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How to create a cosy and comfortable home environment
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Loneliness is damaging
Lonely people eat and drink more, and exercise and sleep less. They are at higher risk of developing psychological problems such as alcoholism, depression, and psychosis, and physical problems such as infection, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.
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Loneliness vs Solitude
Loneliness is the pain of being alone and is damaging. Solitude is the joy of being alone and is empowering.
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Embracing solitude
If we can embrace it, this opportunity to adjust and refine our perspectives creates the strength and security for still greater solitude and, in time, the substance and meaning that guards against loneliness.
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Solitude
Solitude removes us from the mindless humdrum of everyday life into a higher consciousness which reconnects us with ourselves and our deepest humanity.
By setting aside dependent emotions and constraining compromises, we free ourselves up for problem solving, creativity, and spirituality.
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Loneliness
Loneliness can be defined as a complex and unpleasant emotional response to isolation or lack of companionship.
It can be either transient or chronic, and typically includes anxiety about a lack of connectedness or communality...
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Decades of studies show that just 30 minutes of moderate to intense daily physical activity lowers your risk for physiological diseases (like heart disease and cancer), as well as psychological ones (like anxiety and Alzheimer’s).
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