Socialise
Building great relationships leads to an amazing life!
Laughter is the best medicine
Daily time commit:
5 minutes +
Great relationships keep us happier and healthier
Spend 5 minutes + each day socialising and building those deep relationships that nourish us and help us to live longer. Laugh! Make others laugh! It really is one of the best medicines to keep you healthy and happy.
01.
Couples
In a healthy relationship, when you are around your partner, attraction causes your brain to release dopamine (the “feel-good” hormone), while the attachment causes your brain to release oxytocin (the “love hormone”), both of which boost your mood and sense of well-being.
Having a partner who supports you also reduces your stress levels and makes you feel more confident and secure.
02.
Parent-Child
A positive parent-child relationship is a unique bond based on trust, respect, unconditional love, and acceptance.
Getting onto your child’s level, distraction free, is hugely rewarding and invigorating.
The secure attachment that you share helps your child to develop positive relationships with the other people around them.
03.
Family
Good family relationships provide a sense of meaning and purpose to your life while helping you to cope with stress, encouraging you to engage in healthier behaviours, and enhancing your self-esteem.
As you Socialise with family, you can develop life skills such as working as a team and conflict resolution, against the backdrop of love and security for all family members, further strengthening your family bond.
04.
Friends
Finding and maintaining good friendships boosts your happiness and reduces stress.
Socialising with your friends banishes any feelings of loneliness and social isolation. Talking and laughing with them lifts any feelings of depression and hopelessness.
Processing your day with friends keeps you grounded and helps to keep things in perspective.
Taking time out to Socialise with other people is a fantastic way to destress, process your day and recharge whilst enjoying yourself.
Mass Social Gatherings
Two thirds of attendees of mass gatherings that emphasise creativity and community, like festivals, ceremonies, sporting events, and pilgrimages report “transformative experiences”.
Transformative experiences are those that alter what really matters to you, and to an extent, who you are.
The psychological benefits derived from attending mass social gatherings are below:
— 01
More connected with humanity
Attendance tends to help you create intense social bonds and make you feel more connected with all of humanity.
— 02
More charitable to others
As you define your social identity as human, and see others as sharing that identity, it tends to make you more willing to help distant strangers.
— 03
Increased confidence
As you increase your helping of others, so do you anticipate social support back, increasing your confidence to cope with difficult circumstances.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies"
Anonymous
Loneliness kills
A lack of social relationships is a major health risk
Studies have shown that having good social relationships gives you a 50% greater likelihood of survival compared to having poor or insufficient social relationships.
This is comparable with the effects of giving up cigarettes and exceeds well-known risk factors for mortality such as obesity and physical inactivity.
So put yourself out there. Put the effort in to stay connected with family and friends. Be neighbourly, Volunteer, join groups, make small talk until you find shared passions and make trusted friends to Socialise with.
Laughter is the best medicine
You are thirty times more likely to laugh when you Socialise than when you are on your own.
While you process your day, take time to see the funny side of the day’s events and laugh, never at the expense of others, but at the situations that you find yourself in.
Go to a comedy club, watch a funny movie, however you choose, enjoy laughing together.
See below for the wonderful benefits of laughter:
WHO DO YOU LOVE TO SOCIALISE WITH THE MOST?
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