DGUtley
10-06-2020, 09:17 AM
After more than a century with an image problem, napping is getting a rebrand, courtesy of the U.S. Army. Many of our perceptions of naps—and the kind of people who take them—go back to Victorian times, when women were seen as physiologicallyweak and frail (https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/exhibits/quackery/quack4.html) and prone to fainting, requiring periods of rest and recovery to get through the day. Between the tight corsets and rampant “hysteria” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480686)—a made-up diagnosis for wide range of psychological and physical symptoms associated with “female trouble”—Victorian women were perceived as fragile and childlike, requiring access to chaise lounges and rest cures.
Not only have naps been associated with weakness, but they’ve also been viewed as indulgent or lazy (https://elemental.medium.com/its-a-right-not-a-privilege-the-napping-resistance-movement-54fc147ba32b)—only for those who had the extra time to devote to sleep. So this week, when the Army released the latest version of their Holistic Health and Fitness (https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30714-FM_7-22-000-WEB-1.pdf) manual, the inclusion of what the New York Times refers to as “strategic and aggressive napping” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/army-naps.html)stood out. Here’s what you need to know about the practice.
https://thepoliticalforums.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=70
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3y1XxNaCxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYuq1JmPvI
Not only have naps been associated with weakness, but they’ve also been viewed as indulgent or lazy (https://elemental.medium.com/its-a-right-not-a-privilege-the-napping-resistance-movement-54fc147ba32b)—only for those who had the extra time to devote to sleep. So this week, when the Army released the latest version of their Holistic Health and Fitness (https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30714-FM_7-22-000-WEB-1.pdf) manual, the inclusion of what the New York Times refers to as “strategic and aggressive napping” (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/us/army-naps.html)stood out. Here’s what you need to know about the practice.
https://thepoliticalforums.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=70
31537
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3y1XxNaCxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bYuq1JmPvI