Nurture Social Relationships

The quality of your relationships is the single biggest predictor of your happiness, and a strong predictor for health.

While the 12 activities identified in this series of articles have been shown to increase happiness, for most people, nurturing positive relationships has more impact than other activities.  Even if nurturing relationships doesn’t show up in your top activities in Person – Activity Fit for enhancing your happiness, it’s worth it to make an effort here. You can significantly increase your happiness and well-being through cultivating your social relationships.

Working in health care, you’re exposed to lots of intimate information and significant moments in other peoples’ lives.  This can promote an ease with intimacy or it can overwhelm you so that you may want to distance yourself from others at work, at home, and beyond; you may even distance yourself from yourself. Your relationships with patients, colleagues and those more significant are all important. Moving from burn-out to well-being, notice how you can foster your relationships and then implement a few ideas.

Love has its ups and downs, even so, most people identify it as one of the main aspects of life that makes them happy. To improve your relationships, with friends, significant others or acquaintances so that you give and get more contact me. In the meantime, here are a few things that you can do to enhance your relationships.

• Make Time –relationships take time.
• Express admiration, appreciation and affection
• Schedule several hours to be together regularly 
• Show enthusiasm for another’s good news –Being pleased for your spouse or friends good fortune shows appreciation, support and respect; it validates the person. Your interest and pleasure on behalf of your friend boosts closeness.
• Manage conflict – When there are differences, deal with the problem, don’t personalize and don’t globalize the issue. People who forgive hurts in relationships are more capable of reestablishing closeness.

To nurture your relationships so they enhance your own and your friend’s life contact me. Your well-being will increase and you’ll be revitalized.

Dina 203.744.YOU3 (9683)