If you�re fed up with feeling horrible first thing, here�s how to beat that early morning sloth.
Do you envy those people who spring out of bed each morning, bright-eyed and ready to face the day? If you're a slow starter, try these tips to give yourself some get-up-and go! We are not talking big lifestyle changes but a few simple wake-up tactics, which will fuel your energy reserves so you start every day bursting with vitality.
Stretch it
Even if you have overslept avoid...
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Making small changes to everyday habits can help you feel happier and healthier.
Better sleep
Keep to a regular bedtime to help set your body clock.
Avoid stimulants such as caffeine for at least four to six hours before bed.
Prepare for sleep by having a warm bath and listening to gentle music while sipping camomile tea or a milky drink.
Sprinkle essential oils...
Recognize that the sleep system tends to right itself after a few nights of insomnia if you do not adjust your schedule.
Set a regular bedtime -- and keep it. Your body needs reliability.
Less is more. Keeping your wake-up time constant but going to bed one hour later will help 25 percent of insomniacs within one to two weeks. Prepare to feel sleepy at times and avoid...
No matter how well-adjusted or discreet we might think we are, some situations get the best of us. Turning down a friend's pass, knowing how to console someone who is grieving, or even just accepting a heartfelt compliment can make us want to dive underneath the nearest table or bury our heads in deep sand. "Situations that require a process of transition create intense feelings...
Even if you've never heard of Moby (a.k.a. Richard Melville Hall, a descendant of Herman Melville), there's a good chance you've heard his work. His atmospheric sounds provide the soundtrack to television commercials and films such as Seabiscuit and Heat, as well as a recent James Bond. Known for bringing electronic music to the mainstream, he's sold over 14 million records. He creates albums in the studio he built in the spare bedroom of his Manhattan apartment. Nearby he owns a vegetarian restaurant where he likes to play Scrabble.
You even talk about your panic attacks. When did they start? I've had them since I was 19, when I tried LSD-my one and only time trying LSD. I didn't like it very much. About a week later, I started having panic attacks. I didn't know what they were. Now I'm fine. Every now and then, I'll have too much caffeine, be stressed out about work and be in a relationship that's not going well, and it will happen again.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who have not been helped by standard drug treatments, a weekly dose of oral morphine may ease their symptoms, according to a small pilot study.
The newer class of antidepressants known as SRIs is approved for treating OCD, but up to 40 percent of patients fail to respond to two or more of these drugs, Dr. Lorrin M. Koran and his associates explain in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Quite why morphine can be effective is not known, but...
Still holding grudges? Check your pulse: New research suggests that harboring feelings of betrayal may be linked to high blood pressure which can ultimately lead to stroke, kidney or heart failure, or even death.
In a study exploring the effect of having a forgiving personality on both psychological and physical stress responses, University of Tennessee (UT) students discussed...
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(AgapePress) - A Texas pro-family group is voicing opposition to a bill in the state legislature that would implement President Bush's mandatory mental health screening initiative.
HB 470 is part of President Bush's "New Freedom Initiative," which is a plan to screen the entire U.S. population for mental illness. Under the plan, public schools would screen students for "co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders."
Mary Lynn Gerstenschlager is the education liaison for Texas Eagle Forum. She is concerned that the legislation requires children as young as preschool age to undergo psychiatric screening whether their parents consent or not.
"We would like to ... see that no...