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Rx: Travel: Your Prescription IS Travel. Trending research provides tips and strategies to benefit your mental, physical and emotional health through travel.
Do you dream about traveling? You must know that traveling is good for our mental, physical and emotional health. This book will give you the tips and strategies from travel research to boost memory and cognition, relieve stress, improve fitness, heighten your overall happiness and find enjoyment in your life. Travel around the corner or around the world. Make the choice to live a healthier life.
If you need the motivation to travel or wish you could convince someone to travel with you, research overwhelmingly shows that travel can boost memory and cognition, relieve stress, improve your fitness, heighten your overall happiness and provide real enjoyment in your life. Developing a positive attitude toward travel and knowing how to gain the highest level of benefits will improve you mind, body and soul. The research shows that if you “get away” – whether around the corner to an event or around the world – the benefits are possible.
Janet Stevens, Ph.D. is an educational researcher and wanted to gather information to show that travel is good for us. She believes that if you have a positive bias or attitude toward travel – acquired from reading RX: Travel which provides the proof or research – you will gain more from traveling that someone who does not believe travel is good for you.
We can all make things happen when we know and believe it is important to us. Most people do not think that travel is an important part of our lives – so we put it on the back burner or work it in when we can. But travel is important. It is your prescription to improve you mental, physical and emotional health.
When Janet was young, she used to say that when she grew up – she wanted to become a “tourist”. Sounded like a good job. As long as her parents paid for her trips and excursions – she would go and learn. After that (on her own nickel), lots of things got in the way of traveling and that dream. Eventually she found ways to get away. The more she traveled, the more she believed it is not a luxury but essential to our brain, body and mental health.
If you need the motivation to travel or wish you could convince someone to travel with you, research overwhelmingly shows that travel can boost memory and cognition, relieve stress, improve your fitness, heighten your overall happiness and provide real enjoyment in your life. Developing a positive attitude toward travel and knowing how to gain the highest level of benefits will improve you mind, body and soul. The research shows that if you “get away” – whether around the corner to an event or around the world – the benefits are possible.
Janet Stevens, Ph.D. is an educational researcher and wanted to gather information to show that travel is good for us. She believes that if you have a positive bias or attitude toward travel – acquired from reading RX: Travel which provides the proof or research – you will gain more from traveling that someone who does not believe travel is good for you.
We can all make things happen when we know and believe it is important to us. Most people do not think that travel is an important part of our lives – so we put it on the back burner or work it in when we can. But travel is important. It is your prescription to improve you mental, physical and emotional health.
When Janet was young, she used to say that when she grew up – she wanted to become a “tourist”. Sounded like a good job. As long as her parents paid for her trips and excursions – she would go and learn. After that (on her own nickel), lots of things got in the way of traveling and that dream. Eventually she found ways to get away. The more she traveled, the more she believed it is not a luxury but essential to our brain, body and mental health.
119 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 11, 2018
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About the author
Janet Stevens
82 books59 followersJanet Stevens began drawing as a child. Pictures decorated her walls, mirrors, furniture and school work -- including math assignments. While this didn't always sit well with her teachers, it was what she loved to do.
Janet’s father was in the Navy therefore she moved a great deal and attended many schools while growing up.
After graduating from high school in Hawaii in 1971 she landed a job creating Hawaiian designs for fabric. The printed fabric was then made into aloha shirts and muumuus. After she graduated from the University of Colorado in 1975 with a degree in Fine Arts Janet began compiling a portfolio of “characters”, bears in tutus, rhinos in sneakers, and walruses in Hawaiian shirts. In 1977, she attended “The Illustrator's Workshop” in New York City, where it was suggested that her characters might find a home in a children's book. Luckily for libraries (and children's book readers in general), publishers agreed and her first book was published in 1979.
Janet is the author and illustrator of many original stories and frequently collaborates with her sister, Susan Stevens Crummel. Her trademark humorous animals also accompany the texts by such authors as Eric Kimmel and Coleen Salley,
Janet has received numerous book awards, including a Caldecott Honor Award, Time Magazine’s Ten Best Children’s Books , the Wanda Gág Best Read-Aloud Book. Child Magazine’s Best Books of the Year.. Janet's books have been named ALA Notables and have repeatedly appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List.
She is particularly proud of her state book awards, voted on by children -- which include Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Nebraska and Washington. Janet has received the prestigious Texas Bluebonnet Award twice.
Janet’s father was in the Navy therefore she moved a great deal and attended many schools while growing up.
After graduating from high school in Hawaii in 1971 she landed a job creating Hawaiian designs for fabric. The printed fabric was then made into aloha shirts and muumuus. After she graduated from the University of Colorado in 1975 with a degree in Fine Arts Janet began compiling a portfolio of “characters”, bears in tutus, rhinos in sneakers, and walruses in Hawaiian shirts. In 1977, she attended “The Illustrator's Workshop” in New York City, where it was suggested that her characters might find a home in a children's book. Luckily for libraries (and children's book readers in general), publishers agreed and her first book was published in 1979.
Janet is the author and illustrator of many original stories and frequently collaborates with her sister, Susan Stevens Crummel. Her trademark humorous animals also accompany the texts by such authors as Eric Kimmel and Coleen Salley,
Janet has received numerous book awards, including a Caldecott Honor Award, Time Magazine’s Ten Best Children’s Books , the Wanda Gág Best Read-Aloud Book. Child Magazine’s Best Books of the Year.. Janet's books have been named ALA Notables and have repeatedly appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List.
She is particularly proud of her state book awards, voted on by children -- which include Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Nebraska and Washington. Janet has received the prestigious Texas Bluebonnet Award twice.
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