what position you're in that hammock, you won't relax!
If you're lying in bed and you get the urge to toss or turn, wait it out, you'll be surprised how quickly it fades! When you get the urge to toss and turn, ask yourself “How can I focus on something else right now to feel more relaxed?” As you lie there for about 15 seconds, you'll be surprised at how the urge to toss and turn simply fades, and you realize that all you really want to do is relax.
Understand that if you do start tossing and turning, it will not end with just ONE toss or turn, because of the momentum effect, you will just keep tossing and turning till the break of dawn!
Sometimes the urge to move is really intense, or maybe you really are in a very painful position on your bed. If you absolutely MUST move, do it in this way:
1) Move, but move very slowly. Remember what it feels like when you wake up in the morning and you're very sleepy, do you move very quickly then?
2) As you move very slowly, put a big bright smile on your face, and take a deep breath.
Another reason why tossing and turning keeps us awake is because we do it very quickly, and the more we do it, the more it agitates us! So do it very slowly, and make sure to smile and breath deeply, you will feel the difference :-)
Avoiding Tossing and Turning
Tossing and turning is an often experienced phenomenon for most of us. There are nights when we are just not comfortable on the bed and keep tossing and turning all over, all through the night. What bothers us?
Tossing and turning is not a feeling of discomfort, it is actually an offshoot of our mental equilibrium that is not relaxed. Irrespective of our mind wanting us to relax, our bodies want to find a more comfortable spot on the bed, a result of misinterpretation. Relaxation has to come from within you and should be a result of your thought process.
Lying in a hammock on a hot summer day, on a Hawaiian beach would sound very relaxing. If you keep thinking about millions invested on the stock market that could take a beating, if and when it crashes, the hammock will not work wonders in relaxing you.
When you feel the urge to toss and turn on the bed, give it time, wait. It will go away faster than it came. Lie there and think about focusing your mind elsewhere more relaxing than where it was and the urge to toss and turn will be out of your system in about 15 seconds. The best part of this exercise is that you will realize that you need to relax and not try finding a comfortable place on bed.
If you start tossing and turning it becomes a never ending process for the night and will not stop till the morning.
At times when you feel that the urge to toss or turn is very high and you have to move, try it the following way:
1. Move very slowly, as though you are just getting up from sleep in the morning.
2. While moving try to smile at yourself and take a deep breath.
Tossing and turning keeps us awake because we tend to do it quickly and impulsively, the more quickly we do it, the more agitated we get. Try it in the way said above, you will feel the difference and probably get out of the habit in no time.
posted by Healthy Life @ 4:19 AM,
Your Immune System: How It Works And How You Can Support It
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Do you know what your immune system is? The parts your immune system is made up of? How it works? Those are the things that we'll explore in this article.
What Is Your Immune System?
Your immune system is your body's defense system. Whenever any kind of pathogen, such as a virus, bacteria, or such, enters your body, it is the immune system's job to find, destroy, and remove the pathogen. In short, the immune system is designed to keep you free from disease.
How your Immune System Works
Your immune system is divided into two parts: the innate part and the adaptive part.
The innate part of your immune system is the part of your immune system that is always there and guarding against infection or disease. It is your first line of defense.
Parts of the innate immune system include neutrophils, macrophages, and dendritic cells. Natural Killer Cells, or NKC's, are also part of your innate immune system. They are specially able at killing cells infected with a virus, as well as cancer cells.
Your innate immune system also includes parts like your skin mucous membranes, and other parts that protect your health by blocking or keeping out pathogens.
Your adaptive immune system is the part of your system that adapts to respond to threats to your health. The adaptive part of your immune system is the reason that you generally will not get the same common cold virus or chickenpox more than once.
Your adaptive immune system is made up of two primary components: antibodies and T-cells. Each of these types is designed to recognize specific types of virus-infected cells, bacteria, or other pathogens.
Note that this is a very generalized overview of how your immune system works. For a more precise explanation, see an encyclopedia or medical textbook.
Nutrition and your immune system
There are many nutrients that play a role in your immune function. Here are just a few of them:
Glyconutrients are an important part of the immune response. Glyconutrients are used to create glycoproteins, which cover the outsides of all cells in your body. These glycoproteins are used by immune system cells (among others) for recognizing pathogens.
Phytonutrients have been found by science to be very helpful in fighting disease. Scientists are not certain whether phytonutrients are actually used by your body, if they have a direct effect on disease, or both.
Colostrum taken as a supplement can help boost the immune system.
Deficiencies in vitamin C can cause poor immunity.
Hopefully this article has given you at least a slightly better understanding of your immune system, and how it works. Make the effort today to support your immune system with proper diet and supplements – you won't be sorry!
posted by Healthy Life @ 8:13 PM,
Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Improvement of facial aesthetics is no big deal today. Oral and Maxillofacial surgery has become a popular mode to remodel facial and dental structures of patients. Defects of the human jaws and associated facial structures are easily cured, thanks to the advances that have been made in dental surgery. Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, is a specialty area that plays a significant role and is a boon in improving facial aesthetics.
Teeth are an integral part of the jawbones and face. Maxillofacial surgery, a specialty of dentistry, not only aligns the bone but also the teeth, so that the functions of chewing and facial aesthetics are maintained.
The main advantage of Maxillofacial surgery is that is leaves no scars on the patient’s face. This surgery can be used to treat people with a variety of facial defects like a small chin, small upper or lower jaw; fractures of the facial bones as a result of accidents, falls or sports injuries; protruding upper and/or lower front teeth. You can even get rid of that gummy smile, which displays your teeth when you talk or smile. The surgery is also used to improve asymmetrical faces with deformities since birth or formed during development due to any reason. It can even treat jaw tumors and cysts and other diseases of the face involving the mouth and jawbones. Best of all, the results of the surgery can be seen and achieved in one day.
Maxillofacial surgery is commonly used for the extraction of teeth including impacted wisdom teeth. These could be teeth that have been injured beyond repair due to an injury, irreparable gum decay or disease or wisdom teeth that require to be removed because of malposition or impaction. Dental implants, for people who have lost their teeth, are also done by maxillofacial surgeons.
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are specialists who have a four year background in dental education plus training of four or more years of postgraduate studies as in-hospital resident surgeons. Thus, they are uniquely placed to perform surgery on both soft tissue (skin and muscle) and hard tissue (bone and cartilage) of the maxillofacial area.
posted by Healthy Life @ 7:25 PM,
How Do Hearing Impaired Fire Alerts And Smoke Warnings Operate?
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Fire safety and prevention is always vitally important and a major priority, both in the home and at work. There is range of versatile hearing equipment fire alarm and smoke alarm systems to choose from which are designed to effectively alert those suffering hearing loss or permanent deafness. If you are suffering a deterioration in your hearing ability or severely deaf, then it is critically vital to be safeguarded at home and the workplace by impaired fire alarm or smoke alarm visual warning alerts.
Those who are deaf or hard of hearing require to see hearing equipment fire alarm strobe or lights flashing. It’s not so well known that those with hearing loss are unable to feel the vibration given off by a standard fire alarm unless in close proximity, people tend to fend for themselves when there is an emergency which means the hearing impaired need to have the same warning as everybody else.
Similar in operation to a normal fire alarm, however the hearing impaired fire alarm has a sensor panel which will activate a strobe, flashing light or vibration pad to alert a hard of hearing person of the immediate danger of fire or smoke in a house or work area.
Able to be used in tandem with a standard alarm system in different areas of a house, one impaired fire alarm detecting the presence of fire or smoke sets off all alarms and functions in every room, including powerful strobe or flashing light and a vibrating pad.
Because impaired fire alarms and strobe light smoke detectors are modestly priced, every area a hard of hearing person uses - including their bedroom - is seriously worth considering wiring up with a further system, consisting of a hearing impaired fire alarm or smoke detector.
If you already have a hearing impaired fire alarm light system installed in your home, to ensure complete protection for those who live alone, a security system with sensors that sends a signal directly to the nearest fire station provides final peace of mind.
There are a number of good places to start looking for high tech hearing impaired fire alarms that feature both flashing strobe lights and vibrating pad systems. Specialist dealers can be found on the internet whilst there are also the quality home improvement stores and the larger brand name electronics superstore.
posted by Healthy Life @ 11:51 PM,
