8 Remarkable Benefits When You Travel

 

Travelling is an event packed with moments of fun and challenges, joy and adventure. Whether you are on a budget or extravagant, nothing beats the happiness you gain through experience rather than happiness you get through material stuff. 

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Are you feeling slothful waking up and even can’t think what to wear going to the office? Or even has that sleepy mood driving on the motorway anticipating some tons of workloads and meetings waiting for you in the office? Or have you just broken up with an almost-impeccable relationship and couldn’t move on from that bittersweet romance? In short, are you stressed-out at work, exhausted from your daily monotonous routines watching the hustle and bustle of the concrete jungle, and not moving any inch in your daily life?

But there’s no need to worry! There is always a solution to every problem. Don’t you know that travelling offers a lot of benefits for your mind, health, and physical aspects of your whole being? If you are thinking and always hesitant to take a day off from your work, you might probably change your mindset after knowing why travelling is good for you.

Now, let’s take a look at some major benefits of what travelling can offer for us!


                                  (Video credits: Awabe / YouTube)


  1. Reduces Stress, Calms Anxiety, and Fights Depression 

✈️ Whether you are worried about your financial stability, or have health issues, or too much engrossed with your work and job, or you have to deal with your kids and their schools, or into a toxic relationship, or in a state of anxiety, or even battling from depression, travelling (whether locally or internationally) can be the perfect solution to deal and move from any of these life stages.

✈️Staying away from home even just for a couple or few days can rescue your mind and rejuvenates your mental health, and by this, you will feel less anxious in life. It provides you with the chance to introspect on where you’ve been, allowing you to contemplate and reflect on your own emotional and mental well-being. It also shows you where you’re going to, and even leads you to where you want to end up to.

✈️Travelling also connects you with nature. Getting fresh air and greeting sunshine benefits your health, and being connected with these elements of nature makes you feel calmer, and helps lessen stress and anxiety.

✈️Embarking on a totally new journey will do wonders for your overall health. Simply put it, travelling helps you move forward and improve your mental health and well-being.

 

2. Improves Overall Physical Health 

🛵Of course, when you are stressed-out at work, and feeling anxious, and have lots of things boggling your mind, not only does your mental health deteriorates, but your physical health as well. There are a lot of things to be discovered, and a lot of places to be explored, and traveling transports you to new surroundings and environments. 

🛵This gives you the opportunity to press that “restart” button both for your mind and body. Whether you are an avid fan of walking, running, cycling, swimming, kayaking, climbing, hiking, skiing--- they are all cures for your ramshackling physical you.

🛵 Travelling rejuvenates your heart and physical being by becoming active on the adventure and journey while exploring the nature and new places you have never been to. When you have a healthy body, you will also possess a healthy mind.

🛵 And all the incentives you gain from these activities while you travel can amplify your efficiency and productivity not only at work but also in any aspect of your daily life.

 

3. Offers a Path to Escape Real Life and a Time to Relax 

🚂A lot of us think and find that life is stressful. We tend to set many goals in our day and struggle to perform and fulfill them simultaneously, and that is really tough and hard. With this, we want to cease what we are doing at the moment and try to at least escape from the hurry-burly of our real life even for just a while, and relax.

🚂With so many things and activities that we think and do in our daily lives, we aim to pause and ponder and want to let go of ourselves to break free of the monotony of what we are currently doing. Travelling gives us the time to observe things around us from a different and wider perspective and opens up our minds to the other world.

🚂Upon coming back from a great adventure, we see ourselves that we have the ability to see and understand other things and proves our ability to attain our purpose. Globetrotting can change our attitude towards how we do at work, how we deal with people, and how we value ourselves— in a more positive way.

🚂After the trip, you will feel refreshed that can improve a more positive attitude, and revitalized in all of your responsibilities at home and work.

 

 4. Exposes To Explore and Experience New Things  

🚗As most people say, it is so difficult to get new experiences if you only stay in your comfort zone. That is 100% true. Journeying to a new place of interest will provide you with a vast array of new environments, pieces of information, and perspectives.

🚗Setting your feet in a new side of your country or another land translates that you are starting to get out of your shell. Every little thing is new and charming and fascinating to your curiosity, and by this, you tend to be more enthusiastic and keener to learn new things that will open up your mind to new concepts and perspectives. You will learn about the particular place’s physical attributes and the edifices and architecture in it.

🚗Going to different places means you also have the chance to learn about a new culture (if going to another country). You can taste their local delicacies, food, and drinks that make them unique. Their songs and dances, their dialects and languages. Their traditional dresses and costumes. Their old structures and new buildings. And of course, the people that make up the community. Travelling makes you meet new people, communicate with them, and socially immersed with their way of life.

🚗Travelling makes you experience a whole lot of adventure. Like island and beach-hopping thru the long-stretched white beaches in the tropics, the Philippines; trekking both the lush jungles and mighty rivers in Brazil; and dining and sleeping at the countless century-old castles in Ireland. These are the things that give us thrills, amusements, and escapades that surely last a lifetime.

🚗Exploring other places means seeing other worlds that might not be taught in schools. It briefs you about the country’s geography, history, culture, sociology, economy, and politics—aurally and visually. There is what you call “first-hand” experience.

 

5. Elevates Happiness and Supplements Contentment 

🚢Because travelling opens up a lot of things: opportunity to see and feel different places, time to meet new culture, and enrich one’s mental and physical health, those people who usually travel leans towards feeling more happy and contented in life. And when someone is contented, that person have calmness and serenity that helps him appreciate and relish the simple things in life.

🚢Getting a holiday can make you a more well-rounded person. The things you see around you is only limited to you in your own mind, unless you travel and have discovered new perspectives about what you thought they used to be.

🚢Going back home teeming with lasting memories make you realised that you have accomplished and did a wonderful complete journey. From booking your trip, paying your airfare, experiencing turbulence in the air, transporting your baggage, eating and speaking like the locals, planning where to go, meeting different cultures, and all that jazz-- you have accomplished another stage in your life— meeting the other part of the world!

 

6. Bestows Confidence and Power 

🛴Being able to travel (alone or with other people) helps you to be a “jack-of-all-trades” for a moment. It releases the architect and engineer in you because of your artistic, planning, problem-solving, and improvising skills all at once. You might have experienced some difficulties along the way during your trip, but these would definitely be used in the future travels you might have. You become an instant decision-maker.

🛴Travelling alone can be both scary and satisfying at the same time, but it will give you the notion that hindrances and struggles along the trip can be handled smoothly without the aid of family or friends. This means you can solve a problem on your own with full confidence. You have hiked the mountain top, conquered the kayaking ride, and even bungee jumped in between canyons!

🛴The strong force and determination to solve issues paired with confidence will give you power. And when you have that power in you, you start to establish more trust and confidence in yourself and will definitely fear less facing other obstacles.

 

7. Bequeaths Wonderful and Lasting Memories 

🚎Every time you go on your holiday, travelling will always bequeath you with delightful memories that will surely last a lifetime. When you feel lonely out of the blue, you can always reminisce on the favourite happy things you did during your vacation, and you will surely get transported to that place and time you have had those marvelous moments and how wonderful your vacations were, and would probably bring a smile on your face.

🚎You will not be left empty-handed of stories with your friends or even in school or the office when somebody tells you about the recent trips they have been to. These travel stories will always be interesting topics to discuss about, and you will not only be a storyteller but also be an inspiration in terms of getting a perfect getaway to those listening to your own sensational holiday tales.

🚎In today’s modern world, photos and videos that were taken from a vacation are indispensable tools to preserve those golden memories. Whether you keep them personally on your phone or socially sharing them on the web, will always remind you of  the happy and good times you have had. Souvenirs and those tokens bought from the shop will spark moments of blissful experiences during your trip.

 

8. (Might) Offer The Love of Your Life 

🚲Some people find it bizarre to think that you “might” be meeting the love of your life when travelling. You know what? Yes, it is 100% possible!

🚲When you are in a holiday, there is a great chance to meet plenty of like-minded people along the road. Well, that is one of their goals, too. To meet other people whom they could spend their whole lifetime with.

🚲Cupid might just be around the corner, and might hit your heart with another in the same room you are sipping your wine, or by the beach where you are watching the setting of the sun, or even just in the airplane where you are flying in. People say it is impossible, but believe me, it does happen.

 

The above-mentioned benefits of travelling will actually help you transform into a better individual in general, and will absolutely make you feel joyful, enthusiastic, alive, strong, and content as you go along and even after your trip. And these advantages and favourable effects are not only limited to those who can afford it--- is ideal for everyone, young or old, rich or poor, or any gender. Travelling is for everyone. As the old adage puts it: Travel is the only thing you buy that makes your richer. I couldn’t agree more.

If you are not certain about where to start, you can always contact us, The Travel Exchangers and we can definitely give you complimentary advice about your first travel!


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Written By: Felipe III Q. Gali
(Philippines Correspondent)

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Comments

  1. Very uplifting article, want to book a holiday more than ever now!! 😎🏝️

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    1. Thanks a lot! Yes, book now! We'll give you discount if it's your first! 👓🏅

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  2. So many great reasons to travel 🙌

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  3. Brilliant reasons to travel. So many benefits that I hadn't thought of. The memories and relaxation are so key to any trip. - Simone

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    1. Hi, Simone! Yes, these are just some (but the main benefits). Of course, the memories and relaxation you get are the best you can have! 🤹‍♀️

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  4. For sure, travel it's better than medicine. Sometimes we must pause our heavy routine and contemplate what the world offers.

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    1. I totally agree, Priscilla! 👑

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  5. Excellent article! Traveling is like changing the clothes of the soul, according to a quote I read recently. Traveling makes me feel so good, discovering new places! Thanks for sharing with us!

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    1. Hi, Sueny! That is definitely true. Travelling also is an emotional investment that would never be erased in our memories! 📍

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