Benefits of Leisure
Leisure has many well documented health related benefits.
Physical Benefits can include:
• Decrease in blood pressure
• Decrease in heart rate
• Increase in bone mass and strength
• Increase in lung capacity
• Reduction in incidence of diabetes
• Increase in muscle strength
• Increase in sense of well being
• Increase in flexibility, balance and coordination
• Improvement in immune system
Emotional Benefits can include:
• Happiness
• Life satisfaction
• Morale
• Self-concept
• Self-esteem
• Perceived sense of freedom
• Independence
• Autonomy
• Self-confidence
• Leadership skills
• Tolerance/Understanding
• Problem solving skills
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Famous quotes containing the words benefits of, benefits and/or leisure:
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear their full share in the world’s work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“When your parents are in political life, you aren’t normal. Everybody talks about the benefits, but I don’t know what the benefits are.... But I’d rather have that kind of mother than an overweight housewife.”
—Katherine Berman Mariano (b. 1957)
“When at leisure make preparations for a time of need.”
—Chinese proverb.