According to Ms Liu, such a dramatic emotional change in her within several days was attributed to the %26ldquo;Tour of Soul%26rdquo; she attended during the golden week of the National Day Vacation.
%26ldquo;Tour of Soul%26rdquo; is your best choice for relaxing and unwinding.
The so-called %26ldquo;Tour of Soul%26rdquo; by Ms Liu, has a formal name as %26ldquo;Psychic Tourism%26rdquo;, an emerging tourism style in our country%26mdash;apart from the team members, there are one or more psychologists like friends as well as teachers. Tourists can open their hearts to each other while sightseeing in nature, and get persuasion and treatment from the psychologists during the tour.
An expert long engaged in the research of psychic tourism in Beijing holds that, compared with common tourism styles, psychic tourism highlights psychic recovery and can bring about deep physiopsychic relaxation of tourists involved. She said that many people felt great pressure in work and felt exhausted in life not because they were physically exhausted but because they didn%26rsquo;t know how to relax. They tended to play cards, listen to music, watch TV or oversleep to their hearts%26rsquo; content on weekends or vacation. Seemingly relaxing, none of these activities are actually scientific recreations. The cause lies in that, the so-called exhaustion urban white-collars are suffering from, more often than not, is mental or psychological instead of physical. Therefore, mere physical %26ldquo;rest%26rdquo; won%26rsquo;t radically alleviate people%26rsquo;s feeling of fatigue. %26ldquo;Psychic tourism, by inviting the participants to some outdoor activities and sports as well as some meaningful interaction and communication, can help relax and adjust the minds of the participants so as to solve their problems of mental fatigue and psychological exhaustion,%26rdquo; so said the expert.
Certain groups are particularly suitable for psychic tourism.
As to psychic tourism in Henan, President of Zhengzhou Psychiatrists%26rsquo; Society Jiang Jing introduced that at present they were still making a study of psychic tourism and had not yet come into the stage of implementation. In the near future, they would join hands with travel agencies and present psychic tourism programs characteristic of Central Plains.
She said that psychic tourism was different from common sightseeing of mountains and rivers. Therefore, in addition to the carefully selected tourism spots, there would be some special arrangements, such as scenic spots to broaden participants%26rsquo; vision and nourish their body and mind, and transportation conditions and the like to heighten involvement and effects. All these would make the whole journey varied, challenging and meanwhile beneficial to the cultivation of team cooperation and communication among the participants.
Besides, there will be some collective activities such as mountain climbing competition, psychic games and symposium conversations during which timely psychological persuasion will be offered to the emotional and at the same time, necessary practices on social skills will also be provided to other members in the team. %26ldquo;Of course, persuasion and practice should be subject to situation and not too much, or else it might lead to certain participants%26rsquo; resistance out of sensitiveness or affect the tour%26rsquo;s relaxing ends due to participants%26rsquo; fatigue in the tour.%26rdquo;
Jiang Jing said that psychic tourism was still a new thing in our country whose psychological essence was %26ldquo;leisure tourism + social practice + psychological counseling%26rdquo;. Therefore, psychic tourism served as a good choice for those with mild or medium depression, anxiety or insomnia, in a bad mood due to inharmonious marital/ family relationship, with mild autism or communications disorder.
Generally speaking, with reasonable scheduling and proper psychological persuasion, participants will be richly rewarded.
Beware negative feelings in the tour.
Our reporter learned yesterday that although there was no specialized organization engaged in psychological tourism in Zhengzhou, lots of training or tourism organizations had staffed their summer brief camps (summer camps) and some thematic tourism programs with professional psychiatrists who played a similar role as psychological counselors in psychic tourism.
Our reporter has also learned that psychic tourism is on the rise in Beijing, Hunan, Guangdong in recent years, that the number of its participants is growing year by year and that it is well accepted and recognized by certain groups. The reporter has learned from the interview that many travel agencies show %26ldquo;strong interest%26rdquo; in the newly rising tourism style; above 8/10 white collars hold that traveling out will help people get rid of the depressing life environment and achieve the psychological effect of %26ldquo;changing mood and character%26rdquo;.
This was the first time for Ms Liu, a worker in a software company in Zhengzhou New and Hi-tech Zone, to attend this kind of activity, and she applied for the psychic tourism off the spot. She held that psychic tourism was a new thing which might not be suitable for all, but would be helpful to each participant. %26ldquo;As the rhythm of life is quickening and pressure is increasing, actually there%26rsquo;s time for each person in need of psychological persuasion and consolation. Psychic tourism is especially necessary to those subject to emotional fluctuation due to setbacks in emotion or career.%26rdquo;
However, psychiatrists also remind that National Day Vacation is in itself a pleasant thing. Together with psychic tourism, they will make the participants full of expectation. Therefore, best choices for psychic tourism destinations will be those open scenic zones with abundant sunshine, fresh air, green mountains and waters. On the contrary, gloomy, terrifying and crowded spots might aggravate the feelings of depression and anxiety of the participants. %26ldquo;Both the organizers and the participants should get fully prepared before outing (including selection of the scenic spots, arrangement of the itinerary, selection of applicants, distribution of work among the company, etc.) to avoid occurrence of new negative feelings due to %26ldquo;accidents%26rdquo; in the tour.%26rdquo; Added Jiang Jing.