How to unplug on vacation

• Relax and don't fill your summer days with commitments.
• Try to sleep long and well
• Remove any shadows that might stress you
• Also choose challenging, regenerating, and fun sports activities. But don't overdo it.
• Don't make too many plans and don't always think about what awaits you after the holidays. Enjoy the present.
• Cultivate good company, and the conversazione light
• Take your time, if necessary, for everything. You don't have a schedule, with deadlines, to meet.
• Don't be upset by unexpected events. They're part of the holidays.
• Read on a lot, especially the classics: it provides well-being and pleasure
• Do a digital detox and minimize the time spent in front of any electronic device.
• Turn off the television

Read and keep to unplug

This new mass pathology is of equal and opposite sign to the long wave in which we were immersed before the coronavirus disaster, the wave of presentism, of the breathless and frantic pursuit of "now and now." The energy is opposite, yesterday at a thousand revs, today everything slowed down in the limbo of suspension, but the effect is the same: more stress., more anxiety, And a unsustainable quality of life.

The importance of unplugging

Speed, efficiency, productivity, optimization. These are the watchwords of modern society, which too often does not contemplate the sacrosanct possibility of a breakWe have transformed ourselves into men and women always on alert, twenty-four hours a day, with smartphones in use, emails flooding in and to which we feel the need to respond immediately, dinners consumed in front of the computer. Without a word, a touch, with those at our table. Yet each of us needs to unplug. And it's a physiological need, not a kind concession we give ourselves.

This stressful, and sometimes unnecessary, race for performance, also arises from the trap of technology. In offices, for example, foolish and irresponsible managers do nothing but ask their subordinates to be "available" at all times. Perhaps after long days of work and meetings (another frequent waste of energy and time).

On the contrary, precisely because of the continuous pressures we receive through technological impulses, we have more and more need to unplug. The magazine Harvard Business Review, a sort of gospel for companies, has published a cover story entitled “Collaborative Overload,” in which it denounces the risk of nervous exhaustion for employees subjected to the stress of performance anxiety.

Why it's important to unplug

And some companies are taking action. By reducing meeting time, even online, and prohibiting the use of any electronic device, therefore also PCs and cell phones, outside of working hours. But it's not enough. These are rules, in reality we first need our own effort of self-discipline, the awareness of the need to unplug. Even through small gestures, like a walk, a leisurely break to pursue a passion, a ritual to do something fulfilling. Without rest, without unplugging, the brain empties. And it risks malfunctioning, despite all our good will. "Relax, collect yourself, banish every thought. Let the world around you fade into indistinctness," wrote Italo Calvino, the writer who taught us the value of lightness.

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