It seems that life seems to move at a fast pace. We live in a world where wealth is the key to survival and happiness. Throughout the years, I felt that I had little to no leisure activities, which means that I was unable to choose freely an activity that I enjoy the intrinsic rewards. However, keeping track of my daily routine prove me wrong. What is leisure? Leisure is the possibility for an individual to have the time and money to do whatever they want and enjoy it. It’s the ability to have freedom. In the following paragraph, I would highlight essential activities that I do, analyze my leisure pattern, what’s my true definition of leisure from our reading and why my leisure helps define me.
First of all, a psychologist leisure scholar John Neulinger defined pure
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We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.” (Leisure: The Basis Of Culture) Momentary what we do as leisure defines who we are physically and mentally. For the past few years, after attending to John Abbot College communication course, I have been practicing a meditation routine, which helps to set my mood for the rest of my day. Meditation is an important leisure for me because it helps stress reduction, improved my health and it helps improve my emotional stability and creates positive thinking and it change my thought process. As soon as a wake up and finish doing my hygiene routine care which takes an hour I spend my first leisure on standing in front of my bathroom mirror and repeating this saying; How do I feel? Do I really feel? Could I describe the condition of every part of my body? Could I report on all muscles joints, and bones my heart and lungs, my nervous system and the circulation of my blood? Which I usually answer that I feel numb. Tired. I feel that the whole day has passed and I have not done anything important or
Marks, L. (2006). The Loss of Leisure in a Culture of Overwork. Spirit of Change Magazine.
Many individuals would define leisure as time free from paid work, domestic responsibilities, and just about anything that one would not do as part of their daily routine. Time for leisure and time for work are both two separate spheres. The activities which people choose to do on their spare time benefit their own personal interests as well as their satisfactions. While some people may enjoy one activity, others pay not. Leisure is all about personal interests and what people constitute having a good time is all about. Some may say that the process of working class leisure can be seen to contribute their own subordination as well as the reproduction of capitalist class relations. Self-produced patterns of working class leisure can lead to resistance to such reproduction. This leads to social class relations and inequalities, and the fact that it they can never be completely reproduced in the leisure sphere. This film Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, gives some examples of the role of leisure within a capitalist society dealing with issues such as class inequalities, and how they are different among various societies.
This essay will cover what obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is and how leisure education can be used to help these individuals who have been diagnosed with OCD. This essay will discuss the various characteristics that can be noticed with an individual who has been diagnosed with OCD and also introduce different leisure activities that can be used to help these individuals. The overall goal for this essay is to provide strong evidence showing that leisure education can be useful in helping individuals with OCD. OCD is considered to be an anxiety disorder due to the fact that individuals with it have a high anxiety feeling about a certain aspect in their lives.
Some books showed that leisured class addicted to leisured activities and Chonin behaved inappropriate when they were doing business.
To discuss work, one must first of all try to define work. Once one starts to think about this definition however, one finds that there are as many definitions of work as there are people. Experts such as sociologists have been trying to reach a definite answer, yet they can never agree between them. Although it is accepted that work is that time which is not leisure, one is then confounded with trying to find a definition for leisure. Stanley Parker reached a compromise by dividing our time in five sections, merging from pure work to pure leisure. However this difficulty in defining work should point out that these many different definitions lead to different attitudes, with the result that one can never generalise.
6. Freedom of Choice, fortunately in recreation and leisure we have the opportunity of selecting those activities that we like, can afford, and are able to perform. This is one of the characteristics that make leisure a unique experience. Fortunately, we have the freedom to select what we want in opposition to work, where we have to do what is told to us and expected from us, based on our contractual
Pike, J. (2008), ‘Leisure, Laziness and feeling good’, in Brunton, D. (ed), Place and Leisure AA100 Book 4, Milton Keynes, The Open University, pp.3-10
Our present way of thinking; our perceptions, desires, feelings, and reactions control how we experience the world. Our minds are the core of our existence, everything we have thought is everything that we are, for everything is mind-made. If we are experiencing suffering, it is because our minds created it, and only our minds have the power of relieving it. Buddhist meditation is the practice of transforming the mind through the cultivation of mindfulness, concentration, detachment, insight, and objectivity. My background in psychology made me interested in discussing the concept of Buddhist mediation due its immense focus on mastering the mind. It has the crucial transformative effect on the mind that leads to new perspectives of oneself,
Stebbins' examination advantages in recreation date to late 1973, the year he started his theoretic work on beginners. From here it soon turned out to be evident that relaxation studies could be thought about in no less than two awesome classifications: in 1982 (Pacific Soc. Rev.) Stebbins distributed the essential applied explanation of genuine recreation, utilizing easygoing relaxation as the near background. At that point, ahead of schedule in 1997, he distributed in Leisure Studies a comparable explanation on easygoing relaxation. In the vicinity of 1975 and the present he has distributed a scope of hypothetical and exact articles, sections, and books on beginners (artists, performing artists, baseball players, football players, diversion conjurers, stand-up funnies, archeologists, space experts), specialists (barbershop artists, social travelers, kayakers, snowboarders, mountain climbers, and other nature challenge devotees), and vocation volunteers, especially those in the North American francophone groups outside Quebec. A third classification of relaxation – "extend based recreation" – was characterized and examined in Leisure Studies (Jan.,
When one thinks of meditation, what comes to mind? Does one think of group of 1970’s hippies sitting in a circle singing about peace? How about relaxing music being played? How about trying to form one’s body into a pretzel-like shape? What if meditation has nothing to do with the background music being played or what position one’s body is in? Meditation is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “the act or process of spending time in quiet thought” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meditation). Meditation is just simply sitting in a quiet room and thinking about one’s life. The act of meditating is much simpler than many people think. Through deep concentration and relaxation, meditation becomes an altered state of consciousness.
Thus according to Pieper, leisure is an attitude of the mind and a state of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper establishes that the ancient and medieval philosophers understood the great value and importance of leisure in doing work and thus, eventually led to building of great societies. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure as it is only through leisure that actual worship of God is possible. Leisure has been, and always will be, the basic foundation of any culture or religion.
The amount of time experience in leisure events as a child has formed them to who they are today, with maybe the person not even realizing. So, “Researchers have consistently demonstrated a positive relationship between joint family leisure and family strength, but the nature of the family leisure relationship has remained poorly understood.” (Zabruskie) This poor understanding of leisure is due to lack of research spent over the years. That research is not because of money but just that fact no one has spent the
The problem of modern leisure has, throughout the years, been a well-discussed topic among many sociologists. Sociability, in this case, is one of the most universal forms of leisure that will be discussed in this essay. The theoretical framework for this discussion is provided by the sociological insights of Georg Simmel (1858-1918) as he argues that the “tumult of the metropolis” (cited in Frisby 1989, p80) creates inner barriers between people and suggests that “sociability” can surpass this problem. According to Frisby (1989), Simmel states that the city life has transformed the struggle with nature for livelihood into a struggle with other human beings for gain. This is further discussed as Frisby (1989) and Giulianotti (2005) describes how sociability can transcend this problem according to Simmel’s sociability theory.
Leisure time is a time where people are free from work and are they can do any activities that they want during that specific time. This period of time can be spent by staying indoors or engaging themselves with outdoor activities. However, today’s generation of young adults prefer staying indoors than outdoor during their free time. According to a new nationwide poll from The Nature Conservancy, only 10 percent of young adults say they are spending time outdoor every day and they only spend time outdoor to play less than 30 minutes in a week (The Nature Conservacy, n.d.). This is because of their lack of interest to play outside during their leisure time and majority of them prefer to stay indoors and play video games, chatting with friends
of free time. Leisure is important in our society, because it helps people escape from their