What About Sleep Causes High Blood Pressure? Funny things happen with media stories. Complicated science suddenly becomes simple, clear and distinct – with implications very different to what the research reveals. Such is the case with a recent article on hypertension. According to the report in BBC News, “Bad Sleep Ups Blood Pressure Risk.” What […]
Sleepless over stocks (9/2/11)
Certain Uncertainty Volatility. The times are out of joint, with nearly certain uncertainty stalking people’s thoughts. People tell me of sleeplessness unprecedented since 9/11, of aimless worry keeping up those who have slept well throughout their lives. Is their concern hurricanes, floods, global climate change? The nation’s three wars, or its paralyzing political deadlock? The […]
Using hypnosis (Carin Friedman 8/31/11)
THE MANY USES OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS by Carin Friedman Imagine a simple, harmless, non-evasive treatment that can resolve a multitude of emotional and physical symptoms. Hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, is a mind-body technique that has the potential to bring about remarkable and enduring healing quickly – often in as little as one to three […]
How to sleep in the heat (8/15/11)
It’s Hot Out There There are riots, financial meltdowns, fiscal crises. It’s hot out there. Global climate change may be a myth to some non-scientists, but most models of global weather predict greater volatility – more extreme hot weather and cold, more floods and hurricanes – for a long time to come. And then there’s […]
Please don’t wake up – interrupted sleep harms memory (8/01/11)
Arousals You Can Live Without Some technologies are astonishing. Imagine this – you want to wake up an animal so quickly and efficiently that you do not change overall sleep – just cause brief arousals that don’t shift the amount of REM, deep sleep, or how long you get to rest. And you do it […]