Fifteen Healthy Reasons for Taking a Vacation
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Going away on a vacation brings numerous benefits. It refreshes
our enthusiasm, helps us to know ourselves a little better, and
makes us, upon our return home, happier, healthier, and much
more effective in coping with stress. The key to reaping the
benefits of traveling is in the going away. Hardly anyone reaps
a benefit from spending a vacation time at home to work around
the house.
Want a reason or two to go away on vacation? Here are fifteen:
* 1. Relaxation: Vacations break our day-to-day routine.
* 2. Stimulation of new sights: New sights give us new
insights.
* 3. Meeting new people: Seeing how other people live
broadens our perspective on our own live.
* 4. Fellowship and camaraderie: Shared hardships and
good times form long-lasting bonds of love and friendship.
* 5. Education: We learn new skills and activities.
Remember when you picked your first farm-fresh fruit or
vegetable, climbed a mountain, learned a new language?
* 6. Adventure: Travel returns a sense of adventure to
our life and improves our self-esteem when we accept and conquer
challenges that don't exist in our routine life.
* 7. Surprise: It is the unexpected surprises in life
that give us some of our fondest memories.
* 8. Beauty: When we open our eyes and take in new
sights, we begin to tune into the majesty of nature.
* 9. Anticipation: The planning and preparation give us
some of the most pleasurable experiences we can recall. * 10.
Memories: We'll always have the joy of reflecting on our
pleasant memories.
* 11. Freedom: A vacation gives us the freedom to do what
we want to do. Even if we are generally satisfied, we may yearn
for something more.
* 12. Self-discovery: In letting our soul talk to us, we
develop our inner peace, creativity, and harmony.
* 13. Appreciation of things taken for granted: When we
get home, we will get more out of life. We will notice the
miracles where we live.
* 14. Time stands still: The best part is when we get
completely lost in the moment.
* 15. Happiness: Constructive use of leisure time makes
us happier people. The major goal of a vacation is happiness.
Now you have no excuse for not taking a vacation away from home.
Or, do you? The choice is yours!
Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone
wins. When you don't, we all lose.