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6 April, 2018

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The Psychological Benefits of Travel
 <p>Touring the world is not only fun and exciting, it also helps you live longer and better. That’s not just us saying it, science has studied it and corroborated it, for the record! The truth is that traveling makes us more empathetic, broadens our perspectives, increases our knowledge, generates positive thinking and many other things. And, that's how we perceive it when we return home and look back, right? From the Hotel GreenSuites Sevilla we wanted to collect a few of the psychological benefits that travel offers. What are you waiting for to discover them?</p>   <h2>1. <strong>It Broadens our Perspective of the World Around Us</strong></h2>   <p>The truth is that traveling helps us to revitalise and better focus our lives. There are as many travel options that can broaden our horizons as there are people in the world: from traveling to India to live for 3 months, to studying abroad for a four to six month period in a country radically different from your own, to organising a weekend trip with friends in a cabin in the countryside or even cycling around a mountain on a sunny morning. There are many travel alternatives and all of them are valid to show that going out of our comfort zone helps us to broaden our perspective on life.</p>   <h2><strong>2. It Strengthens Our Social Relationships</strong></h2>   <p>When we travel accompanied, be that with our partner, with our friends, with our parents, etc. the social relationship previously established with them is strengthened since new situations are experienced that give rise to interesting or funny anecdotes that cause us to come together as members of a common group. These new experiences, to whatever degree, also offer us an intrinsic benefit because they bring us to experience and come to terms with realities that perhaps we did not know were there before and now, after living them, they help us to understand ourselves and know how we react to them. They are all advantages, aren't they?</p>   <h2>3. <strong>It Develops Our Creativity</strong></h2>   <p>Currently there are scientific studies that corroborate the relationship between increased creativity and knowledge of new cultures when we travel. According to José Manuel Moltó Jordá, a member of the Spanish Society of Neurology, "travelling opens our minds, makes it more creative and gives us more capacity to understand". This doctor explains, in an interview by the magazine National Geographic, that the reaction to new sensations activates our brain because we need to adapt to them and, due to this readaptation, our creativity is benefited and further developed.</p>   <h2><strong>4. Encourages Positive Feelings</strong></h2>   <p>In addition to all of the above, travel enhances our ability to problem solve and generates positive emotions, increasing our communication skills and reducing stress. The truth is that from the moment you start organising the trip you have wanted to take for so long until you enjoy it, even come back and remember it, a series of positive thoughts associated with the illusion of getting to know a new country, traveling with the person you love or discovering a new language, etc. are many reasons why a trip boosts our joy and our emotion. How could you miss this wonderful way of being happy! What is the next trip you would like to take?</p> 
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Tips to Plan the Perfect Trip
 <p>When organizing a trip, even the most experienced traveller has questions like: How can I plan everything so that there are no surprises during my trip? Or, what should I do to arrive at my destination with all the necessary information? These are logical questions that anyone who is planning a trip, sooner or later, will ask themselves. Therefore, from the Hotel GreenSuites Sevilla we’ve put together a list of tips for organizing a trip so that it does not turn into an odyssey and you can have a guide with the most important things to take into consideration:</p>   <h2>1. <strong>Choose your Destination</strong></h2>   <p>To start planning a trip, wherever it is, it is essential to have a general idea of what you would like to visit. However, you shouldn’t focus on only one option either, ideally you should search for various destinations and choose which suits you best according to prices and interests, which we will discuss later. If you are not clear on the destination, it is important that you keep an eye out for any offers that may appear online in case you happen to find something interesting.</p>   <h2>2. <strong>Set Limits for your Budget</strong></h2>   <p>Another key point in planning a trip is to analyse what your travel budget will include. Once you’ve got that settled, you can choose whether you’d like to take a trip alone or with friends or family. In that case, the total budget might increase if the costs are shared and you ultimately spend less money. Also, it is important to determine how many days you’ll be traveling and calculate an average daily expenditure. All of these factors will play into your budget amount.</p>   <h2>3. <strong>Choose Where you’re Going to Stay</strong></h2>   <p>This will depend on the chosen destination, but accommodation is one of the factors that most influence safety while travelling. Choosing a campsite is not the same as booking a hotel. In any case, this point will be key to plan the place from which you’ll be able to get to know the location you choose and to study the comforts that each lodging has to offer in terms of distance, food and tourist routes.</p>   <h2> 4. <strong>Make Sure your Documents are Up To Date and Valid</strong></h2>   <p>This is an important point that couldn’t be left out in our advice list. It is one of the most important things to keep in mind and perhaps the one that can take you the most time to manage. Having a valid national identity card and passport should be one of the tasks on your list when planning your next trip. If you have both in order, congratulations! If this is not your case, we recommend that you request an appointment at your nearest registry and take care of the issue well in advance, it will save you problems during the trip! Also important, ask the consulate of the country you are going to visit if you need to get vaccinated before you travel.</p>   <h2>5. <strong>Research and Get Informed about Where you’re going</strong></h2>   <p>Last but not least, choose your favourite search engine and get researching about the city or country you are going to visit. It is a good idea to travel with a general idea of what you might need while there. Take a look and find out if you’ll need to convert any money and what the best way to do that is, which languages are spoken, what are common habits there or even how you will be able to move around while there. All of this will help you to have an unforgettable experience.</p> 
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Tips to Relax Your Mind and Body
 <p>Learning techniques and developing healthy habits for relaxation can help us avoid continuously feeling stressed. In order to do that, we’ll need to identify tools to better cope with those moments of excessive worry surrounding a particular issue. There are a multitude of issues every day that require our attention and decision making, but it is important that these two aspects not get the best of us, for our own physical and mental well-being. At Hotel GreenSuites Sevilla we’ve put together a few tips to help reach a healthy state of relaxation for the mind and body when you need it most in times of stress. Make sure to take notes to remember for later!</p>   <h2>1. Notice what is worrying you</h2>   <p>It is important to first be aware that our mind requires attention that we sometimes may not be able to give it. We often invest too much time and energy in matters that, when it comes down to it, do not depend on our actions and therefore should not involve so much of our attention. Nowadays, we tend to be more impatient human beings and look for immediate results and quick solutions. However, there are issues in life that cannot be resolved within a short period of time. For this reason, it is very important to become aware of the thoughts that worry us, and at the same time, identify if they are a factor associated with a real event or if it simply something created in our own minds that hasn’t occurred or may not occur at all. This can help us to see the situation from another point of view.</p>   <h2>2. Breathe and think positively</h2>   <p>Breathing is essential for our bodies to stay alive. As it is involuntary, we do not pay attention to breathing. However, in stressful situations, with strong emotions involved, it is highly recommended to stop, inhale and exhale for a few minutes focusing on our breathing. If we are seeking to relax our body and mind, to do so, it can be very rewarding to practice inhalation and exhalation exercises.</p>   <h2>3. Start an activity</h2>   <p>Taking advantage of the distraction provided by a physical activity whether it be cooking, reading, watching a film, or going out for a walk or run is essential for focusing your attention on a hobby that helps you feel relaxed and calm. Likewise, it prevents one from thinking about that stressful subject. Once you’ve finished the activity, the issue is still there but you’ve had time to relax your mind from the issue so you can see it from a new perspective.</p>   <h2>4. Sleep</h2>   <p>The truth is that sleep is one of the most effective forms of total relaxation that exists, as through sleep, our mind accesses a state of calm that frees us from tension and allows the body to relax naturally. In fact, you don’t even need a full night’s sleep to feel relaxed. Resting for a 30-minute nap would be enough to wake up calm and feeling different. You might even notice a significant change the same day. As Thomas Jefferson famously stated, “It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”</p>   <p>In summary, keeping our mind and body relaxed is key to taking care of our physical and emotional health. If you follow the advice suggested, you will be able to feel better even when stress or sadness seem to take over. Each one of us has our own battles to deal with and the most important aspect is learning techniques that can help to take on those issues in order to feel better daily.</p> 
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