Susan Ozei: 10 Reasons Why Travelling is Good For You

Travel is important because it fundamentally transforms us. This experience of waking up to the power of your own transformation fires you up to be the change you want to see in the world.

By taking a break from your daily life, unplugging from the pulls and pushes of technology and engaging in new activities in new places, you have an easier opportunity to release unwanted habits. Also, it is empowering to surround yourself with people who don’t know the encyclopedia of your past. It reinforces your willingness to broaden your horizons, to get unstuck and to move in new directions.

So here are 10 reasons why you should travel!

Gives us time to heal, reduces stress and helps us regain enthusiasm for life
Travel simply makes you happier. You face your challenges and learn how to win your fears, you achieve your personal goals, and you feel satisfied with yourself. You become wiser and more relaxed. You create new memories, day by day. Can you imagine how great that feels? It’s about being pleased with your life. Even your bad times will turn into good memories that will make you laugh. Happiness will be your travel mate.

Gives us a break from our fast-paced lives
Traveling to other parts of the world, particularly less developed countries, is a way of simultaneously escaping your own problems and putting those problems into perspective. Seeing new things and meeting new people can help you get out of the cycle of working and worrying, and your own problems may not seem so large when you see the context of how most of the rest of the world lives.

Connects us to other cultures and people
There’s something satisfying about being able to throw around a few words of Greek, knowing how to say hello and thanks in Thai, pulling out that long dormant Spanish to book a room in Santiago, or simply hearing a language you didn’t know existed just a few weeks before.

Expands our awareness and introduces us to greater diversity
If you are open to it, travel will simply make you a better-rounded human being. Which is really the goal, isn’t it? The satisfaction you get when reaching the top of the mountain, or crossing a gorge, or helping a villager clean up after a storm, or simply getting what you wanted at restaurant in rural China, these things all allow access to skill sets you didn’t know you had

Helps us break habits: mentally, physically, and emotionally
When you travel, you understand how unnecessary some things are and you start filling your life with experiences instead of things. You are occupied with the beautiful serene that nature can make.

It helps you feel free full of energy and alive
Living a comfortable life, doesn’t mean being fully alive. But when you leave your comfort zone and travel, you feel better and lighter. You act by yourself and you live fully. It’s like an adrenaline rush and there’s nothing like it to make you feel alive. In less words? Travel to be alive!

Promotes patience by releasing heavy expectations of the “one right way” mentality thereby allowing life to flow more organically
When we travel we meet people who are not has privilege as we are and yet they are happy and hopeful that there is light at the end of the tunnel. You learn from the different customs and traditions of people that there is no absolute rule in life of who you can be but life is what you make out of it.

It helps improve couples sexual relationship
According to a survey, couples who travel together have a better sexual relationship than couples who don’t travel together. Traveling together cuts the work and stress into half, enough to spark romance and affection. According to the survey more than three quarters of those who traveled admitted that they have a good sex life.

Helps you get to know yourself better: the true you is rediscovered
Traveling with all the challenges it presents and opportunities, let’s you discover who you are in a way that only the road brings. While traveling you rediscover yourself and you figure out what really matters to you. You learn how weak you are and how strong you are. You learn your limits. You follow your instincts and start trusting in yourself.

Provides learning and education about places and history
Seeing the world provides a source of education absolutely impossible get in school.

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