Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The secret to long-lasting connection? Shared rituals
A ritual is a way of doing something in which the same actions are done in the same way every time. For example, small acts like a simple prayer or a word of appreciation before eating and a bow before the elderly or in prayer are common rituals for many people and cultures. Also, if a baseball player always does something before standing in the batter’s box like kissing his bat or making a cross, that’s a ritual. It doesn’t have to be some act before doing a particular thing. If you wash the car every Sunday morning even if it is clean, it’s also a ritual, not a task because you do it to make you feel satisfied. Indeed, there are many things that you do to feel the same and many acts that produce the emotion you want to feel in a certain situation. Such rituals are often established and maintained between couples and among families. When a partner changes, the ritual often changes, too. When someone forms a new family, new rituals emerge. Rituals seem to exist in our everyday lives.
Read the article and learn what rituals are and do to us.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241218-michael-nortons-rituals-key-to-connection-family
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