Power Of A Power-Nap..!!



Good Afternoon Friends,

I had a busy morning today so I shifted my writing schedule to later half of the day. I just woke up after a magical power nap and now I feel fresh and revived. Taking a timeout to sleep during the day does much more than just give us a quick energy boost. 

Power naps can not only alleviate our so-called sleep deficits, but they can also boost our brains, including improvements to creative problem solving, verbal memory, perceptual learning, object learning, and statistical learning. They help us with math, logical reasoning, our reaction times, and symbol recognition. Naps improve our mood and feelings of sleepiness and fatigue. Not only that, napping is good for our heart, blood pressure, stress levels, and surprisingly, even weight management.    

 

A power nap is a sleep session that happens during the day (ideally between 1:00 to 4:00 PM) lasting between 10 and 30 minutes. And naps later than 4:00 PM can disrupt your regular nighttime sleep. Napping is particularly great for alertness, learning, memory, and performance.

Naps can also reduce stress, which is not a small thing as far as our overall health is concerned. Napping can help us manage our blood pressure. Daytime sleep can confer heart-related benefits by accelerating cardiovascular recovery after bouts of  psychological stress. Researchers discovered that a 45 minute nap literally lowers blood pressure.   


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Lastly, it should be noted that napping is good for people of all ages, but particularly children. Sadly, however, they’re napping less and less. Daytime sleep is critical for effective learning in young children. Naps boosts the learning capabilities of preschool children by enhancing the memories they acquired earlier in the day. Conversely, children experience deficits in performance when they’re nap-deprived — deficits that cannot be recovered during subsequence overnight sleep. The researchers conclude by saying that, “distributed sleep is critical in early learning; when short-term memory stores are limited, memory consolidation must take place frequently.” 

 

So, now that we know the power of a power-nap, I would love to have a forced power nap in my daily routine until it becomes a habit. What about you...??


--Ritu

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