Connections to Health - Why We are Taking a Four-Week Holiday

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CONNECTIONS to HEALTH

Why We are Taking a Four-Week Holiday

A few years ago we read a report which said that if you are using a holiday to de-stress then it takes 21 days for that to happen. What this means is that most people never get through to the other side of their de-stressing before they go back to work. We started having a four-week break and we found that the quality of rest you get on the fourth week is very different to that of the first three weeks.
Instead of having 2 two-week breaks you should be having 1 four-week break if you want to maximise your renewal.

Here's some more information for you by Philip Day of Credence publications.

'One in three British workers fail to take their full annual holiday entitlement, a survey has shown. Instead, they put in 36 million hours of free overtime, giving bosses almost £1 billion in unpaid work every year -'
We must be barking mad. And if we do go on holiday - The survey of nearly 6,000 workers by the Chartered Management Institute found nearly half stay in contact with their employer while they are away.' - Daily Mail, 15th June 2005

No! No! No! No! No!

Behavioural patterns are formed over a 15- to 30-day period through repetition and a state of emotional excitement (what I term the Pavlov Principle). They overwrite over the same period. Few of us take four-week holidays, which is why we still have bats in the belfry. Pavlov's Principle relies on location, repetition and the 30-day conditioning period, so clearing off somewhere nice for a break makes all the sense in the world, especially if we go to play. It must be a geographical break. For four weeks.

Take those who relax you. Leave the kids at home if necessary (straight-jackets are for this). Go forth and frivolate, you've earned it. The first ten days of your four-week re-adjustment are usually spent cussing out Spanish waiters and being generally beastly as the mental puke gushes out. After that, serenity and bliss usually prevail or your travel agent will give you your money back.

Now go and play.
Do not take the laptop or anything connected with work.
Do not ever phone work.
Do not ever tell your boss where he can reach you.
Do not phone home and get stressed.
Tell family to contact you only in an extreme emergency, otherwise sayonara, you'll buy them a tee-shirt.
In fact, lose the Mobile Phone.
Eat raw, living, organic whole-foods.
Exercise (more play).
Behave inappropriately (even more play). It's a holiday.
Don't burn, but do get some sun. You need the vitamin D.
Dreaming comes easier with a magenta sunset and a Mai-Tai.
These are the times of refreshing and inspiration. Get refreshed, sunshine.

DIRE WARNING: THOSE WHO DON'T TAKE HOLIDAYS ARE TREASURING UP FOR THEMSELVES WRATH FOR THE FUTURE. YOU SELF-EMPLOYED ARE THE WORST FOR THIS.

IN FACT…

STRESS
I am not sure exactly how it works, but this is amazingly accurate.

Read the following full description before looking at the picture.

The picture below has 2 identical dolphins in it. It was used in a case study on stress levels at St. Mary's Hospital. Look at both dolphins jumping out of the water. The dolphins are identical. A closely monitored, scientific study revealed that, in spite of the fact that the dolphins are identical; a person under stress would find differences in the two dolphins. The more differences a person finds between the dolphins, the more stress that person is experiencing.

Look at the photograph and if you find more than one or two differences, YOU NEED TO TAKE A HOLIDAY.

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