Restoring Sleep: Don’t Get Your Dander Up!

Sleeping in the same room with your pets is not always the best pathway to restful sleep.  Pet dander can cause problems with breathing, and the body cannot fully relax when under duress.  Cleaning your sleeping space often is important to remove not just pet dander but dust as well.  Clean your linens often, with [...]

Magnesium and Restful Sleep

We hear a lot about the importance of calcium in our diet.  Calcium is a vital mineral that is used throughout the body, from our heart to our bones.  Calcium alone cannot get the job done, we also need magnesium, calcium’s partner in cellular health.  Can
Over 75% of our population is magnesium deficient.  How [...]

Rub-a-dub Your Way to Restful Sleep

It’s hard to imagine that clean skin can aid in restful sleep.  Our skin is the biggest organ of the body, connected to our lymphatic system.  This system is vital in moving fluids throughout the body, including both nutrients and waste products.
I learned this simple trick to relaxation many years ago.  When my sister wanted [...]

Restful Sleep, Restless Thoughts, Unfinished Processes

There are many ways to process our thoughts.  Exercise can stimulate both the physical flow and mental flow.  Thoughts accumulate just as do fluids in the body, or waste products in the blood.   We all need an occasional mental “flush”, and with our busy lives and so many distractions we forget to take time to [...]

Exercise to Restore Sleep

Exercise is very important to our health and wellness.  A lack of exercise can contribute to a lack of sleep as well.  Your body needs movement to circulate your blood and lymphatic fluids.  Without adequate exercise your cells cannot receive the nutrients it needs, nor release the toxins they carry. 

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Visualize your way to Restful Sleep

Many people use visualization as a gateway to restful sleep.  Visualization is as simple as this:  lie down, close your eyes, breathe deeply and slowly, and focus your thoughts on a relaxing scene.  You can pick any scene that you find enjoyable.  This may be a tropical island, a place deep in the jungle, a [...]

Restful Sleep: Back to Nature

It’s not just a matter of getting sleep.  Many of us get a sufficient number of hours, but we still wake up feeling exhausted, with brain fog and a low threshold for stress.  This is bad news, starting the day already in a state of stress.  Restful sleep: is it possible these days?
Over the next [...]