Take a Nap: 5 Amazing Benefits of Napping - Charlie Morley

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Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Mindvalley's lucid dreaming expert Charlie Morley believes that napping can change the world. So come and learn how taking a siesta can help you sleep deeper, perform better, and actually live longer. In this episode, Charlie shares insightful research on napping from Harvard Medical School, UCLA, and even NASA that proves how powerful daytime sleep can be. Listen out for: - What everyone gets wrong about napping. - 4 real benefits of napping no one’s telling you about. - What naps are the secret tool to getting better at everything in life (but only if you do it right). - The 2 golden rules of napping. - What to do if you have trouble napping. Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration, and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep. He has been lucid dreaming for over 20 years and was “authorized to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by Lama Yeshe Rinpoche in 2008. Since then he has written four books which have been translated into 15 languages and has run workshops & retreats in more than 20 countries. He’s spoken at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Ministry of Defence Mindfulness Symposium, The Houses of Parliament (on Buddhism & youth culture), and the Mindfulness Association Annual conferences. When he’s not working he enjoys Kickboxing, dancing, and pretending to meditate. Bonus: - Explore the fascinating world of lucid dreaming with this FREE time-limited masterclass from Charlie Morley. Click here to watch it now 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/MQDFGV_a - Subscribe to 'Mindvalley Membership' to discover 65+ transformational Mindvalley programs – at a surprisingly low annual fee. You can also watch our podcast sessions live, interact with the guests, connect with the world’s best teachers and find your community here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app. Share this with your friends on Instagram or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am Mission La Chiani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.
0:05.4	You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest
0:08.6	teachers and thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas
0:13.1	and personal growth for my, body, spirit and work.
0:17.7	When I was in my early 20s, I never used to nap, you know, I used to be like, I'm too
0:21.3	busy wanting to change the world, I've got no time for napping.
0:24.4	Now I realize if you really want to change the world, take a nap.
0:27.9	You are better at anything you do after a nap, really, you can really change the world
0:33.0	and change your relationship to people in the world if you can give yourself time to take
0:37.2	a nap.
0:38.2	And before we begin, just the definition of a nap.
0:41.7	So a nap can be defined as any short period of sleep outside of your main monophasic
0:47.4	sleep cycle.
0:48.9	So nowadays in the West, most of us sleep what's called monophasically, which means all
0:53.0	in one big chunk, usually at night.
0:55.3	Now before the industrial revolution, we did not sleep that way.
0:58.0	I mean, the indigenous culture still do not sleep that way, but that's a whole other
1:01.4	talk.
1:02.4	But for now, the final nap has any short period of sleep outside of that main chunk
1:06.5	you have at night.
1:07.5	When I'm talking naps, I'm talking between 20 to 60 minutes of sleep.
1:12.0	In fact, they found you can get improvements from just a five minute nap, but 20 to 60 minutes
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