If your rest style doesn't bring you these things, then no matter how relaxed the names of these activities sound and how tall they look, it is a mistake. Abandon them and rest the revolution!
First of all, let's see what misunderstandings we have about rest:
■ Mental workers, it is useless to make up for a nap.
You wrote a copy all day and presided over a meeting all day. When it was all over, you sighed: I'm so tired. I want to have a good sleep this day. Our common sense makes our first reaction to fatigue "to lie down". But it's a trap.
Sleep is indeed an effective way to rest, but it is mainly suitable for people who lack sleep or manual workers. For manual workers, "fatigue" is mainly due to the production of a large number of acidic substances in the body. If you are tired, you should have a quiet rest. Through sleep, you can replenish lost energy and get rid of accumulated waste. If you are not very tired, you can lie in bed first, close your eyes and rest, so that your muscles and nerves can relax completely before you get up and move.
However, if you work in an office, the cerebral cortex is extremely excited, but the body is in a state of low excitement. Sleep has little effect on dealing with this kind of fatigue (unless you stay up late and work overtime, even the normal sleep time can't be reached), because what you need is not to recover your physical strength through "stillness", but to find something to relax your nerves. In this way, you can understand why you are still listless when you don't go out for two days on weekends, but you only need to swim for half an hour after work to glow.
■ Don't stop, just change.
Since sleep can't help us rest our brains, what can we do? The answer is not to stop the activity, but to change the content of the activity. More than1000 billion neurons in the cerebral cortex have different functions. They are arranged and combined in different ways to form different joint functional areas. When one area is active, another area will rest. Therefore, by changing the content of activities, different areas of the brain can be rested. Psychophysiologist Serginov did an experiment. In order to eliminate the fatigue of his right hand, he adopted two ways-one is to keep his hands still, the other is to let his left hand move properly when his right hand is still, and then test the grip strength of his right hand on a fatigue tester. The results show that the fatigue of the right hand is eliminated faster when the left hand moves. This proves that changing the content of people's activities is indeed a positive way to rest.
For example, if you wrote a business plan for five hours on Friday, you'd better trim the potted plants the next day instead of sleeping in the sun and drying your ass. one