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  The first step in managing a panic attack is being able to recognize when it's happening. Besides sudden, overwhelming feelings of anxiety, fear, or dread, you may also have symptoms like a racing heart, nausea, or chest pain. The simplest way to stop panic attacks is by practicing the following breathing exercise  steps: breathe in as slowly, deeply and gently as you can, through your nose. breathe out slowly, deeply and gently through your mouth. some people find it helpful to count steadily from 1 to 5 on each in-breath and each out-breath. close your eyes and focus on your breathing. Here are some other ways you can stop panic attacks: 1. Picture your happy place. A person’s happy place should be somewhere they would feel most relaxed. The specific place will be different for everybody. It will be somewhere they feel relaxed, safe, and calm. When an attack begins, it can help to close the eyes and imagine being in this place. Think of how calm it is there. People can als...

  Tell your child to take a deep breath in through their nose, filling their lungs with air downwards towards the belly. As their belly expands up and out, notice their bottom hand rise. Then tell your child to breathe out slowly through their mouth, feeling the bottom hand lower back down. Here are the breathing exercises for kids: 1. Smelling Flowers. Tell your little one to imagine they are smelling a flower, breathing in deeply through the nose and out through the mouth. Smelling flowers is one of the easiest breathing exercises to master, and a good starting point for your child. 2. Hot Air Balloon. Sitting in a comfortable cross-legged position, start by cupping your hands round your mouth. Take a deep breath in through your nose and slowly start to blow out through your mouth, growing your hands outwards in time with your exhale as if you are blowing up an enormous hot air balloon. Once your balloon is as big as it can be (and you’ve finished your exhale), breath normally as...

  1. Use guided meditation. Guided meditation is a great way to distract yourself from the stress of day-to-day life. There are many guided meditations available on the internet that can help you find 5 minutes of centered relaxation.  2. Make Time for Hobbies. You need to set aside time for things you enjoy. Try to do something every day that makes you feel good, and it will help relieve your stress. It doesn’t have to be a ton of time -- even 15 to 20 minutes will do. Relaxing hobbies include things like: Reading, knitting, doing an art project, playing golf, watching a movie, doing puzzles, playing cards and board games. 3. Manage your time better. Poor time management can cause a lot of stress. When you're stretched too thin and running behind, it's hard to stay calm and focused. Plus, you'll be tempted to avoid or cut back on all the healthy things you should be doing to keep stress in check, like socializing and getting enough sleep. The good news: there are things yo...

  Can I get ripped with just bodyweight exercises? Yes, you can. I did it so you also can.  Bodyweight workouts are great for building muscle and burning fat, two essential components of getting ripped. The best way to get ripped with bodyweight exercises is to focus on workouts that burn a lot of calories and that will build muscle as well (as the more muscle you have, the faster your metabolism will be). Bodyweight exercises can build muscle if you use the following principles: increase reps, decrease rest times, perform variations, train to failure, increase time under tension, and implement mechanical drop sets. The main goal of working out to build strength and muscle is to achieve progressive overload, which basically means getting better and stronger overtime. And this is definitely achievable training only with your own bodyweight. Combined with strategic nutrition, bodyweight training can give you the strength, stamina, sixpack abs and muscle definition you have alway...

   One of the most dangerous facts about shisha is that, it produces toxic substances that can be found in cigarette; the most crazy thing about this fact is that, the toxic substances in shisha is twice or more toxic as that of cigarette. Centuries ago, smoking shisha was a Persian and Indian way of smoking tobacco. According to Wikipedia "A hookah, shisha, or waterpipe is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporizing and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish and opium. The smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation" The cannabis, opium or hashish that sometimes can be vaporised with the help of shisha equipment is the most scary. Shisha is smoked in public because it is considered legal. Why is it not illegal because in my view is should be; shisha can be used as cover-up to smoke cannabis, hashish and opium; how on earth can you detect that the shisha someone is vaping is filled with i...

  Post exposure prophylaxis is the process of taking drugs after you've been exposed to HIV. These kind of drugs can only work effectively only if taken within  72 hours ( that is 3 days) after exposure; the earlier you take it the better. It seems most people have no idea there are drugs like these and also in certain countries, these drugs are not readily available for the general public; these are why the disease keep spreading so quickly in certain parts of the world.   According to the Centre For Disease Control and Prevention, "The preferred PEP regimen for otherwise healthy adults and adolescents is tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) (300 mg) + emtricitibine (FTC) (200 mg) once daily PLUS raltegravir (RAL) (400 mg) twice daily or dolutegravir (DTG) (50 mg) (once daily)." According to WebMD, "Women who are in early pregnancy, who are sexually active and could become pregnant while taking PEP, or who were sexually assaulted without birth control should take ral...

  Getting pure honey nowadays is really hard. The streets and every supermarket is filled with fake honeys branded with pure honey tags; If you have no idea how pure honey looks like, you are definitely going to fall a victim. Most honey that are branded or claimed to be "pure" are fake or mixed with something else, only God knows. Some honeys are mixed with water, others melted sugar and many other things. And any honey mixed with anything else is not considered pure. You cannot trust a honey seller, not even if he or she is a beekeeper or in other words, honey farmer. I once bought honey from the streets and the woman selling said a lot of nice things about how pure her honey is and the reason why I need to buy more from her; I sent this honey I bought from her home and my mom, who knows how pure honey looks like, told me straight forward that the honey is not pure, truly when we opened it and did the honey purity test, it was impure. Since then I have learnt how to spot fa...

 Guys this is real! There are lots of men out there who are literally impotent as a result of the abuse of sexual enhancement drugs. Most young guys nowadays take sex enhancement drugs like Viagra for fun, some as a result of insecurity. Yes I said insecurity because some guys think if they make love to a woman without going hard for inhumanely long hours, they may be called weak so they result to hiring a lawyer, as our typical Ghanaians would say. Why try to have sex for hours that your natural strength can't take you? Why put pressure on your reproductive system when there are natural and healthy ways to up your game? Have you ever taken time to ask yourself these questions. Viagra is not a medication you would want to get addicted to because so many sex experts have opinned and pointed fingers on it as the source or cause of Erectal Dysfunctions in many impotent individuals who are known to use it recreationally. Vision loss in one or both eyes, heart attack, loss of hearing, a...

  Neem leaves are used widely now, even in ancient times, to treat malaria; it has proven to be extremely effective. Most Africans, including Ghanaians do have several ways of administering or using neem leaves to cure malaria; these ways include turning the leaves into drinkable medicines that can be drunk, and also turning it into a form that one can bath with. People bath with the neem leaves water because a little bit of the water enters the skin through the skin pores to fight the malaria parasite; it also washes down fungus and bacteria on the skin. Neem leaves contain Nimbidin and Nimbolide which are very anti-parasitic, antifungal and antibacterial in nature; this makes it perfect for malaria parasite cleansing. Now this is how most of Ghanaians prepare the neem leaves water for bath: Get neem leaves, I mean plenty of them. Pour clean water on them and wash them thoroughly. Get rid of the water used in washing. Pour another clean water on the leaves and then cut lime or lem...

 Not giving mosquitoes the chance to bite is the best way to avoid malaria but if they manage to get ways to bite and infect you with the malaria virus, do not worry at all because there are highly efficient medications that can eradicate the parasite that causes the disease from your system. In the year 2021 alone when people were concerned about the COVID 19, there was an estimated 247 million cases of malaria worldwide. What is malaria and what are the symptoms? According to the World Health Organisation, " Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is preventable and curable. " Symptoms of malaria include chills, fatigue, fever, night sweats, shivering, sweating etc.. Using medicines made of chemicals to eliminate malaria is quite bad for the body because chemicals always come with side effects. I always advice people to use herbs in getting rid of malaria because i...

  Death as result of cardiovascular diseases in individuals with severe hypertension is on the rise, this is as a result of too much intake of coffee ( which contains caffeine). Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the whole world. They are a group of disorders of the heart and the blood vessels. According to the World Health Organisation, a little over seventeen (17) million people died globally in 2019 alone as a result of these diseases.   Caffeine, a natural chemical in coffee which has stimulant-like effects on the body when consumed, serves as a source of power for cardiovascular diseases to get worst. According to Wikipedia, "Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant of the methylxanthine class. It is mainly used recreationally as a cognitive enhancer, increasing alertness and attentional performance. " According to a research published on the 21st of December, 2022 in the Journal of the American Heart Association which is a peer-reviewed jour...

 The brain is one of the most important parts or organs of the human system as far effective functioning of the whole body is concerned. That is why it is paramount to protect the brain at all cost. If the brain stops functioning, the whole body collapses . According to Hopkinsmedicine.com, "A brain is a complex organ that controls thought, memory, emotion, touch, motor skills, vision, breathing, temperature, hunger and every process that regulates our body" .  That alone should tell you how powerful the brain is. The WHO (World Health Organisation), made it clear that there are several ways to protect your brain but a few of them are practicable and can be easily done without the help of anyone. Here are the best ways you can protect your brain according to the World Health Organisation: Credit: WHO 1. 🏃‍♂️ Keep physically active. Exercise, if not the best, is one of the best ways to protect the mind and make it active. Exercises you can engage in include running, push-ups,...

 Body odor is truly embarrassing; it brings down one's self esteem and confidence. I could quite remember my college days, arrhgg it was awful. I had a very bad body odor; tried out many remedies to stop it but did not work at that time. I very much remember how my friends made fun of me, talked behind me, and mocked me. It was horrible. You know, you would not know you smell very bad yourself  unless someone who is bold enough tells you. This is because you will become very acclamatised to it. My mom talked about how bad my body odor was way before I went to college. But it really got worse in college because there was too many students in one domitory and these domitory rooms were not well ventilated. Too much sweat is a recipe for disaster as far as body odor is concerned. It was very bad. My last few days in college and after college, I started reading a lot about the human body and the human health. That was when I became enlightened and started understanding my body perf...