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Living with Narcolepsy can be challenging at times. But it doesn’t always have to be.
Read on for ideas and strategies to make it less overwhelming and more successful.
The Benefits of Stretching Before Bed for a Better Night's Sleep
Struggling with sleep? Incorporating a simple stretching routine into your nighttime ritual can make a world of difference, especially for those living with narcolepsy or sleep disorders. This blog explores the benefits of stretching before bed, offering a step-by-step guide to help you relax, ease tension, and prepare your body for a restful night's sleep. Learn how these gentle movements can improve your sleep quality and overall well-being, setting you up for a more energized and balanced day.
Understanding Positive Psychology to Improve Your Life with Narcolepsy
Living with narcolepsy or any other sleep disorder can be a frustrating and challenging experience. Many people feel like they are unable to keep up with the demands of everyday life, struggle to maintain their energy and concentration levels, and are often left feeling overwhelmed and anxious. However, positive psychology offers a unique approach to managing these symptoms and achieving a happier, more fulfilling life. In this blog post, we will explore what positive psychology is, how it can benefit those with narcolepsy, and provide some practical tips on how to implement these concepts in your life.
Decoding EFT Tapping: A Therapeutic Approach for Sleep Disorders
EFT Tapping, short for Emotional Freedom Techniques Tapping, employs self-administered tapping on specific acupuncture points to help manage emotional and psychological distress. This body-focused approach combines aspects of cognitive therapy with principles of exposure therapy, making it a multi-faceted treatment option.
But what makes EFT Tapping tick? How can you integrate it into your daily regimen, especially if you're living with a sleep disorder like narcolepsy? This article will take you through the science behind EFT Tapping, its mechanisms, and how it can fit seamlessly into your lifestyle.
Understanding Change for Successful Personal Transformation with Narcolepsy
Successful personal change when living with narcolepsy and other sleep disorders isn’t something what will happen by itself. Before you begin the journey of positive transformation, it benefits to have an understanding of the structure of personal change. Read the article to better understand the structure of personal change.
How to Have Clear Sinuses for Better Sleep
When you are already living with fragmented sleep, the last thing you need is to further add to this by a blocked and stuffy nose. In this article I share some information on what can contribute to this and tips help keep your sinuses clear while you sleep.
10 Life Changes You Can Experience by Mindfulness and Meditation
Though meditation has been around for thousands of years, it’s only now that meditation is becoming mainstream. Even the conservative medical community is singing the praises of meditation. Meditation is a simple and free tool that can enhance your life in many ways. If you’ve considered meditation but decided against it, now is the time to reconsider. Here are 10 benefits you can experience to your life.
The 5 Biggest Mistakes You Can Make
Being a professional coach has allowed me the opportunity to work with a wide range of people, not only those living with sleep disorders like narcolepsy. The challenges that exist for people seeking positive changes in their life are often very similar regardless of their personal situation. Although people each have their own unique challenges in life, they often fall in to the same traps and make similar mistakes. In this article I share five of the biggest mistakes I see people making when setting out to improve the quality of their life and enhance their health and well-being.
Neurostimulation Using FeelZing
One of the most interesting biohacking devices I have tried recently and loved is the FeelZing. It uses a form of neurostimulation called transcutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation (tPNS). Once the patch is activated you immediately understand why it is called “FeelZing” and you immediately feel the Zing happening. You really have to try it and experience this for yourself. Here is the science behind what it does and how to works.
Neurostimulation Using NeoRhythm
NeoRhythm is a unique wearable device that suggests to the brain which frequencies to work at. It uses electromagnetic pulses of medium intensity and is called a Mi rTMS device. It has multiple programs you activate to stimulate a specific mental states including: Improve sleep; Pain control; Enhance mental capacity; Theta meditation; Deep relaxation; Energy and vitality, Vagus Nerve Stimulation.
The Importance of Setting Goals
If you've ever dreamed of the enhancing the quality of your life with any chronic illness or sleep disorder, then this article is for you. You'll discover how setting personal goals can help you make positive changes to your life and help you start living the life that you deserve.
Coaching Explained
Coaching has evolved significantly from its early performance-based sporting origins but still shares similarity with those origins. People generally seek out a coach when they are seeking greater clarity, direction, knowledge and help in moving forward toward their goals. But what else is there to know? Read to find out …
5 Tips on How to Manage Your Energy Levels With Narcolepsy
When living with Narcolepsy and other sleep disorders, a lot of focus and attention is given to strategies to cultivate more energy to get through each day. Although this is important, the way in which you manage the energy levels that you already have is equally as important. Here are 5 tips for managing your energy levels when living with Narcolepsy.
6 Gratitude-Building Strategies
Most of us are constantly under pressure and regularly feel overwhelmed by life with narcolepsy. It's only natural for us to feel worn out and experience feelings of being down from time to time.
The good news is that something as simple as refocusing your attention from your challenges to acknowledging the things that you are grateful for in your life can instantly boost your mood.
Benefits of Mindfulness and Meditation for Narcolepsy
Mindfulness and meditation are two of the most powerful self-development tools available. A short meditation session each day can provide profound results. The benefits aren’t limited to your psychology. Studies have demonstrated physical benefits, too. There is also increasing research into the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for people who suffer from narcolepsy and in this article we look at some of these in more detail.
Beating Procrastination
Procrastination is the root of unachieved dreams and success. But somehow it's difficult for many people to eliminate, especially when living with narcolepsy or other sleep disorders.
Learn how to beat procrastination and take action in the direction of your dreams. You can experience a few more moments of joy and peace simply by making the decision to take action on a consistent basis. You'll feel more decisive and confident, and you'll more efficiently and effectively move through your schedule.
My Story with Narcolepsy
This is my story with Narcolepsy and the reasons why I founded the Narcolepsy Life Academy.