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When you are kind to anyone who needs your help, you feel good because you thus could bring a smile to the other person’s face. Any act of kindness is appreciated. It need not be a great act; it could even be a small deed. Kindness or being kindly is an attitude. If you are kindly, you will actually feel for the other person with your heart, and respond positively. This is what empathy is all about. For all acts of kindness, there is a reciprocal gratitude in the person who has graciously received your kindness.
You may show your kindness to your family members, friends, neighbours, classmates or anyone who genuinely needs help. When you show kindness you feel a sense of fulfillment in your heart. But there is a word of caution. Don’t get deceived by one who falsely seeks your kindness. Such a person will only dupe you. So be generous with your kindliness to those who need help genuinely.
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It is fascinating research and gave me a lot of things to think about when my partner read the article from The Atlantic aloud to me. I’m really interested in building a “grand” relationship. I’ve had good, I’ve had bad, I’ve had mediocre, and now I am focused on creating a ‘grand relationship’…and to do that I must continue to nurture a grand relationship with myself… only then can I show up full on and authentically in all my relationships – a grand partnership included!
The article got me thinking about when and where I am kind and generous with myself, and where and when I am kind and generous with others. It isn’t selfish to be kind and generous to ourselves first. The more I think about it the more I think it’s mandatory. This kind of self-care allows me to be present to others in my life – friends, family, clients, and business associates.
I forgive myself for believing that I don’t deserve my own kindness and generosity.
I give myself permission to deepen my self-care in kind and generous ways.
I can leave myself until last – I’ve tried that and it’s often disastrous, or I can deepen my self-care and be kind and generous to myself. Imake this choice because it supports me as well as others!
I am free to be kind and generous to myself today by…
I was kind and generous to myself this morning when I went to the pool first thing! Rocky relations come back to you guessed it kindness and generosity fiction really come as a surprise but is it really that simple psychologist John Gottman’s wife Julia Gottman Institute
I am becoming a kinder and more generous person, beginning with me.
The world becomes gentler, relationships easier, and partnerships truly a place of secure and sacred growth when we are kind and generous with ourselves.