It is common for people to give up sleep, especially when they are pressed for time. But this is a big mistake! Good quality sleep is vital for balanced hormones, and balanced hormones have a positive impact on your total health and well being.

Sleep deprivation can perpetuate a vicious cycle of excess stress hormones (insulin and cortisol), lower sleep-inducing melatonin, and also lower growth hormones.

Melatonin calms our nervous system while we sleep. It is also a powerful antioxidant that maintains youthfulness, boosts our energy and helps us to resist infections. It aids in turning on the body’s nighttime repair processes and the release of growth hormones to do it’s magic: rebuilding our skin, bone and muscle while we sleep.

Melatonin production is impaired if you take aspirin or ibuprofen regularly, consume caffeinated foods and drinks, drink alcohol or smoke.

There are a number of things you can do to boost your melatonin:

• Do not eat or exercise three hours before bedtime
• Make sure your bedroom is completely dark
• Keep electrical devices at least three feet away from your bed
• Reduce computer or TV before bed
• Sleep in a cool environment

Specialized Kinesiology can help you discover what is blocking you from a deep restorative sleep. There are many stressors in the body and mind that interfere with sleep and through gentle muscle testing our Certified Specialized Kinesiology Practitioner Ann Liden can help correct the imbalances that keep you awake at night. Assessing your your lifestyle, level of melatonin, and balancing your hormones is the first step to a good night sleep.

Ann Liden is a Certified Specialized Kinesiology Practitioner, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Certified Practitioner of Hypnotherapy. She previously worked as a Medical Laboratory Technologist for twenty years

Sometimes we wonder how someone finds their way into a particular field of work, especially something as uncommon as Energy Medicine and Specialized Kinesiology. Ann Liden, Specialized Kinesiology Practitioner, NLP, and Hypnotherapist at Pure Light Laser shares how she got into the field of Specialized Kinesiology, and the value of the practice.

I worked as a Medical Laboratory Technologist for twenty years in Cytogenetics, working with DNA and chromosomes. It was an interesting field.

Almost ten years ago, I found a lump in my breast. A biopsy showed it was cancer. Two surgeries later, chemo and radiation, I had it all! A friend mentioned that I might benefit from seeing a Specialized Kinesiology Practitioner. She had been suggesting I go for a couple of years. I wish I had gone when she originally suggested, and I might not have gone down the road of breast cancer.

I made the appointment. I wanted to know the cause of the cancer, side effects of the treatments and what I could do to stay healthy in the future. Allopathic (mainstream) medicine does not address these issues at all!

I never felt so happy as when I left my first session. It was fascinating how she could assess my body on so many levels and bring my body back into balance. A body that is in balance can begin to heal itself. After about the third session, I knew this is what I wanted to do as a new career and said goodbye to Cytogenetics.

Specialized Kinesiology is an easy way to determine where stress lies in the body and how to correct it. We can be physically, mentally, emotionally, biochemically and environmentally stressed — there is no shortage of stress these days. The sooner you address the issues in the body the healthier you can become and hopefully avoid illness and disease.

Ann Liden is a Specialized Kinesiology Practitioner, Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and a Certified Practitioner of Hypnotherapy. She previously worked as a Medical Laboratory Technologist for twenty years at Children’s Hospital and later at the Cancer Agency of British Columbia, and now helps clients to be happier and healthier from the inside out.