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Creation of Healthy and Caring Relationships

• Healthy relationships with friends, partners, and family members can enhance your life and make individuals feel good.
• Healthy relationships need time to build and work to be maintained.
• The more positive effort put into a relationship, the healthier it should be.

Signs of a Healthy Relationship

• People in healthy relationships love and support each other practically and emotionally.
• They are there for each other in good and bad times.
• Healthy relationships are commonly based on respect, trust, open communication, equality, shared and individual interests, understanding, honesty, care, emotional support, and shared values.

Benefits of Healthy Relationships

• People in healthy relationships tend to be happier and more satisfied with their lives.
• Healthy relationships can increase your sense of worth and belonging, give you confidence, and enable you to try new things and learn more about yourself.
• Individuals in healthy relationships have a decreased likelihood of physical and mental health problems.

Building Communication Skills (Listening and Speaking)

• People in healthy relationships communicate regularly and listen to each other.
• Misunderstandings can cause upset, hurt, or confusion within relationships.
• Being clear about what you want to say and understanding the other person's point of view helps relationships.
• Double-checking understanding can avoid misunderstandings.
• Love for each other doesn't guarantee good communication or understanding of the other person's thoughts.
• To encourage more open comunications individuals should set aside time to speak without interruptions, put yourself in the other persons shoes, refrain from relying on the other person to guess feelings, listern to each other and ensure each party know's they are bwing listened to, let the other person finish what they are saying, talk about things honestly and respectfully, try not to be defensive, stay calm and try not to attack.
• Non-verbal communication like posture, tone of voice, and facial expressions can tell the other person how you feel.
• Non-verbal communication can undermine a message if behavior doesn't match words.

Maintaining Relationships

• Building healthy relationships with partners, friends, and family improves mood, mental health, and wellbeing.
• Maintaining healthy relationships takes time and commitment.
• No relationship is perfect, yet should bring more happiness than stress.

Tips for Healthy Relationships

• Be clear about expectations.
• Apologize when mistakes are made.
• Show affection and appreciation.
• Make the relationship a priority.
• Develop shared interests.
• Work on your self-esteem.
• Find solutions that accommodate both parties.
• Make plans for the future and family time.

Relationship Issues

• Relationship ups and owns and differing opinions are normal.
• Relationships evolve over time.
• Relationships are unhealthy with power imbalance or abuse.
• The end of a relationship can be emotionally painful.

When a Relationship Ends

• Recovering and rebuilding life after a long-term relationship can take two to three years.
• Serious health and emotional issues can develop during this period.

Importance of Friendships

• Friendships have a large impact on wellbeing and health.
• Social connections are very important but at times hard to maintain.
• Good for your health and helps individuals prevent loneliness.

Benefits of Friendships

• Provide needed companionship and help celebrate good times and offer support for bad times.
• Increase sense of belonging and purpose.
• Boost happiness and reduce stress.
• Improve self-confidence and self-worth.
• Helps individuals cope with divorce, serious illness, job loss, or the death of loved ones.
• Encourage individuals to modify or avoid unhealthy lifestyle choices.
• Strong social connections in adults reduce the risk of major health issues like depression, high blood pressure, and high BMI.
• Older adults with meaningful relationships live longer that those with fewer connections.

Number of Friends

• Quality relationships outweigh quantity, which increase one's sense of belonging and well-being.

Ways to Meet New Friends

• Stay in touch with people from work or classes.
• Reconnect with old friends.
• Reach out to people you've enjoyed chatting with.
• Introduce yourself to neighbors.
• Connect with family.
• Attend community events related to shared interests.

Finding Friends Through Activities

• Volunteer to connect with people who have mutual interests.
• Extend and accept invitations.
• Take up a new interest or join a faith community.
• Take a walk and strike up conversations.

Social Media and Friendships

• Joining online communities can help make or maintain connections and combat loneliness.
• Using social networking sights does not translate into offline networks or relationships.
• Exercise caution when sharing personal information or meeting someone met online.

Nurturing Friendships

• Involves give-and-take, with support being reciprocal.
• Letting friends know you care and showing appreciation strengthens bonds.
• Surround yourself with friends with being a good friend: be kind, and show friendship that serves as an emotional bank account- criticism and negativity draws down the account, be a good listener while engaging in eye contact and occasional brief comments where, give advice unless asked for it, open up and be trusted through being responsible and dependable.

Building Closer ties

• Make an effort to spend time with new friends and check in with them.
• Take time out of the day to manage nerves with mindfulness and reshape thinking.
• Even after embarrassing situations reminds yourself that there feelings will subside.
• Yoga and mind-body relaxation practices may reduce anxiety and help you face situations that make you feel nervous; remember it’s not too late reconnect with old friends and this leads to better health.

The Three Main Survival Instincts

• Humans have three main survival instincts: Self-Preservation, Sexual, and Social.
• Self-preservation survival instinct is the instinct of physical self-protection and is regarded as the most basic instinct of individuals.

Physical Well-Being

• The self-preservation instinct focuses on health, strength, diet, and fitness, acting as a management system for the body and it detects the problems that the body is experiencing.
• Thoughts on physical health include the desire for nutritious food, managing tiredness, exercise, and physical health maintenance.
• Concrete examples include buying organic food, high focus on workout or fitness/health/medicine/diets/fasting/boundaries.

Self-Regulation and Skills

• Includes skills to take care of oneself.
• Maintenance, repairs, adapting to new circumstances
• Tasks and errands to maintain a healthy routine.
• Includes a sense of building something where the lack of this makes people impatient.
• Example of a self-regulation thought would be can I take this apart or fix it?
• Concrete examples includes business-savvy, investment skills, home improvement, errands, administration, mechanics, sports, transportation, logistics, craftsmanship, surgery or survivalist skills.

Foundations and Resources

• Self-preservation focuses in the tangible aspects of life like home such as food and shelter by focusing on money to obtain resources to make things permanent and secure.
• People test the endurance of their survival by jumping into a stable situation which brings in a drive to preserve things found in general and is used to support old or historical interest.
• Thoughts regarding the resources and foundation of a person includes is owning the property better than renting?
• Concrete examples includes finance, eco-friendly initiatives, saving money, mutual funds, property, land, the earth, animal care, monuments or history.

Social Survival Instinct

• Connection is the social survival instinct which resulted due to the prehistoric human brains becoming larger and larger to allow species of all kids to be born.
• The sense of connection formed with others is built in our minds, and the threats that impacts people on an archetypal duality. The instinct of closeness becomes ground through feeling a positive reward from altrusiam.
• Thoughts and feelings with connection includes whom are we or are we an item.
• Active listening and the power in seeking leads to a type of relationship by making an impact.
• Also includes registering people that individuals should not connect with, protectinging people from tribalism which leads to prejudice.

Mindreading

• Unlike other species, humans tend to translate actions from other humans that has motivation, while personifying inanimate objects and being able to read others and know the needs through using thoughts and motivations.
• Reading individuals mind or mentalizing is instrumental in connecting with people.
• This is active region of brain also consists of contracts for behavioral expectations.
• Thinking patterns include: Does this person want me to get in this car or is this person waiting for me to pay?
• Responding in human actions starts at an early age and will create both positive and negative bonds.

Harmony & Social Role (You vs. Me)

• The social instinct is like facets of the self where thinking stems towards the external parts and external things influence us, where individuals accept one another but reward them by being accepted, or we can put ourselves in individual roles in order to give way that will allow us to have value with our group.
• The thought patterns that we contain is like who am I and will I be offending anyone.
• Getting along with other examples of the role is like other thoughts and living with social protocol or accepting others that the role can give but aware and register those actions through protesting on social humiliation.

Changing Health Behaviors Through Social Engineering

• Social engineering is to modify the environment in ways that affect people's ability to practice particular health behaviors with an emphasis on passive behavior with little to no responsibility and leaving the individual with a choice where the behavior becomes the default choice.
• Health behaviours can involve information about the national community that leads to legislations or media actions so healthier individuals will feel more susceptible or inclined.