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Filed under: 9am with David and Kim - NetworkTen, 9am with david and kim, Elizabeth's Opinion, Sleep with the Experts Webinars, Sleeping Pills
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Here is Elizabeth’s interview:
Elizabeth Shannon and her work promoting experts and leading edge Natural Solutions for Insomnia has also been featured on the ABC New Inventors TV Program, Mornings with Kerri-Anne TV Program, Radio 2UE, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald, The Financial Review Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens and numerous other publications.
Tags: Elizabeth Shannon, expert, Experts, insomnia, Media, Natural solutions for insomnia, television, TV
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Dead Tired “Awake is the New Sleep” SBS ONE
Filed under: Australian TV Programs on Sleep, Media Coverage
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Today on TV in Australia they’ve got a program on SBS ONE Dead Tired: Awake is the New Sleep.
Don’t miss it, because I think it was a goodie.
1.30 – 2.30 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Suspect it is a repeat from last year, but quality nonetheless.
Informative, though not a lot of natural solutions unfortunately.
But certainly features some of the sleep ‘heavies’ from around the world.
Hope you catch it
Elizabeth
Tags: Awake is the New Sleep, Dead Tired, how to sleep better, Insight, SBS, SBS ONE, Sleep, sleep better, sleep experts, sleep study
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Sleep With The Experts Launching Today
Filed under: Sleep with the Experts Webinars, Webinar Series
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The complete Natural Sleep Training Program Sleep With The Experts is launching today.
To obtain the transcript of Week 1 of the webinar series held last winter go to http://www.SleepWithTheExperts.com and opt-in on the right hand side of the page there.
Thanks for your patience, it seems to have taken forever!
And I’ve still got no clues about HTML code …
Finally people all over the world can access the 7 amazing experts featured on the series.
It’s a bit early in the day for a champagne… but I’m tempted!
Elizabeth
Tags: Elizabeth Shannon, how to sleep better, natural sleep aids, Natural solutions for insomnia, sleep experts, sleep solutions, Sleep with the Experts
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9am Summertime TV featured Elizabeth this morning
Filed under: 9am Summertime, Andrew Verity, Angela Sciberras, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Depression, Dyslexia, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Food Additives, Food and Nutrition, Interview, Neuro-Training, Sleep Music, Sleep Time, Sleep with the Experts Webinars, Sleeping Pills, Sue Dengate, TV program, Tapping, Webinar Series, sleep hours
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Elizabeth this morning.
Surprised this morning that Channel 10 re-ran the interview I did with them last year.
You can watch it here http://9am.ten.com.au/video.htm?vxSiteId=4a40990c-a06c-401b-8663-6f890bb8f3dc&vxChannel=9am%20Mental%20Health&vxClipId=1427_9am829-lg6-060809&vxBitrate=300&CMP=LEC-DANCEgetVideoLink
Good news for natural solutions for insomnia!
Elizabeth
Tags: Elizabeth Shannon, Media, national TV, press, TV
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Sleep Sheep for Baby Sleep
Filed under: Falling to Sleep, Infants and Children, Sleep Music, baby sleep
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There used to be a special sound machine that I sold through this website which is no longer available, but I did find this cute little Sleep Sheep - which might be very helpful for getting your babies and toddlers off to sleep. There are a couple of versions, so when you go looking – read if the particular one you are buying has ‘mum’s heartbeat’ as an option (I think that’s a pretty good one).
And interestingly, white noise is on the options list too… which can help with tinnitus for adults. If you can’t find a better option for white noise, parents, then maybe you’re going to be stealing it occassionally?! Baa! (that’s one noise it doesn’t make!)
Cloud b Sleep Sheep – Four Soothing Sounds From Nature
Tags: baby sleep, i sleep music, music for sleep, music to sleep to, nature sounds, no sleep music, relaxation sleep music, Sleep Music, Sleep sheep, sleeping baby, sleeping music, white noise
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Thought Field Therapy TFT for Anxiety, Panic etc
Filed under: Anxiety, Energy Balancing, Lethargy, Lifestyle Tips, Panic, Recovery Strategies, Reducing the Effects of Insomnia, Roger Callaghan, Tapping, Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
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Colarbone Breathing for Anxiety
Here is an exercise that you might do if you are having problems with any of the following things – some sleep related, some not.
- feeling out of sorts generally
- bumping into things
- declining performance
- self sabotage
- anxiety
- panic
- procrastination
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Now before you watch… here’s my personal story on how a neurological re-balance, similar to this process, changed one aspect of my life quite dramatically – about 22 years ago.
I used to be a reading dyslexic, falling asleep or not actually comprehending what I was reading. When I tried to study at school I would either get really bored, fall asleep, or find myself reading the same 2 paragraphs over and over again… to get the meaning. I just didn’t register. I didn’t read a whole book ever until I was about 29 years old. Yes, even through my university years.
And for those of you who are thinking that dyslexia relates to jumbling up numbers it’s not always about that (though that certainly does sound like dyslexia).
My numbers were fine – in fact, I think it was BECAUSE I was quite intelligent in other areas, like maths (topping the class in a number of subjects) that no-one ever found out my problem.
And back then (before twitter and facebook!) – alternative health was marginalised (not like now where everyone who’s anyone is looking closer at what is offering).
It was a wacky looking neurological re-balance like this that fixed my reading dyslexia. (And by the way it was Geraldine Gallagher, one of the featured experts, who knew exactly what I needed to do in order to start reading properly).
So have a look at this process… and if you want to address some of the issues listed at the top of this blog, tap away with Doctor Ng.
Tell me how you go with this. I’d love to know.
If I hadn’t experienced benefits for many years from people trained in how our neurology works, I wouldn’t believe a word of any of this. There’s nothing logical to the untrained person about this.
Good news is, it’s very easy to do, and harmless to find out if it is going to make a difference in your life.
Have fun…. tap, breathe, readjust
Elizabeth
PS. For people who think they might also be a reading dyslexic, other signs are not being about to ride a 2 wheeler bike, and being annoyed by slow walkers (you want to walk fast, they want to walk slowly). It was the movement of my eyes from left to right continually, that ’switched off’ my system and made me want to fall asleep, or ‘not engage’. There is also a connection between allergies and dyslexia, another thing to consider.
Tags: Anxiety, anxiety treatment, colarbone breathing, Dr Ng, Panic, TFT, Thought Field Therapy, treatment for panic
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Phenergan or Promethazine for Sleep
Filed under: Drugs, Infants and Children, Sleep Medicine, baby sleep
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When my son was quite small I observed quite a few mums giving their infants and children (sometimes very young) Phenergan/Promethazine to settle them down, or to pacify them on long plane flights etc.
I’m not advocating this at all.
Promethazine is an antihystamine with sedative, antiemetic and antispasmodic properties.
Please, before you buy Phenergan/Promethazine and give it to your children, read the following article, DO NOT give it to infants less than 2 years old, and do your own further research on the product.
http://www.drugs.com/phenergan.html
It is reasonably well documented, additionally, that it can have the reverse effect on some children making them anything but docile.
Take some caution with this product. We are getting increasingly casual about giving our children and ourselves drugs without properly researching them.
What’s more, we learned from Sue Dengate’s week on Sleep With The Experts that Phenergan contains sodium benzoate, sodium sulfite and sodium metasulfite – all additives mentioned on the webinar that had adverse effects on sleep. Benzoates, specifically, were named in her Failsafe Newsletter # 59 in relation to restless legs and the jumps.
And while we are on this topic she also mentioned that Demazin contains ethanol (alcohol), quinoline yellow, brilliant blue FCF with methyl hydroxybenzoate and propyl hydroxybenzoate as preservatives.
Mmmm!
Not so easy, I get that – because when you do, the wording is very technical, confusing, and hard to understand.
Elizabeth
Tags: antihystamine, children, infant sleep, infants, phenergan, promethazine, sedative, sedatives, Sleep, sleep medication, sleeping, sleeping baby
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Plane Crashes and other Errors
Filed under: Decisions, Reducing the Effects of Insomnia, Risk Factors, Shiftwork, Take Responsibility
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Just finished reading ‘Outliers’ by Malcolm Gladwell, and there was some interesting information about plane crashes, how they happen etc in the chapter called ‘The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes’.
Here are some revealing quotes:
“In a typical crash, for example, the weather is poor – not terrible, necessarily, but bad enough that the pilot feels a little bit more stressed than usual. In on overwhelming number of crashes, the plane is behind schedule, so the pilots are hurrying. In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply. And 44 percent of the time, the two pilots have never flown together before, so they’re not comfortable with each other.
‘A typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors.’
Gladwell quotes a number of researched crashes including Korean Air 801 where fatigue was a factor.
I am not scaremongering here, and we absolutely know that air travel is probably the most safe way to travel – but what it does remind us, is that if we are working in industries and/or jobs where human safety and accuracy are involved (which is most – especially the accuracy part) then we should be aware of some of the solutions and strategies to adopt around lack of sleep, long hours at work etc.
Figures also indicate that many interns, doctors, medical staff on shiftwork etc are being overworked to the point of inaccuracy and danger. Longer shifts over many hours render the workers in a similar frame of mind as being drunk on the job, where they are no longer capable of making important, accurate and fast decisions. A bit sobering actually.
So here are some tactics:
- Learn to power-nap. There are many CDs and hypnosis recordings etc that will help you if you are lacking sleep. A 23 minute sleep, power nap (or nanna-nap he he) can make a very big difference to freshen you up for a few more hours. Not a replacement, but a strategy when you know there’s not a lot you can do about your shift or tired feelings.
- Get Someone to Check Your Work if you are working in these conditions. Might seem laborious or embarrassing, but you might also find that your co-workers appreciate you admitting you might have a problem. I guarantee they will have the same problem. You could even systemise the checking, so that it becomes part of your safe and accurate workplace.
- Eat correctly on long shifts and take good breaks, where you might go for a walk in nature, even for 15 minutes, to straighten out your brain a bit.
- Quote the facts and figures at work to support your very good arguments around looking after yourself and your co-workers.
- Tell people when you really are exhausted, that way everyone can help if possible, and reduce the risks.
Sleep is vitally important for accuracy and safety.
Elizabeth
Tags: accident, accidents, occupation, occupational, OHS, Sleep, tired, work
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Sleep Hours? Make me Stay Awake SBS January 5, 2010 7.30 pm TV Australia
Filed under: Sleep Time, Sleeping Pills, sleep hours
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Wondering exactly what sleep hours you need?
There’s a documentary coming up this Tuesday night at 7.30 pm on SBS ONE called “Make Me Stay Awake” that may be useful. Not totally sure, as I haven’t seen it myself. But the last SBS shows on sleep were quite good, so fingers crossed!
Michael Mosley investigates the idea that we may only need a few hours sleep a night.
He enlists the world record breaker for staying awake to help him go without sleep. And reports on research being done on lack of sleep, even with flies!
Yep, he covers sleeping pills as well…
Sounds controversial, but I think it is definitely worth watching.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7.30 pm – Australian Eastern Standard Time – SBS ONE
Sweet dreams
Elizabeth
Tags: Documentary, insomnia, Make Me Stay Awake, Sleep, sleep deprivation, sleep hours, sleep hours adult, sleep hours adults, sleeping, Sleeping Pills, TV
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Tiger Woods Can’t Sleep
Filed under: Drugs, Sleeping Pills, Stress
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When they interviewed Tiger Woods on national TV in Australia when he was here recently for the Australian Masters Golf Tournament he said he had trouble sleeping.
Ahem! He was only bragging.
I was feeling sorry for him, wondering how I could help. !! MMMmm! Form a queue.
So now there are a lot of options:
1. He has absolutely no time.
2. He wanted to keep his options open when he went for his next sleeping pill script. Don’t really want to advertise what the girls say he’s using them for! Makes my job even harder, but read this:
I think that’s called free advertising for the drug companies.
3. It could be genuine – who wouldn’t be anxious about this hectic schedule!
Whatever the reason, he’s got a few more problems now. Overdose isn’t a word we really wanted to hear about Tiger.
It’s called putting. Bogey, double bogey, triple bogey. Well over par.
The good news? Sensibly. His problems are out in the open. Now the solutions will present themselves.
Elizabeth
Tags: can t sleep, cant sleep, overdose, Sleep, sleeping, sleeping pill, Sleeping Pills, Tiger Woods, trouble sleeping
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Sleep Tips for Christmas
Filed under: Andrew Verity, Decisions, Drugs, Exercise, Habits, Stress
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Have a fantastic Christmas everyone. Or happy holiday, if that’s how you celebrate this time of year.
It’s a fabulous excuse to get together with your family and friends and relax.
But there are a couple of sleep down-sides.
I’m going to give 4 simple tips especially for Christmas, because this time of year presents certain different challenges around sleep, staying asleep and dealing with stress.
Christmas Problem 1. Too Many Drinks.
They will help you fall asleep, but later in the night, after the ‘knock-out effect’ we can wake up and not be able to go back to sleep.
Now I’m not going to ruin your fun. Enjoy partying, that’s fine. And we need the time with friends and family and having fun.
On top of that, alcohol can be unexpectedly dehydrating. So we are drying out our ‘wet computer’ called the brain, and causing some extra problems there.
Solution 1 – have some water in between your reds, whites, beers and bubbles. That will keep you hydrated, and hopefully you’ll have a few less drinks that will “mess with you” during the night, and the next day.
Christmas Problem 2. Family Stress.
For many people Christmas and the holiday season can be the most stressful time of the year.
Whether you’re recently separated from your wife, the kids are off doing their own thing, you have to face that sister in law you can’t stand, you’re on holiday somewhere you would prefer not to be, you find travelling for long distances in the car very challenging, you’re trying to get the finances to stretch and still have a great Christmas for everyone, your alcoholic uncle is at it again…. etc etc..
And by the way, while we are trying to pretend all this stuff only happens in our family… I’ve got news for you… no use pretending – EVERY family has their challenges, some are just ‘better’ at hiding the skeletons!
Seems a lot of things come to a head at this time of the year. Even more reason to be rested, relaxed and resilient.
Solution 2 – For stress. Use Andrew Verity’s stress reduction method, actually thinking of the problem that you have. Go to Http://www.stressreliefstrategiestips.com and watch video 1 right at the bottom of the page. Copy that eye-modes exercise thinking of your problem, and feel your neurology figuring out new ways to deal with it all.
Solution 3 - Keep up your Exercise Program. If you’re not near your normal gym and routine, it’s tempting to give yourself a few weeks off. Instead, go for an early morning walk for 50 minutes. Do something easy, not punishing. Hit the beach, ring your mates for a touch footy game. You’ll feel so much better for staying focused on your health and good attitude over the holiday.
Christmas Problem 3. Every Year the Same Thing?
Some of the things that keep being stressful about Christmas are staying that way because of the ‘family traditions’ that are repeating themselves.
Maybe this year you can make some NEW suggestions on how to do Christmas. And if everyone thinks that your ideas are not good, then plan next year’s holiday season differently so that you enjoy the time off, and really relax and have fun with the people you REALLY want to be with. Ask each member of your immediate family, or each one of your friends what their favourite Christmas/holiday is and formulate some new ideas. There are many options.
One of my favourites ideas for events that you ‘have to’ go to – is to create a second event as a distraction from the ‘bad one’. e.g. If Christmas day with your family is really bad, then do a slap up Christmas Eve at your place – to put the other event into perspective. You’ll be so busy having your friends around on Christmas Eve you’ll diffuse the other tensions – “distractionary therapy!” It works.
Life is too short to be spending our precious holidays getting stressed out with people who we don’t enjoy being with.
Since there are a lot of people with family situations that are bad, there are also lots of groups of people who ‘do their own thing’ for the holidays. Spend some time finding these groups, or starting one yourself – to be the point of sanity that you wished someone was for you at Christmas.
Solution 4. Plan next year’s holiday well ahead, in fact, this year. Keep your eyes open to new opportunities and listen up for what other people do during Christmas that sounds like FUN for 2010.
The good news about Christmas. Home made food. Yum… With all that fabulous cooking around, there’s less chance you are going to be kept awake by nasty food additives in junk food. There will still be some, but there are a lot better options.
Enjoy the baked turkey guys! And laugh.
Elizabeth
Tags: Alcohol, Christmas, family, holiday, Hydration, sleep tips, Stress
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