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Need a Nap ? Try a Pod

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:12:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Their research has found that 40 million Americans suffer yearly from chronic sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million complain of occasional sleeping problem..

For some of us, it just means dark circles under our eyes and a desperate need for triple-caffeinated products. But the reality is that over the long haul, trouble with sleep can cause bigger problems.

For some people, the answer might be to just buy some. Yes, sleep has now joined the ranks of those products we at one time thought we would never have to pay for, like water.

Spas across the country have now added this new nap therapy to their offerings, so along with facials, waxing and massages, you can now grab some Z's for about a dollar a minute.

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CNN -- Getting enough rest should be as simple as just shutting your eyes.

The alpha pod, designed for napping, includes a heated, vibrating bed and a CD player.

For some people, the answer might be to just buy some. Yes, sleep has now joined the ranks of those products we at one time thought we would never have to pay for, like water.

Years ago, the thought of paying money for a bottle of something you could get for free from the tap would have had people laughing. Now we can add sleep, or, more accurately, napping.

For some of us, it just means dark circles under our eyes and a desperate need for triple-caffeinated products. But the reality is that over the long haul, trouble with sleep can cause bigger problems.

This napping therapy, while not taking the country by storm, has found some happy clients willing to pay for sleep.

f you're getting by on five or six hours a night, "it's ridiculous to assume that a 15- to 20-minute nap during the day,

"power nap."

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“Power Nap” Prevents Burnout; Morning Sleep Perfects a Skill

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:02:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting read

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Evidence is mounting that sleep — even a nap — appears to enhance information processing and learning.

New experiments by NIMH grantee Alan Hobson, M.D., Robert Stickgold, Ph.D., and colleagues at Harvard University show that a midday snooze reverses information overload

mprovement in learning a motor skill is largely traceable to a late stage of sleep that some early risers might be missing.

Overall, their studies suggest that the brain uses a night’s sleep to consolidate the memories of habits, actions and skills learned during the day.

Rather than generalized fatigue, the researchers suspected that the burnout was limited to just the brain visual system circuits involved in the task.

This led the researchers to propose that neural networks in the visual cortex “gradually become saturated with information through repeated testing, preventing further perceptual processing.

The new findings have implications for learning sports, a musical instrument, or developing artistic movement control.

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How to Take a Power Nap for More Productivity

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:15:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you not have time for a full-out siesta but even naps as short as 20 minutes can make a big difference in your energy level, ability to concentrate, and general outlook.

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How to Take a Power Nap for More Productivity

If you not have time for a full-out siesta but even naps as short as 20 minutes can make a big difference in your energy level, ability to concentrate, and general outlook. Scientists have long researched the positive effects of napping, and now there is growing evidence to suggest that power napping can increase productivity levels and even uplift your spirit.
A powerful way to combat a daily fatigue is by learning how to effectively power nap during the day to recharge and go into round two with full energy.

If you want to take a nap at work, I suggest trying a few of the following tips:

- Announce your nap to yourself and your colleagues

- Get comfortable

- Collect your equipment

- Eat right

- Control your nap environment

- Don’t feel guilty.

- Be prepared for grogginess when you wake up.

- Wake up on time

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14 Research-Proven Ways To Boost Brain Power

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:28:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In response to Mohir's clip: Not all hope is lost...
I worked hard to find a few proven ways,
to train your brain, and mine of course...

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Until just a few years ago, doctors believed that the brain stopped making new neural connections - meaning that the memory began to get irreversibly worse - when the body stopped developing, usually in the early 20s.

In the past few years, it has become clear that you can, in fact, make new neurons starting in your 20s and continuing well into old age.

There are lots of things you can do right now to preserve, protect and enhance your gray matter.

1Physical exercise

Lifelong learning - your brain is a learning machine

3Mental stimulation

4Social interaction - People are good medicine

5Sleep & Nap

6Stress management

7Laugh & Humor

8Healthy breakfast

9Omega-3 fatty acids

10Blueberries

11Vegetables

12Want to drink? Choose red wine!

13Keep health problems under control

14Neurobics

Drive to work a different route

Get dressed with your eyes closed

Brush your teeth with the other hand

Listen to music and smell flowers at the same time

Shop at new grocery store

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10 Healthy Benefits of the Power Nap

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:31:28 GMT

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10 Healthy Benefits of the Power Nap

In a recent study, researchers at NASA showed that a thirty to forty-minute power nap increased cognitive faculties by approximately 40%!

The healthy benefits of napping have been well documented scientific. Research has revealed that a nap can help physical well-being, improve mood and memory, sharpen senses and revitalize a person. The neurons in brain functioning get to rest and recuperate from the day’s stress.

1. boost in productivity and energy at work

2. increased motivation

3. improved ability to concentrate,

4. better mood

5. improved hand-eye coordination

6. improve emotional state

7. increased learning

8. maintain peak brain activity during the course of the day

9. protect yourself from sleepiness

10. decrease and eliminate stress

Why Take a Power Nap?

Research also says that taking a nap of 30 minutes a day is better than sleeping 30 minutes later in the morning.

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Top 10 Memory Hacks

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:04:45 GMT

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10. Nap to improve memory and learning

9. Boost learning power with strategic "distractions"

8. Visualize reminders with the Palace Technique

7. Draw a name map

6. Recall lists using dramatic imagery

5. Never have to write down countless, unique passwords with a single master pattern

4. Remember names with repetition techniques

3. Convert long numbers to words

2. Make your own memory devices with mnemonics

1. Train your brain with SuperMemo

Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or combination you want stored only in your head, or answers for an upcoming test, there are plenty of techniques and tools to help you lock in important stuff and pull it out when needed. After the jump, we round up some memorable memory-boosting hacks. Photo by furryscaly.

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How to Take a Healthy Power Nap

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:46:20 GMT

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How to Take a Healthy Power Nap

A power nap is a short nap, normally between 10 and 30 minutes long, taken in the middle of the day in order to reinvigorate and refresh you for the next part of the day. Power naps are not similar to normal sleep, so you will not be groggy after taking one. While you might have “dreams”, power naps are more similar to meditation, where thoughts are allowed to move from the sub-conscious mind to the conscious mind and back again without you concentrating on them.

How to Power Nap Effectively:

- Don`t be shame

- Choose a time of the day

- Choose a quiet, location to power nap.

- Collect your equipment

- Eat right

- Turn off the phone.

- Add darkness to your room

- Find some music to listen

- Wake up on time

napping:

- boost in productivity and energy at work

- increased motivation

- improved ability to concentrate,

- better mood

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The Power Nap Pod

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:00:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The fully reclined dentist chair angle ensures the least amount of pressure on your heart, and after around 25 minutes of napping (optimal for power-naps) the device wakes you up with vibrations, more light and more music. The manufacturer, MetroNaps, believe the energy gained from a power-nap is directly related to how you are brought back from the land of nod. The use of a water jet in the face was quickly discarded as “sub-optimal”.

The designer of this snooze-machine was a banker who came up with the idea after finding his colleagues asleep in bathrooms and store cupboards. He knew that there must be a better way of cat-napping on work time and he came up with the Energy Pod. The Japanese originally paved the way for power-napping through the invention of the capsule hotel; however, it simply took too much time to get to the hotel and back, and it eventually found its market in those who had partied too hard and had missed their last train home.

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The Power-Nap Pod

The over-worked and sleep-deprived are set to get a boost as company bosses have given the seal of approval to the latest in high-tech snoozing. The Null's roving reporter, Riaz Bhunnoo, fights his way past drowsy directors and somnolent CEOs to take a look at the MetroNap.

Fans of The Apprentice will know that a six-figure salary demands a 16-hour working day. City workers regularly couple this daily slog with a ‘work hard, play even harder’ attitude, so it comes as no surprise that sleep gets left on the backburner. Well, droopy-eyed bankers need miss their shut-eye no more, because power-napping on the Energy Pod has been given the green light by several UK companies.

The Energy Pod is essentially a souped-up dentist’s chair with a huge dome at the head end. It is designed to isolate you from your stressful environment by enveloping you with lights and music while you sleep.

MetroNap - great for kipping, crap for hide and seek.

Power-napping

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:06:25 GMT

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Numerous studies from famous institutions have proven the effectiveness of power-napping. Marc Rosenkind conducted a study for NASA that proved reaction time can improve by up to 16% and loss of concentration can be reduced by up to 34%.

The creativity-boosting nap counteracts the biorhythmic midday-low and significantly increases efficiency.

In the lower Saxon city of Vechta, the city administration has introduced power-napping with considerable success: its 100 employees are healthier, which means statistically they are less absent due to sickness and work more effectively.

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15 Smart Ways to De-Stress Your Everyday Life

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:58:46 GMT

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15 Smart Ways to De-Stress Your Everyday Life

When everything is getting on top of us, it seems we have those moments when we are about ready to tear out our hair or someone else’s. That is why all you need is some ideas to de-stress and keep all of you at the top of your game.

1. Exercise Your Body Every Day

2. Think Positively

3. Take a Midday Power-nap

4. Listen to Some Calming Music

5. Massage

6. Have sex!

7. Hug an Animal

8. Movies

9. Meditation of Mind and Body

10. Self-Improvement

11. Keep up Your Journal Every Day

12. Be Good to Yourself

13. Communicate

14. Start Something

Hit the Shops Retail Therapy

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The Quick Fix: Napping

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:36:14 GMT

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link»The Quick Fix: Napping

Feb 29, 2008 05:00:00 GMT

If you are feeling run down during the day a power nap may be just the thing to rev you up.

Ways to Relax

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:03:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't know about anyone else, but I could really use some relaxation.

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4. Stretch Your Stress Away
Simple stretching exercises can do wonders for stress relief. If you don't stretch, your body will naturally hold on to tension and you will have reduced flexibility. However, stretching for just a few minutes a day will increase your flexibility -- and with flexibility comes a significant reduction in the tension in your body.

6. Self-Massage

7. Take Care of the Quick Stuff
Our days are cluttered with "assignments" and "to-do's." Time management experts recommend taking care of as much of the small stuff as possible right away. For instance, stop on any quick errands you can on your way to work, then write back any quick e-mails, make any quick phone calls and get any other fast tasks out of the way immediately.

8. Power Nap

Studies have found that 20 minutes is just the right amount of time to de-stress

10. Put Some Variety in Your Day

3. Try Yoga or Other Gentle Exercise

14. Add Natural Scents to Your Vehicle

Peppermint and cinnamon

Lemon and coffee

Sea ozone

Tags: relax, self-help, tips, list, lists

Is it really just a co-incidence ?

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:47:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The story is about choir practice at a church.
A few other details. There had never before been a choir practice where all members were late.They were due at 7:20, but most were usually there by 7:15. Often co-incidences that can seem uncanny are in fact urban Myths.
Those who can verify the co-incidence, include the members of the choir, and the fire department.
It is suspected the explosion was the result of a gas leaka gas leak.

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Jim Francis
Source: Real Mind Power Secrets

Mathematician Warren Weaver, in his book, Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability, recounts a fascinating tale of coincidence that stretches our traditional notions of chance to their breaking point

All fifteen members of a church choir in Beatrice, Nebraska, due at practice at 7:20, were late on the evening of March 1, 1950

The minister and his wife and daughter had one reason (his wife delayed to iron the daughter’s dress) one girl waited to finish a geometry problem; one couldn’t start her car; two lingered to hear the end of an especially exciting radio program; one mother and daughter were late because the mother had to call the daughter twice to wake her from a nap; and so on

there were ten separate and quite unconnected reasons for the lateness of the fifteen persons. It was rather fortunate that none of the fifteen arrived on time at 7:20, for at 7:25 the church building was destroyed in an explosion

Read the full story here...

Indecent Proposal: How to Nap at Work – Power Nap Tips

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:20 GMT

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Indecent Proposal: How to Nap at Work – Power Nap Tips

Could napping at work actually increase productivity?
A NASA study backs up the claim. The study shows that a nap of just 26 minutes can boost performance by as much as 34 percent.
The average American gets 6.7 hours sleep a night; the recommended amount is eight hours a night.
Some companies are starting to respond to sleep-deprived workers by providing the time and space to nap during work hours. Studies show tired workers cost business about $150 billion a year in lost productivity.

Once you lay your head down for a nap, the worst thing to do is start stressing — this will waste time and defeats the purpose of getting the most rest in the least amount of time. To help you get the most of your power naptime, we suggest trying a few of the following tips:

Announce your nap to yourself and your colleagues

Get comfortable

Collect your equipment

Make sure you’re not worried about waking up

Eat right

Control your nap environment

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Sleep Deprivation: tips for nodding off

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:47:08 GMT

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Modern life is too demanding to turn out the lights and we're more sleep deprived than ever before. How can we get back in the habit of grabbing shut-eye?

The medical profession calls it tatt, short for "tired all the time". It's one of the most common complaints that doctors hear.

We just aren't getting enough sleep and it's slipping down people's list of priorities. It seems modern life is just too demanding - and exciting - to switch off.

Not getting enough has been found to increase the risk of obesity, heart disease and depression.

Sleep is as important as diet and exercise when it comes to the nation's health

But even if you cut back on the late nights, how to tackle the problem of falling asleep? Here are some tips

GET TENSE

Tensing until your muscles hurt may not seem the most sensible way of getting to sleep, but it's a popular and proven cognitive technique.

OLD CDS

POWER OF 'THE'

POWER NAP

WORK IN JAPAN

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