Thursday, June 12, 2008

Anxiety and Panic Attacks — What Has Worked For Me

By Kathy Love Anxiety is very wide spread today because of our busy lifestyles, poor eating habits and exposure to chemicals and pollutants. I myself have struggled with anxiety and panic attacks for about 14 years. I have tried lots of different ways to cope or possibly cure my anxiety and thought I should share a few things that have worked for me. One thing I learned is that the adrenal glands are very important in understanding anxiety. They are responsible for dealing with stress to the body in whatever form it takes. That means both mental and physical stress. In order to help your anxiety, you need to improve your adrenal health. Anxiety is almost always a sign of adrenal fatigue or overload. The first thing you need to do is support your adrenal glands with the supplements below: Vitamin C (2,000-4,000 mg/day) Vitamin E w/mixed tocopherols (800 IU/day) Vitamin B100 complex Pantothenic acid (1000-1500 mg/day) Magnesium citrate (800-1200 mg) Liquid trace minerals Adrenal Glandular Two excellent herbs that will support your adrenal glands and give you immediate relief are ashwagandha and Siberian ginseng. Ashwagandha has been shown to have a sedating effect on the body and helps to rebuild the digestive and nervous system. I especially like using it to help me fall asleep when I’m feeling restless at bedtime. Siberian ginseng has been used traditionally to stimulate and nourish the adrenal glands and increase mental alertness. I have also benefited from adding salt to my diet. First thing in the morning and before that time of day when you’re the most tired, put 1/8 to 1/2 teaspoonful of sea salt or Celtic salt into an 8 oz. glass of water and drink. I know you’ve been told salt isn’t good for you but if your adrenal glands are not functioning up to par you most likely have a sodium deficiency. Sea salt or Celtic salt are so much better for you than table salt and also supply up to 80 other minerals. Adrenal fatigue can also cause low blood sugar or hypoglycemia, so eliminating all sugars from your diet will help tremendously. Instead of three meals a day eat five to six smaller meals or snacks throughout the day to keep your blood sugar balanced and you will feel better. Make sure these snacks are healthy foods with an equal ratio of fats, proteins and complex carbs. You will do much better on a high protein diet along with healthy sources of saturated fats such as butter, coconut oil, and olive oil. Eliminate or reduce the amount of coffee you drink as it stimulates the adrenals and can cause further stress. For the same reason also avoid chocolate. If you find yourself in the middle of a panic attack, here are some tips to help you get through it. First thing you need to do, believe it or not, is relax. Sit down or lay down immediately. Begin to breath in very slowly and then exhale very slowly. Tell yourself that everything is alright. I thought this sounded so simplistic the first time I heard it, but it works. If you respond to the panic attack you begin to fuel the attack and make it worse. As most panic attacks are caused by a dive in blood sugar you should then drink a glass or two of diluted fruit juice (all fruit no sugar). This will quickly bring your blood sugar back up to normal and you’ll feel a lot better. Eat something after the juice that has a combination of protein, fat and complex carbs. This will make sure that your blood sugar will not drop again right away. I have found that supporting my adrenal glands with the above supplements, herbs and diet has stopped my panic attacks completely and has improved my anxiety greatly. I’m enjoying how calm I feel and I’m loving it. Kathy Love is the creator and webmaster for http://www.natural-cure-remedy.com where she has compiled information about natural solutions for various health problems. For more indepth information about adrenal fatigue and anxiety go to http://www.natural-cure-remedy.com/cures.html Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kathy_Love http://EzineArticles.com/?Anxiety-and-Panic-Attacks—-What-Has-Worked-For-Me&id=276142 guaranteed personal loan approval online loan officer new york -guide -directory -jobs houston online used car loan payday loan settlement companies
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Sunday, June 8, 2008

How to Know When It is Over

By Fiona M A young married woman sits in front of her computer typing a question into a website. She explains that she has fallen out of love with her husband so, along with her three kids, she is thinking she should get him to leave and she wants anyone who is listening in cyberspace to advise her. Is this what she should do? What would you do in her position? How do you know when a relationship is over? Well, a relationship is over whenever you want it to be over. The question to ask is should it be over? If you are compatible with your partner, so you share the same goals, priorities, values and aspirations and you want the same things as each other, the chances are good that your relationship should not be over. Like the young woman typing her question into the Internet, it might be that with some nurturing, romance and care, your relationship can grow stronger and more fulfilling for both of you. Of course, in instances of abuse, it is time to leave (and quickly). Abuse takes many forms, you do not have to punch someone to be abusive, you can mentally, sexually or emotionally abuse your partner too. But if you think you are in danger, or your children are in danger, you should immediately remove you and the children from the environment that presents the risk. No relationship is perfect, not even the very good ones. You live in fairyland if you are waiting for the perfect relationship. Either that or you have watched too many Disney princess movies. The bottom line is that no relationship is perfect. Even the very good, strong relationships have their bumps and scrapes as two people come together and try to harmoniously co exist as one couple. If you are waiting for perfection, you will wait for a very long time, and you will have many separations along the way. Be aware of yourself. Are you afraid of commitment? Do you drive potentially good partners away because you have expectations of them that it is impossible for them to meet? Good couples get cross with one another, they argue because they have a difference of opinion, they forget important dates just like everyone else. The difference is that they share important values, priorities and attitudes in common and they are both willing to invest in making the relationship work over the long haul. Everything changes when children are involved With children involved, as there were in the case of this young woman, you owe it to your children to be sure that you have exhausted all means of fixing your relationship problems. Why? Because it is the children that often bear the emotional scar of a split between their parents and they may carry this scar for their whole lifetime. Exhausting all means may mean undergoing some counseling (either alone or as a couple) or making a personal commitment to each other that you will both work at the relationship to see if you can get it back on track. If this does not work, the question that decides the stay or go outcome of the relationship is whether you and your partner are setting the right example for your children. A couple can continue to live as a couple with no arguments, but with no fulfilling relationship either. Is this what you want your children to accept is normal? Do you want them to aspire to have a relationship just like yours? You both serve as their role models and you must take this responsibility very seriously. Life is too short If you do not have children, the pain of separating is not necessarily any less, but time and space helps people heal and it tends to be easier to move on since you do not need to keep in regular contact with your former partner because of your kids. Life is too short to waste on the wrong person. Every day should be a day that you live your life to the fullest in every way you can imagine. It is too short to be wasted on too many tears, too many fights, too many low points. And the world is an immensely big place and there are a great many people in it that you can meet. One of whom may be just the person you have been waiting for. For the full article, including what to do if you have separated and you realize it is a mistake, please visit www.whentoseparate.com Fiona Mackenzie is the author of How To Know: When To Separate a practical eBook that deals with the relationship topic of how to know when it is over. “How To Know: When To Separate” includes tips, strategies and techniques used by the author to manage the end of her relationship and learn how to be happy once more. For more articles and help, visit us online at http://www.whentoseparate.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Fiona_M http://EzineArticles.com/?How-to-Know-When-It-is-Over&id=464038 payday installment loan one hour loans online for bad credit magnum cash loans pay day loan franchise
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Be Careful With Loans For Bad Credit

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Tim_Gorman]Tim Gorman If you’re saddled with debt or find yourself in an emergency situation where you need cash urgently, it is possible to get loans for bad credit. Loans for bad credit will not ostracize you for bad or zero credit. Loans for bad credit will get the ball rolling immediately, sometimes too fast. How could loans for bad credit be too fast? Well, if you get loans for bad credit within a few hours or overnight, you may not have time to actually realize what you’re getting in to. The truth is, with loans for bad credit, as with any other loan, there will be interest attached. Let’s say you need a mere one hundred dollars to tide you over this week. The interest probably won’t be high for this particular loans for bad credit, but if it’s even just eight and a half percent, you’ll end up repaying the loans for bad credit with one hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents. Not a big deal, right? True. But it can become a big deal if you need more money in your loans for bad credit. If you borrow a larger amount from your loans for bad credit, such as three thousand dollars (which nearly all online loans for bad credit tout as a possibility) you’ll end up owing between two hundred and fifty five dollars interest to four hundred and fifty dollars interest, all on top of the three thousand dollars you originally borrowed. This will become a problem if you apply for more loans for bad credit than you can adequately handle. All that’s needed to avoid this pitfall is some common sense and patience. If you can borrow money from friends or family and put off your need for loans for bad credit, then eventually loans for bad credit can and will be eradicated once and for all. Tim Gorman is a successful webmaster and publisher of Military-Loans-Online.com an online website that offers money saving rates on auto, home, bad credit, [http://www.military-loans-online.com/payday-loans.html]pay day loans and other free loan information that you can view in the privacy of your own home. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tim_Gorman http://EzineArticles.com/?Be-Careful-With-Loans-For-Bad-Credit&id=27462 no credit check homes in humble texas project pay day instant approval cash advance wilmington unsecured personal loans australia
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