Discipline--it's often everything in, well, almost everything. Especially in recuperating, healing, or just plain managing certain ailments, discipline is tops. Some say it's the key to getting a cure. Never take it lightly. If you don't have a habit of discipline with your heart palpitations, you'd just suffer more. So I developed my anti-palpitation discipline.
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I found this out years ago. Back then, I just waited when palpitation would suddenly strike because I didn't know what to do, much less how to prevent it. I felt like a helpless victim just waiting to be victimized again. It's sheer horror not knowing when it'll strike next, especially when you know it will. Until one day, after observing patterns and signs that palpitations made, I started figuring out effective corresponding preventives. I noted them and decided to make an e-book.
Learn more about my e-book on how I beat my heart palpitations and am now palpitation free, not needing any maintenance medicine. Watch out for this e-book. But you can be among the first to buy it. Email me at palpitationfree@gmail.com.
Mind you, preventive measures or disciplines that I share in my e-book worked specifically for me. What works for me may not work for others. But it may. Who knows. Often, you have to figure out your own preventive discipline by carefully observing your heart palpitation tendencies and patterns and see how you can effectively prevent or control them naturally. Work with your heart doctor and make sure to get a medical doctor just right for your palpitation case.
However, some tips I share in the e-book may help you figure out your preventive disciplinary measures, if not outright work for you, too. They're important measures also recommended by some doctors, and you'd find more if you buy my e-book above. For more information about the e-book, please email at palpitationfree@gmail.com.
Lifestyle
I noted that healthy lifestyle contributed a lot to preventing my heart palpitations. Never underestimate healthy eating, sleeping, good eating habits (you may be eating healthy food but you eat them at the wrong time, for instance), proper napping, relaxation (mind and body), exercises, positive socializing, etc. Everything healthy.
Try walking. Ask your doctor if it's okay. If it is, walk regularly and enjoy it. I highly advice it. Walking helps you divert your thoughts from worrying about palpitations to thinking about a good life. Regular walking can correct a lot of health defects and keeps your mind relaxed and positive. It also gives you better life perspectives as you enjoy the outdoors. Sulking in a corner all day makes you focus on your palpitation or panic tendencies. so, go out! I also do a lot of jogging-in-place and shadow boxing. But ask your doctor first.
Don't stay idle in one position. Stand up now and then and walk around. Staying sitting for a long time disturbs normal blood circulation. And we know that the heart has to do with blood behavior. Also, prolonged idle positions also affect normal oxygen intake of the lungs. Lungs and heart are connected.
Food
I do away with anything unnatural---food coloring, preservatives, additives with names that sound like they came from outer space, sugar or its chemical replacement---in fact, anything chemicalized, especially synthetic beverages, vitamins, spices, flavoring or seasoning. I don't eat much white bread because it has lots of inflammatory ingredients. Or cakes and pastries. I stay away from anything processed or too sweet or have lots of carbs. Well, okay, I allow myself some cheats now and then.
I'm pescatarian, eating fish and vegetables because this has lots of positive effects on me, especially regular bowel movement. If your bowel movement is irregular, gas builds up from rotten stacked up stool in the intestines and that gas can trigger palpitation. But neither am I all-vegetarian because I don't want to deprive myself of good meat now and then. Just enjoy life.
The idea is simple---avoid getting too acidic or too alkaline. Our digestive system needs natural acids in the body to digest food. But be careful not to add anything more, especially synthetic acids we get from unhealthy food and lifestyles (due to overstress and lack of fun). Does being too acidic trigger heart palpitations? I think so. I observe it to be so. I noticed that when I was too acidic and had a bad case of reflux, the palpitations were worse and frequent. Anyway, experts say being too acidic is bad for overall health, and so is being too alkaline. Bad for the health surely means bad for the heart.
Don't eat and lie in bed or go immediately to sleep. Allow 2 hours for proper digestion. So eat your supper early. If you eat supper at 6 pm, you may go to bed at 8 pm. I often eat supper at 5 pm.
Drink
Be careful what you drink. Even water. Don't drink distilled. I'd rather drink clean tap water or lemon water now and then (not always though). Totally forget about sodas, softdrinks and canned or artificial juices. I drink fresh fruit juices without sugar. If I need them a bit sweeter I use raw honey or coco sugar. Brown sugar is a bit tolerable.
Drink lots of water (but not cold or ice-cold). Water can counter acidity and bloating because it induces burping out gas. Yup, gas triggers heart palpitations in many people. I drink 8 to 10 glasses of 330 ml each day. But I drink them gradually. I seldom drink a glass of water in one sitting. Sometimes I do, but I regulate it to prevent sudden stomach gas upsurge. Take everything easy. Don't overdo them. Relax.
Don't drink right after eating meals. This makes it harder for your digestion to do its job. When I feel like drinking immediately after meals I just take 3 or 4 small sips. But mostly, I don't drink till after an hour.
Laugh
I'm not saying you Lol. Just laugh enough, making sure the laughter does not trigger palpitations. When I laugh, I make sure there's no electric fan around (I don't sleep with a fan blowing directly at or near me) or the air-conditioning does not blow directly on me. Don't laugh if you're bloated.
If there's something really stupid and funny and you can't avoid lol, pray that God would prevent palpitations. It works for me. With God's help I laughed mildly when I used to have palpitations and felt bloated but nothing bad happened.
Without Discipline You Make It Harder for Yourself
I know someone who knows eating beef triggers her palpitation. Yet she eats it anyway, saying she can't do away with it because it tastes so good. Some folks still drink wine or coffee regularly even if it triggers palpitations in them. Some never see their doctor and self-medicate instead. It's needless punishment to suffer more than you're supposed to.
Yeah, God allows palpitations in some folks, though it's a most unneedful thing to have, really (God knows what He's allowing in our lives). But God has a good purpose for everything. I believe that.
For instance, God didn't create sin, but its there. He allows it. And it's stupid to have it. God isn't stupid, but sin is. Get it? But God also allows that through discipline and patience, we can overcome sin and get rid of it.
And it might be that God allows palpitation for some people like us to help us become more disciplined and enjoy better health--and discover real power in weakness. Really! Because of my health discipline to prevent palpitations as much as possible, I have normal blood chemistry results and enjoy my ideal weight, fitness, health and physical strength. It's all thanks to God.
Probably, if I didn't have palpitations, I'd also enjoy unhealthy lifestyles like most people do and suffer worse, really deadly ailments. I often see heart palpitations as God's preemptive measure to help us take good care of our bodies. But it shouldn't be permanent. Nothing in this life lasts, nothing is meant to be permanent. So is palpitation. I believe this.
Be Patient, Too!
Some people, just because they started with healthy lifestyles for 3 or 6 months, expect to be perfectly well after. Natural processes in the body can take long. The body may need more time to recover or repair itself depending on the damage or abuse wrought on it. Be patient. Just go on, with or without immediate good results. Healthy lifestyles can only do you good.
Work with your doctor. Naturally healthy preventives work well with maintenance meds, too.
I expect to start really reaping the good fruits of being pescatarian after 3 years, although I'm starting to enjoy some now. Just imagine---you fed your body wrong food for decades. Do you expect it to fully recover in 6 months or 1 year? I believe God can do it in the wink of an eye if he wants to. He did it a lot in the bible. But he also allows natural processes for some things, for some reason.
He often wants us to develop the virtues of discipline and patience more than being pampered with instant miracles--though I believe so much in instant miracles. Instant miracles can do a lot of transformation to our character. You see, GOD might want to use us to heal others miraculously, but for us to be of real use to him, we should have developed these two virtues in us. So, just hang on, be disciplined, rely on God and expect the best.
However, some tips I share in the e-book may help you figure out your preventive disciplinary measures, if not outright work for you, too. They're important measures also recommended by some doctors, and you'd find more if you buy my e-book above. For more information about the e-book, please email at palpitationfree@gmail.com.
Lifestyle
I noted that healthy lifestyle contributed a lot to preventing my heart palpitations. Never underestimate healthy eating, sleeping, good eating habits (you may be eating healthy food but you eat them at the wrong time, for instance), proper napping, relaxation (mind and body), exercises, positive socializing, etc. Everything healthy.
Try walking. Ask your doctor if it's okay. If it is, walk regularly and enjoy it. I highly advice it. Walking helps you divert your thoughts from worrying about palpitations to thinking about a good life. Regular walking can correct a lot of health defects and keeps your mind relaxed and positive. It also gives you better life perspectives as you enjoy the outdoors. Sulking in a corner all day makes you focus on your palpitation or panic tendencies. so, go out! I also do a lot of jogging-in-place and shadow boxing. But ask your doctor first.
Don't stay idle in one position. Stand up now and then and walk around. Staying sitting for a long time disturbs normal blood circulation. And we know that the heart has to do with blood behavior. Also, prolonged idle positions also affect normal oxygen intake of the lungs. Lungs and heart are connected.
Food
I do away with anything unnatural---food coloring, preservatives, additives with names that sound like they came from outer space, sugar or its chemical replacement---in fact, anything chemicalized, especially synthetic beverages, vitamins, spices, flavoring or seasoning. I don't eat much white bread because it has lots of inflammatory ingredients. Or cakes and pastries. I stay away from anything processed or too sweet or have lots of carbs. Well, okay, I allow myself some cheats now and then.
I'm pescatarian, eating fish and vegetables because this has lots of positive effects on me, especially regular bowel movement. If your bowel movement is irregular, gas builds up from rotten stacked up stool in the intestines and that gas can trigger palpitation. But neither am I all-vegetarian because I don't want to deprive myself of good meat now and then. Just enjoy life.
The idea is simple---avoid getting too acidic or too alkaline. Our digestive system needs natural acids in the body to digest food. But be careful not to add anything more, especially synthetic acids we get from unhealthy food and lifestyles (due to overstress and lack of fun). Does being too acidic trigger heart palpitations? I think so. I observe it to be so. I noticed that when I was too acidic and had a bad case of reflux, the palpitations were worse and frequent. Anyway, experts say being too acidic is bad for overall health, and so is being too alkaline. Bad for the health surely means bad for the heart.
Drink
Be careful what you drink. Even water. Don't drink distilled. I'd rather drink clean tap water or lemon water now and then (not always though). Totally forget about sodas, softdrinks and canned or artificial juices. I drink fresh fruit juices without sugar. If I need them a bit sweeter I use raw honey or coco sugar. Brown sugar is a bit tolerable.
Drink lots of water (but not cold or ice-cold). Water can counter acidity and bloating because it induces burping out gas. Yup, gas triggers heart palpitations in many people. I drink 8 to 10 glasses of 330 ml each day. But I drink them gradually. I seldom drink a glass of water in one sitting. Sometimes I do, but I regulate it to prevent sudden stomach gas upsurge. Take everything easy. Don't overdo them. Relax.
Don't drink right after eating meals. This makes it harder for your digestion to do its job. When I feel like drinking immediately after meals I just take 3 or 4 small sips. But mostly, I don't drink till after an hour.
Laugh
I'm not saying you Lol. Just laugh enough, making sure the laughter does not trigger palpitations. When I laugh, I make sure there's no electric fan around (I don't sleep with a fan blowing directly at or near me) or the air-conditioning does not blow directly on me. Don't laugh if you're bloated.
If there's something really stupid and funny and you can't avoid lol, pray that God would prevent palpitations. It works for me. With God's help I laughed mildly when I used to have palpitations and felt bloated but nothing bad happened.
Without Discipline You Make It Harder for Yourself
I know someone who knows eating beef triggers her palpitation. Yet she eats it anyway, saying she can't do away with it because it tastes so good. Some folks still drink wine or coffee regularly even if it triggers palpitations in them. Some never see their doctor and self-medicate instead. It's needless punishment to suffer more than you're supposed to.
Yeah, God allows palpitations in some folks, though it's a most unneedful thing to have, really (God knows what He's allowing in our lives). But God has a good purpose for everything. I believe that.
For instance, God didn't create sin, but its there. He allows it. And it's stupid to have it. God isn't stupid, but sin is. Get it? But God also allows that through discipline and patience, we can overcome sin and get rid of it.
And it might be that God allows palpitation for some people like us to help us become more disciplined and enjoy better health--and discover real power in weakness. Really! Because of my health discipline to prevent palpitations as much as possible, I have normal blood chemistry results and enjoy my ideal weight, fitness, health and physical strength. It's all thanks to God.
Be Patient, Too!
Some people, just because they started with healthy lifestyles for 3 or 6 months, expect to be perfectly well after. Natural processes in the body can take long. The body may need more time to recover or repair itself depending on the damage or abuse wrought on it. Be patient. Just go on, with or without immediate good results. Healthy lifestyles can only do you good.
Work with your doctor. Naturally healthy preventives work well with maintenance meds, too.
I expect to start really reaping the good fruits of being pescatarian after 3 years, although I'm starting to enjoy some now. Just imagine---you fed your body wrong food for decades. Do you expect it to fully recover in 6 months or 1 year? I believe God can do it in the wink of an eye if he wants to. He did it a lot in the bible. But he also allows natural processes for some things, for some reason.
He often wants us to develop the virtues of discipline and patience more than being pampered with instant miracles--though I believe so much in instant miracles. Instant miracles can do a lot of transformation to our character. You see, GOD might want to use us to heal others miraculously, but for us to be of real use to him, we should have developed these two virtues in us. So, just hang on, be disciplined, rely on God and expect the best.
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