How to take a nap to have a better rest depends on one's actual situation. If you are at home, if possible, you'd better sleep on the bed or sofa, especially for the elderly. Winter is another matter. The nights are long in winter, so you can go to bed early at night and get up late in the morning. You don't have to go to bed for a nap at noon. You just need to rest on a chair, sofa or bench to rest your mind. Otherwise, it is easy to catch cold if you don't take off your clothes.

■ Office workers take a nap. For many office workers, most of them can only take a nap in the office at noon, and they can't lie on their desks or lean on sofas or chairs.

● Suggestion: It is best to sleep on the sofa. If there is a sofa, lean back on the chair. Try to straighten your body and keep your head steady. You'd better take off the cover of your coat in case you catch cold.

● Precautions: Especially in summer, in the office, you must never take a nap at the air outlet of the air conditioner, but also raise the temperature of the air conditioner or simply turn it off.

Pay attention to protect the stomach when taking a nap in summer. Whether adults or children, no matter how hot the weather is, cover your stomach with clothes. Because in summer, the human body's yang is all outside, and it's very empty inside. If it is not properly protected, the cold outside will take advantage of it and the stomach will easily go wrong.

■ Another kind of "sleeping" method for taking a nap, that is, short lunch break, noisy environment and poor conditions, what should I do? Then sit still for a while, that is, close your eyes. "Nurturing the spirit" is actually nourishing the heart and hiding the spirit in the heart. However, it is not easy to truly realize "repose". It is necessary to calm down the body and mind, relax the whole body, stop all kinds of thinking activities, keep Baihui point on the top of the head or abdomen under the navel, and sit still for more than 10 minutes, so as to achieve the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.

■ Avoid eating irritating food Finally, I want to remind you that if you take a nap after meals (although sleeping before meals is reasonable, most office workers take a nap after lunch), avoid eating and drinking irritating food, such as wine, spicy food, iced drinks, etc. Don't drink tea and coffee that can refresh you. Because these foods are like whips, eating them will only make the body's qi and blood run faster and busier, and people's spirits will be better. Naturally, they can't sleep and calm down, let alone nourish their hearts and soothe their nerves.

■ Avoid taking a nap immediately after meals. It's best to rest for about 10 minutes after lunch, such as walking, then taking a nap or sitting still (if middle-aged and elderly people lie down and sleep, it's best to rest for more than 20 minutes after lunch). Because if you lie down just after eating, a lot of food just reaches the middle of the esophagus, just like a car breaking down in the middle, which is not good for digestion.

■ Avoid exercising immediately after waking up. Another point is not to exercise immediately after waking up. Just like getting up in the morning, it is best to warm up for 4 or 5 minutes first, so that the body's qi and blood and thinking consciousness are "active" before exercising. In fact, taking a nap is equivalent to the process of replenishing "energy" to the body, because the energy needed by the body is not only diet and nutrition, but also mental energy.