Major Benefits of Travelling

Major Benefits of Travelling

By Oluwatoyin Ajayi

            Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must be awaken.
To anyone who have traveled at one or many times outside his or her comfort zone, will agree that there is always this excitement and sense of accomplishment that fills ones body and soul.
Miss Kristina, one of our social psychologist and a trip adviser told me that "people's level of thoughts (cognition), interactions (behavior) and feelings (affect), can only be achieve through social influences". One way to get influence socially is by traveling. To therefore know more about what Travel can do to you, below are major benefits of what Travelling does:

1. HEALING PROPERTIES
     

   Travel promote the brain health, stretch and keep the mind sharp. When you are introduced to a new environment and experience, your brain is challenged and helps to increase cognitive stimulation. The mind becomes active and sharp as it discover and learn new things. It promotes heart health. You are physically smart and active as your muscles develop nicely, without tightening them due to inactivity. Even as an adult, you become young once again. To distract yourself from an hurtful past events, travelling will help you slowly let go of them and your spirit becomes renew and uplifted. Also, Travel help your body to experience gradual filter of toxins and wastes, and then leave you healthy.



2. ENHANCES CREATIVITY

Artist and writers attest to the fact that travelling help them to get more muse, as they are inspired and motivated. Researchers also agrees that the better one is at engaging and adapting to new culture, the more creative and professional you become. It  boosts mental health, when useful knowledge is tap into. The brain engine and neural networks become organize and well furnish. Travel will make your mental faculty creative and skillful.


3.RELIEVES STRESS

When you pull yourself out of your daily routines and Travel to a new surroundings, then you will be relief from that stress. You become refresh, reform renew. Travelling lowers depression and improve psychological functioning, as it will boost happiness and satisfaction when you return from that trip. It prevent pressure, tension and disease that might want  to occupy your mind and body. Just as my doctor told me "Go on a vacation dear, it will help manage office stress". You become relax, forgetting ugly and past moments, and then on new experiences begins to unfold.

4. GIVES YOU NEW PERSPECTIVES

Nobody comes back from a journey the way they started it. Travel helps to broaden your perspective about that environment and about yourself. You experience and gain better understanding about other people's culture, values, foods, language, and social life, and not just make comparisons of countries. It is through travelling that new perspective is regenerated inside of you and this will give you that opportunity to be transform as you are faced with the reality of exploring countries outside your comfort zone.

5. CONNECT TO OTHERS AND SELF

Travel creates meaningful relationship. It offers you the opportunity to meet new people that you otherwise wouldn't have the chance to connect with. Besides, are you aware that your meeting with people by travelling can improve your communication skills? Yes it does, and as you do so, the more you move forward. Such social connection redefines you, improve your mental and physical health. Your confidence grows, you become bold, and this will enhance your sense of self and of how much you know about others.

7. MAKES YOU PATIENCE AND TOLERANCE 

Don't find fault, find fixes. Travel help you learn how to manage, and cope with uncertainties of life. During travelling, the different people you meet will determine the level of your social relation and influence, so loving and accepting them for who they are, will help. This is when your attitude towards issues becomes easy for you to handle. You become calm whenever you approach situations and those people who seems difficult.

8.  CREATE LIFETIME MEMORIES

Many of us cherished memories, and Travel helps us experience lots of things that you never experience in your comfort zone. As you explore that new environment, build a repertoire of fond memories for the future. Travelling makes and keeps your hormones (dopamine and serotonin) excited by working perfectly well. Know that the new people you meet will help to change your thinking and involve you in good activities that you have never tried before. Such activities provides you with happiness and satisfaction that creates lovely lifetime memories in you.


What other advantage or benefit of Travelling do you know? Kindly, drop your comments↓