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The Kindness Box

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Interesting variation - ways to make world kinder - for example -

Your mindset plays a major role in how happy and successful you are in life. If you can create a kinder mind, you will face fewer mental struggles and make everyone else’s world a little nicer too. Here are 15 powerful ways to create a kinder mental environment, so that you can grow as a person, serve the world, and feel a greater well-being.

15 Powerful Ways to Create a Kinder Mind

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
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Giving to others can be as simple as a single kind word, smile or a thoughtful gesture. If the kindness is passed and it carries on, it continues to multiply forever. This makes the world a better place to live.

A kind act is never forgotten. If you cannot help a person who needs your kindness, love them until they can learn to love themselves. The way you act is a reflection on yourself, making your words and actions last forever in the minds and hearts of others. Sometimes, helping someone means to leave them alone. What you can do, is show encouragement and give them a good example to follow, while giving them their space.

Kindness softens our heart and brightens our world. Kindness begets kindness. It’s time to make helping others the kindness that represents us. Start now to make it your habit and you will reap wonderful rewards, for Karma is alive and well.

From this page -

Helping Others is an Act of Kindness

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
The Three Gates of Speech

This ancient poem, commonly credited to the 13th-century Persian poet and Islamic scholar Rumi is a wonderful and simple reminder of the power of our words.

“Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:

At the first gate, ask yourself “Is is true?”

At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?”

At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”

~ Rumi

The Mindful Attitude of Kindness | Happy Melon Studios

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Many moms are disappointed when their children don’t naturally show great kindness towards others or a good attitude, but these are actually skills that are learned and developed over time. So begin now by teaching your children how to share a good attitude with others and to treat others with kindness.

Why is kindness such an important character trait? According to the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: “Kindness is one of the most powerful interpersonal tools that we, as human beings, use to connect with one another. When we sense someone’s need, we either choose to help in some way . . . or we choose not to. If we act from empathy, we will offer kindness, and in that moment a surprising, gracious, humanitarian connection is made. This is the positive power that each of us — including children — possess.”

Start this valuable character lesson by defining what kindness means to your children. The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation defines it as: “When we go beyond duties that are expected of us and reach out to help another person or group of people…Kindness and empathy are very closely related: kindness is the observable expression of empathy. We sense another person’s need, we understand how it feels be in need (due to our own past experience), and we decide to offer our help.”

Read more at this site -

Attitudes: Sharing a Good Attitude - iMOM

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
My old 2001 Oxford Dictionary of English defines kindness as ‘the quality of being friendly, generous and considerate’. Interestingly, the ‘and’ indicates that all three of those conditions are required for kindness to be present. So, one can be friendly and yet not kind, or both generous and considerate but not kind. Perhaps it’s when we become aware of all three conditions being present that we feel for ourselves the pleasure of real kindness.

In my work as a therapist I often come across two distinct ways in which kindness manifests itself. Firstly, and perhaps most frequently, in showing kindness to others. Secondly, and much less consistently, in showing kindness to ourselves.

The importance of kindness

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
What's your Issue for a better world?

The best-selling book, Random Acts of Kindness, helped to start a movement that has spread around the world. The book, and the many books on kindness that followed, helped to highlight the transformative power that each of has to change the world with kindness, one person at a time.

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation helps to promote "kindness" by providing inspiration, information, and resources to celebrate kindness throughout the year as well as a special World Kindness Day on November 13, World Kindness Week in November, and a Random Acts of Kindness Week in February.

Others celebrate the first of every month as Kindness Day. In this way we begin each month by rededicating ourselves to change the world, one act of kindness at a time. Together we are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world through kindness.

The Kind Acts Foundation's website (www.kindacts.org) offers educators and parents a free and easy way to create a certificate to reward a child for an act of kindness.

Comes from this aptly name site! - loads of quotes I may post as well - remind me - you know what I am like!

What's your Issue for a better world? - Kindness

Enjoy your browsing!

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Choose kindness quotes for your vision board, to add to your phone as a daily reminder, or add kindness quotes to your Pinterest boards.

One of my friends had a jar filled with random acts of kindness quotes and pulled one out every day.

You can use these quotes to add to your greeting cards or notes to thank someone that touched your heart.

How about keeping your favorite being kind quotes close to you by having a piece of jewelry engraved with the words?

THE BEST 21 Kindness Quotes for 2022 | Montana Happy

Very comprehensive article!

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Today the talk has turned decisively towards purpose, sustainability, belonging – and, yes, to kindness too. Gen Z aspires to activism and community, while progressive governments are increasingly widening their lens beyond GDP as the marker of success, to create policy around sustainable wellbeing and happiness. Economists from Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth to Jason Hickell and Joseph Stiglitz are encouraging us to consider prosperity without growth, and even life beyond capitalism, which Jackson describes as “a place where relationships and meaning take precedence over profits and power.”

And did you know that nine in 10 people think Australia would be a better place if everyone did at least one kind thing a day? In other words: we’ve got this. We just have to do the work.

This weekend, we’re aiming to raise $1 million, to be distributed as grants to 100 local charities. They include the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown, which saw a 100% increase in clients seeking help during the pandemic; and projects like the Village Pantry, which gives out free, healthy food hampers to vulnerable families in Canterbury and Bankstown. Coming from a fashion background, one of my favourite charities is Dress for Success, which helps women who’ve had a tough time get back into the job market, by providing coaching and smart outfits for interviews. I love the idea of access to useful clothes as a potential kindness.

https://www.marieclaire.com.au/world-kindness-day

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
What is a Kindness Chain?

We built our Kindness Chain to lift up as many people as possible. We know that kindness is contagious and we want to make it easy to spread.

So send a compliment card (or two…or 10!) and join thousands around the world who are part of our movement to grow happiness, one card at a time.

When someone pays your compliment forward, your Kindness Chain grows!

Read more at Happify site -

Happify's Kindness Chain: Send a Compliment Card

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
I hope you are enjoying your experiences here on the forum today.

I was just over at the mindful.org site.

It has a whole bunch of advice and mindfulness techniques - you really out to check it out IMHO :)

For a taste of this loving-kindness meditation -

As the pace of our lives continues to accelerate, driven by a host of forces seemingly beyond our control, more and more of us are finding ourselves drawn to engage in meditation, in this radical act of being. We are moving in the direction of meditative awareness for many reasons, not the least of which may be to maintain our individual and collective sanity, or recover our perspective and sense of meaning, or simply to deal with the outrageous stress and insecurity of this age.

By stopping and intentionally falling awake to how things are in this moment, purposefully, without succumbing to our own reactions and judgments, and by working wisely with such occurrences with a healthy dose of self-compassion when we do succumb, and by our willingness to take up residency for a time in the present moment in spite of all our plans and activities aimed at getting somewhere else, completing a project or pursuing desired objects or goals, we discover that such an act is both immensely, discouragingly difficult and yet utterly simple, profound, hugely possible after all, and restorative of mind and body, soul and spirit right in that moment. It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Read the full meditation here -

This Loving-Kindness Meditation is a Radical Act of Love - Mindful

Wishing you al the very best!

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