The psychological effect of travel

Summer we expect throughout the cold season, as most of the summer on vacation during the holidays, we can not afford to rest on this and go on a long-awaited journey.

What is it, the journey? Why do we dream about it? So exciting to look forward to the time when you need to collect and things and to get under way in the path to the unknown and interesting at the same time?

I would like to answer these questions from the perspective of science of psychology.

Travel - it's more than just change places. Any trip, if properly used, can solve the problems, fulfilling the desires.

During the trip, we are able, finally, to do something that really want, not something that obliges us to everyday life. In the journey, many people gain the coveted space of autonomy, a source of fulfillment of desires. It's no secret that after traveling and new experiences we feel a surge of strength and desire to create new.

Some travel motives sound like: the desire to learn more about themselves, or find that person who shares the journey with, think about the issues.

Journey - this is the best means of self-education. Traveling far from home, we learn to be responsible, both for themselves and for others. Mark Twain said that the best way to find out whether you love someone or hate it - is to go with this man on a journey.

Getting acquainted with a new culture, landscapes, cities and people, we enrich ourselves. We want them to understand and accept yourself, remember a few words and phrases in another language, live in their traditions and customs, thus expanding their horizons and outlook. What we get when traveling, you can not learn from a television program.

In the journey we live our fantasies and dreams. Climbing high into the mountains, going into the woods, walking through the streets of an unknown unknown city we feel like pioneers and adventurers. Breaking up the tent, we "get along" nomadic life of our ancestors, to voluntarily implement the job as a lumberjack, fisherman, firewood gatherer. All this breaks ossified habits and makes us more tolerant and receptive to anything new.

What psychological factors can be identified in the journey? That promotes personal growth, change, self-knowledge?

Journey starts in our process of change. A person's life - it's a long series of transitions from one stage to another: kindergarten, school enrollment, graduation exams, going to college, getting started, and so on. D. Not always for this transition, we are ready psychologically. We are stuck at some stage and act in accordance with the same habits, stereotypes. Travel help us break out of its torpor and stagnation.
Travel teach us to be prepared for the unexpected in life and tolerate their transfer.
Travel offer us opportunities for personal growth, change, self-knowledge. Travel brings us back to ourselves.
In the journey a person can enjoy the freedom, dispose of his time.
Travel - an emotional "shake", it leads to an active state our brain and nervous system, stimulates all the processes in the body. Positive and negative emotions are experienced more intensely. Returning home, we'd better analyze the situation and make decisions.
Travel sharpen our senses, make more vivid sensations, expand "repertoire" of our personality. We are opening a new strengths and abilities, become hardier, more patient, resolute, enterprising, smarter.
Travel opens up a new perception of time and space. We feel the hustle and bustle of big cities and the slowness of the provincial hinterland. Through the experience of space and distance, for example, when we go up to the mountains, overcoming deserts, forests, cross continents, many days go by train, we feel about the world in which we live, and our role in it.
People travel from time immemorial - as humanity exists.

But we should be careful not to travel too many. Otherwise, our impressions fade. Erna Bombeck writer warns: "If you began to look the same as the picture in your passport, it's time to go home».

In conclusion I would like to be sure to emphasize that travel stimulate our intellect: "I travel, therefore I think».

We become observant. Learn to plan. Thinking and memory run at 100%, there are forces, the existence of which we are unaware of. Forgotten skills and the ability to return again.

Impressions and feelings do not pass unnoticed. The desire to share with others is sufficiently large. Creative creative capabilities allow us to write a poem, essay or even a song. Paint a picture, to hold an exhibition of photos - all thanks to travel.

Resource recovery knowledge and skills, activated ability is very useful to us in the new academic year in order to achieve goals in school and in life. Successful you do!