Women's Fitness: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

12 Mar 2007 11:34 AM

Helping your friends can really help you as well. Recent studies have shown that women who regularly support their friends have lower blood pressure and experience less stress. Does that make you more inclined to answer the phone the next time one of your friends call needing a shoulder to cry on?

If not, then perhaps the other findings of the study will. Not only can helping your friends help you to maintain lower blood pressure and even reduce your own stress, it can help you build confidence as well as cultivating the types of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills that will improve all of your relationships and that can in turn continue your own personal sense of fitness and more.

Fitness in All Aspects of Our Lives

When it comes to being a fit individual, it takes more than just regular exercise and a healthy diet - it also takes strong relationships and a good foundation for those relationships. When you are the confidant of your friends can provide you with all of these things. Building confidence in yourself and your relationships is just another part of this whole.

The final and probably one of the more important pieces of this particular relationship boon is that when you are someone's confidant, they become your confidant in turn and as most woman are aware - sharing the burden of a problem, discussing what is going on and how you are feeling can be more healing and soothing than what they experience when a problem is solved.

It's important to recognize that many times when we perform gestures of kindness and compassion that we are doing a good turn for everyone involved from those we help to the good feelings it promotes within ourselves. So the next time a friend needs you to lend a shoulder and an ear, remember that you are helping both of you when you provide it.

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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