The perfect plan to avoid stress
LUXURY ACCOMMODATION
The first thing is to choose a place to stay that is far from the noise of the city and where there is nothing, or almost nothing, that reminds you of work. So the more into nature you are, the better. As an example we propose a place like the exclusive farm The Nava del Barranco , lost in the fields of Castilla - La Mancha, almost on the border with Jaén.
The rent for the entire complex for one day is around €60,000 and it is perfect for what we are looking for: the job detox.
Without going any further, renowned and posh international personalities have relaxed in this environment, from Carolina de Monaco, the sheikha of Qatar or the King Emeritus Juan Carlos himself , in addition to numerous private entrepreneurs who drop by from time to time.
And is not for less: private hunting estate of more than 2,000 square meters , with twelve luxury rooms, private landing strip, swimming pool, spa... and the possibility of practicing all kinds of activities: from balloon rides to quad rides around the estate.
Lunch at the countryside
A BIT OF MINDFULNESS
Afterwards, sport and meditation . Because when one wants to get lost and get away from something, contradictorily, it is very good to try to find oneself. It is what has been a journey towards our inner self to ask 'what's going on? which problem you have?' and try to solve it with no more medicine than what we have in our brains.
That is what mindfulness does, very briefly, a therapy that is becoming very fashionable lately -precisely because of the rise in stress-. Although its practice goes back years: it emerged more than 2,500 years in India, but it was in the 1970s when it reached the West - the first medical center was opened in Massachusetts -. And since then, it has not stopped growing as a technique to improve people's quality of life.
This is explained very well by the teacher Alejandra Vallejo-Nágera , who went from practicing it on her own skin to teaching classes. And almost 20 years have passed. Well, she confirms that with sessions of ten minutes a day, perfectly compatible with an environment like the one that offers a getaway to the countryside or the mountains like the one we propose, our biological age can be reduced by up to seven years.
So it's worth taking the time -you don't need anything more than to lie down, with your back straight and your legs stretched out- and try to connect with our inner self and our emotions to begin to locate our sources of suffering. Doing it in a quiet, peaceful environment where you don't have to worry about anything other than enjoying yourself helps a lot, of course.
Mindfulness: free your mind, connect with space
YOU LIKE DRIVING?
Very important also conveyance . Many people suffer, and therefore suffer stress, just thinking about having to get on a plane, right?
Well, there is also a remedy for this in the case of this getaway to the countryside for which it is not necessary to leave the peninsula : travel by car. Of course, it is not worth choosing any car. The ideal is to do it in one of those that They look like something out of the not too distant future. and that they have come to make life more bearable for us on four wheels.
What has been one of those allroad that as soon as you can use it to move around the center of Madrid or to hide in the fields of Castile after traveling kilometers on dirt roads -if we were talking about a garment, it would be the equivalent of 'elegant but informal', so that we understand each other-
Of those that are equipped with the most cutting-edge technologies , and I'm not just referring to the GPS or the radar that detects obstacles and makes the car stop, which is also -by the way, very appropriate if you travel through the mountains-, but to seats that massage you from the cervical to the lumbar throughout the journey if you wish, as is the case with the new Peugeot SUVs without going further. Wow, it makes you want the journey to never end, even though you know that what awaits at the end of the road is even better. A) Yes, who said stress?
The Nava del Barranco