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Kindness can be conveyed in many ways like:

Smiling

Providing a gentle touch

Giving a compliment

Helping a stranger

Actively listening to a coworker

Giving an unexpected gift

Sharing a memory

Making a donation to a charity

Supporting a child

Volunteering your time

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Performing acts of kindness can actually reduce social anxiety. Researchers assigned people with high levels of social anxiety to do kind acts for other people at least six times a week. They discovered that socially anxious people were able to calm their minds by focusing on being kind to others.

In his book, the healing power, of doing good Allan Luks coined the term ”helper’s high.” It is now commonly used in the field of psychology to describe the feeling of goodwill experienced after doing something nice for someone.

It is the result of an increase of dopamine—the happiness chemical produced by our brain after being kind. It might begin in the brain, but if you focus on the feeling in your heart center, you will experience it more deeply.

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It has often been thought of as a selfless act, but now research is also showing that altruism may benefit the giver as much as the receiver.

In fact, the reach of kindness is so large that even witnessing kindness is good for you.

Kindness begins when you initiate an action for the good of another without expecting anything in return. This is the source of its magic. The energy you use in carrying out the kind act affects everyone involved in a positive way.

Kindness can accompany every action from praise to criticism. It's not only about what you do, but how you do it. When an action comes from a place of love, you experience kindness. Kindness can be conveyed in many ways:

Smiling

Providing a gentle touch

Giving a compliment

Helping a stranger

Actively listening to a coworker

Giving an unexpected gift

Sharing a memory

Baking for someone in need

Making a donation to a charity

Sponsoring a child

Volunteering your time

The Law of Giving and Receiving pertains as much to giving kind thoughts, words, and actions as it does to giving objects. Kindness doesn't need to be a grand gesture; in fact, sometimes a simple act can be even more effective.

Here are five reasons you should practice kindness:

1. You'll Get to Feel the "Helper's High"

In his book, The Healing Power of Doing Good, Allan Luks coined the term "helper's high." It is now commonly used in the field of psychology to describe the feeling of goodwill experienced after doing something nice for someone.

It is the result of an increase of dopamine -the happiness chemical produced by our brain after being kind. It might begin in the brain, but if you focus on the feeling in your heart center, you will experience it more deeply.

2. You'll Look and Feel Happier

According to research, prosocial spending-spending money on someone else where there is no direct benefit for you-causes you to experience greater happiness. If you feel happier, chances are you'll look happier, too.

3. You'll Reduce Anxiety

Performing acts of kindness can actually reduce social anxiety. Researchers assigned people with high levels of social anxiety to do kind acts for other people at least six times a week. They discovered that socially anxious people were able to calm their minds by focusing on being kind to others.

4. Your Kindness Is Contagious

In addition to the giver and receiver, an act of kindness also benefits the witness of the act. If you see an act of kindness, you are more likely to "pay it forward," triggering more kind acts. For inspiration, watch the movie Pay It Forward.

In the film, a young boy decides that if he can do three good deeds for someone and they, in turn, can do the same, and so forth, positive change can occur. This type of upward spiral of positive energy is exactly the type of magic that kindness inspires.

Teaching kindness

The best part is, kindness can be taught-it is a skill that can be learned and honed with dedication and practice. Learning kindness can actually increase peer-acceptance and boost emotional well-being. There are many programs that can help you teach kids kindness and compassion at a young age. Here are two favorites:

You can also get creative with your kids at home and in your classroom. In her TED talk on kindness, Orla Wabha-a middle school teacher who wanted to make a difference-used random act of kindness cards that were handed out to students who would complete the act and pass it on to another student.

In the words of Lao Tzu, "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." There is no doubt that kindness matters in this world. If every human on the planet were to prioritize kindness, we would enjoy a lot more peace on the planet.
Discover how you can spread kindness to those around you and within at our emotional freedom workshop, Healing the Heart. Click here to learn more.

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It has often been thought of as a selfless act, but now research is also showing that altruism may benefit the giver as much as the receiver. In fact, the reach of kindness is so large that even witnessing kindness is good for you.

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Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Affection, gentleness, warmth, concern, and care are words that are associated with kindness. While kindness has a meaning someone is naive or weak, that is not the case. Being kind often requires courage and strength. Kindness is an interpersonal skill.

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Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Affection, gentleness, warmth, concern, and care are words that are associated with kindness. While kindness has a connotation of meaning someone is naive or weak, that is not the case. Being kind often requires courage and strength. Kindness is an interpersonal skill.

You've heard about survival of the fittest and Darwin. Survival of the fittest is usually associated with selfishness, meaning that to survive (a basic instinct) means to look out for yourself. But Darwin, who studied human evolution, actually didn't see mankind as being biologically competitive and self-interested. Darwin believed that we are a profoundly social and caring species. He argued that sympathy and caring for others is instinctual (DiSalvo, Scientific American, 2017)

Current research supports this idea. Science has now shown that devoting resources to others, rather than having more and more for yourself, brings about lasting well-being. Kindness has been found by researchers to be the most important predictor of satisfaction and stability in a marriage. Many colleges, including Harvard, are now emphasizing kindness on applications for admission.

There are different ways to practice kindness. One way to be kind is to open your eyes and be active when you see people in need. Do you notice when people could use a helping hand? A sense of community is created when people are kind to those who need help.

Opening your eyes means noticing when others are suffering. A kind word, a smile, opening a door, or helping carry a heavy load can all be acts of kindness. Celebrating someone you love, giving honest compliments, sending an email thanking someone, telling someone how s/he is special to you, helping an elderly neighbor with yard work or food, taking a photo of someone and sending it to the person, sharing homemade food, refusing to gossip, and donating old clothing and things you don't need are all ideas about how to practice kindness.

Kindness is a willingness to full-heartedly celebrate someone else's successes. Gottman's work shows that your response to someone's successes may determine more about your relationship than how you respond when times are difficult. Do you minimize the success, not pay attention to it, or bring up all the problems with the success? Kindness is to be openly happy for the other person.

Kindness is also about telling the truth in a gentle way when doing so is helpful to the other person. Receiving accurate feedback in a loving and caring way is an important part of a trusted relationship. The courage to give and receive truthful feedback is a key component of growth and flexible thinking.

Kindness includes being kind to yourself. Do you treat yourself kindly? Do you speak gently and kindly to yourself and take good care of yourself?

There are many ways to be kind and many opportunities to practice. Perhaps kindness is a value that could add more satisfaction to and strengthen your relationships.

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Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Affection, gentleness, warmth, concern, and care are words that are associated with kindness. While kindness has a connotation of meaning someone is naive or weak, that is not the case. Being kind often requires courage and strength.

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Kindness helps people feel good about themselves by giving someone a complement or by asking someone to play with you at recess you can make a friend. Letting people know something good about themselves makes the person feel good and the other person know that they were being nice and generous. Making themselves feel good and make good friendships at the end.

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Acts Of Kindness And What You Get In Return

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Acts Of Kindness And What You Get In Return