How to Take Control of Your Health and Well Being

November 7, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Your health and well being are so important. Being in poor health impacts on every aspect of your life. Everyday tasks can be far harder to manage, and you may be limited to what you can and cannot do. These limitations can impact on your enjoyment of life and affect your well being. People often wait until they are suffering from the symptoms of an illness before seeking help. Instead, it is far better to take a proactive approach and to manage your health before it causes you problems. 

 

Trying to lead a healthy lifestyle may seem like common sense. However, for many people, it can be hard to make the changes needed to take control of their health and improve it. Unhealthy habits, poor routines and lifestyle choices can all take their toll over time. The problem is that it can be hard to recognize the damage that these habits do before it is too late. Habits are hard to break, and the idea of making significant changes to your lifestyle can feel overwhelming. Starting to make lifestyle changes can feel like a big step, which can put people off making a start on overhauling their health. If you are looking to improve your health, but it feels too hard to get started, these tips should help you to start making some changes, without feeling too overwhelmed.

 

Set Your Goals

 

To get started, try to think about what you actually want to achieve. Do you want to lose some excess weight to reach a healthy body mass index (BMI)? Do you want to be able to walk to the store without feeling out of breath? Taking some time to think about what improving your health means to you will help make it easier to achieve.

 

Don’t forget that everyone is different, so if you haven’t broken into a run for over 20 years, it probably isn’t a good idea to sign up for a marathon. Making your goals SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely will make it far easier to keep your motivation when trying to achieve them. Try not to compare your own health goals with other people’s. Making your goals realistic and specific to your individual needs will make you far more likely to achieve them.

 

Take Small Steps

 

Trying to achieve too much, too soon, will set you up for failure. It is far better to ease the pressure on yourself and set smaller goals, that are easier to achieve. Starting with small steps will help keep you motivated and make it easier for you to track your progress. Breaking down your goals into smaller steps will help you to feel far less overwhelmed by the changes you are making.

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Healthy Habits

 

Forming healthy habits and leaving the damaging ones behind is an essential part of any lifestyle overhaul. As everyone knows, habits are hard to break. Many people struggle to give up smoking and instead choose to use a vape device when trying to quit. People who drink regularly may decide to initially reduce their alcohol consumption, rather than trying to give it up entirely. Don’t forget that you will need to consult with your doctor before making any significant lifestyle changes.

 

Over time, unhealthy habits can be broken and replaced with healthy habits. This means that replacing a nightly visit to the pub after work can be replaced with a new, healthier habit such as a nightly gym session. Remember that new habits take time to form. Research shows that the average person takes 66 days to develop a new habit that sticks. This shows the importance of perseverance and using will power until your new behavior becomes second nature.

 

Self-Care

 

Self-care is at the heart of living a healthy life. Practicing self-care is something that many people struggle with. The fast pace of modern life can make it challenging to take care of yourself, especially if you rarely get any downtime. However, making self-care a part of your daily routine can make a real difference to both your health and well being. 

 

Self-care doesn’t mean that you need to book a spa day or spend a day doing nothing. On an everyday level, self-care is about making healthy food choices, ensuring that you get enough sleep and enjoying some regular, moderate exercise.

 

Remember that taking control of your health is an ongoing process. Don’t feel too disheartened if you experience setbacks. Instead, keep persevering, and you will see the results of your hard work for yourself.

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The Art of a Good Night’s Sleep

July 14, 2017 Leave a Comment

Getting a good night’s sleep can appear impossible especially when you live a busy lifestyle. Perhaps you have an extremely busy day that forces you to balance your work with your family, or perhaps you’re an entrepreneur that manages several businesses from the comfort of their home. Whatever the case may be, everyone deserves a good night’s rest and you are no exception to the rule no matter what you do.

 

So how can you get a good night’s sleep? There’s a certain art to it and it can be quite complicated to learn.  Everyone requires different amounts of sleep. Some people can get by with just a little bit, others prefer to have lots of rest time and some seem like they don’t sleep at all. Because all of our bodies are different (just like our lifestyles) it takes a bit of experimentation before you find the optimal amount of sleep your body needs. There are also external factors, such as your bedroom, that could affect the quality of your sleep.

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Preparing your body for sleep

 

The first thing to consider is preparing your body for bedtime. This sounds a little silly, but there’s a reason for it. You need to train your body and mind to recognize that bedtime means bedtime. If you practice the same nightly ritual, then your body will notice it and automatically adjust. Your body will slowly grow more tired and your mind will relax towards the end of your bedtime ritual. Before you know it, you’ll be asleep as soon as you get under the sheets and rest your head on your pillow.

 

If you’re unsure about nighttime rituals, then take a look at this informative article over at https://bembu.com/bedtime-rituals/ for some fantastic ideas. You’ll want to slowly wind down, so if you find that doing some light stretching or exercise helps your body relax, then do it at the start of your nightly ritual so your heart isn’t working faster as you get into bed.

 

Preparing your room for sleep

 

Next, you’ll also need to prepare your room for bedtime. Getting some quality linen and bedding from a company like http://www.linenalley.com/ is going to do wonders for your sleeping habits. If you aren’t comfortable in bed, then you’re going to twist and turn while you sleep, you’re going to find it hard to clear your mind and you’ll wake up stiff, sore and in pain. Try your best to find a mattress that fits your body as well. Memory foam mattresses are usually the best since they shape to your body, but some people find them to be extremely hot.

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Preparing your mind for sleep

 

Lastly, let’s not forget that you need to mentally prepare for sleep. This means cutting out any kind of caffeine a good 6 hours before bed so it doesn’t disturb your focus, and you should also kick out any kind of electronics from your bedroom. Leave your phone somewhere other than your nightstand, remove your laptop from the bed so you don’t associate bed with work, and don’t get into the habit of watching television before bed. Any kind of mental stimulation will ultimately affect your quality of sleep, so try your best to avoid it.

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Hot Summers Night: How To Get A Good Night’s Sleep

June 28, 2017 Leave a Comment

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Sleeping in hot weather is about as horrendous as a first world problem can get. All that tossing and turning, your sheets sticking to you as you roll over for the four-thousandth time, your sweat somehow becoming the strongest super-glue known to humankind. It’s one of the worst, and that is without even mentioning the side-effects of not getting any sleep which, let’s be honest, isn’t great. After all, sleep is one of those healthy habits we all need to get into the habit of doing.

 

That is why we have done our research, dug around, asked our most innovative friends for their advice, and come up with a list of little tips and tricks that can help you endure the warm summer nights and wake up feeling super-duper refreshed. So, without further ado, we bring to you a list of the best tried and tested means of keeping cool when your eyes are closed.

 

Sheet Splash

One of the best ways to keep yourself cool just long enough to fall asleep is to splash your sheets with ice cool water before you slip under the covers. We don’t mean fill up a bucket and toss it over your bed, we just mean sprinkle a bit on your sheets; a light misting if you will. This will help you cool down and prevent you sweating, which is exactly what you need in order to slip off into the land of nod.

 

Awesome Aircon

Aircon is fantastic for keeping you cool, but most people only used in the day because the costs can quickly add up when it is left on all night. Well, there are some tricks you can use to reduce the costs and allow you to catch some Zs. Home Comfort owner Ken Starr explains how a single maintenance check can restore your A/C device back to its factory settings, making it more efficient and cost-effective. The other thing you could do is plug it into a timer socket, which would prevent it from all night and switch off about half an hour after you start dreaming. That’s what we’re here for.

 

Power Down

If you are like the rest of society then you probably have a multitude of electronic devices on charge by your bedside table. Your phone, your tablet, your laptop, your Tamagotchi and whatever else. You may even have a bedroom TV and an alarm clock. However, by turning off all your plugs at the socket, not only will you be saving yourself some money and energy, you will also make your room cooler. The reason being, your plugs give off a significant amount of heat.

 

No Nakedness

It can be so tempting to get into your birthday suit when it gets really hot, but whipping off all your clothes is not the answer when it comes to getting a great night sleep. What you want to do instead is sleep in cotton pajamas, something light and airy. The reason being these will allow your skin to breath while any sweat is soaked up rather than clinging to your body. That means your sheets won’t come untucked every time you roll over.

 

Drink Awareness

What you drink in the hours before bed can make a huge difference to how well you are able to sleep, and that is without accounting for the hot, hot, hot weather. Booze will affect your ability to sleep even more when the night is warm. As such, drink something that is known to encourage a good night’s sleep, and take a glass of ice-cold water to bed with you. That way you’ll easily be able to regulate your temperature should you get too hot.

 

Ice Pack

When the winter settles in, we all love snuggling up with a hot water bottle and keeping warm that way. That’s why it is so worth going the way and making a nice ice pack that you can then snuggle up with when it is hot. All you need to do is fill a sock with rice, tie a knot in the end and put it in the freezer for about 20 minutes. Then take it to bed with you and place it gently on your pulse points – wrists, ankles, feet, temples – and feel your body temperature instantly drop. Hello, good night’s sleep.

 

Old-School

The big problem with having a fan in your room is that it just blows warm air about and no one wants to be in a bedroom where a hot desert wind is blowing about. That’s why it is worth making a few amendments to your fan’s abilities. First off, try filling a bowl with a large chunk of ice (or just loads of little chunks of ice) and placing that in front of the blades. As the ice melts, your warm wind will turn to a gorgeous cool wind. The other thing you could do is face your fan toward the open window. This will then pull the warmness away from your room and toss it outside, where it belongs.

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Get An Easier Home Life By Doing These 4 Things

June 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

The family home is more than just a house. It is the center of operations for the family unit, and even the busiest families spend a great deal of time there. But is your home setup to work for you and your family in the best way possible? Or it causing you unnecessary stress? Read on to find out.

Improve safety

One thing that can cause anxiety and stress in family life, which can contribute to frayed tempers and difficulties is concerns about safety in the home.

This can be inside safety, as in any dangers that might be problematic to the residents like steep stairs, scolding hot water, and slip and trip hazards. It can also refer to security issues such as window and door locks, burglar alarms, and the like.

Obviously, each issue needs to be identified and sorted according to what would be most useful. Inside issues can often be resolved by making small changes such as installing corner bumpers to sharp edges. Or laying rug grip to stop slips and trips, especially helpful if you have lots little ones that sometimes forget that they shouldn’t run indoors.

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Security issue can be a little more difficult to resolve, although things are finally getting easier with the many smart systems now on the market.

One thing to consider is installing CCTV that you can monitor from your phone or laptop. Even when you are out of the country for an added layer of a piece of mind. Also, upgrade windows to contain the best anti-tamper security features to ensure you minimize the risk of a break in as much as possible.

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Replace beds and mattresses  

One thing that we all need is sleep, and without enough of it, we can get stressed and ill. But getting the right amount of quality unbroken sleep is something that eludes many of us. This can be due to lots of different reasons that may need our attention such as an uncomfortable bed, too much light, or getting too hot in the night.

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In particular, getting too hot in the night can seriously affect the quality of our sleep, making it hard to nod off and difficult to not wake up throughout the night. But what can be done about this?

Well, one thing you can do is to change your mattress. This is because some mattresses are much worse at retaining the heat from your body during the night than others.

This is an issue that many people find with memory foam mattresses, but luckily there are now products out there like Nectar mattresses that include a cooling effect. Meaning that they will make it a lot easier to get a good night of unbroken sleep, even in the warmest of conditions.

Something that has the knock on effect on improving your mood and health, so you can be ready for any challenge the family and life throws at you the next day.

Eat at the table

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An incredible small change that you can make to get an easier home life is to bring the family together once a day around the dinner table. Eating a meal at the table instead of on our laps on trays can help improve your family life in all sorts of ways.

Firstly, it allows you to take your time over eating, enjoying your food, and even brings added awareness so you can stop eating when you are full.

Secondly, it a great time to devote to family life, where you can have conversations and catch up with each member of the family. Also checking on how they are doing and offering support if necessary.

Also, this will have a positive effect as you will feel more connected with your partner and kids, and the will feel the same. Giving this undivided attention can also really help when you have children, as then they don’t feel they are fighting for your focus.

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Get organized

There are many home and family blogs out there, extolling the avenues of being organized. All with lots of great tips on how to do. However, not many of the actually explain why being organized is going to make your home life easier.

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It’s because when you know where things are, and you have space to actually live in, you and the others around you are going to be less irritable and less stressed. Thus minimizing arguments.

Also, it’s important to remember here, that being organized isn’t an excuse to be regimented and inflexible. Being organized does take some focus and effort, but it should be done in a compassionate and measured way. As if you are spending all of your time and energy getting everything to be perfect, you will likely create more stress and uncomfort for you and you family. Something that negates the benefits of doing it in the first place.

Get on top of the cleaning

 

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By getting on top of the cleaning, I don’t mean that you have to spend your afternoons off on your hands and knees with a scrubbing brush. Yes, they say cleanliness is next to Godliness, but no one wants to grow up in a home that they are terrified to drop a crumb in, or that has plastic on the couch.

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In fact, the same aware but relaxed attitude applies to cleaning as it does to organization. If you hold on too tight, you won’t get the desired result of stress reduction due to living in a pleasant family home.

Instead, set a reasonable schedule that you can set down and pick up according to how busy you are and your energy levels at the time. It can also help to get the rest of the family to help you.

As not only does this get them to appreciate the work that goes into keeping the family home clean, meaning they will be more careful generally. But it also gets them in a great habit for later on in life as they aren’t going to expect that the magical cleaning fairy will come along and do it all for them when they move out.

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Your Messy Bedroom Disturbing Your Sleep?

June 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

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Your bedroom should be the most relaxing place in the home. But the reality for many parents is that becomes something of a cluttered mess, full of bits and bobs, laundry leftovers, and junk. And while your messy bedroom might be helping the rest of your home look OK, it certainly isn’t doing your sleep any favors. According to research, people with untidy rooms experience more sleep disruptions than those that keep their bedrooms nice and tidy. With this in mind, let’s take a look at some simple solutions to the cluttered bedroom conundrum.

Create a home for everything

It’s not much of a surprise that the bedroom quickly becomes a dumping ground – especially when you have kids. When there is a lot to do around the home, the simple solution is to hide away the mess, and your bedroom is often the ideal spot. But it’s important to stop doing this as soon as possible. If you don’t have enough storage around the house to give every item a home, invest in some. It makes tidying up so much easier when you have enough storage, and most importantly, means you don’t have to use your bedroom as a dump.

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Leave daytime life at the door

What goes on in the day often comes with us when we go to bed. It’s important to try and forget about the problems and stresses of the day, but it’s hard to do if you are surrounded by reminders. Don’t use the bedroom as a place to keep documents, bills, or work projects – leave them elsewhere in the home, so they have less ability to play on your mind. It’s the same with your electronic devices. Having a smartphone near your bed means you could be disturbed by notifications, or have work on your mind when you are trying to get to sleep.

Keep your bed clean – and cool

Make sure that you are washing your bed sheets and pillowcases at least once a week. And invest in some new covers, too – as you can view here, the sheets you choose can have a significant impact on your sleep quality, as some materials will help you keep cooler than others. Natural fibers are necessary, and you should also avoid choosing mattresses or pillows that have been made from allergen-free materials.

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Light and noise pollution

It’s not just mess, junk, and paperwork that are causing you clutter in the bedroom. Light and sound are also clutter of sorts, and you need to ensure you are doing all you can to block it out. Sources of light from outside, for example, could trick your brain into thinking it is time to get up, rather than time to go to bed. And outside noises will wake you up, too, so consider investing in some earplugs is a good idea. You also might have some success by sleeping with some form of white noise in your room – a bedroom fan or even an untuned radio might do the trick.

Hope these tips help – feel free to share your cluttered bedroom experiences below!

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Somnis Natural Sleep Aid

October 30, 2015 Leave a Comment

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I am one of those people who has a hard time stopping at night I work had all day and have several things going on at one time all day long. I guess I was mad like that because I have noticed even when I try and sit my legs keep moving. They do the same at night when I finally lay down at night I feel like my body is extremely exhausted but my mind, eyes and legs can not shut down.

This has been a problem for me for a long time. This is why I was excited to give the Sominis natural sleep aid a try. I loved the idea that it was all natural because I hate taking medicine and fight it as long as I can. I started taking these about a week ago and immediately could tell my sleeping habit has changed. After I take it I wait about 15 minutes and lay down, I feel relaxed, not like in a daze, but more like in a relaxed state. My legs don’t jump and my eyes start to close quickly.

I can’t tell you how happy my husband it because I keep him up tossing and turning so much. I love how I feel in the morning, completely rested with no drowsy feeling. Check this out here, if you have trouble sleeping you will love it:

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