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How to Use NuCalm PowerNap

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Use PowerNap, the world’s most powerful recovery technology for instant stress relief and improved sleep quality with no drugs or side effects. According to research by Dr. CK Peng at Harvard Medical School, PowerNap can provide up to 2 hours of restorative sleep in just 20 minutes. The PowerNap programs are 20 minutes and are predictable, safe, easy to use, reliable, and cumulative. The more you use PowerNap, the healthier your mind and body become. Over time, your immune strength will increase, your stress resilience will increase, and your inflammation will decrease, simply by consistently managing your stress with NuCalm PowerNap.

How to Use PowerNap

PowerNap is an immersive experience. Find a safe, comfortable place to lay down, put on an eye mask and your best headphones, select PowerNap on the NuCalm app, press start, and enjoy a powerful reboot to your mind and energy.

What you need for a PowerNap: an eye mask, headphones, and the NuCalm app

When to Use PowerNap

If you wake up feeling tired, get back into your bed and enjoy PowerNap. During the afternoon, as your energy naturally dips, enjoy PowerNap. You can use PowerNap more than once per day. In fact, you can use PowerNap as many times per day as you wish, it can do no harm. Except, do not use PowerNap within 3 hours of your bedtime because you may feel too energized to fall asleep.

What PowerNap Feels Like

During PowerNap, your mind will wander, your body will feel heavy, your breathing will slow down, and you will lose sense of time. When your mind and body are fully restored, you will simply “come to” where you become aware of your surroundings. Take off your eye mask and headphones, and turn off the program. After PowerNap you will feel calm, grounded, patient, and unbelievably restored to take on the rest of your day.

Use NuCalm in 4 Easy Steps

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1. Find a safe and comfortable place.

2. Put on an eye mask and your favorite headphones.

3. Select any PowerNap program on the NuCalm mobile app and press Start.

4. Lay down and let PowerNap take you into a state of bliss and recovery, where your mind will wander, your body will feel heavy, your breathing will slow down, and you will lose sense of time.

Questions about using PowerNap

How long is a NuCalm PowerNap?

PowerNap programs are 20 minutes long. According to research by Dr. CK Peng at Harvard Medical School, PowerNap can provide up to 2 hours of restorative sleep in that time. NuCalm describes the programs as predictable, safe, easy to use, reliable and cumulative.

When is the best time to use PowerNap?

Use it if you wake up feeling tired, or in the afternoon when your energy naturally dips. You can use PowerNap more than once a day, as many times as you like. The one exception is the 3 hours before bedtime, because you may feel too energized to fall asleep.

What does PowerNap feel like?

Your mind wanders, your body feels heavy, your breathing slows and you lose track of time. When your mind and body are restored, you simply come to and become aware of your surroundings again. Afterward, you should feel calm, grounded, patient and restored for the rest of your day.

Do the benefits of PowerNap build over time?

NuCalm says they do. The more you use PowerNap, the healthier your mind and body become, with immune strength and stress resilience increasing and inflammation decreasing over time as you consistently manage stress with it.

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