Nap Makes Your Life Cap!

Nap makes your life cap!

When a person feels sleepy at afternoon while working or studying, what choices will he make? There are two choices. One is to take a nap; the other is to avoid himself falling into sleep. Which will be better to him? In long term, taking a nap will be much better. There are several benefits of taking a nap. It can be divided into two parts; brain and body. Analyzing these will be better to understand. Also, the benefical way of taking a nap will be listed. .

There is a specific term for napping. The term 'Power Nap' is a word made by Cornell University social psychologist James Maas; the maximum benefits are created with sleep vs. time. Not only this, there are various time for napping. The benefits of napping are proved in many researches.

"Napping may protect brain circuits from overuse until those neurons can consolidate what's been learned about a procedure," says neuroscientist Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School. There was an investigation with college students were to take four kinds of test sessions during the day. Students without nap made a process on the work on the first session, but soon the scores went down suddenly on the other three sessions. Students who had 30-minute nap after finishing their second session had no change on the rest of the test. The students who took 1-hour nap showed improvement in their third and fourth sessions. This study tells that taking an 1-hour nap strengthens people's using brain work. (http://www.sciencenews.org/20020601/fob6.asp)

It also lowers the coronary mortality (heart diseases) by about one third in people. The investigation was on Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Athens Medical School (UAMS) in Greece. The investigators watched at 23,681 people in Greece pure in coronary heart disease, stroke or cancer. The research took 6.3 years. The consequence of this viewed that people who had nap three times per week with 30 minutes had a 37% less coronary mortality than those who were awake all day. They believe that taking a nap on afternoon will be acting like a stress-releasing process, because there is a substantial proof that stress influences both short and long term on occurrence of and mortality from coronary heart disease.

(http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2007-releases/press02122007.html)

The effective way of napping varies among people. It depends on the person's nap styles. The most beneficial way of napping will be the one that makes the person go to sleep fast and taking the shortest time, until he wakes up. The way to have success on nap can be told by five.

The best time for napping is 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. It is the time that a person's energy is ready to produce the hormone melatonin. It also boosts up the effect of nap by using a eye pillow or a face mask

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