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The Kindness Box
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Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
We all know the golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated. While this is an old adage we learn from an early age, there are a number of real-life benefits associated with the way we treat others. Science shows that as children, we’re biologically wired to be kind and we can further develop this trait with practice and repetition. Sometimes, however, due to outside influences and the stress of our day-to-day lives, we can lose this inherent ability.
Kindness and empathy help us relate to other people and have more positive relationships with friends, family, and even perfect strangers we encounter in our daily lives. Besides just improving personal relationships, however, kindness can actually make you healthier.
Here are six science-backed ways to improve your health through kindness.
6 Science-Backed Ways Being Kind Is Good for Your Health - Quiet
Enjoy!
Kindness and empathy help us relate to other people and have more positive relationships with friends, family, and even perfect strangers we encounter in our daily lives. Besides just improving personal relationships, however, kindness can actually make you healthier.
Here are six science-backed ways to improve your health through kindness.
6 Science-Backed Ways Being Kind Is Good for Your Health - Quiet
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Kindness is often described as being friendly, generous, sympathetic, humane, and/or tolerant. That sounds like a nice thing to have someone say about you, doesn’t it? Having a good heart is about doing the right things for the right reasons, and because it helps others is one of the best reasons.
These attributes make for a good life, a helpful and useful life. It also makes for a very fulfilling life. Kindness and a good heart are, as the quote says, a great foundation for you life in this world. It helps you see the beauty in others and find the beauty within yourself.
It is also a good way to move forward on the spiritual path. On this path, each act of kindness, each decision make from your heart moves you a step closer to your best possible self. This is a journey that can be made with or without religion, as this journey is about self development and self discovery.
Kindness and a good heart are the underlying foundation for success in this life and making progress on the spiritual path. - philosiblog
All the best!
These attributes make for a good life, a helpful and useful life. It also makes for a very fulfilling life. Kindness and a good heart are, as the quote says, a great foundation for you life in this world. It helps you see the beauty in others and find the beauty within yourself.
It is also a good way to move forward on the spiritual path. On this path, each act of kindness, each decision make from your heart moves you a step closer to your best possible self. This is a journey that can be made with or without religion, as this journey is about self development and self discovery.
Kindness and a good heart are the underlying foundation for success in this life and making progress on the spiritual path. - philosiblog
All the best!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.
~ Dalai Lama
Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. - philosiblog
Cheers!
~ Dalai Lama
Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. - philosiblog
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
There are times when romantic love just isn’t happening in your life. That doesn’t mean you have no love in your life, just that one particular flavor of it is missing.
And if you are in a particularly dark place, you can always work on being kind. Kind to others, as well as yourself. It’s a great first step to emerging from the darkness.
And the quote finishes by revealing a secret most people understood, but never could put their finger on. Kindness is a flavor of love. A little diluted, but love none the less.
Be loving. And if you don't feel loving, then simply be kind. Kindness is just love in her daily clothes. - philosiblog
And if you are in a particularly dark place, you can always work on being kind. Kind to others, as well as yourself. It’s a great first step to emerging from the darkness.
And the quote finishes by revealing a secret most people understood, but never could put their finger on. Kindness is a flavor of love. A little diluted, but love none the less.
Be loving. And if you don't feel loving, then simply be kind. Kindness is just love in her daily clothes. - philosiblog
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
People often find some difficulty in caring for themselves, in receiving love, in believing they deserve to be happy.
Imagine for a moment the amount of energy you expend brooding over the future, ruminating about the past, comparing yourself to others, judging yourself, worrying about what might happen next. That is a huge amount of energy. Now imagine all of that energy gathered in and returned to you. Underlying our usual patterns of self-preoccupation, stinging self-judgment, and fear is the universal, innate potential for love and awareness.
Loving-kindness meditations point us back to a place within, where we can cultivate love and help it flourish. Developing care toward ourselves is the first objective, the foundation for later being able to include others in the sphere of kindness.
More at this excellent site -
Be Kind to Yourself—Right Now
Imagine for a moment the amount of energy you expend brooding over the future, ruminating about the past, comparing yourself to others, judging yourself, worrying about what might happen next. That is a huge amount of energy. Now imagine all of that energy gathered in and returned to you. Underlying our usual patterns of self-preoccupation, stinging self-judgment, and fear is the universal, innate potential for love and awareness.
Loving-kindness meditations point us back to a place within, where we can cultivate love and help it flourish. Developing care toward ourselves is the first objective, the foundation for later being able to include others in the sphere of kindness.
More at this excellent site -
Be Kind to Yourself—Right Now
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Wonderful campaign I found mentioned at a recent site -
The website also features a calendar listing daily service ideas. The daily prompts will start on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 30, and continue for the 25 days leading up to Christmas Day. There will also be a new calendar offering fun ideas for children to participate.
The red Giving Machines, which give people the opportunity to donate to local and global charities, will be stationed in 10 cities across the United States as part of the Light the World initiative.
Watch: New video signals launch of church’s Christmas 2021 Light the World initiative
Cheers!
The website also features a calendar listing daily service ideas. The daily prompts will start on Giving Tuesday, Nov. 30, and continue for the 25 days leading up to Christmas Day. There will also be a new calendar offering fun ideas for children to participate.
The red Giving Machines, which give people the opportunity to donate to local and global charities, will be stationed in 10 cities across the United States as part of the Light the World initiative.
Watch: New video signals launch of church’s Christmas 2021 Light the World initiative
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Try - mindful.org radical act of love - loads at that site! ... for example -
Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity are rigorous meditation practices, used for the most part to cultivate one-pointed concentrated attention, out of which the powers of these evoked qualities emerge, transfiguring the heart. Just naming these qualities of heart explicitly and making their role explicit in our practice may help us to recognize them when they arise spontaneously during mindfulness practice. As well as to incline the heart and mind in that direction more frequently, especially in difficult times.
Read the full meditation here -
This Loving-Kindness Meditation is a Radical Act of Love
Enjoy your browsing!
Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity are rigorous meditation practices, used for the most part to cultivate one-pointed concentrated attention, out of which the powers of these evoked qualities emerge, transfiguring the heart. Just naming these qualities of heart explicitly and making their role explicit in our practice may help us to recognize them when they arise spontaneously during mindfulness practice. As well as to incline the heart and mind in that direction more frequently, especially in difficult times.
Read the full meditation here -
This Loving-Kindness Meditation is a Radical Act of Love
Enjoy your browsing!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
From Ann Albers site -
Dear ones, you know from your own experience that when someone is kind and loving towards you, it does make a difference. It might be the difference between creating a vibrational mess or having your day flow smoothly. It might be the difference between eating a meal or stealing a meal. It might be the difference between arriving at your destination on time or having a traffic accident.
Beyond the initial impact of your kindness, all those affected by the ripple effect must be taken into account as well. You didn't have an accident and back up traffic for miles. You didn't steal and cause a police officer to investigate, thus preventing them from stopping a murder. You had a smoothly flowing day and blessed others who were down and in need of love.
Read the full message -
Messages from Ann and the Angels - 12/04/2021
Dear ones, you know from your own experience that when someone is kind and loving towards you, it does make a difference. It might be the difference between creating a vibrational mess or having your day flow smoothly. It might be the difference between eating a meal or stealing a meal. It might be the difference between arriving at your destination on time or having a traffic accident.
Beyond the initial impact of your kindness, all those affected by the ripple effect must be taken into account as well. You didn't have an accident and back up traffic for miles. You didn't steal and cause a police officer to investigate, thus preventing them from stopping a murder. You had a smoothly flowing day and blessed others who were down and in need of love.
Read the full message -
Messages from Ann and the Angels - 12/04/2021
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.
Jaggi Vasudev
Enjoy!
Jaggi Vasudev
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Here’s an engaging handbook for moving past “confetti kindness” (the stuff Instagram influencers promote) to the skillful, targeted, regular, deep kindness that, in Kraft’s words, “the world desperately needs.”
A few years into his work as a kindness motivational speaker, he meets Helga on a flight. She tells him the last time she flew, it was because her father was ailing. Upon arrival at her destination city, she received word he had died. She sank to the floor in the airport and wept for two hours, and not one person stopped to help. In that conversation, Kraft realizes he, too, a sought-after kindness expert, might have passed her by. That encounter taught Kraft to ask: What gets in the way of our being kind? He arrives at: incompetence, insecurity, and inconvenience. The book is organized around these barriers, with kindness exercises to take readers to the determined, practiced, habitual kindness Kraft believes will change the world.
Comes from this list of books at the mindful site -
10 Mindful Books to Inspire You This Year
It is number 6 on that list.
All the best!
A few years into his work as a kindness motivational speaker, he meets Helga on a flight. She tells him the last time she flew, it was because her father was ailing. Upon arrival at her destination city, she received word he had died. She sank to the floor in the airport and wept for two hours, and not one person stopped to help. In that conversation, Kraft realizes he, too, a sought-after kindness expert, might have passed her by. That encounter taught Kraft to ask: What gets in the way of our being kind? He arrives at: incompetence, insecurity, and inconvenience. The book is organized around these barriers, with kindness exercises to take readers to the determined, practiced, habitual kindness Kraft believes will change the world.
Comes from this list of books at the mindful site -
10 Mindful Books to Inspire You This Year
It is number 6 on that list.
All the best!
Sgt. Pepper
All you need is love.
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
We, as the human race, tend to forget that we all have our own personal battles we face every day without the outside world knowing. You will never know the extent of what is happening in someone's personal life because you are not living life like them. I was raised to be selfless, kind, lend a helping hand when someone is in need, and to treat others how you would like to be treated. I feel as though we have forgotten those morals as a whole. Let this be a wake-up call or a reminder to maybe be a little nicer to the coffee shop worker who messed up your order or your waitress who is also a college student that works two jobs, is a single parent, and is running on two hours of sleep that day. If we treat each other with kindness we will see a real change in society, a much-needed change. Start treating those around you with kindness every day, focus on the positivity in your life, and see how your own daily life will improve. After all, we are all human.
Be kind one to another.
Be kind one to another.
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
How about a few videos -
Free Inspirational Kindness Videos for a Variety of Ages
Enjoy your browsing!
Free Inspirational Kindness Videos for a Variety of Ages
Enjoy your browsing!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Kindness project at that site -
Kindness Project for Children and Adults of All Ages {100 Acts of Kindness}
Especially scroll down towards the bottom for more kindness links & ideas!
Cheers!
Kindness Project for Children and Adults of All Ages {100 Acts of Kindness}
Especially scroll down towards the bottom for more kindness links & ideas!
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Thubten Chodron has a huge site ... here is one article about kindness & equanimity -
Buddhism teaches yet another critical concept and that is “equanimity.” When we develop equanimity we can overcome our attachment, anger and apathy and have equal hearted concern for all beings. We can learn to value and respect everyone no matter whether we consider them a friend, enemy or stranger because they have all shown us some form of kindness if we think about it deeply. In fact, discriminating and dividing people in friends, enemies, and strangers becomes less important to us. When we see that someone who we consider an enemy has also been kind to us, they don’t seem to be such a big, bad enemy anymore. They become a person who means well but made a mistake, and we’re able to forgive.
The kindness of others
All the best!
Buddhism teaches yet another critical concept and that is “equanimity.” When we develop equanimity we can overcome our attachment, anger and apathy and have equal hearted concern for all beings. We can learn to value and respect everyone no matter whether we consider them a friend, enemy or stranger because they have all shown us some form of kindness if we think about it deeply. In fact, discriminating and dividing people in friends, enemies, and strangers becomes less important to us. When we see that someone who we consider an enemy has also been kind to us, they don’t seem to be such a big, bad enemy anymore. They become a person who means well but made a mistake, and we’re able to forgive.
The kindness of others
All the best!