Positive social interactions can regulate nervous systems, leading to elevated mood, improved mental health, and a sense of capability.

“we also have the capability to regulate each other's nervous systems in ways that produce savings that is that allow us to feel and indeed cause physiological changes that make us feel not just happier not just relaxed not just happy because we enjoy interacting with somebody but or a group but that give us a savings that give us the kind of resources literally metabolic and neurochemical resources that make us feel more capable and give us a sense of elevated mood and improved mental health”