Another calm and peaceful relaxdaily piano music session you can listen to during your day, while studying, focusing, reflecting, letting your thoughts run free, as a soundtrack during your ME time, but also as peaceful music to help starting your power nap or sleep. And of course also simply to relax and enjoy.

Title: Power Nap | Type: original calm piano music session

No huge philosophic exploration this time. Just a quick reflection on my personal power napping experience. I frequently do short power naps and also longer sleeps during the day if I feel it might benefit my mood, well-being, performance, or health in general.

A few words on PN (power naps) I found on the web:
“Still powerful and focused in the morning, often around noon, our energy levels drop. This is actually quite normal, because our biorhythm is most effective in the morning for many of us. The consequences are lack of productivity, imbalance, loss of concentration and creativity as well as increased stress hormone production.

When kept to about 10–20 minutes per day, power naps can make a great addition to a healthy lifestyle and promote a variety of benefits for those who take them.

Studies have showed that napping can boost mood, memory, and attentiveness. Taking a nap in the afternoon can help us unwind and release tension and can be an effective way to enjoy boosted energy, focus and concentration, increased attention, and mental clarity.

Naps should not be used as a substitute for getting the recommended amount of sleep each night.”

For me, there are days when I have so much energy, or zest for action, or some sort of pressure to get things done, that I don’t even consider a nap during day time. But when reflecting on my past years, I always felt better and more me, when I implemented more or less extensive rests, me-time islands, and yes, some power naps into my days. Last weeks I extended power napping to something longer: a short sleep during the day. I’m currently doing some sort of an experiment and pushing myself hard for 3 months to prepare for a local trail marathon. Will be the second marathon of my life. This time with some altitude and partly on rocky terrain. I chose a training plan that's let’s say a level above my current skill level. Well, that’s the Michael I am. Now what allowed me to keep continuing the partly hard training for many weeks, while being super conscious about my nightly sleep quality and nutrition intake as well (and also what not to take in), was additional extra sleep in the afternoon on a couple days. I believe this extra resting helped my muscles, tendons, and cardiovascular system to recover just a little more, before doing the next tough running session through hilly nature. This is not stretchable infinitely, our bodies have specific regeneration times after specific actions. But it shows me that in times when I need a little extra turbo for a project I have my priority on for a while, I can get that performance boost I’m after through more rest, through a more enhanced regeneration.

This idea could be translated to other human activities and endeavors. A student training their knowledge muscle in their chosen discipline for years might have a plan for how to regenerate and keep a healthy balance to perform at their best during a day, a week, a semester, but also a plan to survive the full span of their university time healthy, strong, and still with love for their chosen field. A mother or a father will seek a similar way to balance the needs of their kids, income generation, health, social, personal, and other needs. A CEO or board of a company that shapes the world, or a politician who takes their job serious (or anyone taking their job serious) might want to include daily, weekly, monthly, yearly breaks, rests, reflections to take a birds eye view on their progress, and to check if the direction of their ship is on track, or if it’s still the right direction the ship is sailing towards at all. And, to finally use the power nap analogy: between those longer super crucial (nightly) recharges, those quick splash and dash power intakes, be it energy in form of nutrition, rest (power nap), or interaction with nature or other humans can have that little extra energy impact that might enable us to the breakthrough were after, or simply to allow us to function the way we feel is right.

What do you think about power naps, shorter, and longer breaks? As always, I’m curious. Let me know in the comments!

I hope you enjoy the music,
💛 Michael (relaxdaily*)


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