Travel can be thought of as a way to have fun, leisure time to relax or as an escape. But travel can have many other benefits to your mind and soul.

Neuroscience has studied brain behavior and different ways to enhance its functions as a way to make our lives better.

One of the things your brain can thrive while doing is traveling and visiting new places. It’s not crucial to travel to farthest place on the planet to say that you have traveled. It only takes to go out for a while and to try new things.

Some benefits of travel to the brain

Seeing New places

This includes new sensory inputs to your brain. Things like new places to see, new voices to hear, new creatures to encounter or new odors to smell are so important to brain connections formation.

New sensory inputs keep your brain active and avoid feeling of boredom.

New experiments

Being isolated form the daily routine you are familiar with keeps your brain challenged and willing to learn more and thus grow by experiments.

Different cultures

As you meet new people with different cultures, different norms and different customs you know things that you can never read in books.

Adapt to uncommon situations

Think of how many times you were bothered to sleep on the couch at your home or at your grandma’s. Then recall when you were traveling and had to stay on the floor for twelve hours for transit at the airport.

In fact there is a website that’s called coach surfing where you can find and rent couches to stay abroad.

That coach surfing might be the best thing you have tried in your travel. And by facing many situations of that kind can make you more adaptive to many other situations in your life.

Being immersed by new languages

Some researchers and neuroscientists think that language is the main form of cognition. Thus learning more languages make us more aware and conscious.

Traveling to new countries takes you to a new place where you can be totally immersed in new languages you might never heard of.

Creating new memory palaces

Memory palace is an ancient way of deliberately remembering things by anchoring them to real physical places. This ancient technique has been recently scientifically verified using brain imaging techniques which showed that geo-special area of the brain is active when trying to remember memories.

This means that as you see and visit more places the more you have memories and the better your memory is.

Being connected to experiments not to things
As you try more experiments you become hungry for more of them. And fortunately, the world is full of new experiments to try.

Being hungry for trying new experiments is a healthier habit that being obsessed with hording and collecting physical stuff.

Do yourself a favor and change your mood by traveling abroad or just by getting out to a new place in your city.

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Have fun.