Social Wellness is a cornerstone of wholistic health. It involves having good relations and creating new friendships. By doing so, a person can greatly improve their mental health by ensuring they do not remain in isolation, their emotional health by surrounding themselves with people they care about, and their physical health by remaining in a good environment that is made from people. While each of these types of health also improves social health, it is easy to see why there is a need to improve our social well-being. So, here are a few ways we can continue to improve our social wellness.
Make Connections
Social wellness is directly affected by the people we surround ourselves with. If we make connections with people we like, our social wellness flourishes; if we surround ourselves with people we do not like or get along with, our social health diminishes quickly. So, we must connect with people to ensure that we want to remain in our lives or meet new people to expand our social circle.
Take Care of Yourself While Caring for Others
While friendship is all about being there for each other during the hard times, it is crucial to understand that you can only be there if you are taken care of. Suppose you are in bad shape, whether mentally, physically, emotionally, or spiritually, it will be challenging to be there for others. So, while helping your friends is essential and should not be ignored, you should also not ignore your well-being. Be the best friend by being the best you!
Get Active Together
The great thing about surrounding yourself with people you like is that you enjoy spending time with them. Using some of this time to get active together is a great way to keep everyone in good shape. Physical health is usually the first step towards becoming a healthy person. Working out with others has proven to be much more effective as our workout partners tend to push when we usually stop. This means that we can simultaneously improve our social and physical wellness, which is efficient and excellent.
Share Your Talents and Skills
Friends that can do things with each other often grow closer. This is because we tend to grow closer to what we understand. One of the most prominent signs of friendship is sharing things we love with one another. By inviting our friends into the same interests and hobbies we have, we can introduce them to a new way of thinking about certain things. By doing so, we can enjoy the things we love with our friends, which goes a long way to ensuring that we continue to grow these talents and skills.
Bond with Your Kiddos
As we grow older, we find it harder to meet with the friends we have. We have obligations to work and family that take a significant preference ahead of everything else. Our friends will likely have these same priorities, and so, we need to ensure that our social wellness remains in peak shape during these times. Our children will become the most important things in our life, and if we were to ignore them, we stand to lose them forever once they grow older. So, when you get back home from work, remember to bond with your children to ensure that their social wellness continues to grow along with yours. The bonds we make with our children will help shape the bonds they make as they continue to grow. Many times they will make connections that remind them of those closest to them. So, to ensure that our kids are making good and meaningful connections, we need to be there to make those excellent and meaningful connections with them first.
Build Healthy Relationships
One of the keys to good social wellness is having healthy relationships. Healthy relationships are vital as they satisfy our social, mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs.* Being in healthy relationships helps us build trust for others and makes us better people. While it may be difficult at the time, we must distance ourselves from any relationships that are not healthy for our well-being. Every one of us deserves to have relationships where we are happy and emotionally safe.
These steps can go a long way to improve our social wellness, an essential part of our wholistic wellness. As mentioned above, the neglect we place on something as crucial as social wellness can significantly damage our wellness. Taking steps to improve it also helps strengthen other types of wellness. So, whether it is building better bonds with our family or simply getting out there and making new friends, we need to continue to grow socially to grow as humans!
