{"id":6309,"date":"2024-05-17T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:25:20","slug":"we-all-need-time-alone-heres-how-to-embrace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"We All Need Time Alone. Here\u2019s How to Embrace It."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alone time can help you reduce stress and manage emotions, but you have to be intentional about it, experts say.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a person who craves regular alone time. At home, I take quick walks. At work, I sometimes disappear into the office supply closet, which is always deserted. I find the orderly stacks of notebooks soothing.<\/p>\n

When I can\u2019t grab these moments, I tend to get twitchy. Robert Coplan, a psychologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, describes this as \u201caloneliness\u201d: the negative feeling that crops up when people get less solitude than they need.<\/p>\n

And, most of us do require a balance of solo and social time, said Thuy-vy Nguyen, a social psychologist who runs the Solitude Lab at Durham University in Britain and is an author of the book \u201cSolitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone.\u201d Her research has found that spending time alone has physical and emotional benefits, such as stress reduction and mood regulation<\/a>, and can lead to increased creativity and productivity.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, I asked experts how to recognize when you need more solitude, and how to incorporate it into your life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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