A freind emailed me this and I want to share it with you all...Thankyou for being my girlfirends.
Girlfriend Time, the Key to Well-Being
There was an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was on the mind-body connection–the relationship between stress and disease.
The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first everyone laughed, but he was serious.
Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other deal with stress and difficult life experiences.
Physically this quality “girlfriend time” helps us to create more serotonin–a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and creates a general feeling of well being.
Bottom line, women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs, yes. Sports, yes. Cars, yes. Fishing, hunting, and golf, yes. But their feelings? Rarely…with the exception of an evolved man.
However, women do this all of the time, sharing from our souls with our sisters. And scientific evidence now shows that this is very good for our health. The speaker said that spending quality time with a girlfriend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym.
There’s a tendency to think that when we are “exercising” we are doing something good for our bodies, and when we are hanging out with friends, we are simply wasting our time and should be more productively engaged. Not true at all.
In fact, the speaker said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking! Now that’s a mouthful…
So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health!
However, to realize health benefits the time spent together should be of a positive nature such as laughing, encouraging, and uplifting each other rather than focusing on problems. The fact is you get more of what you focus your attention on both, positive or negative, so choose wisely.
As women, we are indeed very, very lucky. So let’s toast to friendships with our girlfriends, it’s very good for our overall well-being and might I add, for our family’s well-being. And so it is…
Girlfriend Time, the Key to Well-Being
There was an evening class at Stanford. The last lecture was on the mind-body connection–the relationship between stress and disease.
The speaker (head of psychiatry at Stanford) said, among other things, that one of the best things that a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends. At first everyone laughed, but he was serious.
Women connect with each other differently and provide support systems that help each other deal with stress and difficult life experiences.
Physically this quality “girlfriend time” helps us to create more serotonin–a neurotransmitter that helps combat depression and creates a general feeling of well being.
Bottom line, women share feelings whereas men often form relationships around activities. They rarely sit down with a buddy and talk about how they feel about certain things or how their personal lives are going. Jobs, yes. Sports, yes. Cars, yes. Fishing, hunting, and golf, yes. But their feelings? Rarely…with the exception of an evolved man.
However, women do this all of the time, sharing from our souls with our sisters. And scientific evidence now shows that this is very good for our health. The speaker said that spending quality time with a girlfriend is just as important to our general health as jogging or working out at a gym.
There’s a tendency to think that when we are “exercising” we are doing something good for our bodies, and when we are hanging out with friends, we are simply wasting our time and should be more productively engaged. Not true at all.
In fact, the speaker said that failure to create and maintain quality personal relationships with other humans is as dangerous to our physical health as smoking! Now that’s a mouthful…
So every time you hang out to schmooze with a gal pal, just pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself for doing something good for your health!
However, to realize health benefits the time spent together should be of a positive nature such as laughing, encouraging, and uplifting each other rather than focusing on problems. The fact is you get more of what you focus your attention on both, positive or negative, so choose wisely.
As women, we are indeed very, very lucky. So let’s toast to friendships with our girlfriends, it’s very good for our overall well-being and might I add, for our family’s well-being. And so it is…
Love, Jan
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