IMPORTANCE OF KINDNESS
IMPORTANCE OF KINDNESS
Kindness has
many benefits including increased happiness and a healthy heart. It slows down
the aging process and improves relationships and connections, which indirectly
boosts your health.
Kindness
should be defined as quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
Affection, gentleness, warmth, concern, and care are words that are associated
with kindness. Being kind often requires courage and strength. Kindness
is an interpersonal skill.
Kindness is caring about others and doing things to
help make their lives better. It allows us to connect with other people and
build meaningful relationships.
When
someone does us a kindness, we feel connected and more willing to cooperate
with them. When we do something nice for someone, we cultivate trust, and we
feel good about ourselves for being a kind person.
In the world at large, we have seen so much pain and heartbreak. So many lives needlessly ended. So much heartbreak and loss. It’s a normal reaction to want to protect yourself from all of that horror and isolate into your own safe space. The problem is that when everyone does that, we lose truly important connections with our community and even ourselves.
IMPORTANCE OF KINDNESS
Kindness is an action.
Being kind is not about how you feel. It’s
about what you do.
Showing
kindness to someone you don’t like is really hard. But you just might surprise
yourself when you take the high road. You have to remember that it’s not about
the other person, it’s about us and who we choose to be in that moment.
Practicing little things… like smiling and saying hello to a crotchety
neighbour, or NOT talking smack about a difficult co-worker, or choosing not to
clapback at someone when they’ve dissed you are all acts of kindness.
And,
even if it feels strange to you, if you show kindness then you’re more likely
to feel better. You could even start to see the good in people or even learn
why they act the way they do.
MAKE'S YOU HAPPY
Research has shown
through brain scans that even just thinking about helping others activates
the Mesolithic pathway in the brain, which produces the feel-good chemical
dopamine. Being kind really does make us happy;
KINDNESS IS A CYCLE
If someone
around us is generous or kind, it spurs us to behave in the same manner.
YOU CAN CHANGE SOMEONE’S LIFE
A random act of
kindness could just lift a person’s spirits, or you might even change their
whole way of thinking. You never know the path another is on, and your random
act of kindness has the potential to totally alter that path for the better.The
butterfly effect is in full swing here; an act of a moment’s length could have
positive repercussions for a lifetime.
IT REDUCES STRESS
Doing good does you
good. Being kind to someone else has been shown to greatly enhance
our mental well-being. According to research it
also makes you feel more satisfied with life. How does being kind make us
healthier? One theory is that it increases our mental well-being by lowering
the amount of stress hormones we produce.
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