Feeling drained? How to recharge and get back to work refreshed? How often do you take a week break? Once in two months, three months, six months or a year? Earlier I had a doctor who used to take a week off once every two months. I could really feel his need for a break from his voice, like a music player running on drained batteries! That sort of thing not only applies to doctors but also to us, medical transcriptionists. You need to give a break to your regular routines at regular intervals to stay healthy, to recharge yourself, to come back and start again rejuvenated, to feel more refreshed than before. You can’t ignore those silent calls given by your mind needing a break. Ours is a stressful job, do you admit? Studies show that stressful jobs may increase the risk of recurrent heart attacks i.e., high tension at work can bring about second and third heart attacks, while other studies have also shown that you are also more likely to have that first heart attack if your work is stressful.
While sleep is a good rejuvenator to keep you pepped daily, a break once in a while especially for a week away from the crowd, dust and all those artificial things of the world would definitely be a refresher to recharge yourself and to bring in a change or rather postpone the possibilities of getting a heart attack.
No laptop, no cell phone and no communication with the rest of the world. A great escape from the heat of around 40 degrees that the plains are now having to have a cool morning breeze of a hill station 6000 feet above mean sea level, a stroll in the jungle, clean spring water to quench your thirst, natural fruits to alleviate hunger, out on a fishing with your kids, story telling to the kids on a campfire, gazing into the sky and counting stars at night lying on a lone boat in a huge lake, oh god what a life it would be!
Though it may turn to be a costly affair for some of you living amidst in the modern man-made forests of steel and cement, I’m going through and enjoying all these starting from Saturday for a five-day break this past weekend, which I had been planning for more than six months now. By the time this post written almost a month ago surfaces up automatically (an option provided by WordPress to schedule a post well in advance) on Raj & Co this Monday, I would have lost myself somewhere in the greenery, deep into the silence of woods, dissolved into the nature, this Memorial weekend.
Returning to nature – can any busiest person on the earth deny such a pleasant, tensionless life, though whatever luxury he/she may be having in the city? Not even a costliest luxuriest cruise can get you this kind of satisfaction. So what is the secret to recharge yourself and get back to work refreshed than before?
The color green has such a mesmerizing effect on your mind that dissolving yourself into it can bring you back more rejuvenated than any artificial revitalizer or rejuvenating pill could do. Lead a joyous life close to nature, no heart attack or heart disease could ever think of reaching you. Being an ardent nature lover, I’ve all those artificial greenery around my workstation to bring my blood pressure down but still they’re artificial, isn’t it? So spoiling myself into the nature, real greenery, recharges me for the next three to four months, and the memoirs and planning the next trip keeps me going for another two months with a healthy mind. How about you? Why don’t try some of my aforesaid suggestions? How do you recharge yourself?
I think the article has some good suggestions. I would suggest that instead of artificial plants you use real plants. They will give off oxygen and are healthier for you as you sit working.
Hey Gail,
That’s a brilliant idea which I would definitely do in a week. Wondering why it didn’t strike me all this time!
Good for you Raj ! Green Green endru alaindhu Karparayin mel yeri overaaga yetti paarthu kaal silip aagi veezhundhupogaamal Meendu varavum !
With all your blessings and prayers, I will. Thank you.
Yup, getting lost in lush green gives you ample oxygen for your body to repair and build up. I remember reading somewhere where it said being there for 9 hours in an air conditioned workplace may be disastrous. Think of 8 additional hours if your bedroom too is air conditioned. All these have to be rectified by being at least for an hour or two outdoors daily preferably in a lush surrounding.