Going to bed at the same time every day is a good way to solve sleep problems. This will automatically program the body to sleep at the particular after a few days. But it’s impossible to adhere to technique to the busy life style these days. Instead ‘going to bed’ routines could be set up and followed everyday before going to bed. For example like drinking tea or reading a book etc. When the ritual is carried on everyday, the body would be habituated to sleep after it.

Meditation Is The Best To Cure Sleeplessness

If stress is the cause of sleeplessness then mediation could offer relaxation to body and mind. There are many CDs and tapes available which guide to do mediation that would enable to take out the worries to back seat and bring peace to mind and help to sleep. There are types of mediation aids like one helps in balancing the conceptual energy centers in the spine that is necessary for good health and well being, some others bring back happy memories. It’s good to try a few and choose the one which suits the best.

Natural Herbal Pills Can Help A Lot

Sleep aid such as pills can be used. Preference should be given to natural or herbal as they would not get the user addicted to it and would not cause drowsiness.

In herbal preparations, herbs such are ‘nervines’ calm and tone the nervous system while ‘sedatives’ affect the nerves as they are stronger. Those suffering from muscle tension should go for ‘antispasmodic’. Some herbal preparation may have all, one or none of these.

Chamomile tea, popular herbal tea has a flowery taste and is nervine and an antispasmodic. It relives from sleeplessness, digestive upsets, and menstrual cramps. This can be found in all grocery stores.

Herb Skullcap aids to relive nervousness and stress. It’s a nervine, sedative and antispasmodic. Valerian is also similar and it’s usually combined with Skullcap in herbal tea. Passionflower, Lemon Balm and Mugwort are also good for nervousness and tension but Mugwort can cause miscarriage when had during pregnancy.

Sleep aid teas would be placed in the natural products section in the grocery store. The can be bought online or from local health food or new age stores. To make herbal tea, boiling water should be poured on the herbs and left alone for ten to twenty minutes. Then the mixture should be strained using tea strainer. One herb could be tried at a time or combination. Honey or stick of licorice (plant) could be used to sweeten the tea but generally not necessary as these herbs have a pleasant taste.

Doing self analysis would give an idea of the reason for sleeplessness and once the cause is known it’s easier to figure out which herbs should be used to come out of it.

Here are a few secrets of looking and young vibrant at any age.

1. Drinking Plenty Of Water: It’s a common knowledge that drinking plenty of water is good for health. But little do people know that it helps in maintaining the skin moisturized and young. Water flushes out the harmful toxins and wastes from the body. Its also instrumental in moisturizing the skin and hydrates the body.  Therefore, approximately six to eight glasses should be taken in everyday.

2. Natural Skin Care: Natural tan always looks good but the amount time to be spent under the sun is also very high. Too much exposure to sun not  only darkens the skin but also its ultraviolet rays dries it up. Drying of the skin will result in wrinkles and it would make the person look much  older than the actual one. Those who want to add a little color to their skin could try the tanning accelerators available in the store which would reduce the time to be spent under the sun.

3. White & Bright Teeth: If wrinkles are signs of ageing so are gray or yellow teeth.  Shiny, white, shapely teeth are signs of youth. Teeth that are slightly discolored can be whitened at home by brushing teeth with a mixture of table salt and baking soda. This combination can remove several shades of tobacco, coffee and stains from other food and drinks too . Its also helps with breath and strengthening the gums. But if the teeth are badly stained or needs to be repaired, then its time to book an appointment with the dentist.

4. Quit Smoking & Nicotine: Say no to smoking and too much coffee. Mostly smokers drink too much coffee and vice versa. They stain the teeth and have harmful effects on the body. Tobacco releases toxins into the body as well create wrinkles. Most smokers have wrinkles around the mouth. It also depletes the body required vitamins and minerals and causes body to bulge.  There are no better signs of ageing than stained teeth, wrinkles, a polluted body and over weight. To resolve this, quitting smoking and coffee habit is the ultimate solution. To come out of smoking there are patches, hypnosis, therapy, cold turkey methods, etc. Coffee could be replaced with natural teas such as green, chamomile, peppermint, or pekoe teas. Green tea, being a antioxidant would help to remove the toxins from the body.

5. Feel Happy, Fit & Younger: Keeping mind fit and healthy also contributes to looking younger. Also, dressing up in latest styles, sporting a modern hair style would help too.

Body shape of women is generally classified as Pear or Spoon, Hour Glass, Apple or Ruler. Men fall under Ruler, Apple or Cone shaped. Here are few tips to determine the shape of the body.

Pear shaped people would have broader bottoms compared to the top, hourglass is the perfect one where the top and bottom are in perfect sync with slim waist line, apple shaped people would be heavy at the waist, ruler shaped people would have hardly any curves and cone shaped people would be heavier at the top compared to the bottoms.

How to know your body Shape?

Best means to identify the body shape is to stand in front of the mirror and look at the figure and try to think which shape it resembles: pear, spoon, hour glass, apple, ruler or cone shaped.

How to measure your body?

Measuring the size of the body parts such chest, waist and hips would help to ascertain the body shape better.  For men the middle of the chest should be measured and for women the breasts. Before measuring, it necessary to exhale to get accurate measurements. The waist measurements should be taken 1 inch above the belly button and hips should be measured across the widest section. It’s always better to have some help in measuring to get the exact numbers.

Different types of body shapes

Hourglass Shape: This is considered as the best shape for the women. Where the bust and hips measurements would be almost the same circumference, though the bust can be ‘one inch’ larger than the hips. The waist would be much smaller. A perfect hourglass shape is where the difference between the ‘waist and the bust’ and ‘waist and hips’ is at least ‘nine inches’.

Pear or Spoon Shape: If there is a wide difference in measurements between the hips and bust and hardly any between the chest and waist. Hips are ‘two inches’ or more larger than the bust and waist is less than 9.25″ smaller than the bust.

Ruler(Rectangle) Shape: If there is hardly any difference in the measurements of waist, bust and hips. The waist is less than ‘nine inches’ smaller than the bust.

Conical(Triangle) Shape: Normally where the bust and waist are same but the hips are ‘at least nine inches smaller’ than the chest. The standard measurement is, bust 3.6″ or larger than the hips and the waist less than 9″ smaller than the bust.

Apple Shape: If the waist measures larger compared to the hip and chest.