Alternative Health Hints
Sleep and Stress
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What is an Anxiety Attack and Why Do I Get Them?
by Al Andrews
If you have ever suffered from an anxiety attack, you know it. Your heart seems to be leaping out of your chest and you feel as though you are crawling out of your skin. Your skin feels cold and clammy, you are trembling and even shaking. Your thoughts are jumbled and you may even have trouble breathing or swallowing. You feel as though you are a prisoner of your mind, and you are.

Working Your Way Through an Anxiety Attack
by Al Andrews
One of the secrets to minimizing an anxiety attack is to learn to work your way through the anxiety attack. Anyone who has ever undergone the panic and suffering that accompanies an anxiety attack knows the feeling of fear that is pretty much indescribable to anyone who has not experienced this sensation. Follow these tips to help work yourself through the anxiety attack.

Harmful Habits For Anxiety Treatment
by Al Andrews
If you are having an anxiety attack, you may be so desperate for a quick fix that you are willing to do anything to get rid of the anxious feeling. Some of the most harmful habits that will only aid on depression and anxiety are as follows.

Relax in a Week
Seven Days For Stress Management
by Kevin Sinclair
There's more than one way to take care of stress. So many of us are conditioned to the stress and anxiety that we deal with on a day-to-day basis that we think we can't do anything about it. This can not only cause you mental anguish, but physical anguish as well. If you're terribly under stress, you can even be driven right over the edge.

Eat For Stress Relief
5 Foods to Calm You Down
by Julia Denham
If you're jittery bundle of nerves, start eating for stress relief. The following five foods will calm you down and make you feel fit enough to handle whatever life can throw at you.

Stress Relief and Natural Mood Enhancers
by Alan Moore
Stress relief can sometimes appear to be something of a holy grail - you seem to be continually bombarded by negative people, too much work, not enough play and a feeling that everything is getting on top of you.

Different Types of Panic Attacks Exposed
by Sandy Adamson
Why should we get concerned about different types of panic attacks? The answer is simple - different types usually indicate different level of complications and therefore ways of treatment vary. However, before we talk about the exact types of panic attacks, let us first make clear the difference between anxiety and panic.

Daoist Method of Eliminating Stress
by Alex Race
Qigong and breathing exercises help us to relax and sense inner tension we have in our body. The more sensitive we become to this, the sooner we can recognize stress and tension affecting us and we can adjust to it. If we don't see stress coming on and causing physical issues soon enough, we can become depleted more susceptible to illness.

EQ for Balance
by Susan Dunn
Most of us these days are concerned about our wellness and we're doing what we can to alleviate stress and achieve a healthy balance in our lives. We think about what we eat, we exercise, and we try and manage our emotional states, eliminating what stress we can, and trying to cope better with the rest of it.

Depression-Blasters for Overcomers
by Patricia Wagner
Are you living under gloomy skies of mental misery? When dark clouds of depression come into your life, blow them away with these 10 powerful depression-blasters.

Combating the Effects of Stress
The effects of stress are many and varied and, it is now known, they are almost all entirely bad. Stress weakens the system, tears down the body and mind, and causes long-term health problems that have been documented in numerous studies and reports.

Falling Asleep
An ADD Nightmare
by Jennifer Koretsky
People with ADD (also known as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD) often find themselves chronically tired during the day, but unable to sleep at night. This can be true for adults and kids alike.

Secrets of Sound Sleep
by Susie Michelle Cortright
A single good night's sleep can rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul. Here's how to get one tonight.

Staying in Touch for Stress Relief
by Susan Dunn
Staying in touch ... we say it so lightly, yet it's an important concept for our wellness. Staying in touch with others, staying in touch with ourselves, and staying in actual physical touch with our lives are all important.

Habits That Help You Manage Your Stress
by Linda Dessau
Today we have more stress in our lives than ever before -- good stress, bad stress, red stress, blue stress (my little ode to Dr. Seuss). No matter what kind of stress it is, a real crisis or an imagined one, stress is incredibly harmful to our body, mind and soul.

The Ancient Antitdote To Modern Stress
by Howard VanEs
Anyone who has ever taken a yoga class will tell you that perhaps the most important as well as the most enjoyable posture is the final relaxation pose at the end of class which is known as Shavasana. Shavasana, which translates to "corpse pose" is a time when the body and mind quiet and the door to stillness, peace and inner healing is opened.

My First Shiatsu Massage
by Terry Dunn
I opened my eyes suddenly. He was smiling at me. Then I realised I must have fallen asleep. It was a strange feeling. Energised, refreshed and relaxed, all at the same time. And it was so enjoyable. If that is a full body shaitsu massage, I want another.

Sleep Apnea
7 Tips To Improve Your Sleep
by Donald Saunders
Do you keep your partner awake at night with your snoring? Are you often tired during the day? Do you sometimes find yourself suffering from morning headaches, being a bit forgetful, unable to concentrate and irritable? If so, you may be suffering from sleep apnea.

Jet Lag
7 Tips For A Successful Trip
by Donald Saunders
Don't let jet lag spoil that much needed holiday trip to paradise or stop you from closing that career enhancing deal you've been working on for months.

Talk to Yourself to Reduce Stress and Relax
by Liz Labrum
What is self-talk? It is something we all do, when we're at work, shopping, traveling in the car or by train. But are you aware of the potent power this habit has to raise your level of stress and lower your ability to cope?

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