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The Kindness Box

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Cartier Carey Is not an ordinary 11-year-old. This altruistic tween from Hampton Virginia, is spending his summer helping single moms one cup of lemonade a time.

He is working hard to provide help for the less fortunate in his community. Cartier said during an interview on Live Kelly and Ryan, “I wanted to help mothers who were struggling during the pandemic.”

All of the proceeds from selling lemonade and treats is going to buy diapers, baby clothing, and baby wipes for the single mothers who need it. He distributes the items to shelters and in parks and even went as far as Richmond Virginia to help moms there.

11-Year-Old Supports Single Moms with Lemonade Stand - Goodnet

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Continuing the theme -

Kindness Boosters

Kindness is a trait all happy people possess. Studies have shown that happiness and kindness go hand in hand and complement each other (Aknin, Dunn, and Norton, 2012).

Positive psychology interventions focusing on compassion can be simple acts like buying someone a small token of love, volunteering for a noble cause, donating something, or helping a stranger in need. Kindness reinforces happiness and positivity.

An example of a related PPI is ‘prosocial spending’. The activity includes willingly buying something for someone as a gesture of goodwill. It can be anything like taking your spouse out for a romantic dinner at your favorite place, giving your child the toy he/she has been asking for, or buying a meal to the homeless person you see every day at the bus stop.

It is not about how much money you spend. The goal of kindness activities is to promote happiness through such altruistic and selfless contentment.

19 Best Positive Psychology Interventions + How to Apply Them

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Differences between kindness & compassion

Kindness is a behavioral action that others can see (aka a social signal). It has the qualities of affection, warmth, and playfulness. When we are kind, we are able to admit our wrong doing and reconnect with others. Kindness models openness and humility. This allows us to question oneself and stay engaged with others to promote social connection. Kindness allows us to emphasize the wonderfulness of diversity while living within our own values. It also promotes us contributing to the well-being of others, without expecting anything in return.

The Difference Between Kindness and Compassion

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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More at this site -

quotes – Lotus Seed

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From that lotus seed site -

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Read the rest here -

Kindness

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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."

Salzberg has been leading meditation retreats for 35 years and is the author of many books including The Force of Kindness and Faith. The spiritual practice of kindness consists of little acts — a word of thanks, a nod of approval, a greeting on the street, or a hug of a friend. In this warm and salutary guidebook, Salzberg presents meditations, anecdotes, and readings on this civilizing and humane quality.

The Kindness Handbook by Sharon Salzberg | Review | Spirituality & Practice

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Positive psychology kindness tosses up a few -

Teachers foster kindness in their classroom by teaching empathy - the second cousin of kindness. Teachers develop experiences that get student’s mirror neurons firing in empathy for others demonstrated by kindness towards others. There are many classroom experiences that offer an opportunity to teach the natural empathetic connections that nurture kindness.

The Positive Psychology of Kindness

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Johann Hari in his books and You tube Videos talks a lot about how addiction, depression and anxiety are often the result of people not being able to connect with each other and feelings of isolation. An act of kindness no matter how small creates a moment of connection, another human has felt that someone cares about them and in that brief moment their world has changed. In that moment they don’t feel isolated, they feel that there is another human that has taken the time to brighten their day. But it’s not just the recipient who feels this, a RAOK offers the perpetrator that moment of connection too, producing chemicals that not only feel good but offer the chance of a longer happier life. It begs the question, why do we often find it so difficult to perform a RAOK, and why are we not promoting them as a health benefit?

Why Random acts of Kindness Matter - The Positive Psychology People

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
I have a vague feeling I may have mentioned tis site at some stage ...

30 Ways To Be Kind and Be Happier

If you are kind, can it really make you happier? Research projects have shown this is indeed the case. In one interesting study conducted by the Harvard Business School and the University of British Columbia, participants were asked to recall spending a small sum of money either on themselves or to help someone in need. Those who donated that sum to charity or as a gift remembered being much happier than when they had spent the money on themselves.

Researchers also found that once people got into the loop of being kind which was followed by a feeling of happiness, then they were more likely to do lots of other acts. It is a win-win situation. Psychologists call this the ‘helper’s high’. The exact biological process which links positive emotions to physical and mental well being is not fully understood yet. But the results are there for all to see! So, if you want to feel happier, try some of these 30 ways of being kind. The more variety, the better.

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness improve the world? -

Do you want to make the world a better place? Then, be kind.

This is not a gimmick.

In a world beset by negativity, kindness is like a ray of sunlight shining through the dark clouds of pessimism, anger, and misery.

It does not take too much effort to be kind. Moreover, it does not cost so much to extend kindness to others.

Read a few suggestions here -

115 Best Random Acts of Kindness Ideas to Improve the World

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Another site you may like -

The art of sharing


Kindness means many things to many people, and one is giving others the gift of compassion. I’ve always donated bags of clothing to charity stores, but I wanted to do something different on my kindness mission: to give to a women’s shelter.

After a few phone calls, what I discovered was heartbreaking: many women seek refuge in these shelters with little more than the clothes on their backs. I was told they desperately needed warm winter clothing and I also included some preloved toys in the care package. For obvious reasons, the locations of these women are always a carefully guarded secret and, in what felt like a clandestine operation, I rendez-vous’d with them in the carpark of a fast-food restaurant, where the donation was exchanged for a heartfelt thankyou.

Passing along things you no longer need is indeed an easy way to share kindness with others. A friend in Sydney reads books and then leaves them out front of her unit with a note for passers-by to take them, enjoy them and pass them on. Now I do the same.

Practising the art of kindness can also mean saying thank you, whether it’s publicly acknowledging someone on Facebook or Twitter or writing a note of thanks to someone who inspired you and positively influenced your life. I tried to contact a teacher from my high school who had always encouraged me to follow my dreams. I wanted to thank her for her unfailing belief in me, but sadly I’d left it too late. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to track her down. So don’t wait if you want to reach out to someone; there never is a better time to say thank you than right now.

Read more -

How kindness can change the world -

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Kindness generous spirit - a few -

In Simple Truths, Kent Nerburn states: "Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing. But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiples the effect we can have in the world."

Comes from this huge site -

The Spiritual Practice of Generosity | Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life | Spirituality & Practice

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Being kind to yourself means accepting yourself, putting up with your defects, and forgiving yourself (like we mentioned before). It also means taking care of yourself, protecting yourself, not forgetting your achievements, and picking yourself up during hard times. It means constantly reminding yourself you have the right to be happy.

Comes from this excellent site -

7 Ingredients of Happiness - Exploring your mind

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
goodnewsnetwork.org kindness

For example -

Has 50 positive stories in the one article?

Scientists have not just been working on COVID vaccines, researchers have made major diabetes breakthroughs, discovered new cancer therapies, and launched critical green innovations to make the world a better place for us all.

And though this year has been difficult for our favorite restaurants and bars, and people losing jobs—millions of people have done whatever it takes to keep them afloat.

From all of us at GNN, thank you to our readers, for your hilarious and heartwarming comments, and for sharing our positive stories with your friends.

With everyone proclaiming, ‘Good Riddance to 2020’, we can’t help but bask in the magnificent glow of kindness, resilience, and personal growth that has emerged…

A Pandemic of Good News: The Top 50 Positive Stories of 2020

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Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
I have always believed that kindness is the truest measure of beauty. And I need only think of my grandmother to confirm that this is true. Giving, nurturing, understanding—she was all these things till the day she died, undeniably radiant, at the age of eighty-four. She smiled with her eyes and loved out loud, and that’s who I want to be.

If you’re fortunate, you’re close to someone like this, a person who exudes warmth and meets you with gentleness and compassion, even when you’re not at your best.

If you’re observant, you’ll see people from all walks of life embodying these qualities every day. You’ll see people opening their hearts and their homes and their wallets to help other people when they’re struggling.

And if you’re anything like me, you collect these little memories—snapshots of basic human goodness—to help you maintain your faith in humanity when life feels dark or unsafe.

As someone who’s ever on the lookout for new kindness stories for inspiration, I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy of Brad Aronson’s new book HumanKind.

Read the full review -

HumanKind: A Book That Will Inspire You and Help Change the World - Tiny Buddha

Loads at that site!

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