Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
⭐ALL ABOUT KINDNESS
How often would you say you practice kindness? Do you know how to? Did you know that doing so can go a long way in supporting your well-being, too?
Jeffrey Brantley, MD
⭐ Definition, Benefits, and How to Be a Kinder Person
Kindness is a benevolent and helpful action intentionally directed toward another person
⭐ How Do Psychologists Define Kindness?
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⭐ Different Types of Kindness
Kindness directed toward others and Kindness directed toward oneself.
Kindness toward others and toward oneself can be very connected to each other.
The hardest person to be kind to is yourself. By cultivating a kindness practice directed outwardly toward others you can eventually begin to direct more kindness inwardly, too.
⭐How Does Kindness Affect Your Health?
⭐Kindness buffers Stress
Kindness buffers stress. Practicing kindness can lower cortisol and decrease depression and anxiety. Research shows that kindness can be used as a stress management technique much like meditation and exercise.
⭐Kindness is good for your Heart
Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
⭐Kindness increases Longevity
The definition of longevity is living a longer and healthier life. It means how long a person is going to live, and how healthy his later life will be. You can also understand the term longevity as the description of the state when a person lives beyond their average life expectancy
⭐Practicing Kindness
Practicing Kindness can help you when you’re dealing with others out in the world and everyday stressors that come up. Showing Kindness toward people who are rude to you or people who cut you off on the road can help tamp down your stress response by putting you in a better mindset to think compassionately toward the other person.
⭐Compassion Meditation
Compassion Meditation helps one move from simple empathy, which can be quite distressing, into a balanced care for others. It can help you tap into a warm feeling toward someone else without becoming overwhelmed.
⭐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 in one study to boost happiness.
⭐5 Tips for Being a Kinder Person
⭐1. Recognize the Acts of Kindness you already doing
Did you hold the door for somebody? Did you smile at a stranger? Did you water a houseplant that looked like it was thirsty?
⭐2. Try a Kindness-Centered Meditation Practice
One way to cultivate kindness is to try the loving-kindness meditation practice. Start with a short, online-guided loving-kindness meditation, such as one found on Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center’s website.
⭐3. Start With Gratitude
Researchers of one study also suggest that expressing Gratitude toward someone else for something kind they did may be a good way to kickstart your own kindness efforts. They theorize that gratitude toward others may encourage people to “pay it forward” with kindness.
⭐4. Begin Big
If you’re just starting out your journey in doing kind acts for others, set aside one day to focus on that Kindness. One study suggests that picking one day a week to carry out five acts of kindness provides larger increases in well-being than if you were to perform five kind acts over the course of several days.
Kindness can be practiced everyday — but honing in on your efforts over the course of one day can show you how good it can feel to reach out to others, inspiring you to make it a regular part of your life.
Kindness can be practiced everyday — but honing in on your efforts over the course of one day can show you how good it can feel to reach out to others, inspiring you to make it a regular part of your life.
⭐5. Show Yourself Kindness
Being kinder to yourself is a huge component of being kind overall, and practicing self-compassion has numerous Wellness Benefits, research shows.
This can be tough to do, especially if you’re often self-critical, but a few exercises for starting a self-compassion practice can be found on the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, cofounded by Kristin Neff, PhD, kindness researcher and associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Some include: talking to yourself as if you were talking to a friend, using writing to release feelings of shame, and repeating a kindness mantra during difficult situations.
This can be tough to do, especially if you’re often self-critical, but a few exercises for starting a self-compassion practice can be found on the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, cofounded by Kristin Neff, PhD, kindness researcher and associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Some include: talking to yourself as if you were talking to a friend, using writing to release feelings of shame, and repeating a kindness mantra during difficult situations.
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