Kindness

Aug 29

Kindness is the quality of being gentle, considerate, and helpful towards others. It involves acts of compassion, generosity, and understanding.

Kindness is highly linked to improved overall health:

Kindness buffers stress. Practicing kindness can lower cortisol and decrease depression and anxiety. And kindness can be used as a stress management technique much like meditation and exercise.
Kindness is good for your facets of mental health, too. Kindness toward yourself can be one tool in alleviating depression and social anxiety. Cultivating a life filled with frequent acts of kindness — the more, the better — has been found to boost happiness, too.
Kindness is good for your heart. Kindness cultivates your sense of social support and lessens stress, which can protect your health. Kindness is not only heartwarming but also heart protective.

Small Gestures, Big Impact

Pay attention to those around you and reach out if they seem down or in need of help.
Practice small acts of kindness, such as opening doors for others, greeting people with a smile, holding the elevator for someone or letting someone cut in front of you in line.
Use kind words and genuine compliments to uplift others, even if it’s just a simple positive comment.

Use your skills and talents to help others, whether it’s volunteering or lending a hand to a friend or family member.
Smile and make someone’s day a little sweeter.
Just listen
Offer a hug or embrace
Look for ways you can promote peace
Invite someone new into your friend tribe
Send out a kind email or card
Give someone a genuine compliment.
Let someone into your lane while driving.
Say Thank You and Please everyday without fail.
Say “I love you” a little more often to your family and friends.
Pause before you speak, and choose words with positive intention.
Help someone get some rest (watch their kids, run an errand, bring them dinner, etc).
Remove complaints and curses for one week.
Make a donation.
I hope to inspire you all to bring kindness to the forefront. Let’s be more active in our efforts not because we have to, but because we want to. And not even because others have been kind to us but because being nice is the way of the heart.
Kindness is always a choice. The more conditioned we are to respond with kindness, the more natural it becomes. It is on purpose with purpose.
I hope to inspire you all to bring kindness to the forefront. Let’s be more active in our efforts not because we have to, but because we want to. And not even because others have been kind to us but because being nice is the way of the heart.
Kindness is always a choice. The more conditioned we are to respond with kindness, the more natural it becomes. It is on purpose with purpose.

I hope today is kind to you

I hope today that, if it rains,

it doesn’t make it to hard to drive.

I hope you get the window seat

at sunrise on your flight,

and that when you look at your crush across the room,

you see they were already looking at you.

I hope you don’t get blisters from your shoes.

I hope your water bottle doesn’t fall

and make that the clanging sound, and i hope that, if it does,

it’s when nobody is around.

I hope you find a five-dollar bill in your pocket

that you’d forgotten you had.

I hope when you go to watch videos on YouTube,

you only get skippable ads.

I hope you discover a new favorite song.

I hope your weekend takes its time

and that your stomach hurts from laughing too hard

and the sunset glows red through your blinds.

I hope that light shines bright on you

and that you are a source of it for someone else, too.

I hope today-

this week, this year, this life-

is kind to you

-Sophie Diener

XO Jenna

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