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Travel is good for lots of things, but it can also increase mental well-being – and not just in the short-term. Whether you’re traveling for business, on a one-week family holiday, or have sold everything to pursue a life on the road, traveling can make you a happier person by building self-confidence, providing new experiences and memories, breaking routine and allowing you to meet people from all over the world.
Traveling for many has become an addiction, a happy pill so to speak, simply because it makes people happier. Not only does it affect your physical and mental health, but it also evokes positive emotions.
When we plan out our next trip, pack our bags, or board that flight, we get excited. We break away from our routine life at home and step into the unknown. Exploring destinations, the beauty of nature, and meeting new people instantly take away our worries and stress of home and work.
Improve Self Confidence
Traveling helps one build self-confidence by stepping out of your comfort zone. Surprises and challenges happen on the road. Knowing that you can handle an unexpected twist of events will certainly boost your self-confidence.
Make New Friends
When you’re far from the comforts of your home, making friends is much easier – to a local or a fellow traveler. Social interactions make us happier and the more we increase our circle of friends, the more interesting people we get to meet. Interacting with local people who are friendly and smiling lights up our moods!
Traveling Makes You Appreciate Family and Home
Being away to loved ones will make us appreciate them more. This is the time when you look forward to calling home and smile as you listen to the voices of your family and you enjoy sharing your travel stories with them.
Give Yourself some ‘Me’ Time
Traveling is a breather, allowing us to have some time alone, a breathing space. It’s a perfect time just to have some peace and quiet time, sort of relaxation leaving all the stress behind.
Away from Social Media
It’s healthy to stay away from social media once in a while. A time away from a smartphone is a time that can very well be spent having a great conversation with your new foreign friend or a time exploring. Try it! It’s liberating.
A dose of Vitamin D
A good sun exposure fills our body with vitamin D. A dab of sunshine and warmth help us put in a better mood as healthy glow makes us feel good even when the trip’s over.
New Experiences Turning into Moments to Remember
Gaining new experiences will always leave a mark in our travel memories. Remembering an amazing local, a stunning sunset, a breathtaking forest that puts you into dreamland, precious memories that took you in awe will always leave you smiling and it sticks with you forever.
Traveling helps you discover or re-discover your other passion
Passion is almost synonymous with happiness. When you travel and go places, you also discover new activities along the way, there’s a big chance that you discover something that you love to do. Photography is a popular choice for travelers, as well as yoga, surfing, cooking and much more. When you do something you love, you will always carry a cheerful heart.
Life Learning
Travel may very well be the best school there is. You learn about the world and yourself. Going places opens up your world into another – a different culture, a foreign language, unique taste of food and way of living. It’s a big world out there, but traveling also lets you discover how small our world is, how strangely similar we are despite the many differences.
Ibn Battuta was known to many as the world’s greatest traveler in the pre-modern times and through his journey has left much valuable information about the world, culture, and geography. On November 9-12, an event presented by the Moroccan Association of Ibn Battuta will celebrate his legacy. The International Festival of Ibn Battuta (second edition) will put up many kinds of social activities to honor him and present the ideas he developed after his travels.
Traveling leaves a lasting happiness
The effects of traveling are not only short term as the happiness it brings leave a lasting effect. In the long run, you become more relaxed, more open minded, gained more friends, built self-confidence and carry a wider perspective which in turn makes you a happier person.
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