We expect summer throughout the cold season, since mainly in summer on holidays, during vacations we can afford to have a real rest and go on a long-awaited journey.
What is this, travel? Why do we dream about him so much? So excitedly awaiting the moment when you need to collect things and get under way, to the unknown and at the same time interesting?
I would like to answer these questions from the point of view of the science of psychology.
Traveling is more than just changing places. Any journey, if used correctly, can solve problems, fulfill desires.
During the trip, we have the opportunity, finally, to do what we really want, and not what our daily life obliges us to do. While traveling, many people acquire the desired space of independence, a source of self-realization of desires. It's no secret that after trips and new impressions, we feel a surge of strength and a desire to create new things.
Some of the motives of the trip sound like: a desire to get to know yourself better, or to get to know the person with whom you are sharing a trip, to think about problems.
Travel is the best way to educate yourself. Traveling far from home, we learn to take responsibility, both for ourselves and for other people. Mark Twain said that the best way to find out if you love or hate someone is to take that person on a journey.
Getting acquainted with a new culture, landscapes, cities and people, we enrich ourselves. We want to understand and accept them, we memorize a few words and phrases in another language, we live in their traditions and customs, thereby expanding our horizons and outlook. What we receive while traveling is impossible to learn from a television program.
On the journey, we live our fantasies and dreams. Climbing high into the mountains, going into the forest, walking along the unknown streets of an unknown city, we feel like pioneers and adventurers. By pitching a tent, we "live" the nomadic life of our ancestors, voluntarily doing the work of a woodcutter, a fisherman, and a brushwood collector. All this breaks ossified habits and makes us more receptive and tolerant of everything new.
What are the psychological factors that can be identified while traveling? What contributes to personal growth, change, self-knowledge?
• Travel launches a process of change in us. Human life is a long series of transitions from one stage to another: kindergarten, school entrance, final exams, college entrance, starting work, etc. We are not always psychologically ready for such a transition. We get stuck at some stage and act in accordance with old habits and stereotypes. Traveling helps us to break out of stupor and stagnation.
• Travel teaches us to be ready for the unexpected in life and to tolerate them.
• Traveling opens up opportunities for personal growth, change, and self-knowledge. Traveling takes us back to ourselves.
• While traveling, a person can enjoy freedom, have their own time.
• Travel is an emotional "shake-up", it brings our brain and nervous system into an active state, stimulates all processes in the body. Positive and negative emotions are experienced more intensely. Back home, we better analyze situations and make decisions.
• Traveling sharpens our senses, makes sensations more vivid, expands the “repertoire” of our personality. We discover new strengths and opportunities in ourselves, become more enduring, patient, more decisive, more enterprising, more intelligent.
• Traveling opens up a new perception of time and space for us. We feel the hustle and bustle of big cities and the slowness of the provincial hinterland. Through the experience of space and distances, for example, when we climb mountains, overcome deserts, forests, cross continents, travel by train for many days, we feel the relativity of the world where we live and our role in it.
People have been traveling since time immemorial - as long as humanity has existed.
But you have to be careful not to travel too much. Otherwise our impressions will fade. Writer Erna Bombek warns: "If you look like the photo in your passport, then it's time to go home."
In conclusion, I would like to emphasize that travel stimulates our intelligence: "I travel, therefore, I think."
We are becoming more observant. Learning to plan. Thinking and memory work 100%. Forces appear, the existence of which we did not know. Forgotten skills and abilities return again.
Impressions and experiences do not go unnoticed. The desire to share with others is great enough. Creative creativity allows us to write a poem, an essay, or even a song. To paint a picture, to arrange an exhibition of photographs - all this is thanks to the journey.
The restored resources of knowledge and skills, activated abilities will be very useful to us in the new academic year to achieve
