Take a Nap! Change Your Life

The Scientific Plan to Make You Smarter, Healthier, More Productive

By: Mark Ehrman, Sara C. Mednick

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Paperback | 30 December 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy, enhances your sex life, helps you make better decisions, keeps you looking younger, aids in weight loss, reduces the risk of heart attack, elevates your mood, and strengthens memory. Now imagine that this product is nontoxic, has no dangerous side effects, and, best of all, is absolutely free.

This miracle drug is, in fact, nothing more than the nap: the right nap at the right time. The work of Sara C. Mednick, Ph.D., a researcher at the Salk Institute and the leading authority on the study of the nap, Take a Nap! Change Your Life. is the scientifically-based breakthrough program that shows how we can fight the fatigue epidemic'which afflicts an estimated 50 million Americans'through a custom-designed nap. Take a Nap! Change Your Life. explains the five stages of the sleep cycle, particularly Stage Two, Slow Wave Sleep, and REM, and the benefits each one provides; how to assess your tiredness and set up a personal sleep profile; and how to neutralize the voice in your head that tells you napping is a sign of laziness. (Not that anyone would have called JFK, Churchill, Einstein, or Napoleon a slug-a-bed.) Using the unique Nap Wheel on the cover and interior graphs and charts, it shows us exactly when our optimum napping time is, and exactly how long we should try to sleep'even how it's possible to design a nap to inspire creativity one day, and the next day design one to help us with our memory. There are tips on how to create the right nap environment, a 16-step technique for falling asleep, a six-week napping workbook, and more.

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Non-Fiction Comedy & Humour Family & Health Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice

Introduction: The Couch at Harvard	p. xi
The Basics
The new nap: not your grandfather's siesta	p. 3
It is written . . . in our DNA	p. 4
The siesta is dead. Long live the nap! 7
Fatigue: a hidden epidemic	p. 10
The walking tired	p. 11
Asleep on the job: a threat to safety	p. 12
Warning: Losing sleep is hazardous to your health 16
The nap manifesto: what napping can do for you 23
The Principles
The stages of sleep: building blocks of the nap	p. 31
Waves and scans: the sleeping brain revealed	p. 32
The sleep cycle	p. 33
To be continued . .	p. 44
Dissecting sleep: making a nap work for you	p. 45
The shadow cycles	p. 46
Stage 2: the constant companion	p. 50
Napping vs. nighttime sleep	p. 51
Optimized Napping: the secret formula	p. 55
The lark and the owl	p. 56
A nap to call your own	p. 59
How to use the Nap Wheel	p. 61
The Program
Your sleep profile: getting to know yourself	p. 65
How tired are you?	p. 66
Checking your calendar	p. 67
Different naps for different folks	p. 75
Nap time: it's easier than you think	p. 85
It's about time	p. 86
Clearing the way	p. 86
Free your mind and your nap will follow	p. 95
Okay, you're cleared to nap!	p. 97
Stay motivated!	p. 102
Extreme napping: exploring the outer limits	p. 103
_ berman to the rescue?	p. 104
Napping for "normal" emergencies	p. 109
Napping across time zones	p. 113
A nap-positive society	p. 117
Workers of the world, nap!	p. 119
Power points of workplace napping	p. 122
Appendix Glossary	p. 127
The scientific formula for creating the precise nap to suit your needs	p. 139
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