Full hypnosis download Ten minute power nap
Most of the relaxation sessions at hypnosisdownloads.com last between 22 and 30 minutes, but sometime people just need to relax ‘on the go’ to recoup vital energy. With this in mind, I have put together ‘the ten minute power nap’ for hypnosisdownloads.com.
Napping is an activity
Many people feel secretly guilty about taking naps – especially at work. Surely, it’s the ultimate sign of laziness and slacking? But having an afternoon nap has huge potential benefits. It is not ‘lazy’ to stop to put fuel in a car during a long journey. In fact, it is essential if you want to get where you’re going.
Power napping can save your life
Technological progress confers many advantages, of course, but it is a double-edged sword in many ways. We may feel as if we can never switch off and relax. Stress may be increasingly prominent in our lives because we feel we should (or must) be ‘available’ 24/7. And millions of workers certainly don’t get anything like the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. We can even start to feel that sleep and rest are somehow a ‘waste of time’.
A study published in
The Archives of Modern Medicine show that naps can be extremely good for your health (meaning, of course, that your work productivity can be greatly improved by them too!). The researchers found that the level of stress hormones – a major contributor to mental and physical illness – was greatly reduced in people who started taking a daily nap.(1)
Naps can be real life savers as they can help ward off heart disease that result from prolonged high blood pressure. People who napped randomly (varying frequency and duration) reduced their risk by of heart disease by 34%, and those who napped systematically at least three times a week enjoyed a 37% reduction in their risk of heart disease. Not to mention feeling more energized, better able to concentrate and learn and remember! (2)
The best time to nap
It seems the best time to nap is between one and three pm, when the body’s temperature has reached it’s daily peak and is dropping. So I’d recommend that people relax to the ten minute power nap early afternoon if possible, but using it any time you are feeling tired, unmotivated or unfocused will be immensely valuable.
The idea is not to fall into deep sleep, as this will tend to make you feel washed out when you finally wake up.
This is going to bring a massive health and performance advantage to busy people.
All the best
Mark
Notes
(1) The researchers concluded that those who took regular time out to relax away from their jobs enjoyed much lower risk of heart disease. Stress hormone was also greatly reduced, as were anxiety levels and even rates of depression.
(2)
A sleep during work can help improve memory
Power naps – the daytime snoozes favored by Winston Churchill, Lady Thatcher and Albert Einstein – can boost your memory, scientists say.
A study has shown that falling asleep does more than refresh the brain, it also improves recall.
Dr Olaf Lahl at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, who led the research, found that it is the process of nodding off - when recent events are replayed in the mind - that is so beneficial, rather than the sleep itself.
He asked students to memorize a list of words and tested their ability to recall them after an hour of playing the card game solitaire.
Some of the volunteers were allowed a five-minute catnap at the start of the experiment, the rest were asked to stay wide awake.
The students who took a quick sleep remembered significantly more words than those who were constantly awake.
Daily Mail 21 Feb 2008
Olaf Lahl, Christiane Wispel, Bernadette Willigens, Reinhard Pietrowsky (2008) ‘An ultra short episode of sleep is sufficient to promote declarative memory performance’,
Journal of Sleep Research 17 (1) , 3–10
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