Here’s The Secret To Amazing Naps

Here are 5 ways to improve your naps:

1. If you’re a morning person, the best time to nap is around 1 or 1:30PM. If you’re a night owl, nap later, around 2:30 or 3PM.
2. The best naps are under 45 mins or 90-120 mins. Anything in between is likely to give you that groggy feeling.
3. Naps don’t mean you’re lazy: A NASA study showed that in-flight naps improved subsequent performance by 34% and overall alertness by 54%.
4. To make sure you’re productive after your nap drink a cup of coffee right before laying down. Caffeine takes about 20-30 minutes to kick in.
5. No nap is too short: A 2008 study showed that even a nap of a few minutes provided benefits. Just anticipating a nap lowers blood pressure.

Keep in mind that 10 minutes is the best nap length.

Naps are not for the lazy, they’re for the productive:

• Naps increase alertness and performance on the job.

• They enhance learning ability.

• Naps purge negative emotions and enhance positive ones.

Across the board, sleep is vital:

• Being tired actually makes it harder to be happy.

• Lack of sleep = more likely to get sick.

• “Sleeping on it” does improve decision making.

• Lack of sleep can make you more likely to behave unethically.

• There is such a thing as beauty sleep.

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