Power Naps

Supercharge Your Energy With Power Naps By Kacper PostawskiOne of the most frequent questions I'm asked is: "Are naps good or bad for you?"Yes, naps are very good for you -- but only IF you understand how the sleep system works, and if you know how to nap PROPERLY.It's important to understand your circadian rhythm and light exposure -- and how they control your physical and mental energy.Few people realize that they're not just "dead to the world" when they're sleeping. Sleep is actually a very complex state responsible for healing and energizing our bodies.The Key to "Power Naps"When you sleep you go through five specific "sleep stages." During stages 1 and 2 you sleep "lightly" and are easily wakened. Such sleep does not alter your circadian rhythm radically enough to create a disturbance in your inner sleep system.The energizing effects of Stage 1 and 2 sleep are very beneficial. Just 10 minutes of sleep in these stages can restore your energy to the point that you feel as if you had slept for 8 hours.The best approach is to take "Power Naps" -- or what I refer to as "Stage 2 limited naps" that do not take you beyond stage 2 sleep.The One Type of Naps to AvoidSo why do most people do more HARM than GOOD to themselves by napping?The answer is simple -- they don't know about "deep sleep." Deep sleep comprises stages 3, 4 and 5 sleep stages. During deep sleep your body undergoes a MASSIVE physiological change, and your body temperature, heart rate, respiration all drop substantially.Duribng this time your blood vessels dilate, and the blood normally stored in your main organs during the day is then channeled to your muscles to repair them.If you enter such deep sleep during the day, your circadian rhythm and "inner sleep clock" is seriously thrown out of balance - often resulting in lower energy levels. But if you use naps properly, you can boost your energy levels drastically, and reduce your sleep time drastically.The Secrets of the Optimal "Power Nap"For the average person, from 45- to 90-minutes are required to enter "stage 3-5 deep sleep."This is why you should keep your nap down to a maximum of 45-minutes, and even that can be too long. The most energizing power naps are usually "cat naps" from 10- to 20-minutes long.There are two vital things that can allow you to "engineer" your sleep system using power naps -- and lower your need for sleep, while boosting your energy:You must know exactly what the best time during the day is to take your power nap. You must know exactly what to do AFTER your nap in order to speed up your bodily temperature rise. Both these sleep secrets are detailed in my Powerful Sleep package.Kacper Postawski is an innovative sleep science researcher and the creator of the "Powerful Sleep - Secrets of the Inner Sleep Clock" system. He shows you how to reduce your sleep by up to 3 hours, while creating an abundance of energy.

Success and Happiness are for You

No man has a right, unless he can not help himself, to remain where he will be constantly subjected to the cramping, ambition-blighting influences and great temptations of poverty. His self-respect demands that he should get out of such an environment. It is his duty to put himself in a position of dignity and independence where he will not be liable at any moment to be a burden to his friends in case of sickness or other emergencies, or where those depending on him may suffer.Prosperity begins in the mind and is impossible with a mental attitude which is hostile to it. We can not attract opulence mentally by a poverty-stricken attitude which is driving away what we long for. We must think prosperity before we can come to it. Our circumstances in life, our financial condition, our poverty or our wealth, our friends or lack of them, our condition of harmony or discord, are all very largely the offspring of our thought.Success comes through a perfectly scientific mental process. The man who becomes prosperous believes that he is going to be prosperous. He has faith in his ability to make money. He does not start out with his mind filled with doubts and fears, and all the time talk poverty and think poverty, walk like a pauper and dress like a pauper. He turns his face towards the thing he is trying for and is determined to get, and will not admit its opposite picture in his mind.The man who expects prosperity is constantly creating money in his mind, building his financial structure mentally. There must be a mental picture of the prosperity first; the building around it is comparatively easy. To be prosperous we must put ourselves in the prosperous attitude. We must think opulently, we must feel opulent in thought; we must exhale confidence and assurance in our very bearing and manner. Our mental attitude towards the thing we are striving for and the intelligent effort we put forth to realize it, will measure our attainment.The man who would succeed must think success, must think upward. He must think progressively, creatively, constructively, inventively, and, above all, optimistically. The mental attitude which we hold toward our work or our aim has everything to do with what we accomplish.Many positive minds become negative by influences which destroy their self-confidence. They gradually lose faith in themselves. The whole philosophy of efficiency and happiness consist in the vigorous, consistent affirmation of the thing we are trying to be, and trying to do.