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Working long hours is bad for the heart

Friday, May 21st, 2010

A study of 6,000 British civil servants found a 60% increase in the probability of coronary heart disease

Working 10 or more hours a day is bad for the heart, according to results of a study in the UK. People who usually work three or four hours over the seven rules are 60% more likely to suffer serious heart problems, including heart attacks than those who serve their time, researchers have said, based on a study conducted over 6,000 British civil servants over 11 years. Work an hour or two has not, however, adverse effects.

The relationship between work hours and heart disease is demonstrated in the study, but not the cause, which may be the stress of overwork. In general, people tend to take hours with a pattern A (these tend to be aggressive, competitive, tense, aware of the passage of time and usually hostile), or suffer psychological disorders manifested by depression and anxiety and may not get enough sleep or do not have time to relax before sleep, researchers say. (more…)

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Benefits of shiatsu therapy

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

benefits of shiatsu therapyFor people who like to take care of day to day, it is important to know the balance and beauty techniques to feel forever young alternatives both inside and out.

There are many types of therapies with which you get to take care of the most enjoyable and relaxing.

The Shiatsu, for example, is a technique from Japan that is founded on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of this is finding the balance between our physical and mental part through good pipeline of our body energy charge.
The freezing of some part of the energy channels of our body leads to failures that can cause numerous diseases.

The technique is based on pressure points similar to acupuncture, except needles. To this end we use from the fingertips to the knees and elbows.

The Shiatsu is beneficial for problems from migraines, frigidity, stress, sciatica, lumbago, colon, apart from balancing our emotions and reduce pain. (more…)

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Type of Therapy and its Benefits

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Massage eliminates muscle spasms, only to stress, tension, and in many cases, improve mood. Are health benefits for both physical and mental health.

Body massage is applied since ancient times and has many benefits. They are good for the skin, blood and lymphatic circulation, muscles and tendons, respiratory and nervous systems, and even help improve mood. We have the possibility in this field is very different and each is suitable for each case.

Self-massage

Self-massage is a massage with a technique similar to Japanese shiatsu. This consists of exercises focusing on the head and neck, accompanied by breathing, stretching, and pressure taps on specific points. With the increasing practice of bone and muscle problems, anxiety, insomnia, stress, hypertension and digestive disorders. (more…)

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Tibetan Massage Increases Circulation

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Tibetan Massage improves circulation, tones muscles and nourishes your skin. Eliminate tension and stress, and muscle aches.

It is a great and effective rejuvenator.

Physical, mental and beauty … what more can you ask for.

Tibetan doctors are probably the first to talk about integrative medicine: body, mind and soul.

Tibetan massage is for them a supportive therapies to treat diseases. They argue that combating the disease, it must attack on all possible fronts.

Tibetan massage in most of the ills are due to external causes such as:

- Too hot or too cold

- Ingestion of toxic or inadequate food

- Physical or mental stress

- High emotions

- Poor regulation of daily activities

- Lack or excess sex

Tibetan massage places great emphasis on the importance of controlling emotions, hundreds of years ahead of psychology and psychiatry today, considering that most diseases are caused by emotional causes.

Tibetan massage from a reference system known as the 3 moods. Each disease is caused by an imbalance in one or more of them.

Tibetan massage from three vital energy pathways in the body or channels.

These three major channels, according to Tibetan medicine, branch into other 72,000 (which will be expanded by 12,000 more if you practice yoga or meditation), and central nuclei together in communication, called chakras or energy wheels.

So, our whole body is connected.

Among the Tibetan massage techniques find small strokes, rubbing, kneading, pressure or cleanliness, according to the disorder.

This massage uses Tibetan further assistance, certain oils: sesame oil, apricot, almond or coconut oil.

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The Massage of The Acupuncture Points

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Presentation:
Acupressure is a method derived from acupuncture but without needles. Tibetan technique is finger pressure on specific points relieving some small everyday ailments such as fatigue, stress or headaches. It also helps to balance your energy or recover regulates the sleep as nervous tension. It facilitates the expansion pressure, improves heart function, bowel and kidney.

Its great advantage is that you can do yourself as self-Massage.

What is an acupuncture point?
He invented more than 360 points distributed by the energy channels or meridians that travel throughout the body surface. Some acupuncture points coincide with the nerve pathways and others with the blood or lymph.

Not that these points have specific therapeutic virtues, but allow the flow of energy.

How to proceed?
Acupressure involves pressing acupuncture points with the fingertips while breathing deeply.
You press more or less strong according to the point: In general always takes into account the feeling of comfort you receive. Begin by gently pressing to increase pressure gradually. But the items identified as sensitive points, always gently pressed. (more…)

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