Any kind of headache is an indicator of stagnant energy that needs to be released and moved. Mental agitation or an overactive nervous system means there is not much happening for the respiratory system. If you can’t quiet your mind or you feel anxious, the BOTTOM LINE IS, YOU ARE NOT BREATHING! If you are breathing fully it is impossible for your mind to be agitated.
For a general de-stressor it is important to be moving your body through some kind of exercise. This is a process of finding what works for you. Do you thrive and feel best when you have really intense physical activity? Does your body prefer something slow and more calming such as Yoga or Tai Chi? Maybe you are in the middle? One of the most significant reasons behind doing any sort of exercise is that it forces you to breathe. Breathing represents life force energy and movement of energy. Breath moves energy. Chronic headaches represent stuck energy. Our breath is directly connected to our emotions. This is true because when we feel happy and calm our breath is always more relaxed. We usually take much fuller inhales and exhales. When we are stressed or tense, the tendency is to hold our breath. When we watch a disturbing movie, or see something really horrific we gasp in disbelief and the breath gets repressed at the same time. In response to what emotion is coming up, the breath follows. For example, if a person is experiencing panic, the breath is very shallow and short, and results in a “panting.”
If our breath is short and shallow, it signifies we are not “fully breathing in life.” The consequence of quick shallow breathing is oxygen starvation. This leads to reduced vitality, premature ageing, poor immune system response, and a myriad of other factors. Oxygen is critical to our well-being, and any effort to increase the supply of oxygen to our body will be beneficial, with a priceless outcome. Breathing more fully can benefit everyone, especially people who have sedentary jobs and spend most of the day in offices. They may feel tired, anxious, irritable, and not very productive.
Breath is also related to posture. We often assume certain postures that do not support our body and restrict our breath and lung capacity. We slouch for example, and being hunched over limits the amount of oxygen we are able to inhale. We have adapted to breathing in dysfunctional ways without even the awareness that it is something vital to our health and well being. A major reason for this is our fast paced life style; we are always in a hurry. Working with innovative technology causes us to be physically less active and therefore less connected to what’s going on in our body.
To truly experience the fullness and greatness, we need to take deep satisfying breaths. We all want to experience the richness life has to offer. It can easily start with noticing our breath. Observe your own breath pattern. Do you find yourself holding your breath often? Does your chest or stomach feel tight when that happens? Are your inhalations shallow or short?
How do you correct these things? BREATHE MORE!! Put your focus on your breath. Engage in activities that get your body moving. Walking, running, swimming, Yoga, Tai Chi, aerobics, sports: these are all things that support your body. Systematic breathing on a daily basis can transform lives. It is what the Yogis call “Pranayama.” Yogis realized the vital importance of an adequate oxygen supply thousands of years ago.
Here is a technique to practice:
1.) sitting straight up with both feet on the floor
2.) imagine you are going to blow out a candle that is 6 ft. in front of you
3.) keeping that image in mind, practice fast sharp exhales, you should feel your abdomen expand and contract.
4.) work up to doing 3 sets of 50 repetitions
*You may feel light headed at first. This happens because your organism is expanding the amount to oxygen being taken in. Do what you need to take care of yourself. Start slow.
Marnina Reid is a nationally certified Holistic Health Practitioner. She is the author of “Natural Cures For Chronic Headaches,” a newly released e-book. Marnina has a private practice in San Diego, and faciliates trainings in emotional healing. She mainly works with women who have suffered from emotional trauma helping them to remove the blockages that are preventing them from moving forward. Several of Marnina’s clients have suffered from chronic headaches and have been successful at eliminating them. This inspired her to create an e-book specifically addressing headaches.
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Supplementing with relatively small amounts of riboflavin (vitamin B2) may reduce the severity and frequency of migraines in chronic sufferers, reports a study in Headache (2004;44:885-90). Previous studies showing that riboflavin can prevent migraines used 400 mg per day, which is at least 200 times the amount in a typical diet. In the new study, 25 mg per day appeared to be effective.
Riboflavin was originally considered for migraine prevention because researchers observed that migraine sufferers tend to have impaired energy production in brain cells, which riboflavin has the potential to enhance as it is a component of a key substance involved in the body’s energy production. Magnesium, another nutrient important for producing energy, has already been shown to reduce migraine recurrence. In earlier studies with riboflavin, a very high dose was chosen, presumably to give the vitamin the best chance of working. While riboflavin does not appear to cause any significant adverse effects even at high doses, it is possible that taking large amounts of any single nutrient might cause subtle imbalances in body chemistry. For that reason, if lower doses are equally effective, they are preferable to higher amounts.
Fifty-two people suffering from recurrent migraines participated in the three-month study. They were randomly assigned to receive either a daily combination of riboflavin (400 mg), magnesium (300 mg), and the herb feverfew (100 mg), or 25 mg of riboflavin per day. Each of the three components of the combination product has been shown in earlier research to reduce the recurrence rate of migraines. A positive response was defined as a reduction in the frequency of migraines by 50% or more. Forty-two percent of participants responded to combination therapy and forty-four percent responded to low-dose riboflavin. In addition, the average headache severity and the number of days with tension headaches decreased significantly in the low-dose-riboflavin group, but not in the group receiving combination therapy.
Because there was no control group in the new study, one cannot rule out the possibility that the beneficial effects of low-dose riboflavin were due to a placebo effect. However, the researchers considered that possibility unlikely, because the effects of riboflavin were greater than those found with a placebo in previous migraine studies.
In addition to riboflavin, magnesium, and feverfew, coenzyme Q10 has been found in one preliminary trial to reduce the recurrence rate of migraines.
Dietary factors also appear to be important migraine triggers in susceptible people. For some, tyramine-containing foods such as certain wines and aged cheeses are the main offenders. For others, allergic reactions to common foods such as wheat, oranges, egg, coffee, tea, and beef seem to be the main triggers.
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Any type of sickness during pregnancy is most unwanted. A sickness related to your head is not at all welcome. With headache on, the whole thinking faculty slumps. You are just confused, and you do not know what to do.
In the state of pregnancy, you need to think twice and deeply before you take any type of medication. Because the medication affects you, and the growing baby within! Therefore, headache, during pregnancy, becomes the highly unfavorable experience. But all pregnant women have to undergo this suffering. This occurs during the first and the last trimesters.
If you get the headache during the first three months the reasons could be the initial stresses related to the pregnancy, increased blood volume and the obvious hormonal changes.
During the final three months, it is a different story. In this advanced stage of pregnancy, problems related to poor posture exert pressure on various parts of your body. You have the additional responsibility of carrying the extra weight. When your posture is not in tune with the normal laws of gravitation, you feel physical discomfiture and the brain gets continuous distress signals, which could be the reason for the headache during pregnancy.
Migraine headaches during pregnancy are to be treated on a different footing. Strange though, women may experience fewer headaches during pregnancy, but again a small percentage of them will suffer more migraine headaches. Any medication for this contingency of migraine headache will only be in consultation with the physician. If you plan to start a family, do consult the physician about your migraine problem.
Prevention is better than cure. The first and the foremost care to avoid headache during pregnancy is to avoid those items, the known triggers like cheese, chocolates, and spicy foods. Take plenty of fruits and vegetables. The balanced approach may avoid the contingency of headache altogether.
Don’t treat just headache, try to locate the cause of your headache. You must have had several headaches in the past, and you are rich with their treatment experiences. If you have the stress headache, don’t take the medication of the sinus headache. But, if you have any other complications, along with the headache, do consult your physician.
You need to take extra care if you have certain serious ailments. For example if you are a diabetic patient, you are not advised to take any over the counter medications, without consulting your physician.
Tow heads are always better than one! Do consult your physician! Don’t take your own decisions!
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