Healthy Happy Loving Life: Getting The Sleep You Need

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Could you have sleep stress? Many people are either too stressed to sleep well or reacting more strongly to stress sources because they aren’t getting enough sleep. Poor sleep or the wrong amount can make you cranky and cause you to gain weight! It’s true: good sleep combats the stress hormone, cortisol, which can cause us to gain weight.

How much sleep is right for you? 7-8 hours is typical, but experiment: some people only need 5 or 6 hours a night. A client of mine recently realized that was her only problem with a “sleep disorder” : she needed to stop trying to sleep 7 hours!  Also, as women go through menopause, it’s normal to be wakeful at odd hours. People over 60 often need a different amount of sleep, either more or less. Naps can be very refreshing for some. Try different patterns to find out what works for you. And lying quietly, restfully, is 80% as restful as the deepest sleep. So if you’re not sleeping when you should be, relax and try reading a novel that makes you feel good.

John Steinbeck said:

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

There are a number of causes for poor sleep. Some are: clutter in the room causing energy disruption, electronics left on and giving off EMF, clutter under the bed causing bad dreams, dust in the room or linens, stressful thoughts, neighbor noise, pain, acidosis, hormone fluctuations, overeating, undereating, and intake of sugar or alcohol before bedtime.

Simple solutions may take care of your sleep disruption. Do what you can to address the causes above. If one of your issues is the busy brain that won’t stop working the issues, put a paper and pen, or an iPad or equivalent, on your bedside table. When stressed thoughts or to-do’s race around your mind, take a minute to write down your stressful thought/s, then release that issue to be dealt with in the morning. Get a tap-control lamp so you can most easily turn it on and off.

Popular solutions will not necessarily be for everyone. Most people think they should take a sleeping pill. Discuss those options with your doctor. Meanwhile, try taking valerian capsules, or drinking a milky drink, chamomile tea, or mint tea. The popular OTC solution is diphenhydramine (Benadryl), which makes you tired and also covers allergic sleep disruption. If you have pain as well, you can try the PM version of your analgesic, which probably contains diphenhydramine.  There is also an aerosol homeopathic, available in most health food stores: Rescue Sleep.  And unlike diphenhydramine, it won’t make you tired in the morning.

Try these helps that few people think of. Ask yourself if your mattress is too firm or too soft; go shopping for a new one if you need to. Make sure your bedclothes were laundered today or within the last few days (clears the dust, allergens, odors, and energy). Have the room cool. Set a routine and run it in the same time frame every day, as your body loves homeostasis. Turn off the TV and especially the news, an hour ahead. Do mild exercise, like slow yoga stretches, for 20 minutes.  Five minutes will help!  Just before going to sleep, read something irrelevant and irreverent, a novel, or calming inspirational material from your faith background.

The Dalai Lama has said:

Sleep is the best meditation.

To beat sleep stress, you don’t need to adjust all these factors in one day, or even one week. Tweak a couple of items each day until you get the combination that gives you truly refreshing sleep. When you’re waking up refreshed, optimistic, and ready for the day.

And that will be you, increasingly Healthy Happy and Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert, holistic healer, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Sleep Stress: Are You Getting The Rest You Need?

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© 2015 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

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Could you have sleep stress? Many people are either too stressed to sleep well or reacting more strongly to stress because they aren’t getting enough sleep. Poor sleep or the wrong amount can make you cranky and cause you to gain weight! It’s true: good sleep combats the stress hormone, cortisol, which can cause us to gain weight.

How much sleep is right for you? 7-8 hr is typical, but experiment: some only need 5 or 6 hours a night. Client recently realized that was her only problem with “sleep disorder”. Also, as we go through menopause, it’s normal to be wakeful at odd hours. People over 60 often need a different amount of sleep, EITHER more or less. Naps can be very refreshing for some. Try different patterns to find out what works for you. And lying quietly, restfully, is 80% as restful as the deepest sleep. So if you’re not sleeping when you should be, relax and try reading a novel that makes you feel good.

John Steinbeck said:

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

There are a number of causes for poor sleep. Some are: clutter in the room causing energy disruption, electronics left on and giving off EMF, clutter under the bed causing bad dreams, dust in the room or linens, stressful thoughts, neighbor noise, pain, acidosis, hormone fluctuations, overeating, undereating, and intake of sugar or alcohol before bedtime.

General solutions may take care of your sleep disruption. Do what you can to address the causes above. If one of your issues is the busy brain that won’t stop working the issues, put a paper and pen, or an iPad or equivalent, on your bedside table. When stressed thoughts or to-do’s race around your mind, take a minute to write down your stressful thought/s, then release it to be dealt with in the morning. Get a tap-control lamp so you can most easily turn it on and off.

Popular solutions will not necessarily be for everyone. Most people think they should take a sleeping pill. Discuss those options with your doctor. Meanwhile, try taking valerian capsules, or drinking a milky drink, chamomile tea, or mint tea. The popular OTC solution is diphenhydramine, which makes you tired and also covers allergic sleep disruption. If you have pain as well, you can try the PM version of your analgesic, which probably contains diphenhydramine.

Try these helps that few people think of. Ask yourself if your mattress is too firm or too soft; go shopping for a new one if you need to. Make sure your bedclothes were laundered today or within the last few days (clears the dust, odors, and energy). Have the room cool. Set a routine and run it in the same time frame every day, as your body loves homeostasis. Turn off the TV and especially the news, an hour ahead. Do mild exercise, like slow yoga stretches, for 20 minutes. Just before going to sleep, read something irrelevant and irreverent, a novel, or calming inspirational material from your faith background.

The Dalai Lama said:

Sleep is the best meditation.

To beat sleep stress, you don’t need to adjust all these factors in one day, or even one week. Tweak a couple of items each day until you get the combination that gives you truly refreshing sleep. When you’re waking up refreshed, optimistic, and ready for the day, now you’re enjoying true Upbeat Living!

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• Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author.  She also is an ordained minister and has a natural healing practice. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br),and Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition(http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc ). Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine. Sacred Meditation and Peace Within are both available through her office. Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com.
• Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com.

Acid Stress: Manage Your Alkaline (pH) Balance to Prevent Disease

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© 2015 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM. World Rights Reserved.

 

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Many people would make one or two easy changes in their daily habits if they could feel much better and less stressed as a result. Are you one of them? Here are some points to ponder regarding a condition affecting many people and causing silently deteriorating health, yet which you can easily and inexpensively control. It’s called acidosis, meaning excess acid in the body’s fluids. Relative acidity is measured on the pH, or potential hydrogen, scale that indicates hydrogen ion concentration. The pH scale goes from 1 (extremely acidic) to 14 (extremely basic, or alkaline). The body operates best when its pH is between 7.35 and 7.45, ideally at 7.4. Yet diet and stress tend to acidify the body’s fluids. Accumulation of biochemical waste in the body can also lower pH. And a pH too acid can cause you to feel vague stress, to feel ill at ease.

While the condition is simple, the symptoms are many. A person with acidosis may experience frequent fatigue, allergies, bronchitis, colds and flu, foot fungus, acne, boils, eczema, age spots, arthritis, diarrhea and/or constipation. Effects less easy for the individual to see are serious internal processes, such as the inflammation of veins, arteries, and the muscle tissue of the heart. This creates cardiac system issues that result in elevated blood pressure, which in turn increases the deterioration.

Acidosis also leads to premature aging via accelerating free-radical damage to cells. Cells are actually poisoned by inefficiently eliminated cellular waste. An acidic pH prevents the proper storage and release of cellular energy, meaning that the body cannot respond fully to stress or infection. Red blood cells clump together, which limits their oxygen-carrying capacity and leads to fatigue and weakness. Cancer cells thrive in lower-oxygen environments such as acidosis can create. Other mechanisms caused by acidosis may lead to pancreatic dysfunction, diabetes, weight gain, and osteoporosis.  Aside from all this, acidosis can make you cranky: you have acid stress!  Foods and moods work together!

The body has natural mechanisms for monitoring and controlling its acid-base balance. When plasma is too acidic, the respiratory system speeds breathing, and the kidneys can produce substances that turn the pH around. The body also uses intracellular absorption of hydrogen atoms by molecules of protein, phosphate, and carbonate in bone, thus raising the pH to less acidity.

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So what can you do to help yourself beat acidosis? First, get litmus paper from your pharmacy and test your saliva. The litmus paper will turn color to indicate the acidity of your saliva. If your saliva’s pH is too low/acidic, re-assess your current stress, exercise (or lack thereof), and diet. To feel better and have better moods, consider these dietary changes:

1. Stop drinking any sodas or sugared drinks, or any artificially sweetened products. Switch to juices or filtered water.
2. Stop eating sugared desserts and foods made mainly with white flour and yeast, such as pizza and bagels.
3. Eat dark-green leafy salads, other green vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, celery, parsley), and root vegetables (carrots, yams, daikon radish).
4. Eat fruits, especially fresh fruits, such as apples, apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, dates, figs, grapefruit, peaches, and grapes. For dried fruit, try raisins.
5. Eat rice and buckwheat, almonds, dairy products, and eggs.

Now try shifting your breath, since the oxygen –carbon dioxide balance causes your blood to be more alkaline or acidic.

1. Exhale to a count of 8, and inhale to a count of 4. Notice how calm you feel.
2. Whenever you feel stressed, exhale to the end of your breath. If you do this quietly, you can do it in front of anyone, even at meetings.

Try changing your diet for a week, and add rhythmic breathing practice. Check your pH again. Notice if these changes make you more relaxed, clear-minded, and vital. If so, you are making a major investment in your long-term health. Why not feel your best, starting now?

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Upbeat Living: Beat Acidosis to Beat Illness and Feel Great!

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© 2014  Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

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The Upbeat Living philosophy is to encourage people to switch little habits that will lead to big results, to feel our best and enjoy life the most. And little changes often can help you have a lot more energy, plus feeling and looking younger!  Would you consider making one or two easy changes in your daily habits, if you could feel much better as a result?

Here are some points to ponder regarding a condition affecting many people and causing silently deteriorating health, yet which you can easily and inexpensively control. It’s called acidosis, meaning excess acid in the body’s fluids.  Stress, eating habits, lack of exercise, and too little sleep all contribute to this condition.  And dealing with stress, changing your eating habits, exercising, and sleeping more—these can all help correct the condition.

Relative acidity is measured on the pH, or potential hydrogen, scale that indicates hydrogen  ion concentration. The pH scale goes from 1 (extremely acidic) to 14 (extremely basic, or alkaline). The body operates best when its acid balance, or pH, is between 7.35 and 7.45, ideally at 7.4. Yet diet and stress tend to acidify the body’s fluids. More biochemical waste in the body can also lower pH, making the body more acidic.  To see some beautiful graphics of the pH scale, put “pH scale” in your search bar and enjoy.

While the condition is simple, the symptoms are many. A person with acidosis may experience frequent fatigue, allergies, bronchitis, colds and flu, foot fungus, acne, boils, eczema, age spots, arthritis, diarrhea and/or constipation. Effects less easy for the individual to see are serious internal processes, such as the inflammation of veins, arteries, and the muscle tissue of the heart. This creates cardiac system issues that result in elevated blood pressure, which in turn increases heart deterioration.

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Acidosis also leads to premature aging via accelerating free-radical damage to cells. Cells are actually poisoned by inefficiently eliminated cell waste. An acidic pH prevents the proper storage and release of cellular energy, meaning that the body cannot respond fully to stress or infection.  This means you’re tired! Red blood cells clump together, which limits their oxygen-carrying capacity and leads to fatigue and weakness. Cancer cells thrive in lower-oxygen  (acidic) environments such as acidosis can create. Other mechanisms caused by acidosis may lead to pancreatic dysfunction, diabetes, weight gain, and osteoporosis.

The body has natural mechanisms for monitoring and controlling its acid-base balance. When plasma is too acidic, the respiratory system speeds breathing, and the kidneys can produce substances that turn the pH around. The body also uses intracellular absorption of hydrogen atoms by molecules of protein, phosphate, and carbonate in bone, thus raising the pH to less acidity.

So what can you do to help yourself beat acidosis? First, get litmus paper from your pharmacy and test your saliva. The litmus paper will turn color to show the acidity of your saliva. If your saliva’s pH is too low/acidic, re-assess your current stress, exercise (or lack thereof), sleep, and diet. Consider these dietary changes:

1. Stop drinking any sodas or sugared drinks, or any artificially sweetened products. Switch to juices or filtered water.
2. Stop eating sugared desserts and foods made mainly with white flour and yeast, such as pizza and bagels.
3. Eat dark-green leafy salads, other green vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, celery, parsley), and root vegetables (carrots, yams, daikon radish).
4. Eat fruits, especially fresh fruits, such as apples, apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, dates, figs, grapefruit, peaches, and grapes. For dried fruit, try raisins.
5. Eat rice and buckwheat, almonds, dairy products, and eggs.

Try changing your diet for a week, and add exercise and sleep more. Check your pH again. Notice if these changes make you more relaxed, clear-minded, and vital. If so, you are making a major investment in your long-term health. Why not feel your best, starting now?  That’s Upbeat Living!

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert.  She is the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), plus the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition (http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc).  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister.

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UpBeat Living: Your Perfect Breath

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Acidosis, breath, exhale, pH balance, stress, UpBeat Living

© 2014 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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How many times have you been asked to “take a deep breath now”?  I remember being asked to take a deep breath absolutely every time I have ever had a physical.  The doctors always have asked for a deep breath, to expand the lungs, so they can hear various sounds that may be good or not so good.  But wait!  I have different advice!

Hands up, everyone who is currently breathing!  Oh good.  You brought your breath with you.  Breath allows life.  And if you’ve ever held your breath too long, you know you don’t feel well or think well.

About 6 times per minute, we breathe in oxygen, which is distributed into little collectors in the lungs, where the air and the blood actually meet, across a respiratory membrane.  The oxygen, from the air you’ve inhaled, goes into the blood, and the carbon dioxide comes out of the blood, into the breath.  And we breathe out carbon dioxide.  Then it takes only seconds for the oxygen you’ve inhaled to start circulating to the brain and body, through the blood system.  The oxygen/carbon dioxide balance is crucial to your body chemistry. It maintains your acid/base balance.  So this matters WHY?

This matters because you can only inhale, and get that good oxygen, if there is room in your lungs.  So exhale first.   Here’s a way to get a perfect exhale:  sing “ha” on any note you choose, and keep going until you completely run out of breath.  At the end of your breath, you’ll naturally gasp, quickly taking in a wonderful gulp of new air.  Terrific!  And how much did you take in?  That full exhalation emptied the bottoms of your lungs, pushing out all that stale urban air and pollution you don’t usually get to, in normal breathing.  Now when you inhale, you are inhaling into much more space, and you’ll get much more oxygen.

In about 30 seconds after you force the exhale and allow the gasp, you’ll notice a rush up the back of your head.  This is oxygen!  The stranger it feels, the more stale air you know you were storing in your lungs.  And now your brain and body are working much better.  You can think more clearly now, and all systems are more vital. This trick is absolutely free and the equipment is always with you.  So don’t take the regular advice!  Exhale first, for your perfect breath and health.

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● Kebba Buckley Button is the author of the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (Second Edition).   Keep this book with you constantly, to quickly recharge your Peace Within, with quotes, photos, and poems that take you directly there!  Kebba is a corporate stress management trainer, and she also has a holistic healing practice.

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UpBeat Living: Maintain Your Alkaline Balance (pH) to Prevent Disease

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Acidosis, energy foods, Health

© 2013 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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Many people would make one or two easy changes in their daily habits if they could feel much better as a result. Are you one of them? Here are some points to ponder regarding a condition affecting many people and causing silently deteriorating health, yet which you can easily and inexpensively control. It’s called acidosis, meaning excess acid in the body’s fluids. Relative acidity is measured on the pH, or potential hydrogen, scale that indicates hydrogen ion concentration. The pH scale goes from 1 (extremely acidic) to 14 (extremely basic, or alkaline). The body operates best when its pH is between 7.35 and 7.45, ideally at 7.4. Yet diet and stress tend to acidify the body’s fluids. Accumulation of biochemical waste in the body can also lower pH.

While the condition is simple, the symptoms are many. A person with acidosis may experience frequent fatigue, allergies, bronchitis, colds and flu, foot fungus, acne, boils, eczema, age spots, arthritis, diarrhea and/or constipation. Effects less easy for the individual to see are serious internal processes, such as the inflammation of veins, arteries, and the muscle tissue of the heart. This creates cardiac system issues that result in elevated blood pressure, which in turn increases the deterioration.

Acidosis also leads to premature aging via accelerating free-radical damage to cells. Cells are actually poisoned by inefficiently eliminated cellular waste. An acidic pH prevents the proper storage and release of cellular energy, meaning that the body cannot respond fully to stress or infection. Red blood cells clump together, which limits their oxygen-carrying capacity and leads to fatigue and weakness. Cancer cells thrive in lower-oxygen environments such as acidosis can create. Other mechanisms caused by acidosis may lead to pancreatic dysfunction, diabetes, weight gain, and osteoporosis.

The body has natural mechanisms for monitoring and controlling its acid-base balance. When plasma is too acidic, the respiratory system speeds breathing, and the kidneys can produce substances that turn the pH around. The body also uses intracellular absorption of hydrogen atoms by molecules of protein, phosphate, and carbonate in bone, thus raising the pH to less acidity.

So what can you do to help yourself beat acidosis? First, get litmus paper from your pharmacy and test your saliva. The litmus paper will turn color to indicate the acidity of your saliva. If your saliva’s pH is too low/acidic, re-assess your current stress, exercise (or lack thereof), and diet. Consider these dietary changes:

1. Stop drinking any sodas or sugared drinks, or any artificially sweetened products. Switch to juices or filtered water.
2. Stop eating sugared desserts and foods made mainly with white flour and yeast, such as pizza and bagels.
3. Eat dark-green leafy salads, other green vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, celery, parsley), and root vegetables (carrots, yams, daikon radish).
4. Eat fruits, especially fresh fruits, such as apples, apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, dates, figs, grapefruit, peaches, and grapes. For dried fruit, try raisins.
5. Eat rice and buckwheat, almonds, dairy products, and eggs.

Try changing your diet for a week, and add rhythmic breathing exercises. Check your pH again. Notice if these changes make you more relaxed, clear-minded, and vital. If so, you are making a major investment in your long-term health. Why not feel your best, starting now?

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a corporate stress management trainer and the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (on Amazon.com >Books>Buckley), and the 2012 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (on Amazon.com >Books>Button).  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister.

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