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.

Here’s what you need to know about the healthy benefits of nap and how a power nap can help you:

• 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.

Sleep is a daily need, aiding cell repair, memory and hormonal functioning. Anyone short a night’s sleep can list the bodily, mental, and emotional elements that work less well: physical coordination (including reactions while driving); memory and judgment; energy level; patience; and general stress-tolerance.

A power nap of 15 to 20 minutes surprisingly can bring all those functions back to or much closer to normal functioning than we might imagine.

• Some famous self-proclaimed nappers include Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci , Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Johannes Brahms, John D. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gene Autry, Nikola Tesla, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Salvador Dali and Sylvester Stallone.

Napping can be good for the old as well as the young.

Happy napping!