With a different thinking
and right approach, we might succeed in circumventing both the obstacles and reap all the benefits that comes from a vacation.
- Improve mental power by healing
- Improve productivity & focus
- Rejuvenate body & mind
- Improve physical health
- Improve relationship with people & work
- Improve sleep quality
- Strike the right work-life balance
Research has shown that vacation is an antidote to chronic stress that builds
within us slowly and destroys our body’s ability to protect itself. There are no reasons why we shouldn’t reap the rewards that a successful holiday has to offer utilising the opportunities available at hand.
We can gain the advantages of a vacation through invocation of the “placebo effect”! the remarkable phenomenon that harnesses the power of human brain to cure our body. It may be a form of deceit but that’s how powerful human brain is.
The beneficial effect comes from the expectations concerning
the vacation rather than the vacation itself.
Another tool that can be used complementary or
independently to achieve the effect is “self-talk”. We can self-talk to our
brain and program it to align with the above but the obvious perquisite for
success being our willingness to self-listen. Self-listening is also known as self-awareness.
The concept I am advocating is to use these two tools to
make our minds rethink weekends as mini vacation. Not every weekend but the one
we would simulate to be a vacation.
We shall plan weeks in advance, book a hotel for stay-cation
and gradually built up the tempo. Once the vacation start there will be no
limit to the indulgence as we will be waking up late, spend time at the pool, have late morning brunch, visit a local attraction we have been postponing, go for shopping and the whole nine yards.
After the weekend we shall return home, having enjoyed a well-deserved
vacation albeit mini, fully rejuvenated nevertheless with plenty of photos in
our camera and memories in our minds!
Everyone need a vacation once in a while and everyone can settle
for one!
