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How Can I Improve My Good Sleep Hygiene?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:29:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good “sleep hygiene” means everything that helps maintain your health by keeping your mind and body rested and strong.

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How Can I Improve My Good Sleep Hygiene?

Good “sleep hygiene” means everything that helps maintain your health by keeping your mind and body rested and strong. The idea of sleep hygiene is like a dental hygiene. Both rely on nightly or daily rituals for consistently good hygiene. Just as you get in the habit of brushing, flossing, and visiting your dentist regularly, you must implement a nightly routine of healthy habits to improve your sleep hygiene. Follow these sleep hygiene tips to help assure a good night’s sleep.

- Eat lightly to induce sleep.

Wait until you are sleepy before going to bed

- Create the right environment.

- Pre-sleep rituals help to initiate relaxation each night before bed.

- Don’t nap.

- Avoid sleeping pills, or use them cautiously. Avoid drugs.

- Exercise regularly, but not right before bed.

Insomnia in Children: Causes and Treatments

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:02:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Like adults, children with insomnia either have trouble going to sleep, staying asleep, or are simply not well rested after what should be a normal amount of time sleeping.

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Insomnia in Children: Causes and Treatments

Like adults, children with insomnia either have trouble going to sleep, staying asleep, or are simply not well rested after what should be a normal amount of time sleeping.

There are a number of symptoms that shows insomnia in children:

memory troubles

- hyperactivity

- aggressiveness

- a decreased attention period

- irritability

- mood swings

Common causes of insomnia can include:

- poor sleep habits

- caffeine

- stress

- obstructive sleep apnea (snoring)

- side effects of medications, including stimulants used to treat ADHD, antidepressants, corticosteroids, and anticonvulsants

- asthma (coughing)

- eczema (itching)

- depression

- anxiety

- restless legs syndrome

- neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, mental retardation, and Asperger’s syndrome

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10 Eating Lifestyle Tips for Healthy Eating Habits

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:15:53 GMT

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10 Eating Lifestyle Tips for Healthy Eating Habits

One of the most important things that need your attention is what you eat and how you do it. Healthy eating habits are so essential to be at your best and in this article we’ll look at 10 ways that you can use to improve your eating habits. Continuous practice of these habits will lead to a more energetic, fulfilling and healthy life.

1. Eat slowly. Masticate your food.

2. Avoid distractions while eating.

3. Enjoy your food.

4. Remember, foods are not good or bad.

5. Eat regularly.

6. Avoid smoking and alcohol intake before or after food.

7. Eat Breakfast.

8. Make changes gradually.

9. Enjoy plenty of fruits and vegetables.

10. Analyze Your Habits.

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Top 10 Good Sleep Habits for a Good Sleep Hygiene

Tue, 27 May 2008 12:33:36 GMT

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Top 10 Good Sleep Habits for a Good Sleep Hygiene

Your “sleep hygiene” describes your sleep habits. By boosting your sleep habits, you can increase your possibility of falling asleep fast, staying asleep and sleeping between seven to nine hours each night. A good night’s sleep has many health benefits. Most importantly, you will feel great.

1. Keep a regular bed and wake time schedule including weekends.

2. Create a Bedtime Ritual.

3. Do not use alcohol or tobacco products close to bedtime.

4. Do exercises daily.

5. Only Sleep and Have Sex in the Bedroom – No TV.

6. Finish eating at least 2-3 hours before your regular bedtime.

7. Make Your Bedroom Dark.

8. Have a warm drink.

9. Avoid medications to help you sleep.

10. Avoid napping.

Tags: sleep, habits, hygiene

10 Habits that Increase Your Personal Productivity

Fri, 23 May 2008 11:45:02 GMT

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10 Habits that Increase Your Personal Productivity

No matter how capable you are, it’s always possible to improve your productivity and improving your productivity means that you get more of the rewards you are trying to obtain: results, job sucess or money.

Here are 10 habits that improve your productivity:

1. Organize your Life and create a To-Do-List.

2. Remove Distractions

3. Use positive affirmations

4. Take a nap

5. Set daily goals

6. Get some exercise

7. Use software tools that will make your life easier.

8. Work at a higher tempo

9. Wake up early.

10. Experiment with different productivity techniques

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10 Good Eco Habits for Green Kids

Mon, 05 May 2008 12:39:51 GMT

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10 Good Eco Habits for Green Kids

Many kids are naturally curious about the Earth and taking care of the environment. You can do good green habits as a family. You can make small, simple, easy habit changes that all add up to a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Here is 10 ways to teach your kids how to be green:

Keep your kids busy with activities that don’t promote consumption or waste

Make gardening a family activity.

Take the green lead.

Participate in cleanup days at a beach or park.

Take a walk or bike ride with your family.

Approach your TV viewing cautiously.

Participate to Earth Day.

Read your children books with Earth-friendly topics.

Take part in community “green” activities.

Encourage outdoor learning at home.

How to Boost your IQ Test Scores with IQ Habits

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:14:39 GMT

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How to Boost your IQ Test Scores with IQ Habits

Studies have shown people’s IQ levels fluctuate during the day depending on their habits and lifestyles. The brain activity of a person is determined by his habits. Good habits make person calm, genial and more productive. You can boost your intelligence and IQ with little effort, and benefit from doing it.

Here are a few smart habits to improve brain use and IQ test scores:

1. Writing

2. Read quality books.

3. Learn a foreign language.

4. Meditation

5. Listen Mozart,

6. Increase mental intensity.

7. Talk.

8. Get adequate sleep.

9. Boost your IQ with Good Brain Foods.

10. Do something you enjoy.

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How to Drink More Water for Better Health

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:48:22 GMT

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How to Drink More Water for Better Health

There are a many reasons to drink lots of water every day. Water takes part in every function in our body. It is the transporter of nutrients necessary for body functions. It works in digestion, absorption, circulation and excretion. Water maintains our normal body temperature. Water improves the look of our hair, skin, eyes and muscle tone. We must replace the water that we lose through daily sweating and elimination.

Health Benefits of Drinking Water:

- Weight loss.

- Drinking Water is Heart-Healthy

- Digestive system benefits.

- External benefits of drinking water.

How to improve your water habit:

- Change your daily habits

- Take a bottle

- Water temperature.

- Buy a water purification system.

- Add grape, cranberry, and apple juice to a glass of water.

- Eat water rich foods.

It is not hard to drink more water in your every day life. It takes these small changes to make big changes in your health and lifestyle.

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What Does Your Handwriting Say About Your Personality?

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:36:41 GMT

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What Does Your Handwriting Say About Your Personality?

Handwriting analysis is a technique (similar to body language) used to interpret human behavior in areas such as achievement/work habits, thinking styles and even social skills. The study and analyses of handwriting is called Graphology. A Graphologer may use several characteristics of your handwriting such as the size and shape of letters, the slant, spacing between letters, the margins, words and lines, rhythm, evenness, connective forms, beginning and end strokes and your regular signature to decode your personality.

Learn a few tricks about how to interpret your own handwriting here:

- Organized-Confuzed.

- Size of handwriting.

- Spacing.

- Start point.

- Pressure.

- g’s, j’s and y’s.

- Curves.

- Space between sentences.

- Slant of lines.

- SIGNATURE

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7 Successful Ways to Become a Smarter Person

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:06:45 GMT

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7 Successful Ways to Become a Smarter Person

Boosting your mental faculties doesn’t have to mean studying hard or becoming a reclusive book worm. There are lots of tips, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behavior that can help you flex your grey matter.

Here are 7 ways that will help you become a smarter person:

1. Brain exercises.

2. Good Brain Foods.

3. Always learn something new.

4. Read quality books.

5. Reduce television watching.

6. Learn a foreign language.

7. Meditation is a very powerful tool for becoming smarter.

Exercise your mind and you will become happier and smarter.

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Top 10 Most-Positive Habits of Life

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:22:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
Robert Puller

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Top 10 Most-Positive Habits of Life

“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”
Robert Puller

Habits have a very important role in your life. The character of a person is determined by his habits. You can start seeing the benefits of most-positive thinking in your life when you apply positive thinking consistently. You can and must make positive thinking one of your good habits and enjoy a better quality life.

1.Set goals.

2. Stop worrying.

3. Appreciation.

4. Don’t be afraid by failure.

5. Find a good mentor.

6. Start everyday with a positive mind-set.

7. Practice gratitude.

8. Cultivate patience.

9. Always learn something new.

10. Respect and treat your body right.

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Good Environmental Habits = Easy Way to Save our Planet

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:21:05 GMT

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Good Environmental Habits = Easy Way to Save our Planet

We all want to help the environment, but many times we are too busy with our daily lives to make changes that we think are needed to develop a more sustainable lifestyle and a more environmentally friendly culture.
Therefore, you can make small, simple, easy habit changes that all add up to a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Eco Habit Tip 1: Drive Less.

Eco Habit Tip 2: Eco-Friendly Eating.

Eco Habit Tip 3: Recycle.

Eco Habit Tip 4: Energy Economy.

Eco Habit Tip 5: Eliminate as much trash as possible

Eco Habit Tip 6: Save water

Eco Habit Tip 7: Avoid environment pollution

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How to Stop Worrying in Your Life

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:33:00 GMT

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How to Stop Worrying in Your Life

<Anxiety and worry disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the U.S., affecting over 19 million people.>

Worrying is a permanent preoccupation with past or future bad events. Worry can create emotional stress and negative feelings.

Important steps to reduce your worries:

- Confronting your fears

- Writing a list

- Take action now.

- Make decisive decisions.

Important ways to reduce and eliminate your worries:

- Keep busy.

- Physical activity

- Improving your diet

- Develop good sleeping habits

- Relaxation and visualization

- Social support

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Drug-Free Ways to Treat and Heal Insomnia

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:16:34 GMT

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Drug-Free Ways to Treat and Heal Insomnia

Insomnia is a very important problem because one-third of the population has symptoms of insomnia.
There are three different types of insomnia. These are transient, acute, or chronic insomnia.
Transient insomnia lasts only a few nights to a few weeks. This is often the result of jet lag, medication side effects, caffeine, transient stress.
Acute insomnia lasts over a period no longer than six months, no shorter than 3 weeks.
Chronic insomnia occurs nearly every night for a period of a month or longer.

You can heal insomnia naturally without resorting to sleeping pills by developing these simple habits:

Basic Sleep Hygiene:

- Exercise at night.

- Temperature reduction and optimisation.

- Read books not TV watches.

- Use organic cotton bedding.

- Take a Warm Bath.

- Bright light therapy and nighttime light minimisation.

- Avoid napping.

General diet:

- Avoid alcohol as a sleep help.

- Do not drink coffee.

- Drink Warm Milk

- Drink Herb Tea

- Do not smoke.

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10 Dangerous Enemies of Sleep

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:48:43 GMT

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10 Dangerous Enemies of Sleep

There are many factors, both internal and external, that can influence the quantity and quality of the sleep we obtain. You may not be able to control or eliminate all of the factors that interfere with your sleep, but you can create an environment and adopt habits that encourage a more restful night.

Here are a ten “Not-to-do” lists that may improve your quality of sleep :

1. Do not smoke.

2. Avoid alcohol as a sleep help.

3. Eliminate caffeine.

4. Medications and Other Substances .

5. Light’s Effect.

6. Eat right, sleep tight.

7. Avoid napping.

8. Keep pets off the bed.

9. Avoid watching TV, eating, and discussing emotional issues in bed.

10. Full Moon Effects.