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Hiking with Young Star Mentoring - Why it works

Clear Your Mind

The world has a lot of overstimulating objects that are trying to get your attention all of the time. Sometimes, you need time to yourself so that you can help clear your mind and consume the world once again. Although you need time to clear your mind, the world doesn’t make it easy for people to do that. A lot of people find that the stress of their everyday lives can clutter up their minds and make them not feel at peace in their thoughts. But if you’re a hiker, you have an excuse to leave behind the world, even for a little while. When you go hiking, all you need to know about is the trail.

Even physical activity can help improve your brainpower. One such physical exercise that you should do is hiking. In fact, some studies have found that walking even for only 15 minutes a day can help add more years to your life.

Community & Friendship

You don’t have to be by yourself when you go hiking. At Young Star Mentoring you have your hiking family go with you. There’s nothing quite like a strong social network that is around similar interests, such as hiking. And since human beings are social creatures, finding ways to interact with people is going to improve your overall mental well-being. Hiking offers a lot of mental health benefits that anyone can reap. From sparking your creativity to improving your mood, there is much that you can look forward to when you go on a hike with us.

Boost your Confidence & Self-Esteem

Hiking requires you to rely on nobody but yourself and your ability to survive in your hiking environment. If you do manage to hike by yourself, it’s going to help boost your self-esteem by a lot. Knowing that you can rely on yourself while you hike is a mindset that is going to help you reflect on the rest of your life. Hiking is pretty straightforward as an activity, unlike some other exercises.

All you need to focus on is the trail. It’s going to reduce your tendency to ruminate, which will reduce your overall negative emotions and improve your outlook in life. As mentioned before, hiking is a pretty straightforward activity. Although it’s honest, it still requires all of your attention, especially for multi-day hikes. The more often you go hiking, the better it is for you to learn the art of focus and concentration.

Sparks Creativity

Hiking can also have a positive effect on your creativity. When you go hiking often, you can start improving your memory. Aside from that, you can also enhance the neurogenesis in your brain, which will help create new nerve cells in the body. The creation of new nerve cells will help spark your creativity.

Aside from that, hiking gets you to new places that you probably haven’t been to before. Sometimes, if you are stuck in the same place all the time, it can be hard to be creative. A simple change of environment and a change of pace can help stimulate creativity, which is how hiking helps.

Unplugs You From the World

The modern world requires you to get plugged the moment you wake up. Although it has its benefits, sometimes you need to get away from it all. If you need that moment to unplug from the world, then hiking is the best activity for that.