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How To Build Community In 10 Simple Steps
Connection is everything to humans beings; we need others. We need important, loving, and intimate relationships. Building community is more important than ever before as we face the challenges in our lives alongside the challenges of a changing global environment.
Here’s 10 simple steps to help build community:
1. Love & gratitude
Love
Love makes the world go around, I believe it’s literally our word for the energy that exists everywhere made manifest in us with our joy. Love is so expansive and warm and it leads us to incredible feats of caring, humility, understanding, cooperation, custodianship, stewardship, and mentorship. Humans are best when they are cultivating, let’s remember that.
There are many different types of love; the Greeks had eight separate words for the emotion, much like fear, it’s a much richer experience than we give it credit for in English.
Gratitude
Gratitude is a super sauce to the body and mind. Honestly, it’s like an elixir that makes us release the chemicals that make us feel good; rest & digest, and start to integrate our feelings and life experience. We can’t do this until we feel safe, that’s an understated fact.
