| Vacationing isn't something people do because they | | | | for both men and women. Working vacations don't |
| want to get away- they NEED to get away. While | | | | count- make sure you are unplugged or the only |
| many don't know why they have this urge, there | | | | thing you've done is temporarily redecorated your |
| may be a scientific reason for this feeling. There | | | | office. |
| have been several studies showing that the benefits | | | | Of all the reasons to take a vacation, the benefit of |
| of vacationing, or at least breaking our routines, can | | | | re-connecting with your family or someone you care |
| help us understand how this simple act can improve | | | | about is probably the most important one. When we |
| our productivity, our health, and our relationships. | | | | are busy making a living, we sometimes forget how |
| Johan Lehrer of The Atlantic wrote about several | | | | to LIVE. Schedules that keep us separated and |
| experiments done by psychologists at the Indiana | | | | distracted can cause us to drift apart on a personal |
| University that showed people who tried to resolve a | | | | level. Vacations remove the distractions that we |
| problem that they were close to- physically, | | | | allow in our lives so that we can re-connect and bond |
| emotionally or even temporally- contemplate the | | | | with each other again. How many of us feel that our |
| problem in a more confined manner. Our problem | | | | kids, spouse or partner have changed or grown apart |
| solving creativity is confined by the limits we place | | | | from us? Vacationing allows us to refresh |
| around ourselves in our everyday life. When we | | | | relationships and repair the foundations that they are |
| travel, we remove ourselves from the unconscious | | | | all built on by creating new memories. It gives us the |
| boundaries that we have in place. | | | | opportunity to enjoy the people we care about in an |
| By "relaxing our mind", we open it up to other | | | | environment where you have to rely on each other |
| possibilities that we were unable to see due to the | | | | while you are away from your normal support group. |
| distractions of our daily routines and environments | | | | Like being on a deserted island, you end up having to |
| which, along with the stress reduction benefit, | | | | turn to each other to handle issues that may come |
| increases our productivity. | | | | up which can help you re-bond with those you care |
| The health benefits of vacationing have been widely | | | | about. |
| reported and the evidence shows there is a | | | | You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to take |
| correlation between better health and regular | | | | that vacation. There is a reason, maybe |
| vacationing habits. The Miami Herald reported benefits | | | | sub-consciously, why people don't say "I want to |
| ranging from better sleep patterns and reaction | | | | take a vacation", they say "I NEED to take a |
| times, less tension and depression in women and | | | | vacation". Your body is telling you something- maybe |
| reductions in stress levels and risk of heart disease | | | | you should listen! |