A Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
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A Simple Dutch Cure for Stress
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#2This is why people motorcycle as well, fwiw.
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#3imho, this only works when walking on a beach, ideally cold but sunny
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#4The more bloggers, the more nonsense.
> A growing body of evidence suggests
Ah, weasel words. How telling.
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#5imho, this only works when walking on a beach, ideally cold but sunny
De zon schijnt er is geen reden
Met rotweer en de harde wind
Te gaan fietsen met dat kind
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#6This seems to mirror the idea of forest bathing also known as nature therapy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_therapy
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#7The simple Indian cure for stress - Meditation. a.k.a watching your breath
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#8Walking/hiking through nature (without wind or cold) works fine as well against stress, at least in my experience (and I am Dutch; I find it far too cold there to walk usually).
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#9Nonsense! The actual Dutch cure for stress is to claim you have "burnout" (they use the English word), and then take 6 months off work while being paid 80% of your salary.
Honestly, after working for 6 years in the Netherlands, I don't know of another country that has such good working conditions [1], while having so many people in low stress professional jobs taking time off for burnout. There seems zero social or professional stigma about it.
- In Australia, I knew of just one person, a teacher. There they called it a "nervous breakdown".
- In the UK, I struggle to think of any, after 9 years working here.
- In the Netherlands, probably 30% of my Dutch colleagues had had time off for burnout at some point in their career.
[1] At the Dutch bank I worked for, most of the Dutch staff worked 4 day weeks: take a 10% pay cut, have Fridays off, and nominally work an hour longer on the other 4 days. In practice, they still arrived late so they could drop their kids at school, left early for same reason, took a full hour for lunch, and most days everyone stopped for 30 minutes mid-morning because it was someone's birthday. Nearly the only people who worked full 5-day weeks were the expats.
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#10If you know the term "uitwaaien" I'd say this rings pretty much true: "Meyer has lived in the Netherlands for more than 20 years and has come to specialize in the language, despite being a non-native speaker."
In all fairness, I haven't heard or used the word for a couple of years now, so not sure to what extent this is true: "She says uitwaaien is a popular activity where she lives—one believed to have important psychological benefits. “Uitwaaien is something you do to clear your mind and feel refreshed—out with the bad air, in with the good,” she tells me. “It’s seen as a pleasant, easy, and relaxing experience—a way to destress or escape from daily life.”"