We live in a stressed and accelerated society, in which taking care of oneself, enjoying life, resting or disconnecting is considered irresponsible and even selfish. This is what the psychiatrist Javier García Campayo points out in his work Parar para vivir. You have to stop and connect with the meaning of life. He wonders why more and more people suffer from stress and anxiety and mentions several causes. One of them is that the technological development has led people to have more expectations about how things should be in our lives.

Every new generation has more and more psychological discomfort and it is thought that one of the main reasons is expectations. We all want them to be the way we want them to be; everything has to be perfectly controlled.

The technological development and social networks have caused human beings to be more demanding with the world and that produces a clash with reality. On the other hand, there is everything related to the consumer society. We are sold that in order to be happy we must have things, get things, achieve material goals of subject whatever. This incessant search for external goals is exhausting.

In psychological language, this attitude is called ociophobia. It is the irrational fear of having free time or time empty of activities. The term was recently coined by psychologist Rafael Santandreu. In his book El arte de no amargarse la vida he describes it as follows: "There are people who are afraid, panic-stricken, of being idle. They become anxious. They would much rather be busy all day long. There are also those who are psychologically unwell, who don't want to stop because then they have more time to eat their brains, to make themselves more miserable. There is the fear of stopping and finding yourself in your own mental mess". He adds that for modern man it is much more difficult to do nothing than to keep diary busy. This need to be continually doing something is an evil of our society. This can translate into an endless number of activities to fill free time, to the point of arriving at the end of the summer with almost more stress than when you started. For this reason, he advises slowing down our lives and carrying out daily activities at a third of the normal speed. He assures that this reduction of the rhythm introduces the person in a kind of calmness and well-being.

Psychologist Mireia Cabero affirms that "in our daily lives we place so much value on being useful, productive, contributing and committing ourselves, that we forget that pause, serenity, contemplation, boredom and doing nothing are also useful, healthy and organically and socially necessary".

To overcome leisurephobia it is necessary to recognize the importance of leisure in our lives, distinguishing between free time, leisure and idleness. Free time is liberation from the obligations of work and availability staff of time. A status of leisure is created when a person in his free time decides to carry out activities that allow him to satisfy his personal needs of cultural and recreational subject . This active leisure is considered active rest and is opposed to passive leisure, that of idleness. Some examples of active leisure are writing, reading, painting, photography, sports, cooking. This option gives us new strength, increases the capacity of work and improves the physical and mental condition of the person.

For Dumezadier, leisure is a set of occupations to which the individual can devote himself voluntarily, whether to rest, to amuse himself or to develop his information or his disinterested training , his will to social participation or his free creative capacity.

When leisure is approached in a positive way, it contributes to balance and to development staff . Therefore, a pedagogy of leisure is necessary. Henz (1976) contemplates this pedagogy as the Education directed to the learning of the correct use of leisure time.

Leisure has several dimensions: ludic, environmental-ecological, creative, festive and solidary, and has been present in the life of human beings since the origins of mankind. According to Plato, human beings are intrinsically motivated to participate in leisure activities. Aristotle saw leisure time as one of the fundamental characteristics of the Greek free man. In the Politics he says that "at the beginning of every good action is leisure.
is leisure. Man works to live. He does not live to work. One of the great challenges of modern society is to balance work with leisure. People need to learn to disconnect from professional life to create a staff and family life.