Anna Pecherkina: Do Not Be Distracted from Your Vacation

09:00, July 16, 2024

A psychologist told why you should go on vacation and how to do it right

Most people traditionally associate summer with vacation. However, half of the summer has passed, but many people have not been on holiday yet, and some are not going to. As Anna Pechurkina, psychologist and Head of the Department of Psychology at UrFU, explains, the attitude to workaholism is wrong. From the point of view of psychology, every person needs a vacation to restore both psychological and physiological resources.

In order not to miss the summer and spend the remaining 1.5 months with maximum benefit, the psychologist recommends a few rules of rest. As Pecherkina explains, the recommendations are worth paying attention to, but it should be remembered that their implementation is individual for each person.

"Firstly, it is worth remembering that the best rest is a change of activity. If your daily activities involve a lot of intellectual work, then you should prioritize physical activities in your rest, and vice versa. While resting, do what you like. If you need physical activity for your vacation, but no sport makes you want to do it immediately, then find a physical activity that suits you. For example, walking outdoors in the nearest park. After all, walking is a great way to exercise," explains Anna Pecherkina.

Planning a vacation should be planned so that it does not turn out that the vacation came, and you do not know how to take this time, reminds the psychologist. You can not always get satisfaction from it if you start to choose a place and method of rest in a hurry. In addition, the planning itself already triggers the process of vacation.

"Try not to be distracted from your vacation. With the development of digital technology, it can be difficult to do so. After all, even after going on vacation, a person is almost always in touch. In this case, you can warn your colleagues about the time of your return, thus drawing a line between work and vacation," the expert reminds us.

Pecherkina advises to try something new while on vacation. Firstly, any new thing brings new positive emotions into your life. And secondly, by mastering new things, you form new neural connections and thus increase your chances for active and productive longevity.

"And remember that the time allotted for rest is a necessity and a natural need of every person, aimed at replenishing their resource state, preserving psychological health and well-being," concludes the psychologist.

Grigory Polyakov

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office.
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