Posts Tagged ‘sleeping’

Sleep Your Way to Better Fitness

Ancient Zen masters said “When hungry eat, when tired sleep.” Modern societies have the first part down pat since the majority of people in western countries are overweight. These busy people seem to have missed something in the translation of the sleep part. This carries over to fitness where many are too tired or say that they don’t have enough time to maintain a regular fitness program.

One of the… » Continue

July 6 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: fitness, lifebalance, Productivity, sleeping | 30 comments»

Benefits of MicroNapping

Get tired in the middle of the day? You might not need a proper sleep, but rather just a quick nap to get back in gear - because we can’t be productive when we’re tired.

Micronaps are those moments you catch yourself having fallen asleep, usually for somewhere under 5 minutes. However, if you schedule these in your day you can give yourself some easy pick-ups. Could a nap replace… » Continue

June 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: nap, sleep, sleeping | 4 comments»

How To Get The Perfect Nap

Hey, I’m not being lazy. I’m napping for 20 minutes so I’m killer productive for the next few hours. That makes sense, right? No use being drowsy and irritated for those hours, I’ll be an attentive, productive part of the workplace.

Here’s how to get a good nap:

1 The first consideration is psychological: Recognize that you’re not being lazy; napping will make you more productive and more alert after you

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March 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: health, nap, sleeping | 7 comments»

11 Ways To Sleep Better

Sometimes, we may not sleeping well, even if we never suffer from insomnia before. Good sleep does affect our productivity during day time, so as a hacker we should look into ways to sleep better. Ririan gathers 11 ways to have a better sleep at night:

Create A Sleep-Conducive Environment
Avoid Caffeine, Alcohol and Tobacco
Exercise Regularly
Have A Bedtime Schedule
Keep Bed A Place For Sleep
Warm Milk Or Herbal Tea
Relaxation: Massage, Warm Bath, Meditation
Have

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November 2 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: sleeping | 4 comments»

Napping: Is it good for you?

Kurt Kleiner talks about his love towards napping and looks for reasons to take his nap. With all those negative perceptions in the modern world on napping, he wants to prove that it may not be bad thing at all.

He found many studies recently shows napping improve productivity. How useful is it for a 10 minutes nap if you can have a better productivity after that:

But sleep experts say a… » Continue

November 1 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: nap, sleeping | 2 comments»

How much do/should you sleep at night?

How many hours do you sleep at night?

Sleeping is always a good topic to talk about at lifehack.org, because potentially we may find out our optimal hours of sleeping to use and enjoy more hours awake. But sleeping is important to our physical health, how to justify to decrease our sleeping time?

RelentlessProductivity.com has a suggestion - by experimenting it. Decrease your sleeping time per week, log and track the outcome… » Continue

June 2 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: sleeping | 9 comments»

Sleep position gives personality clue

There is a study on sleeping positions which scientist believes closely related to personality. Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service, has analyzed six common sleeping positions. The article has not mention how he came up with the result, but it is pretty interesting to see the position and the relevant personality, such as the log position:

… Log (15%): Lying on your side with both arms… » Continue

March 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: personality, sleeping | 1 comment»

How Their Sleeping Lives Affect Their Waking Lives

Stanford University Center of Excellence, William Dement has written a FAQ on how sleeping is affecting the daily life. He realized there are many Stanford undergradulates who have not get enough sleep and he saw the importance of educating students (and adults) on sleep. Here are some of the topics that he have talked about:

How much sleep do we need? What is sleep debt?
What causes us to feel sleepy?
America is

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February 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: life, sleeping | no comments»

How to Take A Caffeine Nap

Brad Isaac at Achieve-IT has noted down a technique called Caffeine Nap from the Field and Stream magazine. The technique involves with drinking a caffeine drink (such as coffee) and take a 15 minutes nap immediately. The sleep researchers at the Loughborough University in Britain tested couple of different techniques to stay awake in driving and found out this is the best technique among other tricks such as blasting… » Continue

February 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: caffeine, sleeping | 1 comment»

How to Get Great Sleep

In modern life, we usually get robbed by our commitments and other demands in our life. We tends to sleep less and less. It maybe your worry that prevents your sleep, or you got insomnia. Psychology Today has a great info on how to get great sleep. It addresses couple of good info or concerns on getting little sleep. The article has full of information. This is quite interesting to… » Continue

January 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: insomnia, sleeping | 1 comment»

New Learning Rejuvenate the Brain, Losing Sleep undoes it

Brightsurf has a good article recently on the relationship between brain, sleeping and learning. The article is pretty technical, but two good pieces of information you can grab from it which are benefit for our readers: Learning appears to rejuvenate the brain; and lack of sleep undoes the rejuvenation benefit from learning. Hence it is quite important to take two things seriously everyday: to learn something everyday to keep our… » Continue

January 11 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: brain, learning, sleeping | 1 comment»

Effectiveness of Power Nap

Christopher Ketcham at Men’s Journal has written a article on power nap. In our previous introduction of power nap, polyphasic sleep involves the sleep pattern of 90 minutes. In this article, they have looked into compressing the nap into 20 minutes, by going through first two out of five of sleeping stages:

… Here’s how the power nap works: Sleep comes in five stages that recur cyclically throughout a typical… » Continue

December 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: performance, sleeping | 4 comments»

Steve Pavlina’s Polyphasic Sleep Logs and Results

One of our favorite blogger, Steve, has completed his full 30 days of using polyphasic sleep. Inspired by our post on polyphasic sleep, he has started his polyphasic sleep journey since October. He has experienced his physical adjustment on the first week, mental adjustment on the second and third week, and now he feels highly energetic, high endurance, and gained productivity. Some interesting notes in his final update on… » Continue

November 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: health, log, sleeping | 6 comments»

Alarm clocks are bad: How to wake up and feel better

Recently we have a wave of resources and posts about sleeping, we introduced some posts on polyphasic sleep, the sleep cycle, and an extensive sleeping reference. I highlighted in the sleep reference that alarm maybe harmful for your sleeping cycle. Here is another experience from Vincent Cheung on alarm clock. He suggested that the alarm clock may wake you up even when you are in deep sleep… » Continue

October 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: alarm, sleeping | 3 comments»

The Sleeping Reference

In my on-going quest on sleeping references, there is a great article called Good sleep, good learning, good life on sleeping and how does it relate to learning or creative achievements. First it talks about sleep deprivation in our modern society, then it follows on talking about functions of sleep, and insomnia. Finally it talks about some sleeping related intakes such as alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes. I like… » Continue

October 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: caffeine, insomnia, sleeping | 2 comments»

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