No man is an island. You are not an isolated being. You inter react with many diverse individuals on a your daily routine in your life. It doesn’t matter whether its your family, your friends or your colleagues, each individual provides a unique relationship that can contribute to your life in some way if you allow them to.
It’s not easy developing relationships. Imagine a garden. The only way the plants and flowers will blossom is if they receive the necessary love and care that is needed for them to survive. Otherwise they will certainly die. Molding the soil, adding minerals, nutrients, making sure they receive the correct amount of sunshine and watering them all constitute a part of the relationship that you have developed with the plant(s). Its a nurturing relationship. The same rules apply in our person to person relationships as well. It requires nurturing as well.
There are a lot of ways to maintain and nurture the relationships in your life. When they are well tended, you’ll find immense support and knowledge that will further assist you in attaining your personal desires and goals.
1. Display empathy. Empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another persons feelings or problems, whereas sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks. Empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person. Simply put it’s being able to comprehend where a person is coming from. Do you know what I mean? Do you get where I’m coming from? You’ll be able to see the individual behind the emotions. Ask them how their day was or how things are going at home with their families. Empathy doesn’t criticize other people but simply acknowledges them for who they really are. Let me break it right down to the mettle for you. Being sympathetic is feeling sorry for someone. Being Empathic means you’re feeling sorry with someone. You feel what they actually feel and understand completely.
2. Communicate frequently. It’s easier these days to lose contact. The way life can envelop you and keep you constantly busy at times. But, there are also diverse ways to let someone know how much they mean to you and that you’re thinking of them.We’ve got cell phones, telephones, the postal service, texting and email in addition to face to face meetings. Let the people that matter in your life know you haven’t forgotten about them. That you still think of them a lot even though time and distance may keep you apart.
3. Invest in some way in someone’s future by becoming involved. It could be as simple as teaching them to drive a car or learn to play an instrument. Whatever it is know that when you share your knowledge with your loved ones, you’re arming them with a brand-new skill that they can utilize in their lives.
4. Spend quality time with other people you care about. We all need human interaction. Believe me we all do. (Even Old Man Goober, the mean old guy from next door.) Unless you plan to live as a recluse. and if that was the case you would not be here reading this empowering and edifying article right now online. (Allow me to pat myself on the shoulder.) Going out with your friends or inviting people over to your place would usually lead to outbursts of laughter and recalling old memories and new memories created. Never disregard your friends and beloved ones for “things”. A well tended relationship will always be the more invaluable of the two.
5. Know who you are. It is difficult to contribute to a group or an individual if you don’t know what you bring to the table. Each of us possesses unique talents and skills. Sharing these traits that we’ve got in common with another person starts a relationship. When you are self assured in who you are as an individual and how you feel as a person, it’s much easier to openly share a part of yourself with other people.
6. Be sure to define your commitment. Relationships require time and dedication. Are you prepared to devote that time? When you invest the time, you observe things about others, like when they are not feeling well or require your assistance. These communicatory non verbal suggestions occur over time. If you truly desire friends; true friends, you have to discover how to be a genuine friend first.
Human relationships will deteriorate without adequate maintenance and nurturing. It doesn’t take a lot to begin a relationship but maintaining it necessitates a committedness to share yourself with other people which in turn is beneficial to of both of you as individuals.
