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Loneliness is a state of mind; it’s not the same thing as being alone. “You can often differentiate between the two by asking yourself if you are bothered by having no one around, or by the quality of social connection you have with the people who do surround you,” says Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH, a lecturer on global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School and the president of the Foundation for Art & Healing, a Brookline, Massachusetts–based nonprofit that promotes art as a vehicle for health and happiness. Now that many of us are socializing more, it’s tempting to think we’ll never feel lonely again. But experts say loneliness strikes nearly everyone at least once in a while. That's why  mental health experts shared some of the techniques. Here are their tips. 1. Get Out in Nature Nature, whether it's a huge forest or a single tree, is known to help us feel calm and connected to something beyond ourselves, which banishes feelings of loneliness. When researchers m