Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Beautiful siesta
I've just woken from my siesta and it never ceases to amaze me how wonderful it is to feel refreshed and well slept in the middle of the day. I guess some people experience this each day if they get up at noon, but I'm up at 5.30am.
It's about fifteen years since I started having a siesta and I've never looked back. I probably had siestas before then, but they were unintended as I fell asleep at my desk. When I acknowledged that there was no escape and my low point of the day happened just after lunch, I succumbed to the elderly and wimpish activity of actually purposefully putting my head down. Now I plan it into my daily schedule. It's just that I feel so much better, more alert and able to give my best in the afternoon if I do so and I owe it to all my clients who come after lunch. I've even been known to cut short a lunch meeting in order to get my siesta in before the afternoon clients start arriving.
But I've found recently, by increasing my water intake to around 2-3 litres a day, I am less likely to need a siesta to the same degree than before but having said that I'll still not miss out. Water is so energising and food can be so dehydrating it's important to drink lots. But taking a siesta not only recharges the batteries, it helps reduce the chance of heart disease. It's just a good thing to do.
