My Zimbio
Top Stories

Archive for the ‘Meditations’ Category

Simple ways to reduce tension-type headache

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

tension-type-headacheThese days our lives are full of stress because of worrying events in them, such as work tension, the death of someone you love, a divorce or the loss of a job. A recent study shows that people with stress usually get tension -type headaches. Most people describe a tension headache as a constant dull, achy feeling on both sides of the head or the neck muscles.

Fortunately, effective treatments for tension-type headaches are available. If you have symptoms of a tension type headache often, you must meet your family doctor for treatment. Don’t expect your doctor to be able to guess that you have tension-type headache just by looking at you. You need to tell them the symptoms you have so that he or she will prescribe the proper medicines to abate the pain.

We know that Prevention is better than cure. Reducing stress will help you avoid the tension-type headaches. Here are some natural ways to reduce stress and lead a healthy life.

For starters, lie down in a dark and quiet place and try to relax.

Studies have shown that vitamins like B complex, C and E along with minerals like manganese, selenium and zinc are helpful in relieving stress. So eat fresh fruits, vegetables rich in vitamins and meat and dairy products as much as possible.

Sleep deprivation is one of the chief aggravators of stress. Practicing sleep tactics along with stress-lowering tactics can help improve your quality of sleep.

Avoid caffeine as it increases stress levels by stimulating the central nervous system. Remember, an excess intake of caffeine will result in hyperactive moods and stress.

Physical activity is the best tool to reduce your stress. Make time for at least 30 minutes of exercise, three times a week.

Reduce your hypertension with physical exercise

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Corporate Stress

Today, a whole load of people are affected by hypertension (high blood pressure). Hypertension is often called the silent killer because you have no early significant symptoms. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, and renal failure.

What causes hypertension?

Heredity: If your parents have high blood pressure, you have a greater chance of inheriting it.

Age: The older we get, the greater the risk of developing high blood pressure.

Obesity: Overweight people are at a higher risk of developing high blood pressure.

Heavy alcohol consumption: Several studies have found that intake of excessive amounts of alcohol can raise your blood pressure. Keep in mind that heavy drinking and high blood pressure may damage the heart and can lead to heart attacks.

Diabetes: People with diabetes often have high blood pressure. Having both diabetes and hypertension will increase the risk of developing heart related problems.

Research has proven that an hour of exercise a week can reduce high blood pressure. With regular exercise, you can reduce the risk of developing hypertension by 19 to 30 percent. So there is that ray of hope for all those who have given up on it; it really is not very hard.

Regular exercise makes your heart strong. A strong heart can pump more blood with less effort. Therefore, the pressure on your arteries decreases, and lowers your blood pressure.

If you are diagnosed with high blood pressure at some point, engaging in regular exercise will help you maintain and achieve a healthy blood pressure level. You don’t need to spend hours in a gym every day. Simply adding moderate physical activities to your daily routine like walking, cycling, swimming etc will help you reduce hypertension and lead a healthy, happy life.

You can also do some Yoga for reducing hypertension; asanas such as, Surya Namaskar Asana, Santulam Asana, Pawanmukta Asana, Uttanpada Asana, and Shava Asana are immensely helpful.

It is however, best to check with your family doctor before you jump into an exercise program, especially if you’re unsure about your health, or feel any warning signs like chest pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, an irregular heartbeat etc.

Breathing exercise for Asthma

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

breathing-exercise

Today, Asthma is a common disease that affects many people. The number of people affected by Asthma is now increasing all over the world. In the United States, over 22 million Americans have asthma.

So, what exactly is asthma? Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory respiratory disease that makes patients to find difficulty to get air in and out of the lungs. When a person is affected by asthma, the breathing tubes (alveolar tubes) become sensitive and inflamed. The muscles around the airways tighten and become narrow, thus making it difficult to breathe fresh air in and exhale air out.

The most common symptoms of asthma are wheezing, constant coughing, and chest tightness during the cold weather and shortness of breath.  Things like smoking, pollen, environmental pollutions, etc can trigger asthma.

Well, how can you treat asthma? Breathing exercises have become a very popular solution to reduce Asthma. Researchers from the UK University found that breathing exercises reduces the severity of asthma and improves quality of life with the help of anti-inflammatory medication treatment.

Effective breathing exercises commonly followed are:

  • Pranayama (A Breathing exercise in Yoga)
  • Buteyko (A Russian method of breathing exercise)

Pranayama: The regular practice of Pranayama helps us breathe deeply from the stomach. Pranayama is the art of breath control.  The word ‘Prana’ signifies’ breathe’ and ‘yama’ means ‘control’. Thus, the word Pranayama can be understood as “Control of breath”. There are four stages of breathing in pranayama.

1. Inhalation

2. A pause before exhalation

3. Exhalation

4. A pause before inhaling again

Repeat these four steps fifteen to twenty times. With the regular practice of Pranayama you can reduce asthma disease.

Buteyko: Buteyko exercise will reduce and control asthma and other respiratory disorders. In Buteyko techniques, you must inhale through the nose (not mouth), and exhale for as long as possible. You can repeat the process for 5 to 10 minutes and achieve better results.

Simple techniques to improve yourself

Friday, April 24th, 2009

self-improvementSelf-improvement plays a major role in life. In infant stage, we do exercises like crawling, running which keeps us active through out the day. During childhood, we are not much pressurized with work. But as we grow, we are dumped with a lot of work.

The activities that made us energetic are reduced due to occupation of pressures like studies, work, in our life. In order to lead a healthy life, we need to be energetic throughout the day. Self-improvement will help you to accomplish this.

First learn to manage your time such that you have time for doing some physical activities. Exercise will help to clear the mind and produce essential chemicals necessary in life. If your mind is clear and body is active, you will complete your work effectively within scheduled time. So that you will get more time to spend with your family which is must to lead a healthy relationship which forms the basis of life.

Interacting with the world is the most effective way to burst out your pressure. Try to spend time with your family. Spending time doesn’t mean to have dinner together or watch favorite TV show. You should talk with your family and share your thoughts with them. Your partner can give right solutions for problems.

Live herbal and sporty life by medication and herb by health savvy

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Herbal is important part of life and get a fit body/health

Going through with this point we should aware about its history, anxiety is a multi system response to a perceived threat or danger. It reflects a combination and effect of biochemical changes in the body, as well as patient’s personal history and memory power, and the social situation whereby he/she behaves.

We do know that anxiety is a uniquely human experience. Other animals do know fear, but human anxiety involves an ability and something differ, the anxiety that occurs in posttraumatic syndromes indicates that human memory is a much more difficult to understand mental function than animal memory. Human use memory and imagination to turn backward and forward in time, that animals do not appear to have. The anxiety that occurs in posttraumatic syndromes indicates that human memory is a much more problematical mental function than animal memory. Thus, a large portion of human anxiety is produced by expectancy of future events.

Causes and symptoms: - In some cases, anxiety is come out by physical reactions or attitudes to stress, or by certain disease processes or medication ways. Anxiety may have a number of many causes. It is a multidimensional response to stimuli in the person’s behavior, or a response to an underbody stimulus resulting from a combination of general biological and individual psychological reactions.

Acne vulgaris are a kind of medical term or common thing of acne. This is the most common skin disease. It affects nearly 16.5 million people in the USA. Meanwhile acne could arise at any age, it usually begins at puberty and worsens during adolescence. Number says that nearly 86% of people develop acne at some time between 12-25 years age and up to 19.8% of women develop mild acne. It is also found in some newborns babies.
Causes and some symptoms:-
Acne is usually not noticeable, although inflamed lesions can cause pain, tenderness, itching, or swelling. The most worrying aspects of these lesions are the negative cosmetic effects and potential for pockmark. Some people, especially youngsters, become emotionally upset about their situation, and have problems forming relationships and sometimes keeping jobs.

Herbal - health blog writer, acquire information around the world,and serving you without any cost

Article Source: