Science Meets Magic: 21 Effective Body Life Hacks

Life is a thrilling adventure, and the stresses that come with it can take a serious toll on you. With that being said, thankfully, in this day and age, it’s easier than ever to fill up on game-changing bits of wisdom that can truly help you level up. We’ve rounded up some of the most impressive body life hacks that we could find.

1. Eliminate that ankle pain

Whenever you brush your teeth, try closing your eyes and standing on one foot. Alternate feet. Your balance will then improve substantially.

2. Trick To Relieving Lightheadedness

If you find yourself troubled by an unfortunate bout of lightheadedness when you stand up, try squeezing any of your muscles as hard as you can. This will rapidly raise your pulse along with your blood pressure to help you avoid blacking out and falling.

3. Treating lower back pain

If you have a nasty case of lower back pain or sciatica, try out gluteus medius burnouts. You can either use a chair or a table to steady yourself. Then raise one leg straight out to the side as high as you can muster. Hold that leg out just until it feels as if your hip has literally caught fire and is cramping up. Repeat the process on the other side.

4. Easing anxiety attacks

If you’re someone who is prone to dealing with anxiety attacks, try keeping some sour candies on you. For whatever reason the actual sour blast from a sour candy can effectively work to knock your overactive mind off its vicious anxiety spiral.

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5. Relieve sinus pressure

This one might be the easiest trick in the book. Just try out pulling your nose upwards to relieve that terribly uncomfortable sinus pressure.

6. A precautionary measure to avoid falling

Seriously. If you think it’s going to be difficult at all to pick yourself back up after an unplanned falling incident, try out fully positioning yourself on the floor, and then getting yourself properly back up again. Aim for this practice at least once a day.

7. Relieving stress and anxiety

The vagus nerve trick works wonders for calming yourself down. If you find yourself feeling especially anxious or stressed, try out splashing some ice cold water on your face for just a few seconds. This effectually activates your vagus nerve. Your vagus nerve then helps slow your heart rate down, thereby calming you down very quickly.

8. The age old mood enhancer

The simple process of putting on a clean pair of socks can improve your mood vastly. The same rule also applies for a fresh pair of underwear.

9. Freeing up a stuffy nose

If you have a horribly irritating stuffy nose as a result of a cold or allergy, try out some push-ups and/or jumping jacks. The sudden activity can work wonders in terms of providing the necessary relief for your stuffy nose.

10. Insomnia

This one’s a trip. However, the rumor is that if you’re having trouble falling asleep, try out thinking up an elaborative dream in your head. You’ll be firmly implanted in the dream world in no time at all.

11. Ridding yourself of leg cramps

You can rapidly relieve your cramping calf by simply standing up on your feet. While this might feel like it’s the opposite of what you should do, by standing up your forcing your leg muscles to stretch. This then stops the cramping.

12. Subduing the eye strain

Living in this day and age has us on screens all the time. This is where the 20-20-20 rule for eye strain can be your saving grace. Every 20 minutes make a mindful decision to look away from your screen and simply focus on something 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. That’s all it takes.

13. Water in your ear

Now isn’t this just one of the worst feelings? If you have water stuck in your ear, simply tilt your head and open and close your jaw a few times. This should help clear out the water in just a couple seconds.

14. Fashion a makeshift magnifying glass

Try pinching your index finger and your middle finger to your thumb. Where they meet, you’ve essentially made a pinhole lens. This pinhole lens can be held up to your eye so that you can see better. This works especially well if you need to read an LED clock at night.

15. Alleviate those headaches

If you find yourself dealing with headaches all of the time, just remember that so many of those headaches actually stem from cases of dehydration. Drink your water. It only serves to help you out.

16. The wakeup routine

Really, you can set yourself up for such an easier chance at success during your day by adopting an optimizing morning routine. Try for drinking a big glass of water right after you wake up. This helps your body get into action, your metabolism moving, and helps you feel overall more energized throughout your day.

17. Helping out hangovers

While it might seem like an insurmountable task at the time, you can set yourself up for a far less severe hangover by making sure that you chug a huge thing of water and/or Gatorade before you go to bed. Your body needs all the extra fluids that it can get during those times.

18. Get rid of the brain freeze

If you find yourself with a brain freeze, try holding your tongue or your thumb to the roof of your mouth. You’ll likely be surprised at how quickly this can help put a halt to that unwanted brain freeze.

19. Stop the sneezing

If you’re on the verge of sneezing but your really don’t want to, push your tongue against the roof of your mouth. Oftentimes this acts as an effective way to stop that sneeze.

20. Long lasting cough

A lasting cough that simply won’t leave you alone when you’re at the end of a cold and/or sore throat can really put you through the ringer. Try out some Vicks Vapor rub, and apply it to the bottoms of your feet. Then throw on some socks. This can end up working out in your favor a truly surprising number of times.

21. Improve your night vision

This little trick really does feel kind of like magic. If you need to go to the bathroom at night, when you turn on the bathroom light, squeeze one of your eyes shut until you’ve finished the job. Then, when you’ve turned off the light again, open that eye and it will be properly adjusted to the dark.