How to Get a Good Sleep in Your Holiday Bunkhouse
Whether you are traveling this holiday season, or you travel for work, here are some tips to help you sleep better during your travels.
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Want to get through an intense emotional experience? Dreaming might help!
REM sleep helps you deal with intense emotional experiences
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Want a happy new year? The secret is to work on your memory.
Researchers found that sleep deprived people have a harder time remembering positive emotional words than negative emotional words compared to people who get the sleep they need. The difference is striking; there was a 59% deficit for positive words compared to only a 19% deficit for negative words.
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The Gift of Sleep – It’s the gift that keeps on giving!
Why not give yourself the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season? Here is a handy list of articles that will bring you closer to the gift of sleep.
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7 Steps to a Better Nap
Article lists benefits of napping and 7 steps to a better nap.
Continue reading →Cherry Juice, a Fatigue Fighter?
The research found that cherry juice can reduce the severity of insomnia. This interested me because anytime you can improve sleep, it has benefits on fatigue. In other words, I was lured by the idea of using cherry juice as a fatigue fighter.
Continue reading →New Year’s Eve Sleep
Here are a few tips to start off your 2016 sleep
Continue reading →Will You Be a Zombie or a Clown this Halloween? – It depends on how much sleep you get.
Sleeping too little or too much, sleep just right.
Continue reading →Trouble Tolerating CPAP? Here’s some reasons why…
There are lots of reasons why you might be struggling with CPAP. I’m going to talk about the most common ones. The list is not exhaustive and you can find a lot more information about CPAP in the Resources section of my Web site.
Continue reading →Have you been diagnosed with RLS or PLMs?
Here’s a great set of Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Periodic Limb Movement (PLM) Disorder treatment strategies that I developed and used with my clients when I was a Sleep Coach.
Continue reading →It’s time to pull the ol’ CPAP out of the closet, dust it off and try using it again.
CPAP desensitization is a process that reprograms your brain and body to feel that CPAP isn’t that bad, in fact, if done right, the CPAP experience can become a very positive one. So much so that simply looking at your CPAP brings up images of a peaceful, restorative sleep.
Continue reading →Dreaming of Sugar Plums?
Do you remember your dreams? If you don’t remember a couple of dreams per week there could be one of two things going on. First, you might be out of practice. The second explanation for not remembering your dreams is that you might not be getting enough REM sleep. Most of our dreaming occurs during REM sleep.
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Is Your Brain Shrinking?
Researchers found that the brains of people with insomnia shrink in areas that control problem solving and decision making.
Continue reading →What happens when your shift schedule stinks?
I recently talked about the counter-clockwise fast rotating shift schedule; I said it had to be the worst shift schedule possible. This schedule’s only rival is no schedule at all. But to really stink, these “no schedule” schedules have to … Continue reading →
What is the worst shift schedule?
Anyone who has worked shift-work for any period of time knows how hard it can be. But what’s the worst schedule of all? It has got to be the counter-clockwise fast rotating schedule.
Continue reading →Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea with a Mouthpiece
Four out of every 100 men have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and 2 in every 100 women have it[1]. Some researchers estimate that as many as 10 in 100 men between the ages of 40 and 60 have OSA[2]. This sleep disorder … Continue reading →
Attention All Snorers!
Stop snoring tonight guaranteed!
Continue reading →Stop Snoring with Chin-Up Strips
Sorry, the supplier has stopped selling Chin-Up Strips. One of the most popular products I used to sell was the Chin-Up Strip. For people who don’t want to sleep with something in their mouths or equipment attached to their face, … Continue reading →
How much sleep do I need?
So just how much sleep should you be getting?
Continue reading →Help a Friend Get Better Sleep
A friend recently asked me how he could get his older father some help for his sleep. He was waking up a lot. I wrote him an e-mail explaining what he could do
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