How To Get Back To Your Routine In Top Shape? Unraveling The Post-vacation Syndrome
Much has been said about Post-Vacation Syndrome, which is nothing more than the process we go through to go from vacation to normality with what it entails.more tiredness, changes in mood, lack of energy and a slightly more pessimistic and dull speech. This process is short-lived and we quickly have the ability to adapt again to what is “normal” for us in our lives.
However, although we all experience a small process of adapting to the routine after the holidays, there are people for whom this same process is longer and more intense. So why can the process be so different from one person to another? What is the difference?
Here, we are going to see both sides of the return to routine. The first is related to what we have just seen in the previous paragraph. It has to do with what happens to us when the holidays are over. Of course, the length of time we have been on vacation has an influence, since it is not the same to return to the routine after a week of vacation as it is after a month. But this whole process begins much earlier, when we are already looking forward to that vacation.
The imperative need that we are creating and that once we achieve it and be able to experience it, we no longer want to give it up and that is why it is so difficult for us to return to a reality that we do not like so much. The question then would be, How is my life that I so strongly need to get out of it in the form of a vacation? How little do I like what I do or what happens in my life that I feel like vacations are the only time where I feel so good?
It is so important to ask ourselves these questions because if my life, within the routine, is satisfactory and I have well-being, we would not have so much desire to run away anxiously for the holidays and therefore, it would not cost us so much to return to this routine. We would enjoy them a lot, of course, creating spaces to discover new things, new places, new experiences, to also rest and enjoy, but from enjoyment and not with anxiety.
How does routine benefit us?
Once we have talked about this point, let’s also talk about the good things about routine and how it helps us with our well-being as well. And routine is our comfort zone, it is where we know how to function well, where we know more or less everything that happens and can happen and we have control over it. There are even people who sometimes verbalize that they are already looking forward to returning to their routine and it has a little to do with this and what comes in the following paragraphs.
Routine organizes us in habits and schedules, something that is sometimes appreciated. If we always lived in improvisation and had to think every day what would happen to that day, it would cause us a lot of wear and tear. In the routine we can introduce many of the things that we like on a regular and continuous basis, we make room for all those things. Routine helps us on the days that are most difficult for us because it simply doesn’t take, we don’t have to do anything extraordinary.
Therefore, if we understand routine as our safe place where we develop, are productive and find the balance between time for ourselves, for the things we enjoy, to dedicate it to other people and working on our well-being, it can be our ally. . If we have the feeling that we live waiting for the holidays, for which there may be months or sometimes a whole year until we can enjoy them again, it is time to stop and review what is happening in my routine.
If I like my routine, within the obligations and responsibilities sometimes, but with other things that compensate, returning to the routine would not be so difficult. Choose one thing, a small thing that is within your reach and that makes your routine a little more enjoyable, a habit, an activity, a new goal. Something very small that could have a big impact on your well-being.
