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Many people think of Eastern religions when they think of meditation, and too often those who know little about meditation are greatly confused by what it really is and what it really does. We may hear how meditation is good for our well-being, but we fail to find a simple “how to” manual when we [...]
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Continue ReadingModern society makes it difficult for children to get enough sleep. If youngsters are left to themselves, they may fight off sleep in order to do things they think are more fun. If the whole family does things together, including spending evenings together, that, too, may deprive young people of sleep. Why? Because young people—even [...]
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Continue ReadingKILLED IN YOUR SLEEP Sleep Apnea—Does Everyone Get It? Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder that occurs during sleep. Its most-recognizable symptom is snoring. But it isn’t the loud noise that is the problem. The danger lies in how long the sleeping person is not breathing, both in one instant and cumulatively
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Continue ReadingThere are essential characteristics to getting a good night’s sleep. In other words, the good news it is possible to improve both your quantity and quality of sleep by incorporating some very simple sleep conditions. The collection of all the things that make for a good night’s sleep is called
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Continue ReadingIn an article cleverly titled “Are Doctors Sleepwalking Through Treating Your Insomnia?” Eric Sabo reported that many physician-prescribed sleep remedies are no better at curing your insomnia than are your own made-up fixes, like taking an allergy pill or sipping a glass of wine. In fact, many of the medications doctors
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Continue ReadingI have a friend who wants to get her chin tucked—a couple of them anyway. I stumbled across an article the other day linking double chins and snoring, so I went out on a search for all the ways insomnia might result in physical characteristics many people in the West
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Continue ReadingRemember having sex when it was so all-consuming and thrilling it was all you could think about for days? Days of anticipation, mind-blowing, body-shaking sex, then remembering it for days or even years afterwards… Either that was a long time ago for you and you’d like to
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Continue ReadingRestless Leg Syndrome Do you ever wonder about diseases or disorders that we have today that apparently didn’t exist 100 years ago, or even 10 years ago? Seemingly the golden child of recent television pharmaceutical advertising, restless leg syndrome (RLS) was so named in the 1940s by Swedish neurologist
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Continue ReadingI’m assuming you’re in a sleep crisis, not because we’ve met and you’ve bragged about late-night partying or, on the other hand, complained about tasks you had to do after the children were in bed. I’m assuming you’re in crisis because three-fourths of the population is, and half of those
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Continue ReadingRemember having sex when it was so all-consuming and thrilling it was all you could think about for days? Days of anticipation, mind-blowing, body-shaking sex, then remembering it for days or even years afterwards! Either that was a long time ago for you and you’d like to
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