Stress is a frequent word in the discourse of personal health and it has become a cliché. Various definitions given to the word as it relates to health condition have a common ideology that stress is a feeling of having little or no control of one’s physical, mental or emotional state. Some of the situations that can aroused these feelings are:

• Financial Problem
• Work
• Personal Relationship
• Parenting
• Daily Life and Busyness

See https://www.webmd.com for various signs and symptoms of Stress

Though, it is believed that some healthy dose of stress is necessary for an individual to make progress in different areas of life. The question is “what amount of stress should be considered as a healthy dose and what instrument should be used to measure it?” These are questions medical researchers have not been able to provide answers to.

It is known that prolong stress can cause

• Mental health problems such as depression,anxiety and personality disorder.
• Cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack.
• Obesity and other eating disorders.
• Sexual dysfunction.

Without losing focus on the topic, let’s look at how travelling or taking a tour can relieve the effect of stress. But first, it is important that we establish what we mean by travelling or taking a tour.

Travelling or taking a tour in this context simply refers to taking a break from your daily regular schedules and taking a trip either to see your love ones, parents, friends, acquaintance or going on an adventure like visiting special historic places, mountain climbing or scuba diving. These events are believed to have a numbing effect on stress. It may not be that expensive trip to Dubai, America or London.There are wonderful and lovely places you can visit here in Nigeria that can do the magic of relieving of that stress. Visit https://timbu.com/nigeria to find various places you can find adventures in Nigeria.

Here are the 5 ways travelling and tours can relieve stress:

1. Travelling removes people from the activities and environments that they associate with stress and anxiety.
2. Travel increases happiness and satisfaction. People tend to be happier when travelling and they don’t have to worry about work related issues.
3. Travel lower the risk of depression and suicide. Writer Patrick Rothfuss said, ” A long stretch of road can teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.
4. It enhances creativity. People get stressed when they cannot come up with solutions to their immediate challenges. But according to Adam Galinsky, a professor at Colombia Business School, “Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms.”
5. It makes you mentally sound and resilient. Travelling exposes you to difficulties in a new environment and people and this forces you to learn and to adapt to a life out of your comfort zone. This improve your emotional stability.

So far, we have seen the paradox of stress, the effect of prolong stress and various ways travelling can reduce stress. I also believed you have checked out the signs and symptoms. A quote from a great philosopher says “Man know thy self” and another one says “prevention is better than cure”. Don’t wait until the signs and symptoms are well pronounced, take some time out of your busy schedules and take a trip and rejuvenate yourself. Please visit https://timbu.com/nigeria for guides on adventures in Nigeria.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton