Why taking a mini-break is good for your mind
More than ever, you need to remember to stop and smell the roses – preferably while firing up your neurotransmitters with a change of scenery.
Travel writer, author, and sustainability advocate Nina Karnikowski keeps it light on a hike in the bushland around South Golden Beach in the Byron Shire. Peter Windram
Remember that uplifted, inspired feeling you’d get after a holiday? How it seemed as though anything was possible and that a new you had been born?
Given the times, you may have to think back a bit, but it turns out there’s some fascinating neuroscience behind how and why holidays are good for our health and wellbeing, giving us ample reason to add “take a trip” to the top of the to-do list.
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