Three Steps To Develop and Maintain a high sense of connection with your community:

According to HH the Dalai Lama, there are three simple steps for developing and maintaining a high sense of connection with your community:

First, become aware of the seriousness of your lack of a sense of connection with members of your community and how destructive this can be for your happiness; 

Second, become aware of the benefits of having a strong connection with members of your community, such as
emotional anchor or having others with whom you can share your problems and feelings, etc;

Lastly, begin to translate your awareness into daily positive action steps. This means regularly making deliberate efforts to establish and maintain list of personal contacts with various members of your community