It’s fairly common for us to want to have a sense of belonging. When we feel we belong, we are accepted as a member of the group.
A sense of belonging is a normal human need just as our need for food and shelter is. When you feel like you belong, it can help you to feel your life has value and as a result you cope with emotional challenges better.
Sometimes though, we can lose our sense of belonging.
Continue reading “Belonging Or Lost and Alone?”You may well have been on the receiving end of random acts of kindness without necessarily realising it! Cast your mind back and consider whether there has ever been an instance where someone has helped you out of a tough situation when they could see you were having difficulty? Maybe you have had a situation where a friend simply paid you a compliment out of the blue.
A random act of kindness can be a good deed, caring word, selfless act or small gift. Even a smile can brighten someone’s day.
Something like this can really make a difference to the person on the receiving end of the fandom act of kindness but also on you. You may not be aware that this type of experience can also have a positive impact on your health and overall well-being?
Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of doing random acts of kindness.
Continue reading “Random Acts of Kindness”In my last article I commented that we could bring kindness back into our world and this article will explore how small acts of kindness can do just that!
Can you remember how you felt when having had a really hard day a stranger smiled at you? Or the time you helped your neighbour with something simple and how she still thanks you for it? Each of these small acts of kindness can make a huge impact on someone’s life.
Small actions often lead to giant ripples. One small action can completely change the life of someone who then performs a kindness for someone else. The cycle or ripples caused continue and grow long past the initial small act of kindness.
Continue reading “Small Acts = Big Impacts”Are we becoming less kind? Has kindness become something we eschew these days? When we look around us, especially on Social Media these days, it can seem that life has taken us to a place where we no longer value kindness as a trait. It can feel that, kindness has been replaced with self-importance and wanting to stay impersonal. The question is why has the world become less kind?
Is it that we no longer care about others? Do we believe kindness makes us weak? Is the lack of kindness from some global change?
Some might say that kindness has become less and less important in our daily lives for several reasons.
Continue reading “Has Our World Become Less Kind?”Do we need to focus on letting go of the negativity which is so prevalent these days? I almost titled this post “Is Brexit Bad for You? because if you live in the UK it feels as if you cannot avoid the topic when you go online! There is no doubt (and I have read research around this) that Brexit or rather what my late Grandmother would have called the shenanigans is having an impact on the Mental Health of many in the UK.
Continue reading “Letting Go”