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The Kindness Box

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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It can be hard to show kindness in our daily interactions—for us, as well as for our kids. Even though we are hardwired for kindness and empathy, we can be hampered by the busyness in our lives or by more negative influences in the world, like bullying, intolerance, hate crimes, and more.

In our book, The Kindness Advantage: Cultivating Compassionate and Connected Children, we help parents and grandparents uncover their children’s compassionate qualities by introducing ten fundamentals of kindness and sharing practical, concrete suggestions to help you and your child practice kindness in everyday life. By cultivating kindness in our children, we can benefit them as well as their communities.

Full article here -

How to Be a Kindness Role Model for Your Kids

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
It can be easy to get angry or retaliate when someone is mean or does something nasty, but this only lowers your vibration and causes suffering.

How people treat you is their responsibility and karma, and just the same, how you treat other people is your responsibility and your karma.

Regardless of what others choose to do, you always have the choice to act from a place of kindness and respect. Many people view this type of response as being weak, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Full article - here -

How to Be Kind in a Sometimes Cruel World - Forever Conscious

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness. That’s a word we don’t hear a lot these days. Perhaps it seems antiquated in our competitive, social-media-infused, politically contentious culture—reserved for fools and chumps, not for those who want to get ahead.

But nothing could be further from the truth, according to Tara Cousineau, researcher and author of the new book The Kindness Cure. In today’s world, she argues, we need to cultivate kindness more than ever—not only for the sake of our society, but for our own well-being.

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How to Start a Kindness Revolution

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness and the Brain

Studies have shown that practicing kindness, whether it is in the form of compassion or gratitude, can boost serotonin and dopamine levels in your brain, which are known as the “feel good, happy hormones.” On the contrary, arguments, anger, jealousy, feelings of guilt and other negative emotions over a long period of time can harvest an increase in cortisol which over time can have adverse effects on the body, leading to weakened immune function and weight gain, especially central weight gain. In other words, our positive and negative emotions are closely tied to both mental and physical symptoms.

A smile, holding the door open for another, bringing food to someone, paying for the person in line behind you, connecting with a stranger, and saying "I love you" to someone close are all acts of kindness that can be practiced on a regular basis. So often we hold back from being kind because we don’t know what to do or we don’t think our actions will make an impact, but they do and the research proves this.

World Kindness Day: Improving Mental Health Through Kindness

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From the Kindness Factory -

We believe kindness is the highest form of intelligence. Thanks to neuroscience, clinical evidence supports this. The mind is a relational, self-organizing system. However, the commonality between all disorders, is chaos and rigidity. In contrast, the most effective systems in the world organize complexity. When we first understand the differences between elements without judgement and then link these elements together, we achieve harmony.

When we are in a state of chaos, rigidity or threat, cortisol floods our prefrontal cortex, blocking the area of the brain responsible for our ability to problem solve or access our values. The pre-frontal cortex is what makes humans fundamentally different from any other living species and is essential for us to thrive.

Thanks to our feel-good chemical oxytocin, when we are in a state of kindness we have access to our whole brain. Higher degrees of kindness allow for higher degrees of integration. The wonderful thing is, kindness is free and in infinite supply in all of us.

We would love to hear from you if this is of interest to you or your company.

For the rest of that site - click here -

http://kindnessfactory.com/kindness-factory/

All the best!
 
Michelle71

Michelle71

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People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”

- Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
There are many people who wish they could give more back to society, but often times those good intentions are overtaken with thoughts like “I’m too busy,” or “I don’t really have any extra money to give,” and “I’ll get around to it eventually.”

The truth is giving can be defined many different ways, and most of the time it doesn’t require a lot of time or money at all. In fact, there are so many ways that all of us can give back, improve the lives of others and make a significant difference to those around us.

Here are seven simple ways to give back in your daily life:

Inspiyr.com | 7 Ways Of Giving In Your Daily Life

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From a very comprehensive site -

This week focuses on the benefits of being kind, but these aren’t the only benefits of a kind act. Two other groups of people can benefit, too: the recipient, of course, and the observers. That warm, fuzzy feeling or chills we get when we see a kind act is called elevation, and it’s one of the reasons kindness is so contagious.

But for now, read on to see what benefits you can expect as you cultivate kindness:

The benefits of kindness

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More from the Tiny Buddha site -

True compassion is hard work, but it’s worthwhile. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

In trying to help him, I too was changed for the better.

Among the many things I tried as part of the process, some worked. Here are the top six that have stood the test of time.

6 Ways to Deepen Your Compassion to Help Other People

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