Emphatic Listening Mrr Ebook

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When I was nursing my mother through cancer and knowing she wouldn't survive, I kept my feelings to myself to be strong for my mom. The mental strain was inducing stress headaches, trapped muscles, sleeplessness as well as mental anguish.

I found a co-worker who I could express my feelings to (which I had felt were selfish to admit to) and after steady talks and tears, my headaches and tension stilled considerably. The stress was still there and got worse with the mourning, but the physical and mental strain was never as consuming once I started to share with other people.

A different way social interaction may help health is that it may challenge distortions that we frequently build through our belief systems and experiences. I've found that when I was unemployed and living on my own in a new place, I was on my own for a lot of the time and things that weren't commonly significant took on much more importance and ideas/notions were distorted. When I came back to interacting with others in work, the things that caused annoyance or mild distress melted into insignificance.

A study found that rats living in groups lived 40% longer than those put up by themselves and likewise recovered more quickly from illness. This experiment has been extended to equating lonely and social humans and although the trial is still running, early readings show the lonely individuals don’t recover as quickly from illness, don’t sleep as well and have higher systolic blood pressure. The early trial conclusions state that social interaction helps individuals be healthier and live longer.

This has likewise been discovered in other studies, which discovered lonely individuals show a number of adverse cardiovascular changes compared to individuals with friends. They've faster heartbeats, higher blood pressure and poorer sleep.

There's also great evidence that social support has a favorable influence on a wide range of illnesses including heart condition, cancer, hypertension and respiratory disorders.

Social interaction is a complex process and I found it intriguing that humans respond more quickly in groups but that more complex acts are hindered. Individuals might damage their health if their main reference group exhibits dangerous conducts (like high risk behaviors like drug taking or stunts). Likewise, there are occasions where a individual has conflicting reference groups that strongly oppose one another. This may cause mental stress.

Likewise, some individuals like hermits and recluses may lead healthy lives and overcrowding may cause unhealthiness. Social interaction is good but nearly everybody values time on their own. I know that if I don’t get that time alone, my family’s welfare suffers!

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