Travel and mental health

 

In most countries of the developed world, their citizens are interested in traveling and moving around the world during a specific annual vacation.  This habit has many benefits for mental health, which we will mention in the rest of the article.  Mental health is one of the most important factors in living a longer life.  But of course citizens of developing or poor countries.  They do not travel every year and do not enjoy this advantage.  But there are many ways to help citizens of poor countries travel.  This is done through banks operating in this country.  These banks should pay the cost of travel tickets and hotel accommodation in installments to the citizens of these countries.  Banks pay their deposits to tourism and aviation companies.  Thus, they enjoy a happy vacation while reducing the burden of travel costs.  Payment is made on a monthly basis.  But this step by the banks will push global capital to establish more airline companies.  Building new hotels and increasing job opportunities around the world.  We will mention here the benefits of travel on mental health.

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 The benefits of travel on mental health...

 New friends, new experiences, new sciences, stories and anecdotes?  This and many others may be the first thing that comes to our minds when we think about traveling, but there are actual travel benefits for our health!  Let's discover it in this article... The famous American writer, Mark Twain, said, “Travel destroys all the prejudice, vanity, fanaticism, and narrow-mindedness in us!”  This is what many studies have already begun to prove!  In recent years, psychologists and neuroscientists have begun to study the actual benefits of travel and test the impact of travel on individuals.  They came up with a set of conclusions and benefits, including

Physical benefits of travel

 Strengthens immunity: Recent studies indicate that exposure to dust and dirt may strengthen your immunity.  But this, of course, does not mean that you do not take care of personal hygiene while traveling, if you still have to wash your hands and use hand sanitizer constantly, but we do mean that your travel to a new country exposes your immune system to new strains of bacteria that it adapts to and resists so that your immunity becomes stronger.

 Improves brain health: Exposure to new cultures makes you more creative and increases your brain’s ability to analyze things, as creativity is linked to the way the nerve endings in the brain communicate, and this communication network changes depending on the environment in which the individual lives, his habits, and his lifestyle, as everything that is new to him (  From: sounds, faces, smells, languages, feelings, flavors and sights) may play a role in changing this network and creating positive change.  Some studies have also indicated that traveling and studying abroad leads to opening a person's horizons and making him more stable on an emotional level.

 Travel reduces the chances of developing heart disease: This is due to the fact that one of the main benefits of travel is reducing stress. The ability of travel to increase an individual’s physical fitness while reducing his stress combine together to make the heart and arteries healthier than before!

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 Traveling for the purpose of medical tourism:  Many travelers annually go to many well-known medical tourism destinations for therapeutic purposes, such as visiting hot springs to strengthen muscles and relieve muscle and joint pain.

 Physical fitness: When traveling becomes a habit for you, you will find yourself starting to plan tours in nature and the mountains, and you will start spending hours at home training for the next tour that is more difficult than the previous one, and other hours on the actual tour.

 Where you will see nature and continue moving without realizing it, in addition to the long distances you will travel on foot to get to know the new city or even go shopping!

Psychological benefits of travel:

 Improving communication skills: At some point in your trip, you will find yourself forced to talk to another person, whether it is the traveler sitting next to you on the train or the neighbor of your room in the hotel you have booked to stay in, and here one of the most important benefits of traveling alone becomes apparent. If you are traveling alone,  There is no escape from talking to a stranger, no matter how hard you try!  This will help you develop your social skills, especially if you are someone who feels nervous when talking to others, and your constant feeling of anxiety will decrease.

 Reducing stress:

 While it may seem tempting to spend some time at home away from your responsibilities at work, using this time to travel somewhere may be better and more beneficial to recharge your energy, especially since you are thus staying away from everything that reminds you of your daily routine.  Many studies indicate the benefits of travel in increasing happiness and reducing depression.

Achieving goals: Goals remain goals, even if they are a list you wrote down with the names of places you would like to visit one day. When you start crossing those places off the aforementioned list, this will arouse in you a feeling of accomplishment and the ability to achieve your big and small goals, and achieve goals (see: How to achieve your goals for the new year  ?) It will give you a feeling of success and enhance your self-confidence.

 Become more flexible: Traveling will teach you that appointments will often change at the last minute, such as: a plane is cancelled, an unplanned trip in the rain that leads you to a bookstore you never knew existed or to a wonderful café!  Traveling will teach you to become more flexible in your daily life and less hasty, which will enable you to devote more time to taking in all the details around you.

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 Patience: You will become more patient, because traveling will teach you to wait, such as waiting in a passenger line, waiting in a restaurant, or waiting for a plane to take off.  And many more.  When you learn to remain calm despite the delay - especially in frustrating situations - this will teach you to be patient in all the situations you will be exposed to in the future.

 Improving the quality of your relationships: One of the benefits of traveling is that it may make your relationship with your partner stronger. Traveling away from your responsibilities and daily routine will help you focus on yourself and your relationship more in isolation from others or any distracting source.

 Traveling strengthens an individual’s self-awareness and existence: Research and studies indicate that your exposure to cultures and civilizations that are foreign to you will push you outside your comfort zone, so you will learn about the values ​​and principles of others, which will make you realize - gradually - your own personal values ​​and principles that you may not have been aware of.  Power before today, only after it was put under the microscope in strange countries.

 Restoring faith in the human race: When you travel to many countries and discover a unified pattern and language in human interaction across different languages, races, genders, etc., you will notice that there are many positive things that humans have in common wherever they are, and endearing qualities that are not limited to a specific people or country, and this will renew your confidence in the human race.  .  Some studies have come in recent years to prove that people who prejudge certain peoples and classify people into categories will often remain closed-minded. Just as they keep people in boxes inside their minds, their minds, in turn, will never think outside the box, and where there is no thinking outside the box, there is no  There is creativity.

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