(Forum post:) I have trouble sleeping, since I work often late right to bedtime. I heard about coffee cruda, does it keep you awake? Is it harmless? I’ve also heard Coffea Cruda 30 (Boiron) or Coffea Cruda 3X HPUS helps sleeplessness. Is it a homeopathic treatment and a cure for insomnia? Please help! Other suggestions to battle my sleeping problem are greatly appreciated.
Susan
Add comment April 20th, 2008
Stress will always be a part of our lives. Whether you are starting a new job, being promoted at work, going to school as a teen, marrying, raising a family, all have some stress symptoms related to them. Learn how to avoid stress, since managing stress is not always easy. This article presents at least 11 ways coping with stress, stress management and to avoid post-traumatic stress disorder or syndromes:
1. Daydreams
Take a few minutes to daydream each day. Picture yourself on a warm island, or any other nice place you like or love to be. Especially places that makes you feel calm. Remember that there’s more to life.
2. Don’t smoke, use chemicals or drugs
Stop using stimulants or chemicals, like smoking, coffee with caffeine and drinking alcohol. Stimulants may makes you forget about your problems, but this is only temporarily and for very short moments. Stimulants increase stress levels in the long term.
3. Excercise
Exercise every day. One of the best remedies for stress is exercising. It helps you to relax and calm down by increasing the amount of endorphins in your brain. Meditation could also be helpful. Stand up and stress yourself a few times a day.
4. Get a Pet
Get a friendly dog, cat or other pet. Walking a dog helps you with your exercise and also gives you time for yourself to think things through or do some more organising. Stroking a cat or a dog has proved to have a relaxing effect and to lower the blood pressure. Pets are loyal to their owners and could be really important and beneficial during times of stress. Feed birds! If you don’t like animals, try gardening. Plant a tree.
5. Get Organised
A common cause of stress is lack of organisation:
6. Keep a journal / Write it all Down
It might be helpful to write down your problems in order to relieve stress, improve your health and to sort out your life. Take a few minutes to write down your deepest grievances and thoughts each day. Don’t rely on your memory, write it all down!
7. Live a little: relaxing things to do
It is found that ‘busy’ personalities have a higher chance of suffering a heart attack. Sing more, hum a jingle, whistle a tune, read a poem, listen to symphony. Go to a museum and look at work of arts. Walk in the rain, look at the stars. Do something you have never done before. Go to a ball game and try to be enthouastic, try to scream!
8. Socialize
Socialize and communicate. If you have problems, share them with your partner, close friends or collegues at work (only if you consider them to be your friend of course). Don’t think you know all the answers to your problems. Listen carefully to other people’s — perhaps more positive — point of view. Become a better listener. Talking things over helps you to put problems in perspective. Ask a friend for a hug, it really makes you feel a lot better. Furthermore, quit trying to fix other people, but you may give compliments. Say “no” more often,. Tickle a baby or say something nice to someone once in a while. Even try to say “hello” to strangers.
9. Stand up for Yourself
Enhancing your self-esteem also helps to relieve stress. If you usually stumble upon your words, prepare what you want to say in your mind, whether your are at work, shopping or at home. Be firmly but politely; keep a steady voice, but don’t shout. Maintain steady eye contact, but don’t go staring. Pay attention to your appearance. Be comfortable in whatever you are wearing, avoid tight fitting clothes, be comfortable with the way you look (try a new hair style, manicure, maintain your weight which is actually a topic on itself, etc etc).
10. Take a Deep Breath and practice breathing slowly
When you feel stressed, take a minute or two to calm down by taking a deep breath. Try to breath deep and slowly.
11. Think positive
Stop saying negative things to yourself. Avoid negative people. Don’t think ‘tomorrow will be a better day’. Do it today! People didn’t invent the phrase ’seize the day’ or ‘carpe diem’ for nothing. Work at being cheerful and optimistic.
2 comments May 4th, 2007
never heard of betsey johnson until recently, in search of a handbag. so who wears betsey johnson: Courtney Love, Lenny Kravitz, Cher, Madonna, Lil’ Kim, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Prince. needless to say, they are not really wearing betsey johnson, but her designs. apparently betsey johnson sells her handbags all over the world, boasting a network of stores worldwide, selling her handbags for over 30 years now. the bags are supposed to be colorful. now i’m not really here to talk about her handbags, but her website. although i hate those flashy fashion websites, this is one that totally is the opposite of that. wrong combination of colors, using comic sans is a big no-no for any kind of designers! and what’s with the ugly dolls. well, there sure are some nice betsey johnson handbags with tiger print, but i’ll pass this time. please, update that horrible website!
1 comment November 19th, 2005
the other day I had some mozilla printing issues. pretty weird ones, parts of pages were missing, pretty much loss of information. was using a notebook with windows xp installed. i didn’t had these mozilla printing issues on a macintosh before, so to you all reading this, unfortunately i don’t have a real solution to this printing issue. can’t find that much information about mozilla printing with loss of information on the internet either. so i just dropped mozilla, and installed firefox. i earlier wrote about making this swith on another computer, no printing problems anymore!
Add comment November 19th, 2005
Sony is launching voice-over-ip software competing with Skype. With this new software, it’s possible to make free video phone calls, or can be used to call others using the same software, and make phone calls to normal phone numbers (not free). The software is called IVE and stands for Instant Video Everywhere, and can be downloaded freely from the Sony-website. Instead of a voice-mail message, you could leave a video-message if the person you are calling is not home.
Skype, created by Kazaa-developers, is the hype! Not using it myself though… VoIP, using a PC is really a pain in the ass. Internet providers are slowly delivering VoIP-services through standard Internet connections, without the need of a personal computer.
Sony and Skype might be competing now, wait for Google, they will blow them all away, off you go 
Add comment November 18th, 2005
now combine all that free storage with this 100 dollar laptop, and off you go. oh, it’s not for sale… (0) Nov 17, '05
the time the 2 megabyte hotmail inboxes were large enough to keep all your e-mails are over. mailnation is a new e-mail service offering a free mailbox of 1000 gigabytes. yes that is 10000000 megabytes (well ok, technically not, but back off you nerds ;)) !! this is like 500 times the space you get now at gmail from google. including web access. and at the time of writing this service is free. (0) Nov 17, '05
one thing about firefox that really bugged me a lot is when you open a lot of tabs all ot once, each with a different url, and suppose an url of a specific tab fails, for whatever reason that might be, the url is left blank. you don’t know which page that tab was trying to load. mozilla displays an annoying ‘url failed’ dialog box, but the url is kept in the url address bar. very handy for failing urls. but now there also is a solution for firefox users:
Type in your address bar:
about:config
then type (in the search box filter):
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled [press enter]
now change that value to True, you can double-click on it.
This will show the failed URL, instead of the xul code of the error pages. This works in Firefox 1.0.7 (the latest version at time of writing) and probably earlier versions.
Try Firefox
if you haven’t tried firefox yet, you should. it’s the successor to mozilla, which already is an excellent browser. both browsers still exist and both are updated. firefox is superior to internet explorer in all ways, for example: tabbed browsing, advanced pop-up blocking, actually, read all about it and download it on:
Add comment November 9th, 2005