The Power of the Power Nap

Is there anything more debilitating than a lack of energy?

According to the National Sleep Foundations’ 2000 Poll, 67% of Americans are sleep-deprived.

Your energy level is the single most important factor in you living fully engaged in your life. If you're tired all day, the quality of your diet won't matter, the benefit of your exercise regimen will be compromised, if you can even muster the energy to get your workout in.

The quality of your work can suffer and more importantly the satisfaction you get from your work will be impacted. And of course, your personal relationships will suffer as you won't have the energy to be actively involved whether it be with your kids, spouse, co-workers, significant other or your friends.

We've all had the experience of the afternoon energy slump. Most of us try to thwart this with a couple of cups of coffee. But this is just masking the energy deprivation.
Your body is telling you that it needs revitalization.

Well, there is a powerful technology that offers a solution. In just one-third of your lunch hour, Power Nap can help you be alert and effective for far more of your waking hours.

Welcome to the scientifically-sound deep sleep of the Power Nap.

Sleep researchers know that the natural sleep rhythm is three hours. Wake up after 180 uninterrupted minutes of rest, and you can function effectively.

But who has three hours for a nap every day? The rich, retired and unemployed! You can only achieve the first two by avoiding the third. There are, of course, times when circumstance will prevent you from the full nights sleep that you'd like. The PowerNap Machine and recordings are a remarkable technology that offers you the revitalizing energy of three hours of sleep in 20 minutes.

How does it work?

When you sleep under normal circumstances, your brain cycles through several different stages of Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma sleep waves. You drift from one stage of sleep to another—from deep sleep to dreaming to wakefulness and so on. These waves are inaudible to the human ear.

Through advanced mastering technology, Power Nap piggybacks the sleep waves on audible “carrier waves” within the audible range. The result: you get the effect of the natural waves so you can sleep!

Listen to the Power Nap CD through headphones. Your brain has no sensory input other than the carrier waves playing through your ears. When you hear more than 60 seconds of a certain frequency, your brain modulates to match it. Listening to the Power Nap CD through stereo headphones for 20 minutes guides your brain through a pattern of deep sleep that would otherwise require three hours!

In other words, PowerNap provides a structure that enables the user to refocus his or her energies and tune out the environment and their own "brain noise" and be guided into a deeply relaxed state.

If you use PowerNap according to the instructions, you can't help but feel better afterwards!

What happens when you listen?
You will hear pleasing waterfall-like sounds for the duration of the Power Nap CD. During the first 5 minutes or so, your brain adjusts to the sounds coming through the headphones. For the next 10 minutes, the Power Nap CD cycles you between deep and REM sleep periods, finally bringing your mind to a state of heightened wakefulness at the end of the CD. Then the waterfall-like sounds stop. You awaken spontaneously, feeling refreshed—as though you’ve had a long nap.

Who can benefit?

Anyone who works long hours and needs a break to re-focus.
Students with rigorous schedules or preparing for exams.
Busy mothers with young children.
Ambitious people who are looking for a few more hours in a day.
People who are in professions where their shifts change.
People who travel between time zones.
Physicians with a rigorous call schedule.
Anyone needing a little extra lift from time to time.

So why do so many people see naps as unacceptable behavior unless you’re sick or injured? The truth is that napping is neither a sign of laziness nor something one should do only as a leisure activity.

A nap is a source of energy that leads to increased productivity. Here's a few people who tapped into the power of the nap.

John F. Kennedy
Thomas Edison
Johannes Brahms
Ronald Reagan
Leonardo Da Vinci
Thomas Edison
Eleanor Roosevelt
Connie Mack

Lyndon B. Johnson
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jim Lehrer
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
John D. Rockefeller
Bill Clinton
Gene Autry

* Winston Churchill – said he needed his afternoon nap to cope with his responsibilities.
    * Thomas Edison attributed his tremendous amount of energy to sleeping whenever he wanted to.
    * John D. Rockefeller took a nap every afternoon in his office.
    * Eleanor Roosevelt was known to take a nap before a speaking engagement.
    * William J. Clinton retired to his private quarters every afternoon at 3:00 for a 30-minute nap.
    * Connie Mack took a nap before every game.
    * Gene Autry used to take an hour nap in his dressing room between performances.
    * Ronald Reagan has the ultimate napping reputation even though his wife denies that he had a napping habit.

Become a PowerNapper and you're in good company.
The PowerNap Machine gets our highest recommendation: