10 commandments for better sleep on World Sleep Day

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Air, water, food — and some would argue sex — are key ingredients to human survival. In reality, there should be another “s” word in that list: sleep. We’re supposed to get between seven and 10 hours of sleep each night, depending on our age, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that a third of Americans sleep fewer than seven hours a night. It’s a global problem too. “Sleep problems constitute a global epidemic that threatens health and quality of life for up to…

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YOU CAN HEAL YOURSELF

by Vinod Nigam It doesn’t diminish my respect for God’s power in the slightest to realize that God primarily works through the mind to summon up resources of healing in a person’s body. —— Dr. Paul Brand Study after study has shown that people who worship regularly live longer than those who don’t. They tend to have lower blood pressure, lower death rates from cardiovascular disease, less depression and less early death from various causes. What scientists are discovering is that having faith, of any kind, has a powerful health-protective effect…

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Ratricharya

Blog by Dr Partap Chauhan Many people complain of feeling fatigued and stressed. When they come home in the evening they feel very tired and often they feel agitated and angry. Ayurveda describes a few things that you should do when you go home. The first thing that you should do when you come out of the office is to switch off the office in your mind. As soon as you sit in the car or in the metro or on your motorcycle, stop thinking what you did in the office or…

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Emotional build up and Disease

by P Vaidyanathan We get sick or fall ill from various causes—genetic causes, injuries, infections. atmospheric pollution, life style diseases etc. Every disease has a known or unknown cause. But what is important to know is that although all of us are exposed to a whole lot of diseases, very few of us actually fall sick. That is often related to our basic state of health and immunity, which keep us protected. Health is not just about the body. Nowadays, even medical science has come to accept that health is often…

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