To Keep The Week End Comfortable, Prepare These 5 Things To Enjoy Holidays

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YOGYAKARTA Vacations don't just spend time outside the home or taking a walk. You and your family can enjoy the holidays staying comfortable, but need to set boundaries so they don't get under pressure or even feel bored. According to the American Pschological Association, 38 percent of people surveyed were under pressure during the holidays. Lending Tree reports reported by Psychology Today, Friday, November 3, nearly 50 percent of individuals surveyed experienced concerns about spending ahead of the holidays.

If the holidays should be enjoyed with joy and happiness, don't let worry and pressure make you not enjoy this time. So the advice of New York and Westport-based clinical psychologist Jennifer Guttman, Psy.D., suggests the following.

You have to decide what to do and not do for holidays. This is important with respect to how much money you will spend. It is also important to establish simple things, such as how much food will be purchased, to other things that will be needed on weekends or other long holidays.

Ask yourself about what you like the most from vacations. Also make sure you do it even if it's a simple wish. Guttman's advice, you need to focus on the parts of the holidays you think are special about, so you don't get caught up in a moment that burdens and forgets the parts of the holidays that are important to you.

Make sure you pay attention to yourself. Because vacations can cause emotional stress, loneliness, or feeling burdened with responsibility, make sure you set aside time to take care of yourself. Whether it's 15 minutes a day to stop and take time to decompress your brain. It's important to note, make sure you don't focus on the needs of others.

Vacations can spoil the senses if you try to mindful. Use alerting techniques to pause and enjoy moments. Also enjoy views, smells, and sounds. You also need to realize and slow yourself down a little. The goal is to enjoy the atmosphere around the holidays mentally.

If there are many agendas and tasks that will be carried out on weekends or holidays, you can share tasks with those closest to you and your family. When the responsibility is greater than pleasure, it will make you easily annoyed. So, try to be kind to yourself and it's okay to ask for help or attention from others.

Those are five tips from clinical psychologists on how to deal with holidays and weekends are fun without much pressure.