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Self-hypnosis Steps
Self-hypnosis is a technique designed to allow patients to continue therapy in an independent manner, entering in a state of hypnosis due to his or her own suggestions. In our daily lives, we pass through different states of auto-hypnotic consciousness, of meditation or intense concentration, or on the contrary, the total lack of attention.
You can sit in an armchair or lie on a bed, but it is important to feel comfortably during self-hypnosis.
Step 1. Sitting, keep your head straight and look in the distance in front of you. Your body must be in a relaxed position. If you are stretched, your head must lie in a comfortable position; you must feel comfortable, without any tension in your neck area. Look above yourself in the ceiling, but without a specific location.
Step 2. Keep your head in a comfortable position and turn your eyes (upwards, as if you look from inside to a target set opposite your brow). You should not make considerable effort, it is important to feel comfortable. Your eyes movements, which are also performed during your sleep, usually go hand in hand with a hypnosis relaxation of the eyelids felt like being increasingly heavy.
Step 3. Continue to look back and up and now, close your eyes slowly (feel that you are about to leave your eyelids fall, without any tension or discomfort).
Step 4. Now your eyelids are fully closed, inspire deeply through your nose, your mouth is closed … Your breath should be deep, deep (but without too much effort) … stop your breath for a few seconds (depending on the individual possibilities, avoiding the fatigue).
Step 5. Then … breathe out slowly, leaving the air pass through the lips which are slightly open and stay with your eyelids closed during the hypnosis exercise … allow your eyes return to their horizontal normal position.
Step 6. Now … with your eyelids still closed … you feel good, calm … you can breathe easily … you can imagine your body feeling good in the seat or bed you are lying on… you feel perfectly relaxed. Your spirit and body are perfectly relaxed, but at the same time in a state of alert, vigilance, living a pleasant sensation of floating that is self-hypnosis.
Step 7. Enjoy this pleasant sensation of floating, of hypnosis… and easily turn your attention on your right or left forearm, as you like… and imagine your forearm from the elbow to the hand becoming light, very light … let your palm rise slightly, very slightly, as if it float.
Step 8. You have reached your purpose … your left or right forearm and palm are in levitation, your elbow is resting on the armchair or the bed. You have felt a unique sensation during self-hypnosis.
Of course, there are many other ways to get into self-hypnosis, which are based on fixing a point or on progressive relaxation. In addition, self-hypnosis can be reached through meditation or using abdominal breathing described in the Yoga system. All these are variations that allow achieving the same result.
Hops Can Promote Good Health
Hops are the female flower cones, which are also known as strobiles, of the hop plant. The hop plant is part of the Cannabaceae family, which also includes hemp. Primarily, hops are used as a flavoring and stability agent in beer. The first documented use in beer is from the eleventh century. Today, hops are used extensively in brewing because of their many benefits. Among these are balancing the sweetness of the hops with bitterness. However, hops are also used for various purposes in other beverages and herbal medicine.
Nicholas Culpeper, a seventeenth-century herbalist, suggested the use of hops to open obstructions of the liver and spleen, cleanse the blood, loosen the belly, cleanse the veins, and promote urination. Hops were used as food by the Romans. Gerard, a famous herbalist, recommended using the buds in salads. Native American tribes also found hops to be of value. The Mohicans used it as a sedative and also for toothaches, while the Menominee tribes used hops as a cure-all. The lupulin that is found in hops is described as both a sedative and hypnotic drug. It was recognized in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia from 1831 to 1916. Most often, hops are probably used in the production of beer.
Hops are best known for their sedative action. Also, they are used for their antibiotic properties. These properties are beneficial for sore throats, bronchitis, infections, high fevers, delirium, toothaches, earaches, and pain. Although hops are strong, they seem to be safe to use. Their main uses are to alleviate nervous tension and promote a restful sleep. They have been used to naturally relieve insomnia. For inflammation, boils, tumors, and swelling, a poultice of hops is recommended. Hops have been used as a stimulant to the glands and muscles of the stomach. They have also been used as a relaxant on the gastric nerves. Hops have a relaxing influence on the liver and gall duct and a laxative effect on the bowels.
Many studies indicate that hops have sedative properties. This herb is known to be fast-acting, soothing, and calming to the nervous system. Hops are often nervine herbs that aid in promoting sleep. Certain elements of the plant have been shown to possess hypnotic effects. Hops are also used for their antispasmodic effects. Additionally, hops contain antibacterial properties, which validates some of their historical uses.
The flower of the hops plant is used to provide alterative, anodyne, antibacterial, antibiotic, antineoplastic, carminative, cholagogue, galactagogue, nervine, sedative, stomachic, and vulnerary properties. The primary nutrients found in this herb are chlorine, copper, fluorine, iodine, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, sodium, vitamin B-complex, and zinc. Primarily, this herb is extremely beneficial in treating appetite loss, bronchitis, delirium, gastric disorders, headaches, hyperactivity, and indigestion, insomnia, absent lactation, nervousness, pain, and excessive sexual desire.
Additionally, this herb is very helpful in dealing with alcoholism, anxiety, blood impurities, coughs, intestinal cramps, dizziness, earaches, fevers, gas, jaundice, kidney stones, liver disorders, menstrual symptoms, menopausal symptoms, neuralgia, restlessness, rheumatism, skin disorders, sleeplessness, toothache, ulcers, venereal diseases, water retention, whooping cough, and worms. For more information on the many beneficial effects provided by hops, please feel free to contact a representative from your local health food store with questions.
Lead Based Paint Dangers: Getting the Lead Out
As early as 1940, paint manufacturers began to understand the dangers of lead in paint and voluntarily removed it from their products. Those who didn’t do so by choice did so by law when in 1978 the government banned lead from paint products. It would be nice to assume then that the dangers of lead paint are gone – with forty years behind us, there shouldn’t be any more worry that a coat of color could poison us or our children, but it still very well could.
Lead was removed from the manufacturing process in 1978. That did not immediately remove it from the products lining the shelves in stores nor did it take it from the walls that had already been painted. Older homes, particularly those in poorer or previously poorer areas, are very likely to have lead paint somewhere on their walls. This poses a danger to your family, as lead has been proven to cause developmental delays and lead poisoning, particularly in children. They have the most vulnerable bodies and are the most likely to nibble at a chip of paint or put something in their mouth they shouldn’t.
Lead poisoning can begin with a headache, nausea, stomach pain, irritability and lethargy, and can lead to extreme weight loss, seizure, coma, kidney problems and anemia. For those who are affected, it is a very really and dangerous problem.
So what should you do?
First, don’t get overly concerned about lead paint until you know for sure that it’s a problem. You may not have any; you may have only a square or two; or you may have a house lined with lead-based paint. To find out, hire a professional inspector to come survey your home and determine where, if at all, your areas of concern are. If he pinpoints one, two or ten, you can move on from there.
Your initial response to finding lead-based paint will probably be to remove it. But doing that can release the lead toxins into the air, causing lead poisoning and contradicting the very point of removal. Therefore, you want to find a way to cover or block the lead paint. If it’s an object, such as a banister, you can get rid of the entire thing and put in a new one. If it’s a wall, and the paint is in good condition, you can cover the area with wallpaper, paneling, plaster or drywall. Just don’t overlap with additional paint. That will unnecessarily thicken your walls and do nothing for the problem at hand.
Once you’ve covered the lead, you can relax. You’ve done the hard part, and barring a move, you’ll never have to worry about it again. Any paint you purchase today or tomorrow or fifty years down the line will have no lead in it. It will be safe and toxin free. Of course, you still won’t want your children to eat it, but if they do, you won’t have to worry that they’ve just poisoned themselves with lead. You can focus on other concerns, instead.