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By PL Chang on January 20th, 2010

Sleep Tips: How to Sleep Better

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Sleep is very important for your well-being because it heals you at the physical and energetic level of your being. The lack of sleep can disrupt your hormones and energies causing you to feel fatigue or sick. On average each person spends about a third of his/her life sleeping. To put it in numbers, each person sleeps about 2,900 hours per year or about 6-8 hours per day. If you are not getting 6-8 hours of sleep per day, you are increasing your risk of sleep-related health problems, because your body will have less time to heal itself. Your mind also needs your body to sleep so it can go through the information collected during the day and reorganize them for later use.

Tips and solutions for better sleep

Anxiety and stress are great for disrupting your sleep patterns. To reduce anxiety and stress find something that you like to do before bed. If you like to read books, read one before bed will help, just don’t read a book that is going to make you feel depressed. Meditation, breathing exercise and yoga are excellent stress reducer. Doing them before bed will help you sleep better.
Melatonin is the hormone that regulates sleep patterns. It is the hormone that tells your body to fall asleep. If you have low levels of melatonin, your pineal gland may be malfunctioning. To keep your pineal gland healthy, avoid junk food, soft drink and fluoride. Fluoride is very toxic to your pineal gland because it calcifies it. To decalcify your pineal gland eat healthier diets and take cod liver oil or iodine solution. Note: iodine solution may increase calcium loss. You may want to take magnesium plus calcium supplements to replenish the loss of calcium. If you want a quick solution to help you sleep take melatonin supplement. Nutritionists recommend taking 2-3 mg one hour before going to bed.
Don’t go to sleep on an empty stomach. Trying to sleep when your stomach is growling is very uncomfortable. You may want to eat some snacks an hour before bed. I recommend eating something healthy and low in calories, like fruit or salad.
Avoid stimulants before bed such as caffeine, nicotine, sugar, candy, etc. Stimulants prevent you from sleeping because they stimulate your brain cells to fire more rapidly.
Heavy metals can disrupt your sleep patterns because they disrupt neurotransmission in your brain. Heavy metal toxicity is becoming a major problem because of the increased use of synthetic chemicals and bad agriculture practices. You may want to look into chelation therapy to help remove heavy metals.
Sleep position can affect how well you sleep, because if you sleep in a bad position, it can cause muscle cramps and pain, numbness, nerve injury and oxygen deprivation. To avoid these problems, sleep on your back with a thin pillow.
Traumas and fears can prevent you from sleeping because they can cause anxiety. Traumas and fears are usually caused by tragic past life events. To treat them you should visit a hypnotist and ask he/she to do a past life regression on you. Psychologist can also help with traumas and fears but make sure the psychologist you are visiting is open to past life regression.

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By PL Chang on January 18th, 2010

How to Listen to Your Intuition

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Your intuition is one of the greatest gifts you have as a human being. It is the light within you that connects you to the source of Creation. It is a knowingness that comes without explanation or proof and takes place at the cellular level and beyond. Your intuition is the knowing feeling that you have near the pit of your stomach but it is not limited to that area. If you pay close attention to people’s actions, when they have that knowing feeling, they will sometime have some kind of gesture toward their stomachs. For example, they may place one or both of their hands near their stomachs when they say, “I know this is the right thing to do.” Men usually refer to intuition as the gut feeling and women usually refer to it as the knowing feeling. Everyone experience many of these gut feelings on a regular basis but most of us do not realize that we are being guided by our intuition.

The more you learn to trust and use your intuition, the more confident you will become. At first, learning to use to your intuition can be tricky because it can be hard to tell if it is your intuition or your ego that is guiding you. A good way to tell if you are being guided by your intuition is to trust your emotions. If you feel more fear than love, it is usually not your intuition. Your intuition will not lie to you because it is the light of truth. Although, your interpretation of it can be wrong. This usually occurs when you let your ego get in the way. Once you learn how to use your intuition, your life will turn around because you will feel that it is finally going somewhere.

How to listen and use your intuition

Practice makes perfect so next time you make a decision, check your gut feeling and try to sense its presence.
Your first impression when you meet a person is usually your intuition giving you guidance. The impression can be subtle and is usually not in your head. If your intuition is giving you a strong warning, it would be wise to avoid that person. When it comes to relationship, listening to your intuition will make your love life more enjoyable.
Learn to sense subtle changes in your body when you meet someone or about to do something. If the changes feel positive, you are in good hands. If not, you may want to do something else.
Your intuition often communicate to you as the creative playful child. Its guidance will help you find the most effective path for achieving your goals and dreams. Most of the time its communications are subtle so you will need to become more aware of its presence.
Learning to face your fears will help increase your intuition. By facing your fears, you can reduce how they affect your subtle energies, such as your intuition. Fears affect your intuition by blocking it.
Meditation is a great way to increase the connection with your intuition. Meditation reduces the noise in your head and raises your energy frequency; therefore, meditation makes it easier for you to sense your intuition.

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By PL Chang on January 15th, 2010

Restless Leg Syndrome Treatments and Causes

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Restless leg syndrome is a syndrome that causes the legs to twitch or jerk. The twitching or jerking of the legs can interfere with body movements and cause restless sleep. Restless leg syndrome can also cause the legs to itch, go numb or have burning sensations. This syndrome is common in people who smoke or drink coffee a lot.

Causes

There are many things that can contribute to restless leg syndrome. The main ones are: food allergies, stress, anxiety, aging, caffeine, magnesium or folic acid deficiency. Magnesium is one of the most important nutrients for preventing twitching or jerking of muscles because it causes relaxation of muscle fibers. Too much calcium can also cause muscles to twitch because calcium is used by cells to contract muscle fiber. The important message here is to have a balance of calcium and magnesium. Magnesium deficiency is more common than calcium deficiency; therefore, if you experienced twitchy muscle, you probably are deficient in magnesium. Magnesium deficiency can occur when people eat too much junk food, have to much stress or drink to much caffeinated beverages for long periods of time.

Natural treatments for restless leg syndrome

B-complex: B-vitamins are important for nerve and muscle function. Make sure the vitamins are extracted from high quality sources. Nutritionists recommend taking 3 capsules daily.
Magnesium: Helps relax muscle which can alleviate symptoms of restless leg syndrome. Nutritionists recommend taking 500-1000 mg daily. If you smoke or drink coffee daily, you may want to take the higher recommendation. If you have kidney problems, you may want to consult with your physician before taking high doses of magnesium.
Reduce stress: Studies have shown that people who are under a lot of stress have significantly lowered magnesium levels. Two reasons why magnesium level decreases during stress are muscle contraction and metabolic reaction. When people are stressed, muscle contraction and metabolic reaction increase which cause their bodies to use up more magnesium.
Organic plant-based food: Most plant-based foods have good levels of magnesium. Try to eat the organic ones because they usually contain more nutrients. Kelp, wheat bran and almonds are excellent sources of magnesium.

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By PL Chang on January 13th, 2010

Aspartame: The Artificial Sweetener That Kills

Artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (a.k.a. Nutrasweet, AminoSweet) and sucralose (a.k.a. Splenda) are becoming very popular these days because they are supposedly tooth-friendly, cheap, contain less calories and may cause less spikes in blood sugar level. Because of these benefits, artificial sweetener manufacturers could not wait to spend millions of their advertisement money to brainwash consumers about artificial sweetener. They did such a great job convincing consumers that they made billions of dollars within a very short time.

There are currently more than a dozen artificial sweetener in the market but one of the most dangerous and widely used is aspartame. This sugar substitute is a synthetic substance made up of methanol (wood alcohol), aspartic acid and phenylalanine. When aspartame reaches the small intestine, it reacts to certain enzyme which causes it to release methanol. Methanol is considered very toxic to the human body and can cause blindness or even death.

It is important to know that some fruit juice do contain methanol but they also usually contain ethanol, the antidote for methanol. Aspartame can also release a byproduct called aspartate which is an excitatory amino acid. At normal levels aspartate is not harmful, but at high levels it is harmful to nerve cells and can overstimulate brain cells, causing them to die prematurely.

Aspartate is considered normal by the body and is allowed to pass the blood-brain barrier. The danger about aspartame is that its chemical structure is missing certain important amino acids that are found in nature. When we eat foods in their natural state, they contain certain amino acids that are designed to assist the body to utilize nutrients.

Without these amino acids, nutrients can break down into toxic chemicals. This is why sugar found in fruits are healthier than processed sugar. This process is nature’s way of keeping everything in balance. It is a very complex process and will cost more money to mimic which is why sugar manufacturers avoid it.

There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of products that contain aspartame. Some of these products are even targeted toward babies. If you have kids or planning to have kids, you should avoid buying products that contain aspartame because it has been known to cause birth defects, seizure and cancer. I suggest avoiding all sugar free products because they usually contain aspartame or some form of artificial sweetener.

It is important to know that artificial sweetener is worse for your health than table sugar. If you have to choose between the two, it would be better to choose table sugar. When buying product always read the ingredients. If you see these ingredients, aspartame, sucralose, phenylketonurics, phenylalanine and methanol, avoid it.

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