What Vacation Meant for Healthy Life?

A break from everything is much needed to everyone in a while. The amount of stuff we’ve got to handle on a regular basis between work, family, friends, and finances, we need for self-care. Vacations are more than just a change of scenery. Many Experts believe that the break from work provides benefits to both your physical and mental health and includes a longer life.

Health Benefits of Vacations:

Stress Reduction:

A study by the American Psychological Association stated that, vacations are to diminish stress by expelling people from activities and environments that generally tend to be sources of stress. They have fewer physical ailments such as headaches and backaches. Neural connections that produce feelings of calm and peacefulness become weak and make more difficult to shift into less-stressed modes.

Cardiovascular Risk:

Studies show an increased risk of heart attack happens even for people who skip just one year of vacation. Stress management is a key to reducing cardiovascular risk and upping longevity in the long run. Recent study shows, men who take frequent annual vacations were 21 % less likely to die from any cause and were 32 % more likely to die from heart disease.

Improved Productivity:

If we consider another study regarding the importance of vacation for employees, then it shows, if each additional 10 hours of vacation employees took, their year-end performance ratings improved 8 %, and frequent vacationers also were significantly less likely to leave the firm and significantly more productive than those who spent more time working.

Better Sleep:

Vacations can help interrupt the habits that disrupt the sleep, such as working late into the night or viewing an illuminated screen before bed. If you have stress from work and you find that your sleep is disrupted because of anxiety or tension, then you should take time off and learn to reset your sleep pattern.

How to Plan a Vacation?

•        Start pre-planning of your journey and keep it simple.
•        Leave a specific out-of-office message.
•        Take more photos and videos for life long memories.

To participate at ''2nd Annual Conference on Pediatric Nursing and Healthcare'' at Dubai Click Here