Emotional Freedom Technique

Imagine having all your negative thoughts, memories and behaviors vanished. Imagine having the confidence to accomplish anything you want. Imagine having the independence to do what you previously fear.

And how about a healthy, pain-free body? And would you enjoy freedom over your addiction for smoking… drugs, coffee, alcohol… or liberty to remove just about every unbeneficial feeling or behavior causing you harm - in minutes?

These are just some of the remarkable advantages and fringe benefits you can have with perhaps the most powerful alternative healing technique you’ll ever discover.

Hard to believe? Perhaps. But I’m not asking you to believe anything just yet, until you see evidence for yourself.

All I ask is that you refrain from disbelieving while I show you my proof. It will take just a few minutes, yet the rewards can be enormous because from all over the world, people who used this technique have later reported improvements in:

• Intense bad memories
• Depression
• Uncontrolled anger
• Unrestrained sadness
• Obstructive thought habits
• Hatred for self & other
• Traumas
• Stress
• Panic attack/Unfocused thoughts
• Procrastination
• And more!

Now what if I told you the list above is only a fraction of what’s possible to improve with? What if you have thousands of other negative thought patterns, behaviors, emotional responses or psychological barriers… and you can now eliminate them as you want, whenever you want to?

If mental or physical barriers seem to trouble you and drift you apart from the life you dream of… and you have deep desires to make positive changes happen in your life right now—then this is surely, going be one of the most important letters you ever read.

Before we show you the ‘full scoop’ however, let’s first see how it all started, shall we?

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), the Art of Tapping to Release
All Negative Emotions Stored in Your Memory

My name is Magnus and I’ve been teaching EFT for several years.

Because I couldn’t restrain myself any further seeing people living their lives in pain every day—all without this ‘half-miracle’ technique to alleviate their sufferings and live the life they want (like how hundreds and thousands of fortunate and pleased insider practitioners from all corners of the world are currently benefiting from it every day)…

I’ve finally decided to combine all the most effective, fastest and efficient EFT techniques into one suitable method to be made known and easy for anyone willing to learn it to discover for their own.

And even though EFT can be used to give relief to the ill (by reasons you’ll soon realize as you read down this page), what I’m most passionate to share with you is how you can use this technique to gain freedom and control over your mind once again.

In fact when you have this area solved, your body will begin to naturally respond in such a way so it’s immune to most physical obstructions… allow you to live with your mind in harmony—and give you a state of mind so powerful, so focused & so dependable you’ll feel close to being invincible.

Most of all, your results will last, and whenever new negative patterns emerge you’ll get to tap them away. It’s like having full dictating power over your entire life from now on.

I’m really intrigued about EFT because of its sheer power in helping people relieve their most unwanted problems. Just the thought of having such ability to never be affected by bad memories, behavior patterns and much more would already get my heart racing fast!

Realizing you can learn what I’ve discovered throughout these years, I knew there had to be a widespread way to let you and all other troubled friends in the world to benefit from this technique.

That’s why I’ve dedicated the last few years into studying it, gathering my discoveries and combining what I realized into one amazing resource for everyone to find out. And you’re about to reap all the rewards from my efforts in a while…

Now I like to refer EFT as Tapping because it’s easier to understand for most people. For this reason, we’ll call it Tapping as we continue!

How Tapping Works

By now you’re probably wondering why Tapping works, and how exactly does it give you the results you’re after.

Well it all comes from China.

According to the Chinese, our human body is comprised of meridian points where ‘Chi’ flows. The reason we feel feelings in different parts of the body, is because each feeling is held in a different meridian.

For example we tend to feel nervous feelings in our stomach, angry feelings in our forehead, stressed feelings in our shoulders.

When energy flow is blocked and unbalanced somewhere along that meridian in our body, it will cause different ailments and dysfunctions to our mental or physical health.

That is why in the beginning, people use acupuncture to balance out the ‘Chi’ flow of an ill person’s body. However, what eventually came out of research now shows you can send similar ‘shockwaves’—like when needles are poked into the body and stimulating meridian points—simply by Tapping on them!

So instead of having to get immobile putting needles all over your body, Tapping can now give you the same results anytime you want and at anywhere you choose to do it.

Simple and Easy to Learn

As you will soon discover, Tapping is most of the time same in its sequence. The biggest difference between what I’m about to teach you and what others show will be the advanced Tapping methods & inductions involved to help you gain freedom & control over your mind once again.

With what I’m about to reveal, you’ll understand exactly what to tap when you have a problem. You’ll know how to move on if Tapping doesn’t seem to resolve your problems fully—which aren’t taught in basic EFT guides.

(Tip*: When it works, you’ll feel immediate relief & confidence on what your mind previously fears or feels uncomfortable with.)

You see, sometimes it works instantly with issues you identify on first impression; sometimes there are little subtle reasons generating destruction power behind struggles most people wouldn’t think would matter.

Once you tap them, it’s done. But until you work out what they are, they can still mess you up. So what’s the solution to get results fast? We’ll touch on that in a minute, but let’s first take a quick view on how most of your upsetting problems come about!

How Do Your Negative Thoughts & Emotional Responses Come About

From an excerpt of my notes after years of research: “There is a basic mechanism by which the human mind associates negative feelings with memories as they are created in present time. When we are later unconsciously reminded of the memory, we feel the feeling.

This is an animalistic survival mechanism evolved to protect us from danger and warn us against repeating actions which, in the past threatened our survival.

In order to respond very fast to danger, this survival mechanism generalizes on a wide scale. It also matches current situations to past memories in a loose way. With the complexities of modern life, it becomes confused and sometimes goes wrong on caution, triggering inappropriate feelings in certain situations.

Because of this reason, our survival mechanism is responsible for the overwhelming mental and emotional problems (including inconveniences such as severe success barriers, social anxieties, failing to maintain a happy relationship and more) we experience every day.

Each negative feeling corresponds to a similar portion of physical tension held somewhere in the body, which wastes energy and restricts the flow of blood and lymph (otherwise known as ‘Chi’).”

This explains why you will stay in a troubled or stressed state if negative feelings are persistently stimulated in your body. When this happens, your body uses more resources on maintaining a fight or flight response rather than maintaining your health and wellbeing as a person!

But with Tapping, you can now eliminate all these problems. And you can eliminate them fast.

To hand you my advanced ‘secrets’ to Tapping your problems away in the shortest period of time, I have compiled my researches and knowledge in one book.

Yes, after days and nights jotting my everyday experience, leaving out what’s unnecessary, compiling what is crucial to know and use in order to tap away people’s most disturbing negative thoughts… memories… emotions… behavior patterns—almost all you can think of removing from your life…

Finally I’ve gathered a series of valuable lessons to teach anyone—no matter what conditions they’re in—how to relieve and eliminate their deepest problems to reaching their better self, to gain freedom & control over their mind and get what they deserve again in wealth, health & relationships!

It piled a 134-page manuscript from every hard-earned experience I’ve gone through in the past years, advanced Tapping ‘secrets’ for self-development and relevant stories of how you can apply what works like magic for many others into your life as well (and you can learn them all within one day!)—

I truly believe you’ll be a changed person if you but follow the step-by-step instructions and insights revealed.

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Reiki for Natural Stress Relief

Reiki is one of the oldest techniques for natural stress relief.

This spiritual practice was developed in Japan by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist, in 1922. Since then, reiki continues to be used as a healing treatment for stress, anxiety and other emotional as well as physical ills. Reiki is derived from 2 Japanese terms 'rei' and 'ki'. The first word means "Wisdom of God or a Higher Being" and the second term means "life force energy". As such, this natural stress relief treatment, using transliteration, could also mean "universal life force energy".

So what does reiki look like in practice? In general, the reiki practitioner uses the "hands on", palm healing technique. People who undergo this natural stress relief treatment are fully clothed and lie down in a quiet and relaxing environment. The practitioner then places his palms on or over the patient in seven (7) classic positions, holding each position for approximately 3 - 5 minutes before moving on to the next. These positions correspond to the seven chakras (energy centers) of the body. The practitioner acts as a conduit for the reiki energy to flow into the recipient's body and to wherever needed for maximum healing benefit.

Reiki healing can also be administered remotely. The physical distance between practitioner and recipient does not affect the efficacy of the treatment. The long distance session can be scheduled for mutual convenience but a Reiki practitioner can transmit healing energy at any time.

Reiki treatment is a subjective experience that can vary from session to session. Sometimes, the benefits of the treatment are obvious while the effects are more subtle other times. Trust! A session is usually very relaxing with the recipient feeling peaceful and secure. He or she may also experience warmth, tingling and/or floating sensations. Reiki raises the recipient's vibrational frequency and re-opens the body's energy flow, allowing healing at a cellular level. It has helped all forms of illness and negative conditions and works well with traditional medical and psychological treatments. The Reiki energy flowing from healer to client can release grief, anger, anxiety, sadness, confusion, insecurities, fear and other negative feelings. This emotional release will invoke a calm state followed by a more energized body newly freed from the burden of stored negative emotions. Can you see why this is such a powerful natural stress relief treatment?

Like most natural stress relief methods, Reiki is very safe. No drugs or additional apparatus are needed. The method is popular in Japan, around the world and has gained currency in America in recent years as a treatment for emotional and physical dis-ease. Costs vary due to geographical differences but generally you can expect to pay from $25 to $100 for a reiki treatment depending on session length, the healer's experience and training level as well as the type of treatment administered (remote v. in-house). So if you're looking for a natural stress relief method to restore balance and reduce stress, you'll want to consider Reiki.

Jennifer Purcell is a stress management expert. After suffering for many years with unmanageable stress and anxiety, she stopped being a victim and found a way out for herself. After years of research and testing, she has brought together some of the best stress remedies she used to transform her life. If you want to go from high stress and anxiety to managing and reducing your stress effectively, then Jennifer is the right person for you. By incorporating a few techniques into your daily routine, you can transform your life as well.

Jennifer's hands on experience and success has stoked a passion in her to help others avoid the pitfalls of stress and reclaim their lives. She now runs a website dedicated to educating her readers about effective and natural alternatives to medication for reducing stress and successful stress management.

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Adaptogens - The Key to Stress Resistance and Stress Treatment

When a human is under chronic stress from one or more of the four daily stressors, some systems in the body shut down and others are activated.   The daily stressors include mental, physical, emotional, and environmental stress. Some of the systems that shut down include metabolism, digestion, circulation, and immune system function. The organs involved can be seriously slowed down until the body receives a signal that the stress is over.

Adaptogens to the rescue! This unique group of plants, given in the proper balance, has the ability to send the signal that the crisis is over. There is a rapidly growing following of people who now take these adaptogens and their stories of healing are amazing.

Where did these adaptogens come from?   During the 1940s, over 1,200 scientists from Russia were studying and cataloging the nutritional value of plants. More than 4,000 plants were tested in an effort to find the perfect performance enhancing formula to give to their top athletes, ballerinas, and cosmonauts. The lead scientist, Dr. Nicholai Lazarov, discovered a particular family of 10 plants he called adaptogens.

These unique plants thrive in some of the harshest environments in the world, the Tunguska area of Siberia is one of them. They have the ability to create a balance in the human body, allowing cells to adjust to stress.

Long term testing of different adaptogens blends was conducted in Russia, starting in the 1950s. The studies were conducted primarily on factory workers and miners. Among other positive results, Illness and disability days dropped significantly.   In the 1970s and 1980s, when Russian athletes seemed to dominate the Olympic Games, there was suspicion of steroid use. In fact, it was adaptogens that were being given to the athletes which helped improve performance.   With the powerful nutrient delivery systems of today, adaptogen blends and their stress fighting ability have become even more effective.   Stress has the ability to make us feel bad because of the physical response of slowing down and shutting down systems. Damage to our body is even possible with repeated or chronic stress. Adaptogens will help our body functions balance and return to normal.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

There are many post traumatic stress disorder treatment choices.

Practitioners offering PTSD treatments range from medical doctors to snake oil salesman. Avoiding the latter can be tricky. In the last few years PTSD has gained attention, and thus con artists offering cures for it have proliferated.

But until recently, PTSD was ignored by established medicine, so medical doctors are still learning what works and what doesn't. To make things more complicated, there is no one cure that fixes everyone's post traumatic stress. This leaves you with symptoms you can not tolerate, but little evidence to help you separate the scams from the treatments that might actually work for you.

So how do you tell if a treatment is a viable, but unproven method, or if it simply a way to separate you from your money?

First a quick rundown of the most common treatment options.

There are two approaches to treatment: Traditional, western medicine is all about fixing what is broken. It treats your physical symptoms and it includes medications for pain, for sleep, and to fix the messed up chemistry of your brain. Alternative medicine is holistic and relies heavily on eastern healing practices. It seeks to reunite the broken pieces of your body and spirit. It includes acupuncture, herbs, Eastern movement practices such as Yoga, Tai Chi, and Qigong, meditation, and prayer. Alternative medicine tends to be gentler, and less invasive, than traditional medicine. It is also slower. A prescription from your MD may show results in a few days, herbal remedies typically show results in a few weeks or months.

By far, the most common and best proven post-traumatic treatment is talk therapy. Talk therapy comes in two types - individual and group. Individual is all about you. It is you, one on one, with a counselor. Group talk therapy is well, a group - a group of trauma survivors, a work group, a family group.

Talk Therapy "Plus" is more than just words. You talk about what happened, but the treatment goes beyond talk. This includes options like hypnosis, exposure therapy (to desensitize you), somatic experiencing (to release the trauma stored in your muscles), EMDR (to reset your traumatized brain), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (to change your behavior patterns), and tapping or EFT (to reset your emotions).

So how can you tell if a post traumatic stress disorder treatment is a scam? Here are some warning signs to look for:

1. Practitioners claim it works for everyone.
2. You must decide immediately or the price goes up.
3. Your reasonable questions are met with evasion.
4. The "educational material" they offer looks like an used car lot sales flyer.
5. Their "educational material" uses a lot of superlatives - best, always, never, only.
6. They promise instant results with little effort, but lots of your dollars.
7. They promise permanent results with little effort, but lots of your dollars.

Curing post traumatic stress disorder is a process that requires time and effort. You won't be cured overnight. Start with your most disabling symptom. Treat it first. Maybe you need anti-depressants to help you find the energy and ambition to pursue additional treatment.

There is no pill to cure PTSD. You will have to face what happened to you, your trauma experience. That is the key to curing your symptoms. Most people do that with some form of talk therapy. Explore the plus options, because words alone may not be enough. Everyone's trauma experience is different, so everyone's successful combination of treatments will be different. Watch out for con artists, but be open to trying different treatment options. Your cure is out there.

About Author:
Robert Mantell, Ph.D., C.M.C., C.M.Ht. shares more about post-traumatic stress disorder treatment and more information on how to heal from post-traumatic stress on her site at http://www.freedom-from-trauma-phobias-and-anxiety.com/

Hair Loss Causes and Risk Factors

Interesting Facts About Hair And Hair Loss

Hair loss is related to the tendency of hair follicles to stop producing hair growth. Partial or complete loss of hair is called alopecia. Hair loss usually develops gradually and may be patchy or diffuse.

Facts About Hair And Hair Loss

• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
• The average scalp contains about 100,000 hairs.
• Roughly 100 hairs are lost from your head every day.
• Each individual hair survives for an average of 4 - 7 years, during which time it grows about half an inch a month.
• You need to lose about 50% of your hair before hair loss becomes noticeable.
• In the United States, 30 million women experience hereditary hair loss. 70% of women with thinning hair can attribute it to hereditary hair loss.
• Hereditary hair loss or androgenetic alopecia is the most common form of hair loss for men, representing more than 95% of all male cases.
• Androgenetic alopecia affects many more men than women. About two-thirds of men experience some degree of appreciable hair loss by the time they are 35 years old, and about 85% have significantly thinning hair by age 50.
• In the United States, there has not been an elected bald President since the television age began.

The Most Common Cause Of Hair Loss
The most common cause of hair loss is genetics - inherit the tendency to lose hair from either or both of parents. The medical term for the genetic predisposition for hair loss is "androgenetic alopecia".

In androgenetic alopecia, the genes affect how the hair grows. They trigger a sensitivity to a class of hormones called androgens, including testosterone, which causes hair follicles (which hair grows from) to shrink. Shrinking follicles produce thinner hair and eventually none at all. Thus, androgenetic alopecia is caused by the body's failure to produce new hairs and not by excessive hair loss. Heredity also affects the age at which you begin to lose hair and the developmental speed, pattern and extent of your baldness.

Androgenetic alopecia accounts for more than 95% of hair loss in men. By the age of 35 two-thirds of American men will experience some degree of appreciable hair loss and by the age of 50 approximately 85% of men have significantly thinning hair.

Men generally develop bald spots on the forehead area or on the top of the head. In men, the hairs on the top of the head have a genetic sensitivity to the male hormone testosterone while the hairs on the sides and back of the head do not possess this genetic trait and therefore are not affected. For this reason hairs removed from the sides and the back (donor hair) will maintain their genetic predisposition when transplanted and continue to grow when moved to the top of the head where hair loss has occurred.

For woman, female pattern baldness is the most common type of hair loss. It can begin at puberty, but is most often seen after menopause. Women have an overall thinning of the hair throughout the scalp while the frontal hairline generally remains intact.

Other Hair Loss Causes And Risk Factors

Hair loss is not usually caused by a disease, but is related to aging, heredity, and testosterone. In addition to the common male and female patterns from a combination of these factors, other possible causes of hair loss, especially if in an unusual pattern exists, include:

• Side effects of medications or medical treatments. Certain drugs used to treat gout, arthritis, depression, heart problems and high blood pressure may cause hair loss in some people. Drugs that can cause hair loss include:

             * cholesterol lowering drugs: clofibrate, gemfibrozil
             * parkinson medications: levodopa
             * ulcer drugs: cimetidine, ranitidine
             * anticoagulants: coumarin, heparin
             * medications for gout: allopurinol
             * antiarthritics: penicillamine, auranofin, indomethacin, naproxen, sulindac, methotrexate
             * drugs derived from vitamin-A: isotretinoin, etretinate
             * anticonvulsants: trimethadione
             * antidepressants: tricyclics, amphetamines
             * beta blockers: atenolol, metoprolol, nadolol, propranolol
             * antithyroid agents: carbimazole, Iodine, thiocyanate, thiouracil

• Delayed shedding from stress. This common form of hair loss happens two to three months after a major body stress. The stressful event induces a higher proportion of hair follicles to enter the resting stage all at the same time. A few months later, all of the now-resting follicles begin to shed their hairs at about the same time. Because the stressful event happened months ago, most people do not connect it with their hair loss. It is a temporary condition, and new hairs begin growing within a few months. Stress can also trigger genetic hair loss. If your already losing hair stress will cause you to lose hair even faster.

• Inadequate protein in diet. Some people who go on crash diets that are low in protein, or have severely abnormal eating habits, may develop protein malnutrition. The body will save protein by shifting growing hairs into the resting phase. Massive hair shedding can occur two to three months later. This condition can be reversed and prevented by eating the proper amount of protein and, when dieting, maintaining adequate protein intake.

• Iron deficiency. Iron deficiency occasionally produces hair loss. Iron deficiency is common to women during menstruation and pregnancy and can be corrected through proper diet or iron supplements.

• Pregnancy and childbirth. Hair loss that is connected to pregnancy usually occurs after delivery. When a woman is pregnant, her hairs grow at very high speed. However, after a woman delivers her baby, many hairs enter the resting phase of the hair cycle. This is a natural process and resolves completely in most cases.

• Birth control pills. Women who lose hair while taking birth control pills usually have an inherited tendency for hair thinning (androgenic alopecia). If hair thinning occurs, a woman can consult her gynecologist about switching to another birth control pill. If a woman has a history of female pattern loss in her family she should advise her doctor before going on the pill.

• Scalp infection. Infections such as ringworm can invade the hair and skin of your scalp, leading to hair loss. Once infections are treated, hair generally regrows.

• Thyroid disease. Both an overactive thyroid and an underactive thyroid can cause hair loss. Hair loss associated with thyroid disease can be reversed with proper treatment.

• Patchy hair loss (Alopecia areata). Alopecia areata is classified as an autoimmune disease, but the cause is unknown. This disorder causes hair follicles to stop producing hairs. Approximately 2% of all people experience an episode of alopecia areata at some point in their lives. In the vast majority of cases the condition is temporary and goes away all by itself within 6-7 months, and hair growth in the bald patch resumes.

• Hair pulling (traction alopecia). Traction alopecia is the loss of hair from constant pulling, often the result of tightly braided hair styles.

• Hair care. Pulling your hair back too tightly can cause hair loss. You may lose hair around the edge of the hairline, especially around the face and forehead. Using curling irons or dyes continually can also result in hair loss. Hair usually grows back when these activities are stopped.

• Blow-drying can worsen hair loss. The reason is that extreme heat damages the proteins in the hairs making them fragile and liable to break off. Brushing the hair during blow-drying causes more damage. If you use a hair dryer, it should be set on the coolest setting. Hair dyes, perms and hairsprays do not affect thinning hair.

• Age. As you age, your hairs tend to break more easily, and hair follicles do not grow as much hair.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment

Tips For Obtaining Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
If you or someone you love is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, the fear and other terrifying symptom can make the sufferer feel like they are alone in the world. In order to take control of this disorder, it helps to find right post traumatic stress disorder treatment. Regardless of what some may think, PTSD is not something that the sufferer can just snap out of. Treating and dealing with PTSD requires a lot of time, effort and the assistance of a professional. PTSD is treatable and the sooner you get treatment the better. With early treatment of PTSD the sufferer has the chance to prevent the symptoms from being ingrained in their psyche. Left untreated, PTSD can become a disabling mental health disorder.

When it comes to seeking help for treatment of PTSD, your doctor can help by determining whether or not the symptoms you are experiencing are really those of PTSD or another disease. If it is found that you are in fact suffering from PTSD, your doctor will most likely recommend that you seek the help of a mental health professional. This can either be psychologists, counsellor or psychiatrists that can help assist you with your post traumatic stress disorder treatment.

When it comes to your dealing with PTSD there are some simple steps that will need to be taken in order for your mental health professional to help you tackle your PTSD. The steps are as follows:

You need to deal with your memories. While it may be difficult at first, talking about the traumatic event you experienced is the first step to dealing with PTSD. You can talk to your doctor, but a psychologist, counsellor or psychiatrist will be able help you deal with your PTSD. Those who are skilled in treating PTSD will be able to help you deal with your incident at your own pace.

Learn some form of stress management. Another technique that can help in dealing with PTSD is to learn how to deal with the stress that comes along with reliving your troublesome memories. Techniques like controlled breathing or other relaxation techniques can help you stay focused when working on managing and beating your PTSD symptoms.

Consider making some lifestyle changes. No matter how long you have been dealing with PTSD for there is a good chance that the techniques you have been using have been doing you more harm than good. In order to successfully treat your PTSD you may want to consider the following:

• Try to exercise and eat healthy even though you may not feel like it.

• Try your best to return to your old routine. While it may be difficult returning to what you once knew will help return structure and security to your life making it easier deal with your PTSD once and for all

• While it may be hard, try and go easy on the alcohol and other drugs. Although they may they may make you feel good, that feel good feeling tends to be short lived and they can actually make the symptoms even worse.

Consider the use of medication if needed. While it may not necessarily be the preferred method for treating PTSD, it can be useful if used along with other methods. Your doctor or psychiatrist should be able to advise you on the types of medication that are available.

With proper post traumatic stress disorder treatment you should no longer suffer from the disorder or need the assistance of any form of medication in order to deal with your symptoms.

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Hair Loss Stress Related Condition

A hair loss stress related condition affects many people especially in the years between 20 and 40. Many treatments are available for hair loss but you've to first look at what causes you to lose hair.

It is only then that you can look at how to deal with a hair loss condition. When you identify what causes your hair to fall out you then can apply the right treatment. One area that cause the problem is a hormonal imbalance, which is brought about by stress. This can easily be treated with various supplements and vitamins.

First you need to understand your hair.

Your hair is made up mostly of protein. So a good balanced diet that is rich in silica, calcium and iron will help to put your hair into a good state. The best treatment, actually comes from within so eat plenty of green mineral rich leafy vegetables together with berries and fruits. There are many other foods such as potato, cucumber, bean sprouts and peppers that are especially beneficial for the hair so find them out and eat them. Nutritional studies have shown that soy protein such as tofu, soy milk and yogurt actually stimulate hair growth.

You also need to identify any bad stress in your live that could be a trigger for your hair loss stress related condition and take action to eliminate it or to manage it. Stress of course is relative and very personal. It is up to you to root out the cause and to deal with it. This together with a healthy, well-rounded diet will deal with the seat of the problem. And then you can move on to actual treatments for the hair.

Treatments for your hair.

There are many treatments available today to stop or reduce hair loss and promote new hair growth. Your hair needs internal nutritional support and good grooming will maintain hair growth and healthy hair follicle function.

One way is to use shampoos that contain silicon as these tend to slow down hair loss while making your locks a lot stronger too.

There are also many home remedies passed down from days gone by and between cultures that many people claim has worked for them. The writer makes no claims as I haven't used them. And as with anything you should do your own research before using any of the treatments mentioned in this article.

Here are five from the many.

1. Massage your hair with olive oil and leave on overnight while you sleep. Washout in the morning. Olive oil works well as a hair tonic because it is rich in essential fatty acids that keep the hair follicles moisturized.

2. Rinse your hair with mixture of apple cider vinegar and sage tea as this is said to help in hair growth.

3. Beat an egg in henna powder and curd. Then apply to you scalp as a hair mask. This prevents hair fall.

4. Massage coconut milk into your hair roots and make sure you cover the entire scalp. Leave for an hour and then wash off with warm water. Use it three to four times a week. Instead of coconut milk you can also use aloe vera gel.

5. Boil a handful of henna leaves in mustard oil to a ratio of four tablespoons to a cup. Filter and store in a sterilised glass bottle. Massage this herbal oil into your scalp before washing your hair. If possible, leave overnight or at least thirty minutes before washing your hair. This is said to be very effective in treating hair loss.

There are also many hair loss products available today and if you do a simple search online you will realise how many there are. The secret is to find the best one that suits you and your hair loss stress related condition.

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5 Ways in Which Stress Treatment Can Improve Your Health

It is a normal aspect of life to feel overwhelmed and stressed at times. However, those feelings of pressure may become excessive and unhealthy if not dealt with. At times you may experience a great deal of stress when you feel you are being backed up against a wall to a point where you do not believe that you can cope with what is going on around you.

It is advisable to seek professional help if the stress is so severe that it causes you a lot of anxiety or if it interferes with your work, social interactions and general, day-to-day functioning. If left untreated, stress can lead to headaches, increased blood pressure, heart disease and hypertension and it can also upset your close interpersonal relationships.

Below are five ways that that stress treatment can help to improve your overall health.

Seeking assistance to help you overcome your stress is acknowledging your condition, which is the first step to feeling better and to learning how to cope with problems in your life that cause you to feel pressured. Recognising that you have a problem with stress and knowing that it is adversely affecting your life and family is the first step toward feeling better.

One of the most common forms of stress treatment involves talking with a professional about the things that trigger the negative feelings you have. Talking is one of the greatest therapies there is in life and it is very beneficial. Once you begin to share your fears and feelings with someone you trust, you will gradually begin to open up to those people closest to you. Often times just discussing the the incidents that trigger stress will help to put those things into perspective which will make you feel better.

Mental health professionals often use relaxation techniques with patients suffering from stress. There are various exercises that can be done which will produce what is called the "relaxation response". If these techniques are mastered, you can use them whenever you are feeling a great deal of stress, which will keep those sky-rocketing adrenaline levels in check, leading to overall better health.

Seeking stress treatment will undoubtedly improve your close relationships. Often times you may not be aware of the fact that those people closest to you are negatively affected by your reactions to stressful situations. Coming to terms with the things that cause stress in your life and learning to deal with them in a positive manner will greatly improve relations with your spouse, children and other family members.

Last, but certainly not least, seeking treatment for stress will help you in your profession. Pressures in the workplace can build up quickly if not dealt with. Learning to handle stress on a personal level will lead you to feeling more relaxed at work which will give you the necessary coping skills to handle work-related pressure.

Stress is a part of life and many of us are faced with stressful situations each and every day. If you feel that stress is causing you to become ill or if it is not allowing you to enjoy life to its fullest, be sure to seek some type of professional help.

Types of Stress

Examples of types of stress

1. Neustress {neither harmful nor helpful to the body/mind}
2. Distress {too much/little arousal causing harm to body/mind}
3. Positive Stress {contributes to health, personal satisfaction and productivity.}

Neustress
Meeting or engaging in a challenge.
Coming in first place in a race.
Getting a promotion at your job.
Watching a suspenseful or scary movie.
Love, marriage, Sexual intercourse or childbirth.
Riding a roller coaster.
The holidays.
Engaging in exercise, especially weight training.


Distress
I suppose something like someone being trapped a burning building.
Or if an older person falls and can't get up.
If someone's broken into your house and you're trapped without a phone to call for help.
Troubled relationships.
Death.
When your desk is covered in work you desperately need to get done.
Cramming for a final exam when you don't know anything.
Anything that causes you pain, suffering, agony, grief, sorrow or misery.

Positive Stress
Social - getting a promotion at work
Mental - chatting up someone you are romatically interested in for the first time
physical - having sex
emotional - being in love

The stress an athlete gets before a game helps them perform better. Stress produces chemicals that put us in "fight or flight" mode and those reactions ensure our survival; if you're life was at risk, the stress actually helps you survive.


Which Type of Stresses Affect You?

Most of us just look at life and our stresses without defining what type of stresses we have. There is more than one type of stress affecting us at any time; is it important to know which one affects us?

Every type of Stress affects us…

The stress around us is endless. Stress can come from our work life, home life and life in general. There are many different definitions of stress, from the overly clinical view to the general public’s perception. The types of stress therefore are numerous.

So what types of stress affect us…?

Survival Stress – this is our fright/flight stress, where if you are put in danger, your body reacts to the stress to stay and fight or run away. Today we don’t get chased by too many lions in the street, but our day to day excess work pressures can create this type of feeling on a regular basis. We just adapt to it and class this as routine.

Internal Stress – this is one of the worst types of stress. This is where no matter what type of stress is around you or even if there is little or no stress, we internalize it. Men are best, or should I say worst, at this. They don’t express their feelings often, so they keep it inside creating inner turmoil and stress.

Anxiety – this is our internal chaos stress. Where we have learnt to worry and become anxious over small issues. This is our negative thought patterns taking control, so that any stress becomes larger than it should.

Change – all change is stressful. Changing jobs, shifting house, divorce, deaths etc. We are in an ever changing world so change is all around us and affects us on a regular basis.

Family – the dynamics of family life are stressful. You have to put food on the table, clothes on your back and your children’s. There are personality clashes, conflicts and arguments which are all stressful.

Relationships – is there a perfect relationship? There are good times, bad times and times in between. Our lives change with time and our relationships will change also.

Environment – this is not just nature and its’ upheavals, but where we live. Do you live in a large city? Do we have sufficient working space? Is the air polluted? Governments? Our environment is always stressful, as it changes constantly.

Work Stress – this is the bigger area of stress as we work too hard and work too many hours. We have bosses that can be difficult or employees who don’t perform.

Nutrition and Diet – although this is not an emotional stress, it does create emotional effects if it is too unbalanced. When we are stressed we eat a lot of sugar foods, drink coffee, alcohol etc. So diet and nutrition can add to our stresses once we are already under pressure. Chemicals and additives also are a stress on our digestion and immune systems which can lead to fatigue related stress problems.

The type of stress that affects us is wide and varied. This is just a few of the types of stress that affect us. There are numerous others you can list. But as stress is all around us, what can you do?

It is not the type of stress that is important, but how we cope and deal with it

When Stress Is Good for You

It's disparaged as dangerous, but healthy levels of stress can pump up both mind 

and body.

Stress: It can propel you into "the zone," spurring peak performance and well-being. Too much of it, though, strains your heart, robs you of memory and mental clarity and raises your risk of chronic disease.

How do you get the benefits—and avoid the harmful effects?

By learning to identify and manage individual reactions to stress, people can develop healthier outlooks as well as improve performance on cognitive tests, at work and in athletics, researchers and psychologists say.

The body has a standard reaction when it faces a task where performance really matters to goals or well-being: The sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands pump stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, into the bloodstream. Heartbeat and breathing speed up, and muscles tense.What happens next is what divides healthy stress from harmful stress. People experiencing beneficial or "adaptive" stress feel pumped. The blood vessels dilate, increasing blood flow to help the brain, muscles and limbs meet a challenge, similar to the effects of aerobic exercise, according to research by Wendy Mendes, an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and others.

The body tends to respond differently under harmful or threatening stress. The blood vessels constrict, and "you may feel a little dizzy as your blood pressure rises," says Christopher Edwards, director of the behavioral chronic pain management program at Duke University Medical Center. Symptoms are often like those you feel in a fit of anger. You may speak more loudly or experience lapses in judgment or logic, he says. Hands and feet may grow cold as blood rushes to the body's core. Research shows the heart often beats erratically, spiking again and again like a seismograph during an earthquake. 

Another hallmark: "Can you turn it off? Or are you a prisoner of your mind?" says Martin Rossman, an author on healing and stress and a clinical instructor at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical School. People under harmful stress lose the ability to re-engage the parasympathetic nervous system, which drives the body's day-to-day natural functions, including digestion and sleep. While individuals vary in how long they can tolerate chronic stress, research shows it sharply increases the risk of insomnia, chronic disease and early death.

Home builder Carl Weissensee used to be "addicted to stress," he says. Managing thousands of details and multiple risks for each of the multimillion-dollar houses he builds, he spent years rushing around with "one foot off the ground 20 hours a day, running the same scenarios through my mind time and time again, and being unable to put it aside," says Mr. Weissensee, 58, of Mill Valley, Calif.  

In an important marker of harmful stress levels, his agitation disrupted his life. "I would sleep four to six hours a night, and even that wasn't good sleep." His wife complained, and his young daughter painted a small rock for him with the words, "You work too much."

A heart attack, followed by problems with cardiac arrhythmia, forced him to find the line between good stress and bad. "I don't believe it's possible to do a good job without a certain amount of stress. It's necessary to get things done," he says.

He has brought it down to a healthy level by using relaxation techniques, including deep breathing and guided imagery—lying still and imagining stressful tasks turning out well. After seeing Dr. Rossman, reading his book and doing one of his relaxation CDs daily, Mr. Weissensee learned to acknowledge his worries instead of recycling them in his head, then practice "skipping over" them and telling himself that "everything works out in the end," he says. He has managed to stabilize his heart condition without large doses of medication.  

By practicing over and over, I seem to be changing the path my thoughts take from, 'I'm doomed,' to, 'Things will be OK,' " he says. "My goal is to worry just enough to do my job well."

That kind of positive attitude tends to produce good stress, based on research by Dr. Mendes and others. In a study of 50 college students, some were coached to believe that feeling nervous or excited before a presentation could improve performance. A control group didn't receive the coaching. When the students were asked to make a speech about themselves while receiving critical feedback, those who received the coaching showed a healthier physiological response, leading to increased dilation of the arteries and smaller rises in blood pressure than the control group.

In a similar study, students who received the same coaching before taking graduate-school entrance exams posted higher scores on a mock test in the lab and also on the actual exam three months later, compared with controls, according to a study co-authored by Dr. Mendes and published last year in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. They also posted higher levels of salivary amylase, a protein marker for adrenaline that is linked to episodes of beneficial stress.

People react differently to everyday stress. At-home or mobile biofeedback devices can detect spikes in the heart rate. Hand-held thermometers also can be used to note when the temperature of one's hands falls below 95 degrees, says Kenneth Pelletier, a clinical professor of medicine at both the University of Arizona School of Medicine and the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco.

Toronto psychologist Kate Hays tells patients to imagine a stress scale "ranging from 1, where you're practically asleep, to 10, where you're climbing off the ceiling." Then, she asks them to recall a past peak performance and figure out where their stress at that moment would have ranked. Many people say 4 to 6, but responses range from 2 to 8, says Dr. Hays, who specializes in sports and performance psychology. That becomes their personal stress-management target.

For most people, hitting that target requires new skills. With practice, though, they can learn to relax completely in a few seconds, says Dr. Pelletier.

In addition to thinking positively about stressors, deep abdominal breathing and training in meditation and mindfulness, or regulating one's own mental and physical states, help moderate stress.

All have been shown in research to help heal such chronic problems as heart disease, according to a 2010 research review co-authored by Bonnie Horrigan, director of public education for the Bravewell Collaborative, Minneapolis, a nonprofit that advocates integrating health and medical care. When Ford Motor Co. tested various ways of helping employees with chronic back pain several years ago, corporate medical director Walter Talamonti says, training in reducing harmful stress to healthy levels was linked to reductions in employees' pain and medication use.

Dr. Edwards is seeing 15% to 20% annual increases in patients at his pain clinic seeking biofeedback and other help with stress and stress-related ailments. As many as 35% of them actually want to generate more good stress; many are referred by counselors, parents or coaches.

Many workplace wellness programs have also begun coaching people to hit "the optimal performance zone"—with enough stress "to be stimulating, to focus you, to challenge you" without taking a physical toll, says Dr. Pelletier. 

* A little stress is helpful for peak performance, but too much can literally shut down the brain. Sue Shellenbarger on Lunch Break looks at how you stay in the good stress zone and tell if you're tipping into bad. *

How Brain Adapts To Stress

 

Maybe we all do not think...



Washington: Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that helps the brain adapt to stress – the finding may eventually lead to a better understanding of why prolonged and repeated exposure to stress can lead to anxiety disorders and depression.


Most stressful stimuli cause the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) from neurons in the brain. 


This is typically followed by rapid changes in CRH gene expression. In more practical terms, as soon as the CRH-containing neurons run out of CRH, they are already receiving directions to make more. 


CRH controls various reactions to stress, including immediate “fight-or-flight” responses as well as more delayed adaptive responses in the brain. 


Regulation of CRH activity is critical for adaptation to stress, and abnormal regulation of CRH is linked with multiple human psychiatric disorders.


“Despite the wealth of information regarding the physiological role of CRH in mediating the response to stress, the molecular mechanisms that regulate expression of the CRH gene, and thereby CRH synthesis, have remained largely elusive,” explained senior study author, Dr. Gil Levkowitz, from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.


“In our study, we used mouse and zebrafish model systems to identify a novel intracellular signaling pathway that controls stress-induced CRH gene expression,” he said.


Dr. Levkowitz and colleagues discovered that the protein Orthopedia (Otp), which is expressed in parts of the brain associated with stress adaptation, modulated CRH gene expression and was required for stress adaptation. 


The researchers went on to show that Otp regulates production of two different receptors on the neurons’ surface. The receptors, which receive and relay CRH production instructions, essentially function as “ON” and “OFF” switches.


“This regulation of the CRH gene is critical for neuronal adaptation to stress. Failure to activate or terminate the CRH response can lead to chronic over- or under-activation of stress-related brain circuits, leading to pathological conditions,” said Dr. Levkowitz.


“Taken together, our findings identify an evolutionarily conserved biochemical pathway that modulates adaptation to stress,” he concluded.


The study was recently published in the journal Neuron. 

Stress Defination

What we all think about stress... 

The word 'stress' is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "a state of affair involvingdemand on physical or mental energy". A condition or circumstance (not alwaysadverse), which can disturb the normal physical and mental health of an individual.In medical parlance 'stress' is defined as a perturbation of the body's homeostasis.This demand on mind-body occurs when it tries to cope with incessant changes inlife. A 'stress' condition seems 'relative' in nature. Extreme stress conditions,psychologists say, are detrimental to human health but in moderation stress isnormal and, in many cases, proves useful. Stress, nonetheless, is synonymous withnegative conditions. Today, with the rapid diversification of human activity, we comeface to face with numerous causes of stress and the symptoms of stress and depression. At one point or the other everybody suffers from stress. Relationship demands,physical as well as mental health problems, pressure at workplaces, traffic snarls,meeting deadlines, growing-up tensions—all of these conditions and situations arevalid causes of stress. People have their own methods of stress management. Insome people, stress-induced adverse feelings and anxieties tend to persist andintensify. Learning to understand and master stress management techniques can helpprevent the counter effects of this urban malaise.

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances

."—Thomas Jefferson

     In a challenging situation the brain prepares the body for defensive action—the fightor flight response by releasing stress hormones, namely, cortisone and adrenaline.These hormones raise the blood pressure and the body prepares to react to thesituation. With a concrete defensive action (fight response) the stress hormones inthe blood get used up, entailing reduced stress effects and symptoms of anxiety.When we fail to counter a stress situation (flight response) the hormones andchemicals remain unreleased in the blood stream for a long period of time. It resultsin stress related physical symptoms such as tense muscles, unfocused anxiety,dizziness and rapid heartbeats. We all encounter various stressors (causes of stress)in everyday life, which can accumulate, if not released. Subsequently, it compels themind and body to be in an almost constant alarm-state in preparation to fight or flee.This state of accumulated stress can increase the risk of both acute and chronicpsychosomatic illnesses and weaken the immune system of the human body.

    Top Stress can cause headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, eating disorder, allergies,insomnia, backaches, frequent cold and fatigue to diseases such as hypertension,asthma, diabetes, heart ailments and even cancer. In fact, Sanjay Chugh, a leadingIndian psychologist, says that 70 per cent to 90 per cent of adults visit primary carephysicians for stress-related problems. Scary enough. But where do we err?

Just about everybody—men, women, children and even fetuses—suffer from stress.

More defination about Stress

There has been no definition of stress that everyone accepts. Therefore, it's difficult to measure stress if there is no agreement on what the definition of stress should be. 
People have very different ideas with respect to their definition of stress. Probably the most common is, "physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension". Another popular definition of stress is, "a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize."


Most people consider the definition of stress to be something that causes distress. However, stress is not always harmful since increased stress results in increased productivity. A definition of stress should also embrace this type of healthy stress, which is usually ignored when you ask someone about their definition of stress. 


Any definition of stress should also include good stress, or eustress. For example, winning a race or election is just as stressful as losing, or more so. A passionate kiss and contemplating what might follow is stressful, but hardly the same as having root canal work. Any definition of stress should similarly explain the difference between eustress and distress.


The definition of stress for most people tends to focus on the negative feelings and emotions it produces. Almost every definition of stress also discusses certain resultant physical, physiological or biochemical responses that are experienced or observed. A very comprehensive definition of stress that includes these and more is the biopsychosocial model, which, as it name suggests, has three components. This definition of stress distinguishes between an external element, another that is internal, as well as a third that represents the interaction between these two factors.


In the biopsychosocial definition of stress the external component is made up of elements in the external environment. The internal component in this definition of stress consists of physiological and biochemical factors in the internal environment or body. The interaction between these two components in this definition of stress represents the cognitive processes that result from the interaction between external and internal components. Some of the physical reactions experienced during stress include hypertension, headaches, gastrointestinal and skin complaints, etc. Any definition of stress that does include these potentially dangerous physical responses is incomplete.


A definition of stress that does not refer to the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal axis or stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and adrenalin secretion in the "fight or flight" response should also be considered to be a deficient definition of stress. Since stress is such a subjective phenomenon that differs for each of us, there really is no satisfactory definition of stress that all scientists agree on. The original definition of stress by Hans Selye, who coined the term as it is presently used, was, "the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change". This definition of stress was confusing when Selye's experimental animal results were extrapolated to humans and stress became a buzzword. For some, the definition of stress was something external, like a bad boss, for others the definition of stress referred to chest or stomach pain or some other disturbing reaction you experienced, but the definition of stress could also be the end result of these responses such as a heart attack or peptic ulcer. Selye subsequently had to create a new word, stressor, to distinguish between stimulus and response. He struggled unsuccessfully to find a satisfactory definition of stress and in his later years suggested that the best definition of stress was "the rate of wear and tear on the body". He was also unaware that the definition of stress in physics that had been in use for several centuries was the degree of distortion in a malleable metal when it was subjected to an external load. Thus, his original definition of stress was really a description of strain. 


Regardless of what definition of stress you find relevant, reducing stress can provide considerable health rewards. You can find out much more about this and the definition of stress in Topics Of Interest and other www.stress.org or sites such as Reminiscences of Hans Selye.