It is well proven that a pregnant woman should perform prenatal yoga poses or exercises throughout her pregnancy, as they help in strengthening muscles and building endurance that prepares the mother for childbirth. Yoga paired with any cardiovascular exercise like walking, is considered to be an ideal way to remain fit and be in shape during your entire pregnancy. It benefits by teaching you some basic breathing techniques that help you to face the physical and emotional demands of labor, childbirth, and motherhood. Also these poses help preventing common pregnancy related problems like back and hip pain, strained ligaments, constipation, prolapsed organs and incontinence due to stress on the musculoskeletal system. Besides this, prenatal yoga poses or exercises help curing morning sickness, tone muscles, manage weight gain and make it much easier to get back in shape after the delivery. More on yoga exercises and yoga meditation.

The beckoning of a comfortable bed promises a deep sleep and a refreshed, alert body the following morning. Anyone who has experienced a restless night can attest to the lethargy and moodiness associated with sleep deprivation. But, what happens when sleep deprivation is a persistent evil toying with the mind repetitively for weeks, months, or even years?

Insomnia has a vicious way of altering its shape from restlessness into a perverse form of physical and mental misery. Sleep deprivation was used as a form of torture by the KGB, and in Japanese POW camps, for a very good reason. Reports of its use in Guantanamo Bay show it is still a favoured form of torture in the twenty-first century. Why wouldn’t it be? Deny someone sleep for a few days and pretty soon the mind goes out on its own agenda and the prisoner is revealing top-secret information while submerged in a sleep-deprived psychosis.