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Sleep the key to Learning

We all know that sleep is an essential part of life, but just how essential is it? Most of us think of the rejuvenating qualities of sleep when we think about how sleep benefits us. It is easy to spot how much more awake and revitalised we feel in the morning, but scientists are starting to discover...

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Sleep and Heart Health

We typically sleep for around eight hours a day, which is around a third of a day. Therefore, we generally spend up to a third of our lives asleep (or more when we are teenagers!), so what on earth is it for and what benefits do we get from being a sleep? Before discussing this, a brief caveat: while...

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Sleep and Body Repair

We usually sleep for about eight hours a day, which is about a third of a day. Thus, we usually spend about a third of our lives asleep, so what on earth is it for and what benefits do we get from being a sleep? Before discussing this, a brief caveat: while there are numerous theories on why we sleep...

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Relaxation Techniques For A Better Sleep

We all have those nights where we lie there, tossing and turning, desperate to get to sleep, yet slumber is evading us, just out of reach. Generally, thanks to Murphy’s Law, these always seem to be the nights before really important days, where we need to be at our best. If you have had this...

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Kava the sleep secret of the South Pacific

There are a million reasons why we struggle to sleep. For some people, it is a physical problem, no matter how relaxed and unstressed they are, no matter how calm and tired they are, they struggle to fall asleep. For others, it is psychological, they are depressed, or stressed, or anxious, and this...

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The effects of Hypnosis on Sleep

We all know about hypnosis. You have probably been to a show where a bunch of unwitting volunteers have been soundly embarrassed by the hypnotist as he or she has made them do any number of foolish or silly things that they normally wouldn’t. Hypnosis is far more than a cheap parlour trick...

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Is What You Are Consuming Affecting Your Sleep?

They say that you are what you eat. It is not hard to see the truth in that saying. However, that saying might have even more applicability than just as the raw building blocks of our body. It could also be applied to our psychological well being. There are a number of ways that our food and drink...

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Is Light Affecting The Way You Sleep?

If you are having trouble, you need to work through all the potential causes. There are a variety of different issues that can inhibit sleep, from physical disturbances through to psychological troubles. To try and remedy your insomnia, you need to work out exactly what it is that is hindering your...

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How Music Can Play An Integral Part In Your Sleep

Sleep is a normal part of life for most of us, something that we don’t think about that often because compared to the rest of our lives it is, let’s face it, pretty boring. It is a big non-event, you just lie there and nothing happens. While this is true for most of us, there are a significant...

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Good sleep the key to weight loss?

Weight loss is one of the most desired conditions on the planet. It seems you can’t go a week without there being a new and revolutionary diet that is guaranteed to work. It also seems that you can’t go a week without discovering that last week’s fad diet was all a gimmick and it...

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Feng Shui and Sleep

Our bodies and minds are incredibly sensitive to our surroundings. There are so many levels of awareness that we do not know about. Some are subconscious and some are super conscious. We just kind of cruise along in the middle, not knowing about how our surroundings impact on our lives. Feng Shui...

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Ayurveic Medicine for treating insomnia

Sleep is something most of us don’t put a lot of thought into. It is something that we do at the end of the day. We get in bed and drift off, no big deal. However, for many people, it is their nightly nemesis, their endless battle. They struggle to fall asleep and spend large swathes of the...

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