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Emily Vargas

Yoga Improves Sleep for Cancer Patients | OSUN DEFENDER - 0 views

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  • regular practice of yoga can lead to significant improvements in sleep for people who have undergone cancer treatment.
  • Research indicates that people coping with cancer are at significantly higher risk for sleep disorders than the general population
  • Poor sleep and disrupted circadian rhythms are also associated with hormone dysregulation and immune system dysfunctio
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  • including physical pain or discomfort that interferes with falling asleep or staying asleep, side effects from medications and treatments, as well as stress and anxiety
  • Researchers divided the participants into 2 groups, both of which followed the same standard post-treatment care plan. In addition, one group also participated in a 4-week yoga program, consisting of 2 75-minute sessions each week. The yoga regimen included physical postures as well as meditation, breathing and relaxation exercises
  • Yoga also helped to reduce patients’ reliance on prescription sleep medication.
  • 410 patients with cancer, all of whom had undergone one or more types of treatment—including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy—within the past 24 months. Most of the participants (96%) were women, with an average age of 54, and 75% of participants had breast cancer. All were suffering from at least moderate levels of sleep problems.
  • While short-term use of sleep medication may be useful, it’s critical to identify strategies for improving sleep that don’t rely on long-term use of sleep medicines
  • , researchers measured sleep for both groups using questionnaires and wrist sensors worn during the night. They found both groups had improved their sleep during the 4-week period. However, the yoga group experienced significantly greater improvements to sleep compared to the non-yoga group:
  • The yoga group saw their average sleep quality score improve from 9.2 at the beginning of the study to 7.2 at the end. The non-yoga group’s average score improved to a lesser degree, from 9.0 to 7.9.
  • The yoga group experienced more significant improvements to daytime tiredness than the non-yoga group.
  • The yoga group reduced their use of sleep medication by 21% per week during the course of the study. The non-yoga group, on the other hand, increased their sleep medication use by 5% per week.
  • that the group practicing yoga improved their sleep while also reducing their reliance on sleep medication
  • CDC’s first-ever investigation of prescription sleep medication that reliance on prescription sleep aids is alarmingly high, with 4% of the adult population of the U.S. taking medication to sleep
  • After 3 months, patients who did yoga reported significant decreases in sleep disturbances, increased sleep duration, and less reliance on sleep medication, compared to a group that did not participate in the yoga regimen.
  • A group of patients with a variety of cancers experienced improvements to sleep and decreases to levels of stress and fatigue after an 8-week program of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). MBSR includes meditation practices designed to address both physical and psychological difficulties.
aldi gjoka

Why I love and hate having a smartphone - The Oatmeal - 0 views

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shared by aldi gjoka on 28 Sep 13 - No Cached
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      Some people are very gullible. They look up what they want to know the answer to and believe any answer they find first online
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      I think there are some ways you can work from home. But you shouldn't always do that. My aunt works from home answering phones for a company . I don't understand how you can answer the calls when your not even there.
    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      My phone is the reason why i always go to sleep late!!
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    • Emily Vargas
      Emily Vargas on 28 Sep 13
       
      This article is very true & very relatable 
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 07 Oct 13
       
      This is a great example of how far technology has come 
  • Rebecca Lurie on 02 Oct 13
     
    the technology keeps us linked.  Way for fashion buyers to see what people are looking for and what they want to buy in the fashion world
Richard Ofosuhene

How Mindfulness Can Treat Anxiety - Carolyn Tucker MA, NCC, DCC, LAPC's Blog - Decatur-... - 1 views

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shared by Richard Ofosuhene on 01 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • From the poor economic climate, to traffic, to tragedy in the news, our culture contributes as well.
  • Mindfulness causes you to be fully presen
  • Mindfulness is defined as a state of active, open attention on the present
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  • . When you're mindful, you exist solely in the moment, noticing what is going on right then to the fullest. The practice of acceptance goes along with mindfulness
  • In acceptance you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad
  • Instead of saying "I am anxious," notice the physical sensation and acknowledge that it is there
  • help clients daily learn skills to help them better cope with the effects of anxiety on their mind and bodies.
  • Mindfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit.
  • Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music.
  • Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
  • By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself.
  • Even as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly. When the mind locates the symptoms of anxiety it sends off a "code red" and all of the symptoms feel exacerbated.
  • ven as our minds get busy, the physical sensations of anxiety such as muscle tension, tightness in the chest or stomach, fluttering heartbeat are still present. Every few moments our minds do a "check in" to be sure that all systems are functioning properly
  • When we resist emotions or physical sensations they rear their ugly heads and demand to be noticed. The sheer energy of them increases due to our increase in attempt to squash them down. Our bodies were made to allow all energy, negative and positive to move through them and to be expressed in some way, whether spoken through communication, burned off through exercise or relaxed away. Acceptance allows our bodies to naturally self correct and allow that energy to pass through us without resistance.
  • Mindfulness is proven to increase our quality of life by improving our physical health (reducing blood pressure and increasing quality of sleep to name a few benefits) and our mental health (decreased rumination, increased ability to handle daily stress) and out relationships (One study showed that people who practice mindfulness deal with relationship stress more constructively.
  • indfulness is most frequently associated with a practice of meditation. Even five minutes of meditation daily has been proven to show benefit. You can practice mindfulness in many other ways too. Some of my clients report washing the dishes as being meditative for them, or gardening, or listening to music. Any activity where you can be fully in the moment contributes to your ability to quiet that voice in the mind that causes anxiety.
  • By being mindful you are not denying your feelings, nor ignoring them. You are integrating them into your "whole self" and allowing your mind to get out of the way so that your body can naturally heal itself
  • Richard Ofosuhene on 04 Oct 13
     
    It shows how to do mindfulness and the benefit of it
aldi gjoka

Flynn Coleman: Mindfulness: An Ancient Skill for Thriving in the Modern Innovation Economy - 0 views

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shared by aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13 - No Cached
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      the author does thits well where he explains how it's not too difficult to be mindful and that it doesnt require as much as people might think, encouraging people to at least try it 
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      he author does thits well where he explains how it's not too difficult to be mindful and that it doesnt require as much as people might think, encouraging people to at least try it 
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      implying that mindfulness stimulates creativity and leading to innovation
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      repetition of creativity, stressing that it leads to innovation and that achieving introspection is an important step
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    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      an anomaly, saying that all you have to do is pay attention, that it is just that simple and just that difficult. 
  • this technique is as old as time
    • aldi gjoka
      aldi gjoka on 11 Oct 13
       
      he emphasizes trust and connecting the dots, similar to the relationship between mindfulness and creativity
  • Slowing down, taking a step back, and even napping and mind-wandering, interspersed with diligent focus, are all part of creative mindfulness.
  • "Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Kathy Chu

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walden pdf

shared by Kathy Chu on 22 Oct 13 - No Cached
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      Lexy Martin on 22 Oct 13
       
      "patriotism is a maggot in their heads." this view strikes me in a weird way. I have always known patriotism to be a good thing, not a "maggot"- bad thing. Who says that patriotism causes racism?
    • Kathy Chu
      Kathy Chu on 23 Oct 13
       
      Thoreau describes to his audience that there is much more to life. Instead of resting our eyes to sleep, we should go out and explore the world and ourselves. within it
  • The universe is wider than ourviews of it.
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  • one advancesconfidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live thelife which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpectedin common hours.
  • desire to speak somewhere withoutbounds; like a man in a waking moment,
  • Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in suchdesperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his com-panions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, h
  • However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it andcall it hard names
  • Do not trouble yourself much to getnew things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them.Things do not change; we change.
  • The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day todawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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