Many of the world's most driven and successful people sleep only 4 to 5 hours per day. Do you really need to sleep 8 or more hours? No, you don't. No one does. Reduce sleep and increase your energy? Have you ever thought of reprogramming your inner sleep clock as a time management tool? Imagine what you'd do with an extra 21 hours in your week!

A "sleep scientist" has come up with some easy to implement techniques for sleeping less, a means of programming your inner time clock for a more energized sleep, so you need less time in bed. Feel more rested, more alert and more energized than you would with the number of hours you're currently sleeping. Yes, you really can increase your energy by decreasing your sleep! Reducing your sleep by 3 hours a night (21 hours a week) is the goal. And it is definitely achievable.

What times of day you feel tired, and how long you sleep, is determined by a number of factors, and some of these factors can be influenced by you to decrease the need for sleep. Once you understand efficient sleeping, these techniques can be utilized to increase the quality of your sleep and at the same time reduce your time spent sleeping.

Are you aware that your body temperature rises and falls during the day and night according to your body clock? Synchronising these temperature changes with your sleeping habits can and does produce remarkable results.

A recent study in Greece showed that working men who had a nap after lunch had a 74% reduced rate of heart attacks over those who did not rest.

We are all subject to stress in one form or another and need to devise ways of reducing and avoiding it.

You will be less subject to stress if you are well rested and eat proper nutritious food. Many fast foods cause your mind and body to become hyperactive and then reverse this rapidly to a considerable down. The best food to eat is dominantly natural carbohydrate of fruit, vegetable, cereals, rice or pasta. This is absorbed slowly and keeps your blood sugar at a good level for a prolonged time.

The body and mind need more short periods of rest than we have been accustomed to allowing ourselves. Even a few minutes total relaxation will refresh you so that you can continue with what you were doing in a much more effective way. You can learn to relax fully and to have a power-nap quite easily in the comfort of your own home.

A power-nap will put you into a refreshing phase of sleep, but not so deep that you wake up feeling even more tired than before you started. A power-nap should last from a couple of minutes up to a maximum of twenty minutes and can be done anywhere - even in the middle of a meeting, as long as you know you have a period that doesn't involve you.

You should relax all the muscles of your body from the top of your head down to your toes. Imagine yourself to be in a warm and comfortable environment that has happy, relaxing memories for you, and gently will yourself in to a relaxing sleep. Say to yourself I am relaxing and drifting gently asleep, and repeat this slowly, and quietly. You will drift off in to a gentle sleep.

This may sound ridiculous and impossible to you but it will come easily with a little training and practice which you will be helped to acquire through the resource box web site.

You will learn to set your own internal alarm clock which will wake you up in the number of minutes you set it at. You will then gradually wake up to a bright sunny day, feeling rejuvenated.

Learn how to relax your body fully, apart from the whole concept of a full power-nap, by relaxing all your muscles from top to toe. This can be done in whole or in part while sitting at your desk or armchair. Loosen up your neck and shoulders, particularly if you are sitting at a computer screen all day. An on-site neck and shoulder massage is a great help in this.

Deep breathing in a confrontational situation will calm you down to be able to argue more rationally and effectively.

You will see more on this, and much more, in the better memory skills web site and you will have the opportunity to keep up to date by registering for the free e-zyne with recent news and the thoughts of others on the whole concept of better memory. This course is written by a family doctor with years of experience who has trained senior management from major international companies, the armed forces and government departments.

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Jet lag is the result of these temperature fluctuations getting out of sync with your sleeping pattern. That's why it takes so long to "readjust" to the new time zone. These revolutionary techniques can even help you beat jet lag!

You may have heard of "power napping". This is one part of the strategy used in this powerful sleep technique. But it's essential to use the power nap correctly. Sleep too long during your power nap, and you'll actually cause damage to your sleep system. But power nap at the right time of the day, and learn how to speed up your body temperature rise afterwards, and you can boost your energy levels and reduce your sleep time dramatically.

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A University of California study, completed in 2002, established that people who sleep less than 8 hours per day actually live longer than those who sleep 8 hours or more. The study was carried out using over 1 million participants, and over a period of some 6 years, and its results are now accepted without question.

Insomnia is a significant problem in the industrialised world. And hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are treated for insomnia with drugs. What you won't be told by the drug companies is that these drugs are producing a very inefficient sleep, so you end up needing more.

This is why you'll wake up feeling groggy, every time you take a sleeping pill, no matter how long you sleep for. Well, guess what? You'll never need another sleeping pill when you understand how to have an energized sleep, and you'll spend less time sleeping as well.

So if you're interested in lengthening your life, exploding your energy, having an extra 21 hours in your week, eliminating insomnia, and beating jetlag, you can! And you can do it by learning how to sleep less and by optimizing your body clock.

(c) 2005, Brigitte Smith

Brigitte Smith has several websites relating to health - both people health and pet health.

The scientifically designed powerful sleep program described in this article has helped thousands of ordinary people and can help you too.

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