Relaxation

A short rest - such as a respite or a dream - is caused by the physical needs of the human body, necessary for its normal functioning.

Music , literature , painting and other forms of art, before becoming the main occupation for a number of people, were relaxation in the stage of entertainment for a person (cave paintings, ritual dances, oral folk art). And today, being a profession for some, these types of art serve as entertainment for others - listeners, spectators, readers. But if constructive or passive pastime is suitable for some people, then for others (especially if vacationers are united in groups), long, aimless relaxation can lead to destruction, aggression, a splash of energy accumulated during the restoration of energy (for example, young guys walked around the village in the evenings looking for with whom to fight).

To avoid the negative consequences of such a long rest, people always tried to organize active and relatively peaceful entertainment. Since time immemorial, entertaining fights or fights have been organized, designed not to hit an opponent, but to show their skills, to train before a real fight. Entertaining fights have always been conducted according to special rules designed to exclude serious injuries and deaths. Antique Olympic Games , Russian fist fights " wall to wall ", knightly tournaments . To this day they continue to exist in the form of sports competitions. Today's world championships, championships and Olympics gather the largest number of spectators around the world, and replace the peoples of the war instead of a surge of aggression.

The historically famous forms of extended rest were collective. The oldest recreational forms of collective recreation can be considered festivities in honor of a successful hunt, conquest of the territory and military victories. They existed already in the Stone Age in the form of dancing by the fire, were further developed in the form of long feasts of antiquity and the Middle Ages - with plentiful food, libations, performances, fireworks and other entertainments. Today's tradition of annually celebrating, for example, Victory Day on May 9, also has its roots in this ancient tradition.

When the development of mankind led to settled agriculture, holidays appeared that were tied to seasonal fluctuations in nature (in honor of the awakening of nature and the beginning of sowing, in honor of harvesting and the like).

The most ancient forms of collective recreation are also holidays and ceremonies of various religious cults. One way or another, all peoples celebrate the birth of a person, the conclusion of a marriage and his death - all these personal events of human life traditionally gather a large number of participants, and sometimes can be celebrated for several days. In addition to private or one-time occasions for festive ceremonies, each religious cult has annual recreational activities for all adherents. Such were the ancient bacchanalia, Slavic carols and Shrovetide festivities, the holidays of the ancient Egyptians and Mayan Indians. Such today are Jewish Shabbat and Yom Kippur (these days it is completely forbidden to work), Muslim Kurban Bayram and Ramadan ( Ramadan ), Christian Easter and Christmas .

If during a religious fasting, military campaign or hard seasonal work there are restrictions on food, drinking fun drinks and mainly leisure and entertainment, then during the holidays following them, the opposite is true: plentiful food, drinking alcohol are welcome but you can’t work or fight. Ancient history knows many examples of how hostilities ceased during religious holidays or the Olympic Games. There are still such holidays, during which even a little stress or occupation is considered punishable (Shabbat among the Jews ). As well as working, during many holidays it is forbidden to be sad and bored.

Duration

• Seconds : brief relaxation.
• Minutes : a break.
• Hours : daily rest, sleep, doing something, attending a concert, tour, holiday, party, watching a movie .
• Days: weekends or holidays, vacation , travel .
• Months: great vacation , great vacation .
• Years and decades: pension

Activity

• Active rest - switching to any activity other than that which caused fatigue (in running, for example, it will be calm walking, in swimming - leisurely movements in the water and the like): sports , tourism , conversation .
• Passive - relative peace, lack of active motor activity): sleeping , relaxing, watching a movie, taking a bath, getting a tan in a solarium or on the beach and so on.
• Mixed: amateur hunting , recreational fishing .

Composition of vacationers

• Collective (a group of friends, colleagues at school or work, like-minded people with similar interests and hobbies, family vacations and the like);
• Individual: sometimes you need to relax from everyone;
• Doubles: romantic .

• Free time
• Hobby

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