American students are chronically under-slept. An healthy and inexpensive solution to our tardiness are power-naps which make students smarter by retaining better information and boost productivity and creativity.
As a nation we drink on single day 400 million cups of coffee a day to make up for our lack of sleep. But is coffee really a good solution of our sleepiness problem? Coffee consumption is associated with elevated risk of heart disease and elevations in cholesterol levels.
A much better solution of being tired and sluggish are power-naps! They improve your creativity, productivity by giving your brain a break. Power-naps even lower your risk of heart disease and make you feel happier.
Important to know is not all power-naps are created equal. After some naps you feel ready to greet the world. After other you feel disoriented, groggy and even more tired then before the nap. How come?
Groggy power-naps come to be if you enter the deep sleep phase or REM stage. During this phase your body has completely shut down for sleep so to it is not healthy to wake up during this phase.
Therefore, power-naps shouldn’t be longer than 20 to 40 minutes depending how long it takes you to fall asleep. Moreover, long sleep messes with your circadian rhythm. Therefore, try to avoid napping after 3 PM.
In a nutshell, power-naps make you alert again, improve your learning-ability and even your healthy. The key to successful power naps is do them mid-day and wake up after about 30 minutes.
I wish you a glorious power nap today.
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