Prioritize Healthy Friendships
For people to survive and thrive, we need to build healthy relationships. Social connection supports us in meeting our life needs and goals. Putting effort into friendships can create a lifestyle that feels fulfilling and whole. In order to surround ourselves with healthy people, we need to put some intentional energy forward.
Benefits of Developing Deep Friendships:
- Having a person in your life through the lows and the highs feels supportive and balancing.
- Having a friend to mirror your core essence qualities helps you to remember you inner light.
- Keeps us from feeling isolated and constantly alone.
- Brings about emotional support.
- Builds trust and a sense of security
- Boosts Self-Esteems through acceptance and positive mirroring.
- Offers companionship
There are so many other pluses, it’s hard to name them all.
So how do you meet and build healthy friendships?
First ask yourself, “What do you find valuable in friendships”? Each of us appreciate different qualities. Continue with questions like, ” What does a friend mean to me? In the past, what did you find comforting and worthwhile in relatioships?
Next, put yourself into action by going out into the world doing things which you enjoy. Sometimes this feels like a risk, putting yourself out there, but it is well worth the while to feel connected and to share meaning in life.
Lastly when you add these two things together, it’s time to trust the process of building. It’s an opportunity to blend, learn and grow. How this happens it by choosing to focus on others. Ask questions. Listen. Show interest. Feel into what feel good to you. Create healthy boundaries. It’s an ondgoing process of deepening and understanding.
Healthy Friendships have a huge impact on our lives. In an age of computers and texting, it takes effort to be social. It takes effort to love. However, surrounding yourself with healthy people will teach you so much about you, and it will nourish and bring many joys to your life.
Sharon Hartnett CST-D
703 509-1792
www.craniosacraltherapistcolumbus.com
