9 Ideas To Travel Consciously

A trip is not just an opportunity to rest and disconnect from our daily routine. It is also an excellent opportunity for self-connection. In this sense, it is a perfect time to break the old mirrors in which we house our little self and open ourselves to the world, which will allow us to return to our daily lives wiser and more complete ; transformed, in a word.

How to have a memorable travel experience

A conscious trip is almost never just a trip, because traveling does not consist only in crossing our physical borders, but, above all, in expanding them, in
discovering that, somehow, we do not end up in our own skin.

1. Be aware

Before starting the journey, take note of all the fears that surface within you and name them, no matter how ridiculous some of them may seem to you. Fears need to manifest. They just want you to know that they exist and pay attention to them. Think that they are natural and that brave people are not those who have no fear but those who become aware of them and act to combat them.

2. Ignore your fears

Once you’ve taken note of your fears, allow yourself the luxury of ignoring them. You already know that they are there, you do not have to stare at them to the point that they block or even deter you from making your trip. Think of fear as an annoying fly and be willing to open the window to let it go.

3. Take precautions

Opening the window to invite your fears to leave involves two things: anticipating the predictable and opening up to the unpredictable. Anticipate everything that can happen judiciously, without falling into obsession. It’s just a trip! And be open to the unpredictable with the certainty that the unexpected does not have to be negative.

Surely you can return home with a lot of surprising and pleasant experiences to tell.

4. Trust your own resources

Think of the large number of people around you in your city who are possibly just passing through. Many will not know the language, others will not even have used similar means of transport in their countries of origin, most will have totally different habits from yours.

Do you think their fears and insecurities are so visible and determining? Obviously not. They are likely to be scared, but they will most likely rely on their own resources to get ahead.

5. Don’t schedule everything

Save the map and start using your inner compass. Let your journey teach you what you need to learn. And don’t be a slave to your own plan : let your natural desires and inclinations surface. Otherwise, a trip will be just one more obligation in a different setting.

6. Open yourself to knowledge

Are you traveling out of obligation, for pleasure, to rest or perhaps out of a need to find yourself? Perhaps your trip has no purpose beyond the merely tourist, but, even so, living an extraordinary activity can teach you many things that you did not expect : try to incorporate new knowledge, new attitudes and new ideas into your life.

7. Land fully

Get rid of your being known for a few moments. Let go, let go of the old to make way for the new. If you go to a place that you have not visited yet, but your attention is still focused on the place where you normally live, the trip will only serve to compare and evaluate but never to discover.

8. Get more involved

Traveling requires flexibility and tolerance. If we only travel to change scenery, we will return as we left. And if we do not allow the experiences, colors and flavors that we live in some way to sink into us, we are not making it possible for life to help us continue learning and evolving.

9. Experience the transformation

It is not a cliché: a trip can change your life. It is a small existence, different from the one we already know, of only a few days. In a short space of time so many different events are concentrated that, necessarily, they are significant. Give them the value they have and become an open channel through which all these experiences pass to see what was left of them inside you once you get home.