There are so many things you can learn from exploring different place. Research shows that travelling can improve your overall health and enhance your creativity. It is very important to take break from your daily tasks, office, responsibilities, busy schedule, everyday pressure at least once a year.
The benefits of traveling are not just a one-time thing: traveling changes you physically and psychologically. Being busy person, little time or not enough money are not reasonable excuse. You can fly for cheap very easily. Even though people have a full-time job and a family, they can still travel on the weekends or holidays, even with kids.
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1. Travel Makes You Healthy
According to a joint study from the Global Commission on Aging and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, in partnership with the U.S. Travel Association, traveling actually keeps you healthy.The study found that women who vacation at least twice a year show a significantly lower risk of suffering a heart attack than those who only travel every six years or so.
The same is true for men. Men who do not take an annual vacation show a 20 percent higher risk of death and 30 percent greater risk of heart disease.
2. Open Up Your Mind
TV news, Books and Internet all tell us about distant countries, people and their life style. However these media present to us someone else’s perspective may be their view narrow our prescriptive instead of widening our mind. Travelling in aboard and meeting people in living different conditions and treating the life differently is what really teaches us about the world.
3. Boost Your Confidence
I heard so many scary stories. A Big rock fell from big mountain and block the narrow street path that you have taken, you ask local people for the direction. They tell you to go to different route. What really scare you is that you are alone in unknown place and you can’t depend on your GPS Navigation or Google map. This is why Traveling forces you to be resourceful and teaches you how to deal in difficulties and obstacles situation.
4 Traveling Reliefs Stress
Although missing a connecting flight or losing baggage in a foreign airport is sure to boost your anxiety but traveling has been scientifically proven to lower stress levels.
5. Travel Boosts Happiness and Satisfaction.
Most people tend to be happier when they’re traveling and don’t have to worry about work and home of course. The research from Cornell University study is that people also experience a direct increase in happiness from just planning a trip.
6. Traveling Lets You Disconnect From Your Daily Life
Most of tend to get so caught up in our daily lives that sometime we simply sticking with our daily routines. Kids are driving you you crazy. Your family are trying to make you live the life they want. In work place, your Boss trying to control you to finish work. How long do you think you can take before you burst and everything falls apart? Sometimes it is best to take a break, take a deep breath and go to your favorite place and take photos. In all these circumstance travel is not bad idea. It is the most natural way of relieving the feeling you miss someone or that you are missed. The trick is to leave with a bit of preparation to avoid making a mistake during your travel.