Nutrition, meditation, and exercise are all very effective methods of sustaining a healthy mindset, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Some can’t stay quiet long enough to meditate, others eat relatively healthy but still suffer symptoms. The diversity of the human race is our virtue, and sometimes this virtue calls for us to individualise our approach to health.
Nutrition, meditation, and exercise are all very effective methods of sustaining a healthy mindset, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Some can’t stay quiet long enough to meditate, others eat relatively healthy but still suffer symptoms. The diversity of the human race is our virtue, and sometimes this virtue calls for us to individualise our approach to health.
If you are looking for a new, and might we add, fun approach to mental health keep reading. We show you just how jet-setting, van-lifeing and cruising the waters of the world can improve your mental health.
Increase your endorphins without even knowing it
Incidental exercise is the fastest and easiest way of getting fit and maintaining your fitness. Travelling is a fun way of increasing your incidental exercise. You will clock up the km’s very quickly without realising. Another way of staying fit while on holiday is by planning activities that require exercise. Think hiking, swimming, or even rock climbing. If that isn’t your type of fun go for a calm stroll in a botanical garden or book a yoga class.
Incidental exercise is an excellent way to increase the feel-good hormone called endorphins—which relieve stress and exciting very quickly
Think of travel as an effective probiotic
Travelling to new locations exposes your immune system to an array of pathogens. And similar to the way vaccines work (small exposure to diseases), travelling can help build a healthy immunity defense. Stomachs have been commonly dubbed as our second brain—an unhealthy gut flora leads to emotional imbalances. Keeping your gut in a harmonic balance of good and bad bacteria will assist them in the effective processing of emotional responses from the gut to the brain.
We urge you to continue practising general hygiene, however, travel incidentally encourages your immune system to function at its best!
Get Into Energetic Alignment
Many locations around the world are renowned for being sacred healing spaces. Machu Picchu, Uluru, and the Pura Tirta Empul in Bali are just some of these examples. The energy fields have been thought of to connect you to the divine. At the very least, you will be in energetic alignment to begin healing your mind on a spiritual level. If you should visit one of these locations, take time to shut off the borrowed emotions from society and learn to be at peace with your emotions — even the gnarly ones. Acknowledge, release and heal.
Travel Relieves Stress
Like instantly! Removing yourself from your everyday habits, as well as forgetting all your responsibilities affords the space for you to just be. And this is great because you can return to your authentic essence. Remind yourself of who you are, your passions, your strengths and acknowledge your weaknesses. Be you unapologetically.
If ‘being’ doesn’t come easy to you, book a massage or a skydiving session. Whatever works to release some of that bent up energy. Whichever activity you choose, indulge in it mindfully. Accept this is self-care and acknowledge your commitment to yourself to release the emotions that do not serve you at present.
This is a habit you can bring back with you from the holiday.
Feeling inspired? Discover our best de-stress destinations here.
Unstuck Yourself
Feeling a little stagnant in life? If you have hit a fork in the road and you’re not sure where your life is heading—travel will help you to feel unstuck. Discovering new experiences will challenge your norm. You’ll find yourself utilising skill you don’t typically draw on. Some of the things you are capable of doing on holiday will surprise you.
This is great!
Revealing a side of yourself you didn’t know existed is enough to spark curiosity in discovering your true potential in life. You’ll find yourself testing what else you can do. This isn’t about unearthing the things you do well—travel will reveal the resilience you have to try, fail, try again, succeed, and so forth.
Work/Life Balance
You work very hard to support your lifestyle, and travel is a great way of rewarding your hard work. If you are consistently putting in the hours and not rewarding your efforts — you are experiencing a deficit. The more you take care of your wants and needs, the more satisfied you will feel in your professional life, and vice versa.
If travel is calling your name and you don’t fulfil that dream, you will begin to resent your present. Booking a holiday is a commitment to yourself. It says that you are important and so is your mental health. The instant gratification and satisfaction from doing so are invaluable.
Now that know a little more about how amazingly beneficial travel is for your you, why not book a holiday! All in the name of health of course!
