Owning your own holiday cottage is like owning your own mindfulness retreat
We’re all more mindful of mindfulness now. We all need to ‘get away from it all’, and yet so many holidays create stress rather than reduce it.
Take a look at these 5 great reasons on why owning your own holiday home is good for mindfulness.
1. A HOLIDAY HOMES MEANS YOU CAN Set your own pace in your own place
A holiday at your own holiday home can remove the stress zones.
You know where the stress zones are; they start in your own home with the planning, online searches, reviews to read and paperwork to sort. And they develop into even more stressful situations as you drive to the airport, checking on the way to see if the flight is still scheduled, and into the hassle of the gate and the departure. Why do it?
Be more mindful of your need to de-stress and be kinder to yourself and your family and invest in owning your own UK holiday home. Because with your own holiday home in the UK, you simply pull together a few things you need and set off at your own pace to drive to your own place.
Mablethorpe Chalet Park, Lincolnshire
2. YOU KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WITH YOUR OWN HOLIDAY HOME
Deal with high expectations; don’t let them make you low.
We don’t always realise it, but dealing with high expectations is a very real cause of stress. That next target, that next goal at work, that next plan for upgrading your home—they're all forcing you to live up to high expectations. And then you book a holiday and fret for months that the journey, the resort and the hotel will live up to your high expectations! You could stop putting yourself through that stress.
When you own your own UK seaside cottage or caravan holiday home , you shape your holiday into what you want it to be. The expectations don’t change or make more demands on you with every trip. You set off knowing that your place will be there, as welcoming and friendly as always. You arrive knowing that everything is going to be fine, just fine.
3. YOUR OWN Holiday HOME MEANS YOUR OWN KITCHEN
Think self-care, not self-catering.
No matter how much we all like to be waited on, somehow a hotel or a package holiday can make you feel that you have to stick to the rules. Somehow there’s a structure, a feeling that there’s a timetable to obey. And no matter how wide or varied the choice, somehow it’s their choice of food. Not yours.
When you own your own UK holiday home, you’re so much more in control of what you eat and when you eat it. Cooking for yourselves is, when it’s not an end-of workday necessity, therapeutic in itself. Or, deciding to eat out for lunch one day and dinner the next is a treat. And it’s on your terms.
Managing what you eat is another bonus. Who doesn’t like that extra ice cream, that tempting dessert, when you’re on holiday? But who likes those extra pounds when you get home?
Choosing and cooking your food, or eating out where and when you choose, can all feed into a mindfulness-conscious holiday. And where better to do that than in your own UK holiday home?
With a holiday home at Caldecott Hall Country Park, you can take advantage of the excellent facilities onsite.
4. THERE’S LESS NEED TO ORGANISE WITH YOUR OWN HOLIDAY HOME
Stop working at it; play instead.
Even when you’ve stopped working, getting ready to go on holiday can still require serious logistical and organisational skills. Does anything get done without a list? The fact is, getting ready to go on holiday can feel like work. And sometimes, (are you the one they all rely on to organise stuff?) even being on holiday can be a bit like organising an event, so stop working at it.
Don’t waste time with work, make time to play. If it’s an impromptu kickabout or simply sitting down to play a board game - do it. You’re allowed. It’s good for you.
One of the great things about owning your own UK holiday home is that you can do what you want, when you want. Everything is just where you left it from last time. Holidays are about charging your batteries, and playing instead of working does that like nothing else.
5. YOU CAN TRULY RELAX IN YOUR OWN HOLIDAY HOME
Sometimes just sit. Because you can.
When it comes to mindfulness, one of the easiest and simplest, yet seriously beneficial, things you can do is to just take some time to sit. Sit and read. Sit and meditate. Sit and talk. It’s all about taking the time to stop and rest.
In your own seaside holiday home, you have the space and the time to do that. Be mindful of your own need to recuperate and you’ll find that you feel better about yourself. You’ll be happier. And the happiness will spread.
Five simple ideas - about pace, expectations, self-care, play and just sitting for a while all add up to mindfulness that can help you make so much more of life. They all add up to a way of looking at how to think about holidays.
Investing in your own UK holiday home is like having your own mindfulness retreat. It gives you the time and space to be more mindful. The time and space to spend time well. The time and the space to be well.
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