How travel improves your mental health
A road to your mental health
Travel is a break from your work environment, avoid burnout, and restimulate your creativity. Give yourself this gift to help maintain your overall well-being.
Hitting the road, taking flight, or sailing the seas to places known and unknown enriches your life – you will feel healthier, doing wonders for your mind and body.
How it gives you Anxiety Relief and Stress Reduction
An Escape from your Daily Stressors
Travel gives you a chance for a much-needed break from stressors by stepping away from the daily grind and the pressures of routine,
New Experiences, New Places
A change of scenery, exploring new places and engaging in new activities reduces stress and anxiety offering a new outlook and perspective.
A change is as good as a rest
A change in your daily routine will lead to a sense of calm and relaxation.
“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“Collect moments, not things.” – Anonymous
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
How it gives you Enhanced Happiness and Well-being
Boost Positive Emotions
Travel provides time for experiences of joy, excitement, and gratitude, boosting overall happiness, well-being, and improved positive emotions.
Improved Mood
Engaging in new experiences and activities takes you away from negativity, giving you a new perspective that improves your mood by reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Sense of Accomplishment
Believe it or not, planning a trip provides a sense of accomplishment that contributes to feeling good about yourself, a reward.
You don’t have to go far to experience new places and people.
A nearby town for lunch and a walk, a city with a waterfront… there is much to explore in our own province and country to bring new experiences.
Let’s bring the topic back to music.
Remembering the song The Happy Wanderer, opens with…
I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.
The Original words for this song was written by Florenz Friedrich Sigismund in the early 1800s.
After World War II, Friedrich-Wilhelm Moller wrote the music to it.
Today we can still relate to the words in this song.
I love to wander by the stream
That dances in the sun,
So joyously it calls to me,
“Come! Join my happy song!”
I wave my hat to all I meet,
And they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev’ry green wood tree.
As a German Folk song, in it’s original composition and originally recorded by The Obernkirchen Children Choir becoming a world wide hit. Antonia Ridge put English words to it and in 1954, British orchestra leader, Frank Weir released his version of the song. It was the #17 song of 1954.
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