Well-being depends on every aspect of life, including good relationships with society and those around you. Living well therefore involves the social dimension and your relationships with your community. These relationships affect us in every aspect of our lives from birth to adulthood. Relationships with caregivers help babies learn to trust, respond, and interact properly with others. In our daily lives we still have to depend on being part of society and the people around us. Social wellness helps build a supportive network and leads to good physical and mental health.
What Is Social Wellness and Why Does It Matter?
Social wellness refers to our relationships and interactions with those around us. Good social health is achieved by building and maintaining trusting relationships, strong bonds, treating each other sincerity, respect, and giving support. Good relationships support us in difficult times. Social wellness therefore involves building relationships that are good for the heart, make us happy, don’t sap our strength, and are based on honesty. Good social health involves maintaining a balance between social circles of friends, community, work, study, and family, including good relationships between couples or spouses.
Social well-being plays a key role in helping us have a supportive social network. It gives us peace of mind, a feeling of inner security, and makes us comfortable in being ourselves. We gain the courage to express ourselves honestly. Surrounding yourself with positive people will boost your confidence and self-esteem.
Social wellness helps us learn to set boundaries without closing ourselves off from those around us. It encourages discussion to build trust and manage conflict by understanding each other. Social well-being is also an important factor in helping us deal with disappointment and challenges, so we can pick ourselves up after disappointments and failures. Having social wellness helps promote both mental and physical health and leads to physical well-being and a long and happy life.
What Are the Elements of Social Wellness?
Social wellness includes...
- Having a supportive social network, both family and friends
- Lasting friendships, love, connections, and social networks
- Balancing time spent with friends and socializing and our personal time
- Daring to state and calmly stick to our position
- Remaining independent in all situations
- Engaging with people in the community and those around us
- Valuing diversity and treating others with respect, understanding, and accepting differences in society regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, economic status, politics, or any other differences of opinion
- Building relationships with boundaries, without blocking communication, and promoting trust and managing conflicts with mutual understanding
- Having time for fun and humor
How Can We Boost Our Social Wellness?
We can develop social skills in many areas to promote good relationships with those around us. We can start simply by being a good listener. Practice paying attention to others. Then try following these tips for creating social wellness.
- Reflect on yourself and what you give to and expect from your community. Which relationships are you happy with and which ones need to be developed?
- Notice who has a positive influence on you. Who supports you and can bring out your potential?
- Try to reach out to friends, relatives, and children to maintain social interaction.
- Praise your children for their good qualities. Give time to playing together. And don't forget to give encouragement along with good advice.
- Practice active listening skills.
- Dare to share your feelings with those you trust.
- Take care of those close to you without forgetting to look after yourself.
- Dare to ask for help, work as a team, don't bear the burden alone.
- Consider joining a club or class, exercise group, or volunteer in an area that interests you.
Summary
Surrounding ourselves with people we feel we belong with means we’re not alone. We have friends and people we care about, supporting our well-being, listening and being there for us when we face problems, giving us the strength to stand up again.
Living in a community like this helps build both physical and mental strength. Social wellness is therefore a dimension that can’t be overlooked. Social health promotes physical health, good mental health, and leads to a good, long, and happy life.
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