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doesn’t wash out with time.<\/p>\nWe are social animals, and that fundamental nature is woven into our threads, dyed into our wool, and doesn’t wash out with time.<\/p>\n
Being social can positively impact your emotional state as well. And I’m not talking about being a social butterfly, or building a twitter following, but something more immediate.<\/p>\n
Just engaging with other beings, whether your family, dear friends, acquaintances, or even your pets provides is an emotional tonic.<\/p>\n
We are in the bleak mid-winter and people can be affected to a greater or lesser degree by the weather gloom around us. Although Seasonal Affective Disorder can move your emotional needle in a negative direction, you can push back. And one way to do that is to make contact with people, chat, give and receive the interpersonal commerce of communication.<\/p>\n
Be social, reach out, and give a second to engage with others. You will receive as much as you give, because it turns out that Giving Is Also Getting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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