Traveling is a passion, a way of living. It will help to find yourself, or it will help you to gain a better perspective of who you already are. You can never travel too far.
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A strong desire to travel is called wanderlust. If you dream of backpacking through Europe and then taking a quick spin through southeast Asia, you have wanderlust. The Germans call the strong urge for travel wanderlust, literally a desire for wandering.
Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander. Dromomania has also been referred to as traveling fugue. Non-clinically, the term has come to be used to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust.
Sometimes we experience wanderlust because we want to get away from the familiar, and travel represents the best way to do it. If you're feeling the urge to pack up your life and run to somewhere else, there are good scientific reasons for that sensation, from a need for novelty to a potential genetic push.
It provides a new way to perceive life, who you are, and how you spend your time. When you travel, you meet new people, cultures, experience new things, embark on all sorts of adventures (good and bad), and perhaps even redefine your meaning of life.
We know that travel opens your eyes to the minutiae of life, and studies suggest that it opens up your brain as well. When we find ourselves in a new situation, our brain sends out messages as it works to understand our surroundings. These messages create new neural pathways, which connect different parts of the brain.
Traveling can improve your mental health by: Helping you feel calm. Taking time from work to see new places releases the stress you've been holding onto. Relieving the tension and stress of your work life lets your mind relax and heal.
Traveling helps you enrich your own personal history. Traveling is about more than history; traveling is about enriching your own life. It's about making memories, creating life-long friendships, and so much more. As you grow old, you will be grateful for the days that you took to travel and try new things.
It increases self-awareness. Being more open to others also makes us more open to ourselves. A recent study showed that living abroad — and reflecting on your own values as you encounter unfamiliar situations and people each and every day — makes you more self-aware and less stressed.
If you haven't traveled as a child, the best age to travel as an adult is in your early adulthood. And one exceptional way to travel in your late teens or early 20s is through a college study abroad experience.
In fact, frequent business travelers tend to suffer from health problems ranging from obesity to insomnia. “Oddly enough, those who never travel and those who travel the most seem to be the sickest,” says Soumya Panchagnula, M.D., a family medicine specialist with Henry Ford Health.
“When travel is motivated by a desire to escape reality,” she adds, “to embrace a nearly fictional experience that is free of the burdens of life…the experience becomes escapist in quality.”
In rare instances, yes, there is, says Dr Michael Brein, a social psychologist who specialises in travel and intercultural communication. I know and have met many people, some of whom seemed to live to travel in such a manner that they could conceivably get themselves in trouble, for, say, running out of money.