10 Simple Tricks to Help You Take Charge of Your Body
There are various phenomena that tend to
"attack" us at the most inappropriate time and make us feel
uncomfortable, as if we can’t control our body; a sudden and unwanted
laughter or cry that comes out of nowhere; pimples that suddenly appear
on the skin; hiccups, heartburn, snoring, etc. - these are problems we
always thought had no solution other than waiting for them to just go
away. But no more! We have gathered for you the original, fast and most
important scientific proven solutions that’ll help you overcome 10
troubling situations that you thought were uncontrollable.
1. Get rid of a headache
To get rid of a bothersome headache, just put your hands under cold
water for a few minutes and try to keep them there as long as you can.
Once you feel that you can no longer stand the cold or have left them
for a long enough time, remove them from under the tap and wipe them
with a dry towel until you feel a slight burning sensation, you’ll soon
notice how your headache goes away miraculously. This method is called
"cold therapy," and is based on the fact that the stress caused by the
body's fluctuations in temperature increases blood pressure, expands the
veins and relieves uncomfortable feelings such as a headache. Note,
however, that if you have heart or blood vessel problems, you should
skip this method and not use it.
2. Control laughter
Laughter is good for health - this is a well-known saying that has
proven to be true many times. However, we can’t always control our
laughter, and sometimes we start laughing when it's highly
inappropriate. In those moments, laughter isn’t deliberate, but in any
case, it may cause us quite a bit of unpleasantness. When you feel that
this is going to happen, and the laughter is going to break out of you
at the most inappropriate moment, try pinching yourself or biting your
tongue (not too hard) on both sides of your mouth so that your lips will
have difficulty moving to smile or laugh at the wrong time.
3. Stop Snoring
Snoring is considered a common problem that many people suffer from, and
many others have to cope with sleeping in bed with a partner who
snores. Today, there are all kinds of different treatments to stop the
phenomenon, but there is a very easy method to try before you turn to
experts and consultants. All you have to do is try not to sleep on your
back, but on one side of your body (preferably on your left side). The
explanation is simple: sleeping on your back causes your tongue to fall
back to your throat partially blocking the airway, sleeping on your side
or on your stomach prevents this phenomenon and may completely
eliminate snoring.
4. Relieve heartburn
Waking up in the middle of the night with heartburn is just about the
worst thing that can happen, and can often disturb the rest of our
night’s sleep! Heartburn is a very common phenomenon, which can
sometimes attack us not only because of something we ate but also
because of sleeping on the right side of the body. Experts have found
that sleeping on the right side of the body significantly increases the
chances of reflux, the same phenomenon that causes the development of
heartburn. Therefore, all you need to do to get rid of the trouble and
avoid heartburn is to sleep on your left side, which may reduce the
chance of heartburn recurring.
5. Get rid of acne
Acne, those small, reddish pimples that often appear on our bodies,
especially on the face, is a very common problem for teenagers, but also
for quite a few adults. Many believe that it can be solved by taking
plenty of hot water showers, but it turns out that the opposite is true -
cold showers are the most effective solution because cold water was
found to contribute to the closure of pores and to clean and nourish the
skin more correctly and suitably than hot showers. If you don’t want to
shower in cold water, at the very least rinse yourself off with it at
the end of your hot shower.
6. Stop Crying
Like the laughter we mentioned earlier, crying is merely a necessary and
good emotional reaction that frees us from the many emotions that
accumulate within us. However, crying in situations that aren’t suitable
for this or a crying session that is overly prolonged may cause us an
unpleasant feeling that we want to stop. If you feel that you’re about
to cry and you want to stop it before the tears begin to flow, try to
open your eyes wide and avoid blinking as much as you can until you feel
that the crying has stopped. While your eyes are open, look up and
avoid bending your head.
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7. Relieve general pain
Have you ever step on your children's Legos, or stubbed your pinky toe
into your coffee table’s leg? It is very likely that one of these things
happened to you at least once, if not several times, and indeed we
don’t have an acceptable medical method to reduce the sharp pain of that
moment, but we have a method proven scientifically effective that you
need to know – utter a really good curse. You’ll be surprised to hear,
but in a study in which researchers asked participants to dip their
hands in ice water for as long as possible, it was found that those who
expressed their suffering through as many swear words as possible were
able to keep their hands in ice water longer.
8. Get rid of vertigo
You know the feeling that the whole room is spinning around you in one
direction while you’re spinning in the other, even though you’re
actually standing still? If you’ve experienced such a feeling in your
life and also experienced nausea, vomiting, sweating, or walking
difficulties, then you suffered from vertigo. To get rid of this
phenomenon, which can arise for all sorts of reasons, you must close
your eyes and put your fingertips on your ears, then pull them up,
forward and finally down. This movement helps regulate the intracranial
pressure in your head, which improves the condition and prevents the
unpleasant vertigo feeling.
9. Stop hiccups
A great example of a phenomenon that happens suddenly and causes great
frustration when you can’t prevent or stop it is hiccups. These small
movements in the stomach, which produce uncontrollable sounds that come
out of your mouth, can be especially burdensome and sometimes refuse to
stop even when we use traditional methods we know, such as holding our
breath or drinking a glass of water. In this case, a great solution is
to sweeten your life a bit and just swallow a teaspoon of sugar that
will stop the hiccup in a second. The sugar grains work in the mouth in
such a way that they regulate and soothe the same nerve impulses that
cause convulsions and cramps that lead to the appearance of the hiccups.
10. Relieve nausea
Nausea also belongs to the family of unpleasant and irritating phenomena
that suddenly come and refuse to leave. There are all kinds of methods
to get rid of nausea, but one that we found to be particularly effective
is the one that uses a pressure point. When nausea appears, try
pressing a point on your inner arm about 2 ½ cm from the lower end of
your hand, massage it for a minute or two and feel relief quickly.