Monday, 8 August 2016

How to choose your perfect vacation according to your mental state

Unfortunately we had known the Cipriot Summer in Nicosia: 43 degree, the wind is like the air that come out of your oven when you open it, the "cold" water of the shower is like lava. The only way to survive is think about our weekend and our holiday. 

Travel can give us strong psychological benefits and it helps us to be better people but there isn't a „no one-size-fits-all dream holiday”. The type of break everyone should take is strickly linked to our mindset. 

The philosopher Alain de Botton explains this idea in his book, The Art of Travel. De Botton argues that we should ideally have “psychotherapeutic travel agencies” to help us figure out what we want from a holiday. This would help avoid those holidays that fail “in a quiet and essential psychological way”. Lastly, the philosopher offers a list of destinations depending on psychological needs. If you want discover his recommendations, watch this video.


The clinical psychologist Linda Blair, author of “The Key to Calm” says there cannot be a prescribed holiday for everyone. She suggests that those who are stressed should take shorter breaks more frequently, as opposed to one long holiday. “You’ve got to bring down those chronically high cortisol levels as often as possible,” she says. And those with such anxiety should aim to return to familiar destinations, as “all change is stressful, even good change.” Meanwhile, someone who’s just retired might go on a vacation for several weeks. Blair says it takes three weeks to break a habit, and so a long holiday would get the retiree out of the mindset of waking for work at a set time. “You’d come back much better equipped to start fresh,” she adds. 

The travel writer Judie Fein, says that a vacation is not a luxury but a necessity: “Our lives are completely out of balance, and a vacation is an enforced way to change the rhythm of your life, to expose your mind and heart to new things. It gives you some perspective.”

Do you want to know people like you, who love to travel? Do you want to listen and take suggestion from them or share your travel wishes? Passionate travelers is the group for you! Passionate Travelers aim is to gather all the people who have travelling as their passion and who are willing to share their stories with others. On 4th August there was the first meeting, a lot of people from different country (Cyprus, Romania, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, Syria, Poland and Hungary) joined the event.


Each meeting has a specific topic such as North Africa, South Asia, Latin America, etc.. So, if you are interested in discovering a new culture, if you visited these countries, if you lived there or maybe one of them it's your native country, then come! 

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