9 Practical tips for eliminating dark, under-eye circles

Getting great nights sleep is important but not always possible. Recent surveys suggest as many as 45% don’t get adequate sleep each evening. The reasons are as varied as the individuals. They include worry/stress/anxiety, studies, parenthood, jobs, insomnia and countless others.

Poor sleep ends up giving you the panda look. But you can still look your best if you try one of the many tips that follow and see if you don’t look like you’ve been cuddling with the sandman instead of burning the midnight oil.

Topical Tips:

1. Try a light application of almond oil before retiring. Be careful not to stretch or pull the skin. Eyelids and the under eye area need gentle, delicate treatment to look their best.
2. Lie down with your feet elevated. Apply a cotton ball moistened with rosewater or cold milk and leave in place for about ten minutes.
3. Purchase an over the counter eye gel remedy. There are a number of great products on the market, most $10 and under. Look for products with soothing botanicals such as chamomile. Again, remember to apply gently without stretching the skin.
4. Buy an eye mask – if you don’t have one use a cool cloth. Keep this on your eyes for about five minutes. This strategy will help constrict blood vessels under the eyes as well as eliminate some of the darkness.
5. Apply a quality moisturizer to the under eye area before you shower. Your skin will drink in the moisture and the appearance of lines and circles will be minimized. Gently remove the moisturizer with a damp cloth after your shower.
6. Opt for regular application of Vitamin K cream, which is thought to reduce pigment, and thus dark coloring, around the eyes.
7. Keep a collagen boosting, anti-aging remedy such as alpha-hydroxy acids around to plump up your eyes helping them look younger and more rested.
8. Try Preparation H (believe it or not!) for a quick fix, eye energizer.
9. Lie with your feet elevated. Place cool tea bags over your eyes for about 5 minutes. You can also try this remedy with cool cucumbers.

Here’s to looking your best!

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About The Author:

Toby Wong is an innovative sleep science researcher and the creator of the “Wonderful Sleep Deep Sleep Formula” on www.WonderfulSleep.com. He can show you how to fall asleep fast, wake up refresh with an abundance of energy in your body with his unique deep sleep formula! His breakthrough sleep formula utilizes the cutting edge Sustained Release Micro System which ensure you can fall asleep fast and staying asleep longer. Go to: http://www.WonderfulSleep.com to find out more about his natural sleep aid.

From feeling tired to energized in a heartbeat

A lot of people feel “tired”, and blame it on getting not enough sleep, or other external factors. Basically, the fact that they’re tired is always “out of control.” What they don’t know is that there’s a reason for feeling “tired”, and that there’s a simple method to change “tired” to “energized” in a heartbeat….

Most of us feel tired during one of the four:
1) After waking up in the morning.
2) After intense physical activity, or long hours of work.
3) After sitting in one place for a long period of time.
4) During the evening, or in the late evening hours.

What do all four of those have in common? There’s one very common process that happens in our bodies in all four cases. During all of these we all experience very similar”symptoms” of tiredness. These include yawning, rubbing our eyes, feeling sllooowww, and having the urge to just get into bed and sleep.

Why Do We Get These “symptoms?”
Our bodies have a natural temperature rhythm. Our body temperature rises when we are awake, and promotes feelings of alertness. Our body temperature also falls when we’re sleeping, and promotes feelings of drowsiness, and a desire to sleep.

The natural DROP of body temperature in our bodies is a CUE for our body to produce feelings of tiredness, drowsiness, and the strong urge to sleep. I call this the “natural sleep response”. When we’re exercising, or putting excessive physical demand on our body, our body temperature RISES rapidly, however when you END the physical activity, there is a RAPID body temperature DROP until your body temperature regulates sometime after. It’s during this DROP that most of us think there’s no other way out but to sleep, and we usually jump into bed and do just that.

The feeling of the body temperature drop after long hours of work is usually mistaken by us as a deep need for sleep. In reality, we don’t need to sleep, we just need to “cool down”. Allow me to give you a personal example:

As a kid I used to work at a FULL SERVE gas station for 8-9 hours in a row. This meant I had to be on my feet running around pumping gas for 8-9 hours with one 10 minute break. It was hell! Even when I had the early morning shift I would come home and feel TOTALLY DRAINED and TIRED, I usually fell asleep and slept till the evening.

However, as I began learning the inner science of our sleep system and the inner sleep clock, I tried a little experiment one day. Instead of going to sleep I came home and played fetch with my dog out in the yard for about 45 minutes instead. To my surprise, after just a few minutes of a little light activity (throwing a plastic chewed up Frisbee across the backyard), the feeling of tiredness faded and I was able to stay awake and alert WAY into the early morning hours.

How did this work?

I simply allowed my body temperature some time to return back to the normal pattern it proceeds. I gave it time to “come down.” When it returned back to normal, I didn’t feel tired and the intense pressure to sleep faded.
This same body temperature drop happens after you sit in one place for a long time. Listen, you could take a person who is robust, athletic, and naturally energetic, but if you put them in front of a TV for 3 hours, THEY WILL GET TIRED! This is simply because our body temperature drops when we’re NOT MOVING.

That’s why the biggest antidote to feeling tired is exercise and movement, NOT SLEEP.

During the morning our body temperature is low too, which creates feelings of drowsiness and tiredness, however, most of us chose to mask this feeling by consuming large amounts of caffeine. The other main temperature drops happen in the afternoon, and in the mid-evening.

In the Powerful Sleep system I describe the EXACT methods to gain a full understanding of your body temperature rhythm, so you can create a quick RISE of body temperature in the morning, and delay the body temperature drop in the evening. This allows you to stay awake and ALERT longer, have more energy and MORE TIME (time is a precious commodity!)

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About The Author:

Kacper Postawski is an innovative sleep science researcher and the creator of the “Powerful Sleep – Secrets of the Inner Sleep Clock” system on www.PowerfulSleep.com. He can show you how to reduce your sleep by up to 3 hours, create more time, and an abundance of energy in your body by sleeping LESS! Not more. He dispels the “8 hour sleep myth”, tells you what most people never realize about sleep, and what the drug companies DONT WANT YOU to know.  Go to: http://www.PowerfulSleep.com to find out more about Powerful Sleep.

What the Wonderful Deep Sleep Formula is

I always strive to get the very best information to improve my life and that’s exactly what I expect from my friends to give me whenever they share some kind of advice.  As you know, it’s getting more and more difficult to find quality stuff on the web.

I’m going to share something with you that I believe is truly profound and which I found only out by accident.

I had one of those troubled nights again, not finding the comfort of my bed to fall asleep.  It wasn’t the first time I had trouble sleeping and I’m pretty sure you can relate to this sleep struggle once in a while or else you wouldn’t be reading this blog.

You see, whenever I had one of those ‘battle myself asleep’ nights again, I contacted one of my friends who is an expert in everything that has to do with sleeping disorders and health issues.  He introduced me last year to the Powerful Sleep program from Kacper M. Postawski and Toby Wong and told me a few weeks ago about the new product launch of the co-founders next month, Wonderful Sleep.

Now, from the first moment I received the Powerful Sleep package, I was very impressed. Filled with the best information I had ever read about sleep and a resource of techniques, audio and bonuse material made the program even better, the Powerful Sleep program has sure changed my life literaly.

If you never heard of Toby Wong, he is the outlaw sleep researcher who has cured himself from insomnia for years and he is now extending his hand to help others. I would like to share a few articles from Tony later on, but first I want to go a little deeper in this new product.

So there’s something new to come from the developers of Powerful Sleep? My friend had me going and introduced me once again to a product from the Powerful Life Inc.

This is what it’s all about:

Wonderful Deep Sleep Formula (which is the exact name) may be called one of the next generation natural sleep deep formulas. It is 100% natural and produced in a FDA approved environment. It’s made in the USA and only the highest quality ingredients are used on this formula. It’s non habit forming and it works in as little as 15 minutes and all you have to do is take 2 capsules before bed time. Then simply close your eyes and you will be driven to a restful sleep at night. You will be able to fall asleep fast, wake up refreshed with exploding energy.

The cutting edge ‘Sustained Release Micro System’ ensures that a certain percentage of the natural ingredients begin releasing within minutes so you get benefit of fallig asleep fasten. Then, the remainder of the natural cure is released over time so you get the benefit of staying asleep longer and deeper.

Well, this is powerful stuff indeed and the exclusive blend of ingredients is what makes Wonderful Deep Sleep so effective:

1) 5HTP is a very unique ingredient & ours is extracted in the purest form from the seeds of the South African plant, Griffonia Simplicifolia. It is thought to assist your body in balancing its own neurochemicals more efficiently. As a result, it promotes a deeper, more relaxed sleep. It also promotes falling asleep faster and staying asleep longer.

2) Vitamin B-6 is essential for the conversion of 5HTP to its effective form.

3) Melatonin is a hormone that helps your body regulate the sleep cycle. It works like an internal clock. There’s really some good scientific research regarding the supplement use of melatonin. When taken before bed time, it helps promote sleep by decreasing the length of time that it takes to fall asleep, helps you stay asleep longer, & helps you feel more rested. Some specific areas of melatonin research are with Jel Lag and Shift Work Related Sleep Disturbances.

4) L-Theanine is one of the newest & hottest nutritional supplements on the market right now when it comes to treating sleep related issues. It is a naturally occuring amino acid found in Green Tea. It is known for its calming and relaxing effect on the body.

5) Valerian is amazing at soothing and calming nerves while promoting the improvement of overall sleep quality.

6) DHA stands for docosahexaenoic acid. It is a long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid that has been shown to have substantial health benefits to your brain and sleep pattern.

7) Chamomile promotes relaxation by helping ease muscle tension. It also has a mild, gentle sedative property which helps promote falling asleep faster. Additionally, it may promote stress reduction (or reduction of internal tension) by working in the same area of the brain as prescription anxiety drugs.

and 8) Hops helps to relieve unrest, anxiety, and sleep disturbances. Hops are prescribed for nervous tension, excitability, restlessness and lack of sleep.

The Wonderful Deep Sleep formula is sure something which could change the life of many many people who are suffering from sleeping disorders like myself and who are fed up with the chemical sleeping pills which are described in mass these days. A perfect addition to the Powerful Sleep program.

To be continued…

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