Healing In Your Sleep

Healing In Your SleepNick Polizzi – Ready for something personal?  Gulp! Here we go.

A few years ago, I began to hit a serious dip in my energy levels.  Each day, I would wake up feeling like I had been beaten up in my sleep, rolling out of bed with pain in my muscles and zero energy.

Walking up the stairs felt like a herculean effort—and I’m in good physical shape. This wasn’t like me. Continue reading

Lucid Dreaming as a Gate to Spiritual Awakening

sleepFrank M Wanderer – Allow me to draw your attention to an apparently surprising thing. If I told you that now, when you are reading these lines, you are in fact asleep, you would certainly believe that I have gone mad.

You are awake, you are concentrating your attention to reading, and you are aware of your environment as well. You can see the furniture of your room, you can hear the call of the birds from the nearby forest. You are also aware of your thoughts and emotions. How can anyone claim that you are asleep at this very moment? Continue reading

Ways To Fight Back Against The Daily Attack On Your Body

Anthony Gucciardi – Symptoms of hormonal imbalance may include PMS, osteoporosis, weight gain, altered sex drive, allergies, uterine fibroids, urinary tract infections, changes in the skin, fatigue, anxiety, water retention, hair loss, facial hair growth and even depression. By keeping hormones in balance, women can find it easier to maintain a healthy weight, keep a regular menstrual cycle, as well as exude optimal energy levels.

1. Keep Stress Levels Low

Studies show that women who participate in a daily meditation or yoga experience less hormonal swings than those who do not mediate stress in some fashion. Rest is also important. Many women have such hectic lifestyles that they give their body little time to re-adjust from life’s demands. This disrupts the natural hormones cycles in women. Find small ways to incorporate rest and relax throughout the day. Continue reading

How to Take Care of Yourself When You Have a New Baby

Having a new baby is an amazing time that comes with lots of joy and love. However, it can also be a time of great stress and exhaustion. It’s important to take care of yourself during this time so you can be the best possible parent for your child. Here are some tips on how to take care of yourself when you have a new baby:

Relax with CBD oil

Self care When You Have a New BabyIf you’re looking for a natural way to reduce stress when you have a new baby, consider using CBD oil. CBD oil is derived from the cannabis plant and has been shown to be effective in reducing stress, but it contains no THC, so it has no psychoactive side-effects or addictive properties. It’s commonly available in many health shops and pharmacies, and anyone can use it. It’s also safe to use while breastfeeding, so cbd has benefits all round. However, you need to talk to your doctor before using CBD if you’re on any medication, as it can alter their effects. Continue reading

Fascinating Facts About Dreams

dreamsLarry Schwartz – There aren’t many things that fascinate, frighten, sadden, intrigue, confuse, or enlighten us more than dreams. While science seems stumped about dreams, artists are inspired, creating countless books, movies, poems, paintings, dances and plays about dreams in an effort to understand more about this mysterious unconscious existence we enter when we sleep.

More than 100 years after Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams, we still aren’t exactly sure what a dream really is. Science tells us that our sensory abilities (like vision, hearing, etc.) reside in various areas of the neocortex of our brains, and that during sleep these various areas fire randomly, producing illusions that seem disjointed and enigmatic. (In other words, dream-like.) Continue reading