No matter how independent you feel, you are intimately connected to other people. Find out about how we are all connected, why those connections matter, and how to build better connections with people.
In life, sometimes we feel completely alone. Sometimes we feel completely independent and like nobody takes care of us but ourselves. In reality, we are very connected to other people around us in more ways than we can ever know. Join Mysticsense to learn about the interconnectedness between all people. Find out what interconnection is and if we have an interconnection with people who we don't feel like we relate to. Find out how we're all connected, why connections matter, and how to build stronger connections. Anytime you feel completely independent or alone, remember, we are all connected more intimately than could ever be expressed. Read on to start learning how to build connections.
What is Interconnection?
“Interconnection permeates the entire universe. We are all one.”- Amy Leigh Mercree
Interconnection means we are intimately joined together. All people share a connection with one another, even if we don’t always feel it. Our interconnection transcends our personal boundaries. Our interactions with one another shape our cultural consciousness and influence our behaviors. We go through our daily lives, sometimes completely unaware of how we all affect one another. Everything we say or do creates a change in our world that affects other people. We may be completely unaware of these things, but we can very strongly feel how other people affect us. When you are at work, you depend on the members of your team to do their part and if they don’t, you suffer
In society, we are just as intricately connected to one another as we are with the members of our personal team at work. Within your own neighborhoods, you depend on the people who live nearby you to maintain their homes or the value of your home decreases. You depend on other drivers to drive well, or nobody is safe. You depend on teachers to take care of your children while they are away from you at school, and the school employees depend on you to pay your taxes so they all have jobs. Some people even depend on people in places far away to send them electricity, water, food to eat, and merchandise to buy. Because we need one another so much, we live in cities, states, and nations, and we depend on people in other nations of the world for a lot too. Our interconnection is why we should always choose love and you can read how to do that here: The Case for Always Choosing Love | Mysticsense
What About “Them”?
“We are all so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.”- Amit Ray
Is there an “us” and a “them”? In some ways, there is, but in other ways, no, there isn’t. We may be radically different from people who we may even consider enemies, but even within our struggles with people, we are connected to them. We all share the same planet. If one group of people poisons it, everybody suffers. When we fight with people, sparring for superiority or to get what we want from them, they suffer and so do we. When we live nearby people who we don't feel like we relate to, we might avoid them because we don't understand them, but they are still intimately connected with us in more ways than we will ever understand.
Then there are the people who we believe are evil. We may believe that we have absolutely no connection whatsoever with them. However, we do. If they truly do evil, what they do will directly affect us. We can't team up with them to agree on things, but we may have to talk with them to try to get them to stop doing what they're doing. In your community, the people who you feel that you have nothing in common with are affected in the same ways that you are. You will find yourself working with them to try to clean up the mess of whatever disaster struck. In situations like this, religion, nationality, ethnicity, culture, political beliefs, or personal beliefs don't matter. We are all people trying to survive and help each other to do so in the best way we can. In situations like that you have to live in the moment and you can find out how here: Live in the Moment- Be Consciously Here | Mysticsense
How We Are All Connected
“ You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone. “- Amit ray
People are connected in multiple ways. We connect by socializing and supporting one another emotionally. We connect when we work together to make things better than we could on our own. We also connect to grow and learn together.
Socialization and Emotional Support
Very few people need zero social interaction. That's because we evolved as a social species. Early humans built groups for survival. They protected each other, shared wisdom, and worked together to solve problems. After many generations, we learned that we are better off together. We have discovered that emotionally, our well-being is boosted when we are with other people. Long term isolation increases our risk for anxiety, depression, and cognitive decline. Physical issues like heart disease, immune system issues, and high blood pressure hit harder with no socialization. People with social connections are twice as likely to survive illness or depression than those who don't. You can build safe spaces to help battle loneliness and find out how here: Sanctuaries - How to Create Safe Spaces | Mysticsense
Working Together
Like our early ancestors, we use our connections to work together. We work as a team, sharing skills and talents to get more done together. We combine our wisdom to solve problems that we can't solve as well all by ourselves. There is strength in numbers. When more people are doing more work, things get done faster. More people observing things can troubleshoot better, and catch issues before they get out of hand. We started in tribes and built small settlements. Then we built villages, towns, cities, states, and finally, nations. People have always worked together, and we always will.
Learning
One of the biggest reasons we come together is to learn and grow. Teachers, gurus, mentors, and religious leaders help to guide us in ways to learn what we can't learn all on our own. The human mind needs constant learning to grow. Without it, we stay stuck, or backslide into idleness and our minds shrink. Psychology Today reports that our brains naturally start to shrink around age 30, but keeping the mind active with leaning can help prevent that. Engaging in mentally stimulating things like reading and spending time with loved ones helps slow down the development of dementia. Read more here: Brain Shrinking After 30: Myth or Reality? | Psychology Today
Why Connections Matter
“ You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.”- Robert Thurman
Our connections with one another matter for various reasons. Being connected helps all of us in countless ways. We learn from each other, and are strionger together.
We Help Each Other
Believe it or not, we are not as independent as we may believe. You might work and support yourself with no help financially, but you can’t do everything by yourself. You earn the money to buy the gas that goes into your car, and you might pump the gas yourself. You don’t drill into the ground for the oil, process it, and get it to the gas stations by yourself. A team of people do that, and you need them. Without people like you buying the gas, none of those people would have jobs to support themselves, though. All of us need each other and everything we do is dependent on somebody else in some way.
We Learn from Each Other
Besides our teachers mentoring us, we learn by example. We learn what is acceptable within our families, neighborhoods, work cultures, and personal relationships. We learn by watching other people what things are great ways to do things, and we learn from other people’s failures what does not work well. We learn how we interact with other people, what does not foster good interactions, and what our personal limits are from other people. All of this tells us a lot about our own personalities. Our Zodiac signs also tell us about our personalities, including how we fall in love. Find out how the signs fall in love here: How Zodiac Signs Fall in Love | Mysticsense
Together We Are Stronger
One person can't necessarily create monumental change, but thousands of people working together can. Together, in whatever we do, we are stronger. When one person raises their voice to create change, the people in charge don't always listen. When thousands of people raise their voice calling for change, the people in charge listen and respond. One person cannot plant a farm to feed thousands of people. It takes a team. One person cannot raise enough money to offset a famine. Many people can. One person cannot singlehandedly build. cities, states, or nations. Many people can. Together, we pool our resources, talents, and work to create great things. Together, we are stronger.
Building Stronger Connections
“ Whatever good things we build end up building us.”- Jim Rohn
If you've read to this point, maybe you agree that we are all interconnected with one another. A lot of people forget that, but maybe you can help them with that. You can help to build stronger connections in five easy steps. The first thing you need to do is embrace diversity, listening to understand people who are different from you. Then, you will have to be the one to adapt and establish common ground with people who can't see it themselves. Finally, build bridges. The closer we are to one another, the more connected we will feel.
Embrace Diversity
There are an estimated eight billion plus people and among them there are about 4,300-6,000 nationalities. There are between 7,000 and 10,000 languages currently spoken on earth. There are over 4,000 different religions, a spectrum of different sexual orientations, and countless different personality types. To build human connections, it is imperative that we embrace all these differences, accepting the fact that our differences make us beautiful, unique, and are a part of being human. Accepting people’s differences is the first step in building connections.
Listen to Understand
A wise man once said that most people listen only while they wait to respond. It is best to listen to understand what people are telling you, not thinking of what you are going to say in response. Then you can truly understand people, how they feel, and what they're saying. It is imperative to do this if you want to build connections. Understanding what people are saying, how they feel, and what their motivation is will help you to grow closer to people. One thing we should always listen to is constructive criticism, and you can learn all about it here: The Fine Art of Being a Constructive Critic | Mysticsense
Adapt
Instead of expecting other people to change to suit you, adapt your expectations and tolerance to accommodate them. You don't have to change your beliefs, your personality, or your personal life in any way. All you have to do is to adapt and change your attitude to one of tolerance and acceptance. When you are around someone in a different culture, try to adopt behaviors that are respectful to them instead of expecting them to change and behave as if they belong to your culture. What tones of voice do they accept as respectful? What type of physical contact makes them comfortable? What type of food are they willing to share, and are you willing to accept it to be gracious of their hospitality? Adapting to accept other people as a wonderful way to build connections.
Establish Common Ground
Believe it or not, we are more alike than we are different. Everybody wants to be happy, although each of us defines happiness in different ways. Everybody wants to be healthy, eat good food, get good medical care, live in a nice home, and take care of the people who they love. Everyone wants to enjoy themselves. Each of us enjoys different things. Some people like going dancing and other people like making the music that people dance to. Some people like going for walks in the park, and some people like staying home and tending their own garden. Some people love to read and keep to themselves while other people love being surrounded by friends.
Finding a way to point out how similar you are as opposed to how different you are helps. For example, all existing religions teach a pathway that they believe brings people close to their higher power. Just because you don't practice the same religion as someone doesn't mean. that you love your higher power any more than you do theirs. Your coworker who spends all their time boating might not view nature like you do when you go for walks picking up trash. Both of you probably love a sunny day and good weather. See? You are more alike than you are different. Establishing common grounds with people helps to build connections.
Build Bridges
Once you establish common ground, build relationships with people, even if you feel they are different from you. None of us are exactly alike , even within our own small groups. Don’t separate yourself from people. Welcome them. That builds connections.
Our interconnectedness with one another is what helped us build small tribes, then larger settlements, and finally world connections- and it all happened because we have always needed each other. Spend your time focusing on our similarities rather than our differences and you can build bridges and form amazing connections.
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