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HEALTH + WELLBEING //
Finding Connection in our Personal Lives
WORDS ANNE WARD – MINDINSIGHT
The Christmas and New Year season is a time when our focus shifts away from work to our personal lives. Many of us look forward to spending time with family and friends. However, it can also be a stressful time, as we try to live up to the expectation that it should be a happy time. For many, it can be a lonely time, as the busyness of life winds down.
Being connected is one of our most basic human needs. The quality of our relationships affects our happiness and success more than anything else. However, relationships don’ t just happen, and many people struggle to find meaningful connections.
Relationships take work to build and maintain, and there are inevitable setbacks and disappointments. How we respond to these defines the quality of our connections. A healthy relationship does not mean
agreeing on everything. However when there is more conflict than peace in a relationship, the energy turns from positive to negative, and the negative atmosphere can begin to define the relationship. People deal with this in different ways. Some people try to take control; others try to avoid disagreement or conflict by keeping the peace. However, this often means giving up part of ourselves for the sake of peace.
Having relationships means taking risks, putting in the effort, listening and thinking about the other person and trying to understand their perspective.
A relationship is about an“ US,” not a“ ME” or a“ YOU.” Being an“ US” involves looking to the interest of the other person, being respectfully honest, exercising patience and forbearance- an old word which basically means“ putting up with one another.” Of course, this does not extend to mistreatment.
Online communications like texting and social media have created new ways to have relationships. At one level instant access can make us feel more connected, yet at another level it maintains distance.
So while people might be communicating more and have a wider circle of friends on Facebook, people are generally no better connected relationally speaking. It’ s easy to make comparisons between our lives and what we see on Facebook, Instagram, etc. – images of others having a great time. But how real are these images? ►
EST. 1988
Charlestown Remedial Sports Injuries Clinic
THE Clinic... Providing professional care with the highest ethical standards and integrity for the whole family.
We will be closed over Christmas on the public holidays only, however, we will be on call these days for urgent appointments. We wish all of our patients a happy and safe Christmas and prosperous New Year!
• Treatments for all injuries – general to sporting – acute to chronic pain
• Neuromuscular massage • Orthopaedic massage • Magnesium massage
• No manipulation of the spine or joints
• Pregnancy and post-natal
• Muscular and joint complaints
• Neck, back, rotator cuff and shoulder pain
• Knee, calf, shin splints, ankle, quad and groin strains
• Achilles, tendonitis, peroneal tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, AC joints
• Headaches / migraines, ITBS, carpel tunnel, tennis / golf elbow, tennis shoulder
• Nutritional advice – general to chronic problems, detoxification, stress / tension, weight loss, anxiety / depression, fatigue
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