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How Meditation Can Keep the End-of-Vacation Blues At Bay
19.11.2024 - 18:15 / cntraveler.com / Lake Como
I was sailing around Lake Como on the penultimate day of a family trip when my mind started to wander from the lakeside mansions and crisp autumn breeze to the dread of returning home. The feeling was familiar, but unlike in the past, I consciously halted these perturbed thoughts. While focused on the glimmering water ahead of me, I whispered to myself, “I am here.” I gazed up at the soaring mountains surrounding the lake and repeated it: “I am here.” I looked around the boat inconspicuously, at my smiling family, and said it again and again, until I felt calmer. Finally, a simple meditation technique I'd been working on revealed its efficacy.
“There's nothing worse than visiting somewhere beautiful but being distracted,” says Aditi Shah, a yoga and meditation instructor at Peloton, an app I use frequently for my own mindfulness practice. “And there's nothing better than being fully present for all the small joys you find in the details.”
I first tinkered with meditation when I moved to New York City in my early twenties. I found reprieve in stillness after chaotic days of rushing around to an assaulting soundtrack of city cacophony. I didn’t stick with it, though; like forming any new habit it required real work, and a few skipped days saw my practice fall to the wayside.
Post-pandemic, however, I physically felt life flying by; I never felt truly present. There were days I couldn’t recall the day, month, or season off the top of my head. So, I pledged to return to meditation. It began as a way to ground myself every morning, to start the day with presence, saying out loud the day and year, and acknowledging gratitude. My experience in Lake Como, though, was one of my first breakthroughs where I truly reaped the benefits of my practice, and recognized its importance in my frequent travels.
“By having a meditation practice, you’re training your brain to notice when you’re not in the present moment, so you can refocus your attention,” shares Lara Grant, a meditation teacher and wellbeing coach. This is particularly useful in travel so that you can attune all of your senses to the present moment: “When you’re sitting on the beach, you’re noticing how blue the ocean is, the sounds of the waves crashing, the smell of salt in the air, and how the sand feels against your skin.”
While noticing these details at the beginning of my travels come effortlessly, as the return home nears, I commonly feel sadness about its ending, anxiety about the journey home, and stress about jumping back into work. “Meditation can help you process those emotions by simply allowing the feelings to be there while you breathe through it,” explains Grant.
When it came to my time in Lake Como, I still had two more days left in
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