Name three reasons you miss sleep. Here’s a check list. Pick your faves: 1) too much to do, 2) got to bed late, 3) ate too much dinner, 4) awakened in the night thinking about work and couldn’t go back to sleep, 5) noises outside, 6) had to set the alarm early to prepare for something…Sound familiar?
Worry is one of the big reported causes of sleeplessness. Many people prefer to call it “thinking.” Worry falls into three timeframes: 1) either people lie awake unable to fall asleep, 2) or they fall asleep but awaken in the night because of a noise or to take a bio break, then can’t resume sleep; or 3) they awaken too early in the morning and can’t fall back asleep. Less frequent is having two or three of these conditions (except under extreme stress).
Typically, worry would not be characterized as a sleep disorder, but rather a sleep disruption.
Sleep disorders, per se¸ have a medical or physiological tie-in. To get a handle on sleep disorders, think of them as falling into two categories: internally stimulated or externally stimulated. Internally provoked causes sleeplessness cover everything from run-away thinking to a full bladder.
Externally provoked wakefulness during sleep times covers things like loud noises, interruptions, bright lights, etc.
You immediately see from this simple breakdown there are a few things about getting a good night’s sleep that are fairly easy to control under most circumstances. For the most part, stimuli causing wakefulness that you can prevent or control without medication would fall under experiential insomnia, not sleep disorders.
Internally triggered sleeplessness, however, is more complex than pulling dark shades or plugging in your white noise machine. Internal causes are further broken down into voluntary and involuntary, for lack of better terms. For example, we could make a case that worrying all night is voluntary. Of course, you feel like it isn’t, especially at the time. But you could choose to think about butterflies and balmy lake breezes rather than how you are going to get 17 non-productive people in the department you just took over to start performing up to par. Neurological disorders, on the other hand, would clearly be involuntary—and a disorder, not merely insomnia.
For a clearer breakdown of internal causes of sleep disruption, think of them as non-physically triggered and physically triggered. Among physical triggers are sleep-robbing medications, menopause and other hormonal swings (such as pregnancy), injuries, illness, etc. Sleep terrors, sleep walking and REM sleep behavior disorder can be among the most serious disorders, because a person moving while sleeping can be a danger to both themselves and to others.
These latter conditions fall under the domain of sleep disorders. In other words, lying awake at night thinking about work is uncomfortable, but it is not a sleep disorder. Insomnia is a nuisance, but it is not a sleep disorder—it is a problem. Sleep apnea is a disorder.
Sleeplessness itself is most-commonly associated with tension, anxiety, depression, and worries about work or finances. Even a less-than-favorable sex life can lead to night-time restlessness.
Indigestion from overeating, or eating foods less compatible with one’s biological type shortly before going to sleep can trigger discomfort and eventual wakefulness. Certain substances, like alcohol for example, have a rebound effect of first sedating, then stimulating.
Whether insomnia is invited over after a nasty bit of cheese steak or by a genetic predisposition, it is important to pay attention to it, ascertain the cause or causes in your case and make every resolve to get uninterrupted, quality sleep. Daytime tiredness can cause injuries, accidents and even death, in addition to the dangers posed by what may occur during physiological sleep disorders themselves.
Treatments are accessible and in most cases fairly inexpensive. The problem is, whether you have too much wine before going to bed or awaken with night terrors, either way, your life and the lives of those you love are at risk.
Get some sleep!
If you feel you have a sleep disorder, then consult with a physician. If you suffer from too much worry, then I highly recommend a program called “Totally Tranquil” from Holothink. It helps to bring your brain into a more calm state that enables relaxation. You can try a free demo at The HoloThink Web site.
Holothink has also released a set of programs that can help with a variety of sleep related issues called Digital Sandman – if you need a quick refresher nap, need help relaxing into sleep, or you want help staying asleep, they have the bases covered for you with programs that address each. To learn more visit: The Digital Sandman Web site.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
INSOMNIA IS MAKING YOU UGLY
I have a friend who wants to get her chin tucked — a couple of them anyway. I stumbled across an article the other day linking double chins and snoring, so I went out on a search for all the ways insomnia might result in physical characteristics many people in the West would not associate with “beauty.”
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I haven’t yet found again the article on thick necks and sleep apnea. I’ve found several that say people with think necks (which would mostly be men) often snore, because as they age the ability of their muscles to keep their throat’s soft tissue from collapsing on itself during sleep is reduced. I’ve not yet read enough to find out whether snoring can also cause a think neck. Of course, snoring is not necessarily a sleep disorder, not does it necessarily accompany insomnia. To be a disorder, the person has to miss breaths. To be insomnia, the person has to be awake—which you wish they would do when they start snoring!
Obesity — There’s one that gets attention. It’s fairly well understood hormones affect sleep. For example, women progressing through menopause may experience great periods of insomnia because of the changes in their estrogen levels. After menopause, their progesterone is higher in proportion to estrogen than previously, and that’s the time many women begin to snore. They also begin to gain weight. And get thicker necks. While there are several causes for that, here’s one you may not have heard of.
Two hormones--leptin and ghrelin—may significantly affect how much we eat. One of them, leptin, tells us when we’re full: stop eating, you’re satisfied. The other one, ghrelin (which I like to call gremlin) stimulates appetite. When we miss sleep, for whatever reason, leptin (stop eating) falls while ghrelin (you’re starving) increases. Consequently, you feel hungry, unsatisfied and still munching. The ultimate result is weight gain.
This is why almost all men are thicker and have thick necks as they reach middle age and beyond. They snore; therefore, they gain weight. (It isn’t the snoring itself; it’s the “not sleeping soundly” when you’re snoring.)
This affects aging in the reverse. Older people don’t get enough really deep sleep (REM). Therefore, their hormonal systems aren’t restored and reset. They feel satisfied and not hungry. Malnutrition is a huge problem among the elderly and it begins with not getting good quality sleep!
Diabetes — OK, being diabetic may not make you ugly, but if you’re single and dating, it could raise a caution flag! Inadequate sleep can prevent the proper processing of glucose, causing high blood sugar levels. Looping back to the weight problem, excess glucose is then stored as fat, and in some people’s minds, that makes you ugly.
Stupidity — Can you just not pull up a name you know? Can’t bring it to mind? Or you say something to a colleague and it sounds like you’re drunk or on allergy medication? There are significant mental effects to sleep deprivation, including slurred speech, inabilities to problem solve, speak coherently or learn something new. In extreme instances, a person can experience hallucinations or go mad. (Remember, keeping people from sleeping and dreaming is a typical torture technique; this is why. And even if you can still function, you might be torturing your comrades!)
Emotional wreck — I may be stretching physical side effects of insomnia to include emotions, but this is one more thing that make you less attractive to others. Did you know sleep deprivation has been linked as one of the primary contributors to road rage? In other words, if you signal to a driver of a car weaving across the line ahead of you, he might pull beside you and shoot you because he’s sleepy—the same reason he was weaving!
This could also be an indicator in the glass-half-full-half-empty set. Sleep deprived people are more pessimistic. (Watch for doom and gloom amongst the thick neck set. Maybe this is why people think dads are realists and moms are optimists!)
Skin — Skin is refreshed and renewed during sleep. Did you know skin is an organ? The largest organ in the body. Without adequate sleep, your skin will look older and drier. “Beauty sleep” is called that for a reason. It gives the face (and whole body) time to relax, to let go of wrinkles. Like good sex, adequate sleep can help you emerge fresh and glowing.
If these don’t convince you you’re ugly when you don’t get enough sleep, think about how ugly you feel when you’re tired and how ugly all the rest of the world looks to you.
Now relax, and get some sleep.
Holothink offers many products designed to help you improve your mental functioning. Their Digital Sandman package (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) covers the full range of sleep issues with tracks including Power Napper, Sleep Support, Overcoming Insomnia and Digital Sandman to help you sleep better (and improve your sex life!). Visit http://www.Holothink.com to try a free demo.Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
How to Sleep Your Way to Better Sex
Remember having sex when it was so all-consuming and thrilling it was all you could think about for days? Days of anticipation, mind-blowing, body-shaking sex, then remembering it for days or even years afterwards…
Either that was a long time ago for you and you’d like to have that kind of sex in your life again. Or you’re having that kind of sex at this point in your life. Whichever description you identify with, you could be making a mistake that is reducing the quantity and quality of your sex life. You might not be getting enough good sleep.
First, a technical term. Getting an adequate amount of sound sleep on a regular schedule is called good sleep hygiene. Hygiene is about maintaining health. So “sleep hygiene,” rather than being something sterile and clinical as the phrase sounds, is what you need for better sex.
Picture an upwardly mobile couple with three children. Both parents work and the children are in school, which means they have activities: homework, science projects, things they need for school that they forgot to tell their parents till the night before. We’ve all known families like that. How much great sex do you think the parents have? They probably schedule love-making. Nothing wrong with scheduling it, just so long as both parties feel up to it when the time comes. That is, sadly, rarely the case these days.
While there are numerous websites offering hilarious lists of calories burned during sex (for example: 12 calories taking her clothes off with her consent, but without it…), sexual play can be vigorous exercise, potentially equal to a half-hour walk. There are too many variables to make an accurate generalization for all parties, but if you’ve ever felt completely drained afterwards, you had a great workout!
You can’t do that without adequate sleep. At least not consistently. In new relationships, partners often are so sleep-deprived, they say, “We’re living on love.” But if the newly-in-love continue at that pace for a long period of time, libido will start waning. Both will eventually “just want to get some sleep.”
Besides inadequate sleep from too few hours in bed, enough hours in bed but not enough sleep also reduces sexual performance. One of the most common disturbances is snoring. If the snoring is not too loud, many lovers learn to live with it, or put a pillow over their ears so their partner can snore on. The problem is not only that snoring can anger the lighter-sleeping partner and build resentment, however subtle. The major problem is that while a person is snoring, he or she is not sleeping and—worse yet—not getting enough oxygen to the brain.
Snoring usually represents a condition known as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can be fatal. If the non-snoring partner considers this for a few minutes the next time her husband or boyfriend shakes the timbers with his snore, she’ll be wide awake for hours thinking about how she will survive (or thrive) without him!
The snorer has problems, too. He (or she) is sleepy during the day and may also be irritable. Irritability and romance do not go hand in hand. Who wants to make love to someone who’s been grouchy all day?
Sleep apnea also reduces hormone levels essential to sex drive. If your lover has lost his or her libido, lack of sleep could be the cause.
Medications can also reduce libido. And the ability to sleep well. On the other hand, adequate rest--including mental rest—can reduce the need for medication or reduce dosage requirements. Wherever medication is involved, checking with a physician is critical.
Everyone has a sleep issue from time to time and I’ve found a surprising solution that helps – it’s called “Digital Sandman” by a company called Holothink (http://www.digitalsandman.com). You listen to an audio program that helps your mind calm down into a “sleep ready state”. Works great and they probably have no idea how much it’s improved my own sex life!
Many factors affect sleep quality, and therefore sex frequency and quality. Proper diet, enough exercise, mental stimulation, adequate fluid intake—basically all the things we know make us healthy make us sexually potent as well. Healthy bodies are sexy bodies.
But in today’s society, attention to exercise, diet and all the rest, don’t always provide complete support for sound, refreshing sleep. Stress and worry can keep us tossing and turning even though we’re otherwise super-healthy. All these factors are involved. Sex is a built-in, god-given desire, the realization of which floods the body with feel-good hormones that improve our quality of life and ability to cope with what’s coming next. Deep sound sleep is similarly hard-wired into us. It is the setting for regeneration of cells and electro-chemical resetting for the next day of awakeness.
Anything that makes it easier to get good quality sleep has equal potential to improve your sex life.
Holothink offers many products designed to help you improve your mental functioning. Their Digital Sandman package (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) covers the full range of sleep issues with tracks including Power Napper, Sleep Support, Overcoming Insomnia and Digital Sandman to help you sleep better (and improve your sex life!).
Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
Either that was a long time ago for you and you’d like to have that kind of sex in your life again. Or you’re having that kind of sex at this point in your life. Whichever description you identify with, you could be making a mistake that is reducing the quantity and quality of your sex life. You might not be getting enough good sleep.
First, a technical term. Getting an adequate amount of sound sleep on a regular schedule is called good sleep hygiene. Hygiene is about maintaining health. So “sleep hygiene,” rather than being something sterile and clinical as the phrase sounds, is what you need for better sex.
Picture an upwardly mobile couple with three children. Both parents work and the children are in school, which means they have activities: homework, science projects, things they need for school that they forgot to tell their parents till the night before. We’ve all known families like that. How much great sex do you think the parents have? They probably schedule love-making. Nothing wrong with scheduling it, just so long as both parties feel up to it when the time comes. That is, sadly, rarely the case these days.
While there are numerous websites offering hilarious lists of calories burned during sex (for example: 12 calories taking her clothes off with her consent, but without it…), sexual play can be vigorous exercise, potentially equal to a half-hour walk. There are too many variables to make an accurate generalization for all parties, but if you’ve ever felt completely drained afterwards, you had a great workout!
You can’t do that without adequate sleep. At least not consistently. In new relationships, partners often are so sleep-deprived, they say, “We’re living on love.” But if the newly-in-love continue at that pace for a long period of time, libido will start waning. Both will eventually “just want to get some sleep.”
Besides inadequate sleep from too few hours in bed, enough hours in bed but not enough sleep also reduces sexual performance. One of the most common disturbances is snoring. If the snoring is not too loud, many lovers learn to live with it, or put a pillow over their ears so their partner can snore on. The problem is not only that snoring can anger the lighter-sleeping partner and build resentment, however subtle. The major problem is that while a person is snoring, he or she is not sleeping and—worse yet—not getting enough oxygen to the brain.
Snoring usually represents a condition known as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can be fatal. If the non-snoring partner considers this for a few minutes the next time her husband or boyfriend shakes the timbers with his snore, she’ll be wide awake for hours thinking about how she will survive (or thrive) without him!
The snorer has problems, too. He (or she) is sleepy during the day and may also be irritable. Irritability and romance do not go hand in hand. Who wants to make love to someone who’s been grouchy all day?
Sleep apnea also reduces hormone levels essential to sex drive. If your lover has lost his or her libido, lack of sleep could be the cause.
Medications can also reduce libido. And the ability to sleep well. On the other hand, adequate rest--including mental rest—can reduce the need for medication or reduce dosage requirements. Wherever medication is involved, checking with a physician is critical.
Everyone has a sleep issue from time to time and I’ve found a surprising solution that helps – it’s called “Digital Sandman” by a company called Holothink (http://www.digitalsandman.com). You listen to an audio program that helps your mind calm down into a “sleep ready state”. Works great and they probably have no idea how much it’s improved my own sex life!
Many factors affect sleep quality, and therefore sex frequency and quality. Proper diet, enough exercise, mental stimulation, adequate fluid intake—basically all the things we know make us healthy make us sexually potent as well. Healthy bodies are sexy bodies.
But in today’s society, attention to exercise, diet and all the rest, don’t always provide complete support for sound, refreshing sleep. Stress and worry can keep us tossing and turning even though we’re otherwise super-healthy. All these factors are involved. Sex is a built-in, god-given desire, the realization of which floods the body with feel-good hormones that improve our quality of life and ability to cope with what’s coming next. Deep sound sleep is similarly hard-wired into us. It is the setting for regeneration of cells and electro-chemical resetting for the next day of awakeness.
Anything that makes it easier to get good quality sleep has equal potential to improve your sex life.
Holothink offers many products designed to help you improve your mental functioning. Their Digital Sandman package (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) covers the full range of sleep issues with tracks including Power Napper, Sleep Support, Overcoming Insomnia and Digital Sandman to help you sleep better (and improve your sex life!).
Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
Try the New Deep Zen Demo
Announcing the all-new Deep Zen meditation
program.
Regards,
P.H.
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program.
This is the most exciting Holothink product
release to date.
The original version did the job it's intended
to do: produce a deep, meditative state.
But it wasn't the prettiest sounding program
to listen to while meditating.
After a year of testing different sounds, we
now have a truly beautiful program to offer
you.
If you like, try the new demo here:
DEEP ZEN DEMORegards,
P.H.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Holosync Vs. Holothink: Have you tried these techniques?
I bet you're starting to see some clear causes for your stress,
some of which you may not have noticed before. At a glance, how
much of your stress is caused by outside influences, and how much
is caused by your own habits and perceptions? If you're like most
people, probably the larger portion of your stress comes from
within you!
Today we're going to cover some great ways to deal with stress,
whether the causes are from your outer circumstances or within you.
There are three basic ways to deal with a stressful situation:
1) Take action to make changes. When a situation or person is
causing you to feel stressed, you might be able to change it
around. For example, if your boss is piling more and more work
onto your desk and you're struggling to keep up, you may be able to
speak to him or her about it and devise a solution. Or if you
can't make any changes to your job itself, you might consider
switching to a new job that is less demanding. (Of course, you'll
want to be sure that the job itself is what is causing your stress,
and not your own perceptions and beliefs! Otherwise your stress
will follow you to a new job as well.)
An alternative to this kind of change is to change your brainwave
state. When your mind is relaxed, your perceptions will change
too: http://www.holothink.com/
2) Change your perception. If there aren't any actions you can
take to reduce your stress, you can work on changing your
perception of the situation. For example, rather than feeling
resentful and overwhelmed by a heavy workload, you can choose to
see it as a challenge and come up with creative solutions to be
more efficient. You can find ways to make the work fun instead of
boring, or simply let go of any dire consequences your mind might
conjure up about not getting your work done on time.
Changing perceptions can be very challenging until you've
effectively quieted some of the noisy brainwave activity that can
cause you to feel anxious and stressed. With that noise quieted,
change can happen faster and easier. Try this while using the
Totally Tranquil program and see for yourself:
http://www.holothink.com/
3) Accept it. When you can't make changes and you've altered your
perception as much as you can, sometimes the only thing left to do
is accept that you're in a stressful situation and just deal with
it. I know that sounds difficult to do, but there is also a
pleasant sense of freedom and peace that comes along with
acceptance. Rather than fighting against your circumstances you
simply relax and let go of worry and frustration. You just cope,
moment to moment. Most often this will be a temporary choice
rather than a long-term one, but it does work if you're in a tough
situation and you can't get out of it quite yet.
Different situations will require different reactions, of course.
Go down your list of stressors now and ask yourself if you can take
action, change your perception or accept each one. Then do what
you can to reduce the stress you experience in each of those
situations.
Again, you won't be able to obliterate all stress from your life,
but with these 3 coping tools you should be able to reduce it by
quite a bit. Tomorrow I'll share some helpful relaxation
techniques that you can use on a daily basis to better manage what
stress you do have left.
Until then,
P.H.
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Friday, August 8, 2008
Holosync Review: Are your legs keeping you up?
Do you ever wonder about diseases or disorders that we have todaythat apparently didn't exist 100 years ago, or even 10 years ago?Seemingly the golden child of recent television pharmaceuticaladvertising, restless leg syndrome (RLS) was so named in the 1940sby Swedish neurologist Karl A. Ekbom. Descriptions of thecreepy-crawly feeling in the legs, however, date back to the 1600s. So why only in the last few years have we been questioned about itduring episodes of Law & Order SVU: "Do you have restless legsyndrome?"
Of course Direct-to-Consumer drug company advertising isresponsible for our just recently hearing of the condition. Whatabout RLS? Is it a disease, a disorder, a fake, a come-on? You-Tubehosts advertising spoofs for the condition and Rush Limbaugh issaid to have had an RLS spoof commercial running for years.
I think most of the ads are funny. And I wouldn't dream of taking apill to stop the feeling that I'm about to kick through the frontpassenger compartment of our car into the engine area because Imust stretch my legs or jump out of the vehicle and off the nearestbridge. Evidently, I "suffer from" RLS.
I'm not really fond of diseases, especially the popular ones,because they allow neither a life of comfort nor one of martyrdom.How can I suffer boldly in a disease claimed by 15% of thepopulation? (Most studies state 2.7%--still, it's not rare.) Ifirst noticed it as an automobile passenger on our weekend jauntsup to the high country--an elevation 3300 feet, minimum, above wherewe live, where, I might add, the air is thin enough at 3900 feetabove Los Angeles where I lived just previously!
At first I figured it was the cramped quarters, that I merelyneeded more leg room. However, a couple of shopping trips to said"high country" in our roomy sedan squashed that notion. I was sure,however, nothing was wrong with me, because, as I suggested before,
RLS is not a disease that can make one a hero.
As a person with a bent toward taking care of my body in as naturaland holistic a fashion as I can, I first reviewed "what haschanged?" I blamed it on carbon monoxide and shut off the outsideair sucking in fumes from the cars in front of us. But my legsstill twitched--or made me twitch them!
Then I suspected the 90-minute drive was taking me farther awayfrom water than I was used to at my desk, where I could sip everyfew minutes all day long, eventually consuming my recommendedcouple quarts a day. Hmmm. That led me to realize that on weekends,when we usually take our jaunts, I wasn't even sitting at my deskprior to going out. Perhaps I was cleaning house, working up asweat in the yard, hiking--any number of less-regulated than myfive-day-a-week activities. I may have been low on fluids beforeleaving home.
What happens next? I asked myself. With less fluid in the body,there will be less oxygen in the body, especially in theextremities. I don't know about you, but my legs are quite a bitlonger than my arms (which are a bit short for my height), so I wasgoing with "legs" as my extreme extremities.
I started gulping bottled water like my life depended upon it,because, as I indicated, if I didn't, I might have to fling openthe car door and hurl myself to the roadside so I could stretch mylegs farther than the leg-length room I had when the passenger seatwas pushed all the way back and I could barely reach the floorboard.
About the time I thought half a pint helped, I'd be attacked by theinvisible worms crawling under my skin, grinding my lower legmuscles into helpless compliance. I'd jerk and twist and adjust myseatbelt. Maybe a little more water would help. I wasn't surewhether the next pint did the trick or was it arriving at ourdestination and being able to get out of the car and walk that
helped?
Of course, I continued to contemplate how walking--and thewater--both contributed to my relief. Fortunately, I've not been oneto experience RLS very often in bed, so it hasn't usually kept meawake. I've felt it enough to empathize with all those who do,however. RLS, per se¸ is not about sleep disruption as much as itis about a discomfort that begs to be called incomprehensible pain,except...it isn't pain. It's merely "discomfort." A discomfort socompelling, one would....nevermind; people with RLS aren'tnecessarily psychotic!
Some of the early names for the condition were anxietas tibialis,crazy legs, Ekbom syndrome, hereditary acromelalgia, nocturnalmyoclonus, and Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome. You see a suggestion herefor a hereditary component. That needs to be investigated further.My immediate suspicion is lifestyle passed on from parents tochildren, on and on. But I could be wrong.
Another piece of scientific data is less at odds with my ownobservations than "heredity." That is anemia. Even slight anemia.What does that have to do with dehydration? Blood carries oxygen.Less blood (dehydration) equals less oxygen. Less iron in the blood(the oxygen-carrying workhorse) also equals less oxygen. Morecarbon monoxide in the blood--again, less oxygen.
It's possible our modern diet is less iron-rich. We get lessexercise. We drink more "beverages" than water. Meanwhile, it's avery uncomfortable condition that keeps millions of people awakewhen they'd rather be sleeping. I wonder if a tall glass of waterand a walk around the block a couple of hours before bedtime mighthelp us avoid $60/month in Requip prescriptions?
If you opt for medication, take it with lots of water and a quickwalk! It can't hurt.
And maybe better yet, before you start pumping your body full oftoxic drugs (can you believe the long list of side effects that come with these drugs . . . and people still take them!?) try the Digital Sandman program. If it helps - it helps. And if itdoesn't Holothink will refund 100% of your money (unlike yourdoctor and his drug making buddies).
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Of course Direct-to-Consumer drug company advertising isresponsible for our just recently hearing of the condition. Whatabout RLS? Is it a disease, a disorder, a fake, a come-on? You-Tubehosts advertising spoofs for the condition and Rush Limbaugh issaid to have had an RLS spoof commercial running for years.
I think most of the ads are funny. And I wouldn't dream of taking apill to stop the feeling that I'm about to kick through the frontpassenger compartment of our car into the engine area because Imust stretch my legs or jump out of the vehicle and off the nearestbridge. Evidently, I "suffer from" RLS.
I'm not really fond of diseases, especially the popular ones,because they allow neither a life of comfort nor one of martyrdom.How can I suffer boldly in a disease claimed by 15% of thepopulation? (Most studies state 2.7%--still, it's not rare.) Ifirst noticed it as an automobile passenger on our weekend jauntsup to the high country--an elevation 3300 feet, minimum, above wherewe live, where, I might add, the air is thin enough at 3900 feetabove Los Angeles where I lived just previously!
At first I figured it was the cramped quarters, that I merelyneeded more leg room. However, a couple of shopping trips to said"high country" in our roomy sedan squashed that notion. I was sure,however, nothing was wrong with me, because, as I suggested before,
RLS is not a disease that can make one a hero.
As a person with a bent toward taking care of my body in as naturaland holistic a fashion as I can, I first reviewed "what haschanged?" I blamed it on carbon monoxide and shut off the outsideair sucking in fumes from the cars in front of us. But my legsstill twitched--or made me twitch them!
Then I suspected the 90-minute drive was taking me farther awayfrom water than I was used to at my desk, where I could sip everyfew minutes all day long, eventually consuming my recommendedcouple quarts a day. Hmmm. That led me to realize that on weekends,when we usually take our jaunts, I wasn't even sitting at my deskprior to going out. Perhaps I was cleaning house, working up asweat in the yard, hiking--any number of less-regulated than myfive-day-a-week activities. I may have been low on fluids beforeleaving home.
What happens next? I asked myself. With less fluid in the body,there will be less oxygen in the body, especially in theextremities. I don't know about you, but my legs are quite a bitlonger than my arms (which are a bit short for my height), so I wasgoing with "legs" as my extreme extremities.
I started gulping bottled water like my life depended upon it,because, as I indicated, if I didn't, I might have to fling openthe car door and hurl myself to the roadside so I could stretch mylegs farther than the leg-length room I had when the passenger seatwas pushed all the way back and I could barely reach the floorboard.
About the time I thought half a pint helped, I'd be attacked by theinvisible worms crawling under my skin, grinding my lower legmuscles into helpless compliance. I'd jerk and twist and adjust myseatbelt. Maybe a little more water would help. I wasn't surewhether the next pint did the trick or was it arriving at ourdestination and being able to get out of the car and walk that
helped?
Of course, I continued to contemplate how walking--and thewater--both contributed to my relief. Fortunately, I've not been oneto experience RLS very often in bed, so it hasn't usually kept meawake. I've felt it enough to empathize with all those who do,however. RLS, per se¸ is not about sleep disruption as much as itis about a discomfort that begs to be called incomprehensible pain,except...it isn't pain. It's merely "discomfort." A discomfort socompelling, one would....nevermind; people with RLS aren'tnecessarily psychotic!
Some of the early names for the condition were anxietas tibialis,crazy legs, Ekbom syndrome, hereditary acromelalgia, nocturnalmyoclonus, and Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome. You see a suggestion herefor a hereditary component. That needs to be investigated further.My immediate suspicion is lifestyle passed on from parents tochildren, on and on. But I could be wrong.
Another piece of scientific data is less at odds with my ownobservations than "heredity." That is anemia. Even slight anemia.What does that have to do with dehydration? Blood carries oxygen.Less blood (dehydration) equals less oxygen. Less iron in the blood(the oxygen-carrying workhorse) also equals less oxygen. Morecarbon monoxide in the blood--again, less oxygen.
It's possible our modern diet is less iron-rich. We get lessexercise. We drink more "beverages" than water. Meanwhile, it's avery uncomfortable condition that keeps millions of people awakewhen they'd rather be sleeping. I wonder if a tall glass of waterand a walk around the block a couple of hours before bedtime mighthelp us avoid $60/month in Requip prescriptions?
If you opt for medication, take it with lots of water and a quickwalk! It can't hurt.
And maybe better yet, before you start pumping your body full oftoxic drugs (can you believe the long list of side effects that come with these drugs . . . and people still take them!?) try the Digital Sandman program. If it helps - it helps. And if itdoesn't Holothink will refund 100% of your money (unlike yourdoctor and his drug making buddies).
On behalf of Holothink - Peter Hill
Sunday, July 20, 2008
HoloSync And Holothink: The New Focus Optimizer
I finally did something I'd been trying to do for you and for every
Holothink customer for about six months ...
I CREATED THE VERY FIRST HOLOTHINK PROGRAM
THAT INSTANTLY ELIMINATES CHAOS, CRAZINESS,
DISARRAY & DISTRACTION FROM YOUR LIFE!
So if you're lazy, slothful and gluttonous DON'T listen to it
because you'll find yourself in hi-gear "nearly manic"
mega-productive mode!
I wanted to call it just "Chaos Killer" but my partner John thought
"Laser Focus" was a bit more humane and accurate.
"Laser Focus"
John listened to it just ONE TIME then went on an organizing and
production frenzy practically non-stop for 4 weeks...
And if you could only have seen his desk before that you'd realize
how AMAZING this really is.
He and other users of "Laser Focus" swear they ... "get more done in
an hour listening to this program than all day without it"
This is why I've worked so hard at producing this program for you...
It enables you to "focus directly on the tasks at hand" by
stimulating the areas of your brain that DEMAND that things "get
organized and done".
So if you've ever seen one of those cartoons where the main
character jumps into a rocket and launches at such a high rate of
speed that his face gets smooshed and he's pinned against the seat
and basically just has to hold on for the ride... then you have
some idea about the level of focus, attention and action you're in
for.
If you feel distracted at work (or simply just unmotivated) then
just popping on your headphones and listening to this (Holothink's
most powerful mind-altering program to date) INSTANTLY MOVE YOU
into action.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!!!
Unless of course you want to spend the entire night accomplishing
ALL the work you failed to get done in the last TWO WEEKS! It's
that powerful.
And the best part is, you can actually listen to this while you
work.
Forget your morning coffee, just take a 15 minute listen first
thing in the morning and you'll think you had a dozen espresso's
only WITHOUT the jitters...
It really is ROCKET FUEL for your brain!
Anyway - I've set up a special web page where you can check it out
for yourself, go to...
http://www.focusoptimizer.com
and let me know what you think.
Warm Regards,
Randolph
Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
Holothink customer for about six months ...
I CREATED THE VERY FIRST HOLOTHINK PROGRAM
THAT INSTANTLY ELIMINATES CHAOS, CRAZINESS,
DISARRAY & DISTRACTION FROM YOUR LIFE!
So if you're lazy, slothful and gluttonous DON'T listen to it
because you'll find yourself in hi-gear "nearly manic"
mega-productive mode!
I wanted to call it just "Chaos Killer" but my partner John thought
"Laser Focus" was a bit more humane and accurate.
"Laser Focus"
John listened to it just ONE TIME then went on an organizing and
production frenzy practically non-stop for 4 weeks...
And if you could only have seen his desk before that you'd realize
how AMAZING this really is.
He and other users of "Laser Focus" swear they ... "get more done in
an hour listening to this program than all day without it"
This is why I've worked so hard at producing this program for you...
It enables you to "focus directly on the tasks at hand" by
stimulating the areas of your brain that DEMAND that things "get
organized and done".
So if you've ever seen one of those cartoons where the main
character jumps into a rocket and launches at such a high rate of
speed that his face gets smooshed and he's pinned against the seat
and basically just has to hold on for the ride... then you have
some idea about the level of focus, attention and action you're in
for.
If you feel distracted at work (or simply just unmotivated) then
just popping on your headphones and listening to this (Holothink's
most powerful mind-altering program to date) INSTANTLY MOVE YOU
into action.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!!!
Unless of course you want to spend the entire night accomplishing
ALL the work you failed to get done in the last TWO WEEKS! It's
that powerful.
And the best part is, you can actually listen to this while you
work.
Forget your morning coffee, just take a 15 minute listen first
thing in the morning and you'll think you had a dozen espresso's
only WITHOUT the jitters...
It really is ROCKET FUEL for your brain!
Anyway - I've set up a special web page where you can check it out
for yourself, go to...
http://www.focusoptimizer.com
and let me know what you think.
Warm Regards,
Randolph
Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
Monday, March 10, 2008
WARNING: DO NOT listen to this before you go to bed
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!!!
Unless of course you want to spend the entire night accomplishing
ALL the work you failed to get done in the last TWO WEEKS! It's
that powerful.
And the best part is, you can actually listen to this while you
work.
Forget your morning coffee, just take a 15 minute listen first
thing in the morning and you'll think you had a dozen espresso's
only WITHOUT the jitters...
It really is ROCKET FUEL for your brain!
I've set up place for you to try out a demo here ...
http://focusoptimizer.com
and let me know what you think.
Warm Regards,
Randolph
PS - Because we've had some people like the demo so much they've
accessed it as many as 30 times (yes, THIRTY TIMES), we've had
to limit access to just two try's. It really is that powerful.
http://www.focusoptimizer.com
Unless of course you want to spend the entire night accomplishing
ALL the work you failed to get done in the last TWO WEEKS! It's
that powerful.
And the best part is, you can actually listen to this while you
work.
Forget your morning coffee, just take a 15 minute listen first
thing in the morning and you'll think you had a dozen espresso's
only WITHOUT the jitters...
It really is ROCKET FUEL for your brain!
I've set up place for you to try out a demo here ...
http://focusoptimizer.com
and let me know what you think.
Warm Regards,
Randolph
PS - Because we've had some people like the demo so much they've
accessed it as many as 30 times (yes, THIRTY TIMES), we've had
to limit access to just two try's. It really is that powerful.
http://www.focusoptimizer.com
Thursday, March 6, 2008
If you're LAZY, do not read this! :-)
I finally did something I'd been trying to do for you and for every
Holothink customer for about six months ...
I CREATED THE VERY FIRST HOLOTHINK PROGRAM
THAT INSTANTLY ELIMINATES CHAOS, CRAZINESS,
DISARRAY & DISTRACTION FROM YOUR LIFE!
So if you're lazy, slothful and gluttonous DON'T listen to it
because you'll find yourself in hi-gear "nearly manic"
mega-productive mode!
I wanted to call it just "Chaos Killer" but my partner John thought
"Laser Focus" was a bit more humane and accurate.
"Laser Focus"
John listened to it just ONE TIME then went on an organizing and
production frenzy practically non-stop for 4 weeks...
And if you could only have seen his desk before that you'd realize
how AMAZING this really is.
He and other users of "Laser Focus" swear they ... "get more done in
an hour listening to this program than all day without it"
This is why I've worked so hard at producing this program for you...
It enables you to "focus directly on the tasks at hand" by
stimulating the areas of your brain that DEMAND that things "get
organized and done".
So if you've ever seen one of those cartoons where the main
character jumps into a rocket and launches at such a high rate of
speed that his face gets smooshed and he's pinned against the seat
and basically just has to hold on for the ride... then you have
some idea about the level of focus, attention and action you're in
for.
If you feel distracted at work (or simply just unmotivated) then
just popping on your headphones and listening to this (Holothink's
most powerful mind-altering program to date) INSTANTLY MOVE YOU
into action.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!!!
Unless of course you want to spend the entire night accomplishing
ALL the work you failed to get done in the last TWO WEEKS! It's
that powerful.
And the best part is, you can actually listen to this while you
work.
Forget your morning coffee, just take a 15 minute listen first
thing in the morning and you'll think you had a dozen espresso's
only WITHOUT the jitters...
It really is ROCKET FUEL for your brain!
Anyway - I've set up a special web page where you can check it out
for yourself, go to...
Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
and let me know what you think.
Warm Regards,
PH
Holothink customer for about six months ...
I CREATED THE VERY FIRST HOLOTHINK PROGRAM
THAT INSTANTLY ELIMINATES CHAOS, CRAZINESS,
DISARRAY & DISTRACTION FROM YOUR LIFE!
So if you're lazy, slothful and gluttonous DON'T listen to it
because you'll find yourself in hi-gear "nearly manic"
mega-productive mode!
I wanted to call it just "Chaos Killer" but my partner John thought
"Laser Focus" was a bit more humane and accurate.
"Laser Focus"
John listened to it just ONE TIME then went on an organizing and
production frenzy practically non-stop for 4 weeks...
And if you could only have seen his desk before that you'd realize
how AMAZING this really is.
He and other users of "Laser Focus" swear they ... "get more done in
an hour listening to this program than all day without it"
This is why I've worked so hard at producing this program for you...
It enables you to "focus directly on the tasks at hand" by
stimulating the areas of your brain that DEMAND that things "get
organized and done".
So if you've ever seen one of those cartoons where the main
character jumps into a rocket and launches at such a high rate of
speed that his face gets smooshed and he's pinned against the seat
and basically just has to hold on for the ride... then you have
some idea about the level of focus, attention and action you're in
for.
If you feel distracted at work (or simply just unmotivated) then
just popping on your headphones and listening to this (Holothink's
most powerful mind-altering program to date) INSTANTLY MOVE YOU
into action.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!!!
Unless of course you want to spend the entire night accomplishing
ALL the work you failed to get done in the last TWO WEEKS! It's
that powerful.
And the best part is, you can actually listen to this while you
work.
Forget your morning coffee, just take a 15 minute listen first
thing in the morning and you'll think you had a dozen espresso's
only WITHOUT the jitters...
It really is ROCKET FUEL for your brain!
Anyway - I've set up a special web page where you can check it out
for yourself, go to...
Get Your FREE Instant Audio Relaxation HERE
and let me know what you think.
Warm Regards,
PH
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