{"id":3339,"date":"2019-12-18T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/what-is-a-power-nap\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T09:18:43","slug":"what-is-a-power-nap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/?p=3339","title":{"rendered":"What is a power nap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 4px 2px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: justify; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);\">A power nap is defined as a short nap during the day of about 20-30 minutes duration,\u201d says&nbsp;<a title=\"Dr. William W. Deardorff, PhD, Beverly Hills, CA, 90212\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spine-health.com\/doctor\/psychologist\/william-deardorff-beverly-hills-ca\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; color: rgb(159, 159, 159);\">William Deardorff<\/a>, Medical Advisor for Spine-health.com. \u201cThis results in a winding down of activity in the brain\u2019s prefrontal cortex. The short duration of a power nap prevents the person\u2019s brain from entering slow-wave (deeper) sleep. Waking up after being in this deeper state of sleep can result in a sleep inertia causing you to feel heavy, sluggish and groggy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 4px 2px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: justify; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);\">\u201cPower naps have recently been studied more extensively by researchers and found to yield many benefits such as a boost in productivity at work, lower stress, improved ability to concentrate, and enhanced mood. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that with a nap,&nbsp;<em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">brain activity stays high throughout the day<\/em>; but without a nap, brain activity declines over the course of a day,\u201d says Dr. Deardorff.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 4px 2px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: justify; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);\"><p><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cYou must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner\u2026 Don\u2019t think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That\u2019s a foolish notion held by people who have no imaginations. You will be able to accomplish more. You get two days in one \u2014 well, at least one and a half, I\u2019m sure.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>Winston Churchill<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA power nap is defined as a short nap during the day of about 20-30 minutes duration,\u201d says William Deardorff, Medical Advisor for Spine-health.com. \u201cThis results in a winding down of activity in the brain\u2019s prefrontal cortex. The short duration of a power nap prevents the person\u2019s brain from entering slow-wave (deeper) sleep. Waking up after being in this deeper state of sleep can result in a sleep inertia causing you to feel heavy, sluggish and groggy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48],"tags":[2347,3241],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-sleep-health","tag-nap","tag-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayurvedamagazine.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}