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Connect with family by letting grievances go and spending quality time together. Expressing gratitude to others and forgiving when needed helps strengthen relationships. Having compassion for others and accepting them despite weaknesses fosters closeness. Creating shared rituals and spending the right amount of quality time together (6-7 hours daily) nurtures relationships and leads to happiness. Loving yourself first sets the foundation for authentic and lasting relationships with others.

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Nurture Your Relationships - q4

Connect with family by letting grievances go and spending quality time together. Expressing gratitude to others and forgiving when needed helps strengthen relationships. Having compassion for others and accepting them despite weaknesses fosters closeness. Creating shared rituals and spending the right amount of quality time together (6-7 hours daily) nurtures relationships and leads to happiness. Loving yourself first sets the foundation for authentic and lasting relationships with others.

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NURTURE YOUR

RELATIONSHIPS
Personal Relationships
1. Connect with your family

One of the biggest challenges for families to stay connected is the busy pace of life.

But Blue Zones research states that the healthiest, longest-living people in the world
all have something in common: they put their families first.

Relationships and family author Mimi Doe recommends connecting with family by
letting little grievances go, spending time together, and expressing love and
compassion to one another.
2. Practice Gratitude

Remembering to say ‘thank


One 2010 study found that
you’ when a friend listens or
positive boost is felt by both
your spouse brings you a
parties-the one who
cup of coffee can set off an
expresses gratitude and the
upward spiral of trust,
one who receives it.
closeness and affection.
3. Learn to forgive
Fred Luskin, head of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, says it's
easier to let go of the anger or hurt feelings associated with a
circumstance if you remind yourself that much of your distress
is really coming from the thoughts and feelings you are having
right now while remembering the event – not the event itself.
4. Be Compassion
 Compassion is the willingness to be open to yourself and
others, even in painful times, with a gentle, nonjudgmental
attitude.
 When you feel compassionate toward another person –
whether a romantic partner, friend, relative, or colleague – you
open the gates for better communication and a stronger bond.
5. Accept Other
 It is also important to be accepting of the other person in the relationship.
 This does not apply in situations of abuse or unhealthy control, where you
need foremost to protect yourself.
 But otherwise, try to understand where the person is coming from rather
than judge them.
 As you do for yourself, have a realistic acceptance of the other's strengths
and weaknesses and remember that change occurs over time.
6. Create rituals together
 With busy schedules and the presence of online social media that
offer the façade of real contact, it's very easy to drift from friends.
 In order to nurture the closeness and support of friendships, you have
to make an effort to connect.
 Gallup researcher Tom Rath has found that people who deliberately
make time for gatherings or trips enjoy stronger relationships and
more positive energy.
7. Spend the right amount of time together

 Gallup researchers Jim Harter and Raksha Arora found that people
who spend 6-7 hours per day socializing (which could mean hanging
out with friends, sharing meals with family, or even emailing a
colleague) tent to be the happiest.
 Zero interactions (an exhausting overload of social time) feel more
stressed.
TEN RULES FOR FINDING LOVE AND
CREATING LONG-LASTING
AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS
1. YOU MUST LOVE YOURSELF FIRST
Your relationship with yourself is the central template
from which all others are formed.

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