The Benefits of Restorative Vacations

When you're on vacation, if you want that vacation to be truly restorative, the best thing to do is not necessarily to do nothing or to just sit by a pool. Winston Churchill in a wonderful book called painting as a pastime talks about how real relaxation doesn't come from doing nothing at all but rather doing something different. An alternative outlook, a change of atmosphere, a diversion of effort is essential, as he says.