Let Kindness In To Your Life!

I have written a number of articles over recent months on the topic of kindness. In this new series of articles, with the overall title of Let Kindness In, I will want to take those further and in a structured way take you through how we can rekindle it, or to put it another way, how can we let it in,  in what often feels like an increasingly cruel world. Let’s start by answering the question:

How do we define kindness?

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Inspire Others To Pay It Forward

Can you inspire others to pay it forward? Have you ever heard the phrase, “Kindness is contagious?” Many sayings like this come to become widely known because they have a basis in truth.

Research has found scientific evidence for the fact that kindness can spread in various ways. You’ve surely experienced or witnessed instances in which someone has paid it forward or a movement has spread based on one person’s good deed.

In this post, I would like to explore this concept further and show you just how far-reaching the concept of helping others can be.

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Mental Health and Journaling

As I write this post it is World Mental Health Day 2019 and I have been engaging (on Twitter) with various organisations and many of my connections. They have been sharing their thoughts and their own mental health journeys. I am immensely privlidged to have so many connections who share their own challenges and journeys.

All of us are on journeys and as those who have read other posts from me on various sites will be aware I am a great advocate of Journaling. It is an amazing way of capturing those journeys and in particular our learning from them.

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Give and Receive Kindness

How do we give and receive kindness?

Aesop, the ancient Greek storyteller, once said,

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

In some of my previous posts I have looked at what kindness is and its power and benefits on you and the world. With that knowledge how do we give and receive kindness?

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