PREPARED BY:
KEELY SHAYE C. PARANGUE
IMPORTNCE OF
Leisure time activities can include playing an indoor game, listening to music, taking a walk in the
park, playing with your children or pets, social dancing, aerobics or a work-out in the gym. Engaging
yourself in some kind of recreational activity that excites you is the best way to bring down unwanted
worries, tensions, and stress and you feel happier and healthier.
RECREATIONAL
Physical Benefits of Recreation
Taking part in recreational activities, especially outdoors, can greatly improve physical health. People who take part in park
activities such as walking, hiking, or skiing, schedule fewer office visits, maintain lower body fat percentages, and have lower
blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Mental Health Improvements
ACTIVITY
Mental wellness is critical to overall physical health. Participating in recreational activities helps manage stress. Taking time to
nurture oneself provides a sense of balance and self-esteem, which can directly reduce anxiety and depression.
Improving the Quality of your Life
It’s all about balance. Finding a way to balance the pressures of work and family with physical and mental wellbeing is important.
People who make recreation a priority are more likely to feel satisfied with their lives overall, according to an American
Recreation Coalition Study, 2000. In fact, 90 percent of respondents who said they participate in regular, outdoor recreation
reported satisfaction with their overall lives. Contrast that to 60 percent life satisfaction for respondents who do not regularly
recreate outdoors. It’s clear that simply going outdoors and moving your body is a direct way to a happier, healthier you.
ADVANTAGE
DISADVANTAGE
ADVANTAGE
DISADVANTAGE
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Stronger bonds with family
There are many activities that a family can enjoy doing together on a daily basis. It could be anything like a
board game, or table tennis that you play indoors, or outdoor games like badminton, or volleyball or
watching a movie, or a walk or jog in the park or playing with pets. Setting apart time to engage in leisure
time activities with your family is one of the best ways to bring down stress and unwanted worries. This also
builds stronger bonds among the members of the family. The care, attention, and security that you get
within your family will help you decide how happy you are. This will, in turn, add to your overall health and
well-being.
Reduced levels of anxiety and stress
Having a calm and clear mind is important for any person to function normally. Your mental well-being
decides on how well you perform each day and how successful you are. People who continue to work like a
machine each and every day with no recreational activities are likely to be stressed and drained out in no
time and this will stop them from achieving their plans and goals. Engaging in recreational activities with
your friends and loved ones on a regular basis will bring down tensions and stress and help you maintain a
proper balance in your lives.
Makes you healthy and fit
Engaging in recreational activities like a walk, jog, aerobics, a favorite sport, dance or regular workouts on a
daily basis helps you stay physically strong, fit and healthy. This is good for removing sluggishness, prevents
unwanted diseases, gives you better levels of concentration and helps you stay focused. Your blood results
are likely to stay within the normal range and you can cut down on the number of visits to your doctor.
Better levels of motivation and self-esteem
Participating in leisure time activities on a regular basis not just helps you stay focused and happy. It
improves your level of confidence and self-esteem. You feel strongly motivated to perform to the best of
your ability.
Quality of your life
Recreational and leisure time activities help you to attain a proper balance in your lives. This brings about a
level of contentment in your life and you feel totally free of unwanted worries and stress. This, in turn, helps
a person to perform better and be successful. Thus the overall quality of your life is improved.
Increased levels of productivity ensuring successful lives
Participating in recreational or leisure time activities on a regular basis gives a person a better level of
confidence, good memory, emotional and mental stability, optimism, excellent decision-making skills, and
independence. It’s highly unlikely that they suffer from tension, worries, anxiety, stress, confusion, or anger.
All work and no play will surely make you dull, boring and unproductive. Even if we have set apart a time for
leisure in our day to day lives, most of the time it gets pushed to a day off from work. You need to maintain a
perfect balance between work, recreational activities and rest to be physically and mentally fit and to be
fruitful and successful in life.
