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Page 1: Benefits of Power Napping

POWER NAPPINGBenefits of Power Napping

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• Power nap is a 20 min short sleep.

• Rejuvenates and refreshes the mind.

• Eliminates the need of caffeine during work days

• Keeps you energized till bedtime.

• Power nap should be not more than 20 min.

Introduction

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10 BENEFITS OFPOWER NAP

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Reduces Stress

• Research stress hormone levels (cortisol) were lower in those who took stress-reducing actions such as napping.

•  A short power nap can leave you feeling refreshed, renewed, and more focused.

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Increased alertness and productivity.

• Scientists have  even  proven  that  taking  a  20-minute nap approximately eight hours after you have awaken will do more for your stamina than sleeping another 20 minutes in the morning.

• Post  a  power  nap,  you  will  feel  lazy  for  a  few minutes.  But  once  yourmotor  dexterity dissipates,  you  will  reap  the  rewards  of  being well  rested  and  ready  to  go  for  the  rest  of  the day.

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Improved memory and learning• It is recommended that you take a five minutes break

after every 20 minutes period of learning and a 20 min power nap after every 4 hour session learning.

• It allows the subconscious mind to process and sort all the information that you assimilated.

• Power napping is an essential step in the accelerated learning phase.

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• After a study of 23,681 individuals living in Greece who had no history of coronary heart disease, stroke or cancer when they first volunteered, and found that those who took a 30-minute siesta at least three times a week had a 37% lower risk of heart-related death.

Good for the heart.

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• In a recent study, researchers at NASA showed that a 30-minute power nap increased cognitive faculties by approximately 40 percent!

• Tests carried out on one thousand volunteers proved that those who continued working without rest, made lower scores in intelligence tests like the IQ test.

Increased Cognitive Functioning.

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Increased Cognitive Functioning.• In concordance with NASA’s work, 

biology students at Berkeley determined that the nap must be short in order to produce maximum effectiveness.

• Over forty five minutes, the beneficial effects of napping disappear and it is therefore suggested to take a fifteen to thirty five minute “power nap”. This is the time necessary for the organism to rest and enables brain neurons to recuperate.

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Get Motivated to Exercise.

• Sufficient sleep and naps help motivate exercise.

• You’re guaranteed to run longer, faster, more efficiently and mindfully when your body has it’s required amount of zzzz’s.

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Boost your creativity.

• Rest and relaxation isn’t only vital to your health — it might also make you a more creative person. 

• Power napping allows your brain to create the loose associations necessary for creative insight and opens the way for a fresh burst of new ideas. So if you feel stuck, then you might want to take a nap. 

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Make up for midnight tossing and turning.

• Some of the most recent research suggests that a bad night’s sleep can stress the body as well as the mind.

• Scientists at the University of Chicago studied physical changes in 11 young men who slept four hours per night for six nights in a row. They found that sleep deprivation seemed to trigger a diabetes-like condition, harmed hormone production, and interfered with the ability to use carbohydrates.

• According to some studies, power napping is clearly beneficial to someone who is a normal sleeper but who is getting insufficient sleep at night.

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Protect yourself from sleepiness.• Scientists had also found benefits in the “prophylactic” nap for people who have to stay up late. It can protect you from sleepiness. 

• If you have to be up all night, a two-hour or a four-hour nap does provide additional alertness the next day. Research conducted by NASA produced similar results.

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Better health.• Napping in general benefits heart functioning, hormonal maintenance, and cell repair, says Dr. Sara Mednick who is at the forefront of napping research.

•  A power nap, says Mednick, simply maximizes these benefits by getting the sleeper into and out of rejuvenating sleep as fast as possible.

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