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The Kindness Box

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."

~ Harold Kushner

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Choose Love Enrichment Program

Scarlett Lewis's son, Jesse, was killed in the 2012 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary. Rather than succumb to hate and anger, Scarlett decided to choose love. She founded a nonprofit in Jesse's honor to provide free social-emotional learning curricula to schools and prevent more hateful tragedies. She started a campaign to expand their program and was named June 2017's GoFundMe Hero.

 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness — to work with it and see just how it might shift and open up our lives," writes meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. She continues: "For kindness to be more fully realized it needs to be distinguished from being ineffectual or meek. It needs to be infused with wisdom. Kindness needs to be supported by courage and threaded with balance."

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The Kindness Handbook | Book Reviews | Books | Spirituality & Practice
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Here's a little poem I wrote - no title yet - open to suggestions!

Words can wound or they can inspire
We can always set our standards higher
If we treat each other with simple kindness
We'll have much less to regret or confess

Have a great day!
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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Inspiring Quotes of the Week ~ Kindness
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
"If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care."

~ Marvin J. Ashton
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Interesting article -

Happiness researcher Sean Achor demonstrated through his extensive research that if you perform random acts of kindness for two minutes a day for twenty-one days, you can actually retrain your brain to be more positive. Studies such as his show that when your brain is more positive you are more likely to be creative, intelligent and productive. These attributes can spin into what we perceive as ‘quality of life’ attributes - job success, wealth, healthy relationships, and better health. This adage, that happiness breeds success, is counterintuitive to what Western society popularly perceives as the opposite, that success lends itself to happiness.

For the full article, click here -

The Power of Kindness | HuffPost

Enjoy!
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Meditation on kindness: (You can imagine this or remember to do it when you are in a crowd.) When you are in a crowd, look around at all the different people. Notice their clothes, faces, hair, sizes. Look at their gestures and movements, noticing if they are loose, stiff, or free. Just take it in, without judgment, as if you were looking at a garden of people. Then see them all as energy fields, the same as you. Just energy. As you continue watching, think to yourself, Every person here has had to live every day of their lives, just like me. They have had to get up every day, decide what to wear, face loss, success, hurt, shame, just like me. Everyone fell down while learning to walk, everyone probably felt anxious the first time they kissed, just like me. Each person has a story to tell. Some of the chapters are heroic. Some of them are about loss, some about fear, some about achievement or joy, just like my story. Then continue to think of them as energy, conceived as an egg and sperm, just like you.

Comes from this excellent site -

Book Reviews | Books | Spirituality & Practice
 

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Some excellent suggestions -

  • Let someone go ahead of you in line, especially if they’re rushed.
  • Buy the coffee for the person behind you in the drive through.
  • Pay the toll for the person behind you at the toll booth.
  • Send a drink or dessert to the other table at the restaurant.
  • Bake your neighbor a cake.
  • Mow an elderly neighbor’s lawn.
  • Bring tea or coffee to your friend at work.
  • Send an anonymous bouquet of flowers to the receptionist at work.
For the full article -

7 Inspiring Ideas for Random Acts of Kindness

Looks a wonderful site ....

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Another excellent site about kindness -

So giving is pleasurable, but what about helping? It might seem easier to spend money on others than to spend time on them, but it turns out both forms of kindness make us happier. A study of more than 3,000 people found that 95% of people feel good when they help someone, 53% of people feel happier and more optimistic, and those feelings last hours or even days for 81% of people. The “helpers’ high” is a real phenomenon.

A 2001 study found that regular volunteering increases happiness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, and sense of control over life. And it works for young and old alike: black inner-city teens who tutor younger children have more positive attitudes toward the self, others, their education, and the future; and elderly people who volunteer are more satisfied with life.

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The benefits of kindness
 
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