We often long for a few more days of rest, a few more days of vacation, but often the more rest the more tired we feel. Why? Perhaps we have a misunderstanding of rest, so let’s re-examine what rest is. Why do you still feel tired after 11 hours of sleep? Why do you spend tens of thousands of dollars to go to the island vacation and did not increase the enthusiasm for life? They say to go to KTV, nightclubs, and amusement parks to forget the unhappiness and start a new day more energetically, but when you return from the fun, there is only emptiness in your heart? Do we really understand the meaning of rest? Are we resting right? What do you understand by rest? A full night’s sleep? A bout of crazy fun? A burp after a meal at a karaoke bar? What is the real meaning of rest? It’s about recovering from fatigue, relaxing your nerves, and feeling like a new, energetic person when you get back to work and school. If your breaks don’t do that for you, then, no matter how relaxing the name of these activities sounds and how high they look, it’s a mistake. Ditch them and have a rest revolution! First, let’s see what misconceptions we have about rest A. Brainiacs, catching up on sleep is of little use to you You’ve written a day’s worth of copy, chaired a day’s worth of meetings, and when it’s all over, you sigh to: Too tired, I’m going to get a good night’s sleep this day. Our common sense makes our first reaction to fatigue is to “go lie down. But this is a trap. Sleep is indeed an effective form of rest, but it applies mainly to sleep-deprived or manual workers. For manual workers, “fatigue” is mainly caused by the production of large amounts of acid in the body, so if you are very tired, you should take a quiet rest. By sleeping, the lost energy can be replenished and the accumulated wastes can be eliminated. If you are not very tired, you can also lie down in bed first, close your eyes and rest, so that the whole body muscles and nerves completely relaxed, and then get up and move around. But if you are sitting in the office, the cerebral cortex is extremely excited, while the body is in a state of low arousal, treat this fatigue, sleep can play a small role, (unless you are working late at night, even the normal sleep time can not reach) because you need not through the “rest” to restore physical fitness, but to find something to relax the nerves down. So you can understand why you do not go out on weekends for two days still lethargic, but only after work to swim for half an hour to look good. Second, do not have to stop, just change Since sleep does not help us rest the brain, what can be? The answer is not to stop the activity, but only to change the content of the activity. More than 10 billion nerve cells in the cerebral cortex, all different functions, they are arranged in different ways to combine into different joint functional areas, this area of activity, another area to rest. So, by changing the content of the activity, you can make different areas of the brain to get rest. Psychophysiologist Shechenov did an experiment, in order to eliminate the fatigue of the right hand, he took two ways – one is to let both hands rest at rest, and the other is to let the left hand move properly while the right hand is at rest, and then test the grip strength of the right hand on a fatigue measuring device. The results showed that the fatigue of the right hand was eliminated more quickly with the left hand active. This proves that changing the content of one’s activities is indeed a positive way to rest. For example, if you write a five-hour project on Friday, it is better to cut your potted plants the next day instead of sleeping until the sun is up. Another point is that when you can’t choose to switch from mental to physical work, you might as well switch within mental work. Rousseau, the outstanding French Enlightenment thinker, told his insights: “I was not born a man fit to study, because I felt tired after working a little longer, and I couldn’t even concentrate on a problem for half an hour in a row. However, I studied several different problems in succession, even without interruption, and I was able to pursue them one by one with ease and pleasure, and this one problem could eliminate the fatigue caused by the other, without resting my brain. So, I made full use of this feature I had discovered in my study, and alternated the study of some problems. In this way, I do not feel tired even if I use my work all day.” So, if you have several problems to deal with on this day, it is better to alternate them than to deal with one and then start the second one, which will be exhausted quickly. Third, the best rest, is to let you rekindle the enthusiasm for life Our tiredness mainly comes from the existing layer of the same life of boredom. So the best rest program is those activities that allow us to rediscover our passion for life and work. If you can finish something and happily exclaim, “Tomorrow is a new day.” Then this is the best way for you to restore enthusiasm and regulate your emotions. But unfortunately, we lack the imagination to “rest”. The rest we can think of is either sleeping or playing silly. We have given you the following list of activities, the basic idea is to “do” to solve the “tired”, with positive rest instead of negative indulgence. Of course, the most suitable method for you to explore yourself. In fact if you think cleaning is a better way to relax than riding a roller coaster, then go for it, never mind what the rest of the world is playing. Maybe you can: 1, read two hours of comics or novels that make you happy instead of going to KTV and singing the same old catchy songs. 2, try to give up going to the bar on Saturday night, go to bed at 10 o’clock, and then get up at 7 o’clock, go for a walk on the street without people, or see the morning theater you never had the opportunity to see, you will find that this day can be different from the past millions of weekends are different. 3, stop going to the resort you’ve been to countless times to find fun. Find a street you you’ve never been to and walk it through. You will find that the city you feel bored with turns out you do not fully appreciate its wonders. 4, travel, not a new place to spend time. Go to a place to be curious about the place itself, to be beautiful about their trip, to feel their own experience outside the scope of the life look. Not a 5-hour plane ride, just a different place to play mahjong, a different place to swim, a different place to play ball …… 5, from this weekend to learn a new skill, such as playing the electronic piano, playing the drums …… every weekend to practice more than 1 hour. 6.Go social. Don’t think it’s always exhausting. Although it is slightly nerve-wracking compared to reading a book, it can also make you more excited and more identified. You must have two or three days a week is to deal with people outside your work circle and relatives. It keeps you from losing your lively nature in the mechanical running of the 9 to 5. Women especially need to go out and meet with friends, these moments you are no longer full of “efficiency” written on the face of the neutral, but a skirt flying glamorous focus. 7, do something difficult, if you are super nervous people. Psychologists have found that the way to release nervousness is to deal with the problem that requires nervousness to solve. Once a general manager who was about to have a nervous breakdown found a physician to give treatment advice, and he ended up getting a prescription to go to the zoo as a lion tamer. He made a full recovery a month later. So when you are particularly stressed you can find yourself another job, but not one that is similar to your profession. For example, volunteer at an orphanage, or start an apprenticeship at a complex mechanical plant, or do a super complex math problem. Often people who value life will go for a break at any cost. Take a break for ten days, half a month, and they come back. And look again, what an amazing change! They are simply a newborn person now. Vibrant, full of energy, with new hopes, new plans, new visions of life, they have eliminated fatigue, gaining the momentum of a new start – the fuel. Spending some time to rest can give you a lot of energy and strength, so that you can get the strength to do any work, to cope with all kinds of problems, so that you can have a pleasant and correct understanding of life, and can there be any other investment of time in the world that is more beneficial to you? When I hear someone say that he is too busy to rest, I think this person is a bit perverse. Either he is not competent enough to handle his business, his work lacks systematization; or he is not good at dominating his staff so that his business cannot run when he leaves; or he is too mean by nature and has no minions or team. He refuses to sacrifice even the time to go to the bathroom. Of course, if he works without a plan, without a system, once he leaves his post, all affairs will not work, he naturally can not rest. But if he is a person with the ability to organize and coordinate, if his work fraud has a system, a plan, a moderate rest, which is a favorable investment in business, because the rest back, his energy will be more focused, full of spirit will be more. As a result, his life will last longer. The value of life can be more fully reflected and played. Each person should abandon the idea of working without regard to rest. The concept of “life is more than a struggle” is wrong and should be eliminated from your mind immediately. Otherwise, you have not finished the journey of life you should take and you will be sleeping in the ground. By then, your ideal, future, career will not be a bubble? Therefore, a person who can’t spare time to rest is definitely not a smart person. From the standpoint of human nature, the matter of rest, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. As the old saying goes, “When you’re sick, everyone is a bad person.” Even the kindest person at heart can become unreasonable and grumpy when his body is exhausted and his spirit is weakened. Therefore, when it is time to rest, you should rest. Otherwise, you are behaving as the revolutionary teacher Comrade Lenin pointed out: “If you can’t rest, you can’t work.” At present, whether you are a student or a man, woman or child engaged in various occupations, you cannot ignore the warning of nature ordering you to properly extend your rest time and temporarily stop your study or work, otherwise you will be severely punished by the laws of nature. No matter how high your status, how much money you have, or whether you are a commoner, you are all equal in front of life. This is the power given by God to the natural judge. It is the law of nature that man cannot change. There is a feeling we call it boredom, and these days inadvertently I am experiencing boredom. The rhythm of years and years of busyness has created a stubborn, ridiculous biorhythm, which always makes me unable to enjoy a little peace and quiet when resting, always feel what is missing in life, nothing to do, and even thought I knew what is empty? The other day I happened to read an article and learned for the first time that there is another expression called “enjoying boredom”. Traditional education warns us that “boredom” is a negative emotion that a motivated person should never have, and should not even leave himself open to such emotions. Carrying too much responsibility, so we live so tired, the crown said pressure from the outside world, but I think more pressure is our own, because in this pressure-filled society we have not learned to decompress themselves. Look at those people lying quietly on the beach vacation, we should know that boredom is a rare realm, perhaps more rare than dedicated, diligent work. Because it requires you to have a good mind, long-term vision, to accept it first, let your mind quiet, and then you will really enjoy it. It is never a kind of decadence, it is a kind of rest, a kind of accumulation, it will let us quit the addiction of “only work”. Someone told us a long time ago: people who can’t rest can’t work. But we have long forgotten this statement due to utilitarian reasons. So we are busy, we work hard, so we are also afraid of boredom, afraid of nothing to do, and even because of leisure and almost panic. Work should not be the whole of life, work is only for a better life. We should be the master of work, never the slave of work. Never think that boredom is negative and unprofessional. So busy people should learn to enjoy life, to get used to feeling boredom, to get used to this new and wonderful feeling! Take it easy and have fun!